this is bbc news, the headlines: the world health organization has reported a record one—day increase in global coronavirus cases. it comes as israel has become the first country to reimpose a nationwide lockdown as it rattles a surge in cases welcome to bbc news, i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: of 4000 a day. a three—week israel becomes the first country to re—impose a harsh nationwide lockdown, lockdown begins on friday. more as the who reports than 20,000 firefighters are a record—one—day increase in global coronavirus cases now tackling wildfires on the west coast of america. millions more than 20,000 firefighters of acres of land have been are now tackling destroyed across three states wildfires that have killed at least thirty people at washington, california and on the west coast of america. oregon. at least 30 people have been killed in the blazers and dozens more are reported as missing. dominic thiem has edged his name —— etched his name on the us open trophy, securing his place in the a new era in tennis as many pm history books with his first glow —— grand slam title. he as his first us open. a heavy police response denied alexander zverev of fails to deter huge germany, mounting a stunning anti—government protests in belarus, as people call comeback after an epic five set for the president to go. blockbuster.

hello and welcome to the programme. israel has announced a three—week nationwide lockdown to try to contain a new surge in coronavirus infections. it will take effect on friday, making it the first country to re—impose such a blanket measure. during the lockdown, people will be banned from moving more than 500 metres from their homes. schools and places of worship will be closed, and all but essential shops will be shut. here's our news reporter paul hawkins. up until now, every country in the world has had to maintain that difficult balancing act of keeping the economy open on one hand and protecting public health. israel is the first country to ditch that balancing act and in effect it's saying, we're going to bring in a national lockdown because there are 4000 confirmed cases of coronavirus

every day in israel at the moment. the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, earlier at a press conference, explaining why they need to reimpose national lockdown. translation: on thursday they waved a red flag. health ministry executives and hospital managers have warned us that death rates are forcing the application of immediate measures. some medical staff and hospitals are overwhelmed. and paul, the timing is pretty bad with a fewjewish national holidays on the horizon? definitely, in fact, the ultraorthadox housing minister yaakov litzman has resigned because he says this will severely impact jewish families trying to come together over the next couple of months, celebrating various jewish festivals, including of course yom kippur on september 27. however, the interior minister, aryeh deri who leads another

ultraorthadox party within the coalition, he said he supports these measures, and in fact, anyone who breaks these measures is tantamount to murder. but the government very serious about bringing in this national lockdown, it's not something they would have wanted to do, the country's currently in recession and the finance ministry says this national lockdown is going to cost israel $1.9 billion. let's talk about covid—i9 in a global sense because the latest figures from the who are pretty worrying. yes, they dropped in the last two or three hours. a record one—day increase in infections, 300,000 reported in a 24—hour period. deaths rose by more than 5,500, bringing the global total to 900,000. that's with the biggest increases in infections in india, the usa and brazil. in fact, more than half of the world's 28 million confirmed cases are now in the americas so that is definitely the hot spot. will gavin yamey is professor of global health and public

will policy at duke university in north carolina. all it is true that no other country has had to reimpose a nationwide lockdown. though of course we've seen targeted a local lockdowns all over the world. we're going to see these on and off, i think, until we can get a vaccine and deploy it at scale, but what was going n in israel was a very, very rapid rise in the number of new daily cases. you heard just now from your reporter, 4,000 cases a day. israel was at 2,000 a day by the end of august so a very sudden rise. we have the high holidays coming up, friday will be the jewish new year, rosh hashanah, about ten days later yom kippur, the holiest day of the year and that is when people were intending to gather inside which we know is a high risk, for extended periods of time.

that is a risk of so—called super spreading events. the last really important point is that israel had been contemplating a more targeted lockdown. their coronavirus czar was trying to roll out something more targeted about a week ago, there was going to be a traffic light system, red and green. for cities that had bad outbreaks, they were going to have targeted lockdowns. for cities where there was less infection, the green cities, they could open up. they were also going to bring in the military to do more contract tracing, there was going to be a push on masks. that plan went nowhere. there was a lot of political opposition, particularly from the ultraorthodox who felt very stigmatised by it. when that plan failed, with cases rising, the high holidays coming, this very, very worrying trend of upward infections, there were few good options left on the table and other countries of course might face that risk if they see a similar sudden explosion.

hospital capacity is already nearfull, as you heard, what choices do you have left? what is it that pushes a country to move from targeted lockdown to national lockdown? what is the line that countries need to cross to get there? in general, the questions around opening and closing your country are decided by a number of factors. of course, the first is how much infection there is. israel now has one of them highest infection rates in the world, that is in terms of new cases per million in the population. that is worrying. you always want to spare hospital capacity in case there's a surge of hospitalisations. you always want to be able to test widely, isolate anyone who is infected, do contact tracing, to find everyone exposed and ensure they are quarantined. you have to have excellent local data on where those outbreaks are.

