this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm aaron safir. president trump now says he doesn't want a delay to november's election but believes postal voting will cause problems. i don't want to delay, i want to have the election. but i also don't want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. in parts of northern england coronavirus restrictions are reimposed after a rise in cases. from the uk to indonesia — restrictions return to the capitaljakarta in a bid to curb the country's outbreak. and nasa launches

its mission to mars — a rover to retreive rock samples from the red planet. president trump has said he doesn't want a delay to november's election, just hours after a tweeting it might be a possibility. democrats and republicans united to say the date was enshrined in law and wasn't going to be moved. but speaking at a press conference later, mr trump said the voted might be crooked if postal ballots were used. he offered no evidence for his claim. here's a little of what the president had to say. i don't want to see an election that... so many years i have been watching elections. and they say the projected winner or the winner

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$z/startfeed. it's a leafy suburb so we've got lots of professional families, lots of teachers, social workers, doctors, nurses. you know, it's a very, very desirable area to live, and the areas we are seeing these positive cases in are in these households. # let's get back to where we used to be... testing is free, quick and vital... the government's new ad campaign, a push to get more people tested, figures suggest two—thirds of infected people are still being missed. but there is better news in leicester, which has seen a significant drop in infections. after a month of local lockdown many will be wondering when restrictions might be eased. but despite falls in cases, there were still 200 new infections this week, raising questions about

the safety of the city. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. let s get some of the tens of thousands of people have turned out in the capital of belarus for a rally by the opposition figure. she's standing in next month's presidential election against the long—term authoritarian leader, the opposition has faced a huge crackdown by the authorities and her husband has been jailed. at least three people have been killed and six others injured in multiple expolotions in northeastern nigeria. authorities said that four rocket—propelled grenades were fired from outside the city of maiduguri in borno state, landing on separate sites. residents have been preparing for the muslim holiday celebrations of eid al—adha. the killer of one of uganda's best known mountain gorillas, rafiki, has been jailed for 11 years. felix byamukama pleaded guilty to illegally

entering a protected area and killing a gorilla. he had previously said the gorilla attacked him and that he acted in self defence. mountain gorillas are endangered with just over 1,000 in existence. the governor of the indonesian capital, jakarta, has extended restrictions on social life after the country reported over a thousand new infections on thursday. indonesia now has more than 105 thousand confirmed coronavirus cases — the biggest outbreak in east asia. and the number of deaths rose by 83 on thursday, bringing the total number of fatalities — to over five thousand, also the biggest in the region. 0ur south east asia correspondent, jonathan head, has more on the new measures. they have particular restrictions today because it isa restrictions today because it is a very big muslim holiday, the end of the pilgrimage

period and people have not been going there to saudi arabia and this is a time when families and communities come together and communities come together and donate food to the poor and big mass prior to and there are strong guidelines on that. no mass religious festivities are supposed to take place in red zones, jakarta, the capital, where the population of over 20 million is a clear red zone. already the authorities there, lots left up to the regional authorities to decide their own penalties, they are imposing fines for people who do not wear masks in public or do not practice social distancing. the way that things are done in indonesia, this is fairly erratic, it is not exactly a police state, it is a big population and for all of these guidelines and restrictions, what the president is not accepting, is the idea of another lockdown. his entire focus throughout dealing with covid—i9 and another thing has beenin covid—i9 and another thing has been in the economy, he is still stressing, keeping the

economy going, in a country where you have lots of poor vulnerable people is his priority, rather than controlling covid—i9 and the numbers are bad here. particularly the fatality rate, around 5%, not perhaps by european or american standards, but much worse than other countries in south east asia, we re countries in south east asia, were generally numbers have been low and in some countries like thailand where i am, they have had no cases at all locally for more than two months. indonesia is an outlier, but this has been the president's approach, ever since he was re—elected last year, his entire legitimacy rests on driving the economy forward. for all we are seen restrictive measures announced, the imposition is nothing like as draconian as you are seen in vietnam now, and it seems the indonesian authorities have seeming to be accepting the number of infections in return for sustaining the

