hello and welcome to bbc news. mexico has become the country with the third—highest number of deaths from coronavirus. more than 46,600 people have died from covid—19 there. only brazil and the united states have a worse record. it comes as the head of the world health organization warns that the effects of the global coronavirus outbreak will be felt for decades to come. alanna petroff has the latest. in mexico city, the streets get a deep cleaning,

residents get testing, but it is just not enough. fatalities from covid—19 are approaching 47,000. the country now has the third—highest death count in the world, just behind the us and brazil, surpassing the uk. the head of the world health 0rganization knows how tough the last few months have been, and he says there is no end in sight. the pandemic is a once—in—a—century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come. many countries that believed they were passed the worst are now grappling with new outbreaks. some that were less affected in the earliest weeks are now seeing escalating numbers of cases and deaths. in parts of the uk, new restrictions snapped back into place as cases have been spiking. moves to loosen the lockdown

have been stalled. we have probably reached near the limits, or the limits, of what we can do in terms of opening up society. so what that means, potentially, is if we wish to do more things in the future, we may have to do less of some other things, and these will be difficult trade—offs. in the united states, the country has had more than 4.5 million confirmed cases. new testimony from dr fauci outlines how things got out of control. if you look at what happened in europe, when they shut down or locked down, or went to shelter in place, however you want to describe it, they really did it to the tune of about 95%—plus of the country did that. when you actually look at what we did, even though we shut down, even though it created a great of difficulty, we really functionally shut down only about 50%. the lessons learned over the last few months have been stark. to save lives and keep people healthy, restrictions

are needed. trade—offs are required. we as a society need to make a decision about our priorities. if the priority is going to be reopening schools, then we need to do whatever it takes to get everything else under control. and that might mean shutting down bars and restaurants and gyms and concert venues, and not having any of those things until we get the level of coronavirus infection low enough that we can reopen our schools. it is a constant balancing act for governments around the world. some are doing better than others, but all are struggling. let's get some of the day's other news: james murdoch, the son of media mogul rupert murdoch, has resigned from the board of news corp. the company owns a wide range of media outlets including the times and the new york post. in his letter of resignation, james murdoch cited disagreements over certain editorial content as well as other strategic decisions.

a federal appeals court has overturned the death sentence of the boston marathon bomber, dzhokhar tsarnaev. at issue is whether the trial judge had done enough to ensure the jurors weren't biased. but the court upheld his conviction for helping to carry out the attack in 2013, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others. the united states has condemned the decision by the hong kong government to put back territorial elections for one year. hong kong's chief executive, carrie lam, said the poll could not take place as originally scheduled in september because of rising coronavirus infections. a high—speed train has derailed in the portuguese district of coimbra, killing two and injuring at least 30 others. the train collided with a railway maintenance machine. emails between the british socialite ghislaine maxwell and the late us sex offender jeffrey epstein have been revealed in a trove of unsealed court documents.

epstein tells ms maxwell she has done nothing wrong in the 2015 exchange, which appears to contradict her earlier claims of not having contacted him. and, in a deposition, accuser virginia giuffre says ms maxwell was as equally involved in sex trafficking as epstein. maxwell has denied these charges. you can find more on all these stories on our website. just go to bbc.com/news, or download the bbc news app. let's have more onjames murdoch's resignation from the board of news corp. in his letter of resignation, james murdoch cited disagreements over certain editorial content as well as other strategic decisions. david folkenflik is media correspondent for national public radio in the us and also the author of a book, murdoch's world: the last of the old media empires. this is his take on what the letter revealed.

