The discussion and the debate. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The uk government has said it will make an announcement next week about the two metre social distancing rules in england amid growing speculation they will be relaxed. Pubs and restaurants are due to reopen at the beginning ofjuly, and the uk Hospitality Industry has warned hundreds of thousands ofjobs could go if the guidelines are not changed. John mcmanus reports. Its now been nearly three months since most of us were able to set foot in bars and restaurants. But is the entertainment drought about to end . In england, the government says it will make an announcement next week on whether the two metre distancing rule should be relaxed. We have committed to reviewing the two metre to one metre rule, and we will be concluding on that shortly. Within a few days we will get the outcome. One conservative mp says the rule should have been reviewed a month ago, and that its notjust Entertainment Venues which stand to benefit. Ive heard from manufacturers who say that two metres, they cant operate. But even with a metre and a half, its possible to operate. Now, the rules have been a bit more pragmatic in workplaces like manufacturing, but nevertheless the two metre guidance has been widely understood. On friday, the National Alert system was downgraded from four to three. That means the virus is considered to be in general circulation, and there could be a gradual relaxation of restrictions. But the chief medical officers for england, wales, Northern Ireland and scotland have warned that localised outbreaks of covid 19 are likely to occur. The latest death rates from the virus show that there were 173 deaths recorded across the uk onjune 18, taking the total to 42,461. Meanwhile, the westminster government also wants children of all ages to be back at school by september. So far that hasnt been possible in england. New safety guidance will be published in the next fortnight. We have been creating bubbles of children in the classroom, creating a protective environment for those children, currently that is at 15. What we would be looking at doing is expanding those bubbles to include the whole class. Schools in wales will reopen for the first time at the end ofjune, with only one third of pupils in class at any one time. In scotland, they will be open in mid august, and in Northern Ireland, later in the same month. Before that, there is the pressing problem of summer holidays. A trial involving testing arriving airport passengers for covid 19 is expected to begin soon. A negative result could mean passengers could get an Early Release from the 14 day travel quarantine. But the test will cost £140 each. Thats £560 for a family of four. Calum semple is professor of child health and outbreak medicine at the university of liverpool who is a member of the uk governments Scientific Advisory group, sage. Hejoins us now. Thank you for talking to us. Where do you stand on these questions about two metres or one . do you stand on these questions about two metres or one . I think its the right time to start thinking about relaxation. We are seeing sustained low activity of the coronavirus throughout the uk. We are still going to see outbreaks. That is to be expected. But it is 110w that is to be expected. But it is now the right time. I was quite against it three weeks ago because we we re against it three weeks ago because we were then seeing a lot of activity in the east, north west, and parts of the midlands, but we are ina and parts of the midlands, but we are in a different place now. Are you looking at other issues in terms of making up yourjudgment forming your opinion that . On do you look at the experience of other countries, for example, who have reduced to one metre and see how they go on . You are right, the purpose of our group sage is to look at the fulcrum about which the debate swings. We take into account evidence that comes forward. Then we try and present where we feel the evidence is good and where we feel there is some uncertainty, and then ministers decide on what the policy should be. Im just interested in all of the forms of evidence you are looking at. One, as you have described, is infection rate in different pockets of the uk, and whether that is coming down. And thats obviously hopeful. In terms of the experience of other countries or clinical tests, is there more that gives you hope at this point that one metre will work . If i take i stand for example. Thats an interesting country. Theyve shown quite low levels of infection in children compared to the general population. That gives cause for comfort. In the uk, we understand a lot more about which parts of our own population are most at risk. For example, this week, you will have heard about south asians, and we already know that men and certain people with diabetes and hypertension are at more risk. This means we are in a position to make betterjudgments and give better evidence to policymakers. Let us talk about children in the uk. You are a professor of child health and outbreak medicine. These are fine judgments. But there is growing concern about the Mental Health impact of having children out of school for as long as they are. Do you think the consensus of the Scientific Advisory group on which use it, is that fulcrum moving in relation to whether children can go back and in what numbers . As you know, i wont be drawn on what we discuss in sage, but certainly amongst the paediatricians and epidemiologists there is confidence, in general, that children are not at risk, and that they are certainly at harm now because we are seeing rising levels in eating disorders, self harm, and, sadly, some teenage suicide. What we are trying to do 110w suicide. What we are trying to do now is balance a risk of known harm with the risk to transition through them coming back to school. That is where the debate is. At the moment the balance of evidence is that children are now coming to harm through social isolation. And lack of education. And then we present that evidence and that gets things ticking forward. Thank you for explaining that, professor. A powerful prosecutor whos investigated several of President Trumps allies has defied the administrations attempts to oust him. Thejustice department had announced that Geoffrey Berman the us attorney for a district of new york was stepping down, but mr