correspondent. daniela, let's look back on— correspondent. daniela, let's look back on friday. they really hit it off, didn't — back on friday. they really hit it off, didn't they?— off, didn't they? they definitely did. off, didn't they? they definitely did- there _ off, didn't they? they definitely did. there was _ off, didn't they? they definitely did. there was an _ off, didn't they? they definitely did. there was an obvious - off, didn't they? they definitely . did. there was an obvious personal connection there, as well as some of the more diplomatic elements of the conversation. it was very much a welcome to the uk from the queen. she was sent down to cornwall as part of this wider soft diplomacy programme to welcome some of the world leaders, and to smooth the road ahead for any discussions, create a well of goodwill there, and to use her power, her longevity, her history to welcome people here to the uk. and it was clearly a personal connection between them. we couldn't hear what was said, but from the pictures we saw they all seem to get on very well. tell from the pictures we saw they all seem to get on very well.- seem to get on very well. tell us more about _ seem to get on very well. tell us more about the _ seem to get on very well. tell us more about the plans _ seem to get on very well. tell us more about the plans for - seem to get on very well. tell us more about the plans for this - more about the plans for this afternoon. more about the plans for this afternoon-— more about the plans for this afternoon. this is an informal visit, it won't _ afternoon. this is an informal visit, it won't last _ afternoon. this is an informal visit, it won't last very - afternoon. this is an informal visit, it won't last very long i afternoon. this is an informal. visit, it won't last very long here to windsor. it is nothing like a state visit. people will remember the trump state visit from a couple of years ago. but it won'tjust be

that informal, to be honest, because the first lady and the president will be welcomed by the queen here in the quadrangle of windsor castle. there will be a guard of honour there. they will give the royal salute to the queen and to the president and first lady. the president and first lady. the president will then inspect that guard of honour in the quadrangle. he will hear the national anthem played for him. they will then go inside the castle to tea. that element is private, it will be about 40 element is private, it will be about a0 minutes or so inside, having an informal chat and tea. we will see just one photo from that moment, from the grant corridor, of the president and first lady and the queen. we won't know what is discussed. that element will be private. discussed. that element will be rivate. .~ . , discussed. that element will be rivate. , , , private. speaking about guest lists. when peeple _ private. speaking about guest lists. when people don't _ private. speaking about guest lists. when people don't know _ private. speaking about guest lists. when people don't know each - private. speaking about guest lists. when people don't know each other terribly _ when people don't know each other terribly well, they obviously hone in on _ terribly well, they obviously hone in on things or people they have in common — in on things or people they have in common in— in on things or people they have in common. in this case they are harry and megan — common. in this case they are harry and megan. the sussex as the biden is no them _ and megan. the sussex as the biden is no them because of theirjoint

work_ is no them because of theirjoint work on — is no them because of theirjoint work on veterans rights. do you think_ work on veterans rights. do you think it's — work on veterans rights. do you think it's likely they're going to be talking about harry and megan? | be talking about harry and megan? [ don't be talking about harry and megan? don't think be talking about harry and megan? i don't think it will be a big part of the conversation. that is my sense. it is obviously a very sensitive issue within the royal family. it's a very personal issue. i cannot see the queen bringing it up greatly. she obviously has two american great grandchildren now, jill biden has a relationship with harry, she has worked with him in particular around the invicta schemes, and a number of veterans charities. there is a common ground there. could some of those areas he discussed? potentially. but i don't think anything around what has been sent in recent months by the sussex is is going to come up. flan in recent months by the sussex is is going to come um— in recent months by the sussex is is going to come urn— in recent months by the sussex is is going to come up. can we 'ust take a moment to — going to come up. can we 'ust take a moment to reflect h going to come up. can we 'ust take a moment to reflect on h going to come up. can we just take a moment to reflect on what _ going to come up. can we just take a moment to reflect on what a - going to come up. can we just take a moment to reflect on what a busy . moment to reflect on what a busy weekend — moment to reflect on what a busy weekend it has been for the queen. come up today for is not that kind of events. . . ., . . of events. can we reflect on what a busy weekend _ of events. can we reflect on what a busy weekend it _ of events. can we reflect on what a busy weekend it has _ of events. can we reflect on what a busy weekend it has been - of events. can we reflect on what a busy weekend it has been for- of events. can we reflect on what a busy weekend it has been for the i busy weekend it has been for the queen. . . busy weekend it has been for the queen. . , ., queen. that is the thing to remember. _ queen. that is the thing to remember. she _ queen. that is the thing to remember. she is - queen. that is the thing to remember. she is 95 - queen. that is the thing to remember. she is 95 years queen. that is the thing to - remember. she is 95 years old and she has been down to cornwall to greet world leaders and has been here for trooping the colour. a

