this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. beauty salons, bowling alleys and wedding venues in england are facing at least another fortnight of closure following the government's plan to "squeeze the brake pedal" on easing restrictions, as a government adviser suggests pubs might have to close to allow schools to open. the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mexico has overtaken the uk's. it's now the third highest in the world. companies in the uk whose staff have been receiving up to 80% of their salary through the government's furlough scheme will have to start paying some contributions from today. cracks in the murdoch empire, as rupert murdoch's sonjames resigns from the board of news corporation, citing editorial disagreements.

us president donald trump has announced he will be banning the chinese video—sharing app tiktok from as early as today. and show business at a social distance — the bafta tv awards go online. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. and analysis from here first, many businesses in england — which were expecting to reopen this weekend after the coronavirus lockdown — are facing at least another fortnight of closure, as a member of the government's scientific advisory committee suggests it may be necessary to close pubs in order to open schools. the prime minister's plan

to "squeeze the brake pedal" on easing restrictions affects beauty salons, bowling alleys and wedding venues. he also announced an extension on the use of face coverings. elsewhere, mexico has overtaken the uk to become country with the third highest number of deaths from the virus. more than 16,000 people have lost their lives there. and from today, uk companies whose staff have been receiving up to 80% of their salary through the treasury's furlough scheme, during the coronavirus pandemic, will have to start contributing themselves. john mcmanus reports. it's been some weeks now since england's streets and cities looked quite like this — eerily deserted. when the strict lockdown ended, though, many restrictions remained, but were due to be lifted today. now, that further easing has been cancelled. cases in england are increasing

for the first time since may. official data suggests there are now around 4,200 new infections a day compared with 3,200 a week ago. stemming any further rise means putting on hold many of the activities that were due to return. casinos, skating rinks, bowling alleys will all remain closed until at least august the 15th. indoor performances remain banned, while fans hoping to take part in pilots at sports events like here at the oval last weekend will also be disappointed. beauty salons have been open for some time, but they still won't be able to carry out any treatment that involves close contact with a customer's face. and wedding receptions will remain small affairs. there won't be up to 30 guests, for now at least. there was a warning yesterday that there may be further restrictions to come. 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, some of which will be decisions of government and some of which are for all of us as citizens to do. one of those new rules will be in force from next weekend. the mandatory wearing of face coverings in more indoor places, like museums and places of worship. but plans to allow employers greater discretion over encouraging employees to return to work will go ahead from today, and that includes those who have been shielding. meanwhile, advice on social distancing remains the same, with the authorities keeping a close eye on locations like here at brighton beach, where many of us congregate. john mcmanus, bbc news. mexico has become the country with the third highest number of recorded deaths from coronavirus.

more than 46,600 people have died from covid—19 there. 0nly brazil and the united states have more. it comes as the head of the world health organization warns that the effects of the pandemic 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 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 deal 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. unemployment benefits brought in to support americans who've lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic have expired, with congress unable to reach consensus on a new relief package. it means payments of $600 a week to millions of people ended overnight.

president trump has blamed the democrats for the impasse. democrat leaders said a white house proposal to extend the pay—out for seven days was worthless. from this month, employers must pay national insurance and pension contributions for their furloughed employees as part of a gradual tapering of the scheme in the uk. the rising rate of new coronavirus infections has forced the government to delay the reopening of some businesses. however, on the day changes to the government's furlough scheme began, the resolution foundation has published research suggesting that over half of furloughed workers are likely to have already returned to work. well, daniel tomlinson is senior economist at the resolution foundation — the body behind that research. good morning. tells what you found. 0ur good morning. tells what you found. our key findings we are publishing this morning is that even though over the whole time period since the job retention scheme began in march,

