Hello. President trump has outlined his plans to lift the coronavirus restrictions across the United States, allowing the country to get back to work. He made the announcement hours after it emerged that the number of people claiming Unemployment Benefits in america had risen by another 5. 2 million. He told the News Conference that he wanted the economy to get back to normal as soon as possible. Were opening up our country. And we have to do that. America wants to be open and americans want to be open. As i have said for some time now, a National Shutdown is not a sustainable long term solution. To preserve the health of our citizens, we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy. Over the long haul, you cant do one without the other. It cannot be done. President trump speaking there. Our north america correspondent david willis has been examining how this opening up could come into effect. President trump said the onus, as he put it, would be on the state governors. It would be up to them to decide how, when, and where they relax the current guidelines on social distancing. Its more of a phased and gradual reopening that the president talked about today, rather than the sort of dramatic big bang that he had hoped for. He said that some states were in very good shape, as he put it, and would be able to reopen if necessary tomorrow. Indeed, he said 29 states were in sufficiently good shape, as he put it, to begin reopening soon. Now, this is a much more cautious approach from President Trump than what hed been hoping for, i think, just a matter of days ago. He did talk at one point about a big bang reopening and its a change a shift in direction, if you like for a president who has shown a lot of frustration over having to close down the largest economy in the world just at a time when he was looking to revamp or to ramp up his bid for re election in november, of course. But with david willis are speaking to me a little earlier. That was david willis are speaking to me a little earlier. The uk is to remain under lockdown until at least next month in an attempt to contain the outbreak. The foreign secretary, dominic raab, whos standing in for Boris Johnson while he recovers from the virus said social distancing measures are working. But the government has refused to say when or how the restrictions will be eased, warning it would be a distraction from their core message to the public to stay at home. Mr raab announced the decision to extend the lockdown for at least another three weeks at the Daily Press Briefing and said any changes to these measures would risk a significant increase in infections. He set out the governments criteria for exit from the lockdown. First, he said it would require a sustained and consistent fall in deaths and confidence that the Health Service could cope with a second peak. In the past 2a hours, the uk recorded another 861 coronavirus deaths in hospital, taking the total to 13,729. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg has this report. The start of another day. Come on, then, kids. Were looking out the window is the only way to see the world outside. Where looking out the window is the only way to see the world outside. More time for fun for roco and bonnie. But for their parents in wolverhampton, another 2a hours of working, playing, caring and cooking, all within the same four walls. Chocolate everywhere. Weve already done more than three weeks and i guess, in some ways, thats been like an extended holiday. Weve had the weather, weve just played a lot in the garden. But my fears about more time are more for the children. So i guess theres a danger that you could become quite worried about them missing out on things. As the foreign secretary, in the prime ministers place, confirmed today, that time at home will be longer. The government has decided that the current measures must remain in place for at least the next three weeks. Weve just come too far, weve lost too many loved ones, weve already sacrificed far too much to ease up now. But were now at both a delicate and a dangerous stage in this pandemic. If we rush to relax the measures that we have in place, we would risk wasting all the sacrifices and all the progress that has been made. And that would risk a quick return to another lockdown, with all the threat to life that a second peak of the virus would bring, and all the economic damage that a second lockdown would carry. Youve been very clear about why, in your view and sages view, now is not the time. As you said yourself, in other countries, people have been told when and what to expect. From what you know now, is it more likely that were looking at another three weeks, or maybe another three months . We cant give a definitive time frame. That would be to prejudge the evidence, that wouldnt be a responsible thing to do. But our message to the British Public is there is light at the tunnel. If i start giving you artificial and arbitrary time frames, it would be the irresponsible thing to do and i cant do that. Come on, play life under lockdown certainly is a juggle. The rooks think theyre fortunate, sharing child care and a home office. But the situations intensely tough for millions of people and dire for the economy. 0k, darling, let mejust send this quick e mail. Come on on the eighth floor of a tower block in birmingham, tamika gill lives with her two kids. My kids bicker a lot. Theyre here together in a confined situation. Its stressful. I almost fainted yesterday, to be honest. Like, its like all that stress, because im indoors and not being out, like i used to be. So its kind of made me feel a bit down. So labour is pushing the government for a timetable of sorts. Whilst i support the extension of the lockdown, i do think the government needs to bring forward the exit strategy to tell us the principles on which things are going to change in a few weeks time. They need to do that because they need the trust of the public. Were asking a lot of them another three weeks, possibly more, of lockdown. But decisions havent been taken about how and when restrictions will go and there are nerves about giving the public the wrong impression. Likely