fresh warnings about a third wave of coronavirus — amid calls to delay england's proposed unlocking on 2ist ofjune. as the vaccination programme continues, scientists are worried about infection rates, particularly from the indian variant. the government's ruling nothing out. i know everybody wants to know what's going to happen, but we can't actually make that judgment until we see the impact of the easements we've just made. also on today's programme... hundreds of thousands of tenants in rent arreas — there's new concern as the coronavirus ban on evictions comes to an end tomorrow. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu urges right—wing politicians to reject a proposed new unity government — threatening to end his 12 years in power.

and as this bank holiday monday is set to deliver the hottest day of the year so far — we're live on the beach at brighton. good afternoon. some scientists who advise the government are calling for the lifting of the final coronavirus restrictions in england on the 21st ofjune to be delayed because of infection rates and the spread of the indian variant. the environment secretary, george eustice, warned that ministers cannot rule out delaying the lockdown easing. he said the situation was "dynamic" and the data still needed to be assessed. here's our health correspondent anna collinson. it's one of the biggest rugby stadiums in the well, but today

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available for people in postcodes with a high rate of the indian variant. a 27% increase in the past week. whether this will translate into serious illness and hospitalisations is not known. there is a push for people to take up their second jab which provides more substantial protection. one of the experts says further easing of restrictions due in three weeks, should be postponed.— restrictions due in three weeks, should be postponed. people are not sa in: we should be postponed. people are not saying we should _ should be postponed. people are not saying we should abandon _ should be postponed. people are not saying we should abandon the - should be postponed. people are not saying we should abandon the june l should be postponed. people are not| saying we should abandon the june 21 saying we should abandon thejune 21 date altogether, butjust de laet by a few weeks whilst we gather more intelligence and we can look the trajectory in a clearer way. if you look at the costs and benefits of getting it wrong, i think it is heavily in the favour of delay. ministers say it will be a two week wait until they can say for certain whether a complete and locking can go ahead on the 21st ofjune. i whether a complete and locking can go ahead on the 21st ofjune. i know eve bod go ahead on the 21st ofjune. i know everybody wants _ go ahead on the 21st ofjune. i know everybody wants to _ go ahead on the 21st ofjune. i know everybody wants to know _ go ahead on the 21st ofjune. i know everybody wants to know what's - go ahead on the 21st ofjune. i know l everybody wants to know what's going to happen _ everybody wants to know what's going to happen but we cannot make that

judgment _ to happen but we cannot make that judgment until we see the impact of the easements we have just made. drives— the easements we have just made. drives like — the easements we have just made. drives like this in twickenham will make that unlocking more likely. the government ban on landlords being able to evict their tenants during the pandemic ends tomorrow. with up to 400,000 tenants in rent arrears there is concern that there could be a rise in homelessness. the government says tenants will continue to be supported with longer notice periods and financial help. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. rudolph has had a year to forget. the media company he worked for went bust. he found a job as a carer, but was made redundant so he now delivers takeaway food. it is stressful and it's affecting my health and it gives a lot of sleepless nights. his bills have mounted — energy, council tax and rent. the 26—year—old owes its landlord £3,400 in arrears. ijust don't know when i'm going to wake up to that

dreadful message saying, that this is your notice, because of the rent arrears. so far the ban of the eviction was my safety net for me not to be ending up on the streets or anything. around 400,000 tenants are under threat of eviction, say thejoseph rowntree foundation. many renters are employed in retail and hospitality so their incomes have fallen and their debts mounted during the past year. families with children as well as black and asian households are struggling the most to avoid eviction. renters have faced a loss of income and at a higher rate than homeowners through the pandemic, and that's despite all of the extra income support through the benefit system. and so they are struggling more, they're more likely to have fallen behind on their household bills, they're more likely to have fallen into arrears. citizens advice calculated average rent arrears are £900, but the end of the ban won't immediately lead to people being made homeless,

