good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and mega munchetty. our headlines today: tougher england—wide covid rules are discussed by the prime minister, after scientific advisors warn him of a significant rise in the death rate. options include closing parts of the hospitality sector and limiting pub opening hours. two million people in the north—east of england come under new local regulations from today — similar rules could now be enforced in lancashire. the welsh wizard is returning. gareth bale is set to complete his

move back to tottenham today. we are talking all autumn bulb planting. a dry start to the day and many of us should see a fine and dry day ahead with more details in ten minutes. it's friday the 18th of september. our top story. tighter national restrictions across the whole of england are being discussed by downing street to try and slow the surging number of coronavirus cases. the measures are being described as a circuit rate after a warning from the governments teeth scientific advisers that there would be a significant rise in the death rate without further intervention. this is what borisjohnson is desperate to avoid — another full—scale national lockdown, which he says would be a disaster for the economy. instead, the government could introduce what's being called a circuit break — perhaps just for a fortnight — of tightened restrictions in england. schools would remain open,

as would workplaces. but pubs and restaurants could have their opening hours cut. some public premises would have to close. no final decisions have been taken as the government waits to see the effect of the new rule of six. nearly 10 million people are living under stricter restrictions already. at midnight, people in large part of the north—east of england were told they could no longer socialise with those outside their own household or support bubble. why take notice of these new rules when they didn't take notice other rules? they keep changing them all the time, so you don't know what you're doing when you come out. it's better than — better than across the board. if we can try and do it where it is, it might stop it spreading. lancashire, with the exception of blackpool, is expected to be the next area to face local restrictions, with similar controls to the north—east on socialising and a 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants. but criticism remains of the testing system. there was frustration in sunderland yesterday when people turned up at this site to find no sign of any testing.

ministers did not increase testing to levels that were needed, so it is not world—beating, it's a shambles. i wouldn't sit here and claim that this is, you know... world— beating? ..absolutely going, you know, exactly as i would hope it to go, but we are constantly improving. in the latest 24—hour period, 3,395 new coronavirus infections were recorded — that s slightly higher than the average for the past week. and with the prime minister warned by his advisers that there could be a significant number of deaths by the end of october without further interventions, there are some tough decisions ahead. simon jones, bbc news. let's get more on this now from our political correspondent jessica parker. good morning. what we have here is a clear warning from scientist, a discussion at downing street and a new phrase, so could break. what is the significance? so could break.

the idea is to try and pause things, stop the virus from spreading too much but not going for a full national lock down to hold it all together. the prime minister this week described the idea of that on the economy as potentially disastrous to the government is eager to avoid that at all costs. that it is interesting because if you look at what has happened over recent months when the government spoke about a whack a mole strategy, finding out local outbreaks and tackling them locally, increasingly those local restrictions have become regional. millions of people and swathes of the country are under some kind of restriction which raises the question as to whether or not at some point this could become nationwide across england and while no decisions are yet made it certainly seems that there is deep concern within the government and they are monitoring the situation, waiting to see what impact the new rule of six would have had but that

was a simpler and blunter message and perhaps going forward in terms of restrictions we could see a simple blunt approach again. and we have seen across simple blunt approach again. and we have seen across a simple blunt approach again. and we have seen across a large area of the north—east, restrictions coming into play already. the question is where next. an area next we think for local lockdown for people living in lancashire with the exception of blackpool. comes after restrictions we re blackpool. comes after restrictions were applied across large areas of the north—east to we do not yet have exact details as to what will happen in lancashire. there was some sort of announcement expected in the department of health is not commenting. a further sign that there is concern locally and nationally about the spread of the virus. as jess mentioned there, new coronavirus rules came into force across most of the north—east of england overnight. our reporter olivia richwald is in sunderland for us this morning. olivia, what do these new restrictions mean for people there?

the mornings are turning later but this is a new dawn, so to speak. that is right. a foggy morning here in sunderland and as people wake this morning, 2 million people gci’oss this morning, 2 million people across the north—east of england awaking to new restrictions on those restrictions will have a big impact on the lives of people because they can no longer meet up with family and friends in homes and gardens and nightlife he will stop at ten o'clock. here in sunderland, the number of positive cases per hundred thousand of the population is now over 100 and that worries local authorities. it is notjust that figure that is worrying. there is also been an increase in the number of positive cases, in hospitals and in the proportion of people testing positive. it was a trio of worrying factors that lead to seven local authorities here in the north—east of england urging the government to impose these restrictions. those restrictions include not being able to meet with family and friends in

gardens, restaurants and pubs having to close at ten o'clock and people are being asked to avoid using public transport unless for essential travel. and everyone from rural northumberland in county durham and urban areas of newcastle and sunderland are affected full message from the local authority here is to adhere to the guidelines if we are to continue in the way we have been going with children able to attend school and people able to go back to work. these restrictions have been described as temporary and there is no guidance as to when they might end but they do, is the universities in newcastle, sunderland and durham get ready to welcome students back. thank you so much, olivia. care homes in england are to receive extra funding of more than half a billion pounds to help them control coronavirus infections over the winter. the money will be used to provide free personal protective equipment until march and ensure workers are still paid if they need to take time off to self—isolate. care directors have welcomed the initiative, but have said it

