good afternoon. companies across the uk must today start contributing to the coronavirus job retention scheme, which was introduced at the start of the pandemic. until now, some workers have received up to 80% of their pay from the government under the furlough plan. but as a planned relaxation of more lockdown rules has been postponed,

some companies say if they can't reopen they won't be able to pay their workers. our business correspondent vivienne nunis reports. beauty open but not as business had hoped. our team is in shock. i do not even want to tell them. today, beauticians were due to start offering facial treatments. 2a hours ago, the government changed its mind and put the brakes on lockdown measures easing. now this salon has an appointment book full of cancellations. 80% of our business is to do with facials, we are renowned for them. eyelash extensions, we can't do that. the beauty industry had hoped to be operating normally again at the start ofjuly, alongside hairdressers. but now more job losses look likely. this will be

very tough. we will see how we are going to ride the storm. the future also looks uncertain for nightclubs. normally in the summer, fabric, one of london's most famous venues would be heaving. instead the sound systems here have been silent for the past four months. the bar staff, floor staff, cloakroom, cleaners have all lost theirjobs. now, another worry, from today, employers must start contributing to the wage bill forfurloughed must start contributing to the wage bill for furloughed staff, paying their national insurance and pension contributions. ahead of the change yesterday, fabric let go of 51 workers. the freelancers have already lost their income and there has been a wave of redundancies already. there is a possibility that we might have to make further redundancies. so, there is a real risk of everyone losing theirjob,

frankly. from september, employers must pay 10% of their staffs wages whilst they remain on the furlough scheme. in october that increases to 20% before cutting off completely at the end of that month. the fear is with so many businesses struggling, that could trigger a wave of redundancies. critics are calling for more support for the sectors that have been hit hardest. hospitality, the night—time economy are really feeling the effects of the necessary measures that have been taken. therefore, it makes sense for them to be given additional support and are not to be ending the furlough on a one size fits all basis, but any targeted manner, helping those sectors. the government has said it is supporting close parts of the economy with business rates relief, tax deferrals and loans. for some businesses that might not be enough to keep the lights on. vivienne nunis, bbc news. from today, more than two million people — considered at high risk from coronavirus —

will no longer need to isolate in parts of england, scotland and northern ireland. those who have been shielding can leave their homes and return to work. but the move comes as restrictions have been increased in parts of the north of england, and a planned relaxation of some lockdown rules has been postponed. jenny kumah reports. bradford today, one of several areas of the north affected by new restrictions brought in to curb the infection rate. people who are clinically vulnerable here are advised to continue shielding. matt has cystic fibrosis and was looking forward to be able to go out for the first time ten months today. he had planned to go to a cafe but feels it is right to put that plan on hold. the infection rate in our specific area is climbing a little bit high and it has left is very worried about our safety and any potential catching of any virus. in other

parts of england and scotland, people who have been shielding can now meet up to six people outdoors. and i cannot tell you how excited i am. michelle teel is looking forward to seeing her mother for the first time in months. it is my mother and i need to hug her. she has been nowhere, she has been shielding. we are both the same. employers have more discretion from today to ask people to return to work. some charities have warned that some vulnerable people could therefore be put any difficult position. although shielding is ending for some, unlocking of other restrictions planned for today has been paused. casesin planned for today has been paused. cases in england are increasing for the first time since the month of may. official data suggest there are now around 4200 new infections each day, compared with more than 3001 week ago. casinos, skating rinks and bowling alleys will remain closed

until at least august to 15. and though performances remain banned. fans hoping to take part in pilots at sporting events like at the oval last weekend will also be disappointed. and wedding receptions will remain small affairs. they will not be up to 30 guess for now at least. living with restrictions is likely to be part of our daily lives for a good deal longer. the focus will be on stemming the rise in the number of infections over the summer before colder weather arrives. jenny kumah, bbc news. it's been more than 2a hours now since four million people living in communities in northern england have had to abide by strict new measures. people living in greater manchester, and in parts of east lancashire and west yorkshire, can no longer visit another household in their home or garden. gerryjackson is in bradford, which — as we've heard, is one of the cities affected. jerry. yes, 2a hours after the prime