a terse note indeed. the family's support for president trump, and over on fox news, where the vast majority of the opinion hosts of the president aloft and a lot of news stories are picked. the ways in which the murdoch press in australia tried to minimise or in effect smother scientific studies and questions about the contributions of climate change to the deadly wildfires that that country

endured early this winter in australia. and similarly the effort to discredit public health officials and scientists attempting to combat this incredible covid—i9 pandemic. and of course the uprising of the protests that broke out in cities around the country over the questions of racial inequity and police violence towards african—america ns, and people of colour, the black lives matter movement, in which people on the editorial pages of thejournal, and particularly in the editorial and views sections of fox news, discredited those protesters, sought to portray them as less than patriotic or in fact unpatriotic. and that is something with which james murdoch has increasingly become uncomfortable. i think you're seeing the rise of protests, the question of the pandemic, and the shortening proximity of the general elections, all contribute to what we just saw play out this afternoon. does that mean, are we to assume then, that that kind of influence, trying to push things away from that editorial line, is going to vanish

and go with james? i thinkjames‘s influence has effectively failed — that fox news is if anything trumpier than it once was. under rupert murdoch it has, i think with few and rare exceptions, proved to be very supportive of a figure that rupert murdoch himself is somewhat intellectually contemptuous of, but nonetheless has the kind of access to that he only dreamed of in the united states, but enjoyed in your country with prime ministers of both parties, both major parties, and enjoyed in fact in his native australia, with prime ministers of both major parties. trump has offered that to him.

trump has sought him out for counsel, and content is often picked from fox news figures, including the now rebellious john bolton, who was his national security adviser, sean hannity is one of the president's most important counsellors, tucker carlson is known to essentially affect policy by appealing to the president on his show at 8:00pm in the united states, and he is the most influential figure on fox news right now, and on questions of racism, that is a question that has been brought up even by staffers at fox news itself, which is very rare. so you are seeing a moment of real tumbled and a rupture playing out in public, and james‘s resignation is a real manifestation of that, and it is an indication he doesn't expect to have any real influence over fox news and its other properties in the immediate years ahead. and david, we're running out of time. i wanted to ask you about succession. what happens next at this company? clearly james isn't going to be taking over the reins, but the question of who does has been lingering for a while. i think it's pretty clear that as things stand right now,

lachlan murdoch, who is the executive chairman, co—chairman with his father of fox corp and over news corp, is the next in line, and thatjames and their sister elizabeth are not in place to take over. but one caveat. we've seen scandals knock other people out of place. james looked like he had effectively won the battle for succession over his brother lachlan for a while there, until he was forced out or left a few years ago, so in reality you never know. so, in, reality you never know. murdoch likes to pick these people against each other, but it looks as though lachlan murdoch will win by a nose at the tape. the us department ofjustice has charged three people in relation to a twitter hack on isjuly that took over the accounts of high—profile figures including former president barak 0bama and bill gates. the justice department has named 19—year—old mason sheppard from west sussex in the uk and 22—year 0ld nima fazeli from orlando in florida. the third person is graham ivan clark, 17, who was arrested in tampa, florida. prosecutors say he was allegedly the main figure behind the hack. clark, the mastermind,

lives here in tampa, committed the crimes here, and he'll be prosecuted here. working together, we will hold him accountable. the state attorney's office is handling this prosecution rather than federal prosecutors because florida law allows us greater flexibility to charge a minor as an adult in a financial fraud case like this. the prosecutor in the twitter hacking case. the bbc‘s chris fox explains how the hackers managed to breach the security system. well, twitter actually today has explained a little bit more about how the attackers got access into the system. they said it was a spear—phishing attack. now, phishing attacks are those ones that most of us have probably experienced, where somebody will send you an email or text message saying urgent action needed on your account, please click this link and fill in your information, or maybe you get a suspicious

