when we catch up with the flames the forest rangers do their best with what they've got. but no sooner is one fire out... ..another sparks. it is siberia's equivalent of a david versus goliath. this ranger says it is getting hotter here every year. he is spending more and more time in the forest. translation: i spend nearly all my summers now fighting fires. my wife and three kids awaiting for me at home. but this is a job i must do. for the planet, there is a double danger here. the burning you can see is producing

c02, but also underground, fire is thawing the frozen soil or permafrost, releasing even more greenhouse gases. siberia is trapped in a vicious circle of climate change. rising temperatures means drier forests and more forest fires. more fires means more forest fires. more fires means more carbon emissions being pumped into the atmosphere and more climate change. climate change affects everyone. we will be shown by this man how it threatens his community. we are speeding along the great siberian river, shrouded in smoke. every day, this man and his friends patrol this forest. they recently put out a fire here close to their

village. any lingering flame, any hint of danger is pounced on. translation: i don't remember a summer translation: i don't remember a summer like this. no rain and so hot. the dry grass was like gunpowder. but it is the ground thawing that worries me. there will be less dry land. our community could end up under water. life here will change. siberia and its fires may seem far away, but what happens here affects us all. we are one planet, we are interconnected, we face the same climate crisis. steve rosenberg, bbc news, siberia. with winter colds and flu starting to circulate, there's plenty of confusion

about coronavirus symptoms. the government says part of the problem with the testing system is that too many people without symptoms are going for tests. so when should you go? our health correspondent sophie hutchinson explains. autumn is almost upon us and already a whole range of viruses are circulating. so, when do you need to get tested? the official symptoms for covid—i9 are a fever — that's a temperature of 37.8 degrees celsius or above. a new, continuous cough — that's coughing a lot for an hour or more or having three coughing fits within 2a hours. and a loss of taste or smell, or that things taste or smell different. but some parents have found it difficult to know whether their children have symptoms. one confusing factor is that, while the official covid—i9 symptoms seemed to work for 18 to 65—year—olds, some scientists and doctors say they don't necessarily work for children and older people.

for example, many children don't get a cough, and older people, while seeming unwell, might not have any obvious covid—i9 symptoms at all. the scientists behind this covid—i9 symptoms tracker app says people don't need to err on the side of caution. there's many more cases of cold around than there are of covid, and i think for people are unsure whether they have the classical symptoms of cold or not, they should probably assume it's symptoms of covid or not, they should probably assume it's more likely to be a cold and just wait and see how that develops without overburdening the testing system. it's important that if you have a tight chest or are finding it hard to breathe, you contact a doctor, but if your symptoms are sneezing, a runny nose, which is perhaps making you cough a bit, the likelihood is that you've got a cold and you don't need to be tested. and the government says the best way to protect yourself is to wash your hands,

keep a safe distance and wear a face mask when required. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be hello to viewers in the uk joining those around the world — it's now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster john stapleton, and pippa crerar — political editor at the daily mirror. as always really great to have you both with us. before we start the conversation, let's have a look at some of the front pages that we have got. let's start with the telegraph, and it warns that hospitals in the uk have been told to find

extra beds for coronavirus patients within two weeks. coronavirus is on the front page of the metro too — it says the number of people testing positive for the virus in england is up by 75% in a week. the guardian leads on the ongoing problems with the uk's coronavirus test and trace system — as new restrictions for north—east england come into force. singapore's construction sector is set to take a substantial hit in the wake of the covid—i9 pandemic — that's in the straits times. a different story on the front page of the financial times. it reports that the president of the european commission still believes a brexit trade deal with the uk is possible. the daily mail carries a warning from the uk's former health secretary, that blunders on maternity wards are costing the national health service nearly £1 billion a year. and the new york times has a report on abusive marriage in china, and the difficulties of getting justice.

those are some of the front pages. let's start the conversation with that the daily telegraph and john and pippa a lwa ys daily telegraph and john and pippa always really good that you are giving up your thursday night for us. giving up your thursday night for us. john, all the papers focusing on various different aspects of the coronavirus. the telegraph looking ata number of coronavirus. the telegraph looking at a number of things but the headlines focusing on hospitals being told to clear for a covert spike in two weeks, and my goodness those flashbacks of four hospitals once again, quite an alarming headline there. it is alarming but given what we learned today, probably not that surprising. this covers the one front and doesn't talk about the potential impact on hospitals and other matters we will come to later but the man for testing is four times the actual capacity, 75% increase in the number

of people are having this terrible infection at the moment. we were discussing europe as well. at the prospect at weise of lockdown and other areas up to the north east —— prospect of lockdown. the prospect of rationing as it were for testing because the system as it stands so we cannot cope. we've got people turning up dissenters being turned away being told that the nearest testing centre in my vocal case in we st testing centre in my vocal case in west london, five to 50 miles away in aberdeen, and matt hancock denying that is happening but local evidence suggest an your run minster hancock. that is the view of my local mp. —— you are wrong mr hancock for very tough two week is the quite rightly the telegraph points out. a tough two week and john you were pointing out a number

of different aspects. pippa always write a member also looking at the northeast becoming the next area which will undergo local lockdown. and it mentions possibly other areas that could have curfews imposed on it. there is this real sense that as the cases arise that we are going to start seeing more and more restrictions in terms of things on a national basis such as the rule of six but also in specific geographic areas like leads as potentially facing further restrictions. 2 million people across the northeast are about to find their social and working life dramatically curtailed as well. borisjohnson has said throughout it that he doesn't want a second national lockdown and he said it again in the last couple of days yesterday in pmq and in front of the

liaison committee of mps. and he is absolutely terrified about the impact on the economy and he was talking about how it would be devastating if we had a second full national lockdown but i think we might end up seeing is a national lockdown by the back door and that either be because there is huge swaths of the country opposed or the northeast case regional markdowns or we was he so many different measures like cu rfews and we was he so many different measures like curfews and individual measures across the country as tantamount to across the country as tantamount to a national one. you reach the point where it would become semantics and is it clear if there is just one set of rules across the board so they know where they stand rather than differing in different parts of the country and community —— confusing them? the country and community —— confusing them ? the key country and community —— confusing them? the key mitigation threat the pandemic by the government has been poon pandemic by the government has been poor. we had a strong one at the start about staying home and saving lives and it is been very muddled ever since and people of had it hard to get to grips with. that's why

they want to keep it simple, they may have too many rules into many different places and causing more confusion. one other aspect in the telegraph story, this was also on channel 4 news, a great scandal was revealed that older people were being released into care homes without being tested for coronavirus and that cannot happen again. according to that piece in the telegraph and one of your rivals channel 4 news tonight, that is being suggested in the northwest of england is asking care homes to do that who mabel have coronavirus which is something worth thinking about. sorry to interrupt. -- may well have coronavirus. the telegraph was also saying that the paper understands that family visits to ca re understands that family visits to care homes will be paused in areas where infections are higher. 0nce again we have seeing the most vulnerable affected. we don't have this much time in this

edition of the papers, we will look at the german paper, the frankfurter which i'm sure i mispronounced. with the uk, we are seeing the number of new coronavirus infections continuing to rise, so is there germany, john. germany had did so well but in common with many other countries and austria is mentioned as well, the biggest rise since april in the country of infections. i wonder whether this is partly to do with the fact that throughout europe and to some degree or another, countries have relaxed conditions and made restrictions less difficult for some people and people have become rather casual. i have myself, maybe i don't wash my hands as much as i do, i put on a mass before go out and i was on the tube the other day not wearing the mask again and several other people. —— there were people on the tube train that we mess. people may be

excepting this is a new normal state and maybe this is the reason for the spread. i was speaking to this doctor saying that we need to continuously wash our hands and not forget, it is important. the singapore times talking about containing the virus, it is pulling together the thoughts of the straits times, apologies. the thoughts of a number of organisations... not a great line, not a positive line. it is saying is important to contain the virus because even if we get a vaccine initially they will not be enough for everyone. happy days. operations right across the world including one which is looking promising between 0xford which is looking promising between oxford and imperial as well looking at developing vaccines but the point of the story in the straits times is the focus on some way off that point

and it will be interesting watching the slight shift in tone from the british government and british scientists who back at the start of the summer were quite optimistic and even talking about bringing a vaccine by christmas not that everybody would get that. that would be the most fun report that would get it and front line and hsn care workers would get it first. —— not the most vulnerable. —— and nhs workers. and matt hancock the other day talking about probably not getting a vaccine until the new year at the earliest, february march and that may be optimistic. we don't know when this will come, the straits times has been speaking to express and quoting the world health organization express and quoting the world health 0rganization talking about having containment measures needed. the one silver lining in all of this is there has been such incredible cooperation between different organisations and research facilities right across the world and the vast amount of countries that have signed up to this

international vaccine programme with some notable exceptions