as the courts will need to approve all evictions. ministers say they'll continue to support tenants but also need to be fair to landlords. piano music. candy richards says she's lost £9,000 in rent on the house she lets out. her tenant hasn't paid her in 18 months. she told them she wanted them out before the pandemic, but the ban left her powerless to remove them. the eviction ban, what it did do was safeguard tenants who actually had just decided to stop paying rent or were committing anti—social behaviour. because there was no distinction between those tenants that couldn't pay and those tenants that wouldn't pay. ideally, rudolph would like a role in media, but anyjob that covers his rent would do. he can't move elsewhere as he's no savings and plummet in credit rating. a catch—22 that many tenants are currently facing. michael buchanan, bbc news, essex.

the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has urged right—wing politicians not tojoin a proposed new unity government which threatens to end his 12 years in power. mr netanyahu described it as a danger to israel's security and future. but the new coalition has already won the backing of his former chief of staff, the ultra—nationalist politician naftali bennett. tom bateman has the story — there's some flash photography in his report. israel's had four elections in two years, but no clear winner. its politics is gripped by dysfunction. all the time benjamin netanyahu has clung on as prime minister. but now in the fight to form a new coalition, a once—loyal right—wing ally has broken ranks. last night, naftali bennett said he would join a unity government, without mr netanyahu, as he put the knife into his old boss. translation: instead of managing, dealing with problems, leading, -

the standard operation is to direct the fire outwards, encourage hatred and polarisation among the people, to cover up forfailure. two thousand years ago, there was a jewish state which fell here, because of internal quarrels. this will not happen again, not on my watch. naftali bennett is an ultra nationalist who favours more jewish settlements in the occupied west bank and opposes a palestinian state. he's set to join forces with a centre ground politician yair lapid. they are currently in talks and would take it in turns as prime minister. but mr netanyahu is hitting back. translation: i heard naftali bennett. - unfortunately, he is again misleading the public. same lies, same empty slogans on hate and division from someone who helps hatred and division. and also someone who is perpetrating, i must say, the fraud of the century. at israel's parliament,

politicians are meeting to hammer out an agreement on a possible new government, and they could unseat mr netanyahu within days. the parties that want him gone have a tough road ahead if they to get sworn in here as a new government next week. they feel tantalisingly close, and if they do succeed it will be the biggest change in israeli politics in years. but they know one thing — mr netanyahu won't go down without a fight. tom bateman, bbc news, jerusalem. now here's something you don't hear very often. this bank holiday is set to be the hottest day of the year so far. our correspondent sanchia berg is in brighton for us. busy day in brighton today, sanchia? it is fairly busy i would say, joanna, but not absolutely packed as you can see from the pictures, from the helicopter. it has been busy with people coming from other parts

of the country, i have been speaking to families who have come from the west midlands for example. they said it was almost normal. they were delighted to enjoy the hot weather but they were a little bit apprehensive about covid and i think thatis apprehensive about covid and i think that is generally the feeling, that people are ready but i don't feel it is quite over. the shops are thrilled to see people back. local residents not quite so enthusiastic because they are worried they could bring, these visitors, an unwelcome visitor, more covid infections. the rate has really dropped in brighton over the last few weeks and local people are worried this could bring it back. thank you very much. a former head of the cia has told the bbc he has no doubt in his mind there is an urgent need for tighter controls of biological laboratories around the world, to prevent another pandemic like covid—19. general david petraeus has also urged world leaders to address the issue at the g7 summit in cornwall next month. our world affairs editor

john simpson has this report. we don't need reminding nowadays what a lethal and highly contagious virus can do to our world. within weeks of its appearance in the chinese city of wuhan, covid—19 had spread to almost everywhere on earth. covid and other dangerous viruses are studied here at porton down, britain's top—secret centre for biological and chemical research. there are 50 or so top—level labs like this around the world, all of them tightly controlled. but there's another lesser category of scientific laboratories right round the world which also deal with dangerous pathogens and diseases. there are literally thousands of them — so many that the international agencies simply can't keep a proper eye on them.

