and things became tighter. with gloomy skies above southampton, the floodlights came on and the ground staff cleared the way for the covers. instead of anderson closing in on his target, it was the weather closing in, and rain soon halted play. how long will he have to wait for those two precious wickets? laura scott, bbc news. all eyes on the weather. one man who knows is phil avery. it isn't just southampton it isn'tjust southampton that will see wind and rain. a lot of wind and rain to come more widely in england and wales, as you will see. it is fair weather, showery tag cloud gci’oss fair weather, showery tag cloud across the uk at the moment. nothing fair weather about this — capnext storm front is, not1 million miles

away, with some of us as early as this evening and overnight. elsewhere, apart from the southampton area, more showers this afternoon, as if that were needed. —— storm francis. temperature is a little bit back and where we were at the weekend, so 21 as a high this afternoon, maybe 22 in the heart of london. back to francis. we keep dropping the isobars in the middle of this deepening storm, putting a bigger squeeze on the isobars, which is why the met office have issued the warnings they have, because they are concerned about the intensity of the rain and also the strength of the rain and also the strength of the wind. the yellows and greens indicate where we expect the heaviest rain, gradually easing off, though scotland is again in for a chilly night ahead of the wind and rain associated with francis. the rain associated with francis. the rain sticks right across scotland then northern ireland, and returns back to the north west of england later in the rain. here are the

gusts of wind. this is disruptive. there will be speed restrictions on bridges in scotland, the ferries will have an issue, the irish sea may see up to 70 mph, also the english channel, even in inland areas, 45—50 mph. the trans— pennine route when it returns later in the day, really tricky. on the aberdeenshire coast, 12 or 13 celsius. yes, it is still summer, promise x like there is francis, tuesday into wednesday. it moves away towards denmark. on its western flank, still a lot of isobars for wednesday, so you can imagine, strong, gusty winds and a rattle of showers as well. an improving picture in the west, a short, sharp shock. a noticeable breeze still on wednesday, but much reduced on where we will have been through tonight andindeed we will have been through tonight and indeed on three tuesday. lots of

weather warnings around. all the details of course on the bbc weather website. philip, thank you very much. a reminder of our top story... the prime minister tells parents it's "vitally importa nt" their children go back to school, saying the life chances of a generation are at stake. that's all from the bbc news at one, so it's goodbye from me. and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news... good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news... iamjohn i am john watson. england have been left frustrated by opponents pakistan and the weather on day four of the final test at southampton. as we've been hearing, bowlerjames anderson looks to take his 600th test wicket — a first for a fast bowler.

the vistors were have made to follow on, after getting nowhere near england's mammouth first innings lead — 310 runs behind. but rain forced an early lunch with the visitors 41 without loss. james anderson is two wickets short of that record 600th test wicket. and after three dropped catches yesterday off his bowling, there was another today — joss buttler dropping masood on three. if he gets to that landmark, it will be the story of the day. wigan‘s jackson hastings, huddersfield's james gavet and warrington‘s riley dean have all been sanctioned for breaching the rugby league's covid—19 protocols. hastings, who's the reigning super league man of steel, has already served his two—week ban and will be available to face catala ns on saturday. the trio have also been fined. bayern munich celebrated tehir sixth european title after a 1—0 win bayern munich celebrated their sixth european title after a 1—0 win over paris saint—germain in the champions league final. the team celebrated in style despite the game failing he to deliver the tally of goals

many were expecting. a very different scene on the streets of paris, where148 arrests were made as french fans clashed with police. uefa are thought to be considering staging the single game knockout format again after its success. it was put in place as a result of the pandemic. the american dustinjohnson has returned to world number one in golf‘s rankings. it follows his win at the pga event in boston last night in which he finished on an astonishing 30—under par. in one of his early rounds he was two shots off equalling the lowest round in the tour‘s history. he says he's targetting a lengthy stay at the top after knocking off spain's john rahm. you know, it's something that i'm very proud of, to be number one in the world. i would like to stay there for a little while. it has beenjumping there for a little while. it has been jumping around a there for a little while. it has beenjumping around a bunch over the last few months, but the last time i think i was number one i remained there for quite some time, and that