berman said he had not resigned, and would only leave if the Senate Confirmed a successor for him. In the meantime, he said, he would continue his investigations. One of them into mr trumps lawyer, rudy giuliani. He is also leading the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and earlier this month accused Prince Andrew of shutting the door on his probe. The bbcs david willis is following events from los angeles. The white house loves to do this, to bury these pieces of information late on a friday night when it presumably thinks the entire Washington Press corps is enjoying a glass or maybe a bottle of wine. Thus it was in this case, the attorney general, william barr, an ally of President Trump, announcing that Geoffrey Berman, a very senior prosecutor in manhattan, was stepping down, only for Geoffrey Berman to reply, that is news to me. He issued a statement saying he had no intention of going anywhere until the senate had appointed his successor. A bit of a red faced night for the trump administration. Interesting to see how this will all play itself out. Geoffrey berman was one of the most senior prosecutors in the United States of america. He is the man who led the criminal investigation into Donald Trumps private lawyer, michael cohen. Mr cohen was subsequently sent to jail. He is currently investigating, its thought, rudy guiliani, another legal assistant to donald trump. And there are reports that his investigations have also led him to look into the personal dealings of the trump Family Company and other members of mr trumps family. Donald trump had apparently according to reports here voiced concern over Geoffrey Berman and the news that it would be rather nice if it was replaced, and a rather ham fisted attempt to remove him. Protestors in washington dc have pulled down and burnt a statue of poet and jurist, albert pike, who served as a confederate general. Crowds cheered and chanted black lives matter as demonstrators used rope and chains to bring the statue down. Police looked on but did not intervene. In a tweet President Trump said the police were not doing theirjob and those responsible should be immediately arrested. In his legal practise, albert pike specialised in claims on behalf of native americans against the federal government. Meanwhile, President Trump is holding a controversial rally in oklahoma later today one day after marches were held across the us to markjuneteenth, a holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the country. David willis in la has also been following these developments. Its a date on the calendar that for most white americans has previously passed without recognition. But this year was different. Coming amid widespread protests over the death of george floyd, juneteenth has ta ken on a new significance. Across the us, there were events to mark the day that slavery here finally came to an end. In tulsa, oklahoma, they marked it too. A leading civil rights leader calling for the protests to go on. Greatness is when blacks and whites and latinos and asians and original americans hit the streets all over this country and march against your tear gas, and march against your rubber bullets, and march against a military occupation you threaten, and march anyhow. That is what will make america great. Tulsa is also the scene of President Trumps controversial re election rally later today, but its a controversial choice. In 1921, tulsa was the site of one of the worst outbreaks of racial violence when white mobs attacked black businesses and killed around 300 people. Its Donald Trumps first rally in over three months, and people have been queueing outside the venue since early in the week. I knew this would be a big rally, and i wanted to get a seat. A million tickets have been requested for this. So i wanted to be here early. A night time curfew in the city imposed amid threats of violence at the rally has now been lifted, and the president tweeted this warning to potential troublemakers. Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to oklahoma, please understand you will not be treated like you have been in new york, seattle or minneapolis, he said. It will be a much different scene the Trump Campaign is hoping the rally will shift attention from concerns about Racial Injustice and Police Brutality issues these demonstrators say mr trump has so far yet to address. The number of people whove tested positive for covid 19 in brazil has passed one million only the second country to do so after the United States. Brazil has now registered a total of nearly 119,000 deaths. Our correspondent katy watson says friday also saw a new record daily number of cases, suggesting the outbreak is far from over. This is the reality behind brazils spread of covid 19. The cases keep climbing. The infection keep spreading. And brazil doesnt yet have it under control. Friday saw a massive spike in the number of new cases, a record at nearly 55,000. According to the Health Ministry, the rise was due in part to several states having trouble in reporting data early in the week. But numbers are numbers, and they are frightening. Translation in fact people only start believing covid 19 is real when it is a Family Member or themselves who get it, because as long as it is no one in the family, no one they know who gets it, people wont get real about what is happening. Each and every day, more people are taken by covid 19 in brazil. This week saw four micro consecutive days of more than 1200 fatalities. All the while cities like sao paulo and rio dejaneiro are starting to open back up. After more than three months in quarantine, people are trying to get back to some kind of normality. But life in brazil is anything but normal. President jaya bolsonaro has from the very beginning campaign for brazils economy to reopen. He has railed against social distancing, even going against his own Health Ministry and firing those who dared to disagree with him. Translation brazilian people really had a hard time figuring out how to behave because of the questionable guidelines. The Health Ministry along with governors asked for and stressed the need for isolation, for distance. The president said exactly the opposite. He did the opposite. He systematically broke those recommendations. He made many people question them. Bolsonaro is referred to by some as the trump of the tropics. It is true he has long