hamish de bretton—gordon is one of the top international experts on chemical and biological warfare. i met him in northern iraq several years ago. he stresses that most of the world's unregulated biological laboratories are probably above board. but unfortunately there are people who want to do us harm out there, and at the moment i think these laboratories are a bit of an open goal. and covid, the pandemic, has really been a sort of neon advert to every terrorist, despot, rogue state and bad actor, that this is something that they can use to recreate the terror they desire. general david petraeus, who was the commander of us forces in iraq and then a head of the cia, believes strongly that the g7 should press for greater international control over the world's biological laboratories.

virtually any american president would want to support an initiative like this. this is certainly something that the g7 could discuss in their upcoming summit meeting. the leaders of the world would have to take this forward. and again it's hard for me to believe that there are any leaders out there other than some very rogue nations who would not sign up to a convention. but there's no doubt in your mind that this is a serious threat? oh, there's no doubt about that. there hasn't been particularly strong control of biological research because it never seemed especially worrying. then covid happened. hence the calls to make sure there aren't any more covids. john simpson, bbc news. china has announced that couples will be allowed to have up to three children — up from the current limit of two. census data has shown a steep

decline in the birth rate. five years ago, china abandoned the one child policy that had been in place for decades to limit population growth. it's the worst massacre in black american history — yet the slaughter of up to 300 black african americans in tulsa in 1921 wasn't taught in local schools until 20 years ago. sparked by an alleged assault by a black man on a white teenager, a white mob rampaged through the affluent greenwood area of the city shooting, burning and looting. today marks the 100th anniversary. a handful of survivors who lost everything are still waiting for compensation. this report from gary o'donoghue contains some images you may find distressing. before the destruction they called it black wall street. but injust 18 hours a murderous white mob had razed a thriving black community to the ground making 10,000 people homeless with up to 300 black lives lost.

few dispute that it was the worst single act of racial violence in the history of the united states. i will never forget the violence of the white mob when we left our home. i still see black men being shot, black bodies lying in the street. i still smell smoke and see fire. because of the massacre my family were driven out of our home. we were left with nothing. so here is the basement room where people hid. and how many do you think came down here? at least a few hundred. robert turner is the reverend at the vernon ame church. it was one of several burned to the ground during the massacre. the church was rebuilt with parishioners' money as the insurers refused to pay out. after the massacre there was this movement by the white community

to not ever talk about it because they knew they had gotten away with murder. they didn't want to ever bring it up and any of the black people who brought it up, they were either killed, or run out of town or intimidated into silence. not a single person was prosecuted for the murders, for the looting or for the arson. not one black family received a penny in compensation. it would take 75 years for there to be any official recognition that a massacre had taken place at all. while tulsa unites to mark the massacre, there are divisions. that has meant the cancellation of a major concert, the survivors at odds with the city over who should pay them reparations. the centennial is not about concerts, it's not about speeches, it's not about interviews. it is about focusing on the people that were harmed, and doing everything in our power to make sure those people receive justice, respect and reparations.

but while the survivors continue their fight for compensation, some among the younger generation are finding the historyjust too much to cope with. it is so painful that i can't even live in this city. i just can't. but i have since moved to atlanta, georgia, which i consider to be, you know, the new black wall street. when the president comes to tulsa tomorrow he will yet again address a shameful episode in the country's history. and with the murder of george floyd still uppermost, many will wonder just how much has really changed in america over the past 100 years. gary o'donoghue, bbc news, tulsa. that's all from the bbc news at one. so it's goodbye from me — and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are.

good afternoon, i'm katie shanahan and here's your latest sports news. we'll get to the action on day two of roland garros in a minute, but first the world number two, naomi osaka could be kicked out of the french open and banned from future grand slams, if she carries on refusing to speak to the media. the reigning us and australian open champion says she won't be doing any post match press conferences at roland garros as she wants

to protect her mental health. and after her first round win yesterday, she stuck to her word, but as a result was fined by the grand slam organisers over £10,000. osaka has since tweeted saying "change makes people uncomfortable". meanwhile, it was a first round exit for british number one, dan evans yesterday. he was knocked out by world number 48, miomir kecmanovic. and today, three more brits are in action in the sunshine in paris. diyas from kazakhstan. it's currently 3—2 in the second set. cameron norrie is taking on american, bjorn fratangelo — norrie has just taken the first set 7—5 in that one. and 19th seed johanna konta gets her tournament under way against sorana cirstea in the next hour or so. roger federer and serena williams also play later on.

luton town defender tom lockyer has been called into wales' squad for this summer's euros. it's afterjames lawrence was forced to withdraw due to injury. caretaker manager robert page has named gareth bale as captain. and 19—year—old rubin collwill was the surprise addition, having only made his debut for cardiff city back in february. wales will be hoping to improve on their semi final appearance five years ago. their first game is against switzerland onjune 12th in baku. the copa america is due to start in two weeks. but as things stand, there's still no host for this year's tournament. argentina has been stripped of the rights to hold the competition because of a surge of covid cases. brazil are the defending champions — they won it back in 2019. argentina were originally set to co—host with colombia, but they were removed earlier this month after protests in the country. the south american football confederation will meet today,

to decide on the next steps. zinedine zidane says he resigned manager of real madrid because he felt the club no longer had faith in him. the frenchman left the la liga side for a second time last week, after they failed to win a trophy this season and finished second in the league, two points behind rivals atletico madrid. in an open letter to fans, he said "i'm leaving because i feel that the club no longer has the faith in me. and i know when you don't win, you have to leave." and we'll leave you with this, as there wasn't a formula one grand prix this weekend, but that didn't stop lewis hamilton getting his adrenaline rush fix. the seven time world champion loves sky diving and says it's something that's become one of his favourite things to do in his spare time. instead of going to the cinema, having a takeaway or nice walk in the park.

for hamilton, he loves jumping out of planes. certainly one way to enjoy the bank holiday weekend... that's all of the sport. you can find more on all those stories, including all the action from day two at roland garros, three brits in action with two greats of the game, roger federer and serena williams up later on this afternnon,just go later on this afternnon, just go to the bbc sport website. that's all from me and the team, joanna, bye for now. a man is in a critical condition and two other people have been seriously injured after a stabbing on a beach in merseyside. police said two men aged 20 and a 16—year—old boy were taken to hospital by air ambulance after what they call an unprovoked attack on formby beach yesterday evening. detectives have appealed for anyone on the beach who witnessed the attack to come forward. france has tightened restrictions on travel from the uk, to try to stop the spread of the variant of coronavirus first identified in india. new rules came into force at midnight, meaning british tourists will not be allowed in. france is currently listed

as an "amber" destination by the uk government, which advises against travel there. meanwhile, the european commission says that all eu countries can gradually ease travel measures over the summer as the number of covid—19 vaccinations continues to rise. eu leaders revealed plans to harmonise travel measures across the bloc, including allowing fully vaccinated people to move around without the need for testing or quarantines when travelling from one eu country to another. more than 430,000 volunteers have carried out nearly two million tasks for those who had to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic. this included phone calls to the isolated, delivering medicines and stewarding covid vaccination sites. duncan kennedy reports. britain was already a nation of volunteers, but covid—19 has supercharged the desire in people to help. a giant task force of unpaid individuals has been mobilized.

