doing even trail places. they are doing even trail i’u ns places. they are doing even trail runs are a disaster. and i don't wa nt to w— runs are a disaster. and i don't want to see an election you know, so sort. and to make sure that the perseverance rover can find the best many years after watching elections. and they say that the projected winner of the winner of the election, i don't want to see that ta ke election, i don't want to see that take place in a week after november three. or a month take place in a week after november three. ora month or take place in a week after november three. or a month orfrankly, with litigation and everything else that can happen. years, years. oryou never even know who won the election. you're sending out hundreds of millions of universal male and ballots. hundreds of millions. where are they going? with a been sent to? these comments that you don't have to know anything about politics. and the democrats know this. the democrats know this, steve. so, iwant know this. the democrats know this, steve. so, i want to see, i want election and a result much more than you. i think we are doing very well. we have the same fake poles but we have real polls. we are doing very

well. i just left texas. texas will be one of the most unemployed states in our country if joe biden wens. north dakota, new mexico, it will be a disaster. ohio, pennsylvania. a disaster. no fracking he says. i want to have the result of the election. i don't want to be waiting around for weeks and months and literally potentially if you really get it right, years because you will never know both of these ballots are missing. you saw paterson newjersey for set other insta nces, paterson newjersey for set other instances, tremendous litigation on that right now. and that does not include absentee. absentee is different. you have to work you have to send in for applications and go through her whole procedure. like for instance i'm an absentee voter because i can't be in florida. i'm in washington. i will be an exiting

voter. we will have a lot of those. and it works. we are in favour of absentee but it is much different than millions of people in california, they will send out tens of millions of voting forms. where are they going to go? read where postmen are in big trouble now. you read where city councils are in big trouble now. voter fraud read where city councils are in big trouble now. voterfraud all over the ballots. no, iwant trouble now. voterfraud all over the ballots. no, i want to be standing, hopefully, hand held high, big victory, because we are doing things with our country that i think nobody else could have done. our country is, despite this pandemic, which is devastating the rest of the railroad, when it the articles they came out was the well‘s covid—i9 resurgence. the wall streetjournal. ido resurgence. the wall streetjournal. i do know if i agree with that. but they have the world's covid

resurgence, countries held as mottoes to see and they go the virus returns come at a level like they haven't even seen. we have been giving praise to starting countries in the virus has now come to them like the first time. but it is a very interesting and it talks about many countries where everybody was holding them up and saying what a greatjob holding them up and saying what a great job they holding them up and saying what a greatjob they did. it is just one of those things. it didn't work out so of those things. it didn't work out so well. so we want to have an election. i would love to see voter id. but this is the opposite of voter id. the democrats love it. the republicans hated. we all agree that absentee voting is good. male and ballots will lead to the greatest fraud... we talk about russia, russia, russia for two and half yea rs russia, russia for two and half years and they found nothing. they talk russia all the time, they talk china, they talk all of these countries and say they get involved

on elections, this is easy. you can forge ballots. this is much easier forge ballots. this is much easier forforeign forge ballots. this is much easier for foreign countries. go ahead. probably a nonstarter would you agree with that? moving the election. ijust feel. ido agree with that? moving the election. ijust feel. i do not want to delay. i want to have the election. i don't want to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing in the election doesn't mean anything. that is what is going to happen. that is everybody knows it. smart people know it. stupid people may not know it. and some people don't want to talk about it. but they know it. and no, we want to have an election where people actually go and what is your name, my name is so—and—so, you sign the book, like for years. it is very unfair to sign the book, like for years. it is very unfairto our sign the book, like for years. it is very unfair to our country. if they do this, our country will be a laughing stock all over the world. everybody knows it doesn't work. how

many ballots are they sending in california? 28 million? other states are sending out millions and millions of ballots. they have done it. they had experiments. they had news organisations experiment. but, read the story in the washington post about male inviting. it is a disaster. i'm surprised to see that story frankly from them. —— about mail in voting. it is a disaster. we are asking for a lot of trouble and doi are asking for a lot of trouble and do i want to see a date change, no. i don't want to see a cricket election. this election will be the most regulation to history if that happens. —— crooked election. most regulation to history if that happens. -- crooked election. you say you don't want to see a delay in the election. within it looks like the election. within it looks like the process of these mail—in ballots is going to continue to november the 3rd. we have many court cases. we have one that has been filed for a while now. in western pennsylvania as an example. on mailing ballots.

