marianna spring, bbc news.ow on bbc news, oil—rich venezuela has been in an ever—growing state of crisis since hugo chavez died in 2013 and global oil prices crashed, as our world now investigates. last year, the world watched as millions of venezuelans poured across its borders, escaping a country whose economy and infrastructure are struggling to function. venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, and was once the richest country in latin america. but 20 years of a populous government, first led by hugo chavez and now nicolas maduro, has left the country in ruins. people took to the streets to protest. inflation in venezuela is now the highest in the world. the healthcare system has collapsed. more than 30% of the population doesn't have enough food, and many people don't have regular access to fresh water or electricity. by the end of this year, it's expected that more than 6 million people will have left venezuela. around 20% of the entire population. for those left behind, what started as a cris

marianna spring, bbc news.re with full coverage of the daily update from downing street shortly. but first, sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's sarah. let's start with the breaking news in the last 20 minutes — that the former england captain, bill beaumont, has been re—elected as world rugby chairman, beating the former argentina skippei’. agustin pichot. the 68—year—old fought off a challenge from his vice—chairman and will stay at the head of the governing body for the next four years. beaumont won by a slim majority of the votes, 28—23, and frenchman bernard laporte was voted in as the new vice—chairman. plans to use neutral venues are being drawn up in the event that the premier league is allowed to play games behind closed doors. but they may not be the ones you'd expect. if the government relax lockdown restrictions, it's expected that grounds away from city centres would be preferred for games. they are looking at venues that are not massively surrounded by housing, where pe

marianna spring, bbc news.wed to exercise for the first time in seven weeks. and the exercise in different age groups. adults get to go it 6am, older people go out at 10am, then children get to go out from 12pm to 7pm. you can follow everything on our website. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @jamesbbc. stay with us. hello. the weekend weather continues with perhaps a greater chance for catching a shower in the day ahead compared with saturday. there will still be some sunny spells around, but actually for a large part of england and wales, it'll be a cloudier day compared with saturday. that's because this frontal system is bringing at least some cloud up from the south, and to start the day across parts of southern england and south wales, there mayjust be a bit of patchy light rain around. it does mean more cloud across a large part of england and wales compared with saturday. still sunny spells, though, for northern england, northern ireland and scotland, but this is where some showers are going to break o

marianna spring, bbc news. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel.one is at 6pm. bye for now. hello, you're watching the bbc news channel with carrie gracie. more now on the news that a clinical trial getting under way in the uk will see patients treated with blood plasma from people who have had the virus, and since recovered. so far, donors have given enough plasma, which is the liquid part of the blood, to treat 150 people. dr manu shankar—hari is an intensive care consultant at guy's and st thomas' hospital nhs trust and is one of the leaders of the trial. he told me about his hopes for the trial may i start by thanking all those donors and the nhs trust for leading this clinical trial. in terms of our hope, what we are essentially doing is giving almost an immediate protection with passive therapy. we hope that the virus will be clear from the system quickly and help with recovery. and how soon will you know that? once we give the plasma, we will monitor these patients closely and we will start to see some improvement within days of giving the p

marianna spring reports.information. but, to stop the spread, you need to remove the source of disinformation. within the maze, some sources come from a sinister place, in search of clicks and money. 0thers create posts as a joke. i faked a gov.uk text message telling people that they'd been fined for leaving their house over three times a day, and i thought it would be funny to sort of scare them with a fake text message. and then there are conspiracy theorists. whilst these conspirators want to push their message, there are politicians wanting to protect theirs. i see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that? in the fight to stop misinformation, authorities and social media companies are working across a range of front lines. it's not just about the spreaders. if sources are identified and targeted, their misinformation can be prevented from going viral in the first place. but the government is struggling with the fine balance between

marianna spring, bbc news.rie symonds have named their baby boy wilfred lawrie nicholasjohnson. the names are a tribute to the couple's respective grandfathers and two doctors who treated mrjohnson while he was in hospital with coronavirus. that's it. we're back with the late news at ten. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. you're watching the bbc news. let's just remind you of some of the main points from the downing street briefing this afternoon. it was led by the local government secretary robertjenrick, along with drjenny harries the deputy chief medical 0fficerfor england. mrjenrick told us that yesterday 621 more people had died with coronavirus in hospitals, care homes and the wider community. this means a total of 28,131 people had died after testing positive for coronavirus in the uk as of 5pm yesterday. 0n testing, mrjenrick said that 105,937 coronavirus tests have been carried out in the uk on friday announcing financial support for victims of domestic violence, he said he

