this is bbc news with the latest headlines... uk tourists face a fresh race to return home from holiday, as those returning from croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago are set to face two weeks isolation from tomorrow. we try to just provide a little bit of relief in there, opportunities as we see the numbers go up, but not shooting right the way up, to come home, so it's a question of finding a balance. new figures show that public sector debt has breached £2 trillion for the first time. retail sales rose above pre—pandemic levels in july, as a rebound in demand continued. doctors treating leading russian opposition figure alexei navalny say he is not stable enough to travel for treatment

after a suspected poisioning. a spokeswoman called the decision "a direct threat to his life". joe biden promises to lead america out of what he calls its "season of darkness" as he formally accepts the democratic party presidential nomination. good morning. uk tourists will no longer need to quarantine after holidaying in portugal, but travellers returning from croatia will have to self—isolate. transport secretary grant shapps said people will need to self—isolate for m days on returning from croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago. the changes apply to anyone arriving after 4: 00am on saturday. let's just remind ourselves of how we ended up here.

back injune, the government announced everyone arriving back in the country would have to self—isolate for m days. there were no exempted countries. it meant a lot of cancelled holidays and chaos for the travel industry. on the 10thjuly, so—called travel corridors were introduced. it meant there was a list of countries exempt from quarantine of countries exempt from quarantine — places where holidays were deemed "safer". butjust a week or so later there was chaos when holidaymakers in spain were given just hours to get back to the uk before they'd have to self—isolate. it came after a spike of cases in the popular holiday destination. thousands of brits caught up — including the transport secretary himself. last week france was also taken off the exempt list, which led to more confusion for both travel companies and travellers. then, last night it was announced croatia, austria, and trinidad and tobago also lost their exempt status.

the new rules become effective from 4am tomorrow. simonjones reports. the beaches in portugal look set to get a whole lot busier. the country has been added to the uk's safe travel list as coronavirus cases there fall. last year it attracted 2.5 million british tourists. portugal's prime minister tweeted... but holiday firms are warning, it won't be enough to save the summer. it's going to be too late for the peak season. it's a very blunt instrument to use quarantine in the way that it has been used. and people have been extremely nervous of travelling anyway during august. and from 4am tomorrow morning, anyone visiting croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago will now have to quarantine for m days when they reach the uk. it follows a rise in the rate of coronavirus infections

in those countries. theyjoin other holiday destinations including spain and france to which the foreign office advises against all nonessential travel. in croatia, there is sun, sea and now stress for those aiming to get home before the deadline. i should have been going to france last weekend and due to the quarantine on france, i changed my flight to croatia. my daughter's fiance and his family all live here. but she booked me a flight home tomorrow in case this did happen. many of the 20,000 british tourists in croatia will also be heading to the airport. 0thers, though, are resigned to isolation when they return to the uk. i think we'lljust stay and then go back and then have to quarantine. and with the british government prepared to add or remove countries from its list of travel corridors at short notice, it's not the easiest time for those looking to get away from it all.

simon jones, bbc news. 0ur political correspondent, helen catt is at westminster. a lot of unhappy travellers but the government will say, well, we warned you we would have to take these decisions at short notice. yes, and we have now seen this pattern in recent weeks of more and more of those countries coming off the list of exemptions, france, spain, belgium and the netherlands, all of those now needing to quarantine if you come back from there. the decision to lift restrictions on quarantine from portugal is the most significant in terms of tourism from the uk, in terms of going the other way, that we have seen so far but it has come right at the end of the summer season has come right at the end of the summer season s0 has come right at the end of the summer season so you has come right at the end of the summer season so you heard questions in simon's report about the timing. thinking back to the point of the policies, the point of the quarantine policy was to stop importing infections from abroad now the rate in the uk is lower. the realisation was that if you make

anyone who goes anywhere quarantine for m days then that would effectively scupper the travel industry so the point of bringing in a list of exemptions was to boost travel. we have seen the volatility of how things can change quickly and to transport secretary grant shapps reinforced in a tweet last night that you must be content to be able to quarantine for m days if you go anywhere. there has been pressure on the government to look at other alternatives to that and one of the things that comes up a lot is the idea of testing at the airport. transport secretary grant shapps said they are looking at that, they are said they are looking at that, they a re interested said they are looking at that, they are interested in it, but it's not as simple as it sounds. if you test somebody on day one when they come into the country, it may only find — and these figures are of course debated and disputed by scientists and medical experts — but it may only find 7% of people who are asymptomatic, in other words, people who don't know they have coronavirus and if you have it you shouldn't be travelling anyway, of course. so it's not very helpful on day one. you then need to potentially test on day eight to get a very high percentage. you then need the results

and by then you could be in a position where you have taken up quite a lot of time in quarantine. it's not quite as simple as it is sometimes presented. however, it's something we are very interested in and we are working on, on how that can be delivered reliably. another idea that has been suggested as having what could be called regional travel corridors, so bits ofa regional travel corridors, so bits of a country with a lower rate of infection could be exempted was not grant shapps said there are serious difficulties with that because people move around but he said the government is looking at that to see if it could be done perhaps four islands. this came up when quarantine was reimposed on spain because infection rates were much lower in the balearic islands and canaries. so these things are being looked at and i think the pressure will stay on the government to look at other alternatives to quarantine. thank you, helen catt. 0ur europe correspondent gavin lee explains the disruption yesterday's announcement has caused in croatia. the club that you don't want to be

in, the quarantine red zone club, and suddenly croatia, where i am at the moment in zagreb, finds itself notjust on the uk list for quarantine, but in the last few days this week also for austria, italy, slovenia, germany as well, saying that they have restrictions in place if you come from here. one of the extra issues here is that tourism... the government coronavirus task force, basically said that we wanted to open up for tourism more than any other country in europe croatia relies on the industry with 18% of its gross domestic product for the year comes from tourism, but they believe they may have opened up too fast and they have issued a statement in the past few days saying they believed they would have an increase, but not this big. if you look at the figures, yesterday's figure here in croatia was 255 in the last 2a hours. you compare that to say france yesterday, 4700. or for spain, more than 3000. germany, almost 2000, it's slightly smaller. but croatia hasn't really had any spike during the pandemic.

you go back to may and june, they had no more than six cases a day and tourists who are leaving split and dubrovnik on the dalmatian coast, well, it's other countries like the brits, germans, french, who are saying that those are the tourists who are coming back and causing clusters of cases other countries. we can speak now to darija reic, director of the croatian national tourist board. 0bviously obviously very difficult circumstances and we heard from gavin how much british tourism matters. you must be disappointed so are you helping british tourists get home now before four o'clock tomorrow morning? good morning. yes, the uk is one of our top ten markets for croatian tourism. it's very important. last year we recorded just under 900,000 arrivals and 4.6 million overnight stays from the uk s0 million overnight stays from the uk so british tourists are highly important to us. they are one of the top markets in croatia. so it's very

significant as a loss. we are doing everything we can to help them get back but it's likely not everyone will be able to get back before the quarantine rules setting. and the reason the quarantine was imposed is the incidence per 100,000 people for croatia went up from 10.4 on august 12-20 7.4 on croatia went up from 10.4 on august 12—20 7.4 on august 19. how do you explain this spike in coronavirus cases? —— from 10.4 on august 12, to 7.4 on august 19. the spike has been created by big events and also nightclubs. the government has since tightened the measures specifically relating to nightclubs. they have curbed working hours or giving them conditions they have to meet in order to even operate, so the government has cracked down on it

and we are hoping we will soon see a downward trend in the new infections. but i suppose that would be too late for summer tourists from the uk. i know there are some parts of the country, the mayor of dubrovnik, for example, has said they would much prefer regional policy, as the germans have introduced because we in dubrovnik have a very low caseload. absolutely. could not agree more. if the uk government was willing to look at our separate regions and make decisions according to those numbers, then we would have been in a much better position because currently the majority of our coasts, and most of the regions there are doing pretty well, so to say overall that the croatian numbers are very high is not actually correct. there is the majority of the coast that is still very safe. apart from the brits imposing a blanket ban, what about

the rest of europe? can you rely on tourists from the rest of europe to make up those numbers? we are hopeful that things will still get better towards the end of the season and we will be able to recoup towards the end of the season. however, looking at the overall figures, under the circumstances, croatia has done pretty well, so from january to august we are currently at 40% of last year's results in terms of arrival sent 50% in terms of overnight stays, so i would say objectively, all things considered, we have still done quite well. 0bviously considered, we have still done quite well. obviously we are hoping for this positive trend to continue until the end of the season and beyond, but those are still good numbers. we will leave it there, all the best and thank you. france has reported a sharp rise in the number

of coronavirus cases, up by a thousand since wednesday. it is the first time more than 4,000 daily cases have been seen since may. meanwhile spain, germany and italy have also recorded their highest numbers of cases since late april or may. the uk registered a further 1182. that was on thursday. at 9:30am, we'll be answering your questions on the latest travel restrictions. i will be joined by the editor of which travel, rory boland, and the personal finance reporter from bbc radio five live's wake up to money, felicity hannah. you can email your questions to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk or tweet them to the hash tag bbcyourquestions. that's coming up at 9:30am this morning. uk government debt has risen above £2 trillion for the first time, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. the office for national statistics

said the government borrowed £26.7 billion in july. the 0ns also released new figures this morning showing retail sales rose above pre—pandemic levels injuly, as a rebound in demand continued. retail sales volumes rose by 3.6% between june and july. 0ur economics correspondent, andrew walker, is in north london. looking first at the government debt, is to trillian a scary figure? it certainly sounds it and in relation to the national income or the size of the economy it takes that figure over 100%. —— is £2 trillion a scary figure. it is the first time it has been that large relative to the economy since the early 1960s. i suppose one compensating factor is that interest rates are low, compensating factor is that interest rates a re low, very compensating factor is that interest rates are low, very low, and if anything they have got even lower since the pandemic hit, partly as a

result of the bank of england interest rate moves and other policy initiatives. it's taken partly as a result of the weakness of the economy so result of the weakness of the economy so it means the cost of servicing the debt is actually relatively well contained and it's not a major issue in itself. also worth noting that even in relation to the size of the national economy, we are still a very, very long way from all—time highs, which happened in the past in the aftermath of wars. but for peacetime levels of public finances, it's an uncomfortably high figure at the very least. turning to the other big headline from the 0ns figures this morning, retail sales are looking a bit better. yes, certainly looking a bit better. yes, certainly looking a bit better. yes, certainly looking a bit better. and as lockdown has been eased people have been spending more. what the figures do not tell us, though, as if we needed reminding of this, is that the high street is not back to normal.

