so only book when you are confident. they also said they're working hard to meet exceptionally high demand for tests but that there are still some available. and while we were filming, shen finally made it to her destination. cheering. oh, my god, it's about time! oh, my god! matt graveling, bbc news. time for a look at the weather, here's tomasz schafernaker. we were getting used to some quite nice weather. you have put me on the spot! yesterday at temperatures got up spot! yesterday at temperatures got up to 31 degrees in the south east of the uk, mid 20s for most. not quite so warm in the outlook. still then settled with plenty of sunshine around but temperature is not quite so around but temperature is not quite so high. they are dropping across northern parts of the uk today, this

high pressure has sent the wind blowing from the north towards the north sea coasts so temperatures this afternoon will be around 10 degrees lower in the afternoon than this time yesterday. but we still have some heat left in the south of the country will be have that sunshine, places like london and cardiff and bristol should get up into the mid 20s at least or even high 20s. but the north sea coast, only around mid teens today and could still in the north of scotland. the cool breeze from the north sea continues through this evening and overnight. this line of cloud is a cool front and behind that we have fresher more scandinavian heading our way. still some warmth lingering in the south—west, 15 degrees the overnight low but to single figures in the north east of the uk. the air coming

from the north is dry so few clouds tomorrow across england and wales, actually a beautiful day across scotla nd actually a beautiful day across scotland and northern ireland as well but temperatures must be around 16,201 well but temperatures must be around 16, 201 degrees range. this is friday and again another beautiful day in the way with lots of sunshine throughout the country, a lot of dry weather around this week. temperatures around the seasonal norm, mostly around the high teens and then the indication heading towards the weekend is that things will change a bit with low pressure developing around the bay of biscay creeping closer to southern parts of the uk so you will notice increasing cloud across east anglia and the south—east. and even the possibility of some rain. so here's the outlook for the next few days and into the weekend. increasing amounts of cloud so they could be showers developing.

and temperatures certainly dropping away to the seasonal norm. 0ver and temperatures certainly dropping away to the seasonal norm. over to you. a reminder of our top story... frustration across the country as many still cannot get coronavirus tests but the government says it is demand at record speed. you have had six months, mr speaker, to get this right and get the prime minister still can't deliver on his promises for the health secretary said yesterday it would take weeks to solve the situation but we do not have weeks. that is all from the bbc news at 0ne have weeks. that is all from the bbc news at one end on bbc one we joined the bbc news teams where you are. good afternoon.

good afternoon, i'm gavin ramjaun — it'sjust after 1.30pm, and this is your latest sports news. let's go to old trafford first — where england are playing australia in the final one—day international of their three match series. it's1—1 going into this match. henry moeran‘s watching for us. england won the toss and decided to bat — they'll be regretting that decision? and briefly, henry, no steve smith for australia today? centre line are at the start. the first two balls of the england innings of this game during two wickets, jason roy and joe root are both out first ball. is never to england about a nine international game, never zero — two after the first games. since then, the ship has been steadied, england moving closer to 47—2 in the manchester sunshine, but that stat was as bad

as it possibly could have been for england but thankfully they have a good batting line up and they both need it today. england have got to be careful because those early wickets are going to put pressure on those lower down the order. from australia's point of view, it is exactly the start they wanted in this final match of the summer series, poised at 1—1. this final match of the summer series, poised at 1-1. briefly before we finish, no steve smith for australia today? no steve smith, we know he was struck in the head in the nets at the start of the series so he missed the first match. we thought we were there for the second, but the decision was made by the austrian camp to leave smith out once again. it is important to monitor players who do receive head injuries. the decision made by cricket australia was that they dish did not want to risk playing steve smith. england will perhaps have

more of an object to heart the worlds best batsmen in this australian line—up. in the last hour, ten clubs in the english football league have been given permission to have up to a thousand fans in their grounds for their games this weekend. 0ur sports news correspondent, laura scott, has the details. laura, this is all part of a plan to get more fans back to sport by the start of next month? exactly, that have been pilots held since the end ofjuly to see how fa ns since the end ofjuly to see how fans can return to sports safely. they had been the hope that they would be a wider roll—out of the return of funds from the 1st of 0ctober, return of funds from the 1st of october, that is now under review. we know the culture secretary is a meeting with the major sports today to discuss this issue. they will be making their cases as to why they need fans next month. the air efl have welcomed the fact that they will have these ten pilots this weekend, three in the championship, for in league1 weekend, three in the championship, for in league 1 and three in league 2. crucially, that is only up to

