this is bbc news — international drug companies make a rare joint statement — they won't rush through a coronavirus vaccine until it's safe. their promise comes as president trump says there will be a vaccine before the us election. that would be the october surprise to end all surprises — but would the public trust a vaccine that came out so fast? we have done a greatjob with covid—19. we have done a greatjob. whether it is ventilators, whether it is vaccines or ventilators which you will be seeing very soon. the uk sees a spike in coronavirus cases particularly among young people — but getting them to behave safely, well let's face it, that's quite a challenge. also in the programme.

the british government admits its new brexit bill falls foul of the withdrawal agreement. the president of the european commission says upholding last years deal is a prerequisite for further talks. on average a new book on donald trump has been released every day, for the last 188 weeks. and still they're flying off the shelves. katty and i are clearly missing the boat on this trend. hello i'm katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. the chief executives of nine drug companies around the world published a statement in the wall streetjournal today promising they won't push through a coronavirus vaccine before it's ready and safe. in theirjoint statement, the heads of the world's biggest drugs companies — the companies that are actively working on a vaccine — said they would "only submit for approval or emergency use authorisation after demonstrating safety and efficacy through a phase

three clinical study." the unusual public response was designed to counter public misgivings, in the past week president trump has repeatedly promised a vaccine would be ready before the election on november third. thomas cooney is the director—general of the international federation of pharmaceutical manufacturers, which represents the companies who signed the pledge. we can expect some results of this large clinical trials may be by the end of october, but you still need to look at the data, you still need to look at the data, you still need to validate the data and i think it is fairly unlikely that we will have the vaccine approved or in particular, distributed at large scale before the end of this year. let's speak now to a vaccinologist — dr saad omer, he's director of the yale institute for global health and joins us from new haven.

what you think of this timetable, that we could have a vaccine that is ready and safe and put out before november the 3rd? it is plausible but not probable. the involvement is still going on and even if it is completed fairly soon, you're going to have the time for a second and a reasonable level of follow—up after that before you can be assured of these initial safety and efficacy, so, this is within the realm of possibility and it is not probable, the high probability that it will be a little bit after november one. most of us are not experts in how vaccines are made, we are all learning about them right now. explain to us what is happening in these trials in these last few months. what is it that takes a

long? there are a few things, you have to have enough people to observe the efficacy against the actual disease. we were looking at antibodies and initial safety and therefore, the sample size which is based on a number of events, number of transmissions or disease events that will happen in the trial, then let us calculate the total of people that need to be enrolled. how many events a re that need to be enrolled. how many events are happening, under the conservative assumption of even modern efficacy and there is a committee, an independent committee called the data and safety monitoring board which reviews that even the data that is confidential to investigators, most, if not all of the investigators are blinded to, they make a decision on whether the trial should continue or if there's any trial should continue or if there's

a ny safety trial should continue or if there's any safety events are more likely, is it so good that you need to stop the trial right now and give it to everyone. these are some of the decisions that are made these kinds of committees. bulges into those in the administration that say the public benefits i getting this out early in the midst of a pandemic in the winter far outweigh the risks? well, we have to know the risks. so, yes. it is imperative to speed it up, but there is no reason not to follow time—tested steps because those of the things that ensure that the vaccines that are delivered, to a huge proportion of the population are not just effective, a huge proportion of the population are notjust effective, but also safe. and if it comes down to trusting you damage public trust in a vaccine, what happens then? well, to paraphrase an expression from south asia, it will be a joyless sin. you will roll out a vaccine

that doesn't have enough uptake and therefore, i would say that it is best to follow the usual well—known procedures. it is ok and reasonable and desired to speed up the process by finding process efficiencies, but bypassing the usual process that are there to guarantee efficacy and safety is going to go. let's put some of those comments to cassie smedile —— deputy communications director for the republican national committee. she's in washington. could you objectively say that this is smart politics? because on the problems of the uk government has faced here is that it has promised things but not delivered. so, donald trump are together all the pharmaceuticals, they've done things they've never done before and yet he pecks into a date that of the scientists say is not deliverable.

your last guestjust said scientists say is not deliverable. your last guest just said that scientists say is not deliverable. your last guestjust said that it is not deliverable but it will have something probably by the end of the year and that is what the president is targeted. through operation warp speed, using the best in the brightest of private industry in working with scientists in the fda and other professionals to put everything on this is the number one priority, notjust in our country but around the world. to make sure that we get the best in the brightest minds to make sure that this is notjust but also been safely is a priority and that is a president trump is underscoring. some seem to be saying that it is another thing that it is going to be with us by november the ist and i think that is what is making people think that is what is making people think this is political and as a doctor was saying, undermining confidence in the vaccine emit making people using it you have people like joe biden who are saying that i do not know, i do not know.

that is not helpful. we should all be on the same team here to help get out be on the same team here to help get our country and our world through his pandemic and that shouldn't be political. you're absolutely right. but if it wasn't for the president putting the priority on making sure efrain had access to all the information they needed to do these trials and to get these tests going, we wouldn't be anywhere close to a vaccine right now, we'll be looking at what happened and the barack obama administration but they sent by the grace of god, we didn't have a big topic of sars because that will administration totally failed oi'i will administration totally failed ona will administration totally failed on a vaccine. let me put this to the polling. but it is fascinated by, the number of people who said they would take it just the number of people who said they would take itjust immediately, just 2196 would take itjust immediately, just 21% of people, but significant number of americans, 65 to 58 would see it as something that would be rushed through. it is gone faster than is typical for a vaccine but thatis than is typical for a vaccine but that is because the need for it is so that is because the need for it is so unprecedented as well. i do not

think that paul is getting to whether people are comfortable with that but yes, this is faster than is what we would take for a new piece of medication. we know that the place is slow walking the drugs and is notorious for that mb everyone needs to be working together to get this to the american people into the world so that we can all get back to some semblance of normal. you are right in that it is unprecedented, the quickest previous time it's been four years and this would've been one year so four years and this would've been one year so this is operation warp speed. but, given the people and of some of the vaccine and given that people want to make sure that it is safe, why even take the risk that it is seen to be political by putting out a date of november the ist. that undermines peoples confidence. it inevitably makes people think oh, what happens on november one. all of the election and that is why the vaccines coming out of being

announced on november one. why not just take that off the table? yeah, thatis just take that off the table? yeah, that is something that their campaign would lay people to be talking about what it's really important, i just heard talking about what it's really important, ijust heard secretary underscored this in a prior interview, but important is if we have a vaccine, that will mean that men throughout the proper trials in the fda approval, and the private industry standards as well as the government standards using all science is if we have a vaccine, that will mean that men throughout the proper trials in the fda approval, and the private industry standards as well as the government standards as well as the government standards using all sciences and experts agree that this is ready for market. that is what is important to know. and anyone who would think any time trying to undermine the trustworthiness of people who have committed their lives to the health and safety of not just americans, but around the world, is just doing it for political purposes. right, briefly, but he think of the fact that nine big pharma companies felt the need to put this in the wall streetjournal saying that they would not release it until it was

safe and ready. absolutely. that is them trying to push back against this political narrative you heard secretaries say that we welcome that. i think there were the ghost out that. i think there were the ghost our earlier conversation about how quickly this is all come together, people are not used to seeing that and we are so glad to know that we have the best in the brightest minds in the world working on this to help get us safe and effective vaccine and we can all get back to work get her kids to school and back to our lives or truly the underlying priority for all of us. we really appreciate you coming on the programme. would trust in the organisation changes, i think the thing that stands out from that is how much trust has collapsed and the cdc. because the announcements that they have made and also when you look at that, there is greater trust or what

donald trump is saying them at the national media is saying. it is interesting, that has fallen across the board, the more that we all talk about this and the more we get experts on television programmes and across our radio and internet, the less people are prone to trusting us in the think i take away from this is back in march, i suspected a lot of people do with the cdc was. it is not a government body that is talked about very much. it is not a like the epa, many people do not talk with the cdc in their normal lives they were not afraid of the back in march. but because the cdc has risen in profile, almost like every other organisation in the united states, it has become subject to politicization. the more they hear about it the more they think it is either pro or anti—trump and the other trusted and trusted. and what

was relatively obscure is not well known and now every single organisation in the united states is politicized. people either love it oi’ politicized. people either love it or they don't really think it is pro trump or anti—trump. or they don't really think it is pro trump oranti—trump. i or they don't really think it is pro trump or anti—trump. i would love to see those figures for england. public health england would see an equal collapse in confidence as well. the number of coroavirus cases across europe has been rising in recent days. here in the uk, the latest government figures show there were 2460 new confirmed coronavirus cases reported in a 2k hour period. that means the average number of new cases reported per day in the last week, was 2199. the rise in cases across europe is said to be largely the result of an increase in infections in young people and that's true in england — where around half of new cases in recent weeks have been diagnosed in people in their 20s and 30s. now, the public health

effort is to reach younger people with messaging — we'rejoined from oxford by behavioural psychologist katie orkin. a few weeks ago, we are being encouraged to go to pubs, we are being told to go back to the office and now you're saying that we are defectors need to be more responsible. it is important to know that we have very good news on messaging. many adhere to the lockdown and also on this programme in february and it was sega's it when going to stick to the lock down and we saw that people overwhelmingly did. i think the issue may be that it may not be com pletely issue may be that it may not be completely clear at this time. we do know that there are risks and your behaviour can pose risks to others, but the government messaging has not been completely clear at the moment and how you avoid them. we know that people need simple structural rules to make it easy to do the thing that

