hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. president trump has just touched down in california where unprecendented wildfires are ravaging the west coast. he blames bad forest management — his rival to the presidency thinks otherwise. you give a climate arsonist four more years in the white house, why would anyone be surprised if we have more america ablaze? a stunning discovery in the atmosphere of venus — scientists find evidence they say could indicate signs of life on the planet. and the video sharing app tiktok submits proposals to the us treasury department about a deal struck with oracle to keep it in business there.

president trump is in california to be briefed on the west coast wildfires. california, oregon and washington are all affected. we know he's going to be briefed by california's governor. going to be briefed by california's governor. he's due to meet fire officials and some of california's political leaders. here's what he's said ahead of those meetings. (tx sot) here's what he's said ahead of those meetings. this is one of the biggest burns we've ever seen and we have to do a lot about forest management. obviously, forest management in california is very important. and now it extends to washington, it extends also to oregon. there has to be good, strong forest management. which i've been talking about three years with the states. hopefully they'll start doing that.

here's some of that discussion — with gavin newsom, california's governor. (tx sot) we can agree to disagree and i would like to acknowledge two things and i will turn it back to you. there is no question when you look past this decade and looking past almost 1000 plus years that we have not done justice in our forest management. plus years that we have not done justice in ourforest management. i don't think anyone disputes that. it's true, the president has been talking about this issue for here he is at a rally in august. four years. massive fires again in california. maybe were going to have to have them pay for it. because they don't listen to us. we say it got to get rid of the leaves, the debris some of the fallen trees. and in 2018 he tweeted about it. there's no reason...

democrats weren't having any of it then and to a lesser or greater extent exte nt tha n extent than pushing back now. we had this from jeff merkley saying... several state leaders echoed those sentiments over the weekend. also let's be talk about when we talk about forest management. this is essentially controlled burning during cooler months to reduce fuel for any fires that may start. but effectively, against slows the spread of the fires. that may sound straightforward with this magazine highlights the fact that it isn't. this article argues that to do this effectively would be a task so large it was worth anything at human has seen before. it was on to say it would mean burning approximately one fifth of the state of california. evenif fifth of the state of california. even if you decided to do that inevitably that could endanger people and property. so these are difficult bounces to be struck. so these are difficult bounces the new york times describes the president's california visit

this way: "in visiting a charred california, well we've also heard from democratic presidential nomineejoe biden on this. here's what he said. if we have four more years of trumped climate denial. how many suburbs will be warned in wildfires? how many suburban neighbourhoodswil of flooded out? how many suburbs will have been blown away from super storms? if you give a climate arsonist four more years in the white house, why would anyone be surprised we have more of america ablaze? next let's get the analysis of peter bowes in la.

this is an extremely complex issue. i think the biggest criticism of the president is that he is dramatically oversimplifying what needs to happen. there is a debate about how the forests are managed. in california over the past many years. there's been a policy of total fire suppression. in other words, there's been a policy of total fire suppression. in otherwords, putting out all of the fires and starting these deliberate burns that some scientists would argue there are more of these are needed to clear out the undergrowth, to clear out some of the dead trees that are standing in the forest. the beatles, the bark beetles really take their toll. i was up in yosemite some time ago and it's striking how many dead trees are just standing there. there isa trees are just standing there. there is a valid argument, i think that more could be done. focusing on those areas and getting rid of those trees. were the that president is strongly criticises when he talks about brushing leaves and clearing the floors. which to most people

here, especially those people who live in areas that continue to burn and are not anywhere close to a forest, that simply illustrates the fa ct forest, that simply illustrates the fact that what the president is talking about isn't addressing the issue that affects so many people. let's talk about the president and his visit to california. what in practical terms could be got don? the immediate practical needs are helping those people whose lives have been devastated by these fires. it's interesting, the president and the governor have been working very closely together over the last few months. on the coronavirus but also on often times behind the scenes in terms of talking about emergency aid for people who are affected by these fires. that will be the immediate conversation. how to help people, how to very immediately mind whether there are more people whose lives have been lost. perhaps bodies that haven't even been discovered yes. we