1000 fans, they say they want is to demonstrate that they can have more fa ns demonstrate that they can have more fans are back end, they can do it safely. rick parry says there are substantial financial problems that need immediate solution. the culture secretary says jobs depend on the return of fans. these pilots are all about building the evidence base of how it can be done safely when it is safe to do so. clearly an important couple of weeks to see whether that 1st of october target will or will not be met. just quickly, which games are we talking about for the fa ns games are we talking about for the fans coming back? in in the championship, luton town versus derby county, norwich where preston north end at middlesbrough against bournemouth. in league 1, charlton athletic, blackpool, shrewsbury and hull city all hosting pilots. for the screen, carlisle united and then one other there with more coming

into cambridge united, all up to 1000 fans this weekend. elsewhere today — gareth bale is in talks with his former club, tottenham, over a potential loan move. he left for real madrid seven years ago for £85 million, and went on to win the champions league four times and the spanish league twice. the wales captain hasn't played much in the last year or so. bale's agent says that spurs is where he wants to be. aston villa have signed goalkeeper emiliano martinez from arsenal. after 146 years, macclesfield town are no more. they've been wound up at the high court with debts totalling more than half a million pounds. a request for an adjournment to allow a sale was refused, with the judge saying owner amar alkadhi had been given ample time to pay creditors. macclesfield were due to play in the national league — the fifth tier of english football — after being relegated last season. a bid to wind up southend has been adjourned. that's it from me, more in an hour. borisjohnson was pressed on testing by labour's deputy leader at prime minister's

questions earlier. angela rayner accused the government of failing to deliver on its promise of weekly testing in care homes. the prime minister insisted the uk was carrying out more tests than any other country in europe. 0ur political correspondent, helen catt, is at westminster. yes, it was an unusual pmqs less at lunchtime, with angela rayner standing infor lunchtime, with angela rayner standing in for the labour leader, sir keir starmer who is at home waiting for a coronavirus test. she started with what she called a message from a man called kear who was at home self—isolating. angela rayner is a former care worker herself so we saw a lot of questions on care, particularly if show is challenging the prime minister and on whether or not the government had delivered on its promise to test all ca re delivered on its promise to test all care home workers by september. he said to the best of his knowledge it had, she was querying that. it is not surprising labour went on testing because that has been such a

huge issue this week, something labour has been raising for a long time. this week, we saw those particular problems with people unable to particular problems with people u na ble to access particular problems with people unable to access testing to stop i have three mps with me — ben everitt, alex norris for labour, and then the snp's tommy sheppard. then, when the prius prime minister gets up when the prius prime minister gets up and says that we have delivered a mouse thorough testing regime in europe, there will not cut much ice with somebody constantly sitting at home logging onto your computer screen waiting for a test. that is right, there are some challenges of the testing system at the moment. it is completely out of order to say that the testing system is collapsing, as angela rayner did in pmqs. it is a solid system, we have delivered so far over 20 million

test. that puts his way beyond anything in europe. 0ur testing batting average is really high, higher than germany and spain and france. we are aware of issues with an increase in demand for people who wa nt to an increase in demand for people who want to get test, and we are ending more demand in, more labs. we are making sure that we do with the demand is best as we can to stop it isa demand is best as we can to stop it is a challenging time, people are understandably worried, we get that. people might be asking whether this might have been foreseeable, that when children went back to school, when children went back to school, when it reactions were eased, people going back to the workplace, that more people would have need more testing. why wasn't it a priority for how people can get tested, why haven't you already got that in place? i think that's one of the curses at the pandemic at the moment, everybody is blessed with hindsight. the fact is we are working as hard as we can. at this point, i have to pay tribute to nhs

test and trace, they are doing a fantasticjob. i test and trace, they are doing a fantastic job. i know test and trace, they are doing a fantasticjob. i know from my own experience how hard they are working to do with the situation we are in. what sort of response are you getting in your inbox? what you say to people contacting you upset about this? say that we are on it. we are trying to add extra capacity, that can't happen overnight. we have a very thorough system, where up to 370,000 very thorough system, where up to 370 , 000 tests very thorough system, where up to 370,000 tests a day. the target for the end of october is to get up to 500,000 tests through a lad i'd diagnose every single day, which is just phenomenal numbers based on where we started from. hats off to nhs test and trace, they are doing a fantastic job and we nhs test and trace, they are doing a fantasticjob and we are working on it as hard as we can. i would like

to bring in alex norris here. boris johnson said that angela rayner had not contested any of these statistics about having the highest testing rate in europe. does labour accept that compared to other countries in the testing rate is quite good? they seem to be on a completely different planet. it was really starting to hear from boris johnson to find a system that has clearly failed. every mp has heard from the constituents horror stories of peeping being sent —— of people being sent hundreds of miles. the syste m being sent hundreds of miles. the system is not working. everybody getting on their results within 24 was as important so they do not have to self—isolate, but also critical to self—isolate, but also critical to the virus does not spread. yesterday, it was not 100% of people within 2041 was, it was 8%. we need

to see less self congratulations and that little bit more reality. at the moment, we are losing control at —— of the virus. if you accept that we are testing at a higher rate than other european countries, what would labour be doing differently to make sure this isn't happening? we saw the government pluck figures out of nowhere. they are keen to talk about the testing number, they haven't talked about what comes in it after a test — you then have the capacity to properly analyse it and find out whether a patient does or doesn't have this horrible virus? we are saying that we need to expand that lab capacity. it was always ready to do that before the summer with the skills going back and the economy opening. we are saying that lab space in universities and hospitals that the government have been very slow today. you then have to trace

the contacts of people who have this virus. just testing someone is an academic exercise, that won't get it done. we know that the government themselves. last week, it was less than 70, so this needs to be much better. we are calling for a much greater urgency. getting out of this virus will only properly happen with test and trace. boris johnson says thatis test and trace. boris johnson says that is all very well first up is that is all very well first up is that anything more that you can do to help this? just anything labour can do to help this? the schools have been a long wearing issue. keir starmer wrote to boris johnson saying that he knows that they had problems. similarly, he said the same with regards to the economy and managing the end of the furlough scheme. we said last week that we

are ready to roll up our sleeves and help. that is still there. there are not many political points in a pandemic, we are ready to put our shoulders to the wheel. people have to stop of the self congratulations, stop with the dislocated fantasy foot ball stop with the dislocated fantasy football way of looking at how things are going on and be more candid with it. i think if we did that, it would be eight for everyone. just to bring ben everitt back in, what you make of that? well, where to start? no one is being self congratulatory. i have said before that it is tricky and challenging, we are with issues. i think sitting on the sidelines and saying let's not make this political is possibly the most political thing you could have said just then. it is absolutely ridiculous of the labour party to say that they want to help stop we have had no ideas other than what we are already doing. we are

ramping up lab capacity, we do want to get these testjourney ramping up lab capacity, we do want to get these test journey through so we can figure out whether people do or do not have coronavirus. that is exactly what we are doing. nobody is sat here congratulating themselves. everybody, including the nhs, is working incredibly hard to do with this pandemic. i think, frankly, it's insulting to everyone to say that we're sitting here being self congratulatory. everybody is working very, hard. let's bring in tommy sheppard from the snp. there is a backlog in scotland too, but the uk testing regime i think borisjohnson said 70% was supported by the uk government. is there more the snp can be doing in scotland to improve the situation there? it is mainly irresponsible or tea for the uk government. i think as alec said, none of us want to create party political division over this or