is for others there's been some recent polling suggesting that other people think guidance on some issues like wearing masks on public transport is clear, over half of people think that it is not clear on how many people you can meet and they have actually said that advice is unclear. so i think people would adhere to messaging if a clear message is put across. se boris johnson was saying that they have to stop the uptake into the order generation. what do you make of this messaging from the health secretary? pass and get on and you can pass it oi'i pass and get on and you can pass it on before you had any symptoms at all. 5, do not kill your grandma. is that a good message, do not kill yourgran. that a good message, do not kill your gran. there are risks to

others, but does not give you a clear message of what you can do to avoid killing your gran. you should wear masks and doors at all time in dorset on time and any gatherings, that would be a particular clear message that would give you something to act on in order to avoid risking your gran's health. and particularly for social gatherings are involved. and particularly for social gatherings are involvedlj and particularly for social gatherings are involved. i wonder whether actually having him talk about it helps very much. my sun is about it helps very much. my sun is a university student to spend the summer a university student to spend the summer working on a message programme for students at his university and how you can encourage them to wear masks and social distance you can present them with as many public—health officials as you like, basically all the people and it will not make very much impact, as much very success with younger people. in a range of areas, smoking, exercise, diabetes, management, showing people really

influenced by hearing from others who are like them who are, who they can relate to and also who struggled and overcame the struggles. that's true for all sorts of people but we know that young people are particularly influenced by their peers and voting is a good analogy, there've been a lot of studies on youth voter turnout and the trade to get influencers who are relatable for young people, giving them to give messages and other figures to give messages and other figures to give messages and the people who are relatable to young people definitely improve voter turnout among the youth vote. thank you very much. you look young, you should go out and do one of the tick—tock videos. for those watching on bbc world news —

we'll be right back the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing, in which 22 people were killed, has been told that — a0 minutes after the blast — only one paramedic had entered the room to help the injured. our correspondent fiona trott was at today's hearing. greater manchester police did not know that that pop concert was taking place that night. the fire brigade, the first fire engine arrived two hours and six minutes after the explosion and as for the ambulance service, the inquiry heard the first a0 minutes after the explosion, only one paramedic was actually actually at the scene where the bomb went off in 2a minutes after the first request, a british transport police officers are to control, you're going to hate me, but where are our ambulances, please. control replied, we do not know, we are calling them again.

fiona trott reporting. the inquiry chairman will make a report once all the evidence has been heard over the next six months. the british government says a new brexit bill to be published tomorrow does breach commitments it made to the european union in the withdrawal agreement signed in january. the new uk internal market bill will refer to post—brexit customs and trade rules in northern ireland. downing street said it would only make "minor clarifications in extremely specific areas" — but critics say the government is trying to change an agreement that became international law when the uk left the eu injanuary. the government's most senior lawyer, sirjonathanjones, announced his resignation in light of the bill. he is the sixth leading civil servant to announce his departure this year. the uk's former prime minister theresa may who negotiated the bulk of that withdrawal agreement said breaking international law would do untold damage to the uk's reputation abroad. the government does not changing the

operation of that agreement. given that, how can the government reassure future international partners that the uk can be trusted to abide by the legal obligations of the agreements it signs? responding to backbench conservative mp bob neill‘s question whether the changes would breach international law — here's what cabinet minister brandon lewis said. yes, this does break international law in a very specific and limited way. we are taking the power to disapply the eu law concept of direct effect, required by article four in a certain very tightly defined circumstance. let's speak now to bob neill — conservative mp and chair of thejustice select committee — who joins us from chislehurst it would seem on the face of it that we have a significant admission that from the government stipulate it troubling the mission. you cannot do that by breaking the terms of the international agreement that we signed and entered into

international law. it is a frank admission but it would not be in the country possible is best interest to go down. they did this in good faith and if that good will reciprocated on the other side, if the eu was intent on pushing elements that were contrary to the government, then they reserve the right to operate unilaterally. that does not fit very well with the explanation that this is actually dealing with very minor technical matters. the students seem to fit together. it would have to be something pretty fundamental, would need to commit somebody and didn't say sorry, i'm going to walk away from this unilaterally. that is not the appropriate way forward. site interrupt, but if the eu was not prepared to meet the uk government

halfway on fishing rights a level playing field, wouldn't that be may be in the interest of the uk government to take action that it thinks is in the british best interest. all government must all act in accordance with the law, it is basic as that. if you believe in the rule of law and we maintain as a country that we do, then you have to go country that we do, then you have to 9° by country that we do, then you have to go by the laws that you have signed up go by the laws that you have signed up to and that includes honouring agreements. sometimes, the agreements. sometimes, the agreements do not work out as well as we would like in that kind of be an excuse for walking away from them. certainly a reason for continuing to work hard in the joint committee, as are doing in this case, boy must not do so situation where a deal to the rule of law is somehow negotiable and that applies on either side. think the question is is it thinks that the country did that were so egregious that it

