from istanbul, our international correspondent, 0rla guerin reports. how do you track a virus that sweeps unseen through a city? in istanbul, home to more than 16 million, the answer is — you don't waste a minute. right from the very beginning we were ready for the covid—19. this is where we pick up the calls. they've been contact tracing since day one, when turkey's first case was diagnosed in march. the system is well developed from decades of tracking measles. it relies on tireless work by doctors and nurses. we as a team feel as if we are in a war. because people forget to go home. they don't, you know, they don't know the timeframes that they're working in. we say ok, eight hours is completed, but they don't even care going home because they know this is a duty they have to complete and before it spreads to anyone else. so 1200 tracing teams fan out across the city. wejoined them in fatih in the heart of old istanbul. step—by—step they track the virus, here checking on two flatmates whose friend is covid positive. both in their 20s, they are teste

from istanbul, our international correspondent 0rla guerin reports.s that sweeps unseen through a city? in istanbul, home to more than 16 million, the answer is — you don't waste a minute. right from the very beginning, we were ready for the covid—19. this is where we pick up the calls. they've been contact tracing since day one when turkey's first case was diagnosed in march. the system is well developed from decades of tracking measles. it relies on tireless work by doctors and nurses. we, as a team, feel as if we are in a war because people forget to go home. they don't, you know, they don't know the time frames that they're working in. we say that, 0k, eight hours is completed, but they don't even care going home because they know this is a duty that they have to complete and before it spreads to anyone else. so 1,200 tracing teams fan out across the city. wejoined them in fatih in the heart of old istanbul. step by step, they track the virus, here checking on two flatmates whose friend is covid positive. these women, both in their 20s, are tested

orla guerin, bbc news, istanbul.attled new zealand's north island early monday but failed to crack prime ministerjacinda ardern‘s trademark composure as she conducted a live television interview. take a look at this. we arejust we are just having a bit of an earthquake here, ray and. quite a decent shake here, if you see things moving behind me. has it stopped, prime minister, or is it still going? yeah, no, it has just stopped. and you it still going? yeah, no, it hasjust stopped. and you are feeling safe to continue the interview? we are fine, i'm not under any interview? we are fine, i'm not underany hanging interview? we are fine, i'm not under any hanging lights. i feel like i am and a structurally sound place. cool asa structurally sound place. cool as a cucumber. as china and europe emerge from the covid—19 pandemic, how they fare will have repercussions on other countries like zimbabwe, africa's largest tobacco grower. about 230 million kilograms of tobacco are expected to be sold this season. the country is

this is nothing more than thuggish intimidation by your police isn't it and it was condemned by the guerincivil liberties. committee as having a chilling effect on many ordinary social media users that's exactly what it's meant to do isn't it to have this chilling effect scare the population into silence and eradicate criticism. not not at all in fact if you look at the public discourse if you look at hungary in politics if you look at the parliament we have one of the most vibrant debates here across the whole european union where the whole range of various opinions and different points of views are presented and can be presented in best right that way there's no intimidation at all those. those are. commentaries have nothing to do with reality i don't think well you may not like the accusations against your country and we'll we'll look at some of them in detail but your denials that hungary was undertaking any anti democratic moves haven't exactly been believed have they and particularly now we have the reporters without borders organization saying that you've passed an orwellian law tha

>> ann guerin, it struck us that the president is attempting to pick fights that actually go in the face arguably of keeping numbers low. he's pushing for churches to hurry and reopen, which, of course, can cause a spike in cases. he's calling for the rnc at full capacity,ing could cause a hot spot in charlotte. he doesn't want mail-in voting. voting in person could cause an expansion of the virus. obviously perpetuating a culture war on masks, a political divide that may not be as big as it appears, all of this is rhetorical. and we know this is not new from him but he's really ramped up the need to find new fights to have to avoid this virus. >> yeah, chuck, it's clear that the president is using a couple of pages from a well-known playbook, destruction, burn things down. have a big fight. make a very big explosion somewhere so that he creates a distraction. both of those things are happening. and there's another thing happening as well, which is the president is making a pretty grim bet here, which is the fight and the politically charged culture fights that he's having right now are

