norman smith.r of interfering in november's presidential election, after the social media company labelled two posts by the president as potentially misleading. mrtrump had claimed in tweets that the use of postal votes would lead to widespread voter fraud. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. a twitter war about twitter. it started when mr trump, who has more than 80 million followers on the social—media platform, tweeted that postal ballot papers would result in a rigged election. "mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged and even illegally printed out and fraudulently signed." mr trump also claimed that the governor of california will be sending ballots to millions of people. "anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one." twitter responded with a blue exclamation mark underneath the tweets, suggesting readers get the facts about mail—in ballots through stories contradicting mr trump. the president later repeated his claims at

norman, thank you very much, norman smith.lined a plan for exiting lockdown. from next week, restrictions around some outdoor activities will be relaxed. let's get more from our scotland correspondent lorna gordon, who's in glasgow. the first minister announcing this in the last few minutes. she has been speaking in front of the scottish parliament, giving more details of how the lockdown will be eased in scotland. it will be a four stage process, she said, very cautious, very gradual, it will not be the flick of a switch, but the first measures in his easing will start from the end of next week. primarily, they first phase has an outdoor focus, she talked, primarily, they first phase has an outdoorfocus, she talked, the first minister talk to people being able to sit in parks and outdoor areas, that people can meet others from other households as long as it is outside and that these social distancing rules are maintained, some non—contact sports will be allowed, fishing, golf, tennis, bowls, for instance, outdoor businesses s

norman smith, thank you. can meet outdoors in groups of up to of six. let's cross to chris page in belfast. 0ne one of 0ne ofa one of a number of measures? yes, that's right. for most people it is a day of reunions in northern ireland, northern ireland has gone further than england in allowing up to half a dozen people who do not live together to meet up outside, plenty of people are taking that opportunity, to see friends and family they have not seen for a very long time. the other measures brought in to ease the lockdown by ministers in the default government at stormont involve the reopening of churches for private prayer, some sports can begin again, golf clubs are gearing up to reopen from tomorrow, mostly. the one element of the third stage stormont‘s recovery plan which has not been prevented is allowing members of immediate families to meet up indoors. that wasn't the first stage that they published, they had not brought batting for the time being but first minister arlene foster says ministers will

norman smith in westminster.help explain how the test and trace system will work. very good morning to you. thank you for your time today. let's say a patient of yours rings up as a first point of contact at your surgery and says they have symptoms of coronavirus, what happens next? as we already are doing, the first piece of advice we would give is for them to isolate and obviously the members of their household to isolate for 14 days post as of today, however, the advice will change slightly in that we will advise them to ring 119 in order to be tested and then if their test is positive, to be contact traced. this does rely on a number of factors, which is that the patient will actually ring 119 and that the tests will have a rapid turnaround, as we've already heard, preferably within 24 hours, which, to be fair, hasn't been the case for nhs workers, but we are hoping with this new system, tests will be turned around quickly. then if it is positive, it relies very much on the fa ct positive, it relies very much

norman smith at westminster.te on this afternoon and you will be able to watch that questioning on bbc news. i think it is about to be, 2:30pm, like that. donald trump has accused twitter of interfering in the 2020 us election after it labelled two posts by the president as potentially misleading. mr trump had claimed that the use of postal votes would lead to widespread voter fraud. twitter responded by directing readers to a page with news articles and information from fact checkers debunking the claim. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. a twitter war about twitter. it started when mr trump, who has more than 18 million followers on the social media platform, tweeted that postal ballot papers would result in a rigged election. mailboxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged and even illegally printed out and fraudulently signed. mr trump also claimed that the governor of california will be sending ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are oi’ in the sta

had growing confidence that the operation will be world beating. 0ur assistant political editor, norman smithnorman? we do. it is an important commitment and important new target date, because this test track and trace system is really our key to getting out of the lockdown, it is how countries like singapore and south korea have successfully managed to contain the virus, and what it involves is recruiting a an army officials to basically hunt down the virus, by tracking everyone who comes into contact with anyone who comes into contact with anyone who reports symptoms of coronavirus, and then getting them to self—isolate. it involves using a phone app to record all the people you come close to, over a fortnight oi’ you come close to, over a fortnight orso, you come close to, over a fortnight or so, period. so you come close to, over a fortnight orso, period. so far, we you come close to, over a fortnight or so, period. so far, we know the government's recruited 20,000 or so people to work the scheme, we know the app has been piloted in the isle of wight but there has been niggles of wight bu

norman smith at westminster.s congress — have overhelmingly endorsed sweeping and controversial new security laws for hong kong. the bill, which now passes to china's senior leadership, has caused deep concern among those who say it could end hong kong's unique status. here's a look at what the law will do. firstly, it will criminalise conduct in hong kong that harms "national security" — a measure pro—democracy campaigners fear could be used to target them. it permits china's national intelligence agencies to set up offices in hong kong, to oversee its enforcement. beijing will also be able to place the measure into the basic law — that's the mini constitution on how hong kong is run — effectively bypassing the territories' own lawmakers. li zhanshu — a member of the chinese communist party's standing committee — welcomed the law at the closing ceremony of the national people's congress. translation: this meeting deliberates and approves a draft decision of the national people's congress for establishing a legal