scaled—down birthday parade yesterday and now we have a meeting with the american president today. it is a gruelling schedule for someone who is 95 even with all the support she is given to the royal household so i think she is looking incredibly well considering she only lost has been two months ago as well as looking like she is actually sort of enjoying being open about especially after being locked down here for so a covid restrictions. thank you very much. there is talk a little bit more about the politics and diplomacy of this desert. we can speak to doctor sam edwards. senior lecturer in at manchester metropolitan university. it have you with us today. borisjohnson, we have been told, is not terribly keen on the terminology special relationship, although president biden did make a point of using that phrase that visit to the g7. is the genuinely how he sees the relationship with the uk, do you think, or is that about him having a

line that he wants to put america back on the front foot internationally after the trump presidency? it internationally after the trump presidency?— internationally after the trump residen ? , ., ., presidency? it is not a bit of both, robabl . presidency? it is not a bit of both, probably. clearly, _ presidency? it is not a bit of both, probably. clearly, biden— presidency? it is not a bit of both, probably. clearly, biden is- presidency? it is not a bit of both, probably. clearly, biden is now. presidency? it is not a bit of both, i probably. clearly, biden is now keen to reassert america is a global leader in the part of that is for him to revisit the language of american diplomacy and trot out that trope at the special relationship and use it as a means to cultivate a connection with borisjohnson. it is a little bit of that and him asserting this new vision he has two separate his administration from president trump the prior incumbent. to what extent do you think the queen will be thinking than in the course of this visit later on today about her role in all of that and the fact that the uk's slightly change position outside the eu? sure, yeah, clearly, the queen is a consummate diplomat and has been doing these sorts of things for many years now and this is a person who in her formative years was around when the idea of an anglo—american

special relationship is founded back in the dark days of the i9a05 so she will be conscious of that. she has been involved in cultivating close anglo—american connections to various meetings with other us presidents are something she is very aware of and something she will be contributing to a she has done in previous years. find contributing to a she has done in previous veere— contributing to a she has done in previous years. and of course the queen is very _ previous years. and of course the queen is very much _ previous years. and of course the queen is very much the _ previous years. and of course the i queen is very much the embodiment previous years. and of course the - queen is very much the embodiment of the relationship, isn't she? the continuity of that relationship, much more than any individual president or prime minister. she has met ia uk prime ministers in her reign, joe biden is the 13th us president she is not in her reign. yes, she is not so many of them going back to the 19505. all the postwar american presidents apart from johnson who never came to the uk during the 19605 but she has met many of them and develop connections and a good rapport with several of them notably with eisenhower and jfk, and ronald reagan. there is history there behind this afternoon's proceedings. insured is

what we are _ afternoon's proceedings. insured is what we are going _ afternoon's proceedings. insured is what we are going to _ afternoon's proceedings. insured is what we are going to see, - afternoon's proceedings. insured is what we are going to see, it - afternoon's proceedings. insured is what we are going to see, it about| what we are going to see, it about more than symbolism, albeit symbolism can be hugely important? yes, some substance and symbolism to what is happening here. substance in terms of how it fits into the long history of these encounters but the symbolism also matters are not as the uk government. definitely matters to present biden as well. this is a real opportunity for him to draw this conference to a close by demonstrating he is a statesman more akin to the conventions of the statesman than was his predecessor donald trump who is often pointed out it not been good at the sort of thing. this is an opportunity for joe biden to show that he is and he knows how these things should be done. . ~ knows how these things should be done. . ,, i. knows how these things should be done. . ~' ,, , knows how these things should be done. . ,, i. , . knows how these things should be done. . ~ ,, , . ., done. thank you very much for shafinu done. thank you very much for sharing your — done. thank you very much for sharing your thoughts - done. thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with - done. thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us. done. thank you very much for- sharing your thoughts with us today on bbc news and we will be here throughout the rest of the afternoon and evening building up to that visit by the bidens when they meet

