hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: scientists are warning the test and trace programmes in the uk are not good enough to stop a second wave of coronavirus after september when the majority of children go back to school. an increase in exam pass rates in scotland — this is bbc news. i'm simon mccoy. as students are awarded grades the headlines... after coronavirus forced their exams to be cancelled for the first time ever. bp halves its shareholder dividend — posting a record £5 billion a warning from scientists loss as the pandemic hits global that the uk's test and trace demand for oil. programmes need to be scaled up — more trouble for the high street — as pizza express and curry‘s pc if schools are to re—open safely. world announce further plans forjob losses and closures. i think it is important to note authorities in australia increase there is still infection out there, fines for repeated rule breaches — as melbourne endures a deadly infection that we can see that the virus second wave. symptomatic and infection that we can see that is asymptomatic. —— can't see. it's exam result time in scotland.. but with no exams how have sport now...and for a full round up, students been graded? from the bbc sport centre, i got igotabin sport centre, here's holly. i got a b in maths and be on everything else so i'm going to uni. good afternoon. it's a busy week for england's cricketers.

ahead of the start of the first test against pakistan tomorrow. . the one day team are down bp halves its shareholder in southampton aiming for a series whitewash over ireland ireland have dividend — posting a record got off to a strong start this £5 billion loss as the pandemic hits global demand for oil. afternoon — they won more trouble for the high street — the toss and chose to bowl. as pizza express and curry‘s pc world announce further plans and very quicklyjason roy was gone forjob losses and closures. — departing forjust the one. stop resisting lockdown — england's other opener authorities in australia increase fines for repeated rule breaches — jonny bairstow, who's been as melbourne endures in great form, didn't hang a deadly virus second wave. around for long either, also coming up, we meet a violent gangster jailed for shooting dispatched for a. a metropolitan police officer, who now says he would lay down his life for his victim. if it was me, if it was a situation england now 39—2 from 5 overs. there's coverage and commentary on five live sports extra and the bbc sport website. there's also in—play video now where something is happening, i highlights and a highlights programme at 11.30 on bbc two. would put my life in harms way for him ifi would put my life in harms way for him if i had to without hesitation. expect plenty of drama later and, celebrating 150 years — in the championship play off final. the queen leads tributes notjust because of the huge sums on offerfor the winner and the promise of premier league to the british red cross. football next season, testing yourself against the world's best,

but the fact that just a miles separate west london rivals brentford and fulham at wembley. so as you can imagine a huge amount at stake. here's patrick gearey. good afternoon. scientists are warning that the uk's contact tracing programmes aren't good enough to prevent a second, even bigger, wave of coronavirus once all schools re—open for the new term. a study published in medicaljournal the lancet, says transmission to the biggest day in football. only would increase as parents return to work — at the same a game time their children to the biggest day in football. only way, to the biggest day in football. only a game away, the land of the rich are back in the classroom. the government says plans and famous. playing for the star are in place to ensure schools in england re—open safely. prize later, two neighbours who have been staring at each other over the our correspondent laura foster has this report. to control coronavirus, thames. little between fulham and testing and tracing must become a new way of life. brentwood. probably adds a little bit more, the bigger the game is, test and trace systems have been in place in the uk for around two months now. the london derby, as well, so two do not leave home for any other reason. teams will have done fantastically a way of identifying cases, tracking well this year, like other in the down their close contacts and asking them to self—isolate, league. we even, and it will be two all to stop coronavirus spreading.

so i have just put up teams who try to take the advantage the workings here. some groups have still been of each other. the winning club will going to school over the past few months, make at least £135 million. fulham but 98% of children in the uk have have seen such riches before. there been learning from home. are only relegated at the end of scientists, teachers and politicians agree it is vital everyone gets last season. early stumbles are back in the classroom. finally given way to solid strides, they arrive at wembley on form. what i think it is really important that students are back in the classroom physically so that they are able to a goal! as the brentford, they have have social contact with each other never played in the premier league, in their formative years, and i think it is really important and of missed chances at going up that the education gap isn't further widened between students before finally coming good. they are who are from privileged backgrounds and students from more deprived areas. moving to a new built after 100 more children at school means more yea rs, moving to a new built after 100 years, so what a time to be parents can go back to work. promoted. what is interesting as we but mathematical modelling by university college london have all bought tickets on the new and the london school of hygiene stadium, and the price goes up as we and tropical medicine suggests that if this happens, the current go into the premier league. we would testing and tracing systems are not happily pay the extra money. it will enough and that could lead be massive for brentford. it has to a second wave of coronavirus this winter more than twice the size of the first. there is still infection out there. added significance because it is bre ntford and they added significance because it is brentford and they are our local rivals. they are quite often been

the little sibling to fulham while this is infection that we can we we re see that is symptomatic the little sibling to fulham while we were in the premier league they and there is infection that we can't we re we were in the premier league they were in the third and fourth tier, see that is asymptomatic. it might be possible and right now they are our equals. and needed that we have to do some trade—offs, of course, what might have been a but our modelling study didn't look at that. cauldron at wembley will instead be an empty bowl. for fulham and what we did look at is the reopening bre ntford an empty bowl. for fulham and brentford fans, this would be a night to scream and scream. of schools and how we can avoid a second wave with the repening of schools alongside society. if you are told you have been exposed to an infected person, you must self—isolate for 14 days. contact tracing systems and how effective they are vary between scotland, england, casualty at this year's northern ireland and wales. the uk government, which oversees world snooker championship. the system in england, disputes the scientists' research. trailing 6—3 overnight to thailand's noppon saengkham, murphy couldn't recover, eventually losing 10—a. this is a system which is, saengkham will play either mark selby orjordan brown next. undoubtedly, still maturing, he played very, very well, and i can but we are also confident only heap praise on him. i made a that it is helping to take people who may have been exposed lot of mistakes, because he had me to coronavirus and to make sure under it from the word go. i missed that they are self—isolating and every person that this system an easy read in the second game and reaches and every person who follows the guidelines is helping he banished me severely, and it felt to protect wider society. but it has already been suggested like every small mistake i made, of

that other aspects of society which there are quite a few, he did could be forced to close, punished severely, and, listen, in orderfor schools that's what the top seeds usually to fully reopen. do, but he did it to me. in this morning's other match, the world number four mark allen we are going to have surges is being pushed all the way by jamie clarke, who's 85 places of disease and even when we have got below him in the rankings. the numbers very low, allen leads 5—a at the end we will have to be on the lookout of the session, they'll for those surges, and that is why resume this evening. i believe that we have also got to be ready for the possibility, from time to time, that things the afternoon sessions are just willjust get interrupted, getting under way now — businesses may have to be three—time world champion mark selby closed for a period. is 5—a up against northern irish qualifierjordan brown. scottish schools return next week in the other match stephen maguire but pupils from across the uk takes on martin gould. won't be back until september. you can watch those matches how they go back exactly, and for how long, on bbc two and the red button. will depend on what happens over that's all the sport for now. the next few weeks. laura foster, bbc news. our political correspondent ellie price is at westminster. a violent gangster who spent two these sciences are not saying don't decades injailfor shooting go ahead with the school reopening but they are saying you need to wake a police officer 26 years ago, up but they are saying you need to wake says he would now lay up to this. yeah, i wake up call in down his life for man he shot. westminster, as if we needed one of leroy smith fired at james seymour those, there have been plenty of and his colleague during a drugs stop in south london in 199a. those, there have been plenty of those over the last few months. now, for the first time,

testing has been something the they have spoken about the terrible government has come under plenty of act of violence that shaped both their lives — criticism for last few months and of and told our correspondent katharine carpenter course test and tracing is something about their journey of forgiveness. borisjohnson promised course test and tracing is something boris johnson promised we course test and tracing is something borisjohnson promised we would have a world beating system here in the a warning that this report contains details of serious violence. uk. as you head in the report, when it all started, simon, i think, ministers would say, look, this is a system built up from scratch, it is and got shot first, and thenjames. still maturing, it is something that will be honed in on over the next few months and will be better and and then...fired a shot in the air. better, but i think the sense of schools can't reopen, as you had suggested there, they wouldn't have been, is absolutely not the government's message. in back, quite the quite the opposite. the government are saying schools reopening must be a top priority, more officers in london may have something almost certainly will have to be armed after last to happen in september. on the night's shooting of two something of a red line. we have had policemen in brixton. plenty of that of the weekend, that they stopped to question two men if need be, the suggestion that who were on a motorbike, and both officers were fired other things may have to be closed, at by the pillion passenger. myself and my colleague were looking for overtime and the easiest way restricted, for schools to be open. to do that would be a drugs arrest. we had chris whitty talking last week about how we are reaching we went to brixton and to the pub nearly the outer limits of what and saw the person i had to see, society can do here in this country and on the way out i'm thinking,

