treated them equally and 85% felt the police weren't fair. dozens of people are missing the report's authors appeared in oregon as deadly wildfires before the committee to expand continue to sweep on theirfindings. through the us west coast. at least 25 people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed. a really interesting interview was a young woman from kent who ended up getting more than 500,000 people have now been ordered to evacuate because of wildfires. stop and searched. and after this whole debacle, she actually spoke the afghan government has to a few friends called for a humanitarian who were not black themselves, ceasefire with the taliban and they spoke about as the first—ever peace talks the situation and it seemed between the two sides as though it was not a normality for any take place in qatar. of her friends and — to the point so far, the taliban have resisted a truce. the us has urged both sides where they were quite shocked to reach an agreement, telling them "the entire world and in fear of her own safety. wants you to succeed". stranded migrants on the greek island of lesbos are spending and she expressed that, a fourth night sleeping rough after a fire destroyed you know, while there's the moria camp. a high number of black — while there is not a efforts to build alternative high number of black females accommodation for thousands who get stopped and searched, of residents of the moria camp have been delayed by objections she sort of acknowledged that it's a very familiar process from local authorities. within the black community. now, there's never any shortage of political theatre at westminster, but the curtain has come down coming up at 6 o'clock, almost everywhere else because of the coronavirus pandemic. the composer and theatre breakfast with chris mason impresario andrew lloyd webber and rachel burden. says the performing arts

but first on bbc news, are now at the "point of no return". the week in parliament. he wants the government to announce a date when theatres can fully re—open. injuly, lord lloyd webber organised a concert at the london palladium to see if it would be possible to re—open theatres safely and at full capacity. but he told mps on the culture committee that theatres couldn't operate with social distancing. it would be impossible. hello again and welcome the margins, say, for to the week in parliament. a big musical are very, tighter covid rules for england very, very tight. but the health secretary aims for the skies. the so—called 0peration i mean, if you were to take — moonshot to deploy mass testing will allow people to lead more say you were talking a really normal lives and reduce the need for social distancing. big musical, like, say, a startling admission about the disney frozen boris johnson's brexit plan. that is coming — hopefully coming in to drury lane i would say to my honourable next year, friend that, yes, this does say they were operating break international at £500,000 a week. law in a very specific the biggest slice of that, and limited way. of course, goes in vat, and a legendary composer warns and i would reckon disney that the curtain could fall on live theatre for good. would be very lucky to make their investment back on that show there comes a point now for perhaps two, three years. where we really can't go at least. on much more. and that's really at full capacity. the margins are incredibly, incredibly tight.

it's just been absolutely devastating and catastrophic for the theatre industry and for the live sector. we are bumping up against our over 300,000 people bank covenants and all these things. all that to come and more. but first, the prime minister says are employed by theatre alone. it is not another national lockdown but from monday, social gatherings of more than six people will be you can more than double that illegal in england. when you actually look the strengthening of the rules, at what's going on for with exemptions for schools the live sector — and workplaces, weddings and that doesn't even count and funerals, follows all the ancillary services a dramatic rise in the number that support what we do. of cases of coronavirus. that's over a million people employed by the sector. borisjohnson used a downing that is huge, and that, street news conference of course, makes us to confirm the changes. uniquely vulnerable as a country in dealing with the pandemic, because the arts, performing arts, live theatre, in england from monday, are not only one of our we are introducing the rule biggest assets of six. and one of the scottish government has the strongest experts and things that bring in tourism — over 34 million people come to this country introduced a similar rule. every year, largely driven by the opportunity to see theatre — and if we don't actually do something to address that but as the prime minister and we don't find a means of actually being able to open talked of ‘0peration moonshot‘ theatres and venues again, then — his hope of mass a million people testing within months — will still be without work. it's been a very long time mps warned their constituents and many of them can't get tested now. have had no support. the health secretary was forced it's a really bad, catastrophic to make a second commons statement in three days. time, and we need to find mr speaker, these are not a way out of it. measures we take lightly. i understand that for many,