are hoping that that doesn't amount to many people in california. they could be many more in the state of oregon. but longer—term the debate will be about what the government, the federal government is doing about climate change and there was california politicians, mostly democrats looking to president trump for some acknowledgement that climate change has an effect on the wildfires. and some necessary policy changes, it seems very unlikely, clearly within the few weeks remaining of the current trump administration that that is can happen. but looking ahead to the next two years, because this is become a political hot potato now in terms of what california can expect in terms of bigger come up global policies that could help prevent these fires in the future. let's stay with this story — the fires have killed at least 33 people so far — and dozens of people are missing. and harrowing stories are emerging — such as this one. this is an article in the sacramento bee.

it tells of a husband racing back to his home to get his family out — and rescuing a badly burned woman on the side of the road — without realising it was his wife until she told him. us media is reporting that she remains in a critical condition. i also wanted to show you these pictures from portland in oregon. and hazardous air quality is becoming a major issue — thousands of people have had to leave their homes across the state. well the bbc‘s aleem maqbool is in oregon. here's his latest report. it was like a journey into an eerie twilight zone. few have been allowed here since the fires swept in with such rage. and though most people had scrambled to get out with whatever they could, it was in this area that lives had also been lost. there were some we found wandering and bewildered, like larry. i've lost everything except what's in that bag. everything.

and i didn't have insurance. out of. all the homes had insurance, except for me. just explain where your cabin was. my spot was right over here, and across from what was cabins. it's not there any more. what made these fires are so lethal and record—breaking is the high winds that came with them. accelerating their frightening destructive passage through vast areas of this state. we keep hearing from those who said they felt they were fleeing for their lives and it's only when you are on the ground and you see the destruction, as we've been able to and the warped landscape here, that you start to get a sense of the nightmare that they were running from. this family is tired of running. we found them in a displacement camp miles away. they've now fled fires three times in three different locations in the past week. my mum had ten minutes to get out

of her place and she got the clothes on her back and the cat and that was it, and her house is completely annihilated, it wiped out everything she owned and. and, you know, that's what we heard, the same with ours but we're not as of right now. i think a lot of us are in that position of not knowing. it was sumer‘s town that i'd visited earlier. the signs aren't good. for all the politics, at the heart of this disaster are hundreds of thousands of americans who face fear, displacement, and loss. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in gates in oregon. a global team of astronomers have announced they've found what could be evidence of life elsewhere. not on mars — but on the much more inhospitiable venus. here's one of the team.

what we think we've found is phosphine gas in the atmosphere of venus. now on a rocky planet like earth, phosphine is a rare gas and is mainly the result of life. so it's what we call it bio signature. now on the earth, phosphine is caused by human activity — so through industry or through microorganisms, or microbes. so finding a gas like this on venus is really exciting because of the possibility that it could also have been produced by life like it is on the earth. to be clear — this doesn't yet prove that there is life on venus. but this is what phosphine looks like — this is a computer generated image. usually on earth this gas is associated with microbes living in oxygen—poor environments like swamps or in the guts of animals like penguins. here's dr drabek—maunder again. those processes don't make enough phosphine gas. so what that means is we have to start thinking outside the box for other explanations. so phosphine could be produced

through some sort of other chemical or geological process that no one knows about on venus, or there could be a biological origin — so life could be producing the gas. now, venus isn't exactly a top candidate for where there might be life in the solar system. surface temperatures are more than 400 degrees, and the atmosphere is almost entirely carbon dioxide. probes that have made it there have lasted minutes before breaking down. but 50 kilometers up into the atmosphere it's a different story. lewis dartnell studies the conditions for life on othe planets. so there is a habitable zone, a range of altitudes on venus where it's not too hot and not too acidic, that life as we understand here on earth, so—called extremophile life — extremely hardy, survival, superhero—type cells — could survive the environment in the venusian clouds. earlier i spoke to professor jane greaves — she is the lead researcher

