All Primary Schools in england will reopen at the beginning of next month. Greece announces plans to restart tourism from the middle ofjune, with International Flights operating from onejuly. And captain tom moore the World War Two veteran whos raised more than 30 Million Pounds for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. Borisjohnson says that theres growing confidence the uk will have a world class system to test people who have contracted coronavirus and trace those, they may have infected, by the beginning ofjune. The uk Prime Minister said, there would be 25,000 contact tracers, able to track up to ten thousand cases as day. The nhs Contact Tracing app, is likely to be rolled out later. Meanwhile, the aircraft engine maker, rolls royce, is cutting 9,000 jobs worldwide, as a result of the pandemic, most of them in the uk. Union leaders say, its
the effects from a cyber attack on the uk s nhs 111 system could take until next week to resolve after phone lines and electronic gp referrals were affected. good afternoon. we begin with the announcement within the last we begin with the announcement within the last few we begin with the announcement within the last few minutes we begin with the announcement within the last few minutes with we begin with the announcement within the last few minutes with the announcement that archie battersby has died. the royal london hospital was given permission to end his treatment today. archie s parents had fought a long running legal battle over the withdrawal of treatment and in recent days made bids to the high court, court of appeal and european court of human rights to have him transferred to a hospice to die. helena wilkinson reports. that success was not granted and life support was withdrawn. this is what his mother had to stay within the last few minutes. i am what his mother h
what was left behind. the wind direction changed and it s pushed it this way, north. so the houses, where are the houses? just over there? the houses are sort of down here, through the trees, yeah. so when that happened, the decision was made to start evacuating some of them houses. not one house was damaged. david swallow s team managed to contain the blaze, helped by his expertise as the uk s leading wildfire tactical advisor. he had been monitoring temperatures and the wind for weeks. you know, 40 degree heat in the uk with humidity that s down to 20% they are mediterranean, western us seaboard type conditions that we ve never experienced before. losing a whole row of houses, it s not. it s not something that happens in the uk, but i think it s something that we re going to have to be better prepared for. head south, and these are the malvern hills a haven for plants and animals. this is the kind of landscape that needs protecting. but everything is really dry, and it
across parts of the north and north east of scotland. but it s the north and north west of scotland for monday where we get to see more in the way of rain. a bit of patchy cloud clearing up for england and wales. most places dry, sunny, and with winds going in a south westerly direction it will start to feel warmer more widely with temperatures into the 20s. maybe 27, 28, 29 degrees towards some southern counties of england. that slightly warmer air has been pushing in off the atlantic as we go into the start of next week. around an area of high pressure. high pressure sits with us, the air stagnates, dry on the ground, sunshine overhead. it starts to warm up day by day. certainly scotland, northern ireland, a little bit sunnier and warmer than the weekjust gone. the far north of england seeing those temperatures creep up into the mid if not high 20s. the further south you are, though, we could actually get back into heatwave territory again with temperatures in the high 20s,