it will mean changing there comes a point now long—awaited plans or missing where we really out on precious moments can't go on much more. with loved ones. i mean, we are bumping up against our banks covenants but this sacrifice is vital and all of these things. to control the virus because, as i say, for the long term theatre is an incredibly, incredibly labour—intensive business. in many ways, putting on a show and save lives. now is almost a labour of love. and i vow that we will not keep lord lloyd webber. these rules in place for any longer than we have to. all elections to public new technology office have been cancelled offered new hope. for the duration of we are developing new types the pandemic in a blow of tests which are simple, to psephologists and quick and scalable. political anora ks alike. they use swabs or saliva. the house of lords has been making sure that they can be turned one controversial election around in 90 minutes for new hereditary peers or even 20 minutes. doesn't slip through the net. 92 seats in the lords are reserved for hereditaries the so—called 0peration under changes moonshot — to deploy mass testing — will allow introduced in 1999, people to lead more normal lives and reduce the need for social distancing. i have long been pushing him and only hereditary peers can vote for a replacement for a strategic mass testing when one of their number dies regime from the start. or retires. the next vote was due to take place this month but peers have postponed it until next year. it sparked a wider discussion the w — er, the world health about how peers can organization told us to test, test, test. stop the chamber from but we are all fed up increasing in size

of undelivered promises after borisjohnson and world—beating. created 36 new peers injuly. mass testing is too important at the moment, no elections to become another failed to any public office project. it is all well and good him are being held. talking about moonshots and the prime minister telling us we will be tested every morning. even better would be simply delivering the extra elections were postponed testing that is needed now, in may, no by—elections not just headline figures. to local councils are being already, some experts have held, and i think if we — described this mass testing strategy as being if the only place which was holding elections at this point fundamentally flawed. was a hereditary peers by—election in the house so does the secretary of state of lords, it would make us think the prime minister look even more foolish — is gambling on something that experts feel cannot be if that's possible — delivered? both the snp and the labour party opposite are making a huge mistake in than we look today. opposing mass testing. it is an incredibly important tool in our arsenal. this is a urgent matter live peerages actually go back and needs a answer before to the reign of henry iii, the autumn bites, in 12—something—or—other, and there have been the autumn, winter bites. will he commit by the end regular live peerages. they used to end the live of the month to make sure that peerages by chopping off the heads of the lords anybody that has symptoms when they fell from favour. of covid—19 can get a test this is no longer recommended procedure. at reasonable place well, that's one way to address the question of the size close to their home? of the upper chamber! and that was the week in parliament. thank you for watching. alicia mccarthy will have that is of course my goal. my goal is for that to happen immediately. the latest from the commons strict lockdown restrictions have been tightened further and the lords on monday night in bolton, said to have at 11 o'clock the highest rate in england. on bbc parliament. but from me, david

the lockdown in bolton will devastate the hospitality industry and the physical and emotional health of my constituents. cornock, bye for now. can i therefore ask hello again. the secretary of state to ensure that my constituents can be tested on saturday, we finish the day in bolton as soon as soon with some pretty big weather contrasts. as they require it? now, across england and wales, we have a sunny day, —— in bolton as soon and it was a fine end as they require it? to the day as well. and as matt hancock reached this was one of our weather watcher pictures for the moon on mass testing, sent in from the surrey area. a conservative mp brought him back down to earth. thanks to debbie w for that. now on tuesday evening, hundreds of cars from across the country — and i mean further north, in scotland's stirling, it was a soggy saturday, hundreds from across certainly through the afternoon. thanks to graham for sending us the country — descended that picture of the rain on telford, coming down in stirling. and the rain was all courtesy on its testing sites, as directed by of this weather front, the booking system. tests quickly ran out, this area of cloud that stretches thousands of miles roads were blocked, people out into the atlantic. who had travelled from as far this is rain—bearing cloud, and it's going nowhere away as cornwall and london very far, very fast. so, at the moment, it's were turned away, and my pouring down in scotland. around western scotland, constituents were no longer the rain continues. notice over the next few hours, able to access tests in the area and they, there is a tendency in turn, for the heaviest of the rain were sent elsewhere. to start to nudge away i didn't know about this from northern ireland. still an odd patch for example in telford, north—west england although i and perhaps the western side of wales as well, had heard of people telling me but a mild start that there's been a lot to the day for sure.

