this is bbc news. the headlines: a 27—year—old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead — killed in front of his friends. they were crying and just inconsolable, really. one was saying, "i tried to save him, and i haven't done my best. i tried to save him". police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school in suffolk this morning. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement — and denies that its new brexit legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. the health secretary says the rise in coronavirus cases is concerning —

and is mainly among young people. a minute's silence — as the public inquiry into the manchester arena terror attack, which killed 22 people, gets underway. the world's number one novak djokovic apologises for hitting an official with a ball — and is disqualified from the us open. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. police in birmingham have arrested a 27—year—old man on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder, in connection with a series of stabbings in the city centre yesterday morning. the man was arrested in the selly oak area of the city at around 4am this morning. the attacks happened at four different locations across the city centre over 90 minutes early in the early hours.

phil mackie reports. it's 36 hours since the emergency services answered countless 999 calls from birmingham city centre. during little more than an hour and a half, one person was killed and seven more were injured. west midlands police said they believed there had been a lone attacker and released this footage of the man they wanted to speak to. the first report came through at half past midnight from constitution hill, where a man suffered superficial injuries. 20 minutes later in livery street a man and a woman were attacked. he was critically injured, she was less seriously hurt. at around ten to two a man was killed and another man was seriously injured in irving street. the final attack was in hurst street just after 2am. a man was arrested in connection with all of the attacks, a few miles away in selly oak. investigations are continuing across the city. this is irving street today. as you can see, there is still a lot of police activity here today. the cordon stretches along the road

and that blue tent marks the spot where the 23—year—old man died. his friend was also treated for stab wounds here in the street. it was a night of carnage in birmingham. there were the two guys‘ friends. i don't say they were from birmingham because i don't think so. they were crying and just inconsolable, really. one was saying, "i tried to save him and i haven't done my best. i tried to save him". the question being asked is how did an apparent lone attacker manage to attack so many people in a busy city centre and evade capture? the streets were very crowded at the time, and the way he operated allowed him to move from place to place. that is a concern. however, that will come out further in the investigations and we'll be able to get some sort of handle on this. the police had a large presence in the area at the time. a man was arrested at around four o'clock this morning. investigations have

focused on this house. it looked like there were some police outside, and, you know, i don't know what was going on. i think they must have broken into next door and i think they were doing a search in there. there's still plenty of work for the police to do, and they are appealing for help from anyone who was out on saturday night. phil mackie, bbc news, birmingham. police have arrested a teenage boy after reports of a shooting in suffolk. the victim 7 a 15—year—old boy who was on his way to school — sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to hospital where he is receiving urgent medical attention. debbie tubby is in kesgrave where the incident took place. this area of ipswich is quiet, large houses, nice cars, now cordoned off by police, surrounded by police cars, forensic units and also the dog teams. the police helicopter has been flying overhead. police have confirmed that they had a call at 8:40am

of reports of a shooting. they have said that it's a 15—year—old who is the victim, and he has sustained serious injuries and has been airlifted by the airambulance to addenbrooke‘s hospital, where he is receiving what they describe as urgent medical attention. the high schooljust up the road, kesgrave high school, tweeted this morning that there has been a serious incident involving a year 11 student on their way to school and that students will be kept in all day for their safety. police have confirmed that they have arrested a teenage boy, and they have taken him into custody and are questioning him. the government says it is still committed to implementing the eu withdrawal agreement that was agreed last year. but new legislation that will be published on wednesday will say uk ministers will decide which goods would be "at risk" of entering the single market, if a brexit agreement can t be reached before the end of the year. the government says it will only make "minor clarifications in extremely specific areas"

and denied that it would "tear up" what has already been agreed. in a moment our reality check correspondent will be dotting the is and crossing the ts, but first our political correspondent iain watson reports. get brexit done, that was the successful slogan employed by boris johnson at last year's general election. the uk left the eu at the end ofjanuary but getting a trade deal with brussels has been much more challenging. talks resume tomorrow. but the prime minister has been bullish about britain's prospects if no deal is reached. the government has said this is not a threat, it is a reality. the prime minister has been absolutely clear, since he was elected with a very clear mandate to leave, that we would leave at the end of the transition period with or without a further negotiated settlement, but that we would work absolutely night and day to try to get that ca nada—style free trade agreement that we seek. but if the european union would not offer that, then we would still leave on time. the uk is continuing to follow eu

rules until the end of the year, but the government has said that the middle of next month is the real deadline for a trade deal. businesses must know by then if there will be a free trade deal from januaryi when most goods can be traded without additional costs or tariffs, or if they have to plan for more paperwork and higher prices. the eu has said that it wants a deal but is prepared for all eventualities. while we are determined to reach an agreement with the uk, the eu will be ready, in the event of a no—deal scenario, to trade with the uk on wto terms as of the ist of january 2021. to get brexit done, the uk signed up to the northern ireland protocol, which ensures there will be no hard border on the island of ireland. it also means that there will be some checks on food and livestock going from great britain to northern ireland. but on wednesday, the government will publish new legislation that could override aspects of this agreement. the withdrawal agreement is an international

treaty with obligations to international law. it cannot simply be ripped up and opened up simply to meet the domestic whims of westminster. government ministers insist that they have no intention of overiding the main parts of the agreement with the eu and northern ireland. that issue, they say, is simply some minor technical details. but both the european union and the labour party are warning that any further tinkering could put the hopes of a wider trade deal at risk. if it is meant to be a negotiating tactic, it is not a very effective one, because it undermines all the progress that has been made over the last several months and completelyjeopardises a future trading relationship. both sides insist they still want to reach a trade deal, but the main trade at the moment seems to be in robust rhetoric. iain watson, bbc news. in a moment we'll talk to our brussels correspondent nick beake. first to westminster and our political correspondent, helen catt.

we know the talks aren't going well so we know the talks aren't going well so what's going on, 7 we know the talks aren't going well so what's going on,? there are these two strands of negotiation that are going on. on the one hand you have negotiations with michel barnier, david frost looking at that wider trade deal, the one borisjohnson has set a date on, say it has to be done by october 15 and if it doesn't look like we will get one before then, we should be knocking that on the head and going for an australia style arrangement. there are those on the one hand and we know those have been touchy to put it mildly, but we also know that on the other side there are these other negotiations going on relating to a deal already been done which is the withdrawal agreement from last year. specifically how to make some bits of it work. one of the really big sticking point is that needed

resolving was what to do about the situation in northern ireland given its geographical and historical context its geographical and historical co ntext a nd its geographical and historical context and the solution they came up context and the solution they came up with was that northern ireland can stay in the uk customs union but it will keep following eu regulations so that there is no disruption of trade between northern ireland and the republic of ireland, thisjoint committee ireland and the republic of ireland, this joint committee of the eu and the uk has been trying to square that circle and working out that how that circle and working out that how that will work in practice. what has set the cat among the pigeons is this new legislation the government will bring in parliament this week which is to do with that. as you heard in the report there were suggestions that this legislation would tear up that withdrawal agreement that has already been decided and that has caused a huge concern about what that means for international treaties here, but government sources were confirming it would override what was in the withdrawal agreement. today a different tone from downing street saying it is not trying to tear up

that agreement, it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement and the northern ireland protocol as it is known and what it is going to do with this legislation is going to do with this legislation is try and make these clarifications, so if this committee doesn't reach agreement in time there won't be ambiguity. it does give the uk and the minister some pretty big unilateral powers, want to mention is this idea of goods that are going into northern ireland, if they are deemed to be at risk as part of this protocol of going into the new, they would end up going into the new, they would end up being subject to tariffs if there isn't a deal in this domestic legislation that has been brought in this week would give uk ministers unilateral power decide what those goods were. all quite complicated and quite contentious. let's go to nick in brussels. we had the were tetchy there, that sums it up at the moment. from the eu perspective they

have seen this coming from london over the past 24 hours or so, that initial message that potentially the government would be prepared to rip up government would be prepared to rip up some of the deal done last year and replace it with new domestic legislation and as we are hearing from helen, over the legislation and as we are hearing from helen, overthe past legislation and as we are hearing from helen, over the past hour legislation and as we are hearing from helen, overthe past hour or so, it seems the government position is softening. certainly in terms of what the eu key figures are saying, we have had the president of the european commission saying she trusts the uk will not go back on what was agreed, she trusts that they will keep their word because without it she says it would be breaking international law. basically torpedoing any sort of future relationship, that has been a message echoed today for michel barnier, the chief negotiator on the eu side. says this is all about trust, confidence. if you are saying one thing, sign up to another and going back on it, where does that leave us? the trade talks start again in london tomorrow. helen, a

sense of deja vu about this because you wonder who the government's audience is? is it brussels or one of their own backbenchers some of whom regard that withdrawal agreement as a complete sell—out? whom regard that withdrawal agreement as a complete sell—ounm isa agreement as a complete sell—ounm is a bit of both. it was only this time last year that we were moving up time last year that we were moving up to leaving. it was october the year before that was one of two may's deadlines. this government has made it pretty clear that the transition period will not be extended, it will end on the 31st of december and even if there is a free trade deal and we are outside of the single market, we are out of the customs union. it does feel these are the final phase of negotiations and the government try to up the pressure here. nick, the thing about how brussels looks at it, it does

seem as how brussels looks at it, it does seem as though they are holding back, unusually because they are not usually so slow in coming forward. back, unusually because they are not usually so slow in coming forwardlj think that is right. you have the central figure, michel barnier who has the mandate, responsibility, the green light from the individual 27 remaining states and member states and the eu have made the decision that while the government position is being debated in this way, the fa ct is being debated in this way, the fact that it is confusing, they will bide their time and two crucial things over the next 48 hours, the point at which michel barnier sits down tomorrow with david frost and the renegotiation to resume. mr barnier says he wants to know what is going on and on wednesday when the british government gives us more details about what is within this proposed legislation, then the eu will be in a position to talk more. they haven't been briefing today. you have a few things from people behind the scenes saying this is muscles flexing when trade deals

when get to a crucial point about the eu is holding back and letting the eu is holding back and letting the uk do all the talking. nick and helen, thank you both very much. the headlines on bbc news: a 27—year—old man is arrested on suspicion of murder in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school this morning. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement — and denies that its new brexit legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. the public inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has begun with a minute's silence. the names of the 22 victims were then read out. the bomber, salman abedi, blew himself up outside an ariana grande concert in 2017. opening the inquiry, its chair sirjohn saunders said they were looking for the truth not scapegoats. fiona trott reports

from manchester magistrates‘ court. a minute's silence for the victims. an emotional start to a distressing inquiry. to establish the facts, relatives will be reminded of what happened three years ago. this was the scene shortly after salman abedi detonated his bomb at the ariana grande concert. 22 people were killed that night, the youngest was eight years old. salman abedi was also killed. his brother hashem helped him plan the attack. he was jailed for 55 years last month. salman abedi was known to the security service... today, the chair of the inquiry said they were to blame. the hearing was not looking for scapegoats. all the participants have said they want to learn the lessons of what happened on the 22nd of may, 2017, and to reduce the risk of it ever happening again. if i conclude on the evidence that things went wrong, then i shall say so,

but we are not looking for scapegoats. we are searching for the truth. the relatives of those who died have also been warned that some of the details will be distressing in the extreme. a 22—year—old man named salman abedi was also waiting in the city room, but not to pick up the child. instead, his presence was the product of pure malevolence and the result of months of planning and preparation by him and his younger brother, hashem abedi. what the inquiry won't examine in public is everything m15 already knew about salman abedi before the attack. it is an issue of national security, and the parents of the youngest victim — saffie roussos — say that's hard to accept. lessons will never be learned unless we get that transparency and honesty from the people involved to get the answers that we need. victims like saffie are at the heart of this inquiry.

in the coming days, relatives will be given the chance to say something about them. professor bill tupman is a security and terrorism expert at the university of exeter. what issues of national security might come up? they are not going to raise the issue of national security, they are going to keep those quiet. it looks to be a close pa rt those quiet. it looks to be a close part of the enquiry as well as an open part, but for me, the question really goes back to the security services attitude to libyan people and whether we get into the trap of thinking that my enemy's enemy is my friend without realising that actually certain sorts of activists will be enemies to both us and to

colonel oaddafi. the second issue is was there a period in which the security services didn't take seriously candidates for terrorism who had been involved in petty crime. i think that happens right across europe and came to an end only after an incident. the families wa nted only after an incident. the families wanted this to be an inquest but that would have had to remain open. it's now an enquiry which means they can go in camera, they can go away from the public eye and a lot of people might find that a bit strange because wouldn't we need to know what it is that the securities services did or didn't know and acted upon it? the security services a nswer acted upon it? the security services answer is we have already had a review. i can't believe they would not have looked into these matters and adjusted policy accordingly. it's quite simply that they would

not want to go into their relationships with muslim extremists in the overthrow of gaddafi, that's a problem there for them. in terms of the reaction to a tourism event of the reaction to a tourism event of this nature, a lot is going to focus on how the emergency services reacted to it. there could be lessons learned from that.|j reacted to it. there could be lessons learned from that. i think the big problem is you have a situation where people are scared, afraid that there is going to be a second bomber and i think it will be around this area that the families are going to be really upset because i think that it's fairly clear that there was some dithering about whether to go in and looked after the victims in the immediate after —— aftermath of the bombing and the

protocols were not clear as to how to cope with this situation. at what point do you decide you had to go m, point do you decide you had to go in, at what point do you decide you have to wait? that has to be discussed in public and transparently. but in reality, there isn't a one size fits all for dealing with terrorism events because they can be so different in nature. indeed and that has to do with looking at relationships between gold and silver and bronze command on the day and the training, but that will be reviewed and discussed i think by the enquiry. professor, thank you so much for your time. good to talk to you. the health secretary, matt hancock, says the large rise in new coronavirus infections in the uk is concerning and is because young people are failing to practice social distancing. nearly 3,000 new positive tests were confirmed yesterday — that's the largest rise in a single

day since mid—may. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. the silent enemy it seems is forging ahead again. a rise in coronavirus infections has been identified following the easing of restrictions over the summer. yesterday the government announced nearly 3,000 new infections — that's an increase of more than 1,000 on the previous day. it's the highest daily infection figure since may. the rise in cases is believed to be being driven by young people, and there was a stark warning from ministers today. don't kill your gran by catching coronavirus and then passing it on, and you can pass it on before you have had any symptoms at all. the message to people of all ages is that we must, as a society, all follow the social distancing rules in order to protect ourselves, protect our friends and family, and protect the wider community from the spread of the disease.