in terms of being society being let's just hurry up and go, and then they came. unlocked, so that the infection rate doesn't go any higher. i think definitely schools reopening will be a top priority and if that means we did a textbook stop, other things may have to close, back—to—back separated them. i said that i ain't potentially, that we have heard from got nothing to hide, another minister today that will be or something along them lines. as i went to chat to the rider no blanket restrictions... i think he dropped something on the floor probably what they are suggesting is, if anything, that i thought was crack cocaine. probably what they are suggesting is, ifanything, we probably what they are suggesting is, if anything, we are likely to hear more about local doctors. we so, i went to push him had about the north—west at the against the wall so i could take weekend and previous that leicester hold of the evidence and out —— local lockdown. this idea that of the corner of my eye i saw my colleague struggling on the floor local lockdown shall be the next with the pillion passenger. thing, restrictions locally will be something i think will be happening it just went crazy and the whole in order to make the infection rate thing was like a split second thing. stay below the crucial level of one. it wasn't like...| planned it. the problem of course as there is huge pressure on the government. it just happened. there is a sum to be a sense of, not if there's going to be another wave, we are all close to each other and i've got this in my waist but when —— there seems to be a and i don't want to go to prison, i've escaped from prison. sense. and the government was not

rhetoric of the few weeks, boris he pulled a handgun from his waistband, johnson said there could be a return hit my colleague in the leg. to normality by christmas. don't when you live like that, you're not forget this is a week we have been thinking about other people, invited to go for dinner, lunch and dine out to help out in local you think of yourself. it's a self—centred restau ra nts. dine out to help out in local restaurants. the government world you are living in. subsidising up to £10, have your the gunman fired a third shot restau ra nt subsidising up to £10, have your restaurant meal. the message that we which hit me about a centimetre need to go out and get the economy moving. by the same time, look, from the spine, went across the top of the kidney and ripped out there is concerns over a second the side of the flesh surge. we look across the world and europe and infection rates going up and they are in this country. there out the side my body. isa and they are in this country. there is a difficult balance to tread. —— i put my hand into the wound and felt i was bleeding and i remember sitting there, lying there, thinking, delicate balance. the government are "i am not going to die here. keen to sell as we need to be i am not dying here." in other news, a drug dealer careful, we need to get the economy who shot and injured two policemen going, by the same time we need to in brixton was sent to prison be very careful —— keen to tell us. for 25 years today. the judge told leroy smith dreadful crimes must attract dreadful sentences. that is a long time. students in scotland — ijust thought to myself, the first in the uk not to sit any summer exams because of the coronavirus crisis — "i am never getting out." have been getting their grades today. pass rates are up slightly for nationals, highers

and advanced highers. the grades are based on a combination of teacher estimates and national moderation. around a quarter were adjusted from initial estimates, most of them downwards. what did you think whenjames first our scotland correspondent got in touch with you? what was going through your mind? i was a bit scared, to be honest. lorna gordon reports. i am still cautious because i'm thinking, are you sure? tears of relief on a day full of more than just the usual nerves. do you understand ? i was like, wow. these students didn't get a chance to prove themselves through exams. what does it feel like to be back instead, their results were based on a system newly designed here for the first time? for these exceptional times. i did not realise i would feel so i'm going to uni! heavy in my heart, that's the truth. now i am here i am kind of lost for words, i've got my bs so that's me in. and that is not normally like me. i'm so happy, i'm so glad. this year i was expecting i notice when you are talking about the shooting you talk about it to get lower grades almost on the third person, because it is an estimate and you never looked at james. but i did way better than i expected and because i feel bad. i'm proud of myself. i did not know what to expect if it was me i would not forgive because it's estimate so you don't someone so if it was a situation now know what is going to happen, where something was happening it is out of your hands, i would put my life in harm's you're not sitting an exam to determine it, way for him if i had so you're just not sure, but i am happy now! to without hesitation

there was no opportunity this because of everything year for last—minute cramming that's happened. that's the truth. in the library, no sitting at a desk in a hall writing answers against the clock. it's a powerful thing. it's very powerful, the exams, which were held even what we are doing is powerful — in the midst of two world wars, were cancelled this year and leroy said if it was the other because of coronavirus. way around he probably would not the results based on estimates forgive me and there are a lot provided by teachers instead. of people will not understand why am doing this. when we found out the news just forgiving leroy from the sqa that the exams were cancelled we had members has been amazing. of staff who were in tears. it's made him feel good, teachers spend their lives trying it's made me feel good. to get it right for young people the man forgave me. and they have never been in a situation before, where the decision over the young i shot the man point—blank, people's results is based on exactly what they predict. a policeman, i don't the sqa accepted nearly 74% know him from nowhere, of the grades accepted by teachers but our paths have collided, i'm a gunman, a bad man — whilst the rest were adjusted in a process they said was designed to ensure and he's a lawman and no i can the integrity of the system. the huge majority of those class him as a friend. were moderated downwards with pupils receiving a lower grade than originally put forward by their school. and you can a longer version of this scotland's education secretary said interview on bbc london tonight at 6.30pm on bbc one in london.

it had been a difficult few months for teaching staff, parents, and most of all for pupils. there will undoubtedly be young the england footballer, people disappointed by the results marcus rashford, features on the cover of next month's british vogue. today but on exam results date every the issue, which is called year that there are young "activism now", has been people are disappointed and what the sqa has put in place described by its editor, edward enninful, as a "rallying is an open appeals process, cry for the future". where schools can consider it features a0 activists the evidence that they think should be considered by the sqa who are portrayed as the "faces to change a particular of hope" and was created judgment that has been made, by a predominantly black so we are not at the end team of photographers, of the road today. these pupils are celebrating makeup artists and models. their success, but critics claim that the results have been overly one of those featured in the magazine is fiona dwyer — based on a school's historic performance and unfair to pupils the ceo of solace women's aid, who focus their energy a domestic abuse charity and shejoins me now. on the main exams. they warned that there may be good afternoon tea. a wave of appeals to come. i'm joined by education there is quite something to be part consultant david cameron. of. it's an absolutely unbelievable. thank you for your time this so many people, when i got the afternoon. after a very destructive yearfor afternoon. after a very destructive year for all these afternoon. after a very destructive yearfor all these pupils, afternoon. after a very destructive e—mail, i almost fell off my chair. year for all these pupils, they afternoon. after a very destructive yearfor all these pupils, they have 110w yearfor all these pupils, they have now got the results. —— destructive when i received e—mailfrom vogue,

year. things got better or worse?|j andi think year. things got better or worse?” think they're pretty much the same when i received e—mailfrom vogue, and i received e—mailfrom eduoard and lots of ways. i think the to say that i was going to be featured on the cover, i was just problem over the years is that we com pletely featured on the cover, i was just have put pieces in place to make it completely shocked. shocked why? look as if the system is working. we because domestic abuse suddenly being treated on the front page of have had yea rs look as if the system is working. we have had years where pass marks have been moved up and down. results are vogue? i mean, it's unbelievable. a lwa ys been moved up and down. results are always standardised, we do this cover, its not for me, it's everything we can to be fair to for the almost 30,000 women, young people, but also to preserve children and men who we support the status quo. this year it has happened again. we have seen some every year. it's for all of the movement, in terms of the pass phenomenal staff who work rates, but we are not seeing any tirelessly, who have worked solutions for the difficulty we have got, which is that teacherjudgments tirelessly, who have worked tirelessly, adapted, have continued and the results reached in exams don't always match up. this year it support really vulnerable people ceased to be a problem and has through the coronavirus, it's become a crisis for a significant finally getting the attention that number of schools and young people. it deserves so that we can work to have any sense of how big a against it. why do you think this crisis? given the disparity between front page is so powerful?” what teachers were suggesting people forget and what the final results against it. why do you think this front page is so powerful? i mean, anyone who looks at it willjust see have been? i think there are two it is so amazingly powerful, and the levels to it. i think one of the fa ct it is so amazingly powerful, and the fact that it is shot, you know, in things we are facing is a recession.