does not address the need to pay staff better. scientists say a rapid coronavirus test has been developed, that can accurately diagnose an infection within 90 minutes, without needing a specialist laboratory. the device is already being used in eight nhs hospitals and the government has ordered more. it's most useful for helping to quickly identify people with covid—19 in hospitals, rather than mass testing. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world have now risen beyond 30 million. more than 940,000 people have died with covid—19 since the outbreak began in china — according to figures from johns hopkins university. the worst hit nations are the us, india and brazil, although infection rates across europe are rising rapidly. israel will today become the first country to return to a nationwide lockdown — after a surge of new cases. the closure which begins this afternoon will last for three weeks and comes at the start of the jewish new year.

yolande knell reports. getting ready for the jewish new year. and a new lockdown. crowded ultra—orthodox neighbourhoods in israel are among the hot spots where covid cases have jumped, pushing the infection rate up to one of the highest in the world. synagogues are at the heart of religious communities. we are only allowed to have sometimes ten, sometimes 20, depending on the regulations. but strict rules now mean few can gather inside. it's a remarkable time of the year, the most exceptional time of the year in thejewish calendar, and people are not going to be able to pray in their usual prayer areas, in their synagogues, they will not be able to be with family. shalom! soldiers have been drafting into lead the battle

stay at home is again the message here. but the new lockdown to deal with the public health emergency is only going to deepen israel's economic crisis. unemployment is at a record high, many businesses are failing, leading to mounting criticism of the government. this closure, i hope they are going to end this story once and for all. this new mother, who has already lost herjob, does not believe it will. it's gonna be worse than now. it didn't work in the first time, it is not going to work and the second time. when israel's tight controls quickly curbed the first wave of covid—19 earlier this year, it was seen as setting a world example. now, as it is forced into another painful shutdown, many other countries will be hoping to avoid following its lead. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. the barbadian prime minister has said she wants the country to become a republic by november next year, when it will celebrate the 55th anniversary of its independence from britain. it is unusual for a country to remove the queen as head of state — mauritius was the last to do it in 1992. the prime minister said she hopes

the move isn't seen as divisive. we believe that the only reason it hasn't happened is because this is a vestige of our colonial past. without rancour or divisiveness we will remove the that we continue to accept that our relationship with the royalfamily, accept that our relationship with the royal family, a accept that our relationship with the royalfamily, a relationship with the united kingdom matters in the same way that your family to people who from ghana and we are family to people from the uk and family to people from the uk and family still matters. the royal mint says it's not planning to make any new two pence or two pound coins in the next ten years, as demand has dropped. with more of us using contactless payments, the mint says there is a "mountain" of unused coins in storage. the national audit office says it could become harder to access cash in the future for those who rely on it. time for the weather now. and sarah is at rhs wisley

in surrey this morning, how are you feeling about the morning being dark now. it definitely feels like autumn is here. it does. good morning to you both. an autumn morning, fresh out there with mr dennis around first thing this morning but i am here at risley and we are talking all things autumn full of autumn planting. a little later we will show you how to plant bulbs at this time of year at home as well. many people do not realise that autumn is a key season for gardening and many of us have taken up gardening during lockdown so we are all in need of a few hints on how to plant autumn bulbs. here this morning it is a fresh start to the day and i am in the alpine display house. how is the weather looking? it is a fresh start to the day, fresh for many of us with high

pressure dominating the weather today and that will stick around as we head into the weekend. a sunny warm day ahead for many of us today but similar to yesterday it will be breezy, especially across southern parts of england and wales as well. initially we have mist an murkiness around, particularly around parts of northern england and scotland, that clears away and then we look at blue skies for many of us. it will feel warm with temperatures around 16— 2a degrees also today. but you will notice that breeze coming in from the east and that will make things feel cooler, especially across parts of england and wales. around those east coast it will feel cool where you have the breeze coming in off the north sea. a bit more cloud and the north sea. a bit more cloud and the odd shower across the far north of scotla nd the odd shower across the far north of scotland at times but dry elsewhere, into the evening and tonight that is how it looks. largely dry with temperatures somewhere around 8— 1a degrees first thing tomorrow morning. saturday brings us a dry day, similar to the day with a great deal of sunshine

but againa day with a great deal of sunshine but again a brisk easterly wind coming in across parts of england and wales as well. later in the day, the threat of a few heavy downpours, especially for the channel islands, south—west of england perhaps along the south coast as well. most of us should stay dry with temperatures around 16— 2a degrees on saturday but you will notice the breeze through the weekend full of weekend for getting out in the garden and join me in about 30 minutes where we will bring you some tips about how to get involved with autumn planting. thank you. you have green fingers. thank you. you have green fingersi like to spend time in the garden. thank you. you have green fingersi like to spend time in the gardenm that the same thing? sit down, have a cup of tea. lovely. have you got green fingers? i like sitting down, cup of tea, comfortable chair, that is my kind of thing. i'm getting deja vu, it's not a good thing. do you have green fingers, charlie?