but student leaders are angry and say that young people shouldn't be scapegoated. as far as i know, young people are seeking to be actively protecting other members of their community as well as themselves, and i think it's important we don't generalise young people, nor do we generalise students. i think lots of young people and students themselves are immunocompromised, are parents and carers. unlike infections, so far there has not been a rise in deaths from coronavirus in the uk. yesterday two deaths were reported, but scientists say it makes sense because of the younger age of those infected. young people are at very low risk of developing any kind of severe disease, or even any symptoms at all, and therefore if you see an outbreak dominated by younger people, you wouldn't automatically expect that you will see the same increase in mortality that we saw back in march because we know there was a much more generalised infection across the population then. france reported similar levels

of infection to the uk in mid—august, but three weeks on that has more than doubled. in fact, one day last week it had almost trebled. and with schools, universities and workplaces reopening in the uk, preventing the rise in cases from spiralling out of control is the big challenge. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. up to 300 people who attended a charity football match at a working men s club near sunderland are being asked to self—isolate after 28 people tested positive for covid. it was held at at the burnside working men s club last sunday. public health officials said contact tracing is being carried out, but anyone who was at the match should self—isolate until midnight on sunday. the club has admitted the precautions set in place were not strict enough. stuart win—cup has the latest from the club: the game here was advertised widely on social media. it involved two of burnside's teams taking on each other in an attempt to raise money for a local cancer charity.

after the football was finished here, the groups went over to the clubhouse. now it has emerged that 300 people went over to the clubhouse where there were games, food and drink and raffles taking place. this health warning has come out after it emerged that 28 people who went to that event tested positive for covid—19. anyone who has been at that event has been told they must self—isolate. because of the location, health officials from both durham and sunderland are involved in these investigations with public health england and contact tracing is already being carried out with anyone deemed to be in close contact to someone who has tested positive. health officials are telling people they still had to self—isolate even if they have already had a test and it's come back negative, that's because they say it can take up to 14 days before those symptoms actually show and they say this because of action is needed to reduce the spread of the virus.

india has recorded more than 90,000 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours — taking its total above that of brazil, and second—only in numbers to the united states. the country has also now reported 71,642 deaths, the third—highest in the world. the rise comes as the government continues to lift restrictions to try to boost an economy that lost millions ofjobs when the virus hit in march. this morning, metro services have reopened in delhi. julian assange s extradition hearing to the united states, which was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, has resumed at the old bailey. the 49—year—old was brought to the central criminal court in a prison van from high security belmarsh prison where he has been held for more than a year. he is facing 18 charges in the us over publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents. there's been an increase in train services in england, wales and scotland, as schools reopen and people are encouraged to return to work. services are returning to around 90% of pre—pandemic capacity, with passenger numbers now back

to about one—third of normal levels. our business correspondent theo leggett reports. the daily commute is coming back. from today, rail companies will be operating something close to a full service. commuting by train these days is very different from how it used to be, yet these passengers arriving at london liverpool street this morning seemed unconcerned. they have barriered off certain seats you cannot sit at, so it's maintaining spaces between everyone on the trains. i think you just have to get out, and then once you get out you kind of get rid of your fears. the new timetable has been designed to allow more people to travel while maintaining a degree of social distancing. although there still won't be quite as many services as they used to be, at busy times or in busy stations, there will be longer trains, more carriages and perhaps more frequent services. at the moment, there is still scope on many routes to carry more passengers while keeping infection risks to a minimum,

but as the number of people returning to their old commutes rises, that may become much more difficult. social distancing and public transportation, you know, they are not natural bedfellows but we have to work with what we have got. the most important thing for us to ensure people can travel with confidence is to increase the number of services we provide, and ensure they are as clean as possible and that passengers have the right information to make informed decisions. the government is worried that if offices continue to stand empty, city centres will become ghost towns and the shops and cafes which once thronged with workers will not survive, but business lobbies say working patterns may have changed for good and travel firms need to offer passengers much more flexibility. we're no longer in the days when people were going into the office five days a week, so a standard traditional travel card probably isn't the right way to go. we need flexible systems that allow people to buy at the right price but don't mean they have to waste

money on days they are not going to travel. for months, the government has been propping up the rail network, funding a minimum number of services at a time when paying passengers were few and far between. just another reason why it's keen for people to see commuting to work as a normal way of life once again. theo leggett, bbc news. broadcaster emma barnett will be the new presenter of bbc radio 4's woman's hour. the 5 live and newsnight presenter will step into the shoes of jane garvey and damejenni murray — who have both decided to step down from the show. barnett will take over in january of next year. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick. count yourself lucky if you have seen count yourself lucky if you have seen sunshine today. a mainly cloudy day, rain to be had in places as well, most likely western scotland, wales, western england errors across the eastern side of the uk you may

be seeing a bit of hazy brightness, temperature is around 17—20. warmer tomorrow. a mild night tonight. clear spells in scotland, wales, western parts of england. some coastal health around. tomorrow, againa lot coastal health around. tomorrow, again a lot of cloud around, some brighter breaks, more especially to the east of high ground, but towards wales, western england a bit of drizzle then places especially in the hills where it is still misty and murky. rain and freshening wind into north—west scotland. despite all of the cloud it is on the one side. if you see any sunshine in eastern england, temperatures approaching the mid 20s.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: a 27—year—old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school in suffolk this morning. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement, and denies that its new brexit legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. the condition of russian opposition leader alexei navalny is improving, according to officials in germany, where he is being treated for poisoning by a novichok nerve agent. the health secretary says the rise in coronavirus cases is concerning, and is mainly among young people. a minute's silence — as the public inquiry into the manchester arena terror attack, which killed 22 people,

gets underway. sport now and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. from the bbc sport centre. phil foden and mason greenwood have been asked to leave england's training camp after breaking quarantine rules following saturday's win against iceland. in a news conference in the last hour, gareth southgate has confirmed both players broke the guidelines around being in a covid—secure bubble and they'll now have to travel back to england separately. they both made their senior international debuts in the 1—0 victiory in rejkjavic in the nations league at the weekend, but won't be involved against denmark tomorrow. southgate says he's still working his way through the facts before he decides any further action against both players. they have been naive. we have dealt with it appropriately. i think everything from there on, i

recognise that age, but the whole world a re recognise that age, but the whole world are dealing with this pandemic and there is responsibility in every age group to make sure that they play their part in keeping a java safe. u nfortu nately for play their part in keeping a java safe. unfortunately for the two boys that are going to find themselves in this situation because of where we are across the globe with a pandemic, where they will be a lot ofjudgment of pandemic, where they will be a lot of judgment of them pandemic, where they will be a lot ofjudgment of them from afar. so it is not for me to make that more difficult for them. they understand their responsibilities. they understand they have got this wrong, and now we have got to separate them from the squad because of ourjob is to get on with the game. next to novak djokovic, who says he's extremely sorry for the stress he's caused a linejudge after hitting her in the throat with a ball at the us open. the world number one, who was disqualified following the incident during his fourth round match against spain's pablo carreno busta, says it was unintended and wrong, and the whole situation has left him sad and empty. katie gornal reports.

championships can swing on one moment. this was the bizarre moment novak djokovic's dreams of another us open title came crashing down. while he was clearly not aiming for her, the ball hit the linejudge in the throat and caused her obvious distress. for this recklessness, the rules are clear, he had to go. he did not speak to the press but later issued an apology on the social media, saying... a huge favourite for the tournament, he had already been showing signs of frustration in the opening set of his match against pablo carreno busta. from there, it unravelled. his match against pablo carreno busta. from there, it unravelledlj was in shock. i never expected this moment playing against him. this was

not intentional, but the rules are the rules. the referee and the supervisor did the right thing. it is not easy to do it. many have had their say. billie jean king is not easy to do it. many have had their say. billiejean king said... another said... it is the latest of a line in controversies for novak djokovic was up controversies for novak djokovic was up injune, he was criticised for staging a tournament in the balkans. he later tested positive for coronavirus. he has also driven the creation of a new players union, which has created divisions. in 2020, the only person who can

beat novak djokovic is himself. there is more reaction to that story over on the bbc sport website. also understory around the two players being sent home from the training camp. manchester united are not adding more at the moment. scottish first minister nicola sturgeon has said the country is facing a "key moment" in the coronavirus pandemic. at her daily briefing, she announced a further 146 new positive cases, down from the 208 reported yesterday. there have been no new deaths in scotland in the past 24 hours, but hospital admissions are now rising. the first minister said the people could not afford to slip into complacency. as we have released ourselves from lockdown, we have also released to the virus from lockdown. people are meeting and interacting with each

other more often. of course, this kind of increase we are experiencing in scotland is not unique to us. we are seeing similar increases across the uk and europe and many other parts of the world. while that might not be surprising, it is after all an infectious virus, we must take this trend seriously and, if we want to avoid having to close parts of oui’ to avoid having to close parts of our economy down again, and i think we all want to avoid that, we must step up our ways of keeping covid—19 under control. this is a key moment, andi under control. this is a key moment, and i want therefore to be pretty frank with you in my assessment today. let me be clear. that cuts both ways. i will be frank about some of the important differences between the situation we are in now and where we were earlier in the year. it is important to give some context year. it is important to give some co ntext a nd year. it is important to give some context and to take care not to

overstate the situation. i will also be frank about the reasons why we cannot afford to slip into a sense of complacency, and also about the things we need to do to try to keep the situation under control and continue to bear down on this virus which has always been and should a lwa ys which has always been and should always be our objective. first the context, which is important to give. the last time we had over 200 cases ona the last time we had over 200 cases on a single day like yesterday was on a single day like yesterday was on the 8th of may and on that day we had 225 cases. notwithstanding that headline similarity, there are important differences between the situation now and earlier in the year. for example, the 225 reported on the 8th of may represented around 7% of people tested. yesterday's two had cases was 2.3% of people tested. the point i am making here is that earlier in the in the year, the daily case numbers were probably more of an underestimate of true prevalence than our daily numbers are now, because we are now testing

more people than we were back then. also on the 8th of may, there were 75 people in intensive care and more than 1000 people in hospital with covid—19. as you have heard, that co m pa res to covid—19. as you have heard, that compares to five nicu today and 256 in hospital. as you might recall me saying last week, some of the people counted in our hospital figures now may have already recovered, so we are looking closely at this. generally, we are not so far seeing the increase in cases leading to an increase in cases admitted to hospital and intensive care. while the scientists don't i think fully yet understand why that is the case, it may partly reflect the fact that, right now, younger people make up a higher percentage of positive cases and although they still can get seriously ill, they are less likely to do so. i think all of this provides important context, for you

to listen to me and take serious what i say, it is important that i am not overstating things, that i don't sound as if i am scaremongering to you. that context is important to give. but, and there is important to give. but, and there is always about, and this is my main message today, that context must not bea message today, that context must not be a source of complacency. downing street say they are committed to their withdrawal agreement, despite 20 to make minor class occasions in certain areas. a number ten spokesman said they wanted to make "minor clarifications" in "extremely specific areas". chris hazzard is the sinn fein mp for south down and the pa rty‘s brexit spokesperson. what do you think is going on with these talks and with these statements?