on the project. we are very excited to have gone out to look for if you heard, a very distinctive bio signature gas. it was a carefully designed experiment but we were really blown away when we found it. i'm sure you were. what you need to do from this point onwards to work out why the gases there? well we've already run a lot of calculations and ruled out a lot of calculations and ruled out a lot of obvious things. i think our next step is to carry on using telescopes around the world. and those are still slowly coming back into action because those staff have been operating under pandemic conditions. but we hope to find more precisely, where there is gases on the planet and that is our next step. do you have the technology you need? is adjust the staff you have back at work or do you need to develop new types of telescope to fully understand what's happening in is atmosphere? well ideally would like atmosphere? well ideally would like a new type of telescope, i think. there is in air plane born telescope

called sophia at the stratospheric conservative. would love to use their telescope once it's flying again to look a bit more at where phosphine is on the planet. and in terms of the kind of life that could have produced this gas, what are we actually talking about? it's got to be something pretty small or it would sink through the atmosphere and die in the heat. so we think it's something of microbe like size. maybe just a few microbes living on a droplet of sulphuric acid and water. and in that environment when they don't immediately dry out they would perhaps be able to survive if they've got some kind of protective mechanism they've evolved over millions of years. some kind of little shell around them to stop them being corroded by the acid. and you've been studying the planets for many years. did you ever imagined that you would find something like this on venus rather than somewhere like mars where we might expect to find some life in time? yeah, i've

been interested in habitability and the solar system for many years. in fa ct we the solar system for many years. in fact we did a project years ago and the venus thing was almost a technology test. we weren't expecting to find something but to say we know how to use telescopes like the maxwell telescope in hawaii the first with views. images came through. if you want to know more about that hit the science tab on the bbc website. in a few minutes we re the bbc website. in a few minutes were going to turn our attention to oracle to see how soon be heavily running tech talks business soon in the us. israel has become the first country to impose a second national lockdown following an upsurge in cases. the tough new restrictions will begin on friday. the bbc‘s yolande knell has more.

israel had a very good performance early on in the pandemic where it imposed tight border restrictions. also had a very effective track and trace system. that really all fell apart as many experts believe that schools and businesses were allowed to open too quickly. there was a question about whether there should be in the red hot spots, the places with the highest instances of coronavirus around the country new restrictions put in place from last week. there was some local opposition to that. those locations were concentrated in arab, israeli parts of the country and also in areas where there is a high number of people who are ultra—orthodox was israel has had the voting on the second lockdown due to last three weeks. it's estimated it's going to cost the economyjust under $2 billion. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is?

president trump has just touched down in california where unprecendented wildfires are ravaging the west coast. in oregon and washington too. new coronavirus restrictions have come in to effect today in england. meetings are now restricted to six people — inside or outside. the rule applies private homes, pubs and restaurants — not though schools and workplaces. and anyone who doesn't comply, could be fined £100. but these rules vary across the uk in england and scotland the rules on social gatherings of six people applies both indoors and outdoors. but in scotland those six people must be from two households only, in wales, six people can gather together inside, but up to thirty can still get together outdoors, in scotland children under 12 aren't included, whereas it's under 11s in wales. and in england

all children count towards the six that gather together and there's some wider exemptions, too. larger gatherings are still allowed at gyms and places of worship, as well as at covid—secure wedding and funeral venues. and in northern ierand, six people from two households can gather indoors, and 15 people can gather outdoors. and if you didn't get all of that — it's really clearly set out on the bbc news website. when lockdown began in the uk in march, questions were raised about how it would be enforced. what powers would police have — and how actively would they enforce them? well, those questions are coming back. and uk's policing minister, kit malthouse, want people to help the police — including reporting on neighbours who aren't sticking to the rules. obviously, if people are concerned that the rules are being broken then it's open to them to bring the nonemergency number and certainly during the first locked out we did see a during the first locked out we did seea bump during the first locked out we did see a bump in calls. to the police and nonemergency number of people who were concerned about gatherings and situations that