although in the latest figures there was a bit of a rebound from online towards in—store shopping, it remains the case that online shopping was 50% more than before the pandemic and sew clothing sales for example, although they recovered a bit, are still 25% down from pre—pandemic levels. certainly the easing of restrictions has led to significant changes in the retail, a significant changes in the retail, a significant rebound in the retail industry, but it certainly still looking very different to what it was a few months ago all the same. andrew, thank you. a lead doctor responsible for the care of russian opposition leader alexei navalny says they have not found traces of poison in his system. the hospital has also said that attempting to move him would risk his life. supporters of the kremlin critic have been attempting to have him transported to germany for further treatment — they say

he is the victim of a poisoning, and describe the decision to stop him from moving as "an attempt on his life". mr navalny remains in a coma in the city of 0msk after collapsing on a flight to moscow yesterday. however, the 0smk hospital says mr navalny‘s condition is unstable, and have defended what they say is a medical decision. translation: regarding his transfer, i think, and this is what the council of doctors decided, that it is for the time being too early. it is for the time being too early. it is necessary to completely stabilise the patient first. doctors have yet to disclose the cause of mr navalny‘s incapacitation. however their diagnosis, that no poison was present in mr navalny‘s system, contradicts a claim made a short while earlier by the head of the putin critics‘s organisation. translation: we went to this member of the transport police which showed us of the transport police which showed us her phone and ask them what is the substance will stop she said it's a secret of the investigation. she said we can't say but it's a

substance that is deadly dangerous. it isa substance that is deadly dangerous. it is a threat notjust to alexei navalny‘s life but everyone around him. everyone around him needs to wear protective equipment. "a battle of light against darkness" — that's how democrat presidential candidatejoe biden characterised the upcoming us election as he accepted his party's nomination to challenge donald trump for the white house in november. mr biden said his opponent had failed in his most basic duty — to protect americans from threats such as coronavirus. and he accused mr trump of not taking responsibility, refusing to lead and of "cosying up to dictators". here's our north america correspondent david willis. this was the nominationjoe biden had sought for so long, having run for president unsuccessfully twice before. so it's with great honour, and humility, i accept this nomination for president of the united states of america. # oh, one day...

earlier, on the final night of the convention, tribute was paid to the democratic congressman and civil rights icon john lewis who fought alongside martin luther king for the right to vote. voice of donald trump: will they be stolen from mailboxes as they get put in by the mailman? will they be taken from the mailmen and the mailwomen? the unifying force at this democratic convention had been donald trump, whether it was ridiculing him or branding him a threat to american democracy. but on the final night, the early emphasis was on stressing their candidate's empathy through the story of a teenager whom he helped overcome a stutter. and withoutjoe biden, i wouldn't be talking to you today. i'm beau biden, and joe biden is my dad. and linking his own heart wrenching story to the lives of millions americans suffering problems of their own. biden lost his son beau to brain cancer five years ago, his first wife and young daughter, to a car accident 43 years before that.

i have some idea how it feels to lose someone you love. i know that deep black hole that opens up in the middle of your chest and you feel like you're being sucked into it. i know how mean and cruel and unfair life can be sometimes. a feature of this unconventional convention has been that instead of a background of cheering crowds, speeches have been delivered via video link from largely empty event centres in different parts of the country. joe biden and kamala harris intend to continue campaigning mostly virtually. the final ten weeks of this presidential campaign are shaping up to be one of the strangest ever. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. how did biden‘s speech go down among democrat supporters? we can talk now to david wenk, the vice—chair of democrats abroad, and one of the delegates attending the virtual convention.

welcome to the show. i think you we re welcome to the show. i think you were originally a bernie sanders supporter so were you convinced by joe biden‘s acceptance speech? absolutely. it has been a mark of this convention, the unity that has been shown among the various pieces of the democratic party. we all have a common interest here in seeing a new order in america. the speech itself was long on biography and emotion and rhetoric, but a bit shorter on policy. do you feel clear about what a biden presidency would look like? yeah, i do feelthat there are indeed policy statements that were made last night. i think about 20 were in his speech yesterday. the fact is that biden‘s

administration will bring us much closer to where we need to be to heal some of the major ills in america regarding health care, regarding higher education, regarding higher education, regarding the economy and of course regarding the economy and of course regarding climate change. it is just now that the us is dropping out of the paris agreement and that marks a low point, in my view, for where we are as a country on that environmentalfront. are as a country on that environmental front. and do you think those policy planks will be the key debating issues over the weeks ahead or do you think it will bea weeks ahead or do you think it will be a message of, biden is not donald trump? personally i would like to see a lot of policy because i would

like to see the administration offer things to vote for rather than someone things to vote for rather than someone to vote against. but absolutely, this is a referendum on donald trump, this election. we have about 6.5 million americans living abroad. it is very important that they vote this year. they can actually go to vote from abroad dot org, they should do that today if they have not done so yet, and request their ballot. it is your civic duty to vote. that's our view. sorry, i interrupted you. carry on. that message about voting that you have delivered this one we have seen on screens over this virtual convention. obviously, it sounds like democrats don't feeljoe biden is well enough ahead in the polling for his supporters to feel

confident. look, i'm going to go into this election fighting it every step of the way. i have seen how 2016 turned out and this is not a time for us to be complacent. this isa time time for us to be complacent. this is a time for us to put every effort into assuring a democratic victory. thank you forjoining us. thank you. the government has already made one u—turn this week — on exam results. now it's under increasing pressure to make another one — this time on whether landlords in england can evict tenants for not paying the rent. a temporary halt on eviction proceedings was brought in at the height of the pandemic — but it's due to end on sunday. this morning, grant shapps said the ministry of housing, communities and local government will make "further announcements" regarding the temporary ban on evictions "shortly". our home editor mark easton reports. as we emerge from lockdown,

for tens of thousands of people in england, there is deep anxiety. notjust of the virus but of losing their home. covid cost david hisjob in high wycombe in buckinghamshire, and as the temporary ban on evictions comes to an end, he worries about his family's future. we had guaranteed income and now we don't. we do get some support from universal credit to help with things. but in all honesty, it's not enough. itjust doesn't help everything. do you think you'll be able to stay in your house? it's difficult times, there is a possibility that we could end up losing our home. david's landlord has been understanding up to now but like thousands in high wycombe, the terror of losing your income and then your home looms large. landlords too are worried that they may fall victim to the financial impact of the virus. vikram advises many in high wycombe. landlords will have very real problems because they themselves are running businesses,

so there's a lot at stake for the landlords who could in turn as a consequence become homeless and sell. —— homeless themselves. the ending of the furlough scheme in october is expected to expose the true scale of the economic damage, with many suddenly unable to afford their rent and a court system unable to cope with the consequences. hundreds of eviction cases are already waiting to be heard here at high wycombe county court. across england, the queue is thought to be around 40,000 cases long. but social distancing means the courts cannot operate at full capacity so it could take more than a yearjust to get through the backlog while more and more people join the wait for judgment. landlords must send the court a reactivation notice to restart eviction proceedings, giving thejudge details of the impact of covid. lawyers warn of impending chaos. you're going to have, without a shadow of a doubt, people whose lives are ruined by this. it's just going to be months of uncertainty for everyone involved.

housing departments fear a huge increase in homelessness. here in high wycombe, councillors are bracing themselves for tough times ahead. we will look to house people as locally as possible to where they currently live, where they have friends and relatives. if that can't be done for whatever reason, then we may have to look at alternative accommodation, potentially using hotels or whatever. the government is being urged to extend the evictions ban and provide more support for tenants whose finances have been laid low by coronavirus. we're very concerned that when the ban lifts next week, we're going to see tens of thousands of people who are put at risk of losing their home and potentially becoming homeless as a result of that. the eviction ban has already been extended in scotland and northern ireland. wales has agreed to a support package. ministers in england are now under pressure to ensure tenants and landlords are protected from a virus that could take away the roof over people's heads. mark easton, bbc news, high wycombe. we can speak now to the labour mp

and shadow housing secretary, thangam debbonaire. thank you very much forjoining us. we heard from grant shapps this morning talking about consideration, ministers thinking about this, so what do you think the government should do? do you know, it's astonishing. we are hours away from the band coming to an end on sunday and the government has been warned repeatedly about the chaos that would ensue if they didn't end it without a decent plan for what happens next. they have also been given many suggestions of what they could do. for instance, one thing they could easily have done months ago is to raise the local housing allowa nce, ago is to raise the local housing allowance, that element of social security that is hosted —— that is supposed to help with rents up to the average rent in the area was up in bristol for instance, people through no fault of their own can be 300, £400 adrift at the moment if they lost their job 300, £400 adrift at the moment if they lost theirjob because of coronavirus in march simply because of the local housing allowance levels. organisations as diverse as shelter and the national residential

landlords association have backed labour's call for that to be increased to average rent. that is one amongst many things. the other crucial thing is to introduce court discretion in cases where there are arrears, allowing for much greater fairness and much more protection so that renters who have got into difficulties but may well be able to get out of them and come to some arrangement could have protection from being evicted. this is in everybody‘s interests. it is a public health crisis and if we're going into the autumn and winter with shelter predicting a quarter of a million people at risk, with councils unable to cope with that, no emergency provision and without the courts even having discretion over whether or not an eviction order is granted, this is a public health emergency stop what the government's view on this, and what we from grant shapps this morning“ that getting the balance right between renters and landlords is something they are working on. on that balance, i haven't heard a lot on what you just said about the interest of the landlords. the