email saying, did you order hundreds of dollars‘ worth of products? click here to cancel. that is a phishing attack. a spear—phishing attack is a more targeted version of that. the attackers may know some information about you, perhaps the name of your bank and your username, so they can send you a much more convincing email. twitter has said that it was an attack done on a telephone that tricked some of its employees into handing over their credentials for internal twitter systems. once the attackers had those credentials, they could use them to reset the account information of 130 twitter accounts, including those celebrity ones, and get access to them. and there are now questions aboutjust how much access staff at twitter have with the ability to reset accounts like this. it seems like maybe there should have been more security at twitter. the teenage driver of a getaway car involved in dragging to his death pc andrew harper in berkshire last summer has beenjailed for 16 years for manslaughter. two passengers in the car, who are both 18, were jailed for 13 years. the teenagers were attempting

to steal a quad bike when pc harper responded to the 999 call. helena wilkinson was in court, and her report contains some flashing images. andrew and lissie harper were married for less than a month when he was killed. today, she was in court with family to see those responsible jailed for their crimes — jessie cole, henry long and albert bowers. this is cole and bowers laughing after their first court appearance. i've got four masked men outside my house, and they've got weapons. they're stealing my quad bike. this is the 999 call about the theft of a quad bike that pc harper had been responding to with a colleague. the officers soon came across the teenagers‘ car. jessie cole quickly unhooked the bike. through the rear—view camera, you can see his legs as he tries to escape, followed by pc harper, who got caught at that

moment in the towrope. sentencing the teenagers, mrjustice edis said they had killed a talented and brave young police officer, who was going above and beyond his duty in order to provide a public service". pc harper's widow, lissie harper, read a victim impact statement to court. she said... these are three people who i do not believe have ever shown an ounce of genuine remorse or contrition for their actions. they did their best to frustrate the police investigation. thejudge said there was nothing he could do to restore andrew harper to his loving wife or family, and they had the profound

sympathy of the whole nation. helena wilkinson, bbc news. this is bbc news, the headlines: the head of the world health 0rganization has said the impact of the coronavirus outbreak will be felt "for decades to come". rupert murdoch's son james murdoch resigns from the board of news corporation, citing editorial disagreements. let's have more on our main story. amir atta ran is professor of law and public health at the university of ottawa. he told me why the coronavirus will still affect our lives for years to come. this will leave an indelible mark on our history and our future, i'm afraid. when i heard the head of who say that it would be with us for decades, that's absolutely right. the pandemic we're experiencing now will switch into being an endemic disease. what that means is a disease

that is constantly and forever with us. it will of course be much less. we'll have a vaccine, we'll have treatments. but it will come back from time to time, and more importantly, the changes that it has brought to our society will leave a deep and lasting mark for decades to come. i want to get onto some of those changes in a moment, but let's just briefly talk about a vaccine. how does a vaccine arriving and being successful, and being taken up by hundreds of millions, billions of people — how does that square with us still having to deal with the coronavirus many years from now? at present, we don't know how effective this vaccine will be. will it be a vaccine that prevents you becoming infected? possibly, but not likely. will it be a vaccine that does not block infection, but instead blocks the severest, deadliest forms of disease? much more likely.

but, in that case, the infection will continue to pass through the population. vaccination will have to be kept up, because it's unlikely that a single vaccine will last a lifetime for a person. we will be fighting this foe forever. that is simply the way it is. now, i don't want to be heard as frightening anyone. i think that we will have the technology to hold it at bay, the same way that we've held other infectious diseases at bay. but one mustn't make the mistake of thinking that, once we're past the pandemic phase, coronavirus will become a word that we will never hear again, and that few of us feel affected by. so that means, presumably, we're going to have to start thinking long—term about those competing priorities. you know, opening up schools is the immediate concern in a lot of countries. but, long—term, it's that balance between economic life

and human life. and long—term, just imagine what some of the changes are. of course everyone knows that we'll never work the same way again. zoom is here to stay, i'm afraid. and birth rates are down since coronavirus came. people did not use lockdown in the way you might have thought. in fact, there were fewer babies born. that shift of demographics will in turn make it difficult to service the debt that countries are running up now. after wars, for instance world war ii, britain paid off debt to the united states for over 50 years. so there will be a long—term effect of the sort you have mentioned, but also on international trade, also on international relations. and we must, of course, plan for resilience, because this is not the last pandemic we will face. it's not even a particularly severe pandemic, as scientists foresee them.