of people directed to now through sunday, we're telford in this instance. going to continue to see the rain pouring down across those western the broad problem is something mountains in scotland. that we're absolutely looking now, by the end of the weekend, at and i will go and take away we could see over 100 mm of rain, the particular example and find so there is a risk of seeing out exactly what some localised flooding in western scotland. glitch caused it. the rain clears away in northern ireland. should brighten up here with some sunny spells, sir keir starmer had his own and probably some sunny examples of the difficulty spells to end the day of getting a test. for southern and maybe central scotland. england and wales, that's where the best of the sunshine will be, yesterday, i spoke to a mum with ea rly—morning cloud melting away, who lives in london. certainly through the afternoon, and temperatures up to 26 she has got a four—year—old across parts daughter who had a very of eastern england. that warming trend continues high into the first part temperature yesterday morning. she phoned iii and was of the new week as well, briefly turning hotter as this area of higher pressure in the continent, just drifts told to get a test. a little bit further eastwards to allow our winds to start to flow in from the south. and that'll be dragging in that she tried to book and was told hotter air from france. the nearest was romford — so, for monday, a lot that was at nine of dry weather to come, o'clock in the morning. and for most of us, yes, she was told that there were no tests there. it is going to be a warm day she was then told hayward's in the sunshine. heath, halfway to brighton. notice across the north west, there is a little bit more 0n exploration, no tests there. in the way of cloud here, by lunchtime, the mum perhaps threatening a little was told the nearest place in the way of light rain was telford or inverness. the prime minister said late in the afternoon. but it's across eastern england the uk had done more tests that we'll see than any other country in the day's highest departures — europe, thanks to the efforts up to 30 degrees of nhs test and trace. in the london area.

so, a brief hot spell of weather here. this is an organisation now, we will stay pretty hot that is working heroically across parts of eastern england to contain the spread as we go on through tuesday. of this disease and it requires the public again, afairamount to trust this organisation of sunshine for most of us. and to participate. temperatures again pretty widely into the low 20s, yesterday, the right with those highest temperatures honourable gentleman said again for east anglia it was on the verge and south—east england. of collapse. but from there, really, as we go on deeper into i think those were the week ahead, temperatures will tend ill—chosen words. to get close to normal, as easterly winds start to blow in across the uk and we start to see i think he now regrets those words. i think he should reflect and he should take them back. cloudier skies. mr speaker, hundreds of families are trying to get a test in the last week and they can't get one. i do acknowledge the number of tests overall but this is basic stuff. people who have got covid symptoms are very anxious about themselves, their children and their family and what to do. they cannot go to work, they cannot send their children to school. it matters. if they cannot get a test, the prime minister needs to take responsibility. not just talk about the future, or something else, but address this problem now. borisjohnson said the government would do more. and the world we want

to move to as fast as possible is a world where everybody can take an enabling tests at the beginning of the day, an antigen test to identify whether or not we have the virus or not — like a pregnancy test — withing 15 minutes or so, so that we know whether we are able to live our lives as normally as possible. that is the vision that the health secretary and others have been sketching out over the last few days. that is where we intend to get to. we all want test, trace and isolate to succeed. i've offered my support before. but the prime minister is ignoring a problem. good morning welcome if people are told to go to breakfast, with rachel burden hundreds of miles away, and rogerjohnson. 0ur headlines today: something is wrong. it has gotten worse. a stark warning that cases of coronavirus are growing —— it has gotten worse in the uk, as 3,500 in the last week or two. infections are recorded everybody here knows for the second day in a row. it because they have constituents telling them. there's been a massive increase a last chance to in the number of people party for some time, on the final weekend before who need or want tests, and particularly people who don't have symptoms. and we need — and i hope new restrictions are introduced. he agrees — we need to prioritise people such as nhs frontline staff, our care workers, who urgently need those tests. i think that everybody is going out he accused the labour leader of undermining confidence in the system. because they want the last party. what's undermining confidence is families being told go hundreds of miles away 0ur number has gone over one now and

and they can't get a test. that is undermining confidence. we are approaching the second wave. rescue dogs are brought in to help search neighbourhoods ijust want it fixed. we don't need to have an argument. tell us what the solution is. we will all muck in and try to make it make it better and tell our constituents. but the prime minister said growing demand was a result of the success of test and trace. it is hard work. it's hard work. it's a big job and they're doing a fantasticjob. and i really think what they would like to hear is some praise and encouragement and support from the honourable gentlemen. mr speaker, why can't we just hear from the prime minister an honest answer? if he stood at the despatch box and said "i know something has gone wrong in the last couple of weeks. we've been getting hundreds of examples of people being sent all over the place, or being told there is no test. i have looked into it and worked out what the problem is, here's my plan", then people might be reassured. but as ever, he pretends the problem isn't there.

borisjohnson said his government was working flat out and taking the tough decisions. the covid restrictions are being tightened in scotland too. as in england, the number of people allowed to meet up has been cut to six. the scottish government has also launched its own contact tracing app for mobile phones. the first minister told msps the pandemic was accelerating. it is worth stressing that this position is not totally unexpected. in recent weeks, we have reopened significant parts of our economy — though many will be operating below full capacity, approximately 96% of businesses in scotland are now trading again. children have gone back to school. we have eased many social, leisure and travel restrictions. people are going out more and travelling more, and all of that is positive. but as we released ourselves from lockdown, we also released the virus, we gave it more opportunities to spread and so it was always likely we would see a rise in cases. the sobering news here in scotland and across the rest of the uk over the last few days has been a reality check

for anyone who thought that the pandemic was on its way out. it is clear that while we can still hope for further progress to be made over the rest of this year, there will be no swift return to normality. when we started to come out of lockdown, we made clear our view that there must be the agility to pause to go back as well as to go forward in this process. and also that there must be transparency in the science to back this up. the science tells us that across much of scotland, the virus is on the rise again and that there is no room for complacency. so we support the first minister's cautionary approach today. some unusually consensual exchanges at holyrood. now we may have left the european union but brexit is very much still with us as the clock ticks towards the end of the transition period on december 31. the resumption of trade talks in london was marked by a ratcheting up of the rhetoric, with borisjohnson warning that the uk could walk

away without a deal if there isn't an agreement by the middle of october. the prime minister's plan for trade within the uk after brexit involves rewriting parts of the oven—ready divorce deal on northern ireland and state aid — a deal he agreed last year. a minister admitted this internal market bill breaks international law and the government's top lawyer sirjonathan jones resigned. borisjohnson‘s predecessor was among the critics. the united kingdom government signed the withdrawal agreement with the northern ireland protocol. this parliament voted that withdrawal agreement into uk legislation. the government is now 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? i thank my right honourable friend for the question. we have worked with the eu

in the spirit of good faith and i know we continue to do that, both sides working in a spirit of good faith, to ensure we do implement the arrangements which uphold the fundamental principles behind the protocol, and our focus continues to be to secure the protocol and the joint committee and the wider free trade agreements. but the withdrawal agreement pros and cons are not like any of the treaty. it was written on the assumption that subsequent agreements could be reached between us and the eu on the detail — that is the entire purpose of the specialised joint committee — and we continue to believe that it's possible but as a responsible government we cannot allow businesses to not have certainty for january. the secretary of state has said that he is committed to the rule of law. does he recognise that the adherence to the rule of law is not negotiable? against that background, will he assure us that nothing taht is proposed in this legislation does or potentially might breach international legal obligations or international legal arrangements that we have entered into?

i would say to my honourable friend that, yes, this does break international law in a very specific and limited way. we are taking the powers of this through eu supply contact of direct effect required by article 4 in a certain, very tightly defined circumstances, and there are clear precedents for the uk and indeed other countries needing to reconsider things as things change in a certain very tightly defined circumstances and there are clear precedents forthe uk and indeed other countries needing to consider their international obligations. and i would say to members here, many of whom who would have been in this house when we passed the finance act in 2013. an argument disputed by george osborne, who was chancellor at the time. labour said boris johnson had agreed the northern ireland element of the divorce deal. the prime minister personally renegotiated it, campaigned on it, legislative for it, and ratified it in an international treaty. with these latest moves, some

fear that the prime minister is once again using northern ireland as a political football to suit his wider political means. northern ireland's mps queued up to add their criticism. meanwhile, the welsh and scottish governments say the bill is a power grab, allowing the uk government to make decisions that should be theirs to make. at prime minister's questions, the snp leader seized on brandon lewis‘ comments. this legislation breaks international law, but it also breaks domestic law. the prime ministerand his friends are parcel of rogues, are creating a rogue state — one where the rule of law does not apply. why does the prime minister think that he and his friends are above the law? well, on the contrary, this uk internal market bill is about protecting jobs, protecting growth, ensuring the fluidity and safety of our uk internal market and prosperity throughout the united kingdom, and it should be welcomed, i believe, in scotland, in northern ireland, in wales and throughout the whole country.

