this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak, the headlines at 7pm. manchester united captain harry maguire pleads not guilty and is released from police custody — following his arrest on the greek island of mykonos. uk tourists who've been on holiday to croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago now have to isolate for m days when they get back. being in croatia there were only a few options, to get to slovenia are to utterly and neither were possible. after france and now croatia, no holiday can be guaranteed. hundreds of thousands of people

in north west england are told not to socialise with anyone outside their household to stem coronavirus infections. a 15—year—old girl has died and several passengers on a boat have been injured — after a collision in the marina near southampton california struggles to contain huge wildfires — burning forests and homes and causing thousands of residents to flee good evening and welcome to bbc news. the captain of manchester united, harry maguire, has pleaded not guilty and has been released from police custody in greece, following a disturbance at a bar on the island of mykonos. the england defender was one of three men arrested on thursday. the police say the accusations

against the three include bodily harm and the attempted bribery of an official. ollie foster reports. after two nights in police custody, harry maguire, seen here at the rear in the light blue shirt, based the regional prosecutor on the island of cirrus today. he is now free to return to the uk but his legal team are due back in court on tuesday to try and clear the manchester united captain's name. he was arrested with two other men on the neighbouring island of mykonos on thursday night. police there claimed they had to break up a fight outside the bar. three men were accused of assaulting and verbally abusing an officer before a altercation at a police station. yesterday he was taken by boat back to the island to spend another night in a police cell for his appearance in court this morning. what isn't clear is the exact nature of the charges harry maguire faces. the file opened against the three men also alleged one of them attempted to bribe an official to stop harry maguire has had a rapid rise in the game, a key player for england, reaching the world cup

semifinals two years ago. he became the world's most expensive defender when he joined united for £80 million last summer. the club released a short statement after the ca ptain‘s court appearance, saying the adjournment will give their lawyers the time to fully assess the case, and they have confirmed harry maguire has pleaded not guilty to the charges. three countries have been added to the quarantine list in the uk. from 4am this morning, anyone arriving from croatia, austria, and trinidad and tobago will now have to isolate for m days. in scotland, the measures also apply to arrivals from switzerland. many people on holiday in these countries, which have seen a spike in coronavirus cases, tried to change their flights at the last minute to beat the deadline. our correspondent frankie mccamley has been at gatwick airport and sends this report.

after weeks of uncertainty and changes to quarantine rules in popular tourist destinations, flying out of gatwick airport this evening, there is relief. these holiday—makers finally have somewhere to go, portugal. we initially wanted to go to spain, then we rebooked for croatia because spain went into lockdown. then croatia got put into quarantine yesterday so we quickly switched to portugal. we had to pay quite a lot extra. on thursday night, it happened really quickly, so the flights were booking really fast and the villas were relatively low level prices and, by thursday evening, they had skyrocketed about £1000 for a bill of ten. the minute quarantine was lifted, we booked that day. we did. within about two hours. for those who had already taken the chance and headed to towns in croatia, as they return, they now face 1a days in quarantine.

after france and now croatia, no holiday can be guaranteed as being safe and, if you go outside the uk this summer of this year, even, you can expect something like this to happen. most of the flights on saturday morning. if they'd given 48 hours, we would all be back, but now we have to quarantine for two weeks, so it's a pain. some haven't yet made it back from the country. it shouldn't be m days, we should probably stay at home for seven to ten days and then get tested. you feel like it's a punishment. despite packed beaches in croatia, it's the spike in coronavirus cases which led to the restrictions there as well as in austria and trinidad tobago. many now question, is this worth it or should they risk the british weather instead?