we have seen countless reports of order wake of the black lives matter the number of jobs that with the mostly black crew, black we have seen countless reports of the number ofjobs that are going, the number ofjobs that are going, the losses in terms of employment. that will be a really competitive photographer, edward himself as editor in chief, isjust an world young people will be entering photographer, edward himself as editor in chief, is just an amazing into. if a significant number of article. how influential do you young people having achieved the think edward enninful has been? grades that schools think that the obviously he is the editor, but state deserve, then they're going to there is a very clear message here, have worse problems in the coming year than they have in any previous isn't there? very clear message, and i think that message is loud and year. there is a real problem there. clear and needs to go out all around i think what we've got, though, is the world, that, you know, so many an underlying problem that we have activists are working tirelessly to been making the system work by fixes change all of the injustice that are not being prepared to look for surrounds us, and that is just solutions to try and get some real phenomenal, this piece is so concordance between teacher powerful. how much do you think the influence of black lives matter has judgments and the results generated had on decisions like this? is this by external exams. this could only the moment we can look back and say ever work of teachers and schools put into it, do you get a sense of 2020 was a year where things really them actually having? —— bought into changed? i really hope so. i mean, it's just time changed? i really hope so. i mean, it'sjust time for a it. i think teachers have wanted to changed? i really hope so. i mean, it's just time for a change, its time that we tackle all of these injustices, it's time that we, you know, build a fairer, inclusive do their best. there are concerns

that ultimately the system is society. of course, solace, your designed to look as if it works and to preserve the status quo. we are charity, what effects might this seeing some really interesting statistics coming out that the have on them? full solace, it's an bottom 20% of young people, in terms of deprivation, appear to have been amazing time to be heard around the much more markedly affected by the world, so many people read british process to the sqa have introduced, vogue, follow british vogue on their compared to the top 20%. the figures social media channels, it'sjust unbelievable for us in terms of around that are really striking. awareness raising and making sure what do you put that down to? is it domestic abuse and wider violence because they've been working at against women and girls has more home, they don't have access to the prominence at this time. tell us right equipment? what is the problem what the charity does. we support there? i think the problem is built into the model. the module that the approximately around 25,000 to sqa have used this year. with all 30,000 people a year through eight strands of work, so we work with due respect, they have had to deal young people in schools and youth with incredibly difficult circumstances, and the soa, i've settings, we run a range of support worked for them in the past, i have a lwa ys worked for them in the past, i have accommodation and refugee services, always done —— have —— they have including an emergency refuge that we set up during the lockdown, which a lwa ys always done —— have —— they have always in the best to make sure the

system works, but they have done is make sure the results this year are is the equivalent of five refuges in not sufficiently diverging from any previous results that their validity london. we run an advice line which would be question much more widely. that is a point has been is like a helpline with casework. we approachable by the education run so many different partnership secretary and the first minister. what we have seen —— a point projects, community services for high—risk victims, and we run a whole range of training. we run so referred to —— schools which have many different services it's hard to previously presented good results have been concordant to do so. there count them all out during this interview! but, you know, we have an are in—built flaws in the system amazing staff team, fantastic which mean we are not seeing any volu nteers amazing staff team, fantastic volunteers and i am just so excited radical or significant changes in to be part of this, because it means terms of the attainment of young that the organisation is really people across the board. getting the attention that it deserves and the issue which is the bp has cut dividends most important is getting the for shareholders including attention that it deserves.” big pension funds — most important is getting the attention that it deserves. i want to give you as much time as for the first time since the deepwater horizon possible. you mentioned your staff, and when they see on the front, of oil disaster in 2010. vogue magazine, it does send a the company has recorded message on their behalf. absolutely, a record £5 billion loss it shows that people are paying for the second quarter of the year.

attention, people are recognising meanwhile there is more bad news all of the fantastic work that they for the high street. the restaurant chain, pizza express is warning it do, and we have had to completely could close 67 of its restaurants, adapt our services during lockdown. putting around 1,100 jobs at risk. and the electrical retailer many of our staff are working from dixons carphone is to cut 800 jobs home for the first time. we have a from its currys pc world stores as part of an overhaul of its management structure. predominantly female staff team, so our business correspondent many are carers, many parents, many simon gompertz said bp will cut 10,000 jobs in an effort look after friends and family to reduce costs. members, and it hasjust been a real bp are normally seen as a big pay—out from the uk stock market of challenge to the staff, and i think it's absolutely amazing that solace reliable dividends. it has been hit, is featured in this edition of as you say. is the first time it is cut the dividend by ten years, going vogue. if edward enninful is back to that deepwater horizon disaster in the gulf of mexico that watching you in his office, what is it had to pay out a lot of money the message to him? just thanks, for. this type the coronavirus it is edward. just thanks for noticing affected by. it is cut the demand solace and noticing the work that we forfuel in economies affected by. it is cut the demand do and just hopefully we can for fuel in economies across the world. the oil price has plummeted, it has recovered a bit, which has continue to, you know, work together and be able to support the more meant profits have disappeared and projections of future profits have focused that we get as an organisation the more we can support disappeared. it is not the only one,

lots of companies have cut their dividends because of the virus victims who are living with such terrible forms of abuse. very good crisis. that affects pension funds, to talk to you, congratulations. who manage our savings for the future and retirement incomes. the the september issue of british vogue good news is that bp probably accou nts good news is that bp probably accounts for less than 1% of most will be available from friday. pension fund investments, so the influence there is relatively small. some breaking news, we are hearing perhaps they worry for the future. that the attorney general has been asked to consider whetherjail terms today the share prices actually increase. one reason is people are handed out to the three teenagers relieved the results aren't even worse. briefly, more trouble for the convicted of killing andrew harper high street? yeah, dickson scott we re convicted of killing andrew harper were too lenient. the police officer brown, which erin carries pc world, who was dragged for a mile along the road when he was caught up by a rope they're talking about 800 job thatis road when he was caught up by a rope that is used in the theft of a quad losses. managers two pizza express bike. the three convicted in that, henry dong who was the driver of the looks like 1100 jobs will go there. car, jailed six for 16 years for there are a50 stores which were closed during the lockdown, they are brought back more than 160 of those, manslaughter and —— henry long, but i thing to have 67 were car, jailed six for 16 years for manslaughterand —— henry long, and the two others who were convicted,

reopened. we don't know which ones yet, because they're working out a plan to deal with their debts. the two others who were convicted, the attorney general‘s office has easyjet is to operate more said that their thoughts are with flights in september following an increase in demand. the airline has seen a spike the family of andrew harper, and in the number of bookings made they will confirm that the cases since the easing of travel restrictions with popular will be considered under the unduly hotspots including greece, lenient sentence scheme. they will turkey and croatia. new figures show consider the case. they were convicted of manslaughter, having that the government has so far been cleared of charges of murder. covered the wages for people so, we will bring you more on that in 9.6 millionjobs and later. you watching bbc news. the number is continuing to rise. speaking on a visit to a paper mill in wrexham the business secretary, alok sharma said the governemnt is prioritising reopening the the grandmother of three british children stranded in syria economy in a safe and phased way. claims they have been "abandoned" the furlough scheme will run by the uk government. for a full eight months charleen jack—henry wants them and obviously you will have seen to return along with their mother — the other announcement who left london to join the chancellor made the islamic state group in 2015. in the summer statement in terms of an extra £1,000 bbc asian network s that is available to businesses. if you look at the total value of this, if all people poonam taneja reports. who are furloughed are able to continue in theirjobs, you are talking about over £9 billion of support going into the economy, which,

of course, is substantial. but the key issue, i think, for us is to continue to open up the economy in a safe way, make sure it is in a phased way and that is something that we are continuing to do, and the only reason that we are able to do that is because people three girls all under 12 years old. across the country have shown enormous amount of common sense, followed the rules, followed the guidance and we are able all she has of her grandchildren are to open up the economy across the country in a phased manner. photographs and phone messages. she followed the rules, followed the guidance and we are able last saw them just before their president trump has claimed pa rents last saw them just before their the united states has lower numbers parents took them secretly to syria of coronavirus deaths than any other five years ago. i was like, why are nation — during an interview which has now gone viral on social media... you crying? we don't any more for reasons you're about to see. crying. you don't want to go early. nearly 160,000 people have that would be the last thing died after contracting the virus in the us. the president was speaking to the journalist jonathan swann. we are lower than the world, we are i would remember of isaac. but it was. lower than europe, take a look. right here. three years ago, isaac was killed in a bombing. these are case deaths. just a year before, his father died in the same way. charleen's three granddaughters oh, you're doing death as a proportion of cases. are now living in refugee camps i am talking about death as a proportion of population. with their mother, her daughter. that's where the us is really bad. much worse than south i want them out of that place korea, germany etc.

