the against russia. the kremlin‘s reaction, poison - him? no reaction, poison what poison. no poison was found in alexei navalny‘s because of the pandemic. quual says ministers were warned body. we hear this thing time and that the emergency grading system could lead to major problems. tonight at 10: but the government insists that time when russia is accused of doing exams were cancelled to try to stop something under vladimir putin the the exams regulator for england the spread of coronavirus. default reaction is to deny it and also tonight: blames ministers try to confuse and muddy the waters. another government u—turn — people in bolton and trafford will not have their lockdown the ex; to; regulator for england restrictions eased after all. we saw in in salisbury and when i left the house to come and meet these two it was one accusations . russian meddling in thing and literally, american election. - a denial we sat down and i got an alert the american election. but a denial isn't being to convince angela on my phone to say that there's been a change around, that we're merkel or president macron, but does going back to being under lockdown in the north. russia care? increasingly i get the the russian opposition politician impression that russia doesn't care alexei navalny was poisoned what the west thinks about it. thank with a novichok nerve agent — the german government says it has you. "unequivocal proof". the number of people under 25 who are on universal credit has the words of rule brutannia doubled since march. will be sung at the last night of the proms — the government has now launched the bbc has changed its mind. and — the bbc‘s mishal husein tells a scheme called kickstart with a £2 billion fund to help the story of her grandfather

and the indian army's contribution create hundreds of thousands in the second world war. of work placements for those aged 16 to 2a and in the sport on bbc news, who are on universal credit britain's adam yates moved into the lead of the tour de france and at risk of long term unemployment. afterjulian alaphilippe was given ministers are urging firms a 20 second penalty on stage five. to sign up from today. our business editor simonjack has more details. a generation of young workers whose prospects have been hit hardest by the biggest economic shock in nearly a century. their futures are now looking less bright. lois, pictured here, was due to start a job at a holiday camp — that role no longer exists. she hopes the kickstarter good evening. scheme can help. loads of people are being made quual — the exams redundant and especially regulator for england — as a college leaver, has pointed the finger of blame jobs are so hard to at ministers for the chaos come by at the moment. surrounding this year's results. as a young person that has just finished college, quual's chairman says it's an amazing opportunity for me ministers were warned to get out there, build up skills that the emergency grading system on my cv and hopefully maybe could lead to major problems. get a job out of it, and sort of, you know, roger taylor added that ministers keep in the working way were advised to hold and still earn some money from it. socially—distanced exams or to delay them. and if those options were unworkable, then the scheme is available to under 25 using calculated grades would be the "worst case scenario". who are claiming universal credit. labour said it was now clear the government will pay national that the education secretary minimum wage for up to 25 hours

gavin williamson had been a week for six months, responsible for the mess. plus employers' national during the day, millions of pupils insurance contributions. in england and wales started to return to their classrooms, there are also grants of £1,500 as our education editor available to employers to cover their set—up costs. bra nwen jeffreys reports from shropshire. the £2 billion the treasury has earmarked for the scheme, first day at secondary on paper could provide school in a pandemic, teachers keen to reassure them. 300,000 six—month placements. that's three times the size of a similar scheme launched i spoke to a few of you and it's after the financial crisis, but those numbers are dwarfed completely normal for you to feel by the tens of billions really nervous, to have a funny the government has spent supporting furloughed workers, and it's feeling in your tummy, perhaps, feeling a little bit tense... unrealistic to expect this scheme each day, they will be to offset the flood ofjob losses, as that scheme is withdrawn in their year group bubble. some of the year 7s told me at the end of october. they've missed a lot. it feels like i'm not old enough there are fears older workers because we missed loads of year 6, will be let go to be replaced so it's pretty weird but it's by essentially free youngsters, but the government says all right at the same time. the scheme is designed it feels like i forgot a lot to prevent that kind of abuse. john nollett runs an engineering of things, since i haven't been firm in warwickshire. he's keen that firms who can take to school in a long time. fewer than 30 people will have maybe in the next couple of years, to join forces with others, which means it will take time there's going to be some baseline stuff that we don't really know the details have been sketchy. because we missed it in year 6. before they sit down to learn, a bit of cleaning, a lot

for schools to manage. the head teacher worrying been a change around, about the year ahead. she's still angry about this year's grades crisis, not impressed with an apology from the regulator. quual should have been very mindful that we've got to make sure that this cohort of children are not prevented from moving on and that should have been paramount. so the fact that they're saying they didn't give that enough consideration, i think, is really quite disgusting. and he was a witch hunter, of all the jobs he could be, he was a witch hunter... they'll work for five years towards gcse exams. to each child, their future grade is important. this year, an algorithm put the system first — an admission today to mps it was a mistake. to say this was fair just fails to recognise what happened to students. just the level of accuracy that was fundamentally possible

with the information that was available was too low to be acceptable to individuals. there were warnings it could put schools like this at a disadvantage. today, the prime minister wouldn't be drawn on what he knew, but said they acted quickly when the problems became clear. but ministers were told that socially—distanced exams were the best option. our second option was to delay exams, but the third option, if neither of these were acceptable, would be to have to try and get some form of calculated grade. so, the decision to cancel exams was taken by the education secretary, against the advice of the regulator, announced without warning. today, the government insisted it had no choice. it's been a tiring first day but they're happy. this morning ifelt scared because it's such a big school and i was at a tiny school

but now that i've got to know different people and i know where i'm meant to be, it's just felt good. for ministers, there's a long autumn term ahead. bra nwen jeffreys, bbc news, market drayton. the health secretary for england, matt hancock, says he took swift and decisive action when he changed his mind about lifting local restrictions in bolton and trafford. restrictions were due to be lifted there today, until the late change of mind by ministers this morning, as they cited a significant rise in the level of infection rates in recent days. the region's mayor, andy burnham, said the government's decision—making was complete chaos. our health correspondent dominic hughes reports from altrincham. at the common ground cafe in altrincham, customers are trying to process the off—again, on—again lockdown regulations. for students katherine, olivia and catrina, it's a bit of a mess. when i left the house

to come and meet these two, on my phone to say that there's