is another goal of mine, to just see how long i can remain at number one. japanese ex—formula 1 driver takuma sato has won his second indianapolis 500. new zealand's scott dixon led 111 of the 200 laps, but sato passed him after the final pit stops. fernando alonso, who returns to f1 in 2021, finished 21st. the tokyo paralympics should be getting under way this week, but instead athletes will have to wait until next year to compete at the rescheduled games. five—times gold medallist, wheelchair racer hannah cockroft, says some para—athletes may choose not to compete next year because of fears for their safety. i think ithinka i think a lot of para—athletes will struggle deciding whether they want to carry on the sport, deciding if it is safe to go to the games, safe to go to training. the pandemic has seen a lot of para—athletes not be able to access training facilities 01’ even able to access training facilities or evenjust not able to access training facilities or even just not feel safe enough to train. when we are out there

training, we are pushing their bodies to the absolute limits and your whole immune system is then lowered because you are finding those limits, and then you are more at risk. so a lot of athletes have stepped back and gone, i need to tone down my training and make sure iam tone down my training and make sure i am safe. it will be a mass decision for a lot of us to decide, you know, what is more important, my life for my sport, and we have to make the right one at the end of it. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. and we await to see whetherjames anderson makes it to 600 test wickets. test match special has full commentary today. back to you, simon. thank you, john. students and teachers in secondary schools in scotland could soon have to wear face coverings in corridors and communal areas. in her regular coronavirus briefing, first minister nicola sturgeon said that the scottish education

secretary is "in the final stages" of consultation with teachers and unions. over the weekend, the world health organization issued new guidance on this subject. it said that young people over the age of 12 in schools, where physical distancing was not possible and in areas of high transmission, then face coverings should be recommended. i said last week that we here in scotland were looking closely at this issue and taking advice from our expert advisory group. so, by way of update today, i can confirm that the education secretary is in the final stages of consulting with teachers and local authorities on a recommendation for the use of face coverings by staff and pupils in secondary schools when they are moving around in corridors and communal areas. we are consulting on this specific measure because, firstly, mixing between different groups is more likely in corridors and communal areas, increasing the potential for transmission. secondly, crowding and close contact in these areas is more likely and voices could be raised,

resulting in greater potential for creating aerosol transmission. and finally, there is often less scope for effective ventilation in these areas. so, this is a position, if we conclude it, as we expect to do, that would reflect and actually go slightly beyond current who guidance. we are also considering the position on school transport and i will set out, or we will set out, our conclusion in the next few days. but we are not currently consulting on any proposals to wear face coverings in classrooms. and that is because there is greater scope for physical distancing in the classroom and face coverings are, of course, more likely to interfere with teaching and learning. i would emphasise, however, that where there are outbreaks, it does remain an option for incident management teams to recommend more extensive use of face coverings if they believe in a particular area that that is required for a period to protect public health and reduce the risks of transmission.

more generally, the reason why we are consulting at this stage on a limited use of face coverings, and indeed the reason why we have been able to fully reopen schools, is because of the relatively low levels of transmission we currently see in the community. and that highlights a fundamental point. the best way to ensure that schools can stay open safely and that businesses can reopen and stay open, is for all of us to play our part in keeping transmission rates within the community as low as possible. nicola sturgeon. the liberal democrats will have a new leader this thursday. this morning the final two candidates layla moran and sir edward davey joined my colleague victoria derbyshire in the studio to lay out their visions for the party. sir ed davey, acting leader, said that he is pushing for a greener economy, a fairer society and more caring country. i think the economy is number one now, with probably the biggest and deepest recession we've had for 300 years.