interests of the landlords are well served if tenants can pay rent, and that's why we called months ago, as far back as may, for improvements to universal credit, the removal of the benefit cap, which is often one reason why rent can't be paid, removal of the two child limit. all of these things could be temporary for the life of the coronavirus crisis. they could have introduced gra nts crisis. they could have introduced grants instead of loans in universal credit. they could remove the five—week wait, all sorts of things they could do to help tenants pay rent to their landlords. the pressure is on. i hearfrom what rent to their landlords. the pressure is on. i hear from what you are saying, but also from what so many other interested parties are saying, the pressure is immense on the government right now so do you expect them to relent and extend the freeze? the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour and we have a government that has left things to the last minute. i hope

they will back down and halt the end of the eviction span. there are complicated reasons why that might be tricky and it is their incompetence that has left leicester friday with so many people uncertain and fearful about what is going to happen next. tenants, counsellors, landlords, housing advisors, and the general public worried about public health implications with possibly a quarter of a million people being made homeless. the government could bring in emergency procedures to make sure we do not end up with this crisis happening on monday. thank you. it is windy out there. hello. we've got some unseasonably windy weather on the cards through the next few days. today, those winds could cause some disruption. there's also the risk of coastal flooding across parts of south—west england, wales and further north, across northern england and into scotland, there are flood

warnings also in force here. gusts of wind about 40—50 mph inland, but around exposed coasts it could be around 60 mph or more, enough to bring down small trees, with large waves around the coasts as well. 25 degrees in the warmest spots, but typically the high teens or low 20s. through this evening and tonight, winds will ease a little bit but it will stay blustery and there will be further heavy showers, particularly in the north and west, where you could hear the odd rumble of thunder. still mild with temperatures overnight sitting in the mid—teens. through the day tomorrow, a similar day to today, sunny spells, scattered, blustery showers. the wind is not quite as strong. gusts typically about 25—35 mph through the day tomorrow. still quite a windy sort of day. temperatures a little bit cooler than today, 15—22. goodbye for now. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: uk tourists face a fresh race to return home from holiday — as those returning from croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago are set to face two weeks isolation from tomorrow.

new figures show that public sector debt has breached £2 trillion for the first time. retail sales rose above pre—pandemic levels in july, as a rebound in demand continued. doctors treating leading russian opposition figure alexei navalny say he is not stable enough to travel for treatment after a suspected poisioning. a spokeswoman called the decision "a direct threat to his life". joe biden promises to lead america out of what he calls its "season of darkness" as he formally accepts the democratic party presidential nomination. sport, and, for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, here's jane dougall. it is windy at troon. it certainly is. yesterday was interesting. i am sure today will be the same. we will

hear from katrina sure today will be the same. we will hearfrom katrina matthew sure today will be the same. we will hear from katrina matthew later. first, the england cricket captain — joe root — is determined to make sure the test match summer doesn't end as a damp squib. they play pakistan in the third test in southampton later this morning — remember the second test ended in a draw because of persistent rain and bad light. england remain 1—0 up in the three—match series, and they haven't won a series against pakistan in ten years. root says he's after "one last push" from his side. we have not got test cricket until next year now, so we've got no excuses. every opportunity to go out there and throw everything into this last game and that's all you can really ask of the group, who have worked really hard throughout this period. there has been different challenges to put up with compared to the normal tests, and i think we have responded well to them, to be honest, and we have one more week of hard graft to give everything to the team and to each other and make sure we finish the summer strong.

play is under way on the second day of the women's open at royal troon. england's georgia hall — who won it in 2018 — is 6 shots off the lead, despite this lovely putt from off the green on the 10th during her first round. it's solheim cup winning captain catriona matthew, who's leading the british charge after she finished her round on level par — 4 shots off the leader. absolutely delighted with that score. it was a real battle out there. even coming back downwind is no bargain so i would have taken par, definitely, before i started. fans in scotland could be watching live matches from as early as next month. first minister nicola sturgeon says that a limited numbers of spectators will be allowed inside stadia from the 14th of september. it means the old firm match on the 17th of october could be played in front of some fans at parkhead. staying on the subject of watching sport, fan groups say they have real concerns over their ability to watch their teams in the premier league next season.

every game was broadcast as last season came to its conclusion, with no fans in stadiums. but that won't be the case next season and there'll be no free—to—air matches either. there are plans to allow limited numbers of spectators into stadiums by the autumn in england, but fan groups say there needs to be provision for the thousands who won't get tickets. aberdeen returned to action in the scottish premiership after 19 days out because of players breaching covid restrictions. they beat stjohnstone 1—0. aberdeen had three fixtures postponed after eight of their players were found to have broken lockdown rules. substitute ryan hedges' deflected shot was enough to give them the win. and wayne rooney has been given his firstjob as a manager — sort of. he's going to be in charge of the england team at next month's soccer aid match at old trafford. rooney is 34 now, and is player—coach at the championship side derby.