we give tremendous examples. all of the fraud and all of the things that have taken place with respect to mail invalid. is the net effect that what you tweeted this morning and what you tweeted this morning and what you tweeted this morning and what you are talking about now to cast doubt on the result of the election? it had an interesting impact. i didn't know it would be the impact it had. what people are now looking at is in my right, but not me come all the stories write about the fact that these elections will be fraudulent, there will be fixed and rigging. and everybody is looking at it. a lot of people are that probably will happen. to break the logjam in congress to prevent that last and come you want to put on the table tonight? a great question. i cannot tell you. that would not be very smart for me. negotiating standpoint. we will put certain things on the table. we want to give money to people that wasn't their fall. who want to give money

to people and it has to be substantial. it is not their fault would happen. the fact is people don't like saying it. they know it is true. it is china's file. it is not their fault. it is not the worker who lost hisjob. not their fault. it is not the worker who lost his job. it is china's fault. that is the way it is. yesterday, dhs came to an agreement with oregon to remove office rs agreement with oregon to remove officers and troopers to cover. the mayor was absent from that agreement. are you confident that the state organ will be able to queu the state organ will be able to quell the protests in portland and at the violence does continue, would you consider redeploying federal troops? our people have that homeland security have done a fantastic job they want to or homeland security have done a fantasticjob they want to or gone at more than a week ago. that's oregon. the place was a mess. the city, portland, was a disaster. you see it. a lot of people were not

reporting it. they tried to pretend oh they protests as opposed to anarchist and agitated. it is a mess. they went there a short while ago. they say the federal courthouse that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. and they put a ring around the courthouse and they say did. but the courthouse and they say did. but the group that is there is basically meant to say building. they were very strong and powerful. and they did not come out too often out of this cocoon a bill in order to save these very expensive and valuable and psychologically important buildings. my core houses. the governor and the mayor, we have been dealing with them. —— courthouses. we think they don't know what they are doing. because they should not have been going on for 60 days. it is not ourjob unless in case of emergencies, which i consider now to be an emergency, it is not ourjob to go in and clean out the cities. it is about to be done by local law

enforcement. yesterday, the governor worked a deal, they will do it and we will stand by, that is good. but she didn't reported that way wish you worked what would she report it was different. she said trump want to ta ke was different. she said trump want to take over the country. it is crazy. what happened is our people are staying there to see whether or not they can do it today and tomorrow. if they don't do it, we will send in the national guard and we will take care of it. we will tell them right now that these protesters, many should be arrested. these are professional agitators and professional anarchist, people that hate our country, we are telling them right now that we are coming in very soon, the national guard, a lot of people, tough people, and these are not people thatjust have to guard the courthouse. these are people that are allowed to go forward and do what they have to do. i think that makes the governorjob in the mirrorjob a lot easier. so they are working today and probably tomorrow to clean out this beehive

of terrorists and if they do it, i will be very happy and then slowly we can start to leave this city. if they do not do it, we will be sitting in the national guard. given what is happening with major league baseball and out—of—date the records foot ball baseball and out—of—date the records football team quarantine from hockey or strip people that schools will be safely reopened? —— records football team. can you assure anybody of anything? i say again, young people are almost immune to this disease. the younger, the better. the stronger. they are stronger immune system. incredible. nobody has ever seen system. incredible. nobody has ever seen this before. various types of flu will hurt young people more than older people. the young people are almost immune if you look at the percentage. a tiny percent of i%. a tiny percent of i%. so we have to have our schools open. we have to protect our teachers. we have to

protect our teachers. we have to protect our teachers. we have to protect our elderly. but we have to have our schools open. protect our elderly. but we have to have our schools openlj protect our elderly. but we have to have our schools open. i week ago, you said you're in the process of developing a strategy that will be very powerful. involving the coronavirus was not worth that strategy? you are saying it and you will see and one the things that we have done. —— where is that strategy. has it been utilised fully but we are set to march when it comes to the vaccine. we have great therapeutics that are testing very well. and we have great vaccine from incredible companies. johnson & johnson. pfizer. all of these great companies. they are doing very well. in the delivery system is all set logistically. we have a general that all he does is deliver things whether it is soldiers or other items. i think you will see something that will be spectacular. the fda has approved things at a rate that is a tiny fraction of what it looks take during a another administration let's say. we are way