9 million people have been furloughed for at least one free week period. actually, the number of people we think are furloughed today on this day that employers are now being asked to be making contributions is significantly lower than that, less than four and a half million. . that is good news and that means that people haven't moved back into work and the job retention scheme has been a good successful policy so far protecting people's incomes and living standards from the shock that happened when the lockdown was imposed on businesses across the country. the concern is that we have seen the signs and our headline is about postponing easing moves and that has affected employees and wages. yes, and today is the start of a three month long process in the phase—out of the job retention scheme. from today, employers have to contribute a small

amount, around 5%, 5% of their furloughed staff's wagers. that goes up furloughed staff's wagers. that goes up next month and again in october. this is really significant because there are still a lot of people, millions of people, we think, who are furloughed and many of them are in the hard—hit sectors like hospitality and leisure. some businesses that have not been able to open at all yet as part of the unwinding of lockdown, and for those businesses, having to make a contribution to the cost of furloughing will be particular difficult. we think around four in ten of those in hospitality and leisure are currently furloughed. for those businesses, having to chip in it now to the cost will be difficult. it will be a risk in the increase of redundancies as the scheme is phased out. do you want the government to change tack or change its expectations of employers asa change its expectations of employers as a result? we have been calling

for a sectoral approach to the phasing out of the job retention scheme. by and large, many have been brought back and there may still be a few people in some businesses and sectors who are furloughed, but we know there is a particular concentration of furloughing and particular parts of the economy have been really hard hit, those forced to shutdown and where social distancing rules still make it difficult to trade and consumers haven't really started going back to those sorts of businesses. for those sectors, we think a slower pace of wind down for the fellow scheme would be a better way forward. rather than asking employees to make even more of a contribution month, delaying that by two or three months would be sensible and also, the government needs to think about whether or not it is going to have a localised approach of the fellow scheme. that is difficult and potentially quite messy to influence. but if there are going to be part of the country where more businesses are going to be asked to close, asking them to contribute

more mounts to the cost of furloughing will rid risk more redundancies. thank you. across europe, several countries are seeing signs of a resurgence of covid—i9. spain is struggling with a rise in new infections that sparked european travel warnings. in france, the seven—day average of new infections passed 1,000 per day this week for the first time since the first half of may. rates of infection in germany remain low, but health officials there have expressed ‘great concern‘ over an increase in cases in the country. this week, the british government reintroduced quarantine for those returning from spain — gavin lee sent this update from majorca. well, today, some of the hundreds of passengers, customers who are flying with the british tour operatorjet2, are now in this queue, some have already gone through here at palma airport, because they are cutting their holidays early. their flights have been cancelled and are now going back to the uk.

it is becausejet2 had said they couldn't keep sending flights out because they had cancelled the outbound flights last weekend, given the covid situation, the quarantine from the british government for travellers coming back, and they said it is not sustainable to be able to keep bringing people back. so the people in this queue right now, many of them were due to stay here up until next sunday. this of course is one of the many issues that are spin—offs of the covid situation. at the moment in spain, we are looking at a situation where there are about 1500 cases — higher than for several days, double, in fact, from last week. there were about 200 cases a dayjust a month ago. so as the lockdown eases, spain seeing similar problems as other countries. and worth comparing, at one point in march, spain was seeing 7500 cases. but here on the islands, we are looking at much smaller numbers. yesterday it was zero cases in some of the balearics. notably, though, here, they have had the first case of tourists reportedly who are now in quarantine after coming here post

lockdown easing and that, for the authorities, clearly, is a worry. that is about 25 kilometres outside palma, we are told. clearly, here, the situation for many tourists, a pretty abrupt end to what was a summer holiday they had been looking forward to. authorities in south korea have arrested the founder of a christian sect at the centre of south korea's largest outbreak of covid—19 infections. it's alleged lee man—hee conspired with other sect leaders to withhold information from authorities. and the japanese capital tokyo has seen an increased number of new coronavirus cases, with 472 recorded today. that's the second day in a row that the number of cases has risen by more than 400. tokyo's governor has warned the city could declare its own state of emergency, but the central government says there is still no need to do that. president trump has announced he is banning the chinese video—sharing app tiktok in the us. he told reporters he could sign an executive order

as early as saturday. us security officials have expressed concern that the app, owned by chinese firm bytedance, could be used to collect the personal data of americans. tiktok has denied accusations that it is controlled by or shares data with the chinese government. the headlines on bbc news... thousands of beauty salons, bowling alleys and wedding venues in england are facing at least another fortnight of closure following borisjohnson's plan to pause the easing of restrictions. the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mexico has overtaken the uk's. it's now the third highest in the world. companies in the uk whose staff have been receiving up to 80% of their salary through the government's furlough scheme will have to start paying some contributions from today.