he says it was a proud moment for him to be asked to be the england boss. he won't be doing it alone — he'll have sam allardyce as his co—manager. and no doubt wayne rooney will be having a look at the efl fictures for the new season. they've been released in the last hour, and you can find them all — for the championship, leagues one and two — on the bbc sport website and app. that's all the sport for now. more from us on the bbc news channel at 1215. british visitors travelling to portugal will no longer have to self—isolate on their return to the uk after the government added the country to its list of "travel corridors". ministers have imposed quarantine measures on holidaymakers returning from croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago — which come into effect from 4am tomorrow. you've been sending in your questions,

and here to answer some of them is the editor of which travel, rory boland, and felicity hannah, personal finance journalist on bbc radio 5 live's wake up to money. jill says we have returned from portugal and within 24 hours the country has been taken off the list. do we have to quarantine when we know we have come from the sea is pa rt know we have come from the sea is part of portugal? a common question when these are introduced. the very correct answer is when these are introduced. the very correct answer is yes you will need to quarantine. i know that feels very arbitrary as you see when the quarantine rules are about to be lifted but there is not really a way around that for the government. the bill has to be introduced are lifted at some stage and that will necessarily leave some people on one side of it or the other. i understand the frustration about the

region you have come from that it perhaps has a lower rate. that is something the government has been talking about this morning that it would talk to be able to introduce bans on regions or islands but that is not the case at the moment and there is some difficulty in doing that because your passportjust records that you were in portugal or spain, it doesn't necessarily tell the government which part of portugal or spain, so it is something they are exploring, something they are exploring, something they are exploring, something they know they would like to do to bring these bands in regionally rather than on a country basis, but i am afraid for know the a nswer basis, but i am afraid for know the answer is you will need to quarantine. something of a blunt instrument. william — my partner has a holiday booked to tenerife at the end of november with jet2. we have paid the deposit but full payment is due in the middle of september. should we cancel and lose our deposit or pay the full amount and claim back if it gets cancelled?

this is such a difficult issue and everybody has had a holiday booked and only paid a deposit has had to think about this over the last few weeks and months. it is a really personal decision. if you do not make the payment you will lose your deposit and no one will refund you evenif deposit and no one will refund you even if the holiday is cancelled. if you want to be able to get a refund you want to be able to get a refund you have to pay what you all in september ahead of the break. it is a very fast—moving situation so you have to think carefully about whether or not you want to travel, whether or not you want to travel, whether you are comfortable travelling at the moment, because a few pv a mountain fill in the holiday is not cancelled because perhaps spain has reopened to tourists then you would not be able tourists then you would not be able to get a refund on any of that money if you simply have a disinclination to travel. it is a really personal decision. think about what you are comfortable with and whether you can afford to lose the deposit. margaret ? is there a way to find out which countries are at risk

of being added to the uk government's quarantine list? the million dollar question. everybody would love to know. the truth is there is not. you will see between now and next thursday, the government seems to introduce the quarantine rules on thursday evening, it was 6pm yesterday, 8p on the thursday before, you will see a great deal of speculation probably about greece for the most part, poland is another country that has been mentioned, but nobody knows. it is simply speculation so the government will spend the next week looking at numbers and it is not just about what the current infection rate is because that is what is talked about, as important as that is it is also about how much confidence the government has in the testing programme in the countries and the health service in the country. we have asked the government several times to be more transparent about these numbers so people can keep an eye on them because people want to have a little bit more notice but it has refused

to do that so far. the simple answer is you will have to put up with a week of speculation which is really frustrating and we will not find out until next thursday which are the new countries that will be added to the lists and who might be taken away. put thirsty in your diary. darren ? i have booked a holiday to take my daughter to new york for her 18th birthday. i have tried to get through to my travel company but to no avail. will i be able to rebook for next year? what a difficult position because we are not allowed to fly into america from europe at the moment and when you come back from america if you can get there you have to quarantine for two weeks so it doesn't sound like the holiday if it is in the immediate future is going ahead but you haven't said when it is booked for a sue if you haven't heard from your travel provider but it is for a few months it may be me have simply not cancelled it yet and they are waiting to see what happens and whether the holiday is able to go

ahead. if you haven't heard anything and the holiday is eminent that is when you start to worry and step up your attempts to contact them but if it is in the future it may be that they are cancelling bermuda holidays first. it is incredibly frustrating for anyone who cannot get through to the human being to talk the situation though and i know a lot of people are facing that because holiday provide donors are so overwhelmed. try them on social media, email, try ringing even if the waiting list so long, and if all else fails write them a letter saying it would like to talk to the human. see you would like to understand your rights and whether you can transfer it. it is one of those situations where the most persistent people are the ones who will get the responses.” persistent people are the ones who will get the responses. i suppose it helps to have a paper trail. absolutely. john — given the current advice relating to france, are we allowed to drive through france to our holiday destination in italy please?