permits them skirting the lawns particular case? or whether that is outweighed by the principle that if you ever break an international treaty, other countries and i trust you again in the future the potential ramifications could spread many years hence, no matter what the specifics of this bill was. we haven't heard anything egregious come to the category. you would have to have some strong evidence and narrative to go down around which does inevitably run the risk and the people that you want in your trade agreement going forward, someone that i would support, they will be more wary of doing that if they think you might change her mind did not stick to the letter of the deal if he didn't speak to you. trust is a very important thing in the international relations and in trade deals, as it is anything else and it's easily destroyed. thank you very much or drink us and that is

the question. it may cost, the reassuring thing, the interesting thing is the commission president saying that it is a prerequisite or supporting the withdrawal agreement and all the talks may be off if brussels deems that they breached that agreement. if you went into a us book shop today you would probably find there is an entire wing given over to books on donald trump. we have had a pre election avalanche of new books in recent days. there's disloyal, the book that was mostly written in prison, by his former personal attorney michael cohen has an initial print run of 600,000 copies. mary l trump's book ‘too much and never enough — which sold a record 1.35 million in its first week and from the other side, the fox news presenter sean hannity‘s ‘live free or die' — which sold over half a milliom copies and has been in the ny times best sellers list four weeks in a row. and next week katty we get

bob woodwards book rage. so, all we had to do is come up with the book there was either massively pro—trump are massively anti—trump we could with our dayjobs, retired to the south of france. she would tweet it to all of his followers and i would be rich. here is the example for you, for trump i would be rich. here is the example foryou, fortrump sun, i would be rich. here is the example for you, for trump sun, be better off. he has come up with notjust one but two pro—trump books in the past year. he is been busy matter of someone past year. he is been busy matter of someone else's. on the bestsellers list, there have been here is my little fun fact, one trump related book every single day for the past 180 days. amazing, isn't it? if you are out there and free tomorrow,

just give me a ring. tomorrow. we can have it to you by the end of the day, promise. we work fast. you're watching bbc news. hello. it's been quite a humid day out there, but for some of us, very warm. in fact, all parts of the uk recording somewhere with a temperature above 20, but some spots into the mid—20s saw plenty of sunshine across parts of eastern scotland, whereas in the west, it's been turning wetter. this cold front is about to move south across the uk into tomorrow, and that's bringing cooler and fresher air with it. now some rain then for scotland and northern ireland to end the day, running in the parts of northern england and north wales as the night goes on. it's to the south of that where we hold onto a lot of cloud, and mild, muggy air with some spots around 15—16 celsius as we start the day tomorrow. this is a cold front, this area of cloud and rain weakening all the while as it moves further south during the day,

not a whole lot of rain left on it. won't clear from the south of england until right at the end of the afternoon. but behind it, you've got the sunshine — and it is a cold front, so behind it, you get the cooler, fresher air moving in with a few blustery showers moving through northern scotland. now the wind just tilting around for a west—northwesterly out of the south—west today. and that is that fresh air moving in. but where we see temperatures today into the low 20s, they'll be down towards the mid—to—high teens. so still very pleasant where you get that sunshine through the afternoon, but bear in mind with largely clear skies that's been going through wednesday evening, it will be a much cooler night into thursday morning, with temperatures quite widely into the single figures. with an area of high pressure nosing in for thursday, that brings a lot of fine, settled weather. a good deal of sunshine to start the day, there will be some cloud building and probably more so towards the west, especially towards northern ireland, north west england, and western scotland. another atlantic weather system pushing a weaker front end

which will give some patchy rain and a fresh new breeze once again. and temperatures for the most part on thursday are in the mid—to—high teens. now there will be a stronger weather front initially coming into scotland on friday, so expect stronger winds and heavy rain moving through scotland on friday, through northern ireland, again feeding down towards parts of northern england and north wales later in the day. whereas to the south of that, you stay dry with heavy showers running into western scotland — again, temperatures running into the mid—to—high teens with something warmer by the end of the weekend.

you're watching bbc news. i'm katty kay in washington. christian fraser is in london. our top stories: president trump hints to a covid vaccine being released before the election — only if it's safe, drug companies warn. meanwhile, his re—election campaign is facing a surprise cash crunch, according to us media reports. also in the programme: students return to campus as covid cases soar in younger people. we'll hearfrom one london university about how they're preparing for a new term like no other. and why painting eyes on the rear of a cow is a great line of defence against predators.

you will know this. in american politics, money matters. it really matters. in 2016, the two presidential candidates raised and spent a cool $1.5 billion. so, going into this year's election, the fact that donald trump had a lot more campaign money thanjoe biden was a big advantage. but a new report in the new york times suggests mr trump's financial lead has evaporated. between the start of 2019 and july of 2020, the trump campaign raised $1.1 billion. it's already spent $800 million of that. $11 million reportedly went on super bowl ads, $160,000 of it went on planes to fly aerial banners. yeah, andi yeah, and i think this is completely reasonable. $300,000 of campaign money has been reportedly spent on branded chocolate bars. hershey chocolates, nonetheless.

which may be why today, mr trump said he's willing to spend some of his own fortune to beat joe biden — something he was a little reluctant to do last time round. if we needed any more, i'd put it up personally, like i did in the primaries last time. in the 2016 primaries, i put up a lot of money. if i have to, i'll do it here, but we don't have to because we have double and maybe even triple what we had a number of years ago, four years ago. meanwhile, the biden campaign is raising money fast. during the month of august alone, it brought in over $300 million. but a word of warning — money doesn't always lead to victory. in that 2016 election, hillary clinton outspent donald trump — and who won the white house? mario parkerfrom bloomberg newsjoins us now. mario, thanks very much forjoining the programme. your organisation is partly responsible, thanks, for some of the reporting we have on this, including that donald trump is thinking of spinning $100 billion of his own money on his own campaign. is it indication the campaign is in

financial trouble? it is an education the campaign is not discoverable as he thought it would be. earlier in the year, he had intermittently over joe biden be. earlier in the year, he had intermittently overjoe biden and the democrats. that has since evaporated because of the burn rate of the trump campaign, their coffers, and joe biden has been getting a boost since the democrat national convention. getting a boost since the democrat national conventionlj getting a boost since the democrat national convention. i think i'm right, in saying that it would be unprecedented, wouldn't it, for a sitting president, an incumbent president, to spend their own money ona campaign president, to spend their own money on a campaign to get reelected? you're absolutely right. in 2016, of course, then upstate candidate trump spent $66 million of his own money. this is unprecedented for a sitting president to have to chip in, essentially, to his own campaign. again, he is going to spend upwards of $100 million. to those of us over

here who thinks of campaign spending in tens of millions of dollars rather than hundreds of millions of dollars, what does this money go towards and why‘s it so important to the running to the election? towards and why‘s it so important to the running to the election7m towards and why‘s it so important to the running to the election? it very important right now, and just speaking with some of her campaign sources and republic and strategists, they did not see the point of the campaign spending so much money earlier this year when people are not paying as much attention. this is when money is very crucial for advertising in key swing states like north carolina or michigan, wisconsin. you want to be able to stay on the airwaves, paste after knock on doors and distribute literature, so that's what one of the money goes to —— paste after knock on doors. they spent money on a complete that makes magnetics pouches, so that fundraisers would

not seek elite recording. who is responsible for these spending decisions? —— seeker and record him. a lot of this fell on the previous campaign manager, brad parscale. president the made a change earlier this summer. bill stepien has stepped in. stepien is spending the money were he thinks the money will be the most well used. mario, thank you very much. i can see why it is important. don't you watch the penny of it more when it is your own money? and do you actually spend it? last time, he said he was going to

spend... 12,000! guess where 12 million of that 66 million dollars went to? trump hotel is. and his airline, his private plane. yeah, let's see how much he actually foresaw. —— he actually forks out. to california now, where the devastating wildfires continue to blaze. authorities say more than two million acres has been burnt, an area larger than the state of delaware, if that goes any way to put the mind—boggling numbers into context. firefighters say the one of the fires, el dorado — that's the one that was reportedly started by a gender—reveal party — is less than 5% contained. all this when california is experiencing a record—breaking heatwave. it is scorching in la at the moment. joining us now from san berna rdino county is chris martinez from cbs news. chris, tell us a little bit about where you are and what it is like there. we are in an area called

monrovia, this is a foothill community, and there is anxiety here. the reason is what you see on top there — a lot of smoke. the fire is burning on the other side of the mountain. that fire, 0% contained, has mostly burned in a first area, but we are expecting some strong powerful winds here, the santa ana winds, to blow into this area tonight, so areas where i am standing, they are told to get out in case the wind pushes the fire here. and this isjust one, as you mentioned, of many, many fires burning right now to the state of california. how many? how many are actually burning and are still to be putout? according to the governor this afternoon, he says they were more than 900 fires burning throughout california. some of those very small. really, we're looking at 25 very large fires or fire

complexes, which is when you have a lot of small fires the makeup one large fire, but you said it off the top there. more than 2 million acres of burned this fire season in california and the fire season does not hit peak still until october. all of the last year, we less than 300,000 acres that burned at this stage, so this is a historic fire season already and officials are very concerned about how much more we are going to see before it is all over. chris kamara is different this time? —— chris, what's different this time? different from previous yea rs ? this time? different from previous years? really, what we've had is a couple of heat waves, one in mid—august, another one, as you mentioned, the peak of that was last weekend, and we continue to have imports of the state just these persistent drought conditions that just, for some parts of california, have not subsided. last year, we had somewhat of a mild summer compared