tougher coronavirus restrictions came into force in some areas in north—west england overnight. socialising with other households is now banned indoors and outdoors in 0ldham, blackburn, and parts of pendle in lancashire. 0ur correspondent luxmy gopal reports from blackburn. new rules here in blackburn in a very localised lockdown. different households here are already banned from meeting in their homes and gardens but, from today, they are not allowed to meet in public spaces either. it's left some residents confused. you hear rumours that this and that is happening and you are not sure which is the truth. i've heard about them but i don't know where they are. i don't know how you police it. if you live in one area, how do you stop somebody travelling to another area 7 in blackburn, different wards aren't a different restriction so, on a boundary, people on that side can meet friends at a pop but people

on that side can't. it's the same down the road in kendal, lancashire. this is splitting up communities and confusing residents who live on the same road. the government should work with the community to eradicate this pandemic as quickly as possible, and local lockdowns are not the answer. but the new rules in blackburn, pendle and 0ldham don't stop residents going to pubs or restaurants. in wales from today, people can open up their bubble with up to four households, double the praise it and double the previous amount allowed and up to 30 people can have a socially distanced wedding indoors after wedding or civil partnership. in scotland there have been 123 new cases of covid—i9 detected in the last 2a hours, most linked to a food processing plant cooper, angus. in north—west england, 0ldham council says it is glad to have avoided a full leicester—style lockdown.

the government has released its latest uk coronavirus figures. 18 more people have died with the virus, bringing the total number of deaths in the uk to 41,423. the government also said that there have been a further 1,288 lab—confirmed cases of coronavirus — bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 324,601. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are the pollsterjoe twyman and the columnist and playwright bonnie greer. the governor of california has appealed for assistance from canada and australia, as hundreds of wildfires continue to spread across the state. six people have died and hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave their homes as a result of the fires, which started

after a number of lightening strikes hit the state in recent days. daniel berlant from california's fire department said emergency services were struggling to contain the blazes. 0ver over 13,000 0ver13,000 firefighters from across oui’ 0ver13,000 firefighters from across our state and many other states within the united states have sent assistance. we have activated our national guard, our military all providing additional resources, but it is very challenging to have this numberof fires it is very challenging to have this number of fires spread out across the state, it is very difficult firefighting, but we prioritise our resources based on the live threat. hundreds of thousands remain evacuated, so ensuring that people are out of harms way continues to be are out of harms way continues to be a priority. these kind of storms occui’ every a priority. these kind of storms occur every couple of decades so it is not a common item, but in

california, our summers and specifically the fire seasons have become longer. we are seeing longer periods of time for the vegetation to dry out and be more receptive to wildfires so our fire seasons seem to be getting longer and longer and do more and more destruction. we have had some of the most destructive fires and some of the largest injust the last decade and two of the fire complexes today have hit the record books, being the second and third largest fires in oui’ second and third largest fires in our state's history. as we continue to experience drying conditions this may be a sign of what is to come for decades to come. 0ur correspondent peter bowes is in los angeles. we are hearing unprecedented news about these particular fires. we are hearing unprecedented news about these particularfires. how unusual is it that there should be so unusual is it that there should be so many burning at the one—time?m

is very unusual. we have heard reference to these dry lightning strikes that only happen about once every 20 years and because of those lightning strikes we have had lots of thunder but no rain. everything is tinder dry across the state with almost 600 separate fires burning at the same time. we also heard them just now describing them as fire complexes is not as unusual because what a complex is as several individual fires, what a complex is as several individualfires, dozens of what a complex is as several individual fires, dozens of fires clumped together in relatively close vicinity and there are two major complexes burning in the state, one is to the east of palo alto, a mountainous region in the san francisco bay area, and another in wine country, south of sacramento, the state capital. really stretching the state capital. really stretching the firefighting resources of the entire state to the limit. in some of the figures we are hearing about

the numbers of people having to flee their homes. with social distancing measures in place, where on earth are they going? that is the big problem at the moment. more than 100,000 asked to move out of their homes. they go to evacuation centres, community centres, shelters that have opened. california is well used to dealing with it because we have this very frequently, huge wildfires, but what we are not used to dealing with is a coronavirus pandemic in california has more cases of covid—19 than any other state in the us. there was a recent surge in the number of infections people are very worried about going to the centres where they will be in close vicinity to other people and what some are choosing to do, against the advice of the authorities, is to stay at home and hope they are safe, perhaps even fight the fire themselves. again, not advised by the authorities.

