this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm david eades. 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. europe's coronavirus spikes — now millions in england are told they shouldn't visit other people's homes. canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, denies a conflict of interest after a charity with links to his family gets a lucrative government contract. idid not i did not influence the public

service to choose this organisation. when the public service came forward with this organisation, i said, service came forward with this organisation, isaid, you know what, let's put the brakes on it. forget drive—in movies, see the big screen on a boat. how venice hopes to get tourism flowing once again. hello and welcome. tuesday, 3rd of november. that is the date inked in for the us presidential election. and just hours after raising the idea on twitter of pushing that date back, president trump has now said he does not want to delay the vote — but he did maintain that the poll could be "the most inaccurate and fraudulent in history" if postal ballots were used. democrats and republicans united to say the date was enshrined in law

and wasn't going to be moved. the bbc‘s north america correspondent david willis reports. only hours after he suggested delaying november's election, president trump reiterated the view that the increased use of postal ballots because of the coronavirus could cause problems. i don't want to see an election. so many years i have been watching elections and they say the projected winner, all the winner of the election. i don't want to see that take place in a week after november the 3rd oh a month, or frankly, with litigation and everything else that could happen, years and years. or you never know who won the election. you are sending out hundreds of millions of universal mail in ballots. where are they going, who are they being sent to. he claimed postal voting would make the

upcoming election the most inaccurate and fraudulent in history and went on to impose an incendiary question. delay the election and tell people can securely and properly vote? from senior members of his own party, the answer was unequivocal. through depressions and civil war have we not had a federally scheduled election on time and we will find a way to do that again this november the 3rd. recent surge in coronavirus cases he has considered some states to consider postal ballots as a safer way to enable people to vote. such a system is already in place in certain parts of the country and seems to work well. in my state it works extremely well. i think almost 90% of our voters, may be more than 90% voters, may be more than 90% vote by post. if there is a

problem, you go back to the ballots, you have a national record. sometimes you wonder if an electronic machine has been tampered with, you cannot tampered with, you cannot tamper with the paper. postal votes are thought to benefit the democrat. experts say some such fears are unfounded. there isa such fears are unfounded. there is a colourful history going back years how elections have been conducted. there are pretty strong laws to protect the integrity of the election and we have seen no evidence of voter originated misconduct in an election. donald john trump do solemnly swear. the constitution donald trump pledged to uphold when he was for in put his office for yea rs, for in put his office for years, unless he is re—elected, which the latest opinion polls seem to suggest might be unlikely. any sign he is

contemplating defying president and moving the date of the election could damage his poll ratings still further. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. the north of england has become the latest area of europe to see restrictions reimposed after a rise in cases of coronavirus. here and elsewhere cases are climbing again, forcing governments to respond with targeted measures to limit the number of new infections. alanna petroff reports. targeted lockdown measures are back in force for millions of people in northern england. the surprise government announcement gave people just a few hours' notice. the new rule — no more indoor get—togethers between households. cancel your social plans! we take this action with a heavy heart, but unfortunately it's necessary because we've seen that households meeting up and a lack of social distancing is one of the causes of this rising rate of coronavirus,

and we'll do whatever is necessary to keep the country safe. another rule... those who test positive for covid—i9 have to self—isolate for ten days — up from seven. the government is tweaking its response as cases spike at home and in other parts of europe. it is absolutely vital as a country that we continue to keep our focus and our discipline, and that we don't delude ourselves that somehow we're out of the woods or that this is all over, because it isn't all over. in spain, in the heat of summer, cases have been rising again. on thursday, the country registered its biggest daily jump in a new coronavirus cases since the national lockdown ended. mandatory facemasks have become the norm. still, the country's top coronavirus expert says this isn't a second wave.