to what we had this year but this past weekend, we had record setting triple digit temperatures and parts of california, which certainly is not helping firefighters. and scientists and officials, they all point to climate change, they'll say there is a directly between the fires notjust this there is a directly between the fires not just this year and in the past few years to climate change. notjust because we have had more acreage burned this year. what we have been seeing growing over the past have been seeing growing over the pa st two have been seeing growing over the past two years, these fires, they burn much hotter, faster than ever before, and they are certainly worried this is something that is assigned to come as we move onto the years. 0k, chris martinez, on the ground from monrovia, california, for cbs. thanks for joining ground from monrovia, california, for cbs. thanks forjoining us. you're pointing out the red woods don't usually burn. they don't tend to catch fire. as chris was saying,

they don't have the moisture which tends to stop the fires from spreading. and it is still so hot out there. we are a couple of weeks from uk universities returning. and i would think there are a good many vice chancellors out there, who are looking at the experience here in america with some trepidation. we have seen a number of big outbreaks on us campuses — up to 1,000 infections at one university. for many kids, it's the first time away from home, a chance to make friends and, in some cases, breach the guidelines. as we discussed earlier in the programme, 17—to—21—year—olds make up a large percentage of the recent coronavirus cases. some have symptoms, some don't. and what you see in the us is the direct impact universities have on the wider community that surrounds them. so let's bring in professor patrick bailey. he is the provost of london south bank university. good to have you with us. tell us, what is the start of term going to look at your university? it's going to look very different, christian,

from what incoming undergraduates might only be expecting full of those in the first year largely begetting enrolled, the enrolment is entirely online, but they're going to be lots of activities and interactions but they will be remote and by computer. adjust to set i think another important context of this, we are hoping and expecting that almost all of the students will come into the campus and briefly meet the tutors, meet each other while the social distancing going on, because they have to feel part of the university and have to feel they are kenny to know their tutors. —— getting to know. they are kenny to know their tutors. -- getting to know. the issue here in the united states is they may have social distancing on campus, they are wearing masks — my son's university, they are wearing masks around the campus — but you have classes and after classes. it is very difficult to control what is happening in the evening. how are

you going to monitor that? we are really trying to engage the students on so many different levels. there are lots of communications that are going out through social media, through e—mails, through the website, to get them engaged with their responsibilities. it is very much a joint cultural agreement that they are coming onto campus to follow the guidelines we provide, and we are expecting, they will regionally reasonably — — reasonably reasonably —— reasonably expect the camps will be as safe as it can be. but we are also clearly indicating to that they should not be socially mixing outside the classes that we are running. and we have to enter a social contract and see how we can make that develop and work, and peer pressure is going to be huge here.|j get that, and i applaud what you're

trying to do, but that's going to be difficult, isn't it? i was thinking back to my university and a huge hall of residence. i have some empathy, i have to say, for students who have taken on their student houses, an awful lot of expense, and being told they can come for a few days but can really do a lot of this from home. one of the things that is absolutely clear is you cannot get all the education you would need at degree level and these higher levels only by remote contact. there are many things, nurses, engineers, scientists, who need to develop the practical skills that will go alongside that. i rememberalso, think back to your university days, christian, is not just think back to your university days, christian, is notjust about learning the information. you get them from a book. it's synthesising stuff, solving problems, hearing new ideas, so it has to be very interactive environment once you teach at a higher education level.” canjust

teach at a higher education level.” can just about remember my university days. just ask neck it was only about five —— just! -- just! it was only about five yea rs -- just! it was only about five years ago. professor bailey, think you very much. here, though, giving fines. some students getting kicked out of the college and not getting their money back. that is $35,000 for some of them. if you don't have enforcement, it's really difficult. it's that socialising aspect of it thatis it's that socialising aspect of it that is so hard to police. life right now is changing we have to get used to a new pace. i've got pretty used to the new normal at the hairdressers. masks as standard, visors on the hairdressers, card instead of cash. but there is one beauty salon in the north west england who clearly didn't get the memo. skin kerr — i love that...

i've done enough advertising for them! they put posters in its window stating that masks are not being worn by staff — as "you can't catch what doesn't exist". merseyside police said officers would visit the salon to remind staff of their responsibilities around covid—19. you can't catch what doesn't exist! they could write a book, it would go to number one on the bestseller list. live free and die. is that not sean hannity‘s book? list. live free and die. is that not sean hannity's book? yes. the chief of rochester police, alongside other senior staff in the department, have announced their retirement following criticism of the city's handling of the death of daniel prude, who was restrained by officers using a hood back in march. his family released the footage last week. there have been days of protests since. they have been ongoing since.