we have to wait to see the contents of the bill as it is published later this week to know if this is merely another attempt at the sabre rattling at the european commission in order to draw concessions at a late stage, or if this is going to be an extreme, provocative and desperate attempt from the british government, who will want to present themselves to the world as u ntrustworthy themselves to the world as untrustworthy and indeed as a pariah when it comes to being able to agree any sort of trade agreement going forward. we have had a number of very positive commitments, not only from the european commission today but from the irish government and from the us congress, to remind the british government that if they don't live up to the protocol and withdrawal agreement and if they play fast and loose with the irish peace process, they can kiss goodbye to any hope of a us trade deal. so we we re to any hope of a us trade deal. so we were here this time last year, we

had another very similar bit of theatre, jingoistic language from borisjohnson theatre, jingoistic language from boris johnson and the theatre, jingoistic language from borisjohnson and the brexit supporters rallying around the flag. boris quickly performed a u—turn and faced the realities of brexit, and i think that is what we must get back to here. the tories have no mandate on the island of ireland, and the people we represent do not want brexit. they are happy and content with their protections within...” will interrupted, because you say we we re will interrupted, because you say we were here a year ago. we were, but things have changed. the uk has now left the european union, we are in a transition period. as you say, boris johnson then many would say he backs down, others would say that the withdrawal agreement with something ofa withdrawal agreement with something of a let down. can ijust specify exact what it is with you that you are most concerned about. is it the prospect of physical checks on the

island border with the north? is that at the heart of this, and any imprecations that has for the good friday agreement? of course. it is not just ourselves that friday agreement? of course. it is notjust ourselves that have said that. the british government themselves and the tories and boris johnson, and theresa may before, have said they do not want to cause damage to the northern ireland peace process. that is why the protocol was so process. that is why the protocol was so important, to protect ordinary people, detect businesses whose business model is built on the northern ireland market and the supply chains. that is why the protocol was so important. that is why so much hard work put in by the european commission and the ireland government. people must remember, the majority of people here in the north oppose brexit and more than content with the protocol and objections that are now in place to protect our going forward. but we

are pr, as i have said. when we are in the final stages of talks, whether about brexit or anything, it is always the hardest part of a negotiation. are we notjust seeing something to excellent ship in terms of those talks? —— brinkmanship in terms of those talks? this type of creating a crisis last—minute is typical of the british government when it comes to negotiations in order to draw concessions out of their political opponents. we know that. we have warned the european commission going back months now that they must remain firm. at the end of the day, the integrity of the european project, our sovereignty, the picking of our business, that is

what is most important here. —— the protection of our business. they must stand firm on those reductions. the british government must remember they have signed up to these protections, they have spoken publicly about how it is important to protect the peace process. now it is time to deliver on that. when the primer talks about a good deal for the uk, that is at odds with what you would see is a good deal. given that we are about to leave the eu, what would be a good deal? there is no good brexit for the people of ireland. that is why we rejected brexit as an early premise. the government's own scenario planning has the north coming out worse in every sickle outcome. that is why we don't want it, that is why the protections in place allow us to stay within the framework of the

european union. that is what is so important moving forward. that is what we want to protect, the peace process , what we want to protect, the peace process, our devolved administrations and the right of our own people to national self—determination ultimately. own people to national self-determination ultimately. what will it take for you to accept that brexit saponin question might i am certainly not somebody who think they can turn back the clock. we know that brexit is happening. this is protecting our national interests, the people who represent that. we have come to the reality long ago that we need the protocol, that we need the protections. the problem is the british government, the brexit supporters and the dup, they continue to ignore the reality and think that they can somehow have their cake and eat it. we heard this morning on french radio that the british want the best of both worlds, which is not possible. for a successful outcome, then easterby ——

there needs to be compromise on both sites. what the british are saying is that they are being treated in these talks as though they are still members of this club, and the club needs to understand... it is what i am saying to you on a more personal basis, is there an acceptance in the eu that the uk has left? that a cce pta nce eu that the uk has left? that acceptance has been there for some time. again, i think that many voices in the british media have failed to reflect the views of european diplomats and political representatives adequately in recent months. covid—19 and the recovery from that is foremost in the minds of the european parliamentarians was not they understand that british people have voted for brexit, i have no doubt that that was the case. they want to get on and get it done. we have a withdrawal agreement, a

political declaration. it is now the british government living up to the terms of that agreement, and that is where the problem lies with top good to talk to you. thank you. the headlines on bbc news: a 27 year old man is arrested on suspicion of murder in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15 year old pupil was shot on his way to school this morning. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement — and denies that its new brexit legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. reports from belarus say a prominent opposition protest leader has been adbucted by masked men in minsk. it comes as the kremlin announced that the country's president alexander lukashenko will visit moscow for talks "in the coming days". jonah fisher has been covering the political crisis in belarus and is now in kyiv

in neighbouring ukraine. she was the most prominent and one of the last leading opposition figures still at liberty in belarus. all of the others had been either detained or forced to leave the country. what we have been told is that earlier this morning she was bundled into a minivan by master men and driven away. the authorities in belarus have not confirmed they have taken her. belarus have not confirmed they have ta ken her. but belarus have not confirmed they have taken her. but this is executive sort of way they have been operating in the last few weeks, dragging away people in vans like this. it has the hallmarks of them taking her in some way. the possibility of her being taken, being way. the possibility of her being ta ken, being arrested way. the possibility of her being taken, being arrested in some way, has hung over herfor the taken, being arrested in some way, has hung over her for the last few weeks was not i caught up with her if you weeks ago and i asked exactly about that. do you feel safer? you what the most prominent opposition leader on the streets of minsk. are you worried

because you might know, i am not worried. i am a very safe. when you see these people around me, i am happy, and i feel very see these people around me, i am happy, and ifeel very safe here. without the support of russia and the kremlin, alexander lukashenko would probably not be in office any longer. he appears clearly to have lost the support of the belarus young people. we have seen demonstrations against him. he does have the support of the security forces, who have been detaining some protesters in the last few days was the but crucially it is the support from moscow and from president putin which will sustain him in power if he is going to survive what at the moment is a very serious situation for him, which he will really struggle to emerge from as president. the first formal talks between afghan officials and the taliban are expected to begin in qatar this week. the two sides were meant to begin negotiations back in march, but continuing violence and the wrangling over a prisoner exchange plan have led to repeated delays. the talks follow the signing of an agreement between the taliban

and the united states earlier this year, and will aim to put an end to the nearly two—decade—long war which has cost thousands of lives. secunder kermani reports now on some of the challenges ahead. two bitter enemies who fought for the past two decades reached a historic agreement in february. but on the ground in afghanistan, fighting has continued. the agreement between the united states and the taliban wasn't a peace deal, just a step towards one. it set out a provisional timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces and was meant to kick—start separate talks between the militants and afghan officials. after months of wrangling over a prisoner exchange plan, those negotiations look set to finally begin. the two sides will be discussing a ceasefire and trying to reach a political reconciliation.

this is a campaign suggesting red lines which shouldn't be sacrificed in the process. afghans are tired of conflict, but also worry any settlement could mean the rolling back of fragile progress on issues such as women's rights. translation: the taliban have to accept the reality of today's afghanistan. if they don't accept it, i don't think these peace talks will have a real result and instead, the situation could become even worse. our rights were taken away by the taliban during their five years in power. we weren't treated as human beings. before the taliban, we had a good life and we fought for our rights. people should remember that history. the taliban ruled over most of afghanistan from the mid—1990s, until they were overthrown

by a us—led invasion in 2001. they governed using a brutal interpretation of sharia law. the group insists it's changed but it's not clear how much. i met one of their chief negotiators last year and tried to pin him down on exactly what form the future government they want to see. would it be an islamic emirate, as they previously established? will you accept democracy? that is... i cannot say no because there are many types of government which was tested in afghanistan. the views are different, so some people, they want emirates system. some people, they want presidential form of government, some people, they want parliamentary system. but what will be everybody majority, will be according to them. and how do you find out? how do you find out what the majority want? that will be discussed, that will be discussed. a lot is going on, so with the government,

the form of government, comes discussion, so we will see how many people are supporting this. the talks could last many months but president trump has made clear he wants us troops back home as soon as possible. that leaves some worried it's the taliban with the upper hand. secunder kermani, bbc news. a limited number of driving tests have been made available to book in england and wales today, following the problems faced last week by people trying to book online. the huge backlog of people waiting for the practical exam has been exacerbated by problems with the computer booking system which led to the service being taken offline. johnny rutherford reports. as if it isn't enough pressure on stu d e nts as if it isn't enough pressure on students taking the driving exams, now it seems that being able to get a date for one is proving difficult. there have been problems with the online booking system in the past, and today the website reopened, and

it is very busy with queues into the thousands. in the past it has been crazy for supper try to book a test for one of my pupils last week. i was 70,000th in the queue. it took me over six hours to get to the front of the queue and then there we re front of the queue and then there were no tests available. i am hoping today will be a bit better. but because of the backlog, i doubt it. from next week, the dv essay says drivers will be able to book up to 18 weeks ahead of their test rather than the usual sex was top of course there are two micro exams, the practical and theory, you have to past first. it has been quite difficult, but i first found out that my friend was over 7000th on the waiting list was not i logged on, had a look. it was a 7000 waiting list that didn't look like it was budging. i waited and then got through. i spoke to one instructor who said that his

stu d e nts instructor who said that his students did not have a booking problem. we are able to bypass the queueing system as driving instructors. using the government gateway service, we were able to book a number of tests at once and quite quickly. that method of booking doesn't seem to be widely known and of course may not suit everyone. just some news from the transport secretary, who will be making a statement injust over secretary, who will be making a statement in just over half—an—hour. we are expecting him to say that the government is backing the idea of what are called regional travel corridors. this is in response to the covid—19 pandemic. this means the covid—19 pandemic. this means the uk government could apply as travel corridor to either a country's may not specific islands the infection rate is significantly different. that means that regions with a low infection rate, such as

the canary with a low infection rate, such as the ca nary islands with a low infection rate, such as the canary islands and spain could be removed from every quarantined list. it also works the other way, that greek islands which have been causing increasing concerns could be added very soon to the quarantined list. one airline called the announcement to little too late. we will carry that announcement at 3:30pm. we will have more analysis of that as well. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. cloudy skies for the next few days, but warm. especially in the sunshine. also quite humid. a bit more rain on the way for north wales. for north—east scotland, there is some texture in the cloud on this picture. it is here we may get to see some sunny spells as the day goes on. this is a satellite picture from earlier. some hazy brightness in southern england but increasing cloud here as well. looking at the big picture, the reason why we have a lot of cloud is this area of low pressure and these

weather fronts. it is quite breezy out. fronts bringing some rain for western parts, pushing into the midlands later. apache rain possible in northern ireland. across the eastern side of the uk, mainly dry with some hazy brightness and just into the low 20s in the warmer parts of north—east scotland, given the sunshine. tonight, a lot of cloud across england and wales, damp and drizzly towards west wales and western england. some misty spells in scotland but the temperature is hotting up overnight into the lota mid—teens, quite a mild and humid night to come. early sunny spells tomorrow in scotland, cloud around elsewhere. like —— light rain and drizzle. if you are to the east of high ground with the breeze coming from the west, you may see some sunny spells, more especially in eastern scotland. but the rain picking up into the north—west of

scotla nd picking up into the north—west of scotland on tuesday afternoon for if you do get some sunshine in eastern england, the hotspots could be approaching their mid—20s. that changes into wednesday as the weather front moves south across the uk. it is a cold front. some cloud but not huge amount of rain on it if you look closely. some patchy rain moving to england and wales on thursday. it will become less humid out there, so feeling fresher, still breezy out there and the temperatures coming down a few degrees. some showers into western scotland. thursday, with high pressure looking mainly dry, friday another front coming through. then it looks like it will turn warmer again.

this is bbc news. the headlines: the transport secretary is expected to give the green light to regional travel corridors, allowing quarantine restrictions to apply to a country's mainland or specific islands, depending on infection rates. a 27—year—old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead — killed in front of his friends. they were crying and just inconsolable, really. one was saying, "i tried to save him, and i haven't done my best. i tried to save him". police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school in suffolk this morning. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement — and denies that its new brexit

legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. the condition of russian opposition leader alexei navalny is improving, according to officials in germany, where he is being treated for poisoning by a novichok nerve agent. a minute's silence — as the public inquiry into the manchester arena terror attack, which killed 22 people gets underway. mason greenwood and phil foden, who made their debuts for england over the weekend, are to leave the side's training camp for breaching coronavirus guidelines. good afternoon and

welcome to bbc news. breaking news. the transport secretary is expected to give the uk government ‘s backing to regional travel corridors. it would mean wills could be put in place for a country's main line or islands if coronavirus infection rates are significantly different there. he could have a big impact on tourism. simon calder is the travel editor at the i. explain what difference this makes. at the moment, the uk government which decides the policy for england and is followed by northern ireland, says it is all or nothing. a country is either high—risk or low risk and that means for example when at the end ofjuly, quarantine was suddenly reimposed on spain, it didn't matter that some of the islands had rates of coronavirus, they were treated the same. there has been a lot of upset about this in the travel industry

andindeed about this in the travel industry and indeed on thursday evening, all the unity between the four nations of the uk broke up and immediately wales started to have a kind of targeted policy. they said, right, we are going to make people coming back from portugal to wales quarantine but not if they have been on the island of madeira or the azores. at the same time within mainland greece is ok but half a dozen greek islands are not and my sources say the transport secretary is likely to unveil a policy which will include the possibility that islands are going to be excluded or included when the mainland is or isn't. and that he could even be making his announcement about some specific islands which could u nfortu nately specific islands which could unfortunately trigger a flurry of quick departure is to try to get back before quarantine kicks in. are

things about to get even more confusing? ijust things about to get even more confusing? i just wonder things about to get even more confusing? ijust wonder how confusing? i just wonder how the airlines might be responding to this. there has been a huge amount of upset. when spain was put on the logo list, airports, airlines were saying this is terrible. we have very high infection rates in parts of northern spain but that hasn't yet followed through to the islands and the government said, no, because of course people could fly from madrid or gran canaria, they were treating them the same. but for the traveller ‘s point of view it will get extremely complicated and the travel industry fears that that is going to undermine any remaining travel confidence. however there are some people who say actually, this is going in the right direction because it is gradually moving us perhaps to a system where it is only very specific places with high virus threats which are targeted and the rest of the country, just as greece,

wales is saying about greece, don't go to these islands but the rest of the country is fine and the industry think travellers and the airline and holiday industry could live with that. not questioning anybody 's motives but if you are on the mainland and you were supposed to go into quarantine, what is to stop you taking an internal flight to one of the islands and coming back and avoiding it? everything in the quarantine policy of the uk is based on the fact people will be expected to do the right thing. it's a kind of self declaration which may or may not be checked when you get to the uk. the government stresses that as with knock—down, everybody has to do the right thing and that is trying to find ways around the policy, that shouldn't be done. it is going to be, if there are greek islands included in this, it's not going to

be pretty over the next 35, 36 hours in the sense that you could see, assuming they have the normal airlines put in place, if you have 36 hours to get back to england, assuming that it is only affected england, that could be quite challenging but please don't do anything yet. this is purely from the sources i have been speaking to and there is no certainty. wait until the transport secretary speaks injust under until the transport secretary speaks in just under half an hour. thank you very much. at half past three we are expecting crunch apps in the house of commons and we will take you for that announcement later on. you are watching bbc news. police in birmingham have arrested a 27—year—old man on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder in connection with a series of stabbings in the city

centre yesterday morning. the man was arrested in the selly oak area of the city at around 4am this morning. the attacks happened at four different locations across the city centre over 90 minutes in the early hours. live to birmingham and our correspondent phil mackie. just bring us up to speed. there are a lot of investigations going on, all those locations across the city centre. i am on hurst street, this is busy most weekend nights, full of pubs and clubs and restaurants and food that you can see the acadian centre. this area is still cordoned off and you can see yellow tags, the scenes of crime officers have left and this was the last of those four incidents that all unfolded on a dramatic saturday night, sunday morning in birmingham. it's 36 hours since the emergency services answered countless 999 calls from birmingham city centre. during little more than an hour and a half, one person was killed and seven more were injured. west midlands police said they believed there had been a lone

attacker and released this footage of a man they wanted to speak to. the first report came through at half past midnight from constitution hill, where a man suffered superficial injuries. 20 minutes later in livery street, a man and a woman were attacked. he was critically injured, she was less seriously hurt. at around 1.50am a man was killed and another man was seriously injured in irving street. the final attack was in hurst street just after 2am. a man was arrested in connection with all of the attacks, a few miles away in selly oak. investigations are continuing across the city. this is irving street today. as you can see, there is still a lot of police activity here today. the cordon stretches along the road and that blue tent marks the spot where the 23—year—old man died. his friend was also treated for stab wounds here in the street. it was a night of carnage in birmingham. there were the two guys' friends. i don't say they were from birmingham because i don't think so.

they were crying and just inconsolable, really. one was saying, "i tried to save him and i haven't done my best. i tried to save him". the question being asked is how did an apparent lone attacker manage to attack so many people in a busy city centre and evade capture? the streets were very crowded at the time, and the way he operated allowed him to move from place to place. that is a concern. however, that will come out further in the investigations and we'll be able to get some sort of handle on this. the police had a large presence in the area at the time. a man was arrested at around four o'clock this morning. investigations have focused on this house. it looked like there were some police outside and, you know, i don't know what was going on. i think they must have broken into next door and i think they were doing a search in there.

there's still plenty of work for the police to do, and they are appealing for help from anyone who was out on saturday night. @ really that the first initial stage of the investigation may be winding up. until five stage of the investigation may be winding up. untilfive minutes ago, this street was still cordoned off but officers have just removed the police tape. you can see peoplejust starting to walk up again. again, the crime tags have been taken away. perhaps a sign that the city centre where large parts have been closed off, may be returning to normal but we still are awaiting an update from the police, not least on the condition of those victims, two critically ill in hospital and at some stage today we are told we will be told the identity of the 23—year—old man who died early yesterday morning. police have arrested

a teenage boy after reports of a shooting in suffolk. the victim ? a 15—year—old boy who was on his way to school — sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to hospital where he is receiving urgent medical attention. debbie tubby is in kesgrave where the incident took place. this area of ipswich is quiet, large houses, nice cars, now cordoned off by police, surrounded by police cars, forensic units and also the dog teams. the police helicopter has been flying overhead. police have confirmed that they had a call at 8:40am of reports of a shooting. they have said that it's a 15—year—old who is the victim, and he has sustained serious injuries and has been airlifted by the airambulance to addenbrooke's hospital, where he is receiving what they describe as urgent medical attention. the high schooljust up the road, kesgrave high school, tweeted this morning that there has been a serious incident involving a year 11 student on their way to school and that students will be kept in all day for their safety.

police have confirmed that they have arrested a teenage boy, and they have taken him into custody and are questioning him. the public inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has begun with a minute's silence. the names of the 22 victims were then read out. the bomber, salman abedi, blew himself up outside an ariana grande concert in 2017. opening the inquiry, its chair sirjohn saunders said they were looking for the truth not scapegoats. fiona trott reports from manchester magistrates court. let me tell you what we have heard this afternoon. witnesses saw salman abedi just before the attack, he was wearing a backpack and looked like he was praying. one man asked him what he was doing with the backpack. iam waiting what he was doing with the backpack. i am waiting for somebody, mate. have you got the time? we are also told a british transport police

officer and a police community support officer went for a break, they returned over two hours later and there were no officers on patrol as abedi arrived and took up his position at the arena that night. the court also heard that witnesses reported the suicide bomber to a member of security staff 17 minutes before the bomb was detonated but he said he felt fobbed off. any missed opportunities form a key part of this enquiry but this morning it was all about remembering those who lost their lives. a minute's silence for the victims. an emotional start to a distressing inquiry. to establish the facts, relatives will be reminded of what happened three years ago. this was the scene shortly after salman abedi detonated his bomb at the ariana grande concert. 22 people were killed that night, the youngest was eight years old. salman abedi was also killed.

his brother hashem helped him plan the attack. he was jailed for 55 years last month. salman abedi was known to the security service... today, the chair of the inquiry said they were to blame. the hearing was not looking for scapegoats. all the participants have said they want to learn the lessons of what happened on the 22nd of may, 2017, and to reduce the risk of it ever happening again. if i conclude on the evidence that things went wrong, then i shall say so, but we are not looking for scapegoats. we are searching for the truth. the relatives of those who died have also been warned that some of the details will be distressing in the extreme. a 22—year—old man named salman abedi was also waiting in the city room, but not to pick up the child. instead, his presence was the product of pure malevolence and the result of months of planning and preparation by him and his

younger brother, hashem abedi. what the inquiry won't examine in public is everything m15 already knew about salman abedi before the attack. it is an issue of national security, and the parents of the youngest victim — saffie roussos — say that's hard to accept. lessons will never be learned unless we get that transparency and honesty from the people involved to get the answers that we need. victims like saffie are at the heart of this inquiry. in the coming days, relatives will be given the chance to say something about them. after we hear from the families, the enquiry will turn to the arena itself, the layout of the security arrangements and it will look at the role of salman abedi himself. his background, was he radicalised, how

did he prepare for this attack? after his bomb was detonated, how did the emergency services respond? the enquiry is due to last for six months. the headlines on bbc news: the transport secretary is expected to give the green light to regional travel corridors — allowing quarantine restrictions to apply to a country's mainland or specific islands, depending on infection rates. a 27 year old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15 year old pupil was shot on his way to school in suffolk this morning. the government says it is still committed to implementing the eu withdrawal agreement that was agreed last year. but new legislation that will be published on wednesday will say uk ministers will decide which goods would be "at risk" of entering the single market, if a brexit agreement can t be reached before the end of the year. the government says it will only make "minor clarifications

in extremely specific areas" and denied that it would "tear up" what has already been agreed. our political correspondent iain watson reports. get brexit done, that was the successful slogan employed by boris johnson at last year's general election. the uk left the eu at the end ofjanuary but getting a trade deal with brussels has been much more challenging. talks resume tomorrow. but the prime minister has been bullish about britain's prospects if no deal is reached. the government has said this is not a threat, it is a reality. the prime minister has been absolutely clear, since he was elected with a very clear mandate to leave, that we would leave at the end of the transition period with or without a further negotiated settlement, but that we would work absolutely night and day to try to get that ca nada—style free trade agreement that we seek. but if the european union would not offer that, then we would still leave on time. the uk is continuing to follow eu rules until the end of the year,

but the government has said that the middle of next month is the real deadline for a trade deal. businesses must know by then if there will be a free trade deal from january 1st when most goods can be traded without additional costs or tariffs, or if they have to plan for more paperwork and higher prices. the eu has said that it wants a deal but is prepared for all eventualities. while we are determined to reach an agreement with the uk, the eu will be ready, in the event of a no—deal scenario, to trade with the uk on wto terms as of the 1st of january 2021. to get brexit done, the uk signed up to the northern ireland protocol, which ensures there will be no hard border on the island of ireland. it also means that there will be some checks on food and livestock going from great britain to northern ireland. but on wednesday, the government will publish new legislation that could override aspects of this agreement. the withdrawal agreement is an international treaty with obligations

to international law. it cannot simply be ripped up and opened up simply to meet the domestic whims of westminster. government ministers insist that they have no intention of overiding the main parts of the agreement with the eu and northern ireland. that issue, they say, is simply some minor technical details. but both the european union and the labour party are warning that any further tinkering could put the hopes of a wider trade deal at risk. if it is meant to be a negotiating tactic, it is not a very effective one, because it undermines all the progress that has been made over the last several months and completelyjeopardises a future trading relationship. both sides insist they still want to reach a trade deal, but the main trade at the moment seems to be in robust rhetoric. iain watson, bbc news. for the latest i've talking to our correspondents, nick beake in brussels, and first helen catt at westminster.

there are these two strands of negotiation that are going on. on the one hand you have negotiations with michel barnier, with david frost looking at that wider trade deal, the one borisjohnson has set a date on, saying it has to be done by october 15 and if it doesn't look like we will get one before then, we should be knocking that on the head and going for an australia style arrangement. there are those on the one hand and we know those have been tetchy to put it mildly, but we also know that on the other side there are these other negotiations going on relating to a deal that's already been done which is the withdrawal agreement from last year. specifically how to make some bits of it work. one of the really big sticking points that needed resolving was what to do about the situation in northern ireland given its geographical and historical context and the solution they came up with was that northern ireland

can stay in the uk customs union but it will keep following eu regulations so that there is no disruption of trade between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. this joint committee of the eu and the uk has been trying to square that circle and working out that how that will work in practice. what has set the cat among the pigeons is this new legislation the government will bring in parliament this week which is to do with that. as you heard in the report there were suggestions that this legislation would tear up that withdrawal agreement that has already been decided and that has caused a huge concern about what that means for international treaties here, but government sources were confirming it would override what was in the withdrawal agreement. today a different tone from downing street saying it is not trying to tear up that agreement, it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement and the northern ireland protocol as it is known and what it is going to do with this legislation is try

and make these clarifications, so if this committee doesn't reach agreement in time there won't be ambiguity. it does give the uk and the minister some pretty big unilateral powers, one to mention is this idea of goods that are going into northern ireland, if they are deemed to be at risk as part of this protocol of going into the new, they would end up being subject to tariffs if there isn't a deal and this domestic legislation that has been brought in this week would give uk ministers unilateral power decide what those goods were. all quite complicated and quite contentious. let's go to nick in brussels. we had the word tetchy there, that sums it up at the moment. from the eu perspective they have seen this coming from london over the past 24 hours or so, that initial message that potentially the government would be prepared to rip up some of the deal done last year and replace it

with new domestic legislation and as we are hearing from helen, over the past hour or so, it seems the government position is softening. certainly in terms of what the eu key figures are saying, we have had the president of the european commission saying she trusts the uk will not go back on what was agreed, she trusts that they will keep their word because without it she says it would be breaking international law. basically torpedoing any sort of future relationship, that has been a message echoed today for michel barnier, the chief negotiator on the eu side. says this is all about trust, confidence. if you are saying one thing, signing up to another and going back on it, where does that leave us? the trade talks start again in london tomorrow. helen, a sense of deja vu about this because you wonder who the government's audience is?

is it brussels or some of their own backbenchers some of whom regard that withdrawal agreement as a complete sell—out? it is a bit of both. it was only this time last year that we were moving up to leaving. it was october the year before that was one of theresa may's deadlines. this government has made it pretty clear that the transition period will not be extended, it will end on the 31st of december and even if there is a free trade deal and we are outside of the single market, we are out of the customs union. it does feel these are the final phase of negotiations and the government try to up the pressure here. nick, the thing about how brussels looks at it, it does seem as though they are holding back, unusually because they are not usually so slow in coming forward. i think that is right. you have the central figure,

michel barnier who has the mandate, the responsibility, the green light from the individual 27 remaining states and member states and the eu have made the decision that while the government position is being debated in this way, the fact that it is confusing, they will bide their time and two crucial things over the next 48 hours, the point at which michel barnier sits down tomorrow with david frost and the renegotiation to resume. mr barnier says he wants to know what is going on and on wednesday when the british government gives us more details about what is within this proposed legislation, then the eu will be in a position to talk more. they haven't been briefing today. you have a few things from people behind the scenes saying this is muscles flexing when trade deals when get to a crucial point but the eu is holding back and letting the uk do all the talking.

doctors treating the poisoned russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, say he's out of a medically—induced coma. navalny was flown to berlin after becoming ill on a flight from siberia to moscow. german scientists believe he'd been given a novichok nerve agent. they say the possibility of long—term effects to his health can't be ruled out. live to berlin — where mr navanly is being treated — and our correspondent damien mcguinness. out of a coma but certainly not out of the woods. that's right. the hospital has just of the woods. that's right. the hospital hasjust said of the woods. that's right. the hospital has just said that his condition has improved dramatically. so is health is looking much better, he's been removed from the medically induced coma, he is being weaned off mechanical ventilation and he is also responding to verbal stimuli, all of that is good news but as you say, doctors have also said they cannot rule out long—term damage. he is certainly not out of the woods

and still a broader political row going on because last week, germany's government said they had found proof and they backed german scientists and doctors here, saying they had evidence that mr navalny had been poisoned by a novichok group chemical which a lot of people here would say points to some sort of collaboration or at least agreement or some sort of organised attempt at poisoning by the kremlin. it's a massive political row which is causing a bit of a headache for the german government because now bonnie is in germany. a headache of its own making because it was at a german invitation that this happened. because the poisoning did not happen on german soil, how does that change things? we in this country have been through something similar. that's right. it's a very complicated issue because this is not something that in theory has anything to do with germany, it

didn't happen in germany but he is being treated here. also the fact germany has a complex relationship with russia and this isn't the first time that something has happened which people and the german government objective. we have had the killing of a chechnya opposition activist here in germany, he is seen by the russian government as a terrorist, that's how vladimir putin has called him. that was something that happened here in the centre of berlin last year, that caused a big political row. there are other allegations about russian interference in german elections and the hacking of angela merkel‘s e—mail, so this isn't the first time russia has been accused of carrying out illegal acts. that is why it has become such a big case because it is not a stand—alone instance. generally has a very in—depth relationship with russia when it comes to economic collaboration, so

there is a pipeline being built right now under the baltic sea to deliver large amounts of russian gas to germany. america objects to it, many of the european countries subject to it. now the debate here is whether that pipeline which is almost finished and costing billions of dollars should be stopped, whether that should not be completed. angela merkel is under pressure, the government has for the first time yesterday said that stopping building that pipeline is now not out of the question. until yesterday the government was saying we have two separate political and economic matters from this particular scandal over that mr navalny but now the german government has said they expect russia to cooperate with investigations over what happened to mr navalny and if that doesn't happen, the german government says they will push or at least support eu wide sanctions and indeed they are not ruling out stopping the

completion of this pipeline. incredibly broad economic and political implications over and above the exact, the precise case of the poisoning of mr navalny. let's cross live to the commons. we are awaiting a statement from the transport secretary. at the moment, the education secretary is taking questions. we are waiting to hear a statement in which he will give the government's back into the idea of regional travel corridors. we will ta ke regional travel corridors. we will take you to the comments. but as sooner take you to the comments. but as sooner grant chaps takes to the lectern, we will return to the house of commons. we are keeping an ion things there. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. count yourself lucky if you see some sunshine out there. it is mainly cloudy. most likely western parts

will see some rain. across the eastern side of the uk, you might see some around 17 to 20, in fact getting warmer into tomorrow. a mild night tonight, some clear spells in scotland, wales parts of western england and northern ireland, staying mostly cloudless, some patchy light rain and drizzle and maybe some coastal health around as well. into tomorrow, again a lot of cloud around. especially to the east of high ground. but you could see some drizzle in places, especially through the hills where it is still misty and murky. if you see any sunshine in eastern england, some temperatures could be approaching the mid—20s. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the transport secretary is expected to give the green light

to regional travel corridors, allowing quarantine restrictions to apply to a country's mainland or specific islands, depending on infection rates. a 27—year—old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school this morning. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement, and denies that its new brexit legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. the condition of russian opposition leader alexei navalny is improving, according to officials in germany, where he is being treated for poisoning by a novichok nerve agent. a minute's silence — as the public inquiry into the manchester arena terror attack, which killed 22 people, gets underway. the health secretary, matt hancock, says the large rise in new coronavirus infections in the uk is concerning — and is because young

people are failing to practice social distancing. nearly 3,000 new positive tests were confirmed yesterday — that's the largest rise in a single day since mid—may. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. the silent enemy it seems is forging ahead again. a rise in coronavirus infections has been identified following the easing of restrictions over the summer. yesterday the government announced nearly 3,000 new infections — that's an increase of more than 1,000 on the previous day. it's the highest daily infection figure since may. the rise in cases is believed to be being driven by young people, and there was a stark warning from ministers today. don't kill your gran by catching coronavirus and then passing it on, and you can pass it on before you have had any symptoms at all. the message to people of all ages is that we must, as a society, all follow the social distancing rules in order to protect ourselves,

protect our friends and family, and protect the wider community from the spread of the disease. but student leaders are angry and say that young people shouldn't be scapegoated. as far as i know, young people are seeking to be actively protecting other members of their community as well as themselves, and i think it's important we don't generalise young people, nor do we generalise students. i think lots of young people and students themselves are immunocompromised, are parents and carers. unlike infections, so far there has not been a rise in deaths from coronavirus in the uk. yesterday two deaths were reported. but scientists say it makes sense because of the younger age of those infected. young people are at very low risk of developing any kind of severe disease, or even any symptoms at all, and therefore if you see an outbreak dominated by younger people, you wouldn't automatically expect that you will see the same increase in mortality that we saw back

in march because we know there was a much more generalised infection across the population then. france reported similar levels of infection to the uk in mid—august, but three weeks on that has more than doubled. in fact, one day last week it had almost trebled. and with schools, universities and workplaces reopening in the uk, preventing the rise in cases from spiralling out of control is the big challenge. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. scottish first minister nicola sturgeon has said the country is facing a "key moment" in the coronavirus pandemic. at her daily briefing, she announced a further 146 new positive cases, down from the 208 reported yesterday. there have been no new deaths in scotland in the past 24 hours, but hospital admissions are now rising. the first minister said the people could not afford to slip into complacency.

as we have released ourselves from lockdown, we have also released to the virus from lockdown. people are meeting and interacting with each other more often. of course, this kind of increase we are experiencing in scotland is not unique to us. we are seeing similar increases across the uk, europe and many other parts of the world. while that might not be surprising, it is after all an infectious virus, we must take this trend seriously and, if we want to avoid having to close parts of our economy down again, and i think we all want to avoid that, we must step up our ways of keeping covid—19 under control. we will move away from that and go

to the house of commons. it has played a part in keeping our infection rate lower than elsewhere. at the same time, we set up the joint bio—security centre and tossed it with pulling together intelligence in order to assess the risks of inbound travel from hundreds of territories. the analysis helped to inform our decisions to establish travel corridors, meaning that people could return to the uk from low—risk countries without quarantine. of course, mister speaker, we all know that this dreadful disease takes instructions from no one. even without increased understanding about the way that it preys upon and capitalises on close human contact, we can still be taken aback by its speed of transmission. whether at home through the imposition of local lockdown is or abroad, where a country suddenly sees infection

rates ta ke country suddenly sees infection rates take off, i'm the first to admit that the unpredictable nature of the virus can take us all, holiday—makers included, by surprise. as i landed in spain on my family holiday, i was immediately joining a ministerial call in which i helped to impose 14 days quarantine on spain, there by effectively terminating my break, but more importantly sadly disrupting the holidays of tens of thousands of brits in spain and elsewhere. i know how distressing this has been. but i also know that those hard—won this has been. but i also know that those ha rd—won gains this has been. but i also know that those hard—won gains from the earlier days from this crisis must not, cannot and will not be sacrificed. ministers will continue to ta ke sacrificed. ministers will continue to take proportionate action informed by analysis. during july and august, we didn't have means to assess risks within countries and

within regions. the kind of comprehensive office for national statistics data that we now have through their testing was never available overseas, and it was too easy for the virus to migrate between regions without borders or boundaries. however, as resources have strengthened, we have been able to collaborate more closely with other governments and their health authorities. this has led to a more forensic picture. now for the first time we are able to consider a granular approach to assessing detailed data abroad. i have looked at whether this means we can promote regional systems for international travel corridors. in many cases, the international data is still simply too patchy and, in all cases, there is next to nothing to prevent people from moving around within a country's border. i know that people will rightly point out that infection rates also vary across the united kingdom, and indeed they do.

but the difference is the countries we are talking about all by definition have higher rates of infection than we do ourselves. i hope the house understands that the government are unable to introduce regional travel corridors from within the geographical boundaries ofa within the geographical boundaries of a nation state. however, when a region has natural boundaries, like an island, for example, the risk diminishes significantly. that presents us with a real opportunity. our passenger locator form, combined with test and trace, will give us a clear picture and has started to do so, of exactly where infections are coming from. as a result, i can announce a new islands policy. for the first time, we have data and capacity to add and remove specific islands from quarantine while still

providing maximum protection to the uk public. there are thousands of islands across the globe, far too many to monitor on a detailed level, but there are guiding principles which we intend to apply. first, this regionalised approach can only apply to areas with a clear boundaries and borders, such as islands. it must have direct flights from the uk or at the very minimum transport must be able to take place through currency and exempt territories. the travel advice should lie as far as possible. the methodology i have described has been developed in consultation with the chief medical officer and public health england. this new capability means that we will now be able to nuance our decisions, first and

foremost, to safeguard the health of british citizens but also to enable tourists to enjoy trips to ireland, evenif tourists to enjoy trips to ireland, even if the mainland is deemed too risky. —— two islands, even if the mainland is deemed too risky. when we re m ove mainland is deemed too risky. when we remove spain from the travel corridor list, there were 24 cases per 100,000. today, there are 127 cases, which remains too high in the ca nary islands as cases, which remains too high in the canary islands as well. greece remains within our travel corridor programme, but some of the islands are well outside of the parameters. despite overall greek infection levels being lower than ours, scotla nd levels being lower than ours, scotland has already felt compelled to add the entirety of greece, including the mainland, to the quarantine. however, using our new data, we are now in a position to remove greek islands, where

holiday—makers are at risk of spreading the new infection back home, and seven greek islands will therefore be removed from travelling lists at 4am on wednesday the 9th of september, whilst maintaining mainland greece. i want to thank our medical experts who have forged these professional relationships and improved capacity. but i want to make one thing clear. travelling during corona is not without risk. so please, if you are travelling, go with your ayes open. breaching quarantine is not only an offence which can gain you a criminal record, but you are also putting the lives of your loved ones at risk, and loved ones of those you have never met before at risk as well. i know there is also considerable interest across the house on testing at borders to see where we can remove the testing. but it will not

ca ptu re m ost remove the testing. but it will not capture most of those who were a symptomatically carrying the violence. —— carrying the virus. i spoke to one person who wanted to ta ke spoke to one person who wanted to take part in the border testing. they all tested negative. a week later, they took another test and one of them was positive. due to the incubation period of this disease, and even using highly accurate tests, the capture rate of those who we re tests, the capture rate of those who were actually carrying over 19 may be as low as 7%, leaving 93% of people who are actually infected free to go about their business. more likely now, most likely under those circumstances, in the

misguided belief that they don't carry coronavirus. however, quarantine, combined with testing, is more promising. we are working actively on the practicalities if using testing to release people from quarantine earlier than 14 days. for the reasons described, this could not be a pure test on arrival option, it would not work. but my officials are working with health experts with the aim of cutting the quarantine period without adding to infection risk or infringing our overall nhs test capacity, which also now needs to cater for schools going back, and universities returning. the islands policy itself becomes active immediately and i will update the house on quarantine testing in the coming weeks was up i commend this statement to the house.

cani commend this statement to the house. can i thank the transport secretary for prius sight of the statement, but i should say that it only arrived five minute before the session was due to start which i'm not sure it's quite in the spirit, and it is worth taking that back to officials to make you it doesn't happen again. but he did make the effort to give me a call today and thatis effort to give me a call today and that is appreciated. the government's response to the crisis has been nothing short of chaotic. almost every term, it lacked a clear strategy and this failure has been felt in aviation. for months, even with the virus was at its peak, millions of passengers were coming from all over the world without any restrictions placed upon them at all. by the time restrictions were introduced, we were one of only a handful of countries in the world who at up to that point had failed to take action on bringing restrictions in place. it is this pattern by the government has been too slow to act, coupled with a blunt intervention to overcompensate

for it, which has dogged the handling of the pandemic from the outset. first, a blunt quarantine for all apart from france, but then france was back on, then air corridors were on the table, then they weren't. then it it wasn't air bridges or whatever was given to them, we had a foreign office list produced behalf of the countries had restrictions on british travellers travelling to the country, no travel corridor, no air bridge at all. now we are seeing countries coming and going from the list without much notice of those who have made the decision to go on holiday and expended the cost of doing that. it is all very well for the government to change position and tell people that when travelling they should go with their ayes open. it wasn't that long ago that they were defending a senior member of long ago that they were defending a senior memberof number long ago that they were defending a senior member of number ten for driving for an aye test, lexico going with ayes fully open. the

british government are not stupid, they understand fully the pandemic and what it means. but people work ha rd and what it means. but people work hard and they are desperate to return to a sense of normality. that one holiday a year for many people is something they save up for, look forward to, but they cannot afford a 14 day warranty on the notice. —— a 14 day warranty on the notice. —— a 14 day warranty on the notice. —— a 14 day quarantine. we know there is localised and regional data available. why wasn't it reviewed when the decision was made in spain, for instance, to have the restrictions on the islands? the point was made at the time, but the government didn't move. it makes sense to publish at the evidence in the house of commons library so it can be reviewed. we need to make sure we don't take this blunt intervention all the time. it appears chaotic because it is chaotic. they will not be a single