economy. stay with us on bbc news, still to come... just when you thought it was safe to go into the water — the venice drive—in movie with a difference. cheering and applause. nasa has ordered an investigation after confirmation today that astronauts were cleared to fly while drunk. the last foot patrol in south armagh, once an everyday part of the soldier 's 's lot, drudgery and danger, i'iow 's lot, drudgery and danger, now know more after almost four decades. if one is on 1's own ina decades. if one is on 1's own in a private house, not doing any harm to anyone, i do not really see why all those people should wonder in and say you are doing something

wrong. six rare white lion cubs are on the prowl at the worcestershire park and already they have been met with a roar of approval. they are cute. this is bbc news, our top headline president trump now says he doesn't want a delay to november's election but believes postal voting will cause problems. staying with that story..... matthew dunlap is secretary of state for maine, and he also sat on president trump's commision into voter fraud after the 2016 election — no evidence of fraud was actually found. he told us how voting has to change because of the coronavirus pandemic. actually, we had our primary election just about two weeks ago and today we did a

recount of one of those and in the run—up to this primary election, in maine, the coronavirus made its appearance in early march, our governor declared a state of civil emergency around the middle of march and we began planning for how to run a state—wide election in the midst of a global pandemic. we made a few changes, pushed out the primary two july changes, pushed out the primary twojuly14, changes, pushed out the primary two july 1a, purchased changes, pushed out the primary twojuly14, purchased ppe for all workers, we got pens for about $7,000 to mark ballots, and we encourage people to use absentee ballots and they took us absentee ballots and they took us up at that. we had about 80% of our turnout by absentee ballots. that all sounds quite labour—intensive and quite expensive. do you think that the us more broadly is in a position to replicate that come november? i hope so, because we have been watching very nervously the infection rates in maine since we had the

primary and we have seen no real spike in additional cases, which is good news, it means that the protocols actually work and they are keeping us safe. maine was in the bottom tier of states in the united states who have had a spike in infections and i have to give a lot of credit to the people of maine and also our governor who have taken action to keep people safe and i think if we follow this model into november, it is very labour intensive. we have over 6000 ballots for the election, but the price is keeping people safe and letting them have their voices heard, i think it is work well done. let us talk about those absentee ballots and you have written about your experience on the president's advisory commission on election integrity and called it bizarre, you said it was set up essentially with a preordained outcome, but looking at your experience there and your knowledge and experience elsewhere, what evidence have you seen that voter fraud is a problem in the

us? almost none. certainly, there is a colourful history going back a couple of hundred years about how elections have been conducted. legislatures across the country have responded with pretty strong laws to protect the integrity of the election and we have seen no systemic evidence of voter originated misconduct in an election. you had the exception last year and a congressional race in north carolina, where a political operative was manipulating absentee ballots and was caught. that is extraordinarily rare and almost always does get caught, because we have a very strong chain of custody of our ballots a nd strong chain of custody of our ballots and we have a really strong idea of what happens to ballot by the time it leaves the printing press in a tamper proof container, after the conclusion of the election. there's really nothing to base those claims in at all, but it is like the halloween met, that you should never take on apple because it might have a razor blade in, you never hear of that happening, but the myth

keeps perpetuating itself every briefly, we heard from barack 0bama today talking about the wider issues of voting rights in the us. do you think the us does have free and fair elections, when you look at some of the policies that have been brought in that restrict the rights to vote? i think there is a lot of work to be done. some of the things are strong voter id requirements, we don't see the literacy requirements from the jim crow years. of the election can be struck without discouraging people from voting or making it difficult for them to do so. president 0bama was speaking to some of those strange patchworks around the country where it is very difficult in some jurisdictions for people to participate and it is something we need to work

on as it is something we need to work onasa it is something we need to work on as a country. interesting analysis. $z/startfeed. 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. the robot is called perseverance — named because of the difficulties of landing on its surface. rebecca morelle has more engine ignition, two, one, zero. . .and liftoff. the start of a mission... launching the next generation of robotic explorers to the red planet. ..that could finally answer the big question — was there ever life on mars? and that was to you. gone to close—loop control. the rover is called perseverance, and it's going to a region that was once covered by a lake. we now know mars had an enormous amount of water in its past. if ancient life was on mars,

