branwen jeffreys, bbc news.auts doug hurley and bob behnken this afternoon reached the international space station onboard the crew dragon capsule from the private firm, spacex. it took the pair 19 hours to get to the destination, after blasting off from cape canaveral last night. the mission‘s aim is to demonstrate spacex's ability to ferry astronauts to the space station and back safely. outdoor markets and car showrooms will be allowed to reopen in england tomorrow, with safety measures in place, as the restrictions on nonessential retailers start to be eased. all other shops classed as nonessential are preparing to open from june 15th. here's our business correspondent, katy austin. neil's getting ready to sell his towels and bedding at barnsley‘s outdoor market for the first time in over two months. he and his wife, suzanne, are planning a new, safe stall layout. tables at the front, two—metre distance... i don't think we'll take a great deal of money, but we've just got to get into this system of working a

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.with safety measures in place, as the restrictions on non—essential retailers start to be eased. all other shops classed as non—essential are preparing to open from june the 15th. here's our business correspondent katy austin. neil is getting ready to sell his towels and bedding at barnsley‘s outdoor market for the first time in over two months. he and his wife suzanne are planning a new safe store layout. tables at the front, to meet a distance. i don't think we'll take a great deal of money, but we've just got to get into the system of working again. however slow business is, they can't wait to reopen. it's very important, plus we want to help the economy don't we? we want to make a start. one trader's association says those who have carried on selling essentials like food have shown it can be done, but believes only a fraction of outdoor markets will resume straightaway. monday is the get go, you know. it will take a lot of time to bring markets back to their full potential with the

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.d because of the lockdown, will return from monday. the mayor of london says it‘ll help prevent a build up of traffic, after the government‘s easing of restrictions included advice that people going back to work should avoid public transport. a refund system for nhs workers is being extended to care home workers. police in england and wales have issued more than 111,000 fines for alleged breaches of lockdown laws. the met police in london handed out the most fixed penalty notices, 906. but it‘s also been revealed that 56 people across the uk, have been wrongly charged with offences relating to the pandemic. wales‘ first minister has promised a cautious route out of lockdown, that he says puts people‘s health first. mark dra keford outlined what he called a traffic light system, but warned he couldn‘t give a clear timetable for when restrictions would be lifted. 0ur wales correspondent hywel griffith reports. what would a second wave of the pandemic bring to a place like aberystwyth? la

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.have insisted they will be led by the science when making decisions, so what does the science say about how children are affetced? lauren moss explains. we've only known about covid—19 for under six months and the science community is still learning about it. one of the big questions to answer is how are children affected. put simply, children seem to catch coronavirus as much as anyone else. the survey by the office for national statistics published this week suggests that one in 400 people in england has coronavirus and that children are also just as likely to test positive as adults, but they don't appear to develop symptoms which are a serious or be as vulnerable to it. in terms of the respiratory illness we've seen in adults we're really not seeing that in children, which of course is great news, and the cases we've had in oxford where we have found coronavirus, it seems to have almost been an incidentalfinding. so if children catch coronavirus, how likely is it, then, that they c

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.s 75 years ago this month that the second world war came to an end in europe. the surrender document signed by germany was drafted not by senior diplomats or ministers but by an officer in the british army who was by training an actor and theatre manager. few people, including his own daughters, realised the role that he played on ve day, as my colleague reeta chakra barti explains. meetjohn counsell, the british army colonel who played a pivotal role in ending world war ii. an actor and theatre manager, in 1940 he was called up into the theatre of war. but army life, his twin daughters told me, wasn't for him. what sort of soldier was he? inept, i think the word would be. his battery commander said that he was the worst soldier he had ever come across. jenny and eizabeth were small children at the time. theirfather, despite being a poor soldier, was a good writer, and was propelled into ghost writing official reports for the allied commander general eisenhower. newsreel: nazism was cr