ahead on vaccines. we had our therapeutics. and when we have it, we're all set with our platforms to deliver them very, very quickly. the vaccines are doing well and the therapeutics are doing well. we're all set to deliver them as soon as we have them in that will be very soon. we have them in that will be very soon. thank you very much. president trump there just leaving the white house briefing room. after a fairly lengthy news conference today. they covered a range of issues. not only did he talk about coronavirus in the situation in north america, he also talked about his tweet earlier today in which he suggested that november approximate presidential election might be delayed. our north america correspondent david willisjoins me now. good to talk to you. so much to unpack there. let's start with

something that so many people have been talking about today. the president's tweets in which he suggested that the election might be delayed. he was asked about this in the questions just now. what more there we learn about this idea of his? the president making the point in that press conference that he believes that as he put it will be a disaster if the vote of the election comes down to a male and valid. and it is something that he railed about on twitter. —— the balance. he tweeted earlier about the subject a few minutes after it was revealed that the gdp figures for the last quarter here were the worst on record. —— mail—in balance. president trump making the point that saying the forthcoming election might be delayed because of what he perceives as problems with the mail

in voting. at that prompted a storm of condemnation both from republicans, people in his own party, and from the democrats. the president responded to that by appending the controversial tweeting question two the top of his twitter feed, and he then double down on the issue a short while ago and he said must know election results on the night of the election, not days, months or even years. this is clearly a strategy on the president possibly part two get people talking about this issue mail—in balance and having said that, there is no indication whatsoever that the use of mail in voting for lisa massa as he contends with the you're talking about postal votes. which is the american term as mallon ballots. he also kicked off that news conference talking about something that he talks about every day which is of course coronavirus. he also lost one

of his close associates, republican herman cain died of covid—i9 announced earlier today. he paid tribute to him. tell us more about what he said on the coronavirus. that is right. he did pay tribute to herman cain, a man who he described asa herman cain, a man who he described as a close friend on twitter. he was 74, as a close friend on twitter. he was 7a, a businessman and a friend of the president, a man who himself ran for president briefly before dropping out of the race the last time around and he died of the coronavirus. president trump pay tribute to him and going online to reinforce arguments that he has made before about the need for schools here to reopen injust before about the need for schools here to reopen in just a few weeks' time. that despite the constellation ofa time. that despite the constellation of a lot of teaching officials and health education officials in this country, the president saying that it is been proven that children are

the least affected by the coronavirus muh least likely to pass it on and he believes that it is essential for this country to get back to work a normal and for back to school. it is a familiar refrain with him and it is very much as i say in the face of a device not only from education leaders but also from his own health professionals. thank you, david for the latest. parts of northern england will face tough new restrictions for because of a rise in cases of coronavirus. the uk health secretary says that people living in greater manchester and parts of east lancashire and west yorkshire will be banned from going to other people's houses — they cannot meet inside or in private gardens. he says the sudden move is part of immediate action to keep people safe — here's matt hancock with that statement. we have decided that we need to take

action across greater manchester, east lancashire, and parse up west yorkshire, so from midnight tonight, we are banning households meeting up indoors. from manchester, our correspondent judith moritz explained why these areas of the england are facing new restrictions. the data has been perhaps pointing this way for some time. the majority of those places on the list of the areas most affected by the coronavirus at the moment are in the north of england, but we are now talking about greater restrictions across a large part of the north, greater manchester, all of its ten boroughs from stockport to bolton, rochdale and all around this conurbation across in lancashire, blackburn, also burnley, hyndburn, pendle and rossendale, and in west yorkshire in bradford and kirklees and calderdale, the areas around huddersfield and halifax, so this is a sudden