i'm an economist by training, i put myself through night school for my postgrad in economics, and i've been thinking very hard about how we recover, so, people like emily, who've lost theirjobs, can look forward to a brighter future. i'm particular concerned about young people, as well as the climate emergency, so i've been tailoring my economic plans so it meets their aspirations and their hopes. since you've been acting leader in the past seven months, you've gone from 12% vote share in the december general election to 6% now. in fact, some lib dems insiders are said to call you, sir 6%. that is not good. first of all, i've been the acting co—leader after a disastrous general election during a pandemic. you've lost half your support in that time! and i remember, because i worked first with him, paddy ashdown when he was leader... 11 months into his leadership we got 5.9% in the first nationwide elections and then he led us on, he rebuilt us, he built the foundations. i was by his side at that time, i saw what he did. yes, sorry, paddy ashdown went from there to there.

you've gone from there to there. well, i don't think that's actually quite true, but what i will say is that under paddy, he built the foundations with our local government base, and i am fortunate, because, actually, our local government base, under vince, has been rebuilt... um, underjo was being built, and that will give us a really good springboard for, i think, really good results in the future. 0k. yes, it's difficult at the moment, challenging, but the question is — do you want someone with the experience i've got to bring to this job to rebuild our party? and i think that experience is really important. layla moran said voters should look at her track record of what she has acheived in the three years she's been an mp. i have little experience in parliament, although i would say look at their track record of what i have achieved in the three years that i have been here. currently, i am chairing the cross—party group on coronavirus. we are leading the inquiry over this summer period to work out... what have you actually achieved in the three years since you have been an mp? in 2017, i overturned a massive

conservative majority to win the seat in the first place, when others didn't. and we did that by amassing a group of people from all sides of the political spectrum to do it. where we are now as liberal democrats, we are at 6%, we have to turn this around. the bulk of my professional experience as a maths and physics teacher is outside of parliament. at a time when people don't trust politicians, we need to win back the trust of the electorate and show that we've learned from the mistakes of the past and start rebuilding again. this is a from—scratch situation. layla moran. a doctor in south africa has told the bbc that coronavirus patients have been dying from hypothermia after being forced to sit for hours in a freezing hospital tent. south africa has begun to win the battle against the virus, but there is growing outrage about high—level corruption and mismanagement linked to that campaign. our africa correspondent andrew harding has this exclusive report. winter in a poor township south of johannesburg.

as night falls, the temperature here can sink well below zero. we've come to the local hospital in sebokeng after a whistle—blower told us that suspected covid—19 patients were being forced to wait, sometimes for days, in this freezing cold tent. people have been dying here, not from the virus, but from suspected hypothermia. our source is a doctor inside the hospital here, i'm going to call her now. she's speaking out because she's so furious about what she's seen. as soon as night falls it's horrible. you can see the patients declining. it's freezing cold in the tent. down to “11. i felt stressed, hopeless. hypothermia is one of the major causes of death here, especially in the tent. this wasn'tjust on one occasion? no. there have been multiple cold fronts. it's terrible. how many patients need to die unnecessarily? we've tried to ask management where the money is being allocated to improve the tent, to get more staff. we don't get answers. one patient who spent hours in that

tent was martin mlombo. his mother took out an old school photo of the 30—year—old who died last month, it's not clear why. it was freezing, it was freezing. it was freezing. and you know it's winter and on one side it was open. how long was he like that? it was too long. too long. this is not an isolated story. although south africa has successfully moved past the peak of the pandemic, there is widespread anger here about mismanagement and alleged corruption. in a local stream, we saw hundreds of discarded boxes of ppe, almost certainly dumped by criminals now trying to cover their tracks as the government promises a crackdown. what concerns all south africans are those instances where funds are stolen, where they are misused, where goods that we have to procure are overpriced.

at sebokeng hospital, the line between bad management and overt corruption is unclear. but these internal messages leaked to the bbc reveal how experts repeatedly warned against using tents in the south african winter, calling them inhumane. in a statement, the government rejected the whistle—blower‘s claims and told us there was no evidence of patients dying of hypothermia here. we are told the situation here has improved in recent days, partly because of steps taken, partly because the infection rate has come down significantly. but of course those changes come far too late for some. another cold night begins in a nation where the virus has revealed both courage and decay. andrew harding, bbc news, south africa.