our education editor branwen jeffreys reports from manchester.ment the parents drop of the children from the gates the morning. for weeks, the had teachers from planning to stop this is the yellow line. parents and children arriving tomorrow morning we'll see how much is changed. on the playground, the new normal marked out, children and youth glass bubbles of no more than 15. all of our classrooms i have doors onto the outside. lessons, break time and lunch on the same group. usually we would have the admit videos and how stu d e nts would have the admit videos and how students were coming to school and about the classrooms look like because everything is just a little bit different and we want to ease the anxiety for parents and children. even schools like this that are completely ready to take back nurseries, perception, your one in yearsix, back nurseries, perception, your one in year six, don't expect everyone to turn up on the first day. a lot of it is about personal choice. how pa rents of it is about personal choice. how parents feel abou

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.c news, all the latest on how the lockdown is affecting the leisure and travel industries. it's time for the travel show. hello, and welcome to the travel show. it's a chilled one for me this week, as we're coming from my gaff right here in london. it's a lockdown special with a look at how some of the world's biggest events and festivals are moving the fun online. we've got news about offers of free holiday accommodation for key workers. we go on lockdown with the beefeaters at the tower of london. and with so many flights and holidays cancelled, we've got an update on how companies are doing on giving our money back. spoiler alert: not very well. it's a frustrating time for those of us who are itching to get back on the road again, but we're actually quite lucky that we can stay at home right now, because there are millions of key workers around the world — doctors, nurses, the people we buy our food from, the people who empty our bins — who don't have that luxury. but in recent week

branwen jeffreys, bbc news. will be led by the science when making decisions — so what does the science say about how children are affected? lauren moss explains. we've only known about covid—19 for under six months, and the science community is still learning about it. one of the big questions to answer is how are children affected. put simply, children seem to catch coronavirus as much as anyone else. the survey by the office for national statistics, published this week, suggests that one in 400 people in england has coronavirus and it also found that children are just as likely to test positive as adults, but they don't appear to develop symptoms which are as serious or be as vulnerable to it. more than 24,000 people have died in hospitals in england from covid—19, 12 were under the age of 19, most had underlying health conditions. we know from the current information that children have fewer symptoms and appear to have different transmission dynamics to adults, and it looks like they probably have shorter or

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.ities in the uk have implemented measures to encourage walking and cycling. the temporary changes are aimed at reducing use of public transport and cars. but as the country emerges from lockdown, these changes could signal a permanent shift, as our environment correspondentjustin rowlatt reports. deansgate, the main road through manchester, is changing. today, barriers and trees closed a key stretch to traffic. elsewhere, new walkways and pop—up bike lanes are appearing. we want to see change across the city. we want people to walk and cycle more, but we want to do that in a safe way. and it isn'tjust manchester. this week, pop—up cycle lanes opened in glasgow, leicester, york and brighton, and dozens more towns and cities have similar plans. london is closing some of its busiest streets to create what it claims will be the largest car—free area in any city in the world. most of these measures are presented as temporary, providing social distancing space. but often, the aim is to make

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.delivered a scathing attack on the trump administration's handling of the pandemic. the former us president, said many officials weren't even pretending to be in charge. he made the comments in an online address to thousands of students from historically black colleges and universities. 0ur correspondent david willis is in los angeles. tell us more about what former president obama has been saying. these graduation ceremonies are a sort of right of passage for american stu d e nts of passage for american students and, of course, they have had to be cancelled throughout the country because of the coronavirus pandemic and they have switched to virtual graduation ceremonies instead. barack obama, the former president, has taken part in two of those. he took part in one this morning and he was pretty scathing in remarks about the trump administration handling of the current coronavirus crisis. mr obama has largely kept his views to himself in the three plus years he has been out of office.