the queen here at windsor castle for tea and of course analysing afterwards what we can read into the body language and read into this meeting between america's first couple and her majesty the queen. interesting times the both countries in the uk is now outside the eu and joe biden very very keen to say, look, this is america, we're back, diplomacy is back. let's take a look at how that evolves i do stay with us throughout the day for more here from windsor castle on right now, it is back to you in the studio. we are going to newquay where we are seeing pictures of air force one taxiing out newquay airport. a former raf airbase. there were plenty of space there for air force one rather conveniently, to learn. it is now preparing to take off. it is heading towards the london area where it will land as close as realistically possible to windsor castle in order than for the president to be transferred onto the castle for that

appointment anita was telling us about and i nearly gave us a lot of detail about the arrangements. the one photograph you will see in the fact that he will last about a0 minutes and is in private. air force one now preparing for take—off. we 0ne now preparing for take—off. we probably won't see more pictures at this point because they have gone a little bit erratic as they try to get into better position but we can now break off and find out more about something we would have been doing a lot more of if there had not been the g7 and that is euro 2020. thank you for your patience. good to speak to you again. good afternoon. england's european championship campaign is under way. gareth southgate's side a one nil up against croatia right now in their opening group game at wembley. there isjust under ten minutes opening group game at wembley. there is just under ten minutes left in the second half so here is the calvin phillips here with a lovely through ball to stirling. manchester city and the man to put england ahead repaying gareth southgate's

decision to take on the starting team. and so these are the live pictures from wembley right now. a really hot day in london. less than ten minutes to go in the game as well and england are still one nil up well and england are still one nil up and hopefully heading towards first win in the opening game of the european championship. well, later the first matches in group c take place with austria up against north macedonia in the netherlands taking on ukraine. you can watch highlights of all of today's matches on bbc one at 1115 tonight. meanwhile the denmark team doctor says christian eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest during denmark's match against finland yesterday. he remains in stable condition hospital though and he sent a message to his team—mates this morning. the game was postponed for around two hours yesterday before resuming in the danish players decided they wanted to finish the game and they eventually went on to lose one nil. the former

denmark and manchester united goalkeeper criticised the decision by uefa to ask the danish players to whether to restart the game immediately resume at lunchtime today. he said it was absolutely ridiculous and then a different scenario should have been offered. was a team decision and i think that we all have to respect what the team did in that situation. you can always discuss, should they have waited for a while, you know, i have just learned that they have cancelled all the press activities in the morning today and they are trying, i heard the director of football said were getting people into support the players so, well, it was their decision and now they have to sort of take care of themselves now. in have to sort of take care of themselves now.— have to sort of take care of themselves now. in cricket new zealand only — themselves now. in cricket new zealand only needed _ themselves now. in cricket new zealand only needed an - themselves now. in cricket new zealand only needed an hour i themselves now. in cricket newl zealand only needed an hour this morning to beat england on day four

of their second test match. england lost their last wicket to the first ball of the day meant the visitors only needed 38 firms to wrap up the win. it is the first home series england have lost in seven years. joe wilson reports. sunday morning, how long could england's second innings recess. 0ne ball. all it took us above. 122 all out. the grim conclusion to saturday's sorry story. 0k, conclusion to saturday's sorry story. ok, so england bowling again. look out. new zealand second innings six — one. the only thing they needed 38 to win. it would only take a few of these to get there well before lunch. in fact, before they had barely breakfast. england's bowlers persevered in this match. some light relief from 0llie but at 1159 tom nathan completed the formality. the winning hit from the stand—in captain. remember new zealand rotated their players in this match and won it easily. they