you can't do that! but it seems so hopeless. it seems that they have just been earlier i spoke to our correspondent abandoned by the british government. barbara plett usher in washington, nicole jack and her husband slipped who explained how the interview has been received by critics. out of the country in 2015 to join islamic state group, you know, we've heard this kind of a regime which killed, raped and tortured thousands. thing before. president trump has made these kinds of claims of and he has brandished this kind of danger last year, after is was defeated, before. one of the responses, it is nicole jack — or kida, as she is known by herfamily — often the reporter there, is to was back in touch. present the facts. the packs out hey, mum, it's me. that the total number of deaths in love you guys. the united states are amongst the highest in the world. —— the facts. forgive me for not messaging earlier, because... the rate of deaths, percentage per i just thought it would get you into problems. population, is higher in some other so, yeah, forgive me, bye. countries including in europe if you nicole and her husband, hussain, look over the whole course of the they took their entire family, pandemic, but right now, the relative number of cases of deaths including children, to a war zone. in those countries is quite low and as a grandmother, what do you think thatis in those countries is quite low and that is not the case here, so the us will still rise higher in the ranks. about that decision? he has also made the claim regularly that the surge in cases here is i don't think kida would have made because of a lodgment of testing. that decision to go there willingly. there is a lodgment of testing, but i would put my own head on a block the numberof and stick my life on it.

but returning women and children are a major worry there is a lodgment of testing, but the number of cases for outpaces for the uk government. that —— large amount of text thing. i just want forgiveness, really, from the uk. shamima begum left london —— testing. some say either he is as a schoolgirl to travel to syria delusional or deliberately spreading in the same year as nicole jack. misinformation in order to distract the government has stripped from his failure to deal with the her of her citizenship. but she has won a legal pandemic or to improve your chances battle to return to the uk in november's election and the way to challenge the decision, the white house has responded to all which the government will appeal. of this is to put a positive message there are about 60 british about all the things president trump is doing to get a vaccine and children in syrian camps. the government says it therapeutics, so we have seen that will repatriate orphans peppe" therapeutics, so we have seen that and unaccompanied children. pepper in recent weeks, but i think this kind of approach that president so far, only three have returned. trump uses in these interviews that go viral, he sat them before and i charleen hopes her grandchildren get the kind of attention they have been getting all along. could also come home soon. figures from the office for national statistics show that that's no place for them kids weekly coronavirus deaths in england and wales continue to fall, to grow up my fear is that down now to the lowest level since just before lockdown. if you leave kids in a place overall deaths continue to stay below the number usually expected where violence and that is at this time of year, normalised, then they couldn't based on an average from the previous five years. have a normal life anywhere else.

with me is the bbc‘s head of statistics, robert cuffe. even if we think we don't owe what do the figures show? anything to the adults who went, the trend is moving in the right don't we owe these children direction. if we show the data to the audience, we can see that total a duty of care? number of deaths is kind of stabilise now at around probably poonam taneja reporting. 10,000. that is the age of the chart police have apologised to a senior civil servant who accused them there. a little bit bloody —— live of treating her like a criminal because of her ethnicity. naturals what we have seen, the dr andrea charles fidelis was out average over the last five years. jogging, when she said she was followed by a man in a van. the red area also shows the coronavirus desk, narrowing and she claims that when she went narrowing. fewer covid—19 deaths every week. down to about 130 in the to the police for help, they accused her of being a car thief — leaving herfeeling uk as every week. down to about 130 in the brutalised and dehumanised. ukasa every week. down to about 130 in the uk as a whole, a quarter than the previous week. kent police have insisted this wasn't a case of racial profiling — how can deaths be falling as simon jones reports. "horrific" is how when cases are rising? dr andrea charles fidelis described her experience with the police at if we show the case of the people, swanley railway station. depressing person says that tests she had been outjogging when she says a man accused her ta kes a depressing person says that tests takes a while to show through —— the of being too close to his car, on his driveway. he then followed her in a van, calling the police. first thing to say to —— there are frightened, she sought refuge at the station, but when an officer arrived,

it wasn't the response she expected. reasons to think they might not. the station guard kind of leaned out and said, "she's in here, there is a big difference between she's in fear of her life," and he shouted, "she's not the number of cases we are seeing at in fear of her life, she tried to steal a car." the number of cases we are seeing at the moment and compared to march. in initially i felt humiliated but, march they were doubling every couple of days. now there is a rise after the event, i feel very much has been happening recently, but as that i was dehumanised as a person, may be doubling every couple of and it has left me questioning weeks. it is going much more slowly. and very anxious about if the death rate is around 1% per even going out, now. new infection, which is what we have dr charles fidelis works seenin new infection, which is what we have seen in the past, it would take a at the ministry ofjustice and sits on the violent crime prevention long time before that fed through board at new scotland yard. but she feels that she has had no into the death figures. of course, if it is mainly young people who are justice, and she would not have been treated that way getting infected, for whom the risk if she were a middle—aged professional white woman. of infection are getting seriously i have been treated differently ill or dying is much lower, that because of my race. in how the whole situation played case fatality rate is going to be even lower and taking even longer. out, i was presumed as being guilty. but an investigation by kent police into her treatment concluded. here were no breaches of legislation aren't these death figures a lot or kent police policy, lower than are suggested by the daily totals we're hearing? there was nothing that shows any why is that? discrimination, but the officer could have acted with greater we are getting bombarded with compassion and courtesy. different numbers of deaths. the numbers we hear everyday or not the chanting: black lives matter! recent black lives matter protests,

most reliable indicator to the total this one in brighton, death toll or trends. there are have shone a spotlight on the sometimes troubled three ways to count deaths. firstly, relationship between the police and the black community. the daily figure, the number of the chief constable of kent, alan pughsley, took the knee people tested positive for diaper at an event, in his words, any reason, and a drink and we are to show "humility and solidarity" seeing more and more people who for all communities. tested positive in february or march and are now dying for different can you get out of the car, reasons are pretty got better. that and we don't need to do this? is one figure anything we can show but last month, after this footage was widely shared, that the audience as well. the the met apologised to the sprinter bianca williams for the distress she experienced when she and her partner were pulled over in their car in a stop—and—search. there is a need for more work between police services figures i have been describing a and the communities they serve, couple seconds ago, that is the to enhance confidence number of people with a doctor who registered the debt believe the colt that the police can serve was involved. that will give you a all its communities equally. kent police says it takes all allegations of racial better metric. that will give a discrimination seriously but, having examined what happened here, better metric. that will give a it concluded the officer didn't act better sense of the trends. it does give you the overall death toll. in a discriminatory manner towards dr charles fidelis. there are still some misdiagnosis, prickly in care homes. not every case is captured. —— particularly in it accepted, though, that he did speak to her "in an unsympathetic manner". ca re case is captured. —— particularly in the police have apologised for any upset caused, care homes. but she now has taken the case

to the independent police watchdog. simonjones, bbc news, swanley. the largest number, the best sense the queen has paid tribute of the overall debt figure, but not the best measure of the trends, to the british red cross because inkless people who maybe had on its 150th anniversary, a heart attack and didn't see care describing its work as ‘valued and greatly appreciated'. the charity was first founded to aid because they were scared of going in sick and wounded soldiers. the time of covid—19. here's kathryn stanczyszyn. archive footage: we know what the red cross what have done for you, and you know it far better. india has recorded the highest providing help when it is most needed — a red cross is familiar number worldwide of deaths around the world as a symbol of care, the meaning cemented and new infections in a single day during two world wars. from the coronavirus. it reported more than 800 deaths on monday. 150 years ago today, at a public meeting, a group was formed to help sick new infections are soaring and wounded soldiers, and so at over 50,000 a day. a number of senior politicians, the british red cross was born. including the home minister, have tested positive. there's new advice about the use of painkillers such as paracetemol and ibuprofen since then, the charity has given for chronic pain. the national institute for health assistance across the globe, and care excellence says they shouldn't be used to treat it, offering relief to armed forces and that there is little and civilians in the wake evidence they improved of war and disaster, people's quality of life. as well as being an important presence following

nobody is above the law. tragedies here in uk. that's the message from authorities in the australian state of victoria, on this special anniversary, members of the royal family have who've announced tough new punishments who breach been paying tribute. coronavirus rules. repeat offenders could the queen, its patron for 65 years, has thanked volunteers and staff. face fines of more than and prince charles has recorded a video to mark the opening of a new online exhibition featuring £10,500. 150 objects from the police say officers have been assaulted by people charity's archives. flouting the rules — and they've had enough. he says it is still phil mercer reports. a much—needed service. i need hardly remind you that the work of the british red cross more than half of australia's 18,000 confirmed covid—19 cases have been recorded in the past month is as essential today in the state of victoria. as it has ever been, it is at the heart of a public health emergency. a strict lockdown is meant helping those in need, to save lives, both in the united kingdom but not everyone is compliant. and around the world, strengthening our communities, the police have said they've been and supporting people to face taunted and assaulted by people the challenges of an ever—changing and unpredictable world. flouting the regulations. it might only be a minority, a new £5 coin will commemorate a century and a half but their actions have of caring that shows, says the prince of wales, infuriated victoria's most just how powerful kindness can be. senior police officer. thanks, minister... kathryn stanczyszyn, bbc news. now it's time for a look

shane patton said small groups had emerged who saw themselves at the weather with alina jenkins. as sovereign citizens who don't it is a wet and blustery afternoon. think the law applies to them. it does, and heavy fines could now be imposed. we've seen them at checkpoints, baiting police, not providing a name and address. on at least three or four spring ahead of that, sunshine the occasions in the past week, we've had to smash the windows of people in cars and pull them out of there so they could furthest south and east you are. provide their details, still further rain across scotland, because they weren't telling us where they were going, they weren't adhering to the chief health officer northern ireland, becoming heavier guidelines, they weren't providing their name for a time across northern england and their address. and north wales. a lot of cloud for a state of disaster gives the authorities greater powers all of us, and very muggy. to enforce the rules. temperature is not much more than 1a or 15 celsius. the rain initially through parts of north wales and life in melbourne has never been so restricted or uncertain. england, into scotland, spells of australia's second—biggest persistent rain working its way city is mostly empty. eastward out of northern ireland, parts of northern england, north health officials are confident these unprecedented measures will help west wales, warm through much of east anglia and southeast asia them contain the virus but, england, very cool they've got the for now, millions of australians are preparing for six weeks under cloud and rain, but was the end of the nation's toughest lockdown.

a night—time curfew the week you've got most places is in place, along with strict stay—at—home orders. looking try and much warmer. face coverings are mandatory for those allowed outside on essential business. they are essentially in protective custody at home until the danger passes. it isa it is a wet and blustery afternoon. cloud ahead of that, the better of the sunshine the further south and east across england where we will see the highest interest. overnight, further rain across most of the uk. using across scotland and northern ireland are becoming heavier her time in northern ireland and north wales. it was a cloud for all of us

very muggy. rain initially to parts of north wales and north of north wales and north england many spell a more persistent rain working out of northern ireland, and other parts of the uk. try am very warm too much of east anglia and south—east england. fairly cool were you have the cloud. towards the end of the week i will allow like most will become dry. also much warmer too. this this is bbc news. i'm simon mccoy. the headlines... testing and tracing must become a new way of life. a warning from scientists that the uk's test and trace programmes need to be scaled up — if schools are to re—open safely. i think it is important to note

there is still infection out there, infection that we can see that the symptomatic and infection that we can't see that is asymptomatic. it's exam result time in scotland.. but with no exams how have students been graded? i'm going to uni. i got a b in maths and in everything else so i'm happy. bp halves its shareholder dividend — posting a record £ 5 billion loss as the pandemic hits global demand for oil. more trouble for the high street — as pizza express and curry‘s pc world announce further plans forjob losses and closures. the attorney general is asked to consider whether jail terms handed to the three teenagers who killed pc andrew harper are unduly lenient. and, celebrating 150 years — the queen leads tributes to the british red cross.

good afternoon. scientists are warning that the uk's contact tracing programmes aren't good enough to prevent a second, even bigger, wave of coronavirus once all schools re—open for the new term. a study published in medicaljournal the lancet, says transmission would increase as parents return to work — at the same time their children are back in the classroom. the government says plans are in place to ensure schools in england re—open safely. our correspondent laura foster has this report. to control coronavirus, testing and tracing must become a new way of life. test and trace systems have been in place in the uk for around two months now. do not leave home for any other reason. a way of identifying cases, tracking down their close contacts and asking them to self—isolate, all to stop coronavirus spreading.

so i have just put up the workings here. some groups have still been going to school over the past few months, but 98% of children in the uk have been learning from home. scientists, teachers and politicians agree it is vital everyone gets back in the classroom. i think it is really important that students are back in the classroom physically so that they are able to have social contact with each other in their formative years, and i think it is really important that the education gap isn't further widened between students who are from privileged backgrounds and students from more deprived areas. more children at school means more parents can go back to work. but mathematical modelling by university college london and the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine suggests that if this happens, the current testing and tracing systems are not enough and that could lead to a second wave of coronavirus this winter more than twice the size of the first. there is still infection out there. this is infection that we can

see that is symptomatic and there is infection that we can't see that is asymptomatic. it might be possible and needed that we have to do some trade—offs, but our modelling study didn't look at that. what we did look at is the reopening of schools and how we can avoid a second wave with the repening of schools alongside society. if you are told you have been exposed to an infected person, you must self—isolate for ia days. contact tracing systems and how effective they are vary between scotland, england, northern ireland and wales. the uk government, which oversees the system in england, disputes the scientists' research. this is a system which is, undoubtedly, still maturing, but we are also confident that it is helping to take people who may have been exposed to coronavirus and to make sure that they are self—isolating and every person that this system reaches and every person who follows the guidelines is helping to protect wider society.

but it has already been suggested that other aspects of society could be forced to close, in orderfor schools to fully reopen. we are going to have surges of disease and even when we have got the numbers very low, we will have to be on the lookout for those surges, and that is why i believe that we have also got to be ready for the possibility, from time to time, that things willjust get interrupted, businesses may have to be closed for a period. scottish schools return next week but pupils from across the uk won't be back until september. how they go back exactly, and for how long, will depend on what happens over the next few weeks. laura foster, bbc news. our political correspondent ellie price is at westminster. this ellie price is at westminster. is quite a warning, er government this is quite a warning, error the government reacting? a warning and there's been plenty of those in westminster over the last few months. the government has come under plenty of criticism for its testing regime right from march.

plenty of criticism from labour across the board. have you seen from scientific groups as well. the carbon would say this testing and tracing regime is something that has been built up from scratch, a system that needs to mature, that is to be finely honed and it is working and will only get better. that leaves the big question about schools, as you saw in this report. the government's other big priority is to get the show is open for everyone in september and that's only a few weeks away now. the government insists all children will go back. that is not just insists all children will go back. that is notjust about children's well—being and education, it is also big in the economy up and running as well because plenty of parents have been able to work on the way that they might be because they've been looking after their children. we saw a force of the weekend that could lead to a trade—off where we may need to cause pubs and restaurants to open schools, to keep community infection down. whether people be

catching it going out to the pub or whether children may be passing it on within schools. there is that trade—off, some will suggest, there needs to be made between how we keep the infection rate low. the government also said it would rule out any blanket restrictions, so no way were we close the pubs or restau ra nts. way were we close the pubs or restaurants. that points to local logins, the likes of which we saw in leicester and the north west. the only way to identify whether you need a local lockdown is having an effective test and tracing system in place. you see the problem is the government is facing. yes, we are facing a bitter problem with the scent as well so we will leave it there. —— a bit of problem with the sound. students in scotland — the first in the uk not to sit any summer exams because of the coronavirus crisis — have been getting their grades today. pass rates are up slightly for nationals, highers and advanced highers. the grades are based on a combination of teacher

estimates and national moderation. around a quarter were adjusted from initial estimates, most of them downwards. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. tears of relief on a day full of more than just the usual nerves. these students didn't get a chance to prove themselves through exams. instead, their results were based on a system newly designed for these exceptional times. i'm going to uni! i've got my bs so that's me in. i'm so happy, i'm so glad. this year i was expecting to get lower grades because it is an estimate but i did way better than i expected and i'm proud of myself. i did not know what to expect because it's estimate so you don't know what is going to happen, it is out of your hands, you're not sitting an exam to determine it, so you're just not sure, but i am happy now! there was no opportunity this

year for last—minute cramming in the library, no sitting at a desk in a hall writing answers against the clock. the exams, which were held even in the midst of two world wars, were cancelled this year because of coronavirus. the results based on estimates provided by teachers instead. when we found out the news from the sqa that the exams were cancelled we had members of staff who were in tears. teachers spend their lives trying to get it right for young people and they have never been in a situation before, where the decision over the young people's results is based on exactly what they predict. the sqa accepted nearly 7a% of the grades accepted by teachers whilst the rest were adjusted in a process they said was designed to ensure the integrity of the system. the huge majority of those were moderated downwards with pupils receiving a lower grade than originally put forward by their school. scotland's education secretary said it had been a difficult few months for teaching staff, parents, and most of all for pupils. there will undoubtedly be young

people disappointed by the results today but on exam results date every year that there are young people are disappointed and what the sqa has put in place is an open appeals process, where schools can consider the evidence that they think should be considered by the sqa to change a particular judgment that has been made, so we are not at the end of the road today. these pupils are celebrating their success, but critics claim that the results have been overly based on a school's historic performance and unfair to pupils who focus their energy on the main exams. they warned that there may be a wave of appeals to come. our reporter alexandra mackenzie is in glasgow. what is the sense of whether this has worked to the point that they arejust has worked to the point that they are just not has worked to the point that they arejust not going has worked to the point that they are just not going to be getting a tsunami of appeals after this? are just not going to be getting a tsunami of appeals after this7m has certainly been an exam results they like no other. definitely more

nail—biting than normal. i havejust spoken to one mum whose daughter was lucky enough to get four days, so she definitely won't have to appeal. —— fora. she she definitely won't have to appeal. —— for a. she was happy with the results but hadn't sat the exams and would have preferred to. there the sense of achievement. results the we re sense of achievement. results the were estimated by the teachers and then they were moderated by the sqa. the sqa were happy with three quarters of the estimates, but it was that one quarter they did change. 93% of those people where marked lower than they were by the teachers. that could possibly lead to more appeals, were not sure yet. the appeals process has been open.

the appeals process has been open. the difference with the appeals process this year, schools normally have to pay for that, so i may discourage schools normally, but this year that process will be free. anyone who feels the processes had been unfair will be able to do that. the attainment gap has been reduced across the board, people who are coming from a more deprived school are more likely to have had their grades taken down through the sqa process. so although the attainment gap between more or less disadvantaged areas has narrowed across the board, there is that issue. some of these people may want to appeal. i think we will hear more of this in the next few days. there are definitely critics of this model. thank you very much. bp has cut dividends for shareholders including

big pension funds — for the first time since the deepwater horizon oil disaster in 2010. the company has recorded a record £5 billion loss for the second quarter of the year. meanwhile there is more bad news for the high street. the restaurant chain, pizza express is warning it could close 67 of its restaurants, putting around 1,100 jobs at risk. and, the electrical retailer, dixons carphone is to cut 800 jobs from its currys pc world stores as part of an overhaul of its management structure. let's talk to the labour mp and shadow business and consumer affairs minister lucy powell who's in manchester. are you pointing a finger of blame about this? obviously this is a very unprecedented situation. it has had a huge economic consequences as well. it does feel that the jobs crisis is now accelerating and it is exhilarating pretty quickly. in

part, that is because the government is pulling the rug from under businesses just at the wrong time. we are now saying the furlough scheme being tapered away with businesses having to start contributing to that. for those businesses, most adversely affected by this pandemic, some of whom are still not able to reopen, that will be an impossible task. that is why we are starting to see these waves of redundancies now. the government really does need to step in and provide more of a safety net, so that we don't see mass redundancies and millions of people unemployed by the end of the year. the point is we are in an era in our physical distancing. the economy, our society has changed. and without, frankly, any vaccine, this is the way things will be. when the furlough scheme was first introduced, it was right

that it was and it was good that the government at that, it was done as a job retention scheme, not the same job retention scheme, not the same job redundancy scheme. it was done because the government fell both that it had a moral obligation to support businesses and workers who, through no fault of their own, their businesses were going to be close are adversely affected, but it also did so because of sound economics, because supporting people in work today actually saves the taxpayer in the long run from those really bad scarring effects of long—term high levels of unemployment which is what we now might see. the government needs to follow through on that initial incentive relay. and make sure it doesn't pull the rug, as it is doing, when businesses need that extra bit of support to see them through the coming weeks and months. is in there and arguing for a change of emphasis perhaps towards universal credit? helping those who

have lost a job, rather than trying to protect them in an era when frankly theirjobs to protect them in an era when frankly their jobs may to protect them in an era when frankly theirjobs may never come back. look, in most cases these were previously viable businesses and good decentjobs previously viable businesses and good decent jobs that previously viable businesses and good decentjobs that people... previously viable businesses and good decent jobs that people... the point is we are in different times. we potentially are in different times, but there are different models the government can look at here that could be more creative. in france and germany, for example, they have a much longer term furlough scheme that is based on short time working, so employers can bring back an but on a part—time or short time basis and the rest of the week is made up through a furlough scheme. in france and germany they are doing that for the next two yea rs. are doing that for the next two years. that gives you a bit of context. what we know, from any crisis ever in history, once people come unemployed and on benefits, it ta kes a come unemployed and on benefits, it

takes a lot longer for them to get back into work and to get the kind of work they were previously doing before the crisis. a small bit of extra investment today will actually save the public purse a lot more money in the long run from the high costs that come with high levels of unemployment, where we see lower tax returns and higher benefit payments. that structural problem, that structural deficit will cost our country much more dearly than some short term help today to keep people in thejobs of short term help today to keep people in the jobs of today. there are very creative ways the government can look at doing that better than they are doing. why might the trouble with that argument is knows what on earth is going to happen in the coming months, and indeed the coming yea rs, coming months, and indeed the coming years, as a result of this pandemic. that everyone is having to readjust, every business, some are actually benefiting in some ways. their businesses are thriving at this difficult time. is in the same moment whereas a government that

look and see what has a future and what doesn't and some tough decisions have to be made? u nfortu nately, decisions have to be made? unfortunately, there's two issues to what you're saying. one is that the approaches, will step back com pletely leave approaches, will step back completely leave it to the market. that would be an absolute disaster. that would be an absolute disaster. that would be an absolute disaster. that would lead to high levels of unemployment and real problems for our country. the other way of looking at it is to say, the economy is going through some kind of transition here. so do we manage that transition or do we let that transition happen by itself, as we did in the 1980s with the industrialisation —— deindustrialisation? you are much better as a government managing the process by supporting decent, good, viable industries that we have here. we have world leading industries, whether it is the creative sector that's been adversely affected,

aerospace, automotive manufacturing, we are leading in many of these areas, but they are absolutely on their knees at the moment. we could be world leading again was improper central support today from the government —— with some proper central support. we need activism and intervention. the difficulty with this in the long term is this is going to have to be paid for. the bell is not creeping up, it is rocking eating up almost daily —— the bill is rocketing up. the issue but public finances is what our structural deficit will look like in a year or two. it is less to do it is less to do with short—term costs, for the scheme, cash grants awarded to businesses, that long—term impact

that make the difference between her income being generated from having good viable businesses exporting and paying so on, versus our outgoings in things like benefits, by having high levels of unemployment. if we can keep that structural deficit lower than would otherwise be the case, that is the best way to protecting the public finances. we have to take a longer term view and just thinking about a shortage of investment today to protect jobs and protect businesses. —— a short bit of investment today. easyjet is to operate more flights in september following an increase in demand. the airline has seen a spike in the number of bookings made since the easing of travel restrictions with popular hotspots including greece, turkey and croatia. new figures show that the government has so far covered the wages for people in nine point six million jobs , and the number

is continuing to rise. speaking on a visit to a paper mill in wrexham the business secretary, alok sharma said the government is prioritising reopening the economy in a safe and phased way. the furlough scheme will run for a full eight months and obviously you will have seen the other announcement the chancellor made in the summer statement in terms of an extra £1,000 that is available to businesses. if you look at the total value of this, if all people who are furloughed are able to continue in theirjobs, you are talking about over £9 billion of support going into the economy, which, of course, is substantial. but the key issue, i think, for us is to continue to open up the economy in a safe way, make sure it is in a phased way and that is something that we are continuing to do, and the only reason that we are able to do that is because people across the country have shown enormous amount of common sense, followed the rules, followed the guidance and we are able to open up the economy across

the country in a phased manner. followed the rules, followed the guidance and we are able the attorney general has been asked to consider whether jail terms handed to the three teenagers who killed pc andrew harper are unduly lenient. henry long, 19, the driver of the car that dragged mr harper to his death, was jailed for 16 years for manslaughter at the old bailey on friday. the two other occupants of the car, 18—year—oldsjessie cole and albert bowers, were each jailed for 13 years. the attorney general‘s office now has 28 days from sentencing to consider the case, and whether to refer it to the court of appeal. president trump has claimed the united states has lower numbers of coronavirus deaths than any other nation — during an interview which has now gone viral on social media... for reasons you're about to see. nearly 160 thousand people have died after contracting the virus in the us. the president was speaking to the journalist jonathan swann. we are lower than the world, we are lower than europe, take a look. right here. these are case deaths. oh, you're doing death as a proportion of cases. i am talking about death as a proportion of population. that's where the us is really bad. much worse than south

korea, germany etc. you can't do that! earlier i spoke to our correspondent barbara plett usher in washington, who explained how the interview has been received by critics. you know, we've heard this kind of thing before. president trump has made these kinds of claims and he has brandished this kind of data before. one of the responses, as seen from the the reporter there, is to present the facts. the facts are that the total number of deaths in the united states are amongst the highest in the world. the rate of deaths, in percentage per population, is higher than in some other countries including in europe if you look over the whole course of the pandemic, but right now, the relative number of cases of deaths in those countries is quite low and that is not the case here, so the us could still rise higher in the ranks. he has also made the claim regularly that the surge in cases here is because of a large

amount of testing. there is a large amount of testing, but the number of cases or outpaces that. some critics say either trump is delusional or deliberately spreading misinformation in order to distract from his failure to deal with the pandemic or to improve his chances in november's election and the way the white house has responded to all of this is to push a positive message about all the things president trump is doing to get a vaccine and therapeutics, so we have seen that pivot in recent weeks, but i think this kind of approach that president trump uses in these interviews that go viral, he has had them before and they get the kind of attention they have been getting all along. figures from the office for national statistics show that weekly coronavirus deaths in england and wales continue to fall, down now to the lowest level since just before lockdown. overall deaths continue to stay below the number usually expected at this time of year,

based on an average from the previous five years. the bbc‘s head of statistics, robert cuffe has been taking us through the numbers. the trend is moving in the right direction broadly. if we show the data to the audience, the total number of deaths has stabilised at around 10,000. that is the head of the chart there. a little bit below the chart there. a little bit below the dashed line shows what we have seen, the average over the last five yea rs. seen, the average over the last five years. the red area also shows the coronavirus test. we see that as narrowing and narrowing. stewart, 19 deaths every week. in the last week it assented 9230 in the uk as a whole. —— 230. it assented 9230 in the uk as a whole. -- 230. desk following as cases arising, explain that?“ whole. -- 230. desk following as cases arising, explain that? if we show the cases to people, the first thing to see is deaths take a while to show through. these are up to july 2a. the people who died then probably got infected at the start ofjuly. it probably got infected at the start of july. it may probably got infected at the start ofjuly. it may take awhile for the new cases to peter in status

figures. there are some reasons to think might not. —— feed through into the new figures. the way they are going up compared to march... in march they were doubling every couple of days and now there is a rise happening recently but as may be doubling every couple of weeks. it is going much more slowly and at the death rate is around 1% per new infection, which is what we have seenin infection, which is what we have seen in the past. it would take a long time before that fed through into the death figures. if it is mainly younger people who are getting infected, for whom the risk of infection are getting seriously sick or dying is much lower, that case fatality rate is going to be even lower and it will take even longerfor the even lower and it will take even longer for the increase even lower and it will take even longerfor the increase in cases even lower and it will take even longer for the increase in cases to feed through into the deaths. they load theirfigures are feed through into the deaths. they load their figures are a lot lower than what is suggested by the daily figures, what's going on there? we are getting bombarded with different numbers of deaths. the numbers we hear about every day are properly not the most reliable indicator

either to the total death toll or to the trends. there are three ways the cou ntess. the trends. there are three ways the countess. first is the daily figure. the number of people have tested positive and then died for any reason. in england we are seeing more and more people who test positive, may be in february or march, and are now dying for different reasons for different reason. i think we can show that number to the audience as well. if you look at a different figure, the weekly reported number... sorry, the first figure is described as the a6,000. the figures i described a couple of seconds ago, that is the number of people with a doctor who registered a doctor who registered the debt believe the cold was involved. that will give you a better metric —— registered the death. you a better sense of the trends but not the overall death toll, because there are some misdiagnoses, critically in care homes. not every case is captured. we have been looking i measure con excess test, which looks at the difference to the total number of deaths we have seen and what we

would expect. that's what gives us this figure of about 6a,000. that is the largest number, may be the best sense of the overall debt figure, but not the best measure of the trends, because it includes people who may had a heart attack and didn't seek care because they were scared of going on during the time of covid—19 —— the overall death figure. the trench look at that weekly figure, the number of their certificates that mention covid—19 —— the trends. three stranded sailors are being rescued from a remote island after drawing a giant sos sign in the sand. the sailors were on the pacific island of pikelot for three days after veering off course and running out of fuel when a helicopter crew spotted their appeal for help. australian army soldiers have delivered food and supplies to the sailors — while they wait for a patrol vessel to pick them up. now it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins.

it is a wet and blustery afternoon for scotland. rain extending to north wales and the midlands. cloud ahead of that, the better of the sunshine the further south and east across england where we will see the highest temperatures. overnight, further rain across most of the uk. easing across scotland and northern ireland are becoming heavier at times in northern ireland and north wales. cloud for all of us and very muggy. temperature is not much lower than 14 temperature is not much lower than 1a celsius. rain initially to parts of north wales and north of north wales and north england. more persistent rain working out of northern ireland, and other parts of the uk. dry and very warm too in much of east anglia and south—east england. towards the end of the week looks like most places will become dry.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: scientists are warning the test and trace programmes in the uk are not good enough to stop a second wave of coronavirus after september when the majority of children go back to school. an increase in exam pass rates in scotland — as students are awarded grades after coronavirus forced their exams to be cancelled for the first time ever. bp halves its shareholder dividend — posting a record £5 billion loss as the pandemic hits global demand for oil. more trouble for the high street — as pizza express and curry‘s pc world announce further plans forjob losses and closures the attorney general is asked to consider whether jail terms handed to the three teenagers who killed pc andrew harper are unduly lenient. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's holly. let's start down in southanpton

for the final one day international between england and ireland.. the home side looking for a whitewash in this three match series.. but ireland got off to a great start — they won the toss and chose to bowl. and very quicklyjason roy was gone — departing forjust the one. england's other opener jonny bairstow went soon after with james vince the third wicket to fall. that left england on aa for 3 in just the 9th over. but captain eoin morgan has steadied the ship for his side with a half century. a short time ago england were 129 for 3. there's coverage and commentary on five live sports extra and the bbc sport website. there's also in—play video highlights and a highlights programme at 11.30 on bbc two. the england test team host pakistan at old trafford tomorrow for the start of their 3—test series. ben stokes is expected to play but it's not clear whether he'll

bowl. stokes has been managing a quad injury for the past couple of weeks but was able to bowl in the nets yesterday. captain joe root says they'll make a late descison of what role he'll play. we are still a bit unsure where he is out. because of the weather, we have not been outside, so we will have not been outside, so we will have to see and make a real decision on that tomorrow morning, probably. we have got options, a number of different options we can go down with the squad that we have got, and that's very exciting, so regardless of what the conditions throw at us and the service throws at us, we feel like got all bases covered. we're looking ahead tonight's championship playoff. still the most lucrative game in football. worth well over £100 million for the winner.. and very little to separate the two teams — just four miles between west london rivals brentford and fulham and they finished level on points this season. but unlike fulham, brentford have never played

