this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm aaron safir. the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak this is bbc news. in mexico has overtaken britain's. the headlines: it's now the third highest in the world cracks in the murdoch empire mexico's confirmed coronavirus deaths have exceeded 46,000, as rupert murdoch's sonjames placing the country's death resigns from the board toll from the pandemic third of news corporation, citing editorial disagreements. highest in the world. it means mexico has overtaken britain, with only the united states and brazil recording more deaths. two teenagers are among three people charged in connection with the hacking of high james murdoch, the younger son profile twitter users. of media mogul rupert murdoch, has resigned from the board of news corporation, and muslims worldwide which owns fox news, are celebrating the festival the wall streetjournal, of eid al—adha, but with the times and the sun, coronavirus restrictions, citing "disagreements over editorial content". things are different this year. six months after declaring the coronavirus pandemic a global public health emergency, the head of the world health organization has said

the impact of the coronavirus outbreak will be felt "for decades to come". hello and welcome. a 17—year—old has been arrested in florida, accused of masterminding mexico has become the country a massive twitter hack in july. with the third highest number two others, including a british of deaths from coronavirus. teenager, are also facing charges after the attackers more than 46,600 people have took control of high profile died from covid—19 there. accounts to scam people. only brazil and the united states have a worse record. it comes as the head of the world health organization warns that the effects the teenage driver of a getaway of the global coronavirus car involved in dragging 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 past 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. alanna petroff, bbc news. james murdoch, the son of media mogul rupert murdoch, has resigned from the board of news corp, the company which owns a wide range of media outlets, including the times in london, the wall streetjournal and the new york post. 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 this is his take on what the letter revealed. a terse note, indeed, that didn't spell out what those disagreements occurred on, but it's not hard to discern. there are two broad categories

i think you can look at. one is the question of the family's support on the editorial pages and, in some cases, the news pages of the new york post for president trump, and also for the corporate sibling — not part of news corp but nonetheless important for this story — over on fox news, where the vast effort of their opinion hosts is to hold the president aloft, but also a lot of the news coverage stories are picked in order to help the president's narrative. then there is the second question of specific storylines — 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 and medical professionals 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 americans 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 that of course murdoch 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. trump's cabinet 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 8pm eastern time here in the united states, and he is the most influential figure on cable news right now. and on questions of racism, and 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 tumult and a rupture play out in public, and i think james's resignation is a real manifestation of that and it is an indication that he doesn't expect to have any real influence over fox news or its other properties in the immediate years ahead. and david, we're running out of time — i wanted to quickly 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. murdoch likes to pit these people against each other, but it looks as though lachlan murdoch will win by a nose at the tape. david folkenflik, the media correspondent for national public radio. the us department ofjustice has charged three people in relation to a twitter hack on july 15 that took over the accounts of high profile figures, including former president barack 0bama and bill gates. the justice department has named 19—year—old mason sheppard from west sussex in the uk, and 22—year—old nima fazeli from orlando in florida. the third person is graham ivan clark, who's i7 and was arrested in florida. prosecutors say he was 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 for 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? if not, 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. technology correspondent chris fox. let's get some of the day's other news. president trump has said he plans to ban the chinese—owned video sharing app tiktok in the united states. speaking to reporters on board air force one, he said he could sign an executive order as soon as saturday. the move would be a major blow for the owner of the popular