are a small cricketing nation. their number one in the world ranking. england are part used the series to test the depth of their own resources but it all seemed rather empty. i resources but it all seemed rather em . ~' . resources but it all seemed rather em . ~ ., ., resources but it all seemed rather em . ~ . ., , , empty. i think we are a better side than the account _ empty. i think we are a better side than the account we _ empty. i think we are a better side than the account we have - empty. i think we are a better side than the account we have given - than the account we have given ourselves this time around but credit to new zealand. they've taken the opportunities. they have out thought is in doubt boulders and they've sat at the outback to do so it is hard to take, as it is, lose. but have to give credit to them as well. .. , but have to give credit to them as well, ,,., , ., , but have to give credit to them as well. , ., , ., .,, well. safely wavers today. the sectres well. safely wavers today. the spectres got — well. safely wavers today. the spectres got a _ well. safely wavers today. the spectres got a refund. - well. safely wavers today. the spectres got a refund. all - well. safely wavers today. the | spectres got a refund. all done well. safely wavers today. the - spectres got a refund. all done long before the football. —— the spectators got a refund. there is plenty more knowledge there is stories on the bbc sport website including live of the men's final at the french open. djokovic is playing and his opponent has taken the first

set. england are still 1— nil up against croatia. less than five minutes to go at wembley. in a man. lovely to speak to again thank you very much. the prime minister is due to give an update tomorrow on lifting covid—19 restrictions in england. this morning, the foreign secretary said the vaccination programme had weakened the link between infections and the numbers needing hospital treatment. but others warn that going ahead with unlocking could "fan the flames" of the pandemic. our health correspondent jim reed has more. this is not really the position ministers wanted to be in this weekend. tomorrow a crucial decision needs to be made — whether to go ahead with the final stage of unlocking in england a week later. but the emergence of the delta — or india — variant has made that call more difficult. it now makes up almost all new cases and may be 60% more transmissible than the older kent —

or alpha — strain. at the moment, infections are still far below the levels seen injanuary, but they have been doubling every week in some parts of england and scotland. speaking on the andrew marr programme, a government adviser said relaxing restrictions further could fan the flames of the pandemic. the way i look at it is with, you know, if we're driving down a road and you're coming up to a bend and you're not quite sure what's around that bend but you think there might be something bad, you don't put your foot on the accelerator — if anything, you slow down, not speed up — and i think it's analogous to that. i think we've got to be really cautious. the key question is whether that rise in infections will lead to a significant spike in hospital admissions. vaccinations should help prevent that, but just 56% of adults have had a second dose, leaving many millions not yet fully protected. ministers say the latest data

on that link between rising cases and severe disease will be critical ahead of the decision on whether to press ahead with unlocking onjune 21st. jim reed, bbc news. dr deepti gurdasani is a clinical epidemiologist at queen mary university of london. thank you very much for being with us. from your point of view you have made this clear before when you've been talking to us, you don't think we should be rushing to any further easing of restrictions. why would it be, in your view, easing of restrictions. why would it be, in yourview, an easing of restrictions. why would it be, in your view, an unreasonable risk to go ahead with the proposed lifting of restrictions? 50 i risk to go ahead with the proposed lifting of restrictions?— lifting of restrictions? so i think there's been — lifting of restrictions? so i think there's been a _ lifting of restrictions? so i think there's been a scientific - lifting of restrictions? so i think. there's been a scientific consensus on the fact that 21st ofjune reopening will be a really bad idea for several reasons. even with stage three reopening, we could have a level of hospitalisations that would even exceed january on stage for the

opening would make matters much worse. there's been a clear consensus for a long time. i'm not exactly sure what the government has taken so long to come to this because we don't have to wait as long to know that, you know, we are in a crisis right now. we need to think about how to deal with this right now because even by the 21st ofjune it does not mean things will be ok. we are at a point in time where we are seeing the doubling of cases every nine days and in the a3% of our population is fully vaccinated in those cases are transmitting to increases in hospitalisations and we think this is particularly in the north—west were cases started earlier on as well as in scotland and we know that the usual lapses within cases in hospitalisations, we are likely to see the same pattern repeated at the next few weeks. the see the same pattern repeated at the next few weeks-— next few weeks. the same pattern re eated next few weeks. the same pattern repeated but _ next few weeks. the same pattern repeated but not _ next few weeks. the same pattern repeated but not the _ next few weeks. the same pattern repeated but not the level - next few weeks. the same pattern repeated but not the level of - repeated but not the level of intensity we saw earlier in the year, isn't that the difference? these are sunday weekend figures and i will treat them with caution but for example the latest figure which

we have not given out yet were 17 infections reported on 2a—hour sunday and no deaths. even with the deaths are they are in single figures are low double figures. table of individual cases but is not enough to bejudging the table of individual cases but is not enough to be judging the country and the degree of restrictions across the degree of restrictions across the whole country? this is always the whole country? this is always the case, isn't it? that's a locum hospitalisations are low and increase after a like. we have not seen such are like. vaccinations will make a difference. there is no doubt about it. they will weaken those cases but if sage has looked the level of vaccinations in the modelling has incorporated that, knowing that 60% of the population are only partially are almost completely not protected then even those with two doses are not protected. we know there are deaths happening even in those fully vaccinated. sorry, we will have to

leave it there. please don't apologise. i'm sorry we cannot speak longer to you so much of this hour. i hope we will speak to again and will cover more than the in the coming hours but now it's time for kick. now on bbc news, click. redesigning aeroplanes. coventry was once the heart of british automotive manufacturing, dubbed britain's motor city. but it's moved with the times. now hosting the institute for future transport and cities at coventry university, playing an important part in the future of autonomous, sustainable and connected transport.

for a few years now, we've been told that driverless cars are just around the corner. and on this programme, we've taken a few for a spin. but before they can truly become a reality, we need to know that we can trust them just as much, if not more, than a human driver. and if this driverless world comes about, it will be transformative — not just for the drivers, but also for the cities, so we may need to rethink some of the basics. we're used to a lot of congestion on our roads but it seems here like this model of autonomous vehicles seems to actually overcome some of that congestion. so we know that people spend a lot of time driving around cities, creating congestion, looking for a parking space. with fully autonomous parking, you need fewer spaces. so that will reduce the requirement in infrastructure and in cities

for the real estate needed for parking solutions. the vehicle will literally drive itself into a car park, find its spot, recognise the white lines and pull in and park itself. clearly, the technology has come a long way, but before our streets can be filled with autonomous vehicles, the companies need to figure out how to train them and we as a society need to be confident with the rules and the choices that we allow them to make. zoe kleinman's been finding out more. this is what we were promised. i took a ride in this truly driverless car from russia around the streets of las vegas last year. it was both terrifying and weirdly underwhelming. turns out the car was a much more sensible driver than most humans i know. it took me three attempts to pass my driving test — none of it was my fault, obviously! — but perhaps i should have come here to cambridge, where the tech firm five has developed a sort of driving school for driverless cars. five runs endless simulations

to ensure that driverless car tech responds safely to challenges on the roads. one small scenario has nearly 500,000 possible variations. like me, our virtual car does not pass every test first time in the simulation. any driver will tell you it's those unusual moments on the road that you weren't expecting that pose the most danger. a kangaroo runs out in front of you. what? it's happened! it prompted the firm drisk to created the world's largest virtual library of edge cases. we are creating the first true driving test for autonomous vehicles, and the idea behind it is when autonomous vehicles are arriving in the uk, how will the government know that they are safe for uk streets? but getting the data to build the library hasn't been easy because people don't tend to report near misses. we've had stories of people driving around roundabouts and seeing somebody take the wrong turn and driving along the motorway the wrong way.

one individual described an experience of having sheep appearing from nowhere as they were turning around a corner. this driverless car is like a bit of a hive mind. there is a fleet of them currently driving around london, clocking up hours and hours and hours of experience, which they then all use in order to make them better drivers. london—based wayve doesn't actually make its own cars. instead, it builds the brains for others. we're not going to get there by taking technology from one or two decades ago and trying to commercialise it with brute force and billions of dollars of capital. things like machine learning — this is the technology that is going to power the future. wayve's idea is that its cars record theirjourneys, share their data with a central hq and the useful bits feed into its learning and then back out to all of the vehicles with its brains in their boots. try having a go at the moral machine — a game set up by mit scientists

to explore how humans think driverless cars should react in various scenarios. warning — they're all horrible. oh, this isjust awful! you saw examples where people were willing to sacrifice poorer people to save richer people, or heavier people to save more athletic people. what i would consider to be immoral, yeah. fortunately, none of us is in charge of deciding who cars should kill, but that's not what's holding them back. when we think of self—driving cars, it's easy to forget quite how much we as humans actually do when we're driving, so the future of autonomous vehicles not only relies on navigating difficult roads, but also reacting to new situations, and now potentially passing a government driving test. and i don't know many humans who pass their test first time. zoe there. now, when it comes to the future of transport,

