Airline coronavirus woes deepen

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We hear how the aviation sector is one of the worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The BBC's Theo Leggett rounds up the latest developments, including news of thousands of job losses at Europe's Ryanair. Also in the programme, we find out how the university sector is facing up to the challenges posed by Covid-19, with Professor Kent Syverud, chancellor of Syracuse University in upstate New York. After several weeks of enforced closure, Dubai has begun re-opening its enormous shopping malls. The BBC's Sameer Hashmi tells us about some of the severe restrictions that have been put in place for shoppers. Plus, we hear how a discovery by a Canadian mining company of significant reserves of tin and copper in Cornwall in southwest England, could revive the mining industry there. (Picture: Planes at an airport. Picture credit: Getty Images.)