admired donald trump and his way of doing politics. The two men have much in common. Not least the way they have handled the pandemic. The figures in the us are staggering, but brazil too is alarming. They are now exclusive members of a club nobody wants to join. The headlines on bbc news. Uk ministers promise a review of the 2 metre social distancing rule will conclude within days, which could make it easier for pubs and restaurants to open next month. Passengers arriving at uk airports may soon be able to pay for a coronavirus test and avoid fourteen days in quarantine. The white house tries to fire the prosecutor investigating Donald Trumps associates but hes refusing to step down. A partial curfew is in place in turkey to allow up to four Million Students to sit their high school and University Entrance exams more safely, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown means those taking exams and their relatives can travel in the coming hours without overcrowding. Lets go live to ozge ozdenmir from the bbc turkish service. Thank you forjoining us. Tell us how this curfew works. The exams have just been over. Today there is exams for high school. There is 1. 6 Million Students doing the exams. For theirfamilies Million Students doing the exams. For their families and the teachers on duty the curfew is implemented for them to go to schools for their exams safely. Just in terms of everybody else, everybody else has to stay at home within those hours . Exactly, yes. This is this weekend and next weekend, and what about the rest of the week . Just for saturday while there is the exam, and next saturday there will be entrant exams are for universities. And during the hours of the exam there will be cu rfew. Hours of the exam there will be curfew. Whats the Current Situation with the virus in turkey . What is the current death rate . The infection rate . As the restrictions have been lifted, officials have been following new coronavirus cases, recovered cases, and the cases, recovered cases, and the cases in transit. A specialist recently, the cases in the big city have been diminishing, but the new cases in other cities are increasing as people are travelling to other cities in turkey. There are new cases emerging in other cities. In more than a0 cities, for example. People have been going on with their social life. Exit and entrance is forbidden to prevent new cases emerging. We need to leave it there. Thank you so much forjoining us. The indian authorities have made it compulsory for those infected with coronavirus in the capital delhi to spend five days in official quarantine, following a spike in the number of cases. The move has attracted criticism from the State Government and Health Experts who say this will put an even greater burden on the overstretched health care system. But federal Officials Say those undergoing home quarantine have not been adequately supervised. Police in bangladesh say they have arrested more than fifty people in connection with Human Trafficking following the deaths of thirty migrant workers, most of them bangladeshis, in libya last month. Their families had received demands for ransom after they were abducted in the war torn north african country. The move against human traffickers started a few weeks ago after it emerged that a group of migrants were abducted and killed by armed men in libya. Bangladesh is one of the Worlds Largest exporter of man power and hundreds of thousands of people go abroad every year to work. Over the last year, 17 year old Greta Thunberg, has become one the most famous climate campaigners in the world, but for the last three months shes been in lockdown at home in stockholm. But she believes there are important lessons to be learned from the coronavirus pandemic and the black lives matter protests that could help in the fight to tackle climate change. Our chief environment correspondent, Justin Rowlatt has been speaking to her. This isnt the Greta Thunberg the world normally sees. A teenager doing a jigsaw in the quiet of her locked down flat. Greta says she hopes coronavirus will change the way the world approaches the climate challenge. It shows that during a crisis, you act, and you act with necessary force. It feels like the corona crisis has sort of changed the role of science in our societies. Were suddenly starting to understand that, oh, yeah, we have to actually listen to the experts, that is actually something that we depend on. She has been following the black lives Matter Movement and sees an important link between inaction on climate and inaction on other issues, including racism. Its always the fight for justice, and it feels like we have paused some kind of social Tipping Point where people are starting to realise that we cannot keep looking away from these things, we cannot keep sweeping these things under the carpet, these injustices. The growing appetite for protests she says shes seeing around the world gives hope for the future. We can see an awakening of the last couple of years where people are starting to find their own voice, to sort of understand that they can actually have an impact. In a few weeks time, she will be back at school. But the teenager says she will not stop campaigning on climate. I will definitely continue to be an activist. The need for that is not going to reduce, if you say so, unfortunately. So dont expect Greta Thunberg to fade into the background. Professor Gail Whiteman is founder of Arctic Basecamp and incoming professor of sustainabilty at exeter university. Greta and her dad camped with Arctic Basecamp in 2019. Tell us more about that. Presumably you were a climate campaigner before you were a climate campaigner before you met Greta Thunberg. What i do is quite different activism. What we do is we set an event every year at the World Economic forum at davos where we set up an Arctic Research tent and scientist camp there and spread the message of global risk. Greta thunberg and her father came to camp with us in 2019. It was very cold. She went into the World Economic forum to tell them her message of global risk. What do you feel about this particular moment . Wejust heard from her about how she feels in some ways the lockdown and the black lives Matter Movement, that both of those things have re energised or possibly can re energised or possibly can re energise the climate movement. Would you agree . Yes, i