intervention that keeps this country safe. it will be a number taken together that make us safe, and a key part of that is testing. frankly, it is beyond belief that people arrive in this country from all over the world without any test being carried out either at the airport or five days later. it is important we carry out a full review notjust of important we carry out a full review not just of quarantine important we carry out a full review notjust of quarantine in important we carry out a full review not just of quarantine in the blunt sense of the government approach to it, but ensuring that a test and track system is in place will stop it has failed to get through to half of those they should have made contact with. when you have that infrastructure and that performance so infrastructure and that performance so weak, there is little surprise that the government is constantly gabbing from one crisis to another. aviation is on its knees. the limited nature of support from this governance has meant job limited nature of support from this governance has meantjob losses all over the place. in governance has meantjob losses all overthe place. in a governance has meantjob losses all over the place. in a sector that was always going to take longer to re cover always going to take longer to recover than other parts of the economy, and the government news

that. it is a scandal that they are not protecting workers' rights. taxpayers money is being given out with no conditions to protect the workers of british airways or easyjet, and the rights they have built up. labour's position is clear, we have set up a plan for a deal where six conditions, and it is important the government come now with a proper deal. but absolutely a working partnership in the national interest, but the government cannot continue to go from one crisis to another. at the end of the day, key to beating the virus is maintaining public support. i have got to tell the transport secretary we are in danger of losing that support. ido danger of losing that support. i do apologise to the honourable gentleman for not getting the statement was up i don't why that happened, and i will certainly make

enquiries. as he mentioned, i did call in advance of the statement itself. i have to say, this is not a virus that any of us control, beyond their way in which we all behave individually at the extents to which we have contacts we should not be having. it is easy to come to the dispatch box and be a professor of hindsight, saying you should have done this or that. if he can tell me that one week jamaica done this or that. if he can tell me that one weekjamaica will be at a rate per hundred thousand of 3% of 596 rate per hundred thousand of 3% of 5% and the next week reaching 20, and somehow he can explain how he finds that out, even though the bio centre and public health england and other experts were not able to predict it, i am the first to welcome that kind of detailed information and knowledge. it does not exist, and no country in the

world has combined as much information, i believe, as has been pulled together in order to work on a detailed island policy. it is difficult to think of another country in europe who are doing more testing than the uk now, with testing than the uk now, with testing capacity of a third of a million tests a day, up to half a million tests a day, up to half a million a day. i was speaking to my french opposite number who said they would reach 4000 tests a week —— 400,000 tests a week. we can do that ina day 400,000 tests a week. we can do that in a day and a half in this country. it is as a result of a test and trace system, combined with the passenger locator form which has enabled us to get the very specific data extracted to know where infections are coming back from. that has been extraordinarily useful. as i reiterate, and i cannot said clearer, and i'm great full to

say it again. in these times, when we travel, we must accept that we have to go without ayes open. i gave that jamaica example, but have to go without ayes open. i gave thatjamaica example, but the have to go without ayes open. i gave that jamaica example, but the same exists everywhere else was up i'm not sure what he is suggesting. should we not have travel corridors at all and prevent everybody from travelling? that cannot be the case because he wants to support the aviation sector. in which case, you must have some kind of corridor open. that is why we have pumped an enormous amount of money via the british taxpayer into supporting the aviation sector. there are 56,400 members of staff using the fellow scheme which will add up to well over £1 billion. there is a £1.8 billion fund which has supported aviation specific companies. all course, they have been all manner of other funds including the cj rs

fund. of course we want the sector to get going again, as i mentioned towards the end of my speech, and i've already hunted the house of this —— and i will return to the house on this. there are significant issues with testing on day zero in a manner which will not necessarily as described find those who are carrying the virus, and can convince people that they are not, so that is not good either. i would suggest that he works with us rather than score points from us when everybody is trying to do the right thing nationwide to beat the virus. can i welcome the decision by the secretary of state to look at ireland secretary to certain mainland territories? —— look at i

islands separate to certain mainland territories. it has to be about proportionality. some have forgotten their holiday abroad and it is right that they are not given more risk to get the virus themselves from those who have gone abroad. equally, there is the testing capability, not at day one, which we know does not work with any reliability, but perhaps a certain numberof with any reliability, but perhaps a certain number of days after which which could allow quarantine to be ended at the aviation industry to get support. on the scale... let's pull away from the house of commons will stop that statement from the transport secretary of a new islands policy. this affects travellers into england, as it introduces new targeted approaches to add or remove a country's islands to the travel corridors list. seven islands are

introduced under these new changes, seven introduced under these new changes, seven greek islands being removed from an exception list. those islands include lesbos, mykonos, santorini... those arriving from those islands from wednesday at 4am will need to self—isolate 42—macro weeks. —— for two weeks will. the islands have been removed from the current list of travel corridors. more reaction to that, and also the latest from suffolk. now it's time for a look at the weather. mostly cloudy skies for the next few

days. if you do get some sunshine, quite humid. a bit more rain on the way for north wales, and for north—east scotland, there is some texture in the cloud and it is here we may get to see some sunny spells as the day goes on. this is the satellite picture from earlier, some hazy brightness in southern england but increasing cloud here as well. the reason we have got a lot of cloud out there is we have some weather fronts moving south across the uk, connected to this area of low pressure in iceland. the isobars closer together across the north on half of the uk, so it is quite breezy. on the weather fronts, some rain, mostly through western parts. it perches into the midlands later, some patchy rain likely in northern ireland. in the eastern side of the uk, mainly dry with hazy brightness. into the low 20s in eastern

scotland. still damp and drizzly into the west and over the hills was some clear spells in scotland, but the temperature hold up overnight into the lota mid—teens, quite a mild and humid night. sunny spells in scotland, a good deal of cloud around elsewhere. light rain and drizzle for some parts. if you are to the east of high ground with the breeze coming from the west, you may see some sunny spells, especially in eastern scotland, with the wind picking up and the rain coming into north—west scotland in the afternoon. if you get to see some sunshine in eastern england, the warm spots could well be approaching the mid—20s. that changes are due wednesday, as the weather front moves south. this cold front has some cloud, not a huge amount of rain on it. some patchy rain working south through england and wales on wednesday. behind that, it will brighten up and become less humid,

so brighten up and become less humid, so feeling fresher. still breezy, and temperatures coming down a few degrees will stop some showers into western scotland. thursday, mainly dry with high pressure. friday, another weather front, so rain coming into scotland and northern ireland. then turning warmer again.

this is bbc news. i'm simon mccoy. the headlines: the transport secretary has given the green light to regional travel corridors — allowing quarantine restrictions to apply to a country's mainland or specific islands, depending on infection rates. this new capability means we will now be able to nuance our decisions to safeguard the health of british citizens to enable british tourists to enjoy trips to the island even if the mainland is deemed too risky. the move means that seven greek islands will be added to the quarantine list from wednesday. the balearics and canary islands will also remain on the list. police in suffolk have arrested

a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school this morning. a 27—year—old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the eu withdrawal agreement — and denies that its new brexit legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. the condition of russian opposition leader alexei navalny is improving, according to officials in germany, where he is being treated for poisoning by a novichok nerve agent. a minute's silence — as the public inquiry into the manchester arena terror attack, which killed 22 people gets underway. mason greenwood and phil foden, who made their debuts for england over the weekend, are to leave the side's training camp for breaching coronavirus guidelines.

the transport secretary, grant shapps, has said the government now backs the idea of allowing quarantine free travel to parts of certain countries. previously ministers had been strongly opposed to what are known as "regional travel corridors". speaking at the house of commons this afternoon, mr shapps said the government was now able to determine the safety of certain islands more accurately. ican i can today announce a new islands policy. for the first time we have the data and the capacity to add and remove specific islands from quarantine while still providing maximum protection to the uk public. there are thousands of islands across the globe, far too many to

monitor on a detailed level, but it may assist the house if i outline the four guiding principles. first of this regionalised approach can only apply to land that has clear boundaries or border. the second data collected must be robust, reliable and internationally comparable. third, the island must have direct flights from the uk or at the very minimum transport must be able to take place through quarantine exempt territories and forth, the ftc do should align as fast as practicable. the methodology i have just described fast as practicable. the methodology i havejust described has been developed in consultation with the chief medical officer and public health england. this new capability means we will now be able to nuance our decisions first and foremost to safeguard the health of british citizens but to enable british tourists to enjoy trips to irelands

evenif tourists to enjoy trips to irelands even if the mainland is deemed too risky —— islands. it is worth noting that the policy will not necessarily open up additional islands immediately. when we remove spain from the travel corridor list there we re from the travel corridor list there were 24 cases per 100,000. today there are 127 cases and remains too high in the black and canary islands as well. on the other hand greece remains within our travel corridor programme but our new analysis shows the sum of the islands are well outside the parameters. despite overall greek infection levels being lower than ours, scotland has already felt compelled to add the entirety of greece, including the mainland, to the quarantine. however, using our newly acquired data, we are now in a position to remove greek islands holiday—makers are at risk of the infection back home and seven greek islands will therefore be removed from travel

lists at 4am on wednesday, the 9th of september. whilst maintaining mainland greece. let's get more on this from our business correspondent, theo leggett. what you think the travel industry and the aviation industry will of this? for a start, the idea of regional travel corridors has been something the travel industry has wa nted something the travel industry has wanted since quarantine was first introduced. you might remember that when restrictions were first introduced on travel from spain, the industry was saying, why the balearics and the canary islands, which are a long way offshore, being subjected to quarantine the problem is in northern spain? but the first impact of this change is in fact to increase restrictions because there will be no relaxation for people travelling from the lyrics for the ca nary islands. grant travelling from the lyrics for the canary islands. grant chaps made that clear. what we will see a seven

greek islands which were not subject to any restrictions becoming subject to any restrictions becoming subject to restrictions and that seems to be the price for allowing greece to remain having a travel corridor with the uk. in fact although this is billed as something which should enable the government at times to relax restrictions to certain areas, at the moment it is increasing them. the other key point which he was pressed on was about airport testing and a lot of people in the travel industry really want to see that at airports. yes. testing on arrival as an alternative to quarantine it is something the travel industry has been pushing for some time. mr sharp's made it clear this was not something he considered sufficiently reliable, there would be too many false negatives. people who had the disease but were not testing positive when passing through the airport but he did say testing at airports alongside quarantine arrangements could be more viable.

testing might enable people to leave quarantine early... i'm afraid we have lost theo but we will talk now. . . we can speak now tojulia lo bue—said — chief executive at advantage travel partnership — the uk s largest independent travel agent partnership. cani can i ask for your reaction to this news that islands from their own can be treated differently, although as theo was saying, the immediate impact of that is just to increase the number of parts of the world we re the number of parts of the world were quarantine applies for, namely those seven greek islands. yes. i think initially it sounded like positive news, a more nuanced approach is something the travel industry has been looking for but actually all it is doing is adding a level of complexity and making it difficult for travellers to understand what they can and what they can't do. one of the areas that

your report also touched on was testing and that is something we feel is vital, alongside travel corridors. you take a travel corridor, quarantine approach but you also have an ability to test at the airports which we believe it's much more effective. a lot in the travel industry have complained and been pretty percent verse about the governments quarantine policy but they will point to those seen infection rates that grant chaps referred to, places like france and spain. the travel industry want to ensure we are working alongside government to maintain public health. that is always top priority, however there is no control, no enforcement. there are very reduce restrictions on travellers travelling into the uk and actually,

testing would provide a more effective measure to allow travellers to travel and return back to the uk in a much more safer manner with a double testing regime. in terms of the travel industry, is it all a bit too late whatever happens now? we have had the school holidays, the best bit of the travel summer if you like and a lot of businesses already has been lost. you make a key point. we have seen close to 40,000 job losses, around 90,000 losses are predicted in our supply chain in the uk and these are businesses that support the overseas market, not the destination but the uk. it is too little too late, however it is a step in the right direction and we need to make sure that the government is listening, that the government is listening, that it that the government is listening, thatitis that the government is listening, that it is working with us. we are

not going to save the sum u nfortu nately not going to save the sum unfortunately but working really closely with the summer —— industry to ensure travellers can travel and is not just holidays, to ensure travellers can travel and is notjust holidays, it's a very flippant commentary from government about overseas travel. the overseas economy supports a significant infrastructure here in the uk, supporting jobs and businesses and we wa nt supporting jobs and businesses and we want to were close with government to understand and put in place the right measures that are important to public health. the latest government figures on coronavirus cases in the uk have just been released. the number of people with a confirmed positive covid—19 test in the last 24 hours is 2,948. there have been two new deaths recorded — deaths are calculated as having been

within 28 days. police have arrested a teenage boy after reports of a shooting in suffolk. the victim ? a 15—year—old boy who was on his way to school — sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to hospital where he is receiving urgent medical attention. suffolk police have been making a statement on the arrest. here's what they had to say. at just after 8:40am today, suffolk constabulary's control room received reports of a shot fired in the friends walk, kesgrave. the victim, who is a 15—year—old boy, sustained very serious injuries and was airlifted to addenbrooke's hospital where he is currently receiving urgent medical treatment. we are currently providing support to that boy's family. shortly before 11am,

a teenager was arrested in ipswich on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with this incident. he is currently in police custody at martlesham. we believe this was an isolated incident and there is nothing now to suggest a wider threat to the public. however, understandably the community in kesgrave, particularly in the grange farm area, will be shocked and concerned and furthermore it is inevitable that parents across ipswich will be anxious following this morning's incident. i would like to reassure the public that our priority is to keep everyone safe and that incidents like this are extremely rare in suffolk. we have made an arrest as part of this investigation and we are currently working with all our partners and with the schools to ensure that everyone feels safe

when they are collecting their children from school this afternoon, and in the days ahead. there will be more police officers on patrol today and we are going to be providing reassurance in the area. i would ask anyone with information about this incident to please come forward. some of the areas, including friends walk, are completely closed at present and there is a partial closure in ropes drive, but parents will still be able to collect their children. members of the public are asked to avoid these particular areas while our enquiries continue. thank you very much. police in birmingham have arrested a 27—year—old man on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder, in connection with a series of stabbings in the city centre yesterday morning. the man was arrested in the selly oak area of the city at around 4am this morning.