social media platform, bytedance. us security officials have expressed concern over the safety of personal data on the app. 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. chinese state television says hong kong police are seeking the arrest of six leading pro—democracy activists living in exile. they're wanted on suspicion of violating the new security law imposed in the territory by beijing. state media described the group, as "troublemakers". emails between the british socialite ghislaine maxwell and the late us sex offender jeffrey epstein have been revealed by a court. in a 2015 exchange, epstein tells ms maxwell she has done "nothing wrong", apparently contradicting 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. 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 lockdowns and social distancing complicating matters. tim allman reports. in britain, you don't get days like this too often — blue skies, baking hot temperatures — so why not take a trip to the beach? well, there's a still a pandemic going on, and officials were worried too many people wanted 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 hard to enforce. translation: with this heat, it's very, very difficult to keep up with the masks. translation: people are still on vacation but things are a little lax. 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, and more of the same is due on saturday. the city's fountain‘s becoming a useful tool to cool down for man, and man's best friend. tim allman, bbc news. let's get more on the world health organization's assessment of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic around the coronavirus pandemic around the world. 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 inaudible 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. coronavirus restrictions are placing a particular strain on muslims who are celebrating the festival eid—al—adha. it's usually a joyous holiday and an opportunity for muslim families and communities to gather for prayers and feasts. but this year, many are taking precautions and altering the way they celebrate. ishleen kaur reports. singing. eid—al—adha begins on the last day of the hajj, the annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca in saudi arabia.

the muslim festival commemorates prophet abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son on the command of god. translation: it is a glorious day. it is the day of eid—al—adha. we are so happy, yet it is sad because our families are not with us here. we miss celebrating with them. singing. muslims in other middle east countries too observed the annual prayers in the shadow of coronavirus. injordan, while the kingdom has largely controlled the virus, worshippers gathered but not without their masks. in iraq, egypt and syria, mosques were closed and streets were missing the usual eid crowds. translation: today is eid and there are no prayers. if anyone wants to sit with friends, they need to be sitting away from each other. if they want to greet each other, they cannot approach each other. coronavirus has separated us.

as nearly 2.8 million british muslims prepare to celebrate the festival with loved ones, britain put the brakes on easing its lockdown. the decision was met with some disappointment. people are very, very angry right now. their plans have been changed, food has gone to waste, people that would normally have been with us today are not going to visit us. we won't meet our families, ourfriends, our parents, which obviously for anybody, it would be disappointing, on any other day, but eid, which makes it worse. turkey's hagia sophia mosque saw thousands of worshippers. it marks the first time in 86 years eid prayers are being held at the mosque. for many muslims across the world, this is far from their dream eid, but they continue to focus on their prayers. ishleen kaur, 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 cast with appearances from jay—z, kelly rowland, pharrell and naomi campbell. the album reimagines the story of the lion king through a young boy's journey to self—discovery in the modern world. beyonce has been praised for the number of independent black designers behind her outfits. earlier i spoke to venny etienne, and asked him how he came to be involved. it was something that i was already working with the stylist, that relationship that i was cultivating, because i was working with her 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, "well, we have something for b if you have time" and i'm like,

what? are you kidding me? so i literally dropped what i was doing and for the next five days me and my design assistants just went at it and made sure that everything was perfect and ready for the actual movie. and we can have a look at that 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? yeah, so, 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 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 but also to the strength and that's why you see those broad shoulders and that's really what i mainly focus on with my clothing line levenity, which is always structural pieces, architectural pieces, but yet have a feminine side like that bold print. now, beyonce is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, star in the world right now. she could choose to work with anyone on the planet.

she is consciously choosing black, independent designers. how important is that right now? i mean, that is exactly what black excellence is to me, where we rally our community and we come together and we realise the potential, because, just the same way as beyonce thatjust had this video, she has her creative camp and when i then create that relationship with her creative team and she brings me on, now, this gives me the opportunity to give other people a chance to shine and, you know, like their work, like my design assistants who have been working tirelessly and this was their first week on the job and wejust had, you know, 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, so grateful to disney+ for having the garment featured on this film. and just before we go, like you said, beyonce's a big star, she's not shy when it comes to talking politics and there 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? no, i think as an artist we have to reflect our times. that's something that nina simone has definitely mentioned, that we're artists so we have to make sure we express our point of view and right now, it's to shine black excellence and to shine on the positivity of the beauty of our community.

you can reach me on twitter — i'm @aaronsafir. and you can stay up—to—date with all the latest stories on the bbc news website. 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 south—east 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 south—east 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. 00:28:28,075 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 goodbye.