a liberal democrat mp pursued the argument in a slightly different way. the prime minister may be aware that there are some scottish nationalists who want scotland to follow the example of catalonia and to have a wildcard independence referendum. now, i oppose that because it would be illegal. if the prime minister thinks it is acceptable for his government to ignore international law, on what basis would he oppose it? myjob is to uphold the integrity of the uk, but also to protect the northern irish peace process and the good friday agreement. and to do that, we need a legal safety net to protect our country against extreme or irrational interpretations of the protocol which could lead to a border down the irish sea in a way that i believe — and i think members around the house believe —

would be prejudicial to the interests of the good friday agreement and prejudicial to the interests of peace in our country, and that has to be our priority. but the european commission has threatened the government with legal action. deal or no deal, there will be changes when the transition period ends and the uk no longer has to follow eu trade rules. a customs expert told mps he fears lorries could be turned around at calais and sent back to the uk. witnesses to a commons committee warned many businesses weren't ready and there weren't enough customs agents to process the paperwork. the biggest absolute fear is that a truck is sent to calais and they send it back. i mean, that is a genuine fear, is that if the paperwork

is validated whilst the vehicle is crossing the channel and that validation fails because the transit documents are not correctly authenticated or there aren't any documents or the entry is not lodged in france, it's coming back. and i just think that the fear is that the daily mail headline of "we sent our goods to europe and they sent them back" is looming. it's a matter of time, really. the tools are there to kind of get it right. the car park in kent is because we have not got it right. it's of our making, if you'd like, is that if something arrives in kent and it is not prepared, it's because we have not prepared it. it's nothing to do with the eu. it's — this is our problem to solve and it has always been our problem to solve. some of the fundamental things that need to change and some of the things that need to be invested in are simply not happening fast enough. and if we go back to the primary point, which is about customs intermediaries and having the number of customs intermediaries, customs agents, available

to deal with the increased number of declarations — some 200 million additional declarations on top of the 50 million that are done for the rest of the world at the moment — we are a long way off being able to recruit those customs agents. richard burnett. time now for a brief look at what else has been going in the world of politics. labour has tried to force the government to implement the initial recommendations of the inquiry into the grenfell tower fire three years ago, in which 72 people died. labour's amendment to the fire safety bill failed but a minister repeated the government's pledge to implement the findings of the inquiry. it is the government's intention, and we have already stated the principal intention to follow through on the phase one recommendations, and we are not resigning from that one jot. the chief executive of hmrc, her majesty's revenue and customs, has said up to 5.5 billion pounds could be wrongly paid out in the government's furlough scheme. jim harra told mps on the public accounts committee

that the error and fraud rate could be between 5% and 10% of spending on the scheme. in terms of actual cash numbers, what does 5% to 7% now look at in terms of the money that you've paid out? i believe the last figures that we put out said that we had paid £37 billion on the scheme? i think that's correct? so it would be 5% to 10% of that figure would be the assumption on which we are basing our — sorry, 35.4 billion was the last amount that we said that we had paid out on this scheme. a bill denying parole to killers who refuse to disclose the location of their victims‘ remains has cleared its final parliamentary hurdle. the prisoners disclosure of information about victims bill is known as ‘helen‘s law‘ after helen mccourt, without disclosing where her body was.

the bill means parole boards will have to take into account an offender's non—disclosure of information about a victim's remains, or the identity of child victims in indecent images. as the lords passed the bill, there was a tribute to helen mccourt‘s mother, marie. she has worked tirelessly and with great dignity — notjust on her own behalf, but on behalf of of the small number of families who find themselves in this most awful, awful position. three quarters of black people don't believe their human rights are protected as well as those of white people — that's according to a survey commissioned by the human rights committee. 00:21:48,001 --> 2147483051:47:38,715 the study also suggested that 2147483051:47:38,715 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 65% didn't think the nhs