minister said that the warning lights had come on the dashboard and the brake lights had to go on as well, people working out how this postponement will affect them. broadly speaking people have told us they agree with the government measures. but here are a combination of the festival of eat and in this cou nty of of the festival of eat and in this county of yorkshire, yorkshire day, would have met lots of gatherings and celebrations and events. centenary square, look at us, normally much busier than this on a saturday afternoon. but in bradford, this is perhaps a tale of two cities, nights versus day and perhaps a bigger test will come today when the bars, including this wetherspoons will fill up and we will see what the attitude of people is to social distancing. —— festival of eid. in the meantime, life of course goes on. not half an hour ago here at city hall, we literally almost bumped into richard and maryam are on their wedding day. they said they were going to go

ahead come what may but they will have to scale back those celebrations drastically to keep within the new regulations. everyone we have spoken to said they have to get back to normal and soon and of course ministers will be listening to that. thank you for that. one of the government's scientific advisers has suggested that england could have to consider closing pubs in order to reopen schools next month. graham medley, who sits on the sage committee, has suggested that some activities might need to end in order to allow children to return to lessons, while keeping the coronavirus infection rate down. rupert murdoch s youngest son, james murdoch, has resigned from the board of news corporation which runs a media empire including fox news, the sun and the times. he said he'd decided to quit following disagreements over editorial content, as well as other strategic decisions. in the united states, president trump has announced he is banning the chinese—owned video—sharing app tiktok. us security officials have expressed

concern that the app 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. it's fa cup final day, so with the build—up to that and the rest of the sports news, here'sjohn watson at the bbc sport centre... good afternoon. yes, all eyes on wembley ahead of this afternoon's fa cup final in what is a london derby between arsenal and chelsea. natalie pirks is at wembley. and, natalie, not the occasion we're used to for football's showpiece, which will be played in front of an empty stadium. well, we are well used to seeing games played behind closed doors without fans by now, but this is the showpiece event at the end of the domestic season and to be here without any fans out really well be

a cupfinal like without any fans out really well be a cup final like no other. the traditional rendition of abide with me will still play but it will be pre—recorded from the stadium roof and we will have the trophy left for the winners but not from the royal box, and instead will be on the pitch. still, plenty at stake for both managers today. mikel arteta and frank lampard aiming to win their first and frank lampard aiming to win theirfirst piece of and frank lampard aiming to win their first piece of silverware as managers, both have won it as players for their clubs. chelsea have already qualified for the champions league, so all of the pressure is really on arsenal, because they know that winning this game is the only way they will be playing european football next season. history smiles on them however. this is their 21st, a record, 21st fa cup final. chelsea have only beaten them once in the last 13 fa cup matches. so, it is all arsenal's here today but chelsea fa ns all arsenal's here today but chelsea fans remain confident. the two youngest managers in the premier league going head—to—head in the first august fa cup final in history

and what will certainly be the quietest. absolutely, unusual seems today. thank you for that, natalie pirks. ——scenes. while the top flight season in england reaches its conclusion, the new scottish premiership begins today. champions celtic starting their campaign tomorrow. rangers are involved in the first match to kick off. they're playing aberdeen at pittodrie and are 1—0 up as they approach half time. as they approach half—time. ryan kent scoring the first goal of the scottish season to give steven gerrard's side the lead. qualifying ahead of tomorrow's british grand prix gets under way shortly at silverstone. in final practice, valtteri bottas topped the timesheets ahead of his mercedes team—mate and record winner at silverstone, lewis hamilton, ahead of what will be the fourth race of the season. very different look to the second day of snooker‘s world championship, which has resumed in sheffield today without crowds. yesterday, around 200 spectators were allowed in to see the first day's action, but after the government reversed its decision to allow sports events to trial crowds

inside venues, today the crucible theatre will remain empty. and it meant nobody was watching on to see stuart bingham beat ashley carty, the 2015 champion bingham reaching the second round after winning by ten frames to seven. that's all the sport for now. thank you, john. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at az10pm. bye for now. hello. you're watching the bbc news channel. more now on our top story. the further easing of restrictions in england has been postponed