at least 30 people are confirmed to have died in wildfires that are engulfing the west coast of america. millions of acres of land have been destroyed across the states of washington, california and oregon, from where our correspondent, aleem maqbool now reports. nightmarish scenes have been facing those in oregon for days now. we've met people who've one day fled from one fire only to be faced by another the next. they've sought refuge in trailer parks or temporary camps — the pandemic complicating the effort to help them. if we have to rebuild, we have to rebuild. if we don't have to rebuild, we still have so much clean—up to do because of the ash. because when we left, like i said, the last time we pulled out, there was almost two inches. there have been around 100 fires burning along huge stretches of the west coast. the smoke caught on nasa images.

they include some of the biggest wildfires ever recorded in california. san francisco, one of many cities that's disappeared under a shroud of smoke. i'm trying to keep a positive attitude, but it's scary. it's scary. one of those things, you just have to take into consideration that you have to be careful when you're breathing because you can be inhaling the smoke. unprecedented fires have led to desperate measures to tackle them — scrambling, even, to fly in fire engines. 0regon‘s governor has called this a once—in—a—generation event. thousands of homes have been lost. many dozens of people are reported missing. those who survived have been left to salvage what they can of their belongings. 0thers guard their homes for fear of looting. it's been a rough couple of days, but it's... i just didn't feel

right, leaving home. 0fficials here say it's the impact of climate change. the white house says it's poorforest management. but some of these fires have now been burning for a full week. and the main concern for so many here is still how to safeguard their lives. aleem maqbool, bbc news, near salem in oregon. lets speak to scott stephens, professor of fire science at uc berkeley. thank you forjoining us, professor. let's start by asking you, what do you make of the severity of the fires this year? they have been terrible. we had the lightning storm early but —— early last month and that is unprecedented to have that many ignitions. that set the stage for california because all of a sudden you had such an overwhelming number of fires simultaneously. you could never really catch them. so you are playing catch up the whole

time. no doubt, climate change isa time. no doubt, climate change is a piece of this as well. we are getting more variability in weather but we also have a problem in a lot of ecosystems, particularly forests. what do you think the next step is now? 0bviously you think the next step is now? obviously this is an issue and people are talking about this possibly being an issue for yea rs possibly being an issue for years to come. what steps need to be taken to be able to avoid this level of destruction? that isa this level of destruction? that is a good one because i think it is two fundamental issues. the first is getting people more prepared forfire in the first is getting people more prepared for fire in their communities. we just have to get people ready in their own homes, their clearance of vegetation, plans to do vegetation, plans to do vegetation management around communities, a wholesale connection to that. it continues to haunt us. we need to do more. the second is fundamentally the fuel problem. if we are talking about forest and restoration, any prescribed burning, and areas are

different but it is the vegetation and the preparedness of people for fire. what do you think the west coast of america could learn from what has happened in australia and the way that they have dealt with their huge recent fires? australia also had so much impact from climate change on fire but one thing they do much better than here in america is a really get people prepared forfire in their a really get people prepared for fire in their communities better. they have community fire brigade, they have the ability to have neighbours come together, facilitate workshops, get people working together for fuel management, better construction materials, so they do it much more systematically versus maybe volunteer groups or other ideas. we need to do that in the west coast, we need to get people more prepared for the fire season. professor scott stevens, thank you for talking to us. more than 400 people have been detained in belarus during the latest mass demonstrations against the continued rule of president alexander lukashenko. it's the fifth sunday in a row

that protests have taken place. 0ur correspondentjonah fisher, sent this report from minsk. chanting. with each passing week, bela rus' protesters add something new to their long list of grievances. what began as a response to a disputed election now encompasses the police crackdown that followed, and the targeting of opposition politicians. this week, one of them, maria kolesnikova, was being celebrated, after she tore up her passport to stop herself being sent into exile. maria kolesnikova is a hero. i think we need to build a monument after we win this. do you think this will end with president lukashenko leaving? i think yes. i don't know. it's not sprint, it's marathon. president lukashenko was no doubt hoping that,

by detaining key opposition leaders, that these protests would run out of steam. if that was the case, he was wrong. this is the fifth sunday in a row that the centre of minsk has seen a huge display of people power. 0n the fringes of the march, the violence continued. president lukashenko's security forces detained at least 400 people today, hunting down those in smaller groups. women, once considered off—limits, are now being manhandled and dragged away, too. yevgeniya, a mother of two, was briefly detained on saturday. all the men are very frightened, but women, they weren't treated like this until yesterday. now we're trying to, i don't know, to regain our power. i don't know what to do now.