the sri lankan navy says a burning oil tanker off the country's east coast has started leaking diesel, triggering fears of a major environmental disaster. the supertanker new diamond is carrying a huge amount of crude oil and diesel. these pictures show the sri lankan air force dropping fire fighting chemicals on to the stricken tanker. a story we have followed a lot on this programme. nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian woman jailed in iran, she's been told she has to face another trial after being brought before a revolutionary court on tuesday. the charity worker is nearing the end of her five—year sentence for spying charges, which she has always denied. the british foreign office said the new charge, which has not been made public, was "indefensible and unacceptable". stay with us on bbc news. still to come: it's a frightening new world for waiters. you are going to get there!

we'll speak to a restaurateur about customers who seem to be short on manners. there was an earthquake this morning in england. the epicentre of the quake — with a magnitude of 3.3 — was in leighton buzzard, in bedfordshire, where people say houses shook as if though there'd been an explosion. the quake was also felt in north buckinghamshire. there've been no reports of any injuries or serious damage, and police have been quick to make light of it. our correspondent duncan kennedy has the story. it was 9:a5am this morning, when dottie and sadie were happily listening to the radio, when this happened. in another house, this woman was in the middle of a virtual pilates class. it just felt like there was an earthquake? she's right. it was an earthquake. i heard a great big roar and the shaking of the house.

steve jones was another who felt the magnitude 3.3 quake at his home in leighton buzzard. the whole house shook. and there was a thumping, and i thought our chimney stack had fallen through the house, but it hadn't. the house opposite was also rattled... ..just like thousands of others in bedfordshire and buckinghamshire, stopping many in their tracks. but with no reported injuries or damage, thames valley police soon caught the prevailing mood, tweeting... it was a bit of a shock. others, too, saw the slighter side of the shaking. i can't believe that leighton buzzard has had an earthquake. i'm a london girl, i've moved here. we've got earthquakes. it's ridiculous, but there you go. britain gets one or two of these events per year,

a shudder in the shires for what's being called this quake, rattle and roll. duncan kennedy, bbc news, in leighton buzzard. you're watching bbc news. shouting, tantrums, angry outbursts — it sounds like how you might describe your average toddler, but, no, this is how some customers are apparently behaving in restaurants since lockdowns were lifted. doesn't sound very pleasant, does it? no, it doesn't. bars, cafes and restaurants around the world have been forced to completely re—jig their operations in recent months. hand sanitiser, masks, ordering online while in the venue — it's all the way of the world now. but there's one thing that's nowhere to be seen, at least among some guests, and that's good manners. so what's going on? natalia ribbe is the co—owner of barletta in margate and joins us now.

it's really depressing, this, isn't it? it costs nothing, good manners. what are you experiencing?” it? it costs nothing, good manners. what are you experiencing? i mean, i think people have not interacted with people in a while, even though we've been open since the ath of july, and we are just finding a real lack of disrespect, a lack of respect. people are forgetting please and thank you and when we get things wrong, we are try to make the mistake right and they are really quite aggravated, or there's these new rules we have to abide by to not only make sure that they feel safe but also the other guests in the room feel safe, and we get a lot of pushback on that, which is really unfair. unfortunately, we had a lot of issues with drunk people in the restaurant. you can't really control drunk people. running around the restaurant, making people feel uncomfortable. i had one woman the other week who yelled at me for ten minutes, yelled at me, like i had

done something really terrible to her, and was because she had got the wrong ice cream. goodness me! no! get over it. do you think people are taking out the fact there are some rules now in place that they have to follow, that they are taking that on you as if it is your fault somehow? i think it is all very new and people are trying to get used to it. we have seen people adjust to the new digitisation of menus, and that had some teething issues, sol new digitisation of menus, and that had some teething issues, so i think people are agitated because they just want everything to go back to normal and they are not realising we also wanted to go back to normal but we need their help in order to get there. we are having problems with your line, natalia. ithink there. we are having problems with your line, natalia. i think we have lost natalia! which is a real shame, because i wanted to hear about the ice cream, being yelled at for bring the wrong type... is she there?

adding she is there.” the wrong type... is she there? adding she is there. i don't know what happened. quickly, you have said you have never felt as what happened. quickly, you have said you have neverfelt as much like being a server done next servant as you dude coming back after the time of conant —— being a servant as you do coming back after the time of covid. i love my re sta u ra nt the time of covid. i love my restaurantjob. i the time of covid. i love my restaurant job. i love the time of covid. i love my restaurantjob. i love interacting with people, meeting people, and taking people on a journey as, you're a guest in my house, and unfortunately, that's been taken away a little bit. but don't get me wrong, we have some absolutely incredible guests that have got us to this summer, that are regular, that take care of us, that say thank you and are so grateful and so kind is being reopened, but you unfortunately are members people treat you and disrespect you, and that really makes it difficult to come to work sometimes —— unfortunately you remember.” come to work sometimes —— unfortunately you remember. i have witnessed it, don't get me wrong, and it really upsets me people behave like that, but it really

