mette rose nielsen, a teacher in copenhagen. this is bbc news — the main headlines. cases could rise, as the country is set to ease travel restrictions from earlyjune. but that the cancer can't afford to wait for a vaccine. —— country can't afford. the uk government has defended its plan to reopen schools in england next month, and warned that the longer they are closed, the more children will miss out. barack obama has delivered a scathing attack on the trump administration's handling of the coronavirus 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 north america peter bowes joins us live. —— north america correspondent. this comes at a time where president trump has dismissed another official this time from the state department. yes, this is the inspector general in the state department essentially an independent government watchdog. and he was in a very late—night announcement on friday night dis

mette rose nielsen, a primary school teacher in copenhagen.own restrictions were eased in england. local councils urged people today to stay away from beauty spots and beaches. and although some national parks have reported areas being busy, many people do seem to have heeded the warning — as andy gill reports. in normal times, more than 3 million day visitors come to the dales every year, and it's not hard to see why. the national park and local authorities, though, think it is too early to loosen the coronavirus lockdown. the big fear was that the car park would be full all week, and the river bank was going to be like blackpool when blackpool was busy and open, nobody social distancing. but as it is, we have a slow increase in the amount of people coming, that feel safe to come. but in grassington today, some people were taking advantage of the new guidelines, some travelling from harrogate and leeds. if you follow the guidance and you socially distance, you make sure that you are not touching anything. we have not seen anybody, really, but

we can cross live to copenhagen right now to mette rose nielsen, a primary school teacher in the outskirtsank you very much forjoining us on bbc news, how have you adapted the way the school works to allow children to come back? yeah, well, i think we have adapted quite well. first of all, there is this dilemma, the balance between safety and the fa ct the balance between safety and the fact that children are children, so you have to allow them to be children, and is being is that we have tried to structure a lot of things and do a great deal of logistics to make it work, and then also to be very aware of the children's well—being, also to be very aware of the child ren‘s well—being, and also to be very aware of the children's well—being, and one of the things that we do to structure the things that we do to structure the day for the children, to prevent them to be too close together, and to prevent the transmission of the disease, if there is any, is, for example, to divide the children into little groups of ten children in one group, and then we have had a pound of this bubble, where the