0thers not advised by the authorities. others are travelling if they can perhaps to stay with relatives or friends, hopefully they can carry out social distancing easier with fewer people around them.|j out social distancing easier with fewer people around them. i know there have been warnings of fewer dry strikes to come. interesting they have asked for assistance from canada and australia who have expertise in wildfires. the californian and australian authorities do work very closely together. they traditionally have over a number of years. the topography is the same and the threat of wildfires is very similar, and there has been reciprocal help going from california to australia when australia had its very intense fires last summer. so there is a hope that teams will come from australia and canada to help the firefighters in this state because they are really getting to the limit 110w they are really getting to the limit now in terms of exhaustion. they work extremely long shifts. i have seen some of these firefighters and

difficult, rugged terrain working forup to 24 difficult, rugged terrain working for up to 24 hours at a time without any sleep and there comes a point when they can't go on any longer, so it is an international effort as well as a state—wide effort. firefighters from oregon, texas, new mexico as well. thank you very much. the russian opposition leader alexei navalny, who's acutely ill, has arrived for medical treatment in germany. mr navalny, one of president putin's fiercest critics, has been in coma since drinking a cup of tea which his supporters believe was laced with poison. russian doctors had initally suggested his condition might be the result of low blood sugar. 0ur berlin correspondent jenny hill has the details. oblivious to the political storm around him, alexei navalny arriving in berlin for treatment. the man who took on vladimir putin is in a coma. he collapsed on thursday during a flight over siberia after drinking what his supporters claim was a poisoned cup of tea.

i'm sure that they can treat him to eliminate maybe toxic agents from his body. i am sure that they can treat him and do everything to eliminate may be this toxic agent from his body, i hope that the germans, with a high level of medicine... we have no such opportunities in russia as german doctors have. mr navalny is one of vladimir putin's fiercest critics, an anti—corruption campaigner with powerful enemies. his supporters claim he was poisoned last year but lived to tell the tale. now they believe the russian authorities have tried to silence him again. that is something the kremlin denies. it was a german ngo which organised mr navalny‘s transfer to berlin, though it is believed western political intervention finally persuaded russia to let him go. he is a healthy, strong man with a good constitution. the night before the attack, whatever you want to call it, he was swimming in a river, and there is this media we have

all seen from the plane where he gets this incredible pain and is screaming. doctors here say it will take time to examine mr navalny. not be too late to establish whether he was poisoned and harder still to discover by whom. it's not the first time an opponent of vladimir putin has come to berlin with suspected poisoning. two years ago, a distant was treated in the very same hospital. this could be the latest in what some here say is an increasingly provocative pattern of behaviour. tonight, as a man fights for his life, that is putting pressure on is already a tense relationship between russia and the west. the headlines on bbc news. manchester united say their captain, harry maguire, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to an alleged altercation with police

on the greek island of mykonos. uk tourists who've been on holiday to croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago now have to isolate for 14 days when they get back. hundreds of thousands of people in north west england are told not to socialise with anyone outside their household to stem coronavirus infections. a 15—year—old girl has died and 11 others have been injured in a collision between an inflatable boat and a buoy off the hampshire coast. andy moore is here, he's been following the story for us. so what do we know? this happened about 10:10am this morning in the

solent just off southampton. about 10:10am this morning in the solentjust off southampton. police said there were about ten people on this rigid inflatable boat that collided with a buoy. a number of them were taken to hospital and a 15—year—old girl sadly died in hospital. there was a big response from the emergency services. at least three lifeboats, coastguard rescue least three lifeboats, coastguard rescu e tea m least three lifeboats, coastguard rescue team in the ambulance service. we can hear now from peter browne, the coxswain of the independent lifeboat. we arrived after four people had been recovered from a collision on the southampton water and the situation we faced was for people very badly injured following the collision. while we have a paramedic on board, of course, four people needed urgent medical care. they were lucky from the sounds of it that there were passing boats? yes, there were lucky, that the passing boats saw what happened and that they took