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.ospital in the uk. it's called game changer and the work will be auctioned later, with the money going to the nhs. 0ur arts editor will gompertz has been to see it. could this be a rare sighting of the elusive street artist banksy? undercover, making a special delivery to university hospital southampton. wow. it's certainly his handiwork. it was hung late last night and unveiled this morning. it depicts a young boy kneeling down, wearing dungarees and a white t—shirt. the waste—paper basket in front of him has two discarded old superheroes. instead, he's playing with his new model figure, a new superhero, an nhs nurse with a flying cape and arm pointing forwards like superman. she is on a mission. the idea of the hospital's management and banksy was to thank the staff of the nhs generally for everything they are doing. so, did it go down well? just the proudness of it. the actual realising that we are thought of and respected. for years now, we've not, but now, with everything that's g

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.barack obama, has made a scathing attack on the way the trump administration has handled the coronavirus pandemic. he told thousands of students in an online address that america's inequalities were on show, as the virus has a disproportionate effect on black communities. his commencement speech is part of a star—studded prime—time event for high school students who are missing out on graduation pomp because of the virus. 0ur correspondent, david willis, is in los angeles. david, welcome to you. bring us up—to—date on what the former president has been saying. well, samantha, in the three yea rs well, samantha, in the three years plus since he left office, barack obama has shied away from directly criticising his successor, donald trump, but now the gloves have come off. although he didn't mention president trump by name, it was pretty clear what he was getting at when he said the coronavirus pandemic had, as he put it, "pawn down the curtain on the idea that the country's leaders knew

our education editor branwen jeffreys has the story.or students hoping to start in the autumn. no bars, no big parties. some courses may even begin online. but students in england will still pay full fees. it's a lot of money to miss out on the proper university experience, to miss out on not meeting new people. if that was going on for a long time, i do think it wouldn't be fair for full tuition fees because they are not getting the full experience and i'm not being taught everything i need. starting university while social distancing continues and a lot of places are closed are going to be pretty difficult. if having these social distancing measures in place, that will massively affect people's growth, and interest in going to university and have a university life. if you are sitting at home worrying about what grades you will get, it is not all bad news. universities will be able to offer slightly more places this year. up to 5% per university in england. so, if you are willing to shop around in clearing, there could be plenty of cho

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.ted they will be led by the science when making decisions — so what does the science say about how children are affected? lauren moss explains. we've only known about covid—19 for under six months, and the science community is still learning about it. one of the big questions to answer is how are children affected. put simply, children seem to catch coronavirus as much as anyone else. the survey by the office for national statistics published this week suggests that one in 400 people in england has coronavirus and that children are also just as likely to test positive as adults, but they don't appear to develop symptoms which are a serious or be as vulnerable to it. in terms of the respiratory illness we've seen in adults we're really not seeing that in children, which of course is great news, and the cases we've had in oxford where we have found coronavirus, it seems to have almost been an incidentalfinding. so if children catch coronavirus, how likely is it, then, that they can carry

concern about whether it would be safe to ask staff and pupils to return. 0ur education editor branwen jeffreys highly significant. it has been an extremely tetchy week between teachers, head teachers and the government with teaching feeling aggrieved they have been accused of scaremongering. i understand they will get the chance to put many of their concerns and questions to the chief medical officer, the chief scientific officer and some of the other government's other senior advisors. they have a large number of questions they want to seek reassurance on, from things like why are face masks on public transport, but not in schools. the risks are not so much to children, who seem to suffer mildly from the virus, but the risks around transmission will more children take the virus into circulation and back to families and to teachers and other staff? such as clea ners to teachers and other staff? such as cleaners or the people who would need to be back to make a school function. of course i want it is crucial that they get buy in from the teaching profession, in order for more children to attend

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.eople‘s health first." mark dra keford outlined what he called a "traffic light" system, but warned he couldn‘t give a clear timetable for when restrictions would be lifted. 0ur wales correspondent hywel griffith reports. what would a second wave of the pandemic bring to a place like aberystwyth? largely sheltered from the first, in this county, they‘ve had the lowest infection rate in wales. the national lockdown arrived just in time to save us. at the local hospital, they feel they‘ve been spared for now. the lockdown slowed the spread of the virus from east to west, but lifting it could mean they would be hit much harder. it would not take a large number of cases to take up all our resources. so, we certainly survive on a limited bed base. we also have a limited number of physicians. we‘re not close to other hospitals to bring people, staff, physicians, nursing staff from elsewhere if there was to be a major outbreak amongst the staff. the plan set out for wales today means aberyst