marianna spring reports. celebrities, influencers, neighbours, friends.formation. but to stop the spread, you need to remove the source of disinformation. within the maze, some sources come from a sinister place, in search of clicks and money. others create posts as a joke. i faked a gov.uk text message telling people that they'd been fined for leaving their house over three times a day. and i thought it would be funny to, sort of, scare them with a fake text message. and then there are conspiracy theorists. whilst these conspirators want to push their message, there are politicians wanting to protect theirs. i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we can do something like that? in the fight to stop misinformation, authorities and social media companies are working across a range of front lines. it's not just about the spreaders. if sources are identified and targeted, their misinformation can be prevented from going viral in the first place. but the government is struggling with the fine balance between m

marianna spring, bbc news. you're watching bbc news.d nigel nelson. that's coming up after the headlines at ii.30pm. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello. the weekend weather continues with perhaps a greater chance for catching a shower in the day ahead compared with saturday. there will still be some sunny spells around, but actually for a large part of england and wales, it'll be a cloudier day compared with saturday. that's because this frontal system is bringing at least some cloud up from the south, and to start the day across parts of southern england and south wales, there mayjust be a bit of patchy light rain around. it does mean more cloud across a large part of england and wales compared with saturday. still sunny spells, though, for northern england, northern ireland and scotland, but this is where some showers are going to break out. some of those may be heavy and possibly thundery. you may also see a few towards north wales, the midlands and east anglia on through the afternoon. as for temperature

marianna spring, bbc news. hears the stories of people whose lives have been changed by covid—i9. welcome to coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid—i9 is affecting people around the world. i'm philippa thomas, this week we are hearing stories from the hospital wards are a —— hospital wards. and a doctor who was also a beauty queen. we will first go to philadelphia in the united states where brett has been undergoing weeks of rehabilitation. this is my last full day of rehabilitation. i'm looking forward to the moment of being with my family after 2.5 months of being separated from them. we will hear more about your experience, bread, buti we will hear more about your experience, bread, but ijust wanted to explain to our viewers, before covid—i9 hit you, you were probably healthier than the rest of us?” guess i was a fairly healthy guy. i had a few extra pounds, but i worked out five or six days a week. i like to eat healthy and fresh that the bulls and stay in tune with my body —— vegetables, an

marianna spring, bbc news.hin the past hour, the first private sector mission to the international space station has been postponed because of bad weather. the spacex falcon 9 rocket, developed by the billionaire entrepreneur elon musk, was scheduled for liftoff from the kennedy space center in florida atjust after 9.30 tonight, but thunderstorms criss—crossing the area forced a delay. our science editor david shukman reports. heavy cloud over the launch pads, the weather ominous for this new era in space. two astronauts, doug hurley and bob behnken, getting ready. veterans with nasa, but now in the flashy suits of a private company, spacex. wishing them well, from a careful distance, the head of nasa and the founder of spacex, elon musk. he's worked for this moment for years. well, this is the culmination of a dream. this is a dream come true. in fact, it feels surreal. if you'd asked me when starting spacex if this would happen, i'd be, like, 1%, 0.1% chance. then, a farewell for two remarkable families. both

taking action to address false narratives on line, it also champions freedom of expression, as marianna springeading misinformation but to stop the spread, you need to remove the source of disinformation. within the maze, some sources come from a sinister place, in search of clicks and money, others create posts as a joke. i faked a gov.uk text message, um, telling people that they have been fined for leaving the house over three times a day, and i thought it would be funny to sort of scare them with a fake text message. and then there are conspiracy theorists. while these conspirators want to push their message, there are politicians wanting to protect theirs. i see that disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. one minute. and is there a way we can do something like that? in the fight to stop misinformation, authorities and social media companies are working across a range of frontlines. it is notjust about the spreaders, if sources are identified and targeted, then misinformation can be prevented from going viral in the first place. but the government is struggling with the fine balance betwe