translation: it's true that there is transmission. it's true that we are still in an epidemic phase where we have to be careful. but it's also true that, as the surveillance and control of the epidemic is taking place, it gives us a lot of confidence. obviously not total confidence — the risk is still there — but it gives us a lot of confidence that we can work well and control the virus. in romania, hospitals are running out of beds as more than 1,000 new cases have been reported every day for the last nine days. the government is cracking down — threatening fines for those who don't observe the rules. this isn't the kind of summer europeans were hoping for. travel restrictions are ever—changing, rules keep evolving, but the goal remains the same — keep the virus from getting out of control. alanna petroff, bbc news. let's get some of

the day s other news. tens of thousands of people have turned out in the capital of belarus for a rally by the opposition figure, svetla na tikhanovskaya. she's standing in next month's presidential election against the long—term authoritarian leader, alexander lu kashenko. the opposition has faced a huge crackdown by the authorities and her husband has been jailed. in a measure that s being watched closely around the world, australia has published a draft bill that would make google and facebook pay for news content gleaned from the country s struggling media companies. the federal treasurer, josh frydenberg, said the "world—leading" law was about fairness, and a sustainable media landscape. worshippers have gathered outside hagia sophia in istanbul to attend the first eid prayers — after the iconic museum was turned

back into a mosque. earlier this month, turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan, announced the decision — after a court annulled the site's museum status. hagia sophia was built 1,500 years ago as an orthodox christian cathedral and was converted into a mosque after the ottoman conquest in 1&53. at least 12 opposition candidates in hong kong have been barred from running in legislative council elections due to be held in september. among those disqualified are high profile pro—democracy activists as well as incumbent lawmakers including alvin yeung, leader of the hong kong civic party. they have been accused by beijing's liaison office in hong kong of trying to "paralyse the government and subvert state power". and alvin yeung joins us now live. you have heard the accusation coming from beijing, what do

you say to that? thank you for having me. what i would say is absolutely discretion. i have been serving hong kong people at this legislator for the past four years. have i done anything wrong? if i have done anything wrong? if i have done anything wrong? if i have done anything wrong they could have made all of these accusations, in fact they could have done it earlier. obviously, they are making up excuses to disqualify myself and also my colleagues, not only from the most radical wing, but also to the most moderate wing. basically, i think they arejust moderate wing. basically, i think they are just in fear of facing the people's choice. we are the ones that have the mandate from the primaries, where over 600,000 hong kong people participated in. obviously, they don't want to face us and the hong kong people. what you have done is support protests, many of which have turned violent and you

have turned violent and you have called for other countries tojoin in have called for other countries to join in sanctions against beijing. those are the areas which are now considered beyond the law? we support the people to demand for something com pletely to demand for something completely legitimate and that is democracy. is there something wrong with that? in fa ct, something wrong with that? in fact, democracy is stated so clearly in the basic law, as promised by beijing. it isjust a day, including the hong kong government and the highest authority in beijing, failed to deliver this promise. there is a new security law in place now, what do you then do? if you are going to comply by the law, you will possibly be able to stand for election? from the returning officers, the representative from the hong kong government to discredit me and my colleagues from their response. they said, comply with the national security law,

complying with it is irrelevant. july the ist when the law takes effect, we have done nothing wrong under the new law. they are basically going back before the law was even an act saying what you have done and said before is wrong, and not fit to stand in this up coming election. you see this as another nail in the coffin of hong kong's special status, understandably. but where does that leave you, what do you do now? of course, we are hong kongers. we will beat hong kong's regardless whether we have the status as a legislator. we will still stay in hong kong and political party does not only belong to legislator, there is a civil society we can work together with. there may be a postponement to the elections, we don't know yet. presumably, there will be some opportunity

for you to appeal. will you push that line? every option is open for now. it is too soon to call. while we are talking right now, the nominations are still open it is close to five o'clock here today in hong kong. we will see what will happen. yes, there are credible sources who suggest there could bea sources who suggest there could be a plus moment of the election up to one year. we will see what the government is going to put up, what sort of excuse they are going to give. one small point, there was a suggestion possibly you would pull back and retire from front line politics, can you put that to bed? i don't know, it is possible. by disqualifying me to stand in this upcoming election, the same logic could apply in the other upcoming elections. so perhaps i will have to retire from front line politics. but i will still be in hong kong. ok, thank you

very much forjoining us, the leader of the civic party. stay with us on bbc news, still to come... that includes more palm trees than people. california businesses fear they cannot go on amid coronavirus restrictions. cheering and applause. the us space agency, 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 a soldier's lot, drudgery and danger, now no more, after almost four decades. if one is on one's own, in a private house, not doing any harm to anybody,

i don't really see why all these people should wander in and say, you are doing something wrong. six rare white lion cubs on the prowl at worcestershire park and ready. they have been met with the roar of approval from visitors. this is bbc news, the latest headlines... president trump now says he doesn't want a delay to november's election but believes postal voting will cause problems. with almost half a million confirmed positives, california is the us state with the highest number of coronavirus cases. nearly nine thousand people have died of the virus in california, and the state s economy, the 5th largest economy in the world ? is being battered by the spikes in infections. the bbc s sophie long reports from los angeles. this whole boulevard has changed tenfold. everything has changed.