having upped the violence but failed to stop the protests, president lukashenko heads to russia tomorrow. the key question, what moscow will demand in return for continuing to back belarus' unpopular leader. jonah fisher, bbc news, minsk. a new era has begun in tennis, dominic thiem edging his name on the us open trophy, securing his base in the history books with his first grand slam title. he denied world number seven alexander zverev, must —— mounting a stunning comeback after an epic five set blockbuster. with me now is our news reporter tanya dengy dos. an absolutely amazing match. it was a tennis lover's dream, the opening two sets zero two zverev looked like he was gonna do it all and three and just

when we began to question whether dominic thiem had it in him, was injured, he started the comeback in the third and then gained that swing of momentum in the fourth taking it all the way to a fifth and thenit it all the way to a fifth and then it went down to a tie—break which is exceptional because in the us open there has never been a final divided bya has never been a final divided by a tie—break, the really remarkable and also dominic thiem coming back after two sets down and that is the first timea man sets down and that is the first time a man has won the us open title in the open area after being two set down. and it's funny, isn't it, because he has won this us grand slam open, but we didn't get the big names we normally get, we didn't have djokovic or federer or nadal or murray, nobody was there, the historic old guys who used to historically when all the grand slam. exactly right, it's a stranger, coronavirus, there's not been a crowd, everything is look different but we were missing two of those big three, nadal and federerfrom

missing two of those big three, nadal and federer from the outset, obviously djokovic making that shock exit early on and it really opened the door for this next generation of players. dominic thiem and zverev were already knocking at the door, thiem being well number three, and you just wonder whether this is the changing of the tide and i think names we will continue to see continually as those big three begin to make their moves towards retirement. and dominic thiem, remind me where he is from? he is from austria and his the second only austrian to have won a grand slam titles are no doubt big celebrations there and it was lovely to hear them both speak at the end, they are so fond of each other and so friendly, really beautiful match and world—class tennis on display for us tonight. thank you very much indeed. day with us on bbc news, still to come call on we follow the south korea virus detect lives, trying to prevent the spread of

covid—i9. george w bush: freedom itself was attacked this morning, and freedom will be defended. the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible. bishop tutu now becomes spiritual leader of 100,000 anglicans here, of the blacks in soweto township, as well as the whites in their rich suburbs. we say to you today in a loud and a clear voice, "enough of blood and tears. enough!" translation: the difficult decision we reached together was one that required great and exceptional courage. it's an exodus of up to 60,000 people, caused by the uneven pace of political change in eastern europe. iam free!

this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the who has reported a record one—day increase in global coronavirus cases, as israel becomes the first country to re—impose a nationwide lockdown. more than 20,000 firefighters are now tackling wildfires that have killed at least 30 people on the west coast of america. japan's ruling party is due to vote shortly to elect a new leader, and the country's new prime minister. shinzo abe is stepping down from the role after almost eight years due to health reasons. four possible candidates are vying for the top job. let's get more now from seijiro takeshita, the dean at the university of shizuoka's school of management and information. professor, good to speak to you. thank you for taking the time to talk to us. what is

your take? what do you think is going to happen, who do you think we're going to see is the next prime minister of japan? well, this is a very typical japanese method, in that the decision has virtually been made but we hold a meeting anyway. i'm sure those of you who have experience meetings with japanese companies have that experience but it is going to be mr asuka and is no doubt about that. he has already grabbed five out of seven major faction members and we also have a 47 prefectural votes coming but every body wants to ride on the winners so it's going to be mr suga. what kind ofa going to be mr suga. what kind of a leader do you think we're going to see in him?|j of a leader do you think we're going to see in him? i think he is very good in the sense that he has been cabinet secretary for almost eight years and for

that reason he knows the methodology, he knows the way of doing things, so transformation will be quite easy and smooth, and at the same time, he looks reserved but he is actually quite a reformist. he has already quite clearly mentioned that the new cabinet members he will be choosing will be people who are pro—reform, so they could be a lot of pleasant surprises and i think he also knows that he has to do this because our current vice minister clearly said, it is not a people's vote so if he does not get the recognition or 0k does not get the recognition or ok orthe does not get the recognition or ok or the popularity after his ruling, then there could be a new election coming up, so he cannot stay at status quo, so in that sense i think there will be a pleasant prize that we will be seeing. and what about the people of japan? what do they make of this transition of power after so many years of prime minister shinzo abe? of course he has made a lot of