score points on opposition. the government are not helping themselves. people are staring at computer screens and the government are responding with saying that we are responding with saying that we are the best in the world. it really is not helping. the government ought to be more open and transparent about exactly what the problem is. it is not a matter of hind sight, everyone knew that demand was going to increase as social distancing was minimise and people came back together. this is a direct result of government policy to restart the skills and try to get people back to work, which is all well and good, but we knew the effect of this would be an increase in infection and an increase in demand for testing and it ought to have been planned for. but to wait for something to happen and then decide that you're going to do something about it seems to me pretty bad policy are not really a government that has got a grip on this. all of us are willing to work

with the government to get to the bottom of this and to do what we can to four nations of the uk are working together to get through this as best as we can, but the government has to be open and transparent and not hide behind statistics and to have borisjohnson performing the way he did an hour ago. that is not really helping. do you think that scotland having little restrictions, for example, exempting children from the rule of six rule, do you think that is more pressure on the system because you have got more mixing? no, i don't think so. the infection rates in scotland are comparable with the re st of scotland are comparable with the rest of the uk, actually a little bit lower, sol rest of the uk, actually a little bit lower, so i do not think the difference in the way we do things are having effects on demand interesting. it is important that the uk does do things according to the uk does do things according to the scientific evidence that those governments are presented with, that's what the scottish government has done through all of us. we need to work together gullible all four

governments and the uk government being open and transparent about how it does things to make sure that we can get to the bottom of this. testing those people on who other people depend, whether they be caregivers or doctors or teachers, if somebody is in that position and they are not being tested, then that has to be the top priority. we need those public agencies and public services themselves to consider taking the internal capacity to test those workers and process these results a lot faster than what they have been doing. the snp leader in westminster, ian blackford, his questions were about the internal market bill and the various issues around art. does the snp accept that it would be very difficult for the uk to get a trade deal if different parts of the uk can set different standards? no, i don't think we acce pt standards? no, i don't think we accept that at all. i think it's entirely possible to get a treaty at that those into it the fact that

different parts of the uk may have different parts of the uk may have different standards that need to be met. i see no problem with that today. increased centralisation is a very big attack on the devolution settlement that has persisted in the uk for the last 20 years, which is why an awful of people are extremely concerned about it. the measures in the internal market bill are not necessary. they are being brought forward in order to change the relationship between the devolved ministrations in the uk government here in london. that london. that is their purpose. just to bring any alex norris on that, what does labour make of this? do support the internal market bill to make sure that standards are the same across the country? we were told in the election in december that this was ofan election in december that this was of an ready and that boris johnson was going to put it in the microwave and it would be sorted straightaway. we need this to be resolved and

finish ina we need this to be resolved and finish in a way in which the prime minister secured a mandate for. beating this pandemic requires us all to pull together. what we have seen all to pull together. what we have seen with the latest and only bell in the last phase is that it is once again dividing people and communities, through communities. we need less of that, get the deal that was promised, get that pass through, move on and beat this pandemic together. that is they do with the aspect of the over riding on the withdrawal agreement. 0n the main force of the bill, making sure that you are not setting different standards, does labour support that principle? it is clear we are not going to be able to work out, to have a market for goods and services thatis have a market for goods and services that is different across the uk, that is different across the uk, thatis that is different across the uk, that is clearly undesirable. nevertheless merely accepting that principle will not solve those territorial challenges, that is the number—one sticking point it seems to us. we were promised that would

be easy, that needs to be done now. ben everitt, this would give westminster the power to spend money in the devolved administrations in a way that clearly they are not happy with. this is a power grab, isn't it? no, far from it, it is about making sure that power is transferred from brussels go to the regions and devolved nations as much as possible. this is a bill that strengthens the union, but also strengthens the union, but also strengthens devolution. it is a very good bill, it is something that supports a free trade area that has existed for hundreds of years and an internal market that has as existed for hundreds of years. it is something that we should be celebrating. the qualities that will override bits of the withdrawal agreement, how is the feeling on the conservative backbenches at the moment? is there a sense that this will go through or is the government