we re were arising. but, when a senior police officer was asked if the system relies on people "grassing up" neighbours, this was his response. i think it's about everybody accepting their personal responsibility as an individual, as a family memberas responsibility as an individual, as a family member as a businessperson and then we as a police obviously to play our part along with others to make sure that people do comply to those regulations. make sure that people do comply to those regulations. well, whether the public decides to snoop on each other or not, there's the broader issue of whether these rules should even be in place. one formerjustice of the uk's supreme court has told the bbc that the new rules are unenforceble, arbitrary, and uneccesary.and, arbitrary, and uneccesary and, when he was if people should flout the rules, this was the answer. i would say that people should make their own decisions in the lack of their own decisions in the lack of their own decisions in the lack of their own health and that the law should be a secondary consideration. just to be clear... that's a formerjustice of the uk's supreme court, the highest court in the land, telling people they should flout the law.

on the same day that the uk prime minister made the case to parliament that it should break international law. that was earlier in the house of commons, this is the scene there now british mps are debating measures which would allow the uk government to override parts of the brexit withdrawal bill involving northern ireland. it was quite a big day in politics but the person leading the debate for the opposition labour party wasn't the person who leads that party. that's because sir keir starmer, has gone into self—isolation. in a statement we were told: this morning keir starmer was advised to self—isolate after a member of his household showed possible symptoms of the coronavirus." they went on to say that: "the member of his household has now had a test. in line with nhs guidelines, keir will self—isolate while awaiting the results of the test and further advice from medical professionals." one place people are still being encouraged to go to is the pub. that's despite warning from some experts today that to keep

doing so is dangerous. welljd wetherspoons is the uk's biggest chain of pubs. here are punters queueing to get in a wetherspoons recently. but today we've learned that 66 of its workers have tested positive for covid. wetherspoon's founder tim martin opposed lockdown measures when they were imposed back in march — although the company says its invested fifteen million pounds, that's 19 million dollars, in safety measures. and just to finish off in the uk, there's been growing concerns about a backlog within the testing system. reports continue to emerge about people being asked to drive hundreds of miles to get a test — and also claims there may be a shortage of staff in government laboratories. here's hugh pym on that. there are people going online and still struggling to even get a booking it never mind something close to home. so there is clearly something that is not quite right and this mornings scotland's first ministers nicola sturgeon said she has a very serious concern about the

backlog of tests and capacity which appears to have built up in the uk wide system. there is a uk network of la bs wide system. there is a uk network of labs which works with all the devolved administrations and each of them has their own testing system as well. so clearly, there are problems the government line at west minister is they are trying to increase capacity because it has been such a bigjump in demand. the virus continues to spread around the world. at pace. the world health organization says there was a record one—day rise in the number of new coronavirus infections on sunday. with more than 307,000 new confirmed cases globally. according to the who, india saw the bigest rise, with more then 94,000 new cases america was next with more than 45,000. and then brazil saw an increase of 43,000 new cases. and the who said that deaths rose by more than 5,500, bringing the global total to 917,417. over the past few months, doctors around the world have been

trying all sorts of methods to treat those with acute coronavirus symptoms. now, what's being described as a ‘promising' new treatment is about to be tested in uk hospitals. the therapy uses artificial antibodies — called ‘mono—clonal antibodies' ? and will be given to about 2,000 patients — to see if its effective at fighting the virus. our science correspondent rebecca morelle explains how it works... when a person is affected with coronavirus they produce antibodies. these attached to the spike of the virus blocking it from entering ourselves. we make hundreds of different types of i delete my antibodies so scientist sifted through them to find the best at sticking to the virus. they chose to. because they both attached to slightly parts of the spike. if the virus mutates and the structure changes, at least one will still work. both antibodies are then multiplied in the lab and produced

in huge quantities. they are then mixed together and given to the patient. immediately boosting their own immune response. let's talk about tick—tock. let's talk about tick—tock. the us software firm oracle is the last bidder in the race to acquire the us business of tiktok. tiktok is a video sharing app — you can create and upload 15 second clips like these. and the apps been downloaded two billion times globally. it's owned by a chinese tech firm called bytedance — and the trump administration claims it's a national security threat because users data can be shared with the chinese government. the firm denies this. zhaoying feng from bbc chinese is in washington. there is so much uncertainties surrounding this deal right now. first of all we are not sure whether washington with such a partnership by oracle because it's not exactly what president trump as far. he's demanding an outright sale from the

chinese company to an american company. and it doesn't seem to be the case right now. on the other hand, there is another question in beijing where beijing will green light such a partnership with an american company. of course china is worried that if any chinese company make such a deal with an american company under washington's pressure it will set a very dangerous example for other chinese companies. this might happen again and again and will become a headache for china. we don't know exactly what will happen but by dances sort of in a pickle right now. so lots and lots of questions about how that might shake out. we will keep an eye on that. donald trump as i was mentioning, is in california he's just started speaking was up too late for the end of this programme unfortunately. this is the president visiting california because of the wildfires which are burning notjust in

california but in oregon and washington. thanks for watching. bye— bye. hello. a flow of warm air from the south has brought some very high temperatures across parts of the uk and indeed the channel islands. this picture came from weather watcher injersey — where temperatures got all the way up to 30 degrees. in fact, just a bit above 30 degrees. but plenty of other places, not too far behind, 29 just to the west of london, 26 there in lincoln. it was a bit cooler the further north and west you were because we had some extra cloud. you can see that here on the satellite picture. it did give some patchy rain through the day across parts of northern ireland and scotland. and if anything, as we go through this evening and tonight, that rain will pep up a bit. so some heavier bursts of rain drifting through here. could just be the odd shower into southwest wales, the southwest of england, and a few fog patches

across some southern and eastern parts of england. a relatively mild night, lows between 10—14 degrees. tomorrow, another very warm day for most, particularly across england wales where we see a lot of sunshine. the odd showerfor the southwest, wales, maybe northern england as well. northern ireland will brighten up through the day with some sunshine and it will turn drier and brighter for many parts of scotland. the odd shower into the afternoon and some areas of rain continuing across the far north, particularly through the northern isles. could well turn quite misty and murky for some north seacoasts, but temperatures 21 degrees for glascow, 22 degrees in belfast, i think the highest temperature likely to be found in east anglia — around 30 degrees. but it's the last very warm day because as we head through the rest of the week, from mid—week onwards, well, it will stay dry, it will turn cooler as this area of high pressure builds its way in from the northwest. and with the winds around, high—pressure flowing in a clockwise direction, that will start to bring us some northerly winds and a much, much coolerfeel.

you can see those northerly winds kicking in across northern areas on wednesday. a weak frontal system bringing cloud and some spots of rain, very little rain on that weather front and some areas of mist and murk for north seacoasts. but look at these temperatures — 13 degrees in aberdeen, 17 in belfast and in hull. still warm down towards the south but not as warm, middle 20s looks like the highest temperature we will see. then as we head through thursday and friday, well, it stays relatively cool in the north. dry for the most part, a bit of rain in the far northwest and it stays dry further south as well, much cooler than it has been and breezy.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. parliament debates a controversial bill that will allow the government to break international law and overwrite part of the brexit treaty. in recent months, the eu has suggested that it is willing to go to extreme and unreasonable lengths, using the northern ireland protocol in the way that goes well beyond common sense. new rules restrict indoor and outdoor gatherings in england and scotland and indoor groups in wales. it could be large fines for those who break those rules. a promising new treatment for

coronavirus is to be tested. artificial antibodies will