sustainability is key — and that's notjust on the ground. up in the skies, the race is on to decarbonise aviation. companies are looking at different ways to be able to make air travel more environmentally friendly. and marc cieslak�*s been looking at some of the more dramatic solutions. here's the problem. the environment. we as a species are negatively impacting it in lots of different ways. aviation contributes to just over 2% of global emissions. pre—pandemic, the number was predicted to rise fast. the problem with aeroplanes are those. and the fuel that they run on pollutes the environment when it's made and when it's used, so engineers, scientists and aerospace companies are looking at ways of cleaning up the stuff that comes out of those. if we're going to allow people

to keep on travelling, then we're going to have to make aircraft which are far more efficient. and so there will be a real pressure to develop technologies, new shapes of aircraft, new propulsion systems that fundamentally reduce the fuel burn of aircraft. here at the university of cambridge's whittle laboratory, they specialise in work relating to turbomachinery. there are several projects and technologies being developed here that are considering sustainability and new methods of powering aircraft. there's a wide variety of different projects under way encompassing different kinds of aircraft, from new engines and components for big commercial airliners to projects like this one —

testing out the efficiency of distributing lots of electrically powered propellers across an aircraft's wing. so one of the advantages of electric propulsion is that rather than having one or two largejet engines, you could have many smaller electric motors powering the aircraft and they have a very similar efficiency, whether they are very small or very large, so we might see aircraft with maybe a dozen propellers in front of them and that allows us to design smaller wings and more efficient wings. solutions like this have potential for smaller, lower—range aircraft, but for bigger aeroplanes with longer range, the look and design of the outside and inside of these airliners that we're all familiar with could change, leading us to designs like this one — the blended wing. concepts like this offer big advantages in terms of saving fuel due to the aircraft's shape, generating large amounts of lift. they also reduce noise as a result of the engines being mounted above the wing. and more recently, there are blended wing concepts exploring hydrogen as a fuel source that produces

zero harmful emissions. but these radical designs, like the blended wing, come with their own issues. the technology is very important but it's getting the infrastructure to go with that technology which would radically change on the airport level as well. it would change the fuel that implies an entire infrastructure to bring that fuel into the airport as well. they'll also do away with windows for passengers. the wing blending into the cabin means you just can't have them. instead, there's a suggestion that passengers will have virtual screens, which should make up for the lack of a real view. well, that's where hybrid technologies come in — aircraft which look like a conventional airliner gas

engines on the wings but with an additional electric fan behind the tail. this is a concept known as boundary layer ingestion. now, boundary layer ingestion is a technology which is aimed at taking the flow that forms over the surface of an aircraft, the flow that's on the surface is what usually forms the wake behind an aircraft and causes the drag. the idea we have is to have a fan that's wrapped around the back of the fuselage and so itjust ingests all of this parasitic flow at the back of the aircraft and takes that in and re—energise it and turns it into useful thrust. time is the enemy here, though. aerospace is traditionally a very conservative industry. can a significant amount of research and development occur in time to address the world's urgent climate issues? so if we're going to decarbonise aviation by 2050, then we need

to get down to 19805 levels of emissions by 2030. so if you're looking at radically new concepts, you need to be able to work in a hardware—rich environment, you need to be able to build and test a lot of things, because many of those ideas are going to fail. in the future, commercial aircraft will undoubtedly be more environmentally friendly. but we as individuals will also need to address the impact of and the amount of flying that we all make. the full land programme can be found on iplayer and throughout the week you can of course keep up with a team on social media. find out on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter. thank you for watching and

goodbye. this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at four. tensions between britain and france over brexit threaten to overshadow the g7 summit in cornwall after emmanuel macron is accused of suggesting that northern ireland is not part of the uk. what i'm saying is that we will do whatever it takes to protect the territorial integrity of the uk. sir david attenborough throws down the gauntlet to world leaders — he says the choices they make on climate change will be some of the most important in the history of mankind. i'm annita mcveigh, live at windsor — where president biden is to meet the queen later today.