them intoa what happened and that they took them into a place of relative safety, and they had the fortune to bring them here into ocean village where we can assess them with our lifeboat and ambulances as well. what were their injuries?” lifeboat and ambulances as well. what were their injuries? i can't tell you the specific injuries but they were serious and it was a very quick response from the ambulance trust whose triage them with us and actually evacuated them from the rebbein actually evacuated them from the rebbe in very good time. now peter browne gave the location of the incident has southampton water where the river empties, just off southampton, very close to ocean village. the conditions at the time we believe are quite choppy, quite gusty winds. the marine accident investigation branch are investigating. this was a vessel with at least 12 people on board, quite a substantial rebbe, may have been chartered, but that will form

pa rt been chartered, but that will form part of the investigation. six years ago, the life of the pakistan schoolboy, ahmad nawaz changed forever when his school was targeted by taliban gunmen. the attack left more than 130 children dead. ahmad — then aged 14 — only survived by playing dead. the road to recovery has been long, but ahmad's life is about to change again — he's accepted a place to study at oxford university. bbc asian network's shabnam mahmood reports. that was a horrible day. i will never be able to forget the things that happened on that day. december 2014, over 130 children and their teachers died in an attack by the taliban on a school in peshawar, in pakistan. my friends being killed, of course, in front of my eyes, and that's one of the pictures i will never be able to forget. ahmad nawaz, who also lost his younger brother in the massacre, was shot in the arm.

it shattered the bone at that time, and i had to go through 11 surgeries. so severe were his injuries, he was flown to a birmingham hospital, which specialises in trauma surgery. i met him shortly after his operation. he explained how he'd played dead to stay alive. i kept quiet and showed myself dead to them, because the blood was so much, and my shirt was fully red and my face also was fully red, so therefore they think he has died. having made the uk his home, ahmad is determined to do well. now, he has secured a place at oxford university to study philosophy. ifeel extremely proud having come from such an atrocity that happened a few years ago. i feel this is a success not only for myself but also all the people who were shot in that attack. like his friend, nobel peace prize

winner malala yousafzai, who also survived a taliban attack, ahmad is no less ambitious. i would also like to help people through my own organisation which i am setting up to try and empower people to eradicate this problem of extremism from the world. going to oxford university is a dream come true for the teenager who lived through one of the deadliest terror attacks. i think my survival was a miracle in a sense, and now i am just trying my best to make sure that i can do something in the second chance that i have been given. shabnam mahmood, bbc news. it's been almost three weeks since the explosion in beirut s port, which killed around 180 people and caused enormous damage to the city. its emerged that large numbers of syrian refugees were among the casualties. lebanon is home to around one and a half million syrians who fled the war which began in 2011. away from home, working in menialjobs and subject to discrimination, their lives

are already difficult enough. our correspondent paul adams, just back from beirut, met one syrian family near the port whose lives have been completely torn apart by the explosion. hill back in there's not a lot to pick up, but syrian refugees don't have very much. so mahmoud and his brother—in—law fawaz salvage what they can from what used to be the family home. no—one was living closer to the blast. beirut‘s shattered grain silo is just a few hundred metres away. mahmoud's father worked here as concierge. these were once luxury apartments. it will be a long time before anyone moves back in. as mahmoud raced here on august 4th, fawaz had already pulled 16—year—old

sidra's lifeless body from the rubble. he's struggling with the memory. the rest of the family survived, but only just. translation: my father was here on this wall. my sisters and my mother was standing right behind him. my mother said, please, come in. there's smoke over there, let's go inside. he said, it's fine, it's only smoke. and then the explosion happened. on a street nearby, syrian refugees clamour for help. many live or work around the port. dozens died in the explosion. with homes damaged and breadwinners gone, their already precarious existence in lebanon hasjust become a little harder. exhausted and broken, mahmoud's family is nursing its many wounds, and are grieving for sidra. 11—year—old houda has a broken neck.