in the premier league, they have though built a brand new sadium, will they welcome the likes of sadio mane and sergio aguero here next season? it will be played in front of an empty wembley. and despite all his best efforts even the former fa chairman and brentford fan greg dyke's not been able to get a seat inside. i have tried to pull every trick you can pull to get a ticket for tonight. even phoning my mate, who is the chairman of the football league, and contacts i have in wembley, and asking, well, what about getting me a box on my own, andi about getting me a box on my own, and i will pay you a lot of money for it? all failed. former winner shaun murphy has become the biggest casualty at this year's world snooker championship. trailing 6—3 overnight to thailand's noppon saengkham, murphy couldn't recover,

eventually losing 10—a. saengkham will play either mark selby orjordan brown next. he played very, very well, and i can only heap praise on him really. i made a lot of mistakes, but they we re made a lot of mistakes, but they were because he had me under it from the word go. i missed an easy read in the second frame and he punished me severely. it felt like every small mistake i made, of which there we re small mistake i made, of which there were quite a few, he did punish severely, and, listen, that's what the top seeds usually do, but he did it to me. in this morning's other match, the world number four mark allen is being pushed all the way by jamie clarke, who's 85 places below him in the rankings. allen leads 5—a at the end of the session, they'll resume this evening. the afternoon sessions are back underway... three—time world champion mark selby is 7—a up against northern irish

qualifierjordan brown — his first time at the crucible. but selby won the first two frames of the afternoon session. the second game currently under way at the minute, you can follow that on the bbc sport website and bbc two, as well. that's all the sport for now. police have apologised to a black civil servant who was accused of being a car thief whilejogging near her home. dr andrea charles fidelis, who works for the ministry ofjustice, said she was racially profiled and "dehumanised" by an officer in swanley, in kent. kent police said claims the officer had been "biased and discriminatory" were not upheld by an investigation. but the force said it had apologised to dr charles fidelis "for the way the officer had spoken to her".

dr fidelisjoins me now. just talk me through this. you are out jogging, just talk me through this. you are outjogging, talk you through what happened. sure. by the time i got to the end of this is my cul—de—sac, i was just walking and warming the end of this is my cul—de—sac, i wasjust walking and warming up, a big white band appeared, and the man went on the video or window, he was very angry, he was saying, while you we re very angry, he was saying, while you were my drive? my son saw you. i was very confused. at some point a sense, i live around here, and he was saying, well, where did you live? and i said thought i would not point out my house, so i said, this is enough, i don't know what you're talking about, and carried on. he pursued me. it was around the early covid time, so there wasn't that many ca rs covid time, so there wasn't that many cars on the road, so i went for myjob and he kind of pursued me,

but at1.i myjob and he kind of pursued me, but at 1.1 felt really, really frightened as we were heading towards country roads, so i thought, let me turn back, and he followed me or down a let me turn back, and he followed me or downa main let me turn back, and he followed me or down a main road to keeping the seat, and i eventually ijust panicked and ran to our local train station to try and get help. the police arrived, but not because of a call from you? know, so, when i got to the station i did call the police with the station guard, but a police officer arrived straightaway, and i believe that the man in the van had called the police, as well, and when the police officer got there, the godly doubt and said, you know, she's on here, she is in fear of her life, and the police officer kind of waded on the platforms, and said, she's not in fear of her life, she tried to steal the car, and burst into the room of the station guard,

and it turned into an onslaught where he said ifitted and it turned into an onslaught where he said i fitted the description and i tried to steal a car, no questions were asked at that point, the fact that he said i wasn't in fear of my life, i felt very humiliated and broken, at that point, because i was, and it was just a huge onslaught at that point. then what happened ? just a huge onslaught at that point. then what happened? doctor, can you hear me? what happened after that? so, there was some back—and—forth but with us, still no questions. he went to speak with the van driver and came back and carried on. you know, you try to steal his car, he said, why wouldn't he chase you and pursue you? he had every right to do so. what you think he would do? if he was going to do it, he would have that. he said, you could defend

yourself, anyway, and i think the direction change. he said, i can arrest you, and at this point ijust said, look, i haven't done anything wrong, you can't arrest me, i have just been outjogging. he said, what you do? that is the next question, andi you do? that is the next question, and i said i work for the ministry ofjustice. at that point, the direction change. he was like, oh, well, where do you live? two minutes away. then we began, the direction change, basically. it sounds like a com plete change, basically. it sounds like a complete u—turn. kent police have apologised for what they say was the unsympathetic manner in which the officer spoke to. to that end the matter for you? not really, no. it's an apology of sorts, it's not what i have raised with them, which is about racially biased policing. they have said that this service provided

is acceptable, and my perception is reality, and they are sorry if their actions cause me upset, so it's an apology of sorts. let me read the full statement. they said... i don't know where to start with that, really. just tell me what you think should happen next. well, i think should happen next. well, i think it's... think should happen next. well, i think it's. .. i'm think should happen next. well, i think it's... i'm sorry, we are having terrible trouble with the line. can you still hear me? i think we may have lost the lion

altogether. yes... lets try this one more time, imagine no one has heard a thing, sojust explain more time, imagine no one has heard a thing, so just explain to more time, imagine no one has heard a thing, sojust explain to me more time, imagine no one has heard a thing, so just explain to me what has or you think happens now.” think it is an opportunity for reflection, and not a defensive kind of shutdown in terms of the investigation, where they said that the service that was provided was acceptable. i mean, if this can happen to me, what about kind of young black men sitting or seeking fair treatment injustice? i think it's time for positive change, real ambition to change, and for the voices of people that have fallen foul of the system to be truly recognised and integrated into

training and ongoing... recognised and integrated into training and ongoing. . ” recognised and integrated into training and ongoing... i think we are having... sorry, we are having terrible trouble with the line. let mejust ask, what terrible trouble with the line. let me just ask, what you think about police now when you see police officers on the street. has a changed your view, or did this incident confirm a view you may be had? half of the question... i'm just wondering if this has in any way change how you view the police? within my professional capacity, i work alongside the police quite a bit with the violent crime prevention board on community relations, etc, and this has really spun everything on its head, and i

was able to see first hand exactly how it is when people are profiled, when there is a presumption of guilt, when there is no empathy, there is no compassion, and when black people are seen as not being victims but rather criminals before any questions are asked. i'm glad we got that answer. thank you so much for joining got that answer. thank you so much forjoining us this afternoon. i'm sorry, i know that's frustrating, i hope you forgive us for continuing with that. these interviews over the internet, they drive us all mad sometimes. you watching bbc news. nobody is above the law. that's the message from authorities in the australian state of victoria, who've announced tough new punishments who breach coronavirus rules. repeat offenders could face fines of more than £10,5000. police say officers have

been assaulted by people flouting the rules — and they've had enough. phil mercer reports. more than half of australia's cases have been recorded in the state of victoria. it's at the heart of a public health emergency. a strict lockdown is meant to save lives, but not everyone is compliance. police have said they have been taunted and assaulted by people flouting the regulations. it might only be a minority, but their actions have infuriated victoria's most senior police officer. shane patton said small groups had emerged who saw themselves as sovereign citizens who don't think the law applies to them. it does, and heavy fines could now be imposed. we've seen them at checkpoints, baiting police, not providing a name and address. on at least three or four

occasions in the past week, we've had to smash the windows of people in cars and pull them out of there so they could provide their details, because they weren't telling us where they were going, they weren't adhering to the chief health officer guidelines, they weren't providing their name and their address. a state of disaster gives the authorities greater powers to enforce the rules. life in melbourne has never been so restricted or uncertain. australia's second—biggest city is mostly empty. health officials are confident these unprecedented measures will help them contain the virus but, for now, millions of australians are preparing for six weeks under the nation's toughest lockdown. a night—time curfew is in place, along with strict stay—at—home orders. face coverings are mandatory for those allowed outside on essential business. they are essentially in protective custody

at home until the danger passes. the headlines on bbc news: scientists are warning the test and trace programmes in the uk are not good enough to stop a second wave of coronavirus after september when the majority of children go back to school. an increase in exam pass rates in scotland — as students are awarded grades after coronavirus forced their exams to be cancelled for the first time ever.