you are. that is the direct answer. but you need to think about the practicalities of it. the rulers you are allowed to drive through france orany are allowed to drive through france or any country on the quarantine west as long as you do not stop, really. the specific language is about not mixing with other people. realistically that ninja cannot go into a petrol station get petrol, you cannot stop for food. from calais to the italian border you are talking about probably 1000 kilometres, nine hours of driving, so kilometres, nine hours of driving, so depending on your car and as long as you fill up before you go on the ferry it is probably possible as long as you feel like you are able to drive for nine hours possibly sharing with your partner. you are allowed to stop and swap around in the car to drive. bring some food and fell upon petrol and it is doable. probably not the most enjoyable way to see france but you can do it. ian ? i have flights booked

to spain with ryanair, who want to charge me an extra £180 to transfer our flights. why is the airline allowed to charge people to change their flights when the foreign office's advice is not to travel to the country? this is a very difficult one for people. a lot of airlines are still flying to the countries where the foreign office advice is not to travel to these countries for anything other than essential travel but lots of people are still going there and sucking up the quarantine rules when they come back and still having denied for those flights so the flights are going ahead. it is a very difficult position and lots of different airlines have different rules on whether they will allow you to have a refund, whether they will allow you to transfer your flights. ryanair is allowing some people to transfer flights without paying a transfer flights without paying a transfer fee but they have to pay the extra if it is a more expensive like me are moving onto. it depends when you have built. the biggest takeaway for anyone watching is when you book a flight, when you pick anything ina

you book a flight, when you pick anything in a covid wild, make sure you have read this moped rent and understand your rights if things change and check your travel insurance because of the fco is advising against travel to their country and you have a policy that cove rs your country and you have a policy that covers your for this kind of disruption you may be able to claim through them and then you will not have to take to battle the airline to transfer your tickets. we are running out of time. gilli — i am currently on holiday at my house in a remote area of france. can ltake a coronavirus test on my return to the uk after seven days to reduce the 14—day quarantine? you absolutely can take a coronavirus test when you return but the government will not care i am afraid. even if you were to get tested every day and it was negative the government would still require you to quarantine at the moment. as we talked about, it doesn't really matter where you're coming back from in france because the government hasn't introduced that idea of

regionalisation. it is a very blunt situation at the moment. coming back from france you will need to quarantine. the government has said this morning perhaps for the first time publicly it is looking at testing. he still has a testing facility in place. even if testing is brought in what is likely to happen is you will take two tests and it will be just the quarantine period from eight to ten days. very important to be clear the government has not said when it is going to introduce it, it is definitely going to introduce it. if you travel abroad plan to quarantine on your return. well my policy because only for cancellation of a holiday booked in the uk after the government told us in the uk after the government told us to stay to vacation if the local tennis button put into lockdown? such a good question because people are choosing to holiday in the uk to avoid that the risk of quarantine

that with local lockdowns that is not fail—safe. the important thing is buying travel insurance. quite often people do not bother because they think we are in the uk and we have the nhs and if anything bad happens i can go to hospital but travel insurance covers you for so much more including disruption he had in the uk. if you lose your bags, if your travel is disrupted or if you cannot go to your destination. make sure if you are buying a new policy it is one of the ones that covers covid disruption. a lot of that stopped after march when it became apparent what the scale of this pandemic was. a handful are offering covid insurance. make sure you are really clear about whether that would cover you if you fell ill but also if you were simply unable to travel to your destination because of other covid facts. thank you both so much for your wisdom. it

has been great to have you on this morning. the headlines on bbc news: uk tourists face a fresh race to return home from holiday — as those returning from croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago are set to face two weeks' isolation from tomorrow. new figures show that public sector debt has breached £2 trillion for the first time. retail sales rose above pre—pandemic levels in july, as a rebound in demand continued. let's return to the news that retail sales rose above pre—pandemic levels in july, as a rebound in demand continued. the office for national statistics said retail sales volumes rose by 3.6% betweenjune and july.

here to discuss the health of the high street is gary favell, chief executive officer of american golf — which is europe's largest golf retailer. iam i am interested in whether you are feeling the benefits of this site recovery. i think from our position, good morning, and thank you for having me, from our end, because of the social distancing generally in sport we are feeling a bounce back thatis sport we are feeling a bounce back that is very good. it remains to be seen that is very good. it remains to be seen how long that bounce back is but we are in a very strong position at the moment. you are on the high street. do you feel the recovery of the high street? yes, we do. i think as well because of the amount of people entering into the sport of golf, that is causing that the man for us as well on the high street so

we are seeing that. one of the challenges we have had is because of the period of the rock down the supply chain has struggled because nobody knew when the lockdown would end and we opened our doors with previous stock level so we have had to recover and bring in more stock as quickly as possible. we have definitely seen an upturn. you are opening new shops, aren't you? yes. we have had the business for two yea rs. we we have had the business for two years. we set about reshaping the business as a retailer and putting more emphasis on the experience for customers in stores. we have opened a flagship store in new malden which had a very successful opening and we arejust had a very successful opening and we are just working had a very successful opening and we arejust working on had a very successful opening and we are just working on our first family range centre which will include a driving range, food and beverage and