we could be facing another, we will be facing another eventually. finding a local rise in coronavirus infections early is crucial in fighting the spread of covid—19. in the spanish city of valencia engineers and scientists are going into the sewer network to try to find out where outbreaks are likely to occur next. let's take a look. we try to detect the virus sars—cov—2, which is the cause of the disease of covid—19, in residual water. the virus is excreted by humans since the first day of infection, so we're able to detect the virus up to seven days before showing

first symptoms. we've divided the city into several sectors, control points it's called, and it can be a municipality, a neighbourhood, a building or even an industry. and for each of those points, we collect a sample of residual water periodically, which is taken to the lab where it's going to be analysed. in the lab, we have a litre coming in, we end up with the volume of about three ml. from here, what we're going to do is extract the nucleic acids, what is the genetic material of the virus.

if it starts to increase then we have to go to the authorities and say ok, let's have a look on that because maybe we have to check that population, or that section of the city, for instance here in valencia. tracking the spread of coronavirus in the sewers of valencia. much of europe has been basking in a mini—heatwave. britain, france and belgium were among the countries experiencing near—record temperatures. but this is a summer like no other — with the lockdown and social distancing complicating matters. the bbc‘s tim allman reports. in britain, you don't get days like this are too often. blue skies, baking hot temperatures, so skies, baking hot temperatures, so why not take a trip to the beach? well, there is a still a

pandemic going on and officials we re pandemic going on and officials were worried too many people wa nt to were worried too many people want to soak up the sun. here in brighton on the south coast, the local council urged people to stay away. it was a similar story across much of the continent. this was 0stend in belgium. the seas and the sands full of people. there did seem to be some attempt to control numbers but safety measures are ha rd to enforce. numbers but safety measures are hard to enforce. translation: with this he, it is very difficult to keep up with the masks. translation: people are still on vacation but things are a little lax as i hope the visitors will pull themselves together. in rome, the authorities told the very young and the very old to stay inside. visitor numbers are down due to coronavirus. mostly it was locals taking the chance to admire their beautiful city. in madrid, face masks are now

compulsory after a surge in cases in recent days. wearing them in this weather is no fun but for some, they have become a necessary evil. translation: too much heat and you sweat a lot with the mask but since it's compulsory and in order to protect yourself, you have to wear it. you have to clean your face very often. here in lyon, temperatures reached 41 celsius. more of the same is due on saturday. the city's fountain is becoming a useful tool to call down. for man and man's best friend. tim allman, bbc news. beyonce's second visual album, black is king, has just been released. it's been described as a love letter to the black diaspora and has a star—studded appearences from jay—z, kelly rowland, pharrell and naomi campbell. it reimagines the story of the lion king across the modern world through a young boy's

journey to self—discovery. she's been praised for the number of independent black designers behind her outfits. and one of them is venny etienne, the designer behind a standout blazer. thank you forjoining us. just talk us through what it has been like working with such a big star on such a big project. resume oblique, remotely as well. since i got the opportunity to do it and it was about a year ago, it was something i was already working with this vilest, that relationship i was cultivating because i was working with her with other clients that she had and thenjust with other clients that she had and then just out of nowhere, once we were done with one particular client, she reached out and said we have something for b if you have time so i literally dropped what i was

doing and for the next five days me and my design assistance went out it and make sure everything was perfect and ready for the actual movie. and we can have a look at that blazer now. we can show it to oui’ blazer now. we can show it to our viewers. we want to get a sense from you, what was the brief? what was the intention? what were you trying to convey? in this particular garment, we we re in this particular garment, we were trying to portray strength and also grace at the same time. as you can see in a lot of the imagery in the actual music video, you see a lot of flora ls music video, you see a lot of florals and so we wanted to make sure that when we were sourcing the fabric which we did here locally in dallas, texas, that it would also translate to the femininity and also to the strength and that was make why you see those broad shoulders and that's really what we focus on with my line which is always structural pieces, architectural pieces, and yet have a feminine side with the bold print. beyonce is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, star in the world right now. she can choose to

