and people feel he has gambled with their lives. this doctor is risking his career to talk to us. reporting here is difficult. soon it becomes clear we are being tracked. what was that? this visible defiance of the government has not been seen for more than a decade. after an hour of arrests, police cover their faces. they are determined to clear the streets. if you see a military car, you need to run. nothing more, just run.

this man willjoin hundreds already in jail. some have spent weeks now in punishment cells without trial. suddenly, our cameraman is taken. he is bundled into this fun. —— this van. he is one of the 15journalists to be detained tonight. last night we watched people who were protesting against your government be taken off the streets and detained. is that freedom of speech? these young belarussians have been afraid their entire lives, but not any more. now they are ready to fight for change. theyjust don't know yet how ferociously the regime is prepared to fight back.

jean mackenzie, bbc news, minsk. france has made wearing face masks compulsory in all enclosed public spaces, as new outbreaks of covid—19 are recorded. masks were already mandatory on public transport, but must also now be worn in places like shops. health authorities say france has between 400 and 500 active clusters of the virus, with cases rising in the north—west and in eastern regions. more than 500 migrants the english channel in the past week. it brings the total so far this year to just under 3,000 people. they make the journey on an assortment of boats which have been seized by the authorities and are now stored in their hundreds in a yard in dover. arctic polar bears are facing near extinction by the end of the century if the sea ice they depend on continues

to disappear. that's the stark warning from a new study looking at the long—term future of the bears as greenhouse gas emissions contribute to the melting of the bears‘ frozen hunting grounds. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill has the story. they are the poster species for climate change. predators that depend on a fragile, transient hunting ground, the arctic sea ice. and this study has shown that polar bears‘ survival is tied to that ice. the scientists used models based on satellite data to forecast sea ice decline in the arctic over the coming decades. that enabled them to predict a future tipping point, to create a timeline for when the frozen hunting season will be too short for the bears to fatten up before the summer. at the current rate of warming, the researchers say all but a few polar bear populations will collapse before 2100. with less fat, they're entering

a fasting season that's longer than it used to be. so, is that now unavoidable? are we already on that trajectory, to just lose polar bears? the trajectory that we're on now is not a good one. but if society gets its act together, globally, we can halt global warming in time to save polar bears. and if we do, it will benefit the rest of life on earth, including ourselves. the consequences of climate change are already playing out in the arctic landscape. and this new timeline, the researchers say, is a stark reminder that the survival of an entire species is at stake. victoria gill, bbc news. cricket, and england left it to the last hour of the final day to gain victory in the second test against west indies at old trafford. 0ur sports correspondent andy swiss was watching the play. it took them until gone six o'clock

but it was worth waiting for. a victory completed by the bowlers but earlier created by the bat of who else but ben stokes? where's that gone? with england needing quick runs, stokes went into overdrive. with no crowd, the west indies had to fetch the ball themselves and they ended up fetching it rather a lot. stokes‘s blistering 78 pushing england's lead beyond 300 before they declared. to win, england now needed all ten west indies wickets. he finds that length! no problem, it seemed. stuart broad — left out of the last match — bowling like a man with a point to prove. the west indies, 37—a. surely game over. well, not quite. as jermaine blackwood and shamarh brooks led a spirited fightback. was victory slipping from england's grasp? well, in stokes they have a man with a midas touch. jos buttler with the grab and blackwood was finally gone. england's talisman

had done it again. still the west indies resisted but at last... a stunning catch from 0llie pope a fitting way to win it. stokes, the player of the match, after a first innings hundred and that remarkable morning masterclass. obviously the game situation dictated how the game was to be played and it was obviouslyjust to try and get as many runs as possible. the most pleasing thing is that we managed to get over the line, especially when you consider that we lost a day's play to rain. well, after losing the first test, this was some performance from england. they will go into the series decider, starting here on friday, with renewed confidence. andy swiss, bbc news, old trafford. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

hello to viewers in the uk joining those around the world. it's now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me is the deputy editor of the daily express, michael booker, and i'm alsojoined by the director of uk, in a changing europe, anand menon. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. the daily mail hails the possibility of a vaccine for christmas after promising findings

from a team of scientists at oxford university. the same story makes the front page of the metro. the newspaper says that the oxford vaccine could train the body to fight off the virus. the i also leads on the vaccine progress. but it adds that further large—scale testing is still needed before it can be rolled out. the guardian says that the uk prime minister has called the results from the oxford team "very positive", and "a step in the right direction". the telegraph says the long—awaited report into alleged russian interference in uk democracy will lay bare the kremlin‘s meddling in the scottish independence vote. the new york times reports that the restart of tourism in southern europe has