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.ices for older patients. part of the strategy is to provide more care at home, avoiding the need for frail and vulnerable people to go into hospital and face the risk of being infected with coronavirus. doctors say they realised urgent changes were needed when they saw the plight of so many older patients in hospitals abroad. 0ur health correspondent sophie hutchinson has been exploring how it works. so, this lady i'm going to see was referred into the home treatment service yesterday. in the midst of the coronavirus emergency, doctors and nurses are taking to the road here. sat nav: you have reached your destination. they call it their virtual hospital, delivering high—level medical care to frail, older people in their own homes. they're keeping the vulnerable out of actual hospitals to shield them from covid—i9. hi, i'm helen, one of the nurses. they've come to check on maureen matthews. they treated her the day before we filmed, after her husband roger called 999. i heard a crash up

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.aders of germany's 16 states. at a stormy video conference, they agreed social distancing would continue for another month. jenny hilljoins me from berlin. what are the most significant measures? there were a lot of them and most importantly, germany is reaching significant steps back towards whatever passes for normality at a time of global pandemic. this country is in a good position. the infection rates have been steadily falling. there is hospital capacity to spare, but that has put angela merkel under pressure from the leaders of germany's 16 states, who desperately want to restart their local economies. at that meeting today, we are told it was very stormy when they agreed they can open shops, restaurants, hotels, albeit with strict social distancing measures and that germany's professional football league, the bundesliga, can resume matches, although they must be held behind closed doors. there are caveats. people cannot simply go out and meet up people cannot simply go out and

our education editor branwen jeffreys has the story.in the autumn. no bars, no big parties. some courses may even begin online but students in england. -- still pay full fees. it isa england. -- still pay full fees. it is a lot of money to miss out on a proper university experience, to miss out on not meeting new people. if that was going on for a long time ido if that was going on for a long time i do not think it would be fair to ask herfull tuition fees i do not think it would be fair to ask her full tuition fees because i am not getting the full experience, iam not am not getting the full experience, i am not getting taught everything i need. it is going to be pretty difficult. having these social distancing measures in place will massively affect people's growth and interest in going to university and telling a university life. if you're sitting at home worrying about what leads you will get, it is not all bad news. universities will be able to offer slightly more places this year, up to 5% to offer slightly more places this year u

branwen jeffreys, bbc news. dr patrick roach, general secretary of the nasuwt the teachers' union, said... well, one charity has already picked up from its early research that children from poorer backgrounds are suffering as a direct result of the lockdown. for more on this, let's speak to louisa mcgeehan, director of policy at child poverty action group, a charity which works to support children growing up in poverty in the uk. shejoins me now. good to have you with us. safeguarding in schools is so important to ensuring children get meals come that they are being cared for at home and it must be a worry to you that during this lockdown so many of them are out of sight. yes. we don't particularly have safeguarding but we have been looking at what is happening with those children and young people and theirfamilies while those children and young people and their families while schools have been closed because normally we will been closed because normally we will be working with them around how well schools adapt

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.is it so challenging for teachers and schools to welcome back primary school children before the summer holidays? what are your objections? school leaders and governing boards have been planning incredibly carefully and thoroughly over the past few weeks in order to open up. some tomorrow and others later on. for the three years being invited back in. that has taken a huge amount of thought, reflection, reassessment, as things change, so the idea now that, within three weeks, all of primary school children could be back at school absolutely does not seem feasible. currently, the guidance is maximum of 15 children in one group so most primer schools simply do not have enough classrooms to manage that. —— primary school. something dramatically would have to happen under the science and medical front in order to allow all children back to the classroom so i am really pleased if the government is saying it is reviewing that ambition to have everybody back for four weeks. it would be a lot