work with anyone on the planet. she is constant —— consciously choosing black, independent designers. how important is that right now? that is exactly what lack excellence is right 110w what lack excellence is right now where we rally our community and we rallied together and just the same way that beyonce has this video, she has her creative camp and when i then create that relationship with her creative tea m relationship with her creative team and she brings me on, now this gives me the opportunity to give other people a chance to give other people a chance to shine and, you know, design assistance who have been working tirelessly and this was their first week working tirelessly and this was theirfirst week on working tirelessly and this was their first week on the job and we just their first week on the job and wejust had, this their first week on the job and we just had, this was our first client so it was just amazing. i think that black excellence, of her making sure that she sees the creativity in young

designers is amazing and i'm just so grateful to beyonce, to disney+ for having the garment featured on this film. and just before we go, like you said, beyonce's a big star and she's not shy when it comes to talking politics and certainly seems to be political overtones to this latest work of hers. does that appeal to you as a designer? or do you kind of get bit nervous about getting drawn into something like that?” think as an artist we have to reflect our times. that's something that in nina simone has definitely mentioned, we are artist so we have to make sure we express our point of view and right now, it is to shine black excellence and to shine black excellence and to shine on the positivity of the beauty of our community. i feel that beyonce and her team couldn't have done any better.

it was a brilliant project and i'm so grateful to be part of it. we are grateful for your time. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news was up thank you so much for having me. time now for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. the heat on friday was certainly extreme. it arrived quickly and it is going away quickly. but the heat was far and wide. we had temperatures of 37 degrees in london, 29 in edinburgh. but a significant drop on the way for saturday. for liverpool and sheffield, a drop of 11 degrees or more. the heat has been coming to an end with a bang. we've had this band of cloud coming in from the west bringing some thundery rain and we scooped up some thunderstorms from continental europe, it's been heading eastwards, out into the north sea, and behind that band of cloud, we are seeing atlantic air spilling our way and that's the reason why the temperatures will be dropping. things will feel different as we head into monday. still going to be very warm for eastern parts of england, mind you. by the time we get to the morning we have rain affecting shetland and may be a few showers coming into some other

western parts of the uk. throughout the day on saturday, it's going to be a mixture of sunshine and a scattering of showers, mainly across western areas, a few will push their way eastwards gradually through the day. much of the day may well be dry with sunshine at times and it stays dry right across the southeast and east anglia until the evening. and we'll find temperatures at 25, 26 degrees, warm but it is a cooler day everywhere in the temperatures 18 in the central belt. i'm sure the footballers for the fa cup final will appreciate the change in the weather it looks like it should be dry at wembley. more showers to come into northern ireland on saturday evening. those will push their way into scotland, we keep the cool air coming in on the westerly breeze. so temperatures overnight, saturday night into sunday morning, a little bit lower, probably a more comfortable night for sleeping — 11 to 1a degrees. again on saturday, a day

of sunshine, and showers. probably more showers around on sunday. especially across the northern half of the uk and some of those could be on the heavy side as well. it's continuing to cool off, temperatures continuing to drop away a little bit, our high on sunday in the southeast is 23 celsius. more of the same on monday. same sort of temperatures, sunshine and showers, perhaps heavier showers in the afternoon for the eastern side of england. it's getting a long way away but i think around tuesday and wednesday we could be in for some wetter and windier weather. but by end of next week, probably turning quite a bit warmer once again. goodbye. this is bbc news. the headlines: mexico's confirmed coronavirus deaths have exceeded 46,000, placing the country's death toll from the pandemic third—highest in the world.