to ease eventually, step by step. When we do, incrementally, ease any of these restrictions, we must consider what we need to do instead to keep the virus under control. For example, testing and surveillance, Contact Tracing and isolation of people with symptoms. With the progress of the disease flattening, moves towards lessening the limits on our lives are starting to be discussed. But the pandemic will have an impact on all our lives beyond next week, next month, and perhaps next year. Laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. Lets take a quick look at the latest on how europe is handling the Coronavirus Crisis now. Rich preston has this report. For the second day in a row, france said on thursday it had seen another fall in the number of coronavirus patients in hospital, but the countrys death toll remains high with nearly 18,000 fatalities and a strict state of lockdown remains in force, raising concerns about the economy. President macron says the future of the European Union itself is in danger if the bloc cant Work Together through the coming months a sentiment which feels all too realfor some countries. Yes, it is true that no one was really ready for this. It is also true that too many were not there on time when italy needed a helping hand at the very beginning. And, yes, for that it is right that europe, as a whole, offers a heartfelt apology. Italy remains europes worst hit country with over 22,000 deaths. Across europe, countries are slowly, cautiously easing restrictions on movement, germany allowing small shops to open as of next week and for children to return to school. Poland says itll reopen parks and forests and let more people into shops and churches. Slovenia says its people will be able to play non Contact Sports and to visit holiday homes. But europes reach stretches beyond the continent itself. Britain, france, and the netherlands all have overseas territories. They say theyll Work Together their armies, navies and air forces delivering vital supplies, food, and medical equipment. French Officials Say their territories of guadeloupe, martinique and mayotte had seen 19 coronavirus deaths between them. While many in europe feel the worst has passed, thousands are still dying every day. Fear of the virus and its long term consequences are still very real. Rich preston, bbc news. Lets ta ke lets take a quick look at china now. The authorities in beijing have announced a 6. 8 in chinas Gross Domestic Product for the First Quarter, compared with last year. The figures reflect the profound impact the coronavirus has had on the economy of the country where the outbreak began. It is the first contraction of the chinese economy for at least three decades. Beijing has suggested a stimulus package is on the way. The brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has fired his Health Minister following disagreements about how to handle the coronavirus pandemic. For weeks, they have been at odds over the countrys response. Luiz Henrique Mandetta has been a keen advocate of social distancing a measure bolsonaro has rejected, calling for brazilians to get back to work. The president has now appointed oncologist nelson teich as the new Health Minister. The country has recorded over 1,900 deaths from the coronavirus and more than 30,000 brazilians have tested positive. Earlier, i spoke to brazilian journalist gustavo ribeiro. I started by asking him how bolsonaros decision has been received in brazil. Overwhelmingly, it has been a negative reaction. Jair bolsonaro now trusts his political future into the hands of his new Health Minister because, really, Henrique Mandetta was the member of the government with the highest approval ratings. He had twice as much support as the president himself. And now, because of disagreements on how to deal with the pandemic, because bolsonaro wants to jump start the economy right away, bolsonaro needs to hope that his strategy will pan out well because all experts point out that brazil will see cases and deaths related to covid 19 sky rocketing in the next few weeks and the months of may and june will be the worst 60 days we are going to face in this pandemic. And hes just changing the Top Health Official at the worst possible moment. Nelson teich has no experience in the Public Sector and brazils Healthcare System is highly decentralised, is extremely complex to manage. He will have to learn the ropes on the job and in the worst possible moment. Yeah, was it a case that the pair were just so far apart on this issue it was pretty impossible for them to Work Together . Because bolsonaro has frequently played down the impact and the importance of the virus, whereas his Health Minister was obviously crying out for him to do the opposite. Yes. Tensions had been growing and, at one point, the Health Minister just couldnt bear any more and he started taking jabs at bolsonaro via the press. In several interviews, he just poked at bolsonaro with indirect remarks about the president s conduct and at one point, he lost the support of Jair Bolsonaros military counsellors because last week, bolsonaro already wanted to sack him and generals around the president just convinced him otherwise. And once the minister started defying bolsonaro publicly, that support went down and the situation was just untenable. Do you think now we will see a shift in policy even more towards bolsonaros main focus, which is the economy . Its not clear right now. Because nelson teich, in his first address as the Health Minister, he said at one point there would be no drastic shift in the brazilian healthcare policy. But at the same time, he said he is completely aligned with the president. As you mentioned, the president does not want social isolation. He wants brazilians to go back to work. So welljust have to wait and see. The first remarks by the new Health Minister did not tell us much, because he said some obvious things we need more testing, we need more data on the path of the virus but he offered no concrete solutions to getting more tests, because brazil has a shortage of medical supplies. He showed no policy that he is going to put forward right away. Gustavo ribeiro there. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come we meet captain tom, the 99 year old war veteran whos raised millions of pounds for british healthcare workers. Pol pot, one of the centurys greatest mass murderers, is reported to have died of natural causes. He and the Khmer Rouge Movement he led were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1. 7 million cambodians. There have been violent protests in indonesia, where playboy has gone on sale for the first time. Traditionalist Muslim Leaders have expressed disgust. The magazines offices have been attacked, and its Editorial Staff have gone into hiding. It was clear that paulas only contest was with the clock and as for her sporting legacy, Paula Radcliffes competitors will be chasing her new world best time for years to come. Quite quietly, but quicker and quicker, she seemed just to slide away under the surface and disappear. This is bbc news. The headlines President Trump has been setting out his plans for lifting coronavirus restrictions in the United States in conjunction with state governors. However, the British Government has extended its coronavirus lockdown for at least three more weeks. This pandemic has confronted national Health Service workers at all levels in the uk with an extraordinary challenge. Fergal keane and cameraman Tony Fallshaw spent time with some of the teams fighting the virus at Imperial College healthcare, in london. Doctor ali sanders is fighting a disease that has killed colleagues. Its everywhere, you are reminded when you are cycling down an empty road that everyones in lockdown and its infectious and were coming to work. Were not locked in our homes, isolating from it. Weve put some new signs up just to give a bit of clarity to exactly what need to wear on red and super red. Ali leads Emergency Teams at Charing Cross and st marys, two of the five London Hospitals run by Imperial College healthcare. The team is now briefed for the day ahead and what really strikes you here is the sense of calm and of common purpose. Theyre two vital things as the staff face this pandemic. This is the resuscitation unit needed by some patients arriving with covid symptoms. Theyre treated by in staff full protective gear. Movement is careful, words are soft spoken. Part of an essential gentleness for patients who cant have relatives with them in this protected zone. To have an infection that goes through the entire spectrum of age, that has limited treatment options, and takes out people who are largely otherwise well, with no particular rhyme or reason, is quite hard. Every hour, the staff disinfect their working area. Imperial college healthca re has adequate supplies of ppe, but even so there must be constant vigilance. How do you deal with the anxiety . I think its. You just take one day at a time. If you try to think about the whole situation, its too much. Theres been a massive reorganisation of staff as the hospitals have gone from 68 to 143 Critical Care beds, with the potential for 300. It takes many to wage this struggle. From the cleaner raj at Charing Cross, to the Clinical Trials manager serge, whos become a ward assistant at st marys. Matron dolores, who spent a0 years in nursing, and wanted to pass this message to the public. Stay home. And not to put our resources under more stress than they are, because we dont want this spreading, its quite simple. For staff, its deeply personal. Three colleagues have died since the crisis began. The latest was 60 year old nurse melujean ballesteros, from the philippines, a mother of two and one of 18,000 filipinos working for the nhs. St marys is 175 years old, and sacrifice is part of history here. Staff fell in both world wars. But in the spring of 2020, it is in Critical Care units like this that staff willingly face a potentially lethal virus. We were invited to see the work of the cpap unit, where air is applied through a mask to help breathing. It can help some patients, not all. In the process, infected droplets are exhaled. We use it for things to be passed through, so medications or equipment. Staff communicate with the outside by video link. The ward is specially ventilated to create what is called negative pressure that stops any contamination escaping. A Hong Kong Born doctor leads the team. How do you feel for the patients . They are isolated, they dont have people with them, they cant even hear us properly. I think it is a really scary time for them, and i think any small measures we can take to make them feel more at ease makes a big difference. I think doctors, we mainly see the patients and we pop in and out to see them, but it is the nurses who stay here for a long time. That is what we need to recognise the hard work for. Nick, recovering, was deeply grateful to his carers, and having struggled for his life, there was a moment of clarity he wanted to share. It is because of these guys i am sitting up, because ill be honest, i never took it serious in the beginning. But after this, it has kind of told me to slow down. Family, you know what i mean . Being with your family is important. I was doing long, silly hours, but being with your family is really important, and that is what it has taught me. I have just come out of the unit and that word hero that is being used a lot of late has been going in my head. If you say to anybody here, they would say, no, imjust doing myjob, this is what i have been trained to do. But having watched the doctors, nurses, the ambulance people, the cleaners, the cooks, porters, all of the people who keep this struggle against the virus going, people from the uk, people from everywhere, brave hardly begins to describe them. Applause. As britain claps for its carers, Emergency Team leader doctor ali sanders knows she is engaged in the greatest struggle of her medical life. You know, its just nice to be appreciated. You have done all this hard work. And i love you. Her nine year old son jack is learning the meaning of duty and of courage. Fergal keane, bbc news. Hes been an inspiration to people around the world and, today, british World War Two veteran tom moore finished his challenge to walk 100 laps of his garden to raise money for Nhs Charities. 