marianna spring, bbc news.england next month, hair salons have been told they can't open before the ath ofjuly. as our reporter rick kelsey has been finding out, many hairdressers say they'll be ready well before that, and have been doing all they can to get ready for a queue of customers. july the fourth, independence day — for hairdressers — the day the government says salons may reopen, but only if they're covid—ready. welcome to our new salon, we've been knocking walls, changing the salon for everyone. we had 12 chairs, whereas now we've got eight chairs, to separate each person. we will be sterilising each section every time our clients finish. some, though, are getting well ahead of the game. this salon in north london has spent thousands of pounds reconfiguring for a socially—distanced future. in a space of four weeks it's transformed — knocking down walls, creating new booths and taking out reception space. i'm a bit nervous with cutting people's hair, but we're going to have to deal with it. appointmen

become badly tainted & a laughing stock here is our disinformation and social media reporter marianna springere are examples of fraud when it comes to postal voting or mail voting. and says that twitter was wrong to fact check a previous tweet he made. in the tweet he suggested that there is lots and lots of fraud when it comes to postal voting. however however, experts and fact checkers to whom twitter pointed site otherwise. actually there is a very low incident of fraud when it comes to postal voting for top even slightly higher than in person voting. twitter today has actually gone back and labelled a tweet made by a spokesperson for the chinese government as misleading. and said that it doesn't just do this to trump. however it raises a question, if it is going to go back and labelled tweets as is leading retrospectively this was a tweet about coronavirus and where coronavirus came from. —— as misleading. my then surely it's also going to have to go back and fact checked tweets by drop and other world leaders which for instance they were mistaken claims about the drug hydroxychloroquine

they're being used as vehicles for fake news, a problem that's worsened during the pandemic, as marianna spring spread, it has caused harm. people have died from poisonings in the us, vietnam, nigeria and iran. misinformation has fuelled racist attacks on muslims in india. false claims that 5g is spreading covid—19 sparked arson attacks on telecommunications masts in belgium, russia, canada and the uk, where workers were targeted, too. all i could hear them saying was, 5g is killing us all, we should be ashamed of ourselves as engineers and that i don't have any morals. i'd heard rumours, not from any news sources but people talking about, oh, well, it could cause... it could have effects, people getting sick over the 5g towers being too close. brian's wife is still fighting for her life in hospital. as the human harm caused by misinformation rises, so doctors are speaking out. tales of patients trying to self—diagnose by holding their breath, not seeking help soon enough or taking poisonous substances they think will help. the problem with misinformation in this setting is, it does two things.

thank you very much, marianna spring.s a working mum and dad, women are doing more of the jobs and spending more time with the children. and mums were only able to do one hour of uninterrupted work, for every three hours done by dads. let‘s speak now to paula sheridan — a coach whose firm unwrapping potential works with professional women, helping those who pause their career to have a family. hello, paula. hello. does this surprise you, or not at all? not at all, unfortunately. so many of the women that i speak to have been talking in terms of it‘s just highlighting, lockdown is just highlighting, lockdown is just highlighting what they are experiencing the rest of the time in terms of a lot of their mental energy is going on planning everything, making sure everything is organised in advance, we know what the children are doing, what time they are going to do it, do we have the right materials for them to do it? all of that sort of thing. it really is just a sort of an extension of what ordinary life is before lockdown,

marianna spring, thank you very much.he true numbers are far higher. already, the health system in the amazon has collapsed — and there's real fear the virus could devastate the vulnerable indigenous population in the region as well as its land. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson, reports. in the middle of the rainforest, the virus has taken hold. this is riannamanaus, the biggest city in the amazon, where they are digging mass graves known as trenches. where else —— how else can they cope with the numbers of people dying? manaus is at breaking point. it has one of the highest infection rates in the country in one of the most underfunded health systems. this video shot inside one of the hospital shows body bags lying next to those gravely ill. manaus is home to those gravely ill. manaus is home to many indigenous communities, where poverty, malnutrition and displacement make tackling the virus an even bigger challenge. history has taught people here that viruses from outside bring devastation. they are only —— t