this headline from your colleague ann guerin really stuck out to me.weekend dedicated to war dead, trump tweets insults, promotes baseless claims and plays golf. nearly 100,000 dead as we mentioned. the president was out there on the golf course. quite the split screen, i have to say. >> yeah, it really was, ayman. it's not just that the president was out playing golf but the messages emanating from him, from his twitter feed were so discordant with the reality of the coronavirus death toll over this weekend as we near 100,000 dead. trump did not pay tribute to those lives or focus on mourning. instead, he was pushing a number of conspiracy theories out there. he was retweeting from a twitter account. he was going after perceived enemies, including, by the way, his own former attorney general jeff sessions who is running to try to reclaim his senate seat down in alabama. and this morning, just in the last few minutes, we've seen the president retaliate against the news coverage of his golfing by trying to defend his golfing as a chance for him to get s

here's the latest from our correspondents in turkey, ukraine and switzerland, starting with orla guerinrst phase of what has been called a normalisation plan. so shopping malls can reopen, but temperatures will be taken on the way in and numbers will be limited. hairdressers and barbershops are back in business with an appointment system, and some travel restrictions have been lifted. but major cities like istanbul and the capital ankara remained sealed off. weekend curfews are expected to continue. coffee shops and restaurants remain closed. so the tourist sites. turkey is among the top ten countries in the world for confirmed cases of the virus. but the fidelity rate is low. the message from the authorities in that if infections increase, normalisation. —— fatality. ukraine is so far avoiding the worst of the covid—19 outbreak. probably because it shut pretty much everything down in the first half of march. before the virus really took hold here. some restrictions have already been eased. this food market for example has been allowed to open for about a week or so under pretty stringe

but international experts say turkey has managed to shield its people from a greater disaster. 0rla guerinfrom coronavirus. but greece's tourist industry — which makes up at least a fifth of the economy — has been badly hit by the pandemic, as quentin sommerville reports. the parthenon is a landmark notjust for greece, but for the entire world, and for the last few months, it — along with western civilisation — has been closed to visitors. this week, it reopened. social distancing means new markings on these ancient stones and new plastic defences on the ramparts. for greece, there is no greater symbol but, for now, this is mainly a symbolic reopening. on any given day, there would usually be 20,000 visitors here. today, barely 100. foreign tourists can return here without quarantine from the middle ofjune. for the moment, it's mostly locals. the fact that it's open makes me feel hopeful, but cautiously so. our government reacted well and quickly, and the results show. greece hasn't been overwhelmed by the pandemic — only 170 deaths. lockdown is easing here. the mainland's beaches are open

i'm joined by our international correspondent 0rla guerin who is in istanbul.,000 gowns which arrived on the 22ndin 250,000 gowns which arrived on the 22nd in the uk, you remember that they were picked up by the raf. now he said that he stands behind those goods, that everything was inviting, that he has certificates about the production standards and also about the fabric composition. —— everything was in writing. and that what was surprised was up to scratch and also conform to the eu safety standards. he said that he was in shock that officials in the uk had made statements in public saying that there were problems with the consignment when nobody had been in touch with him he said that even yesterday the nhs was in contact with him and in fact he said that he had been expecting an e—mail today in relation to the remaining part of the shipment which was due to be sent and that is additional 150,000 gowns. they should also add that the turkish government has now rode in on this and a spokesman said that this was a private deal, a commercial deal between a the

here's the latest from our correspondents in turkey, ukraine and switzerland, starting with orla guerinopen, but temperatures will be taken on the way in and numbers will be limited. hairdressers and barbershops are back in business, with an appointment system, and some travel restrictions have been lifted. but major cities like istanbul and the capital, ankara, remain sealed off. weekend curfews are expected to continue. coffee shops and restaurants remain closed. so do tourist sites. turkey is among the top ten countries in the world for confirmed cases of the virus. but the fatality rate is low. the message from the authorities is that if infections increase, normalisation will stop. ukraine has so far avoided the worst of the covid—19 outbreak, probably because it shut pretty much everything down in the first half of march, before the virus really took hold here. some restrictions have already been eased. this food market, for example, has been allowed to open for about a week or so under pretty stringent conditions. the next phase will see a host of other things allowed to reopen —