her mother fatima a broken back and leg. and ali, the concierge, a fractured skull. he's still blind in one eye. with beirut‘s hospitals overwhelmed, the family must look after themselves. they have no savings, and now no work either. they're spending what little they have on medicine at this rented apartment, far from the city. ali doubts he will ever make it back to hisjob. translation: i don't know. how will i see? how will i recover? i don't know. my head hurts. i lost a daughter. my wife is sick. my other daughter is sick. i can't go back. it's left to mahmoud and fawaz to pick up the pieces. right now they don't know where to start. translation: i hate it

when someone calls me a refugee, when i am able to work and make money. i have my dignity. i never put out my hand and ask for help. but now i really need help. my situation is really, really bad. all i am thinking about is how to get out of here. i hate this country. my sister died here. when syrians came to live in lebanon they thought they were at least safe. with that illusion now shattered, some just want to leave. paul adams, bbc news. small music venues are being thrown a lifeline this week, with 135 of those most at risk of closing getting emergency funding. the troubadour in london, where adele and ed sheeran performed early gigs, and the jacaranda in liverpool, where the beatles held early rehearsals, are among the recipients of the government's culture recovery fund.

here's lizo mzimba with more. artists ranging from chrissie hynde to paul young, and bands ranging from motorhead to u2 have played here at the horn in st albans. it's one of 135 music venues across england that are receiving emergency grants from the government. the money's been welcomed by hard—hit venues that might otherwise be facing closure over the next few months. after that, though, there's still uncertainty. whether it's going to be enough long—term, i doubt it. because we're never going to get back to 100% normality very quickly, so i would think there would have to be extra funding put in place going forward from march, spring, next year, going into next year. smaller grassroots venues are seen as an essential part of the industry. places that are receiving the emergency cash include modern venues like camp and furnace in liverpool, and historic

bush hall in london, once a rehearsal space for the likes of the who and cliff richard, more recently used for socially distanced gigs which could then be viewed by fans. sites the government has decided need priority funding. it's over £3 million that we are giving to those venues who are right up against the wall now, and need for cash, before the allocation of the full amount, £1.57 billion, a record investment in our culture. that figure of more than £1.5 billion is the total allocated to the government's culture recovery fund, which aims to help areas including the performing arts and theatres, museums, galleries and independent cinemas, all coping with the impact of coronavirus. lizo mzimba, bbc news. a giant panda at the smithsonian national zoo in washington has set a new record, becoming the oldest panda

in the us to give birth. this is mei xiang soon after giving birth to her cub. there had been some concern that the baby may not survive because of mei's age — she's 22 years old. but all seems to be well — the zoo tweeted she was nursing her cub and cuddling it close." gorgeous. tiny as well! now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. it's been a day of sunshine and blustery showers today. more showers to come tomorrow and for a while this evening and for the first part of the night. those showers heavy for a while as they move southwards so they become lighter, fewer, many places dry by the end of the night with clearer skies and light winds. temperatures similar to last night, maybe a bit chillier in northernmost parts of scotland. tomorrow morning, many places will start dry with some sunshine but very quickly we'll see showers arriving in northern ireland, moving over the irish sea into wales, into northern england, then into the midlands.

later on some heavy and perhaps thundery showers also arriving in east anglia and the south—east. improving through the afternoon across much of wales and south—west england. the winds lighter than today, turning more north—westerly in scotland where there will be very few showers around tomorrow but on the cool side. our highest temperatures will be 23 or so, like today in the south—east of england, ahead of those heavy showers. we may well see some patchy rain heading eastwards on monday, but overnight and into tuesday, another spell of wet and windy weather on the way. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: manchester united captain harry maguire pleads not guilty and is released from police custody, following his arrest on the greek island of mykonos. uk tourists who've been on holiday to croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago now have to isolate for 14 days when they get back. hundreds of thousands of people

in north west england are told not to socialise with anyone outside their household to stem coronavirus infections. police say a 15—year—old girl has died and several passengers