think its really clear. The first thing is that the world and governments around the world and the public have woken up to the idea that Systemic Risk really is a threat and can happen, and that science has an Important Role to play with regards to what those risks are, and how to deal with them appropriately. I agree with her on that perspective that we must unite behind the science. But on top of that, we can see with things like black lives matter, certainly the power of protest, but also the idea that there are a lot of things happening on the ground that we have to stop not looking at. And climate change. Thats disproportionately affecting developing regions and all kinds of people around the world. They are intertwined, for sure. Do you think that people can see increasingly when they get together in large numbers to protest on a large systemic problem, they can make a difference . I think we have a moment in time where the world as we know it has changed, and business as usual must change and must stop. We have to reset. We have to reboot the future. I think people feel empowered, and i think thats amazing. And you dont feel, then, that people will simply say as soon as they can, lets get back to the old normal because we are worried about economic damage . Lets get back to a better normal. And i think thats the real thing. Without question, people have suffered both from a Health Perspective and an Economic Perspective in the uk and around the world. But as we invest those trillions of dollars, pounds, yen, whatever currency you are using, we have to make sure those covid 19 recovery packages are as low carbon as possible. If not, we arejust low carbon as possible. If not, we are just walking into the next crisis. Do you think the governments of the world have the kind of managerial, intellectual, everything together to tackle that, as they are having to tackle this crisis . That is really the trillion pound question right now. Certainly it is encouraging that governments around the world, for the most part, are listening to the science. But i think if we take a look at the covid 19 response, what we really need, say for example in the uk, is that the press conference is not just medical scientists but we need to have climate scientists to make sure the health and the climate are protected as we rebuild our economy. We have to leave it there, but thank you so much forjoining us. Thanks very much. You are watching bbc news. Now its time for the weather with louise lear. Hello there. Its been a humid week, dominated by sharp, thundery downpours, hasnt it . But the weekend has started off quite promising with this little ridge of High Pressure quitening things down. There is a weak weather front into the south westjust enhancing some showers and more rain to come overnight, but for most of us, it is a relatively quiet saturday. Any showers drifting through the south west and south wales may well push up into the midlands but they will be fairly isolated in comparison to late, and we might keep a little bit of low cloud, mist and fog lingering across the northern isles. But for most, it is a case of dry with lighter winds are sunny spells and top temperatures peaking at 22 celsius. Through this evening and overnight, there is some rain arriving from a weather front pushing in from the atlantic. The winds will strengthen, the rain will move its way across Northern Ireland into western scotland and across england and wales. Around about an inch of rain in one or two places. Widely, we will see those temperatures holding up, with the cloud and the rain around, double digits first thing on sunday morning. But early birds will see a spell of wet weather moving its way through scotland and eastern england, but it will clear quite quickly through the morning. Around about coffee time, we should start to see that rain easing away, drying up across england and wales despite a brisk south westerly wind, just a few isolated showers here. More widespread showers are likely across Northern Ireland and western scotland in particular, with gusts of winds in excess of 30mph, so noticeable wind around on sunday, top temperatures still, though, at around 21, 22 celsius, perhaps not quite as warm in scotland. Now, we keep this north south divide into monday, with still a weather front enhancing some rain through Northern Ireland, through scotland and maybe north west england for a time. There will be a little more cloud, as well, generally through wales and south west england, the best of any sunshine further east. Top temperatures of 23 celsius. Now, the trend is for conditions to warm up, in fact, some will see some hot weather as High Pressure builds from the near continent, keeping that weather front up into the far north west, but it is also going to drag with it some warmth as well, so we see the darker, russet tones stretching right across the country, which means we are going to see some rain starting across the far north and west monday into tuesday. Temperatures are likely to peak in the low 30s, that will be the hottest weather weve got so far this year. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week a programme dedicated to the uk and the us, two countries whose leaders talk big but whose performance in face of a Global Pandemic has done less to impress. On top of covid 19, one now has to leave the eu and go it alone, while the other has to decide whether it wants four more years of President Trump. My guests, on socially distanced screens, Stefanie Bolzen of die welt, Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, and here in the studio, observing the two metre rule, jo coburn of the bbcs politics live. Welcome to you all. Hi. Thank you. Lets start with you, stefanie. With this weekend, we are seeing a certain amount of celebration in government quarters about the reduction of virus threat level but the government at home so there is little to celebrate. Give us there is little to celebrate. Give usa there is little to celebrate. Give us a sense there is little to celebrate. Give us a sense of germany and across the eu. It has certainly been observed 110w eu. It has certainly been observed now since the middle of march with astonishment i think sometimes, how slow the british Prime Minister and the British Government have reacted and how much they have struggled to manage the covid 19 crisis. Also in a sense that you