The red arrows flew over central london, and there were flypasts in edinburgh, cardiff and belfast. Music a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square by vera lynn i may be right i may be wrong but im perfectly willing to swear. And, ahead of a special evening of celebration, well speak to the welsh soprano, katherinejenkins, who has performed a medley of wartime favourites to an empty Royal Albert Hall. In other news, theres to be limited easing of lockdown restrictions in wales. At 5 00, well bring todays Coronavirus Briefing from downing street, led today by the environment secretary, George Eustice. Good afternoon and welcome to this bbc news special. Well be bringing you all the latest on coronavirus with the downing street News Conference at 5pm. But first, a two minute silence has been held across the United Kingdom to commemorate the 75th anniversary of ve day. Events are taking place all day, but public gatherings have been cancelled as the country remains in lockdown because of coro
How cruises will be very different. And rowing to the rescue. Gondoliers in venice, italy, are helping the city recover from the pandemic. What america can learn from europe. And were listening. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We must figure out a path forward, but we must always be aware that this virus is still with us. The death toll from coronavirus in the u. S. Could drastically increase in the coming weeks just as states are reopening. How much suffering are we willing to accept to get back to what you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later . The senate is back in washington but not all lawmakers agree on the decision to return. If were going to make these fine people come into work, let the senate at least conduct the nations business and focus like a laser on covid19. Were about to start baseball. Pumped up. Live sports are coming back to tv with espn announcing theyll broadcat the korean baseball organization. If theres live ba
Pres. Trump thank you very much. Please. This afternoon, i will sign a proclamation declaring the month of may to be Older Americans month. I dont know if i am in that category. I have a feeling im. I have a feeling i am. But i feel good. And our country is making a lot of progress. Making a lot of progress. As we honor the contributions of our nations seniors, we are here to discuss the unprecedented steps we are taking to protect seniors from the virus. I will also announce vital new actions to safeguard Nursing Homes and most vulnerable citizens as we gradually seek to reopen our country. It is very exciting to see what s happening. Secretary alex azar, robert wilkie, great job. Verna, ator seema fema administrator pete gaynor, and chief of the National Guard joseph lingo, thanks also to tennessee governor bill lee, my friend. Thank you very much, bill, great job youre doing. Great being with you. And ma outstanding advocates for americas seniors who are here with us today, thank yo
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Firefighters, our muni drivers, our Health Care Workers. They are essential city workers who are showing up and who are interact aing with the public more so than most others and they have, we know, concerns about their own health. So they cant always n their capacity, practice social distancing. That ier are taking care of us so its important that we take care of them. And one of most basic things that we can do is to ensure that they have access to testing. Now last week, we announced a partnership that would allow our First Responders to get priority testing through a number of health care providers. And here in San Francisco, we know that it has been very frustrating because we have lacked the testing that we need in order to really put people at ease and ensure them that they are safe. This means that so many of our workers are have a lot of uncertainty. And uncertain that theyre exposed and that they have the virus and thats why its important that we do everything we can to ramp