i cannot believe how cheap it was! why people are so upset, i have no idea. with that, people were grateful to have this incredible scheme that really did help a lot of restaurants get bums on seats, but we we re restaurants get bums on seats, but we were working twice as hard. i have a friend who has a cafe and she was have a friend who has a cafe and she was working seven days a week, double shifts, no break and it was like a lack of respect for all the work that goes into it. i like to think about restaurants as, imagine you are hosting christmas dinner every day. that is ourjob. so we have a lot to think about and if you are being rude and not nice and not appreciative of it, i don't want to invite you to christmas dinner again. quite right! be considerate, people. be considerate. and if you see, natalia, beg your pardon, natalia, to her. especially if you

got ice cream. do not complain about theice got ice cream. do not complain about the ice cream! i know everyone is stressed, but she'll out, guys. natalia, thank you so much for joining us. you gotta watch your back in life. and that is especially the case if you're a cow in botswana. farmers there found their cattle was regularly being attacked by lions from behind. "ah—ha!, said researchers. "what if we paint large eyes on the cows' backsides to help protect them from predators?" after all, lions are experts in the art of ambush, so being seen by their prey early can lead to them abandoning the hunt. after four yea rs of studying this scheme, the scientists found that cattle painted with fake eyes were significantly more likely to survive than unpainted cattle within the same herd. i bet you have not heard that news anywhere else! they did this in

2015. you know if you call that? hindsight. oh,, on stop hindsight! i'm wasted on this programme. i really am. hello. at this time of year, we often get a greater degree of uncertainty in the longer forecast based on what's going on at the atlantic and particularly regarding tropical weather systems. these two areas of cloud here, this is the west coast of africa, two more tropical weather systems on what is a very busy atlantic hurricane season. and whilst it may seem a long way away, where they go, how far north and east, how they interact with existing weather patterns does inject greater uncertainty in our forecast the further you go into the future, particularly in the seven—to—ten—day range which we do tend to look at in this forecast. so we can only ever offer the very latest best thoughts about how that's looking, but it may change from one day to the next.

here's a go at how things are looking over the next week or so, starting with wednesday's forecast. this area of cloud and patchy rain working south across england and wales. it's a cold front, behind which there's sunshine, a few showers in northern scotland. there is cooler and fresher air compared with the rather humid but warm tuesday that many of us had. and with clear skies, for the most part, overnight and into thursday, we end up with a much cooler night than the last few nights as well where temperatures are widely into single figures and lower than this in the countryside. so, by thursday morning, it'll all feel very different out there, but we have a finger of high pressure across the uk and so that does mean a fairly settled and, well, particularly to start the day, sunny day to come. now there will be some cloud increasing and there is another weather front just fringing towards north—western parts here, particularly in north—west scotland, you might see a few showers running into north—west england and into northern ireland. and temperatures after being in the 20s, just now in the mid to high teens. quite a deep area of low pressure, close to iceland, looking at the big picture on friday, will drive a much more active weather front into scotland

and northern ireland and there will be some heavy rain and quite strong winds associated with this as well. some of that rain feeding in towards parts of northern england, perhaps north wales, but this weather system then tending to weaken as it does so. behind it, some showers into western scotland, south of that we're dry, a few spots getting to 20, most will not. so here comes another cold front southwards across the uk overnight and into saturday, weakening all the while, barely any rain associated with that. high pressure trying to build in behind, but, very briefly, even so, there's quite a bit of fine weather around on saturday for england and wales, perhaps staying that way into northern ireland, though there may be some rain heading in later. but more particularly another dose of quite heavy rain arriving in towards particularly north—west scotland on saturday, again with fairly brisk winds as well. some potentialfor quite hefty rain totals to come through parts of the north and north—west of scotland into the weekend as this weather front hangs around here, whereas the further south you are, under the influence of high pressure, so it's likely to be a sunnier picture here.

now some sunny spells too into northern ireland, still some rain into northern parts of scotland. now the temperatures by sunday — you may have noticed the wind arrows just starting to come up from the south. look how many of us are round about 20 or indeed above. a warming trend into next week, again this is the longer part of the forecast, but there's some degree of agreement in the computer forecast that we'll be into a flow of air coming in from the south around high pressure in the continent and that at least into the start of the week is going to lift temperatures quite widely across the uk. potentialfor warm spots in england, though, a few to maybe approach the upper 20s. we'll keep an eye on that and do watch the next weather for the week ahead.

tonight at ten — the latest evidence of the spread of coronavirus, as 200,000 residents of bolton face tighter restrictions. among the new rules — restaurants, pubs and cafes are told they can only offer takeaways — and they must close by 10pm. it's frustrating, disappointing, but you've got to take it seriously. we were just beginning to build ourselves back up, albeit slow, but now we're going to go right back to day one. ministers say the rise across parts of the uk is largely driven by people aged 18 to 30 who are accused of failing to observe social distancing. we've seen all across the world how a rise in cases, initially among younger people, then spreads, leading