the attacks happened at four different locations across the city centre over 90 minutes in the early hours. our correspondent phil mackie has the latest. iam in i am in hurst street. this is really busy most weekend nights. it is full of pubs and clubs and restaurants and through there you can see the arcadian centre. this area is still cordoned off and you can see some of the yellow tags, the scenes of crime officers. this is the last of four incidents that all unfolded on a dramatic saturday night, sunday morning in birmingham. it's 36 hours since the emergency services answered countless 999 calls from birmingham city centre. during little more than an hour and a half, one person was killed and seven more were injured. west midlands police said they believed there had been a lone attacker and released this footage of the man they wanted to speak to. the first report came through at half past midnight

from constitution hill, where a man suffered superficial injuries. 20 minutes later in livery street a man and a woman were attacked. he was critically injured, she was less seriously hurt. at around ten to two a man was killed and another man was seriously injured in irving street. the final attack was in hurst street just after 2am. a man was arrested in connection with all of the attacks, a few miles away in selly oak. investigations are continuing across the city. this is irving street today. as you can see, there is still a lot of police activity here today. the cordon stretches along the road and that blue tent marks the spot where the 23—year—old man died. his friend was also treated for stab wounds here in the street. it was a night of carnage in birmingham. there were the two guys' friends. i don't say they were from birmingham because i don't think so. they were crying and just inconsolable, really. one was saying, "i tried to save him

and i haven't done my best. i tried to save him". the question being asked is how did an apparent lone attacker manage to attack so many people in a busy city centre and evade capture? the streets were very crowded at the time, and the way he operated allowed him to move from place to place. that is a concern. however, that will come out further in the investigations and we'll be able to get some sort of handle on this. the police had a large presence in the area at the time. a man was arrested at around four o'clock this morning. investigations have focused on this house. it looked like there were some police outside, and, you know, i don't know what was going on. i think they must have broken into next door and i think they were doing a search in there. there's still plenty of work for the police to do, and they are appealing for help from anyone who was out on saturday night.

phil mackie, bbc news, birmingham. the headlines on bbc news: people returning to england from seven greek islands will have to quarantine from wednesday, after the government announce regional corridors, allowing restrictions to apply to a country's mainland or specific islands, depending on infection rates. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school in suffolk this morning. a 27—year—old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. doctors treating the poisoned russian opposition leader alexei navalny, say he's out of a medically—induced coma. navalny was flown to berlin after becoming ill on a flight from siberia to moscow. german scientists believe he'd been

given a novichok nerve agent. they say the possibility of long—term effects to his health can't be ruled out. let's go live to berlin — where mr navanly is being treated — and our correspondent damien mcguinness. rather more optimistic noises coming from the hospital. that's right. his condition has improved. doctors say he is now responding to speech which is obviously good news. he has been removed from the medically induced coma which doctors put him into. he is also being weaned off mechanical ventilation. all of this very positive. they say they can't rule out longer—term damage because it is too early to know he would in fact be damaged or there are effects of longer term because it is a very severe longer term because it is a very severe case longer term because it is a very severe case of poisoning. this is all going back to the evidence found by german doctors and scientists last week that they say a novichok

nerve agent was used here. the reason why this points to the kremlin is because generally speaking, you can only use such a chemical with the go—ahead of the kremlin and that's why this has turned into such a big political row, particular now between germany and russia because now the german hospital is looking after mr navalny. this puts pressure on angela merkel to really force russia to cooperate with investigations and thatis to cooperate with investigations and that is what the german government is asking right now. thank you very much. the latest government figures on coronavirus cases in the uk have just been released. the number of people with a confirmed positive covid—19 test in the last 24 hours is 2,948. there have been two new deaths recorded — deaths are calculated as having been within 28 days.

our health correspondent nick trigglejoins me now. this higher rate of cases continuing, nearly 3000 again, and thatis continuing, nearly 3000 again, and that is causing quite a lot of concern and the thought was this was a lot of young people who are getting the virus. yes. when you dig down into the data you see over recent weeks over half of new cases have been in people in their 20s and 30s. this rice too close to 3000 new cases for two days running is quite a substantial rise. back in mid july we we re a substantial rise. back in mid july we were seeing around 500, 600 cases a day on average. although there are some caveats. we are beginning to test more people, we are targeting that testing in areas where there are high infection rates so some of the rice could be down to better identify where the virus is that most experts agree the trend is

upwards. that is concerning although if we look back to the peak in spring, we didn't have widespread testing available there, so we can only rely on estimates but they suggest there were 100,000 a day, so we are below that level. but with schools going back, summer ending, there is concern there could be more people admitted to hospital and more people admitted to hospital and more people dying although we have yet to see the translate. the death figures are relatively low, two in the last 24 hours. and the health secretary was asked about that and saying he is worried, really worried that this base number of cases is pretty high and could be deeper valued to a steep rise. we would always expect cases, everyone expected cases to start rising. as people mix more it becomes easierfor the

start rising. as people mix more it becomes easier for the virus to transmit. as we get into autumn and winter we will see these numbers continue rising, respiratory viruses do more in cold weather. the key is if this is kept and contain two young people, in a sense that is not so young people, in a sense that is not so bad because young people, very few have significant complication but the risk is the more cases you get, the harder it becomes to stop that spilling out into the vulnerable groups. we will see a lot of focus on how we will protect vulnerable groups, care homes a lot of plans put in place to protect them better. this talk of shielding to be reintroduced in the winter so a big focus on trying to keep infections down but also talk about how we protect the vulnerable. a court in saudi arabia hasjust issued final verdicts in the murder case of jamal khashoggi. five people have been

sentenced to 20 years, and another three people to between seven to ten years. mr khashoggi, a journalist and prominent critic of crown prince mohammed bin salman, was killed by a team of saudi agents inside the kingdom's consulate in istanbul. let's get more details from our arab affairs editor sebastian usher. i suppose a lot of critics of the saudi arabian crown prince would be saying that he is the one who should be in the dock rather than these other people. yes and if not the crown prince, at least advisers who are close, one who was originally in the sights of a possible trial but was exonerated and from all that we know, has been back in the service of the crown prince. that has been one of the main criticisms of this trial. it is not an international

investigation, it is not taking place in turkey where the crime happened but essentially, those who have been put on trial are almost scapegoats. i don't think there is any doubt they were involved in the killing but it is who gave the orders that those are demanding for true justice. what has orders that those are demanding for truejustice. what has happened today essentially is that five death sentences that were issued last year have been commuted to 20 year sentences, that is after the family ofjamal sentences, that is after the family of jamal khashoggi earlier this sentences, that is after the family ofjamal khashoggi earlier this year publicly forgave the killers after the trial essentially established whether this is correct or not, that it had not been a premeditated act. once they gave their forgiveness the death sentences could be rolled out so death sentences could be rolled out so this is followed from that. in terms of saudi arabia since the killing of jamal khashoggi terms of saudi arabia since the killing ofjamal khashoggi had such

international criticism of the country and the crown prince, what do we read now into saudi arabian politics? is the crown prince a reformer or a kind of impetuous and violent young man? he is both is how you have to look at it. i have been to saudi arabia for several times in the past year or two. definitely reform is under way. there is a different mood in much of saudi arabia, greater rights have been given to women, the sense of younger people having more space in which they can express their identities. even the levels of business are being encouraged in ways that were not happening before and we are seeing that it has normalise ties with israel, the uae, but there is no doubt that the crown prince is a man who combines that element of reform with a very authoritarian

manner. jamal khashoggi was the most striking and the most savage of these acts and he has denied any involvement, but the finger has been pointed at him by western intelligence agencies, notjust supporters of mr khashoggi but there are many other incidents. there are women's rights campaigners who are still in prison despite the fact that there is rights, the right to drive in particular, have now been given. many others, conservative clerics have been in prison. there has been a huge crackdown on any dissent, any challenge, notjust one ordinary people but within the royal family also. the crown prince wasn't by any means when his father became ruler, he was nowhere near the air. that has been engineered. he used strong—arm tactics to reach that position. it is this balance of

reform, of opening up, economically, socially even politically to some extent which has to be measured against that authoritarian side. the fa ct against that authoritarian side. the fact is at the moment it doesn't look like there is any serious challenge to mohammed bin salman so we could well see after his father who is in his 80s, passes, that they could be decades of mohammed bin salman in power, so that is something the rest of the world is going to have to get used to. the government says it is still committed to implementing the eu withdrawal agreement that was agreed last year. but new legislation that will be published on wednesday will say uk ministers will decide which goods would be "at risk" of entering the single market, if a brexit agreement can't be reached before the end of the year. the government says it will only make "minor clarifications in extremely specific areas" and denied that it would "tear up" what has already been agreed.

our political correspondent iain watson reports. get brexit done, that was the successful slogan employed by boris johnson at last year's general election. the uk left the eu at the end ofjanuary but getting a trade deal with brussels has been much more challenging. talks resume tomorrow. but the prime minister has been bullish about britain's prospects if no deal is reached. the government has said this is not a threat, it is a reality. the prime minister has been absolutely clear, since he was elected with a very clear mandate to leave, that we would leave at the end of the transition period with or without a further negotiated settlement, but that we would work absolutely night and day to try to get that ca nada—style free trade agreement that we seek. but if the european union would not offer that, then we would still leave on time. the uk is continuing to follow eu rules until the end of the year, but the government has said that the middle of next month is

the real deadline for a trade deal. businesses must know by then if there will be a free trade deal from january 1st when most goods can be traded without additional costs or tariffs, or if they have to plan for more paperwork and higher prices. the eu has said that it wants a deal but is prepared for all eventualities. while we are determined to reach an agreement with the uk, the eu will be ready, in the event of a no—deal scenario, to trade with the uk on wto terms as of the 1st of january 2021. to get brexit done, the uk signed up to the northern ireland protocol, which ensures there will be no hard border on the island of ireland. it also means that there will be some checks on food and livestock going from great britain to northern ireland. but on wednesday, the government will publish new legislation that could override aspects of this agreement. the withdrawal agreement is an international treaty with obligations to international law. it cannot simply be ripped up

and opened up simply to meet the domestic whims of westminster. government ministers insist that they have no intention of overiding the main parts of the agreement with the eu and northern ireland. that issue, they say, is simply some minor technical details. but both the european union and the labour party are warning that any further tinkering could put the hopes of a wider trade deal at risk. if it is meant to be a negotiating tactic, it is not a very effective one, because it undermines all the progress that has been made over the last several months and completelyjeopardises a future trading relationship. both sides insist they still want to reach a trade deal, but the main trade at the moment seems to be in robust rhetoric. iain watson, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. count yourself lucky if you see much in the way of sunshine out there

today. it is a mainly cloudy day, with some rain to be had in places as well. it is mostly western scotland, wales, western parts of england. across the eastern side of the uk, you may be seeing some hazy brightness. temperatures around 17 to 20 celsius was of a very mild night to come tonight, some clear spells in scotland, wales and western parts of england staying mostly cloudy. maybe some patchy light rain and drizzle, some coastal hill fog as well. a lot of cloud around, there will be some brighter breaks, especially to the east of high ground. in the west, they could be some drizzle in places, especially in the hills where it is misty and murky. some rain and a freshening wind into northern scotla nd freshening wind into northern scotland through the afternoon. despite all the cloud, it is warm. if you see some sunshine in eastern england, temperatures approaching the mid—20s.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the transport secretary has given the green light to regional travel corridors, allowing quarantine restrictions to apply to a country's mainland or specific islands, depending on infection rates. this capability means that we will now be able to nuance our decisions, first and foremost to safeguard the health of our british citizens, but also to enable british tourists to enjoy trips to islands, even if the mainland is deemed too risky. the move means that seven greek islands will be added to the quarantine list from wednesday. the balearics and canary islands will also remain on the list. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school this morning. a 27—year—old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings at four different locations that left seven people

injured and one dead. downing street insists it is committed to implementing the eu withdrawal agreement, and denies that its new brexit legislation would tear up what was agreed last year. sport now, and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. two young england starlets sent home from the england camp? they have been. phil foden and mason greenwood have been asked to leave england's training camp after breaking quarantine rules following saturday's win against iceland. gareth southgate has called both players naive and says they've apologised for not following the guidelines around being in a covid—secure bubble. foden and greenwood made their senior international debuts in the 1—0 win in rejkjavic in the nations league at the weekend, but won't be involved against denmark tomorrow. southgate says he's still working his way through the facts before