pros and cons. a lot of pros. i think he is unfairlyjudged with excessive criticism but of course mr suga had been mr abe's right hand, a lot of people are feeling frustrations not only because of covid—i9 but slow progress of his third arrow which was natural transformation, so i think mr suga really has to push that that's one of the reasons why he really wants to push reform and if he doesn't really show good signs of doing that, then there could be a total re—election to ask the public who our next parameter should be. ok, good to talk to you. thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us. let's get some of the day's other news. bytedance has rejected microsoft's offer to buy tiktok, as a deadline looms for the chinese—owned video app to either sell, or shut down its us operations. in a statement released on sunday, microsoft said "we are confident our proposal

would have been good for tiktok‘s users, while protecting national security interests." protests have been held in several cities in argentina against the policies of president alberto fernandez. they were sparked by the transfer of funding from the capital buenos aires to the surrounding province, to pay the police who have been on strike over pay and working conditions. the dutch finance minister has warned that it can't be assumed the airline group air france—klm will survive the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. both the dutch and french governments put together billion—dollar bailouts for their respective national carriers earlier this year. but klm has so far been unable to reach agreement with the unions on job cuts stipulated as part of the dutch deal. more now on coronavirus and in south korea officials are working hard to prevent the spread of covid—i9. one of the key tools in the fight has been the team of dedicated contact tracers,

who plot the movements of suspected carriers of the virus. they're known as the virus detectives, and this is their story. when there is oil spilt at sea, barriers are used to stop it spreading. we try to work as fast as we can, a stitch in time saves nine. translation: our work is like that of a detective. the time now is past one o'clock in the morning. i arrived at work around 0700. apart from meal

breaks, we have been working around the clock. translation: a gps phone co—ordinates are inserted, the previous locations get marked ona map, previous locations get marked on a map, but we don't believe everything people tell us. we also check security cameras and look at credit card usage. translation: some think we're being dishonest, of lying about test results. translation: is an attempt to commune eyes south korea and wipe out the conservatives.

translation: some peoplejust cry. we do our best to console them. i'm worried that if things get worse, contact traces will become obsolete. despite our best efforts, we may not be able to stop it spreading. that is my worst fear. before we go, a reminder of our breaking sports story of the evening. dominic thiem has won the us open men's singles title defeating alexander zverev and a 5—step showdown at flushing

meadows and york. this match is played behind closed doors because of the coronavirus pandemic. much more on that story and all the stories you have been watching on our website, bye bye. hello there. the weather is set to get quite a bit hotter across england and wales for the next day or two, but taking centre stage more recently has been this weather front stretching thousands of miles out into the atlantic. and that's been bringing some very heavy rain, some large rainfall totals building in across the highlands. we've had over i40mm of rain recorded, bringing reports of some localised flooding. and we've had this landslide effect at the a83, at the rest and be thankful. looks like that route is going to be out of action for a little while. now, looking at the weather picture at the moment, we've still got some of the rain coming down in the highlands. the rain eventually is going to turn a little bit lighter and patchier, but nevertheless some spots of rain still around for the highlands, the hebrides, orkney islands and shetland as we start the day on monday. further south, a lot

of drier weather. could be a few mist and fog patches in some of our deeper river valleys in england and wales to start the day. now looking at the first couple of days of the week, as i say, things are set to get quite a bit warmer, and the reason for that is this area of high pressure is going to be pushing a little bit further eastwards. as it does that, we start to get southerly winds. now, temperatures over the last few days reached the mid—30s in parts of central france, and essentially it's that warm air wafting across england and wales. it really is england and wales that will see the highest temperatures. scotland and northern ireland, a fair bit of cloud around, maybe a few patches of rain in the far north—west later in the day. temperatures about 19—20 degrees. the heat across eastern england, particularly south—east england and around the greater london area, temperatures will probably reach 30 degrees somewhere as we head through the afternoon. now it looks like being another very warm day. the heat‘s on again for england and wales on tuesday. further north and west, again, the cloud could thicken to give an odd patch of rain, maybe an odd shower for wales and western england. for most here, it should stay dry. and again those temperatures up to 29, maybe 30 degrees in the hottest areas.

there will, though, be a significant change in the weather as we head from tuesday into wednesday, and the reason for that change, with much cooler weather on the way, is down to this area of high pressure that develops to our north. what that's going to do is it's going to send much cooler north—to—northeasterly winds down the north sea, and that will really hammer the temperatures. now, on wednesday, there will still be a lot of drier weather around, still with some sunshine, maybe a few isolated light showers here and there. but look at the change in temperatures, down to about six, maybe seven degrees for some in the north—east, and eventually those cooler conditions will reach the far south—west, too. 00:29:19,720 --> 2147483051:51:24,574 news reporter tanya dengy dos. 2147483051:51:24,574 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 an absolutely amazing match.