you know, we have a good bet that we might be able to find it in these sediments. so this is really a life—detection mission. this is the most advanced mars rover that nasa's ever built. it's about the same size and weight as a small car and it is jam—packed with instruments. this is its robotic arm, equipped with a drill and it will take samples of rock that could contain signs of life. there's also an instrument that will try to make oxygen from the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere — a vital technology for future astronauts on mars. and for the first time, nasa will test a mini mars helicopter that will try to fly in the extremely thin martian air. it's another pair of eyes from a totally different vantage point. just being able to get to places that we simply can't get to today. like sides of steep cliffs or very steep crevices,

craters, places like that that a roverjust can't rove into. i mean, we're going to need to fly. another first for this mission is that the rock samples collected will be stored and eventually brought back to earth, and some will head to the uk. hopefully in about ten or 15 yea rs we hopefully in about ten or 15 years we will get those rocks back from mars and we can study those pieces of mars in laboratories on earth. nasa's spacecraft is the last in a trio heading to the red planet. china and the united emirates are already under way. if they succeed it will mean a giant lea p succeed it will mean a giant leap in our understanding of mars. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, has denied playing a role in choosing a charity with ties to his family to manage a multi—million dollar student grant program. mr trudeau is being investigated by a federal

ethics watchdog for failing to recuse himself from decisions around the program and on thursday faced a house of commons finance committee meeting in ottawa, saying the decision to task ‘we charity‘ with the program was made independently. we charity received no preferential treatment, not for me, not from anyone else. the public service recommended we charity and i did absolutely nothing to influence that recommendation. i didn't even know it had been made until may the 8th. and when i learned that we charity was recommended, i pushed back. i wanted to be satisfied that the proposal that we charity delivered the cssg had been properly scrutinised. there's growing scrutiny around the pm — and for more on exactly what this will mean for him, i'm joined by cbc political host, vassy kapelos, who's in ottawa. justin trudeau spoke for about 90 minutes, so quite a long

bit of testimony. is it going to be enough to satisfy his critics? he certainly hope so and the people around him do as well. it was a bit of a spectacle here in canada, the prime minister of our country basically grilled for an hour and a half by opposition mps about how they characterise an ethical lapse by him and his cabinet minister and his finance minister, i should say. whether it is enough to put it to bed, i think the opposition has other plans in mind, but from people expected tonight surrounding the prime minister they hope this lets the oxygen out of the matter and they are able to move on. this is a classic political scandal, isn't it? what i do wonder, at a time like this with so much else in the news and so much more bigger concerns, how much this is cutting through and making an impact? i had the exact same instincts at the start of this at the end of june. we are in the middle of a

pandemic and political scandals are of pandemic and political scandals a re of interest pandemic and political scandals are of interest to canadians, but when they have so many pressing concerns, like their finances over health, will this make it down. the prime minister was riding a very high wave of popularity through the pandemic and overall canadians we re very pandemic and overall canadians were very pleased with his governance and also his response to covid—19. but this has made an impact, it has cut through various public opinion polls, but the drop in popularity and approval ratings for the prime minister anything between three and eight points and that is just since the end ofjune. it doesn't mean that will last for ever, but in the short term this has definitely done some damage to the prime minister. he is leading a minority government, we don't know when the next election is going to be, ijust wonder if he is going to be able to survive this and if it will have an impact on when the next election might be? if history

shows me one thing in this country, in particular with this prime minister, he is able to survive a lot of personal controversies. he has had other ethical controversies. there was the controversy in the middle of the election when they were a number of photos of him appearing in blackface surfaced, he was able to survive that too. i cannot predict what dense this will make, it feeds into a larger narrative which has been a vulnerability for him over the past couple of years and that is around ethics. but i cannot predict when the next election will be and the leader of the official opposition is about to be selected. we are in the middle of a pandemic and i would have thought there was a chance of a fall election, it isa chance of a fall election, it is a minority parliament and thought somebody would force it. but the people to force that will not be justin it. but the people to force that will not bejustin trudeau or his government. thank you so much for your time. my pleasure.