retail and also a junior academy which encourages more people to get into golf. we are continuing to invest. in general how have you weathered the storm and what advice do you have for anyone else on the high street finding it hard. we are grateful for the government support packages. we have taken a long hard look at a cost base and because of the possession we had and we have not had to make any redundancies whatsoever so that is really good for us as a business because it is sad that you hear that the pandemic has affected other retailers. it is very much about advice for me as a multistate retailer is keep your tea m multistate retailer is keep your team and forums. we are coming out of thurlow but we found regular communication has been key to keeping people's spirits up because it was and is a very uncertain time

for people as we come out of filo. thank you for your tame and good luck to the business. a drag queen best known for appearing on rupaul‘s drag race has died aged 34. drag queen chi chi devayne, best known for appearing on two seasons of rupaul‘s drag race, has died aged 34. devayne, whose non—stage name was zavion davenport, appeared in season eight of the show, and the third series of spin off — rupaul‘s drag race all stars. she posted on instagram last week that she was in hospital for a chronic condition. rupaul paid tribute to her saying that he was "heartbroken" to learn of her death. in california, huge wildfires in the northern and central parts of the state have forced more than sixty—thousand people to evacuate. lightning strikes have sparked hundreds of blazes which are spreading rapidly due

to a record heat wave. aru na iyengar reports looking like a vision of hell, there is little left of this house which has been left on for 30 years. is little left of this house which has been left on for 30 yearslj don't think we are going to be evacuated for long and guess what, this was the one that got us? they had to leave pets. you want to take them but you are not prepared. get your mother and go. lightning strike started the fires and since then the prolonged heatwave has kept them going. 60,000 people have been evacuated with fires burning through 350,000 acres. two people have died fighting the fires and still be bang on with no end in sight.

indoor visits to care homes in wales can resume from a week tomorrow — the first minister mark drakeford will announce later. he'll also confirm that — from tomorrow — members of up to four households can meet up rather than the current limit of two. and a maximum of 30 people will be able to share a meal indoors after a wedding, civil partnership or funeral — as long as social distancing is maintained. officials in birmingham are concerned that the city could face tougher restrictions or a local lockdown. it's after a steep rise in coronavirus infections, which have doubled since the start of the month. the leader of birmingham city council described the increase as extremely concerning and urged residents to pull together. doctors want tighter controls on coronavirus antibody tests which are sold directly to the public — saying they're putting public health at risk. the royal college of pathologists has written to the health secretary warning that tests used without "professional back—up" increase the risk

of false results. no home antibody test has been officially approved for private sale in the uk. the pop star taylor swift has donated £23000 to a student so that she can take up a maths course at warwick university. vitoria mario, who is portuguese but lives in london, set up an online fundraising page because she isn't eligible for any maintenance loans or grants. she'd already raised nearly half the money she needed when the american singer—songwriter chipped in the remainder, with a message saying "good luck with everything you do". we have already seen some strong winds so far this morning and they are going to strengthen further as we head on into the afternoon. there is an unseasonably deep area of low pressure bringing gales for many of us today. it will be a mix of sunshine

and showers but the weather could cause some disruption to travel, perhaps some power cuts, and the threat of coastal flooding because the winds are rotating around this big area of low pressure, pushing in some large waves. there are spring tides as well so particularly for parts of wales, southern and south—western england, you have that threat of coastal flooding. flood warnings also for parts of northern england and coastal parts of scotland as well. of northern england and coastal a of northern england and coastal mix of sun chain a showers. a mix of sun chain and scattered showers. the fewest sharers for east anglia and the south—east and northern scotland should see some sunshine this afternoon. 50 to 60 mph even in land around the course for wales, southern england. 60 or even 70 mph. disruptive gusts of wind for many others out there today. coming from the south—west so it is still mild. most places we are looking at about 18 to 22 celsius. this evening those winds will start to ease a little bit. still heavy

showers rattling through on the breeze. could be blogged rumble of thunder as well but mild overnight. through the data model and fairly blustery sort of day because the pressure is not far away but it is starting to drift off toward scandinavia so the wins will not be as strong as today. still blustery with a mix of sunshine and scattered showers. most will be into england and north wales. gusts will be about 25 to 35 mph tomorrow for most of us, not as disruptive as today. temperatures down a touch. still reasonably mild. high teens for scotla nd reasonably mild. high teens for scotland and northern ireland but fresher air backing in from the north on sunday so i cooler day for scotla nd north on sunday so i cooler day for scotland and northern ireland. this isa scotland and northern ireland. this is a cold front which will be pushing south. dry eye further south—west. temperatures down a little in recent days. it is very

windy out there today. it tones less windy out there today. it tones less windy through the weekend and venture into next week.

your this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. doctors treating the russian opposition activist alexei navalny say tests have found no traces of poison. his family is furious that medics say he's too ill to be moved to germany for treatment. uk tourists face a fresh race to return home from holiday, as those returning from croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago from tomorrow are set to face two weeks isolation. we try to just provide a little bit of relief in there, opportunities as we see the numbers go up, but not shooting right the way up, to come home, so it's a question of finding a balance. new figures show that uk public sector debt has