you'll feel a small scratch. 74,000 people alone have been signed up to support the nhs roll—out of its vaccination programme. giving something back to the nhs for all the wonderful work that they've been doing through the lockdown, and how busy they've been. and it's just been so rewarding to know that you can help somebody that needs your help. most volunteering has been channelled through the nhs volunteer responders programme, set up at the start of the pandemic. today's figures show it's had 436,000 recruits, who've carried out 1.9 million tasks. that includes 14,500 lifts to and from hospitals, and more than 800,000 check in and chats on people who are lonely or isolated. hundreds of volunteers will today be at twickenham rugby stadium in london. this is being turned into england's biggest vaccination centre.

there's still about one in ten of our population who are older, who haven't been vaccinated and therefore unprotected. so it doesn't really matter which variant it is. they could still get the virus and still become seriously unwell. a separate report from the london school of economics has found the volunteers get a real boost to their sense of well—being, equivalent to receiving a bonus of £1,800. duncan kennedy, bbc news. time for a look at the weather with darren betts. as far as as faras bank as far as bank holiday weeks go this has been one of the better ones. we did have some cloud earlier on, particularly through the midlands but that has melted away, plenty of sunshine through the rest of the day. a bit of cloud just flirting with some of the north sea coasts,

another warm days, temperatures into the low 20, could make 24 or 25 in the low 20, could make 24 or 25 in the london area. heading into this evening then, a fine end to the day, plenty of sunshine to end the day, overnight many place also keep clearer skies, overnight many place also keep clearerskies, not overnight many place also keep clearer skies, not expecting as much of that low cloud to push inland, mainly affecting parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire and eastern areas of scotland. after the warm sunshine of today temperatures for many overnight should remain in double figures as well. heading into tomorrow, there will be some areas of low cloud to start the day but those should tend to lift and break up those should tend to lift and break up the sunshine come through, still there may be some of the north sea coast, north east england could stay cool and cloudierers otherwise lots of sunshine again, the winds will be light. and those temperatures could be a shade higher than today. so we are looking at 25, maybe 26 degree, around greater manchester, merseyside, london and the south—east but it is going to be strong sunshine we have again tomorrow, uv lavements will be high, if you are near the coast an want to

cool down you will be able to da in the sea. these are the sea temperatures. not very high at this time of year. highest through the english channel and southern parts of the north sea. so more warm sunshine, high temperatures on tuesday, heading to wednesday we start to see the weather changing a bit. it will bring showers into the south—west of england and wales, these could be heavy and thundery, eventually we could get showers coming into northern ireland, hampshire and merseyside as well. ahead of that it will be dry, sunny once again, it will be warm for many area, highest temperatures all the way from western scotland down through the midlands, towards the south—east of england, it will be cooler round those north sea coasts and a breeze coming in off the north sea. that wind won't be as strong on thursday, by thursday what is left of the showers and they are more hit—and—miss and band of cloud moving up heading into scotland. sunny spells following on behind. not as warm on thursday but in the sunshine it is still pleasant, highs

of 22 or 23 celsius.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... the fight against coronavirus steps up a gear, with england's largest mass vaccination centre opening with the potential to give 15,000 doses in one day. it comes amid warnings from some scientists that the final stage of unlocking in england — due onjune 21st — should be delayed by a few weeks. the government says its taking things "one step at a time". a temporary ban on bailiff—enforced evictions, introduced in england at the start of the pandemic, has come to an end today. china announces that families can now have three children — up from the current limit of two — as data shows a steep decline in the number of births. opposition politicians in israel continue their talks and look close to a deal — which would end the premiership of benjamin netanyahu. new rules designed to reduce the number of fake whiplash

claims come into force in england and wales. expect more busy beaches on bank holiday monday, on what could be the hottest day of the year so far. now on bbc news, a former wales rugby international takes on his biggest challenge 7 to prove the game he loves has caused his dementia. commentator: look at this - alix popham drives for - the line — he's there! alix popham's rugby career seemed timed to perfection. as he started playing, the game went professional. he was able to turn his passion into a well—paid job. but he says after more than a decade of putting his body on the line,

he's paying a high price.