engaging with you? yes, i can tell from my personal perspective, i am very supportive of this bill as it currently stands. we are in the situation where we find ourselves in a trade negotiation, we have done our deal to leave the eu, done, just to state and delivered. we are not in the trade negotiations to get a trade deal with the eu, and trade deals are tough. there is a tough negotiation going on, the eu think they have found an interpretation of they have found an interpretation of the treaty agreement that they can use as a leveraged, and they are applying some pressure from that particular interpretation of the withdrawal act. we are putting a couple of lines into a tidy up that withdrawal act so that they cannot go through on their threat to ban at the food supply into northern ireland from the mainland and then on the northern ireland economy. there is obviously at the good friday agreement to think about, which is effectively peace in

northern ireland, we need to protect out. so we are taking this action in the bill to make sure that we tidy up the bill to make sure that we tidy up and we do not expose ourselves to that kind of leverage on in the eu side. i am that kind of leverage on in the eu side. iam right that kind of leverage on in the eu side. i am right behind the prime minister in doing that, i think it will cement our negotiating position and we will move forward and get a good deal. this is what this is all about. we need to get a deal that works for both sides. we need to get trade from all of the uk through to the european union, and that's what we wa nt the european union, and that's what we want to do. thank you very much to all three of our mps— ben everitt, alex norris and tommy sheppard. 0f everitt, alex norris and tommy sheppard. of course, the prime minister might have had one grilling in the commons already, he faces another this afternoon when some of the most senior backbenchers all quiz him at the liaison committee. now the weather with tomasz schafernaker.

it was a very warm day yesterday, temperatures and in their mid—20s for many of us, even a 31 in the south—east of england. the next few days will stay settled, plenty of sunshine around, it just days will stay settled, plenty of sunshine around, itjust won't be that warm. the temperature drop today will be most noticeable across the northern half of the uk, air coming in from the north following a cool front, the afternoon will be some 10 degrees cooler compared to yesterday. it is a lot more cloudy across parts of scotland, north—east of england, but earlier sunshine in the south of the country. this evening will still be quite warm, left over from today. around 25 south fort london, bristol and cardiff. but notice in newcastle and aberdeen, is only around 12 degrees soa aberdeen, is only around 12 degrees so a fairly nippy evening on the way. a cold front moves across

holland, east anglia and a curving up holland, east anglia and a curving up into wales. fresh air comes on behind off the north sea, there might be some light rain but nothing more than that. the morning temperatures are around 8 in newcastle, but some of that warm left over in the fourth south—west of the country, 15 in the morning on thursday. thursday will be a beautiful sunny day across much of england and wales, a little more cloud in the north of scotland, but a fabulous day on the whole for many of us, with temperatures back to the seasonal norm. friday also looking pretty settled, but notice the arrows in the south, we are going to see an increasing breeze across the south of the country as we head towards the end of the week and into the weekend. it might feel a little on the nippy side, particularly on the north sea coast. high pressure will be close to the north, where as low pressure will be a little bit

closer to the south. come the weekend, there is a possibility of increasing amounts of cloud and even some showers affecting the southern counties. through the weekend, i think there is an increased risk of at least catching a few over the weekend —— a few showers over the weekend.

this is bbc news. the headlines: amid claims the covid testing system is collapsing — the government says resolving delays is its number one issue. everybody can see, just in the last few days, a colossal spike in the number of people who want to test and who want to ascertain whether they've got coronavirus. and what we're trying to do now is meet that demand at record speed. they've had six months, mr speaker, to get this right. and yet the prime minister still can't deliver on his promises. the health secretary said yesterday it would take weeks to sort the situation out. well, mr speaker, we don't have weeks. calls for teachers to be added to the priority list for testing as the government prepares to announce that nhs staff and care workers will be at the front of the queue.