businesses have closed. the streets are empty. scott deangelis spent a decade building up a lucrative tour guide operation on hollywood boulevard. there's no tourists at all here, you know. but now there are more palm trees than people. and the famous stars — once hard to find under the feet of potential customers — bake under the midday sun. no, you can't continue like this. no. even me, i mean, iwould have to get anotherjob estate as businesses take to the streets in a fight for survival. enforcement of the state—wide mask mandate is being taken seriously here. you have a face mask? it's the governor's order to be wearing one when you are out in public. if not, we're giving out fines. i need some idea of the threat we face. there had been high hopes

that the sci—fi film tenet would lure audiences away from streaming services and back into cinemas. people say they're dying to see it. but as producers wondered — would they? should they? they postponed release before settling on the unconventional plan of premiering internationally before it hits limited us cinemas, to salvage some kind of summer release. with coronavirus cases still surging and states now reversing their reopening plans, spooked studios have shuffled their would—be blockbusters out of hollywood's most lucrative season. it means that cinemas in los angeles and across the country could be closed for some time. that's a major blow for the whole film industry — worth some 50 billion to the californian economy. normally, all these dollies would be on a set — like, all of these would be on a tv series, on a feature film. this studio equipment company has facilities across the united states and around the world. i have never seen it like that.

i mean, even during the writers' strike or the teamsters strikes, you know, yeah, there's been hardships, but nothing like that. the economic impact of the pandemic is already visible on almost every street. california's to some extent an engine of growth throughout the rest of the nation. california by itself will slow things down, but other states will follow california. it's the white sox deep in a left—field corner. it's gone. on the upside, baseball is back — but with a cardboard cut—out crowd in an otherwise empty stadium. his fourth hit of the night. outside, a stark reminder of why — cars queue not for seats, but for covid tests. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. 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 hand the programme to ‘we charity‘ 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. so is the prime minister's testimony going to be enough to satisfy his critics? vashy kapelos is a political host at cbs in ottawa. he certainly hopes so and the people around him do as well. it was a bit of the spectacle here in canada, the prime

minister of our country basically grilled for an hour and a half by opposition mps about what they would categorise as a major ethical lapse by him and his cabinet minister — his finance minister, i should say. so, whether it is enough to put it to bed, i think the opposition has other plans in mind, but from the people i spoke to tonight, people surrounding the prime minister, they truly hope this lets the oxygen out of the matter and that they are able to move on. i think, if history shows me one thing in this country and in particular with this prime minister, it is that he is able to survive a lot of personal controversies. he has had other ethical controversies, there was the controversy right in the middle of the last election when a number of photos of him appearing in blackface surfaced and he was able to survive that, too. i can't predict what kind of a dent this will make and it certainly feeds into a larger narrative that has been a real vulnerability for him over the past number of years and that is around ethics, but i also cannot predict when the next election will be and the leader of the official

opposition is just about to be selected in another month and we are in the middle of a pandemic and i would have thought maybe a few months ago, there was a chance for a fall election, it is a minority government at the moment, that someone would force it and my guess now, looking at the numbers is that the people to force that will certainly not be bejustin trudeau or his government. time now for an update with our sports team. the premier league's owners and directors test. and it's thought that those involved ran out of patience with the consortium, saying it was with regret that they had to pull out. england's cricketers beat ireland by six wickets

in their first one day international in southhampton. batting first, ireland recovered from a disastrous start. at one stage, they were 28 for five before finally being bowled out for 172. england knocked off the runs, with just over 22 overs to spare. captain eoin morgan, and sam billings with a fifth wicket stand of 96. snooker fans have had to wait several months, but the world championship is finally here. joe trump is looking to defend his title at the crucible theatre in sheffield. judd will face tom ford on friday, looking to become the first first time winner to retain his title. now, friday, we'll see the last ever edition of the french league cup as psg play lyon in paris. psg are chasing the treble for this season, but officials have decided to close the competition after 26 years in order to reduce

the domestic schedule. friday's game is the eighth time that ps6 and lyon have met in this league cup and ps6 have won at a record eight times. lyon, just the once. defending champion, brooks kopka seems to have rediscovered his form as he leads the field by two shots heading into day two of the wgc event in memphis. the four time major winner was back on track after a knee injury caused him to miss two of the last three cuts. he's only had one top ten finish this season so far. but he looked back to his best with an 8—under par opening round of 62. that putter proving pretty hot with nine birdies on the day. right, remember, you can get all the latest sport news at our website. that is bbc.com/sport. but for me, sarah mulkearns, and the rest of the team here on sport. see you again soon. bye— bye. 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. cinemas are beginning to open across the uk and we will focus on that in the business news. a reminder of our top story... hours after suggesting a possible delay to november's election in the us, president trump has said he does want it to go ahead

as 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 support that claim. 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.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. what crisis? the world's leading tech companies report a blowout quarter when most of the world was in lockdown — but what lies ahead for the big four? the silver screens are lightening up. but will cinemas ever be profitable again with social distancing rules cutting audience numbers? the us economyjust had its worst quarter on record, but technology giants have bucked the trend at a time

when most of the world was in lockdown. in the three months tojune, facebook‘s revenue grew by more than 10% compared to last year — far above expectations. that said, it's the slowest growth since it went public eight years ago. still, 10%, you wouldn't complain, would you? and although spending is down as a result of the pandemic, the social media platform's advertising business did well. next up, apple. sales rose by 11%, despite having to close its physical stores around the world during the period. not surprisingly, a lot of people turned to online shopping during the lockdown — and that was reflected in amazon's performance. revenues rose by 40% from the same period last year. but not every tech player has emerged a winner. google's parent company alphabet posted a 2% fall in sales — largely down to increased competition for advertising spots.

that result is still better than expected, but it's the first decline in the compa ny‘s 16—year history. joining me now is rob kniaz, founding partner at hoxton ventures. that is a tech venture capital fund. very good to see you. the results are fund. very good to see you. the results a re pretty fund. very good to see you. the results are pretty impressive. almost across the board. particularly, you might think, for facebook, which is going through a little bit of a sort of... let's call it a challenging period. there is a boycott on facebook and many of the big us companies are involved in that and yet look at what they are turning out to. look at the numbers ex—macro they are literally printing money, it doesn't get any better. during a pandemic these companies are all coming out with record—breaking numbers. facebook is the most interesting. it shows the strength of their platform and how deep their base of advertisement is that despite a so advertisement is that despite a so called boycott it had no

material impact. reflecting on the boycott, which is about claims that they allow misinformation to stay up too long, there are issues about alleged issues of racist comments staying up, anti—semitism, those sorts of things, and an extension of that boycott is likely, that if we we re that boycott is likely, that if we were to move ahead to the next quarter, we really would start singing the dent in those revenues? i think it's going to be more of the same. i don't think you can really dent it with these sorts of boycotts. there is a lot of virtue signalling and a lot of the underlying points are valid for the boycott, but impracticality these companies can afford not to —— can't afford not to advertise on facebook. when you see these big companies like nike advertising, they wait a few weeks or months and come creeping back. they can't afford to not be part of these channels and that goes for google, as well. they can't not be part of the platform. what does this tell you about the

state of play almost of the world ? we state of play almost of the world? we have the coronavirus pushing online interest and certainly with the shopping and no great surprise there. but the likelihood of that ever tilting back to the way it was presumably is receding almost week by week. i think it is probably irreversible. when you look at other countries that historically had not been as penetrated in e—commerce, like italy, you are seeing spikes there that are pretty dramatic, as well. once people start doing it it is like a drug, you keep doing it over and over. i think it will never return to the way it was. what scares me asa the way it was. what scares me as a citizen is that the high street has to really adapt and how well high street retailers can be on the same playing foot as amazon or ebay. interestingly the timing of which we have seen events in the last couple of days with