for at least two weeks amid concerns over an increase in coronavirus cases. casinos and bowling alleys will remain shut, with borisjohnson saying it was time to "squeeze the brake pedal". it comes as a member of the government's scientific advisory group said pubs in england could have to shut in order for schools to reopen in september. earlier i spoke to allyson pollock, the professor of public health at newcastle university and asked her what she made of the idea of such a trade—off. my view is that it shouldn't come down to having a choice. of course it is a disgrace that children have missed out on six months of education, and they absolutely need to be a priority, but i don't think it's helpful to talk about choices. much more important is to be assured that the government is putting in place the public health measures, and we still do not have

confidence that is happening. they have earmarked £10 million for test and trace, but we know that there is still not effective test and trace systems working in every local area, and that is as much because the local data are still not flowing to the local public health departments and the capacity is not being built up in there. instead, the government is pouring billions of pounds into private sector companies with no experience of test and trace. it is not working and it is not efficient. and yet the local public health teams and public health england could do this, and could do this so much better. we need to be much more confident that the government is playing its part and has a coherent testing strategy, which it does not have, that the test results are interpretable, which they are not for the moment, and that they are putting in the necessary public health and primary care measures. this is what government should be doing and then we would not need to see these trade—offs, as they are called.

this is a diversion and we are in danger of going down a rabbit warren here. and why wouldn't the government just do, as you say, if it makes such clear sense to give this task to local public health departments, why is it not doing so? well, this is quite extraordinary, because matt hancock could do this at a stroke of a pen. he has the powers to do it, he can actually delegate that to local public health departments and build up the capacity. that is exactly what happened in germany, which is why they have only had a sixth of the deaths that we have had. he could do this, and he could also, instead of spending £10 billion on companies like serco and others, he could be building up the local capacity in nhs laboratories and public health and especially, also, in primary care.

that is not happening, so we no longer have an integrated coherent system in england. this is absolutely what needs to happen. it is what the house of lords select committee has been urging him to do as well. do i understand you correctly in that it is almost an ideological decision to go with a commercial solution rather than a public sector solution? well, it is most bizarre not to ask the public health experts and the communicable disease control experts what should happen. this has been a major issue all along but they have not called upon public health expertise or communicable disease experts and basically there is a collective ignorance about what needs to happen. that is well illustrated by the fact they did not follow who guidance and advice from day one, which was to test and trace. even the isolation policies were not being followed. every step of the way, the uk government seems to have decided to do its own thing rather

than following the tide and tried and tested measures of epidemic disease control. mexico now has the third—highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world. more than 46,600 people have died from covid—19 there. only 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 organization 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 11.5 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. across europe, several countries are seeing signs of a resurgence of covid—19. 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. president trump has said he plans

to ban the chinese—owned video sharing app tiktok in the united states. speaking to reporters on board airforce one, he said he could sign an executive order as soon as saturday. us security officials have expressed concern over the safety of personal data on the app. but what is tiktok? it's used mostly to share short videos — usually about 15 seconds. the app has 800 million active monthly users worldwide. most of these are in india and the united states, which has 80 million users. it's owned by a chinese company, bytedance — which is where much of the tension surrounding the app is coming from. there is a precedent for this — india has already blocked the app, and australia is also considering a ban. we can speak now to dr tim stevens, a global cybersecurity expert at kings college london. is there any actual hard evidence that tiktok is a problem in terms of

data privacy in the privacy of data of its users? not really, no. there is no hard evidence yet that tiktok has supplied personal data of the us orany has supplied personal data of the us or any other citizens to chinese state authorities. it is the hypothetical aspect of this that worries us, australia and other states besides. there is no hard evidence yet. you say the hypothetical does worry, so you believe in the argument and don't think this isjust believe in the argument and don't think this is just part of the tit—for—tat super power struggle and americans getting concerned about the growing strength of china in terms of the 21st—century players in tech? the fact is that china has signed into law legislation that allows them to request or demand personal data held on networks and surfers of chinese tech companies.

and indeed their subsidiaries, a factor in this argument. it is not that i believe one way or another, but just a that i believe one way or another, butjust a legislative that i believe one way or another, but just a legislative fact that there are mechanisms in china that would compel chinese companies and they consider is —— their subsidiaries to do so. is fair to say about tiktok that they have said they are prepared to engage in a high level of transparency, including reviews of their algorithms, they are not political, they do not accept political advertising and have no agenda, they say. another way of doing this for president trump, divesting, getting a paper would or even more substantial between china —based regulations you are talking about, national security legislation, and a company that has uses in the us, that would have been an alternative. but he's going for a ban. yes, because i do not think, unless you

com pletely because i do not think, unless you completely remove the chinese influence from whatever company the spin off would be, it does not remove the central fact of chinese national security legislation. obviously that is beyond the control of the white house. that remains the central stumbling block year no matter what kind of window dressing tiktok or any other company might wish to put in place. obviously the fa ns wish to put in place. obviously the fans won't be happy, or is there somewhere else for them to go? well, thatis somewhere else for them to go? well, that is a good question, isn't it? what we have learned over the years is that there will be something else, somebody or some other entrepreneur will feel less particular gap. we have seen video sharing apps come and go over the yea rs sharing apps come and go over the years so i'm sure something will replace it. facebook has offered to buy tiktok and so on, so who knows what will happen? something will replace it. it will be hard for the chinese to retaliate directly in a

tit—for—tat way as we have seen with the consulates, because american social media is already banned in china so it is not as if an american social media company could be banned in china as a tit—for—tat measure against this measure. correct, china already has its equivalent to facebook, google, twitter, but the interesting thing here is we don't just think about this in the lens of tech companies, this is part of a much wider geopolitical conflict between the us and china and china has overly levers it which it may wa nt to has overly levers it which it may want to pull in response to this move by president trump. thank you very much forjoining us. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. for many of us, the heat of yesterday was a little bit too much. in fact, the last day ofjuly, we saw those temperatures well above the seasonal average, as you can see in a selection of places here. heathrow seeing 38 celsius through friday afternoon. that isjuly out of the way. today and indeed for all of this

weekend, cool and fresher conditions with sunshine and showers. that is because we have seen a cold front spreading eastwards across the country pushing the heat out into the near continent and allowing fresh atlantic air to move in with a mixture of sunshine and showers through today. now, through this evening, it looks like the showers will become heavier and more widespread across some parts of northern ireland, spreading across the irish sea into southern scotland and northern england later on in the night. there will be scattered showers across northern scotland, but southern parts of britain will tend to stay dry, with some clear spells. a cooler and fresher night than it was last night. so, part two of the weekend starting off with the showers or long spells of rain across northern england. they will tend to clear away and then it is another afternoon of sunshine and showers. most of the showers in the north and the west and there could be a few heavy ones dotted around. many central and southern areas stay dry altogether. a little bit cooler across—the—boa rd on sunday. top temperatures in the south—east around 23 or 2a degrees. through sunday night, we hold onto a few showers across northern areas, again, lengthy clear spells further

south and it will be a chillier night to come. then into next week, for monday, we are between weather systems but this system could bring wetter weather, just the very extreme south of the uk. perhaps the channel islands seeing some rain at times. but it looks like many central and southern parts of the uk will stay dry with some good spells of sunshine. further north, always a bit more cloud around for scotland and northern ireland. perhaps a few spots of rain and a bit more of a breeze for the north—west there. those temperatures are bit disappointing in the north — mid to high—teens. further south, not as warm either — 20 to 22 degrees. now, onto tuesday and wednesday, we see atlantic low pressure systems sweeping in our way and that will bring fairly windy weather at times and outbreaks of rain. it could be really quite wet tuesday and wednesday across more northern areas, particularly over the hills, a little bit of brightness further south. so we will start next week with that wet weather, certainly for the first half of the week. and then there are signs of high pressure building back in across the near continent, with conditions turning much warmer later on.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: mexico now has the third—highest coronavirus death toll in the world. over 116,000 people have died there, meaning the country has overtaken britain. only the united states and brazil have seen more deaths. countries across europe are fighting a coronavirus resurgence. in england, thousands of beauty salons, bowling alleys and wedding venues have been told to stay closed for at least another fortnight. james murdoch, the younger son of media mogul rupert murdoch, has resigned from the board of news corporation — which owns fox news, the wall streetjournal, the times and the sun — citing disagreements over editorial content.

president trump says he will ban video—sharing app tiktok in the us.