italy was one of the earliest and hardest hit countries in the coronavirus pandemic. the lockdown there was dramatic but things are slowly getting back to normal. in venice, they are trying to attract the tourists, and they're doing it in their own inimitable way as tim allman reports. forget the drive—in, this is the boat—in. venice is famous for its film festival, but how can you light up the silver screen when all the cinemas are shut? easy, get the audience to just float into place. translation: i had this idea during lockdown, when the media talked about a restart for culture and drive—ins, venice was referred to as a dead city, so i connected with people and thought, why not do a cinema screening on boats? the venue, one of the city's shipyards, where around 300 people on board 60 vessels took part. tickets were free, but had to be booked in advance. and you had to bring your own

refreshments, but all in all, this seems a pretty civilised way to watch a movie. translation: much more exciting than staying in a theatre, after what we have been through, it is beautiful. translation: we made reservations immediately. something like this does not happen every day. one of the films on offer was jaws. perhaps something of an omen. if this is a success, they will definitely need a bigger boat. tim allman, bbc news. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @aaronsafir. thank you for watching bbc news. i will be back shortly with the headlines. hello there.

the heat is continuing to build across much of the country. it's going to be a short—lived heat because the wind direction changes again by the weekend. but a southerly breeze on thursday and bags of sunshine in the south lifted temperatures to 30 degrees around london. further north, you can see much more cloud where there is some rain too, only 16 in the central area for scotland. that rain is moving away and we have clearing skies and we start with these temperatures, 17 in liverpool, 18 in london, 20 or so in the channel islands where the heat is coming from. we are drawing all of that heat from france out over the channel, heading its way northwards across much of the country. that heat comes ahead of a weather front here, which is slowly pushing in western areas through the day. so, it is not going to be hot everywhere, northern ireland likely to miss out, for example, because on that weatherfront, we have a narrow band of cloud that is going to bring some patchy rain and some of that cloud will head into the western fringes of scotland, into the west coast of wales and the far southwest of england. but ahead of that, lots of sunshine, more

of a breeze perhaps for a time, but southerly and southeasterly breeze and the heat pushes northwards in the scotland. much warmer day in scotland. 28 degrees possible, widely 29, 30 degrees across england and east wells, 3a around the london area. across england and east wales, 3a around the london area. but you may notice the cloud developing into the afternoon and late in the day and into the evening, there could be showers heading across eastern parts of england and those are likely to be heavy and thundery too. the rain coming in from that band of cloud is very light and patchy area and it sweeps eastwards overnight and patchy and it sweeps eastwards overnight and out of the way by the start of the weekend. but we push away all of that heat towards germany and we introduce the atlantic breezes coming in and that means cooler and fresher air. over the weekend, there'll be some sunshine and a few showers, but you can see here on saturday that there are not too many showers, many places will be fine and dry. you will notice a cooler and fresher feel. still, very pleasant for the eastern side of england with highs of 25 in the southeast. for the second half of the weekend, you get a fairly gentle westerly breeze for much of the country, most of the showers in the northwest of the uk, cloud amounts increasing

across england and wales. but again, it is cooler and fresher throughout sunday and those temperatures continuing to slip away and this time, we're looking at higher temperatures in the southeast, around 22 celsius. $z/startfeed.

this is bbc news, the headlines... hours after suggesting a possible delay to november's election in the us, president trump has said he does want it to go ahead ash scheduled, but remains concerned that millions of postal ballots would cause problems. he says they'd lead to increased voter fraud but there's no evidence to prove the claim.

the uk government has reimposed some coronavirus restrictions in parts of northern england — including greater manchester — in response to an increasing rate of transmission. the health secretary matt hancock said the spread of the virus was largely due to a failure to observe social distancing rules. australia has reported a record number of new infections and its deadliest day since the start of the pandemic — following a spike in cases at elderly—care homes. thirteen deaths and over 700 positive tests were reported in the southeastern state of victoria alone, well now on bbc news... the travel show. this week airlines, anger, and still no answers. the people fighting a four—month battle to get their money back.

hello and welcome to this week's travel show, coming from venice. now, if the smile on my face looks bigger than normal, that's because at last we are able to go on ourfirst foreign trip since coronavirus put a stop to almost everyone's travel plans around four months ago. but it's early days, and we are being very cautious. but you know what?