our assistant political editor, norman smith, is in westminster. crisis but they have been the centre as well of they have been the centre as well of the criticism of the government's handling of it. criticism likely to be intensified today with these immigration rules, designed to end freedom of movement but which are also set to, in effect, bar care home bosses from recruiting care home bosses from recruiting care home staff from abroad. because the government say they are not skilled workers and they don't earn enough. prompting care home workers to say, how do we recover and regroup from this crisis if we cannot get the staff we want? and in some parts of the country, more than 20% of care home workers do come from abroad. they also argue it is profoundly offensive to classify care workers as unskilled, given the support and love they show to some of the most frail and elderly in society, and also given the very real courage shown by care workers, including foreign care workers, during this crisis. the government say, look, we are willing to be

our assistant political editor norman smith is at westminster.y statement, two things going on, because there is the initial decision to drive from london to durham to his parents‘ property, but while staying there there is the trip we all know about which was a round trip of about 60 miles between his parents‘ property and barnard castle. that is the bet that the durham constabulary is talking about. yes, they say that 26 mile trip, dominic cumming said he took it to testers i make sure he could drive back to london. they say that might have been in breach of the lockdown rules. however they say if an officer had stopped mr cummings while he was driving around barnard castle, he would have told him to get back to his parents‘ home and taken no further action. as it is, they say they are not going to take any retrospective action against mr cummings because they view it as a minor breach of the rules and durham police‘s policy has been a light touch approach compare to many police authorities, so he but not face prosecution or fines, police autho

norman smith reporting.tors, as mps gather to debate a bill that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. more than 2a0 people are reported to have been arrested by riot police as protesters gather in the central commercial district and in shopping areas. there were the scenes in hong kong‘s commercial district a little earlier when police attempted to disperse the crowds. pro—democracy activists have also voiced their opposition to separate legislation which would impose a sweeping national security law on the semi—autonomous territory. 0ur correspondent martin yip in hong kong explains the background to the controversy surrounding the chinese national anthem. it‘s pretty much about people thinking that this whole piece of law would bar them from expressing their discontent with governors in some ways, such as making parodies of the national anthem orjust booing at the national anthem. because back in 2017 when beijing made the national anthem law, and put it into what we call annex iii of the b

that was norman smith at westminster.w that the numbers of deaths in care homes are falling for the second week in a row. in the week to may eighth, there were 1,666 covid—19 registered deaths in care homes in england and wales. this is down from 2423 the previous week. let's go into those figures in more detail — with me is robert cuffe — the bbc head of statistics. cya n cyan i think it can be confusing for people to hear the statistics versus the one we hear everyday from the government —— yes, i think. we need to go back to the 8th of may, because there is quite a delay with deaths being registered. around that time, the uk government had announced just under 32,000 deaths, people who had tested positive for covid, and they are shown on the top bar of the covid, and they are shown on the top barof the graph covid, and they are shown on the top bar of the graph that viewers can see here on the screen in front of you. looking at the death registrations, people notjust testing positive but we are a doctor thought covid c

secondly, on that pointjust touched on by norman smith about the track and trace.tee we can quickly get testing and tracking, notjust of the quickly get testing and tracking, not just of the children quickly get testing and tracking, notjust of the children in the group but of course of their parents and immediate contacts as well, and we are not yet confident that is in place. the r rate in yorkshire is i understand 0.8, so below one, the sort of benchmarks, we are told. that is slightly higher than the midlands, slightly higher than london, but it is below the one benchmarks. it certainly appears it is below one and we are trying to get more clarity about that but the problem with relying on the r rate is it tends to be slightly historic, there is a lag in calculating it. we are also not yet seeing whether there will be any impact on transmissions from the easing of lockdown over the last few days. again, you would expect with a time lag that should take about two weeks to show through. we felt rather than let schools go ahead and plan and perhaps have to sayjust

back at the beginning of next month or won't be ready in time. 0ur assistant political editor norman smiththe first?” is the government softening on this data, during the first? i think they are data, during the first? i think they a re pretty data, during the first? i think they are pretty much resigned now to the fa ct are pretty much resigned now to the fact that all primary schools in england are not going to open on june the 1st because they are facing not just the opposition june the 1st because they are facing notjust the opposition of june the 1st because they are facing not just the opposition of the teachers‘ unions but now have a growing revolt from local authorities, and when it comes to primary local authorities are pretty much the key players because around two thirds of primary schools are local authority schools. everything we are hearing now from the government is they know they can‘t force schools to open, they‘re not really in the market of trying to browbeat them into reopening because i think if they were to do that it would probably backfire, entrenched opposition of

contact tracing, and largely restrict tests to hospital patients. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith. tell us more about what the science committee have said, about the government's testing strategy. bell, the committee have identified a lack of candour —— well, the committee. they have identified a lack of candour about testing is absolutely central to some of the difficulties we are now facing, in particular they have honed in on the decision in the early part of this epidemic to end so—called community testing and concentrate all our resources on the nhs in the sort of siege nhs mentality. now the consequence of that was huge. for ca re consequence of that was huge. for care homes it meant there was frankly negligible testing carried out there, with as we now no catastrophic consequences. it meant the scientist didn't have the data to model what was actually going on in the community and it has pushed back the option of test, track and trace, so it has had profound ramifications. what the committee tried to do is ascertain who took that decision, in other words who's to blame? the