the headlines on bbc news... the prime minister tells parents it's "vitally importa nt" their children go back to school. borisjohnson says the life chances of a generation are at stake. scotland's first minister says secondary school children there may soon have to wear face coverings in communal areas soon have to wear face coverings in communal areas. tesco delivers, creating 16,000 new permanent roles to support the growth of its online business. the bbc has learned that foreign office officials expected british iranian nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe to be freed from jail in iran almost two and a half years ago. a deal to secure her freedom in 2017 appears to have been linked to the repayment of a multi—million pound debt to iran, but the money was never paid. mrs zaghari ratcliffe has already served four years in prison. the revelation comes in a bbc panorama investigation into the fate of dual british—iranian citizens detained in iran and accused of spying. darragh macintyre reports.

nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe was returning to the uk with her daughter after a holiday in iran when she was arrested in april 2016. she was convicted on spying charges that have been widely condemned as baseless, and sentenced to five years in jail. successive british governments and officials have raised her case with iran without result. her husband richard ratcliffe, reunited with their daughter last year, believes his wife is being held hostage. i would absolutely believe that hostagetaking is a tool of iranian diplomacy. it has become normalised as an acceptable thing to do. the us government agrees. it says nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe and a number of western citizens are being held by iran as diplomatic leverage. do you consider those western citizens that are being held in iran as hostages? yes. it's a tool of statecraft, it's part of iran's foreign policy to take people hostage who are innocent, and then trade them later for some

objective that they think advances their own objectives. iran denies hostagetaking but the uk does have something iran wants, £400 million. a debt owed for some 1500 chieftain tanks, paid for by the shah of iran before he was toppled in 1979. britain did not deliver the tanks to the new islamic republic and courts in britain and abroad agree that the uk owes iran the money. but it is yet to be paid. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has been told payment holds the key to her release. she was told by the judiciary, the deputy prosecutor, she was told by the judge that we are not going to release you until the british government pays for the money they owe iran, and she has been told that explicitly by three different parts of thejudicial system. officially, both the uk and iran say the debt and nazanin are not related. the uk government told the bbc it is unhelpful to suggest otherwise. but events seem to contradict that.

in november 2017, the iranian ambassador to london published this message. the debt is scheduled to be paid to iran by britain in the next few days. weeks later, boris johnson, then foreign secretary, went to tehran himself. the bbc understands a deal was almost reached. british officials told nazanin's family they were preparing for her to return to the united kingdom, there was even a date. the british embassy called up and said we think she might be coming out on the 28th of december. so the embassy were giving us a date to be ready for. but a deal never materialised. we don't know why. but well—placed sources have told us that some in the ministry of defence have objected to the payment of britain's debt. another british iranian anousheh ashouri has already spent three years injail. his wife made this plea. what would you say to boris johnson,

what would your central message be? it is money they owe. they are not doing iran a favour. they are paying a debt. if that would restore families, i would go on my knees, i would beg him to do it. at least eight british citizens have been detained in iran in recent years, though some have got home. iran says its justice system is lawful and human. the uk government says it is committed to securing the freedom of all british citizens, regarded as arbitrarily detained and that it continues to explore options to resolve the debt. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe has been placed temporarily under house arrest at her parents' home in tehran. the fate of other british iranians held in iran remains unclear. darragh macintyre, bbc news. and you can watch panorama: hostage in iran on bbc one at 7.30 this evening. firefighters in california are preparing for conditions

to worsen as they try to bring nearly 600 wildfires under control. lightning strikes which were blamed for starting many of the blazes last week are forecast to return, along with windy weather. tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes and six people have died. rich preston reports. the golden state. more than 4,000 square kilometres of it burning. in the napa valley, california's winemaking heartland, a perilous journey caught on dash cam. an ominous orange sky around a deserted university of california, santa cruz. fire retardants are being dropped from the sky to try and stop the flames spreading. but for some, it's too late — the damage has already been done. president trump has declared the fires a major disaster. i spoke to governor newsom as they battle two of the worst wildfires in the history of their state. that continues.