borisjohnson says there's a need to apply the brakes to easing restrictions in england further — as a result, some businesses that had hoped to reopen will stay closed. nick basing is chairman of ten entertainment group — a company which runs a large number of centres with bowling lanes across the uk. he's in barcelona. thank you forjoining us. what is the impact for you? thank you for having me this morning. of course, my first reaction yesterday was one of great disappointment. a third of the nation go temp in bowling, it is a national pastime and actually a third of our customers are children, so we are very disappointed not to serve our 6 million customers in the first instance. of course we recognise that the clinical medical view is one of higher risk, but frankly we do not believe that we are any more at risk than any of the

other retail outlets or leisure outlets that are currently still open. so we are very surprised about this reaction, we were poised to open 37 of our businesses up and down the country this morning, and we now need to wait a further two weeks. and this affects customers, but it also affects staff. indeed, we have 1200 staff that were actually very excited to be able to come back. really, the businesses we operate, our small communities for them, working in communities up and down the country, they get to know the customers very well. they have missed being in that place for a number of months and clearly it was a shock out of the blue for them to now be told that they probably have to go back to being furloughed and there is an level of uncertainty for them. and you have spent money on marketing and on telling customers

and staff to get back and on making the safety protocols, can you just hold everything for a couple of weeks and then just press send on the marketing then? well, certainly we are poised now to be able to operate. i think a couple of weeks' grace won't make a much difference. nevertheless, there has to be some degree of uncertainty about whether the news will be positive in two weeks' time or not. we would like to feel more understanding about business from the task force and those making this decision, because we do not feel we are being treated ona we do not feel we are being treated on a level playing field with many other peers in the wider leisure space. we are part of the 120, £140 billion leisure industry offering

experiences open down country. we have four times the square footage per customer than many coffee shops, pubs or restaurants, that are currently still open today. so it does feel an unfair move to have made. whilst we accept the number one priority for the country is the health and well—being, we would like a level playing field. your point is that social distancing is easier in some of your venues that in some of the other venues already open. absolutely, in fact, the other venues already open. absolutely, infact, in the other venues already open. absolutely, in fact, in order to try and further strengthen that safety around social distancing, we decided to close half of the bowling lanes, so therefore a family coming in would actually have effectively the space of two bowling lanes and therefore exclusively using the balls that are coming down as well as many of the wide concourses we have. typically, one of our large boxesis have. typically, one of our large boxes is one of the —— the size of a

number of tennis court joined together. that is significantly more social distancing than a local coffee shop in a high street. well, we wish you, your staff and customers the very best and hope you will be able to open soon. thank you for joining will be able to open soon. thank you forjoining us. james murdoch, the son of the media mogul rupert murdoch, has resigned from the board of newscorp, 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 willis reports. they've been called the most powerful media family in the world. father rupert, seen here with sons james on the right, lachlan on the left. now, the family dynasty has imploded, leaving a trail of questions and intrigue.

james murdoch's letter to the board of news corp was terse. "my resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company's news outlets," he wrote. "and certain other strategic decisions." central to those qualms over content, it's thought the conservative editorial stance of news corp assets such as the wall street journal and, most particularly, fox news. we are seeing a moment of real tumult and a rupture play out in public. i thinkjames's resignation is a real manifestation of that. and it is an indication that he doesn't expect to have any real influence over the direction of fox news or its other properties in the immediate years ahead. back in the days of 21st century fox, the two potential heirs to the murdoch media empire shared power between them. but the sale of much of the fox entertainment business to the walt disney company two years ago led to james's departure as ceo. lachlan took over the remainder of that business, whilst continuing to run news corp, and it was there that differences between the two

brothers seemed to grow — james publicly taking issue with news corp coverage of the australian wildfires, which he thought should focus more on climate change, a subject close to his heart.