tulip mazumdar, bbc news.ess, is warning of the worsening problem of rough sleeping right across britain. the charity, crisis, has contacted scores of other similar organisations in england, wales and scotland, and more than half reported a rise in people seeking help during the lockdown.. june kelly has more from birmingham.. hello, matey. you all right? they form part of birmingham's front line team in dealing with the homeless. are you ok? we're a rough sleeper team. do you need any help with accommodation? the gentleman bedded down, i've never seen him before. he doesn't want to go in. with these outreach workers from two organisations, trident and st basil's, is councillor sharon thompson. normally you would see them in doorways, and... she is birmingham's homelessness lead and she knows what she's talking about. she was homeless herself in the city at 16. homelessness is more than a house, it's a whole life and creating a home. it's more thanjust simply giving them a key to a door. like other councils, b

tulip mazumdar, bbc news. leave hospital. the seacole centre is a rehabilitation unit in surrey which helps patients recover from the virus. our correspondent sima kotecha has been to speak to some of the people being treated there. well done. my first time on sticks. the road to recovery for those with coronavirus can be a long and arduous one. david is 73 and spent seven weeks unconscious. he first developed sepsis and then caught the virus, which he still has. he also had a heart attack. you feel as though you‘re in a bit of a dream, a little bit of a haze, and you can‘t appreciate what‘s actually going on around you. he found it hard to walk or even move. slowly, he‘s relearning those basic mobility skills. i get involved in community issues, and i need to be able to stand up and talk. and i can‘t do that at the moment, but i hope when i get out of here, that with the help of these lovely physios, they will actually be able to enable me to walk. but if i can walk with a stick, or better still without a sti

tulip mazumdar, bbc news.h—west london. the boy's mother and two teenagers were also injured in the shooting just before 10pm last night. the two—year—old is said to be in a serious but stable condition in hospital. officers have launched an investigation — no arrests have been made. the long—term impact of coronavirus can be severe, both physically and mentally. some people can struggle to adapt to normal life after they leave hospital. the seacole centre is a rehabilitation unit in surrey which helps patients recover from the virus. 0ur correspondent, sima kotecha, has been to speak to some of the people being treated there. well done. my first time on sticks. the road to recovery for those with coronavirus can be a long and arduous one. david is 73 and spent seven weeks unconscious. he first developed sepsis and then caught the virus, which he still has. he also had a heart attack. you feel as though you're in a bit of a dream, a little bit of a haze, and you can't appreciate what's actually going on around

tulip mazumdar, bbc news., where prosecutors have requested an arrest warrant against the defector head of samsung executive, and two former executives, part of an investigation into a highly controversial merger in 2015 and an alleged accounting fraud. prosecutors said the warrant was sought on suspicions. price manipulation and perjury and worth pointing out he had previously served a reduced prison sentence for offering bribes in 2018. a german prisoner has been identified as a new suspect in the disappearance of madeline mccann from a holiday resort in portugal, 13 years ago. the man in his 40s is a convicted sex offender who had been living in the algarve at the time, travelling around ina campervan. madeleine mccann was three years old when she went missing from praia de luz, in 2007. daniel sandford reports. this is the volkswagen campervan that was by the new suspect in the madeleine mccann investigation. with its distinctive colours, police hope it will trigger someone's memory and lead to new evidenc

tulip mazumdar, bbc news.'s epidemic in march. prince charles said he self—isolated after testing positive for the virus and only experienced mild symptoms. he also used the interview with sky news to highlight his concerns over the environment. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more. he's been campaigning on the environment for more than a0 years, and he believes as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, there will be, as he puts it, a golden opportunity to build something better. he calls it the great reset and the fact that he too experienced the virus has sharpened his resolve. it makes me more determined to push and shove and shout and prod, if you see what i whatever i can do, behind the scenes sometimes, but yes, i mean, isuppose it did partly. i mean, i was lucky in my case and got away with it quite likely. but i've had it, and i can so i understand what other people have gone through. the prince expressed his deep sympathy for what so many families that had to endure. but as we

tulip mazumdar, bbc news.. hosted by the uk this year, the british prime minister boris johnson will encourage nations to donate billions to ensuring that life—saving vaccines during the pandemic and beyond. and our global health correspondent tulip mazumdarjoins me now. this conference was planned well before coronavirus was on our radar, but presumably it will be discussed. yes indeed, i mean, this is a replenishment conference that actually takes place every five yea rs actually takes place every five years to bring money to the vaccine alliance which approximates around half of the world's children against some of those deadly diseases we heard about in my report, but this was planned well before the coronavirus pandemic hit, and now the big challenge that governments and health workers and health leaders have all around the world is vaccinating children against diseases that are preventable in the midst of a massive global pandemic. but clearly another issue that is going to be discussed at the meeting to

he's been telling our global health correspondent tulip mazumdar about his experience of the virus andache, muscle pain, and total exhaustion. and after a week, i saw that i felt 0k, why isn't it getting better? had a test ina it getting better? had a test in a private clinic, it was positive for covid—19 and then things went from bad to worse andi things went from bad to worse and i was admitted to hospital and i was admitted to hospital andi and i was admitted to hospital and i needed oxygen to breathe. and things did get very serious for you quite quickly. can you just describe what happened when you were admitted to hospital, and how you were feeling at that time?” hospital, and how you were feeling at that time? i spent seven days and seven nights. the nights were very long. totally isolated with three men who had the same condition. we we re who had the same condition. we were all very exhausted and became accessed —— obsessed with my oxygen saturation levels, is it getting better? really isolated and you really don't know how long will i be here? will i end up in the intensive c

our global heath correspondent tulip mazumdar reports.nic in the shower‘s capital, is usually parked —— niger's capital is usually packed, but covid—19 has kept many families away. this health worker says far fewer families away. this health worker says farfewer women families away. this health worker says far fewer women have families away. this health worker says farfewer women have been coming to get babies vaccinated since the pandemic. children are now at greater risk of other killer diseases like measles. many countries were advised by health officials to suspend vaccination campaigns to avoid the spread of coronavirus, but now there is a stark warning about the longer term impact of this disruption. measles is on the rise, diphtheria, cholera, all of these issues are going to be all of these issues are going to be a real problem. as a world, we had conquered in this past century many of these preventable diseases for children. so we made great gains on childhood survival. what is now threatened is all of those gains in the last 30