the federal government has already deployed over 26,000 first responders and personnel to battle the wildfires. we're working very closely with the governor. more than 100,000 people have been forced to flee, but where they'd normally sleep in shelters, many are avoiding them overfears of the spread of coronavirus. we have more than 400 red crossers who are on the ground and hundreds more who are helping virtually, and those folks are out there making sure that we're getting people in shelters or in hotel rooms where it's available. and they're also there just to make sure that the people who are coming to our shelters have a safe place to stay and food to eat. emergency crews have been overwhelmed by the number and intensity of the fires. the job is now to save lives and protect only the most essential buildings. but with warnings of more lightning strikes and high temperatures in the days ahead, fears that the fires could continue for at least another week.

rich preston, bbc news. a teenage volunteer at an archaeological excavation in israel has found a jar of gold coins buried for more than 1,000 years. the money dates back to the era of the abbasid caliphate, which ruled much of the region for centuries. the coins would have been worth a huge sum when they were buried, enough to buy a luxurious home in one of the empire's wealthiest cities. speaking last week when the discovery was made, the teenager who found the coins explained how his eye was drawn to something unusual in the dirt. translation: we were digging strips along the square and when i removed the soil with a hoe, i saw something that looked like leaves. i wanted to clear them but realised they might be coins. i looked down. at first i found about three of them. when i picked them up, i saw some more underneath. the oldest polar bear living in britain has died afterfalling ill on friday. victor, who was 22 and lived

at the yorkshire wildlife park near doncaster, suffered a terminal kidney failure and vets put him to sleep. park managers described him as the "most prolific breeder" in europe, having fathered 13 cubs in several countries. now it's time for a look at the weather, with phil avery. hello. as ever, we're in the business of forecasting. that particular picture will not replicate the weather anywhere across the british isles on monday. however, come tuesday, we will be looking at some very strong winds, some very heavy rain, some disruption is distinctly possible, because storm francis, as named by the met office, is looming in the south—western approaches of the british isles, throwing this banner of cloud and wind and rain ever closer towards many of us this evening and overnight, and we will still be feeling the effects as far ahead as wednesday, in some parts. keep dropping those isobars

into the centre of that storm, it deepens rapidly and then it starts throwing its banner of significant rain ever further north across england, wales and northern ireland. much of scotland escaping the worst of it overnight, quite a chilly night, in fact, underneath those relatively clear skies. they don't last, as the rain continues further towards the north. clearing from a good part of england and wales during tuesday. but you are left with a very strong, disruptive and potentially disruptive wind. so, let's take a look at those wind gusts. in the north of scotland, we are looking at 40mph. there might be limitations on the speeds on the bridges, disruption in the irish sea. some of the gusts getting up to about 70mph, even in the inland areas it could be getting up to 60mph, which is why the met office already has warnings about the wind and rain over the next day or so. temperatures, with a bit of brightness coming through, will get up to 22.

but stuck underneath the wind and the rain in aberdeen, you will be closer to 13. and it's notjust a flash in the pan, because on wednesday, notice the isobars still very tightly packed across the eastern side of scotland and england, so there will be some really blustery showers down those eastern—facing shores. out west, it's a different kettle of fish, the winds begin to ease, still noticeable in places, particularly in exposed locations, but at least it's a much drier and brighter prospect. but in the shorter term, we really have to consider the potential impact from storm francis as it crosses many parts of the british isles.

this is bbc news. i'm simon mccoy. the headlines... the prime minister tells parents it's "vitally importa nt" their children go back to school warning the life chances of a generation are at stake. nicola sturgeon says high school pupils in scotland could soon have to wear face coverings while moving between classes. mixing between different groups is more likely in corridors and communal areas increasing the potential for transmission. tesco delivers — creating 16,000 new permanent roles to support the growth of its online business protests erupt in the us state of wisconsin — after video shows police shooting a black man several times.