announcement tonight. people will find it hard to deal with, i think, not least because many of these areas are areas with significant muslim community populations, they are of course looking to celebrate eid tomorrow and this restriction has come in from midnight tonight. the restrictions are not as strict as in leicester recently but they do cover a much greater area so it's the number of people affected by it. the other thing to say to you is it's been a decision taken by central government, but it has been welcomed by people here, by leaders here, and taken in conjunction with them. andy burnham tonight, the mayor of greater manchester, has said that he welcomes it and in fact that he's asked all of the residents who come within his area in greater manchester, both young and old alike, to abide by these new restrictions. the uk governement has also ta ken another country off its airbridge lift —

this time it's luxembourg and — just off its airbridge list — this time it's luxembourg and — just like people returning from spain — it's now necessary to quarantine for two weeks. it comes as people who test positive for covid—i9, or show symptoms of the virus, are being told they must now self—isolate at home for ten days, rather than seven. here's our science editor, david shukman. it's a time of growing concern about a resurgence of the coronavirus and of all the ways to fight it, keeping away from others is one of the most effective. so if you think you've got the disease, wherever you live in the uk, you should now isolate not just for seven days, but for ten. government advisers say the extra time makes a difference. we were seeing a very nice decline and now it's looking like it might be taking off again. we need to look at every measure we can which will mitigate that effect. this is a contributor, we think, to limiting the spread of the disease. there is still a lot we don't know about the virus, so extending the period of self—isolation is really about

trying to stay on the safe side. from the moment you might catch the virus, you could become infectious three or four days later and then develop symptoms a couple of days after that. it's at that point you need to begin your self—isolation. scientists think you could be infectious in that time for up to nine days, so having a ten—day period of isolation is about trying to minimise the risks. this comes amid a series of outbreaks across europe. testing for the virus is now offered at the german border. masks are now mandatory in public places in spain — an effort to avoid another disaster like earlier this year. the office for national statistics looked at the average numbers dying over the past five years to work out what are called excess deaths — how many more people than normal died at the height of the pandemic. france had a slight increase in deaths above average, but all the uk nations saw

many more die. england, by this reckoning, lost most of anywhere in europe. paula greenhough was among them, a fitness instructor who died from covid—i9 at the age of 55. her identical twin sister, karren, says the government was too slow to act. we should have gone into lockdown immediately. as soon as our government and borisjohnson was aware of the situation, we should have been in lockdown immediately. thousands of people, including my sister, are dead. these people would still be alive today if the government and boris would have acted on this immediately. the prime minister was asked if he was ashamed of the losses, how the uk had seen so many people dying. we really owe it to them to continue our work in driving the virus down, and clearly this country has had a massive success now in reducing the numbers of those tragic deaths.

it is absolutely vital as a country that we continue to keep our focus and our discipline, and we that don't delude ourselves that somehow we're out of the woods or that this is all over, because it isn't. on a day meant to highlight thousands of new police recruits, numbers of a more tragic kind are dominating instead and the virus still has the potential to claim more lives. david shukman, bbc news. nasa's new robotic spacecraft is on its way to mars in a mission to search for evidence of ancient life. it will take almost seven months to travel more than 300 million miles to the red planet. it's one of three missions currently trying to make it to mars. the robot is called perseverance — named because of the difficulties of landing on its surface. let's talk to someone who's been following this very carefully,

australia's official astronomer—at—large, fred watson, who joins us now from sydney. that is quite a title, astronomer at large. i don't think i was to an astronomer in her life before. what makes this mission different? —— i have spoken to. the first site, the spacecraft itself, rolling over the perseverance rover looks like the curiosity rover which has been working well on mars since 2012. looks like festering with a different suite of instruments, specifically looking for chemical evidence of past life on mars, but it also has a really strong eye to the future, carrying experiments on board that might look at the way we could live on mars perhaps come in a decade or two, and most especially and perhaps most astonishing of all, it carries on board a helicopter, the very first time that we have tried to fly an autonomous

helicopter on another world. it is not the name of ingenuity and that really speaks of what has gone into inventing this machine. tell us about the helicopter. when he gets to mars, what will that do? it is basically a technology demonstrator, the idea is to prove that you can fly autonomous vehicles on mars, so it doesn't carry any scientific instruments. but what it does have isa instruments. but what it does have is a camera. it will allow the mission scientists to have a if; rover {3532—15 hill 55” " i"rover"'i " ' "" 'i"' if}; hill grief—rwy of ’