been sluggish, as some countries face new outbreaks of coronavirus. front—line workers battling coronavirus in the uk could be set to receive pay rises — that's according to the express. and the straits times reports on fears of a partial lockdown in hong kong, amid a pick—up in coronavirus transmissions. so, let's begin. welcome to you both. let's kick off with the metro. a lot of british papers leading on this covid—i9 buster, the breakthrough, but these are still early trials and a vaccine, pity optimistic saying at the end of the year. yes, all the experts paying it down slightly and the prime minister himself saying cannot rely on it to come riding over the hill like the cavalry, but he said last week when he was

announcing the relaxation of various lockdown measures that this could be all over by christmas, so maybe he knew something about this was coming. i had forgotten what could be actually felt like. earlier today when this came out, i think the whole country was, well, this is good news, it is early that we have heard about it because in terms of testing these things, we do not usually privy to these early first testings. 0bviously usually privy to these early first testings. obviously there is a huge amount of interest all over the world, as you say vaccines have been developed by companies all of the world, not just developed by companies all of the world, notjust in this country. we have stocks here, a german and a french version as well that we are looking at, and we personally bought stocks of that. clearly there are lots of people all of the world, scientists at work now, desperate for this to come because we are told the vaccine is the thing that we

need otherwise... and are you daring to hope as well? because there have been two studies which were written about in the lancet. the one in 0xford about in the lancet. the one in oxford is interesting but the demographic is interesting because it is below the age of 55. there is another in china, just because through where these two studies differ. they differ in many ways. as you say, in terms of the age group they are treating, is it it is worth saying, when you have booster in chief borisjohnson saying, when you have booster in chief boris johnson saying there are fio chief boris johnson saying there are no guarantees, you realise you need to pause, i am hoping along with the re st of to pause, i am hoping along with the rest of the world these things come good, but if you think about the trial, whilst the findings are impressive, that is to sake 90% of those who got the drug showed signs of the antibodies, it is a laboratory test, we do not know if can stop you catching the disease and we do not know if they can stop you falling ill if you catch it. the ha rd you falling ill if you catch it. the hard bit is yet to come in the sense they have to test this outside a

laboratory in some tenth of thousands of people. that is true of the chinese drug as well. the initial findings are good but it is only where the attested outside laboratory conditions with example sizes that you can start to be confident you have got something thatis confident you have got something that is going to work. what we do know is that are both safe, so they have not been serious side—effects. absolutely, minus side effect from the oxford one. -- minor. on to the telegraph, russia try to meddle in scottish foes. finally after a lot of foot dragging, this intelligence report is going to come out. the telegraph says it shows an attempt to meddle in the scottish vote. we do not get a huge amount of detail, but we are told it is a 50 page report, sounds a little thing to be for the amount of time, but last week we heard from dominic raab

saying there had been russian actors involved in trying to meddle with the general election. it seems to have gone back a years previous according to this report and it was with the scottish independence referendum, so there will be a huge amount of pressure on borisjohnson to cool things down with mr putin, i've come up with some sort of punishment or some sort of retaliation. it will also put pressure on nicola sturgeon in the sense that she still has the main thing that she wants, another referendum, and since it is the russians advance, they are the ones pushing for this split and they would like it to happen because it could cause also some problems with british unity. it will put a lot of off from supporting it. also the paper putting out that alex salmond, nicola sturgeon‘s predecessor, had a show on russia today. yes, alex ahmed was already a thorn in the sight of nicola sturgeon, rumours that he wanted to start his own

political party, this will make it even worse. it isjust political party, this will make it even worse. it is just fantastic news for the government, because rather than finding that the election was rigged by russia, shows that the scottish independence because it is backed by russia which is precisely what they want to see. if this is a leak to the daily telegraph, it may equally be partial and there may be other parts that are less good for the government. but as far as it goes, this is great news because it puts nicola sturgeon on the back food and allows people to say, if scottish independence is supported by the criminal, maybe you should think again. what is your view? i don't think borisjohnson or previous tory governments wanted it, the scrutiny about russian engagement. no, but it looks like it could be good news, particularly when you look at brexit. we had been told that the british people could not actually vote for it themselves that debt must‘ve been something to do with lead amir putin. this

appears at first blush like they did vote for it and it was no pushing at all from moscow. onto the figure, how good is your friend? covid—i9, could we be looking at the second wave? the health minister, i thought i departed what i was, said it was a worrying dynamic but he did not think there was a second wave coming. no, and what the paper is saying is that it seems to be coming back that there is no sign of a second wave yet. what the headline on the front page does is quite optimistic in the sensitive saying france is far better prepared now in terms of ppe and ventilators that was first time round. it is saying we do not know if there will be a second wave, there is a potential given the numbers, which are not encouraging, but if there is another, the preparations are better than they were first time round. so i suppose there is a little bit of good news hidden in that. coinciding

with compulsory wearing of masks in all indoor public