these big four having their congressional hearings about on wednesday of these results coming out on thursday —— hearings about anti—trust. it brings in that much closer together and suggests there really isn't a huge amount of competition getting on their way. yeah, they are alljust a well oiled machines. they have all built their own individual models that is a flywheel, it becomes more and more strong over time and it was funny timing, afunny over time and it was funny timing, a funny coincidence that they all got publicly shamed by the senators and having to go out and report fantastic numbers the same week. each and everyone, they area week. each and everyone, they are a printing cache with their model. that's how it seems to work. thank you. rob kniaz joining us. very nice view, as well. china has reported its official manufacturing data for the month ofjuly, showing factory activity growing for the fifth month in a row. lets go to our asia business hub in singapore,

where mariko oi has been following the story. becoming a rather predictable story. indeed. as you say, factories continue to get busierfor the factories continue to get busier for the fifth month factories continue to get busierfor the fifth month in factories continue to get busier for the fifth month in a i’ow. busier for the fifth month in a row. it comes as a relief for many economies around the world, but especially here in asia, where countries have a very strong trade ties with china. that is why we are seeing the hong kong index trading flat to hire. analysts are slightly cautious that recovery could start the rise in infections. chinese factories are now having to deal with disruptions from continuing floods in the country, as well. strong data from china was not enough to push japan's nick a from china was not enough to pushjapan's nick a hire. it is currently falling by just over 296. currently falling by just over 2%. following that grim us data that you mentioned, the world's

biggest economy contracting by the most on record. it also means that at a time of uncertainty like this, the japanese yen gets stronger because investors see it as a safe haven currency and that has been affecting japanese export shares and that is why we are seeing that performance from the nikkei. thank you very much, mariko. after months of dark screens and empty auditoriums, cinemas in the uk are beginning to reopen. cineworld — the world's second—largest cinema chain — reopens its british cinemas today. many cinemas across europe have been open since may orjune — france reopened on 22nd june and, initially, ticket sales seemed encouraging. comscore france reported more than 850,000 tickets sold in the first five days, although that was still down 50% from a typical summer week. social distancing and half—full auditoriums are not the only challenges — film studios have delayed

their blockbusters, waiting for larger audiences to return. july was expected to see two summer crowd—pleasers — warner bros' christopher nolan thriller tenet, and disney's mulan — but both studios have postponed the releases till 2021. joining me now is laura houlgatte, ceo of the international union of cinemas in the uk. thank you forjoining us. i will throw a slight curve ball because we saw pictures from venice earlier of drive—in movies out on the water, which isa movies out on the water, which is a novel approach, getting people back to watching movies. is that in cinema as' interest 01’ is that in cinema as' interest or against them? i mean, we have seen a lot of different audience initiatives over the past few months to get people to keep in touch with watching movies and not only at home. i think it is part of the whole range of diversity that you can

see. i think the only point i would add to your introduction is that we are happy to say that tenet is actually scheduled to come out here in europe at the end of august, but you have highlighted something which is key for us, which is we need new films, content which is we need new films, co nte nt to which is we need new films, content to attract audiences to the cinema. what are they showing? france has opened. that sounds pretty good, the figures sounded good, given the environment we are working on. what are they getting to see? they do love their cinema. they do. if you look across the board, in the countries in europe that have reopened, what really makes the difference, as you say, is the availability of new films. france has had local content being released,. spain has had a big spanish blockbuster released on wednesday, which increased the box office by 100% and

attracted audiences of all ages. you also had little women in denmark, so where we see the release of new films, numbers are good, given the social distancing measures that are being implemented. that is the point. we have british cinemas opening now but it does not help, of course, when the reopening coincides with a growing fear of perhaps a second wave and more local lockdown is happening at the same time. just focusing on that and the social distancing, how damaging in the longer term is that in terms of revenue? it will decimate, it will possibly destroy the west end theatre world, for example, what what is it doing in a cinema context? i think they are still challenging times ahead of us and this is why the international union of cinemas has been calling for strong and lasting support. social distancing is a fact of life for everyone and everywhere at

the moment. you are talking about there is the additional safety measures that are in place and they should be there because health and safety is of course paramount for cinemas for their staff and their visitors. but they are different, depending on where you are in europe, in the country, and they will actually evolve in time, depending on the situation. you might be able to sit together with your family or yourfriends, able to sit together with your family or your friends, you might have to book your tickets in advance. sorry to interrupt you. i only have a short time, but i wanted to say we should expect, presumably, that a number of cinemas will have to go. i think what we can expect is that recovery will take a long time and it will not happen overnight because cinemas will have to recover from this, being unable to operate at full capacity for some time. what gives us hope is seeing the numbers being driven by new things being released. that is our big

challenge at the moment. we need new content, both home—grown movies and hollywood blockbusters. with tenet and james bond scheduled, for cinemas it is "no time to die" ex—macro cinemas it is "no time to die" ex-macro what a lovely cinemas it is "no time to die" ex- macro what a lovely way to end ex—macro amid the ongoing us—china trade war, many countries in asia in ex—macro asia were forced to pick sides between the two. the asia infrastructure investment bank, which is headquartered in beijing, has had to shake off the perception that it is a globalfinancial vehicle for china's ambitions. our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani spoke to the lender's president — who this week was re—elected for a second term — and asked how the trade war is affecting the bank's investments. in spite of the difference in the systems of china, people's republic of china and western countries, throughout the last seven decades since prc was founded, there has been increasing cooperation in many areas between china and united states, canada,

european countries, as well as many developing countries. this is the main train and i certainly hope this will go on. this is the main trend and i certainly hope this will go on. how much harder has it made yourjob trying to strike partnerships, doing investments in this region with increasingly us—china tensions are forcing some member countries to choose allegiances? the us—china relationship is something i hope certainly these two countries would work out. but so far as this bank is concerned, we have engaged the united states administration, regulatory bodies and financial institutions from the very beginning. bank of new york mellon is our dollar—clearing bank. we work with goldman sachs for global dollar bond issuance. so cooperation between the united states and this bank should not be affected by the financial relationship between china and the united states.

what shape will the recovery take in china this year versus that of global growth? i expect china's recovery to pick up starting from the first quarter. from the third quarter. and as you see, the business pick—up is already very much encouraging, even though compared to normal days, it's not that high. but i would say china would be able to maintain its growth starting from the second quarter, and probably china would be the only country in the world which would achieve positive growth rates in this year, as predicted by the international monetary fund. let's get some of the day's other news. us pharmaceutical giant johnson & johnson has announced promising results in its coronavirus vaccine trials. the drug was tested on six primates before exposing them to covid—19.

all six showed no detectable virus in their lungs when tested afterwards. clinical human trials are now under way in the us and belgium. tiktok is being sued by rival triller for infringing a patent of stitching together multiple music videos with a single audio track. triller is backed by american rapper snoop dogg. it's the latest in a series of problems for tiktok, which is battling government and corporate criticism of its ties to china. us lawmakers have called on the justice department to open investigations into the short—form video app. american burger chain shake shack has reported a nearly 50% fall in sales for the three months tojune — significantly lower than what analysts expected. the fast—food giant had to close multiple stores across the us because of the coronavirus, and relied heavily on online orders and drive—throughs. a senior figure at the world health organization has told the bbc that it would be fair for poorer countries to pay

less towards the development of a coronavirus vaccine. drugs companies around the world are spending tens of millions of dollars on at least two dozen different options to try and end the pandemic which has wrecked the global economy. dr matshidiso moeti is the world health organization's regional director for africa and said countries on the continent were trying to work together. i think all countries should be paying for it but i guess equity means countries should be paying according to their ability to pay. they should be contributing according to their economic situation. the african union has actually worked very hard to put together a consortium of folks for covid—19 vaccine clinical trials under the auspices of african governments, african presidents in a quite unprecedented move from the african union. they are looking for financing. they've contacted some banks. i think the world bank, ex—im bank.