our assistant political editor norman smith is at westminster. good morning.od morning. borisjohnson spoke yesterday about having a world beating test, track and taste system by the first of doing but frankly, to pick up on his language, lots of other countries have beaten the uk to this kind of system weeks ago. so the big question, given the prime minister wants to keep these restrictions, wants children to go back to school and so on, is can the government deliver on this? they seem confident they can have a system seem confident they can have a syste m u p seem confident they can have a system up and running by the 1st of june but it will be a less comprehensive system than that originally planned. in other words, it will be a system that relies entirely on human contact tracing. it is possible to do that. we have been told we have got around 25,000 people who have been recruited. it is thought we can do about 10,000 tests of people per day. levels of infection are down to the sort of level that we can begin such a scheme. but it is a less comprehensive sc

we can talk to our assistant political editor, norman smith, who is in westminster this morning. it could be our key to unlock the lockdown. but it is going to depend on all of us going along with it. for some of the us —— for some of us, it will be a huge ask. if we come into contact with covid—19, we may feel fine but be isolated for 14 days. do your civic duty, that will ra nkle days. do your civic duty, that will rankle in the dominic cummings saga. so far we have been remarkably willing to go with the lockdown restrictions at the start of this. people in government were a little bit uneasy, there was sort of an assumption we were a nation a bit sceptical of the government and the nanny state. we have gone along with it. yes, it is civic duty but there isafairamount it. yes, it is civic duty but there is a fair amount of self interest. the people you come into contact with the most often are frankly your nearest and dearest, yourfriends and family. therefore, you will want them to self—isolate, you will want them to self—isolate, you will want them to self—isolate, you will w

we can speak to assistant political editor norman smith. good morning. iwant good morning. honest truth is borisjohnson has decided to hunker down and tough it out in the hope that bluntly we'll all move on, the media will decide to focus on other issues, that tory mps, through gritted teeth, will decide to just let it go because we've got huge covid issues looming up at us and really in the next few days we are going to have to whether schools are prepared to go back, the government will have to use the weather it test and track scheme in time forjune the first, there will be further easing of the lockdown so there will be lots of stuff coming at us very quickly. a0 tory mps is a lot of mps and they are very angry, but there's no co—ordinated plot, this is individual tory mps firing off on twitter and expressing their outrage, but there isn't a sort of plan to force was to get rid of dominic cummings. added to which, the prime minister has been helped by the fact that parliament isn't sitting, so that would normally provide an environment where mps can gee each other up an

the system, describing it as a threat to the national interest. 0ur assistant political editor norman smith tell is more. we locate homes have been at the centre of this crisis, add a centre of the government upon my criticism of the government upon my criticism of the government upon my criticism of the handling of this crisis, with critics claiming they have not received the priority or the attention they needed. now that argument is rightly to be reinforced in the commons because of the position of migrant care workers, those from abroad who have been working in the care system during this whole epidemic. under the immigration bill, which will have its main debate in the commons today, care workers in the future will not be able to come to the uk from abroad because they are no longer regarded as skilled workers, and also they do not meet better salary threshold. labour is saying this is rank hypocrisy for ministers to applaud care workers for their work during this crisis and also saying they are not welcome here and we do not want new migrant care workers coming to the uk, so they qual

the artwork of john carlos, tommy smith and the australian runner peter norman. just showing off my hat for everybody. >> guest: behind me is a portrait of my office of ali that i convinced to do for me of a long ali's passing. actually it's a post visit white backdrop because putting on aye wall but he surprised me when he sent it to me is a piece we did i did on sportscenter about a lien honorarium of him and his legacy. he took the script put in the backdrop that means a lot to me. the centerpiece in my office in chicago. looks similar to this but first i want to introduce you to around the country that may not necessarily know about you and your background. i find absently fascinating. can you tell folks about how you came up? about your parents there politics their commitment and how that translate into your life customer. >> my mother and father were both members of the black panther party. my father probably more and because he was a newspaper journalist who the first black newspaper reporter in chicago, one of the first ten in the country. my mother was a

let's talk to norman smith. wondering why we don't have a test, track and trace system don't have a test, track and trace syste m u p don't have a test, track and trace system up and running. others already have but borisjohnson was talking yesterday about a world beating system being in place by the ist ofjune. there is a huge amount of pressure on him from various sources to actually get this going, to make sure there is good communication between central government and all of the local and regional committees, if you like, who might be looking after this. can he deliver? the government seemed confident they will deliver a track and trace system but whether it is the one they initially wanted, no, it is not going to be one that includes a phone app but they are pretty confident, they say, that they will be able to have a human contact tracing system, because they have already recruited around 20,000 - 25,000 have already recruited around 20,000 — 25,000 people to do the phone bashing, knock on doors and e—mail