he decides any further action against both players. nothing has happened in the areas we occu py nothing has happened in the areas we occupy in the hotel. we are still getting to the depths of the information, because this was only brought to my attention a couple of hours before training. they have been naive. we have dealt with it appropriately. i think everything from there on, i recognise thir age, but the whole world are dealing with this pandemic and there is responsibility in every age group to make sure that they play their part in keeping each other safe. unfortunately for the two boys, they are going to find themselves in this situation because of where we are across the globe with a pandemic, where they will be a lot ofjudgment of them from afar. so it is not for me to make that more difficult for them. they understand their responsibilities. in response, phil foden's club

manchester city have said this afternoon that what happened was "totally inappropriate" and "fell well below the standard expected of a manchester city player and england international". whilst in a statement, manchester united says they're "liaising with the football association and are disappointed with the actions of mason greenwood". meanwhile, back in the uk, manchester city's riyad mahrez and his teammate, aymeric laporte, have both tested positive for covid—19. city say neither player displayed symptoms of coronavirus, they won't train with their team—mates and will self—isolate for ten days, in line with uk government and premier league rules. both players should be available for city's first league game of the season against wolves on the 21st of september. next to novak djokovic, who says he's extremely sorry for the stress he's caused a line judge after hitting her in the throat with a ball at the us open. the world number one, who was disqualified following the incident during his fourth round match against spain's pablo carreno busta,

says it was unintended and wrong, and the whole situation has left him sad and empty. former british number one andrew castle's told me, although he's a big fan of djokovic, it's not been a great year for the world number one. i think he has had an absolute horror show. since june, since during that global pandemic, this man, who would want to lead to some sort of a breakaway men's tour, and he got quite a lot of support for that, he leads a tournament tour with other big names in the game of the balkans. that was ridiculous, a lot of people got infected, including himself. he has then got this moment as well. i am not surprised that he will go away and reflect. really, we're looking at the wrong person if we want a breakaway tour to led by him. he has embarrassed themselves a little bit. i don't say that lightly, because i'm a massive fan of his. i have

seen i'm a massive fan of his. i have seen him play some of the best tennis of all time. but the last few months have been difficult. england batsmanjos buttler will miss theirfinal t20 international against australia tomorrow after leaving the bio—secu re bubble to be with his family. buttler made an unbeaten 77 to guide england to a series—clinching win in southampton yesterday. he's been given permission by captain eoin morgan and coach chris silverwood to return home, having been away from his family for ten weeks. he'll return on thursday, before the first one—dayer at old trafford the next day. that's all the sport for now. more now on the news that the government now backs the idea of allowing quarantine—free travel to parts of certain countries. previously, ministers had been strongly opposed to the idea of what are known as regional travel corridors. the change would mean that british tourists could go to areas

such as spain's canary islands, which have a much lower infection rate than the mainland, and not self—isolate on their return. let's speak to irene hays, chair and co—owner of hays travel. thank you very much a being with us. we have spoken to you many times on bbc news, and i know you have been worried about the quarantine system. are you in any sense pleased by this change, this more nuanced approach, where restrictions can be applied to individual islands of individual countries? yes, obviously we have been asking for this some time now and we didn't really understand... he has said the word nuanced, we didn't understand why this could not be used for other

countries when it has been used here. there are seven greek islands that have been put on the quarantine list, including santorini and crete, so list, including santorini and crete, so that is a shame, but hopefully if thatis so that is a shame, but hopefully if that is a new approach we may get some winter sun yet in the canaries. the canaries and the balearics, which have been pretty controversial in terms of being included on the quarantine list, they remain on it. the immediate effect is just to have quarantine restrictions on more areas of europe. i'm not sure about that. clearly, the information that we have available, one assumes, there is more information available to the government to take those decisions. if you look at greece, for example, and the close—down of the quarantine restrictions on the

seven the quarantine restrictions on the seven islands. it would have a significant impact on the travel industry if some of those island areas were opened up and would allow those people who are dying to take a holiday this winter. what overall from the opposition at the heart of the travel industry has been the impact of all of these quarantine measures over the summer? we saw a pick—up in bookings in july, and we were obviously incredibly hopeful that we were going to see some recovery which might protectjobs going to see some recovery which might protect jobs in going to see some recovery which might protectjobs in the travel industry. unfortunately, the news about spain... well, we have lost irene. we got the just of what she was saying, welcoming that move to have quarantine restrictions applying any more nuanced way, as the transport secretary said. so

individual islands over various countries, for example the greek islands, will now have their own restrictions. the immediate impact of that has been to impose for travellers from england restrictions on travellers coming back from seven greek islands. no change on the canaries and balearics. up to 300 people who attended a charity football match at a working men's club near sunderland are being asked to self—isolate after 28 people tested positive for covid. it was held at the burnside working men's club last sunday. public health officials said contact tracing is being carried out, but anyone who was at the match should self—isolate until midnight on sunday. the club has admitted the precautions set in place were not strict enough. stuart whincup has the latest from the club. well, the game here was advertised widely on social media. it involves two of burnside's teams taking on each other in an event to raise money for a local cancer charity. after the football was finished

here, the groups went over to the clubhouse. now it has emerged that 300 people went over to the clubhouse where there were games, food, drink and raffles taking place then. this health warning has come out after it emerged that 28 people who went to that event tested positive for covid—19. anyone who has been at that event has been told they must self—isolate. because of the location, health officials from both durham and sunderland are involved in these investigations with public health england. and contact tracing has already been carried out with anyone deemed to be in close contact to someone who has tested positive. and health officials are telling people they still have to self—isolate, even if they have already had a test that has come back negative. that is because they say it can take up to 14 days before those symptoms actually show. they say this course of action is needed to reduce the spread of the virus in the local community.

the public inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has begun with a minute's silence. the names of the 22 victims were then read out. the bomber, salman abedi, blew himself up outside an ariana grande concert in 2017. opening the inquiry, its chair sirjohn saunders said they were looking for the truth — not scapegoats. fiona trott has this report. a minute's silence for the victims. an emotional start to a distressing inquiry. to establish the facts, relatives will be reminded of what happened three years ago. this was the scene shortly after salman abedi detonated his bomb at the ariana grande concert. 22 people were killed that night, the youngest was eight years old. salman abedi was also killed. his brother, hashem, helped him plan the attack. he was jailed for 55 years last month. salman abedi was known to the security service...

today, the chair of the inquiry said they were to blame. the hearing was not looking for scapegoats. all the participants have said they want to learn the lessons of what happened on the 22nd of may, 2017, and to reduce the risk of it ever happening again. if i conclude on the evidence that things went wrong, then i shall say so, but we are not looking for scapegoats. we are searching for the truth. the relatives of those who died have also been warned that some of the details will be distressing in the extreme. a 22—year—old man named salman abedi was also waiting in the city room, but not to pick up the child. instead, his presence was the product of pure malevolence and the result of months of planning and preparation by him and his younger brother, hashem abedi. what the inquiry won't examine in public is everything m15 already knew about salman abedi

before the attack. it is an issue of national security, and the parents of the youngest victim — saffie roussos — say that's hard to accept. lessons will never be learned unless we get that transparency and honesty from the people involved to get the answers that we need. victims like saffie are at the heart of this inquiry. in the coming days, relatives will be given the chance to say something about them. the headlines on bbc news: people returning to england from seven greek islands will have to quarantine from wednesday, after the government announce regional corridors, allowing restrictions to apply to a country's mainland or specific islands, depending on infection rates. police in suffolk have arrested a teenage boy after a 15—year—old pupil was shot on his way to school this morning. a 27—year—old man is arrested in birmingham over a series of stabbings

at four different locations that left seven people injured and one dead. reports from belarus say a prominent opposition protest leader has been adbucted by masked men in minsk. it comes as the kremlin announced that the country's president alexander lukashenko will visit moscow for talks "in the coming days". jonah fisher has been covering the political crisis in belarus and is now in kyiv in neighbouring ukraine. maria kolesnikova was the most prominent and one of the last leading opposition figures still at liberty in belarus. all of the others had been either detained or forced to leave the country. what we have been told is that earlier this morning she was bundled into a minivan by masked men and driven away. the authorities in belarus have not confirmed they have taken her. but this is exactly sort of way they have been operating

in the last few weeks, dragging away people in vans like this. it has the hallmarks of them taking her in some way. the possibility of her being taken, being arrested in some way, has hung over her for the last few weeks. i caught up with her a couple of weeks ago and i asked exactly about that. do you feel safe here? you are the most prominent opposition leader on the streets of minsk. are you worried? no, i am not worried. i am very safe. when you see these people around me, iam happy, and ifeel very safe here. without the support of russia and the kremlin, alexander lukashenko would probably not be in office any longer. he appears clearly to have lost the support of the belarusian people. we have seen demonstrations against him. he does have the support of the security forces, who have been detaining some protesters in the last few days. but crucially it is the support from moscow and from president putin

which will sustain him in power if he is going to survive what at the moment is a very serious situation for him, which he will really struggle to emerge from as president. the death of nathanieljulius a suburb south ofjohannesburg, has shocked south africa. the teenager was shot by police officers on the 26th of august. but police brutality is not a new problem in south africa, where more than one person dies every day because of the actions of the police. our southern africa reporter, pumza fihlani has been following the story. anger spills onto the streets of eldorado park. one of their own has been killed, a teenager who had down syndrome who had gone to buy biscuits when he was shot. we want justice. if we don't get

justice, we will burn the police station down. this is where nathanialjulius was shot, just a few metres from his home. his death is the latest in a series of high—profile cases that have shocked south africans since the coronavirus lockdown. the cops went in looking for another suspect, and when they came out, that's when they found nathanial sitting by the truck. theyjust called him over, and as he walked over, the guyjust shot him. and when they shot him, he fell under the truck. life won't be the same without him. you know, for someone that couldn't speak, that can walk into a room and just change the atmosphere of that room, his warmth, he can walk into any house and they won't chase him out. they will let him sit and eat. he was a house child wherever he went. three police officers have been arrested, and two of them have been charged with premeditated murder. if found guilty, they stand to spend life in prison.

not only are they accused of murdering him, but also a cover—up. it is claimed the officers tampered with evidence and the crime scene. it's still early days in this court case and could take years for a ruling to come in, but those investigating the police say they are determined to see that justice is served. the outcry over nathanial‘s death has highlighted a deeply fractured relationship between law enforcement officers and the people. it should stop in south africa. this is just totally unacceptable. we can't continue to have police officers who are behaving like this, killing people randomly, and we have just not going to accept that we have police officers who are trigger—happy, so we need to deal with them. so we are busy making examples with those officers as such. i believe now is the time for us to stand together as a community and just rally behind

the family and stand with them, and show that this is now the time to commit and make change. nathanial‘s family, especially his mother, clinging to the hope that his death will not be in vain. a limited number of driving tests have been made available to book in england and wales today, following the problems faced last week by people trying to book online. the huge backlog of people waiting for the practical exam has been exacerbated by problems with the computer booking system which led to the service being taken offline. johnny rutherford reports. as if it isn't enough pressure on students taking their driving exams, now it seems that being able to get a date for one is proving difficult. there have been problems with the online booking system in the past, and today the website reopened, but it is very busy, with queues into the thousands.

in the past it has been crazy. i tried to book a test for one of my pupils last week. i was 70,000th in the queue. it took me over six hours to get to the front of the queue and then there were no tests available. i am hoping today will be a bit better. but because of the backlog, i doubt it. from next week, the dvsa say drivers will be able to book up to 18 weeks ahead of their test rather than the usual six. of course, there are two exams — the practical and theory, which you have to past first. it has been quite difficult, but i first found out from my friend there were over 7,000 on the waiting list. i logged on, had a look. it was a 7,000—long waiting list that didn't look like it was budging. i waited and then got through. i was lucky. i spoke to one instructor in cornwall who said that his students did not have a booking problem.

we are able to bypass the queueing system you are talking about as driving instructors. using the government gateway service, we are able to book a number of tests at once and quite quickly. that method of booking doesn't seem to be widely known and of course may not suit everyone. johnny rutherford, bbc spotlight. in the us, the coronavirus pandemic has seen millions lose theirjobs and reliance on food banks rocket. among those who've stepped in to help is rock and roll legend jon bon jovi. samira hussain reports. it is distribution day at this food bank. iam good, man, how you? good. there are no volunteers here. just a handful of workers and staff, including jon bon jovi. straight on! straight on, jack, you got it, buddy! the global pandemic means his other job as international rock star is somewhat on hold, so he can devote time

and sweat to this project. whoa, jack! ok, got it. yeah, i got it. if you come here, i will show you the idea. so we will roll a pallet around, usually by weight those are around 40 pounds a case and we usually go by the heaviest things on the bottoms. in less than an hour and a half, several hundred kilos of food are loaded onto trucks and taken to seven different food pantries across eastern long island, a process that has happened every week since march. we would be remiss if we just wrote a cheque. we feel that being hands—on makes us feel good while we are doing it. and i am a control freak. laughing that's it! this kind of work is not new forjon and his wife, dorothea. together, they run thejbj soul foundation, doing philanthropic work like building homes and running community kitchens. thank you so very, very much! and it is notjust the people running the food bank that is surprising,

it is the location as well. this area is known as a playground for the affluent, one of the wealthiest zip codes in america. the hamptons tell the story of two very different americas. one in which the wealthy can enjoy second homes while taking in beautiful beaches in the summertime. but the other is made up of restaurant workers and day labourers, who earn a living by serving the rich. usually, the summer is when the hamptons' economy booms. the arrival of the rich seasonal residents means lots of work, but not this year. local poverty has risen sharply and demand at the springs food pantry is up 300%. holly wasn't sure how she was going to feed her community. that is, until she got help from a rock star.