99 year old captain tom has raised more than £17 million thats an incredible 21. 4 million David Sillito reports. You cant start halfway, you start at the beginning. Captain tom moore was keen to do things properly on the final leg of a journey that had begun as a family challenge and turned into something extraordinary. I think its an absolutely fantastic sum of money, we never would have imagined that sum of money, its unbelievable that people have been so kind it began just over a week ago. The target, 100 laps to mark captain toms 100th birthday at the end of the month. A world war ii veteran born in keighley, he had served in burma in the West Yorkshire regiment. The family hoped they might be able to raise some money for Nhs Charities and set what they thought was a bold target, £1000. Within a day or so, we had reached a couple of thousand and we thought, are we dreaming of the dizzying heights of £5,000 by the end of the month . We just couldnt believe it were floored at the thought of 5,000. A week later, it had slipped past a million. Steady, determined, optimistic, captain tom was proving inspirational. As he began todays final lap, the total stood at more than £12 million. He stepped towards the finish line to a chorus of congratulations. Hi, tom ben stokes here. What you have managed to achieve is absolutely fantastic. The funds you have raised for the real heroes today is simply sensational. I want to say thank you very much indeed for everything you have done, its amazing. Congratulations on a brilliant idea and pulling it off and doing it all before your 100th birthday. On behalf of the whole yorkshire regiment family, id like to say thank you to you, captain tom moore, for your amazing Fundraising Efforts on behalf of the nhs. All thank you, captain tom, from the nhs and then the moment 100 laps completed. The millions raised honouring both the nhs and captain toms determination and eternal optimism. At the end of the day, we shall be all ok again and for all of those people who are finding it difficult at the moment, the sun will shine on you again and the clouds will go away. However, its not over yet. If people keep giving, captain tom will keep walking. David sillito, bbc news. And before we go, looking at the celebration of a mother and newborn baby. Hospital staff chaired as chaired at new yorks long island. The mother underwent an emergency cesarean section while on on an ventilator after she had been diagnosed with covid 19. Mother and baby are at home and doing well. Thank you for watching and stay tuned on bbc news. Hello once again. While some areas saw a really glorious end to thursday, the cloud began to fill in across some parts of the british isles, especially in the south. Signs of a change, to the extent that there is in the forecast a little bit of rain on the way for some areas. And, for many of you, that will be really quite welcome after a really dry start to april. Now, a waft of cloud was all that we really got from this major area of low pressure, throwing belts of weather ever further towards the north. But this is the direction that were looking in over the next few days to see these areas of cloud, bringing perhaps a little bit more in the way of significant rainfall to some as we get through friday, and indeed on into the weekend. First signs of that change really getting into the south western counties of england quite early on friday morning. Elsewhere, its a dry enough and a fine enough start. Youll see that this rain around about lunchtime and the early afternoon gets into the south and central parts of wales, but it struggles to get north of the m4 corridor. And elsewhere, away from the North Eastern shores of england, where again theres a fair amount of cloud and an onshore breeze, and still that onshore breeze into the eastern side of scotland, well, theres dry and bright weather to be had to western scotland, Northern Ireland and the north west of england. And here, well see the temperatures come into the teens. On the east coast, though, eight or nine degrees only. Through the course of friday evening, that rain again begins to make a little bit of progress into the northern parts of wales. There are odd heavier, thundery bursts perhaps just trying to get across the channel into the southern counties of england. Saturday not a great deal of difference, just that well see further pulses of showery rain just trying to work their way that little bit further north. So its saturday where we may well see the odd showery burst of rain just trying to get into the north of england, maybe flirting with Northern Ireland, but the bulk will be found across the midlands and towards wales as well. Not a great deal changing in the overall setup, so again the temperatures on the east coast around about eight or nine degrees. But inland, well be looking at somewhere comfortably into the teens. Come sunday, it looks as though were in for essentially a dry day. Perhaps more cloud just coming up through the irish sea into Northern Ireland, with the chance of a burst of rain here, but elsewhere its dry and fine. And by this stage, at last, at last, we can talk about double figure temperatures on the east coast. This is bbc news. The headlines President Trump has set out his plans for lifting coronavirus restrictions in the us. He said state governors would be allowed to tailor their approach to meet their local conditions. The process would be carried out in three phases, which would be reached sooner in some states than others. Meanwhile, the British Government has extended its National Lockdown for at least three more weeks. The foreign secretary dominic raab said any relaxation at this point would risk undoing the progress already made. The announcement came on a day when the uk recorded another 861 coronavirus deaths. Chinas Gross Domestic Product for the First Quarter has dropped 6. 8 compared with last year. The figures reflect the profound impact the coronavirus has had on the economy of the country where the outbreak began. It is the first contraction of the chinese economy for at least three decades. Now on bbc news, hardtalk