other banks to finance the contribution of african countries. i also believe that the countries are prepared to pay to some degree for themselves. middle—income countries, for example, have been asked as part of the who consortium with gavi for access to vaccines to pre—finance their own part of their own access to this vaccine. these are countries that are normally not funded by gavi, the vaccine alliance. so african countries, i think, are prepared to do this. they are working under the the african union to both pay for their themselves and to mobilise funding. but, again, i think equity is a very important principle to apply here. and reason to worry in africa there. and viewers on bbc world news can see more of that interview with dr matshidiso moeti, the world health organization's regional director for africa, on talking business with aaron heslehurst this weekend. the times are on your screen now, with the first airing

at 2330 gmt on saturday. stay with us on bbc news, still to come... a major shake—up of india's higher education system as doors open up for foreign universities. taiwan's first popularly elected president, lee dung hway, has died aged 97. he served from 1988 to 2000. cindy sui has more on his legacy. when he was president from 1988 to 2000, he carried out a number of political reforms that enable taiwan to become the democracy it is today, including reforming the parliament to allow long—time taiwanese to be lawmakers. also getting rid of old laws that had hampered taiwan's democratic development. in one of his most famous events of his presidency, he met with student protesters in 1990 who had gathered by the tens of thousands in taipei seeking democratic reforms.

he promised to carry out reforms and he actually fulfilled that promise a few years later by allowing legislative elections and, in 1996, the first ever presidential elections by universal suffrage on the island. so there are many people who mourn his death today and who feel that he has really left a lasting legacy on the island. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines... president trump now says he doesn't want a delay to november's election but believes postal voting will cause problems. millions in england are told they shouldn't visit other people's homes as coronavirus case spike across europe. the cabinet in india hasjust coated its new education policy after 3a years, and one of the crucial reforms in it paves the way for foreign universities to set up campuses in india.

nikhil inamdarjoins us with more details. big us with more details. country, big opportunity. absolutely. big country, big opportunity. absolutely. this is one country which has a huge young population and many of them are very, very keen to be learning in foreign universities, and now, the new policy states that foreign universities will be able to invest in indian set up campuses on their own and will be treated on par in terms of regulation with local universities. previously they would be able to do this only throughjoint ventures would be able to do this only through joint ventures with local partners. this is significant because this is a very big market we have. as many as half a million indians annually go into countries like the uk, us, canada and australia to study and maybe some of them now can be lowered into local campuses if and when they are set up. the government

previously wasn't keen on doing something like this because they felt the cost of education would go up but clearly they seem to have come around it and there has been a rethink. the devil lies in the detail in terms of how the new universities will be incentivised to pump money into the indian market. understandably. but there will be ears picking up all over the uk and indeed many other parts of the world with universities thinking, this could be one for us. give us a broader picture as to how far these education reforms actually are intended to go. beyond the internationalisation of education, the pretty sweeping in terms of what they are proposing to do. for instance, putting the focus on regional languages as a medium of institution as opposed to english. that is one of the reforms being proposed. they

wa nt to reforms being proposed. they want to overhaul the overall architecture of indian education in terms of shifting the curriculum on the basis of skills orientation, as well as on interdisciplinary means rather than route learning. they want to change the way in which examinations are held and stu d e nts which examinations are held and students are assessed. and also wanting an overarching umbrella in terms of education in india. while a lot of these reforms are long coming there is also a criticism on the other hand that may be some of them are too elitist and since this has not yet gone through parliament, maybe it is not quite conservative. a long way to go. thank you very much indeed for that. this weekend the uk government will update its advice encouraging more people to return to work. while many of us are now used to working from home, for the small businesses who rely on footfall from commuters, it has been a disaster. city centres have been particularly hard hit by the lack of lunchtime crowds. one business that has been badly affected in central london explained his situation.

city retailers, restaurants, coffee shops and shops all face complete ruin. businesses will fail without any fault of their own. please help. dear customers, we run a family retail business chain of greeting cards and gift shops, and we employ 200 people in more than 60 shops, mostly in london. unfortunately, covid—19 has brought us to our knees. central london is a ghost town. even though nonessential retail has been allowed to reopen, there is absolutely no trade.

we cannot open the vast majority of our shops as it is just not economically viable to do so. there are no office workers, commuters, students, etc. railway and underground stations, where we have some outlets, are all devoid of people. i do understand all the practical challenges faced. however, until cities like london are back up on their feet and running, the country will continue to struggle. we all know this full well. home working is only efficient for so long. after a while it is detrimental to society in a lot of ways. just as it is essential for children to go to school, the same is true for adults. people need to be able to have a home—worklife balance. we all need customers to survive. please help.

never give up. it is very quiet, you have to feel for them. you are watching bbc news, thanks. 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 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.

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