deja vu, it's not a good thing. do you have green fingers, charlie7m is 6:14am. let's take a look at today's papers. "north east lockdown" leads the front of the newcastle chronicle this morning. it outlines some of the new restrictions residents in parts of the region are now under, including a ban on meeting other households in homes and gardens, and a curfew on pubs. the metro looks at the coronavirus numbers, reporting that the number of people testing positive in england has risen by 75% in one week. the telegraph reports that hospitals and councils have been told to find extra beds for coronavirus patients within two weeks. it also says family visits to care homes could be paused in virus hot spots. and a different health story makes the front of today's daily mail. it reports that the nhs is facing nearly £1 billion in legal fees over law suits against maternity wards. the former health secretary, jeremy hunt, has written about the issue

in the paper. in what is on quite a lot of heavyweight news today, the recipe for the perfect fish finger. my favourite thing. i'm really excited about this. how are the fish fingers cooked? i will take you through it, step—by—step. cooked? i will take you through it, step-by-step. thank you. this is from a chef, richard. he says it must be made with 2——— two pieces of soft, white bread. no. must be made with 2——— two pieces of soft, white bread. noll must be made with 2——— two pieces of soft, white bread. no. iwill go through the whole thing. two pieces of soft, white bread, each half beef thickness of the fish fingers —— each half the thickness, and salad garnish. the sandwich left for 60—90 seconds before eating. should i tell

you my issues with that? yeah? one, the fish fingers have to be drilled and they have to be juicy fish fingers. the problem withjust bread is if you leave it for 60—90 seconds, it soaks up the heat and the bread goes soggy. the red should be toast, toasted, lightly toasted, there should be letters in the sandwich. there are some howls around the nation. it doesn't matter. there should be four fish fingers inside the sandwich and when the sandwich is cut, corner to corner. they are interested in credentials. how many of these sandwiches have you made in your lifetime? hundreds. so this is a chef, his credentials i he has made more than 15,000. —— are that she has made more than 15,000. and yet he has still got it wrong. when was the last time you had a fish finger sandwich? a long time ago. it is

something associated with childhood, something associated with childhood, soi something associated with childhood, so i haven't done that. don't you indulge in childhood delights?” so i haven't done that. don't you indulge in childhood delights? i may be old. how would you have it? it would be white bread, and it would — and it would be heavy on the butter, which i probably shouldn't say out loud. i would have tartar sauce and english mustard. it's interesting. we are talking to a member of pink floyd later, the drummer, i'm a big fan of van morrison and his music. he has written some new music, producing three tracks —— van morrison, he is protesting against the restrictions. timely, considering we may potentially have a new national lockdown. when you listen to some of the van morrison

songs, brilliant songs there, the top line of this in the telegraph is "have a told you lately that i hate the government's covid restrictions?" so, the government's covid restrictions? " so, he the government's covid restrictions?" so, he has sung how i told you lately and bright side of the road. it's interesting to see musicians and artists express —— expressing how they feel. we will be speaking to pete mason later. let's take a look at today's papers. the pandemic has left behind devastated family and friends. group of 1600 bereaved families has now called for an urgent enquiry into the government does make handling of the crisis in the hope that lessons can be learned ahead of a possible winter surge. alex forsyth has spoken to families

involved. she had a really infectious laugh, thatis she had a really infectious laugh, that is how everyone knew her. she would do anything for anyone. carry‘s mother went into hospital in january for an operation to try and treat cancer. but there were complications. her mother, caroline, ended up in intensive care for months and kerry got a phone call. there is no easy way to say, my mother tested positive for covid—19. that is what the doctor said. they said they were going to have to stop the treatment. i think it's because we couldn't go inside, thinking of her being alone. kerry has joined a group campaigning foran her being alone. kerry has joined a group campaigning for an immediate independent enquiry as to what happened at the start of this pandemic. fearful that cases are climbing up again, they want to meet the prime minister to set up their experience of what happened in care

homes, hospitals, with ppe and testing, to make sure the right systems a re testing, to make sure the right systems are now in place.|j testing, to make sure the right systems are now in place. i would like them to make up with us. they are not just numbers, like them to make up with us. they are notjust numbers, these people have died. they have got families that are heartbroken. they can be forgiven for making mistakes the first time around, but they can't forgiven for making the same m ista kes forgiven for making the same mistakes again. the prime minister initially said he would meet anyone bereaved by covid—19, but later said he couldn't meet this group now because they are in litigation with the government. but the group say that isn't the case. they have sent a letter saying they might have put proceedings if there is no immediate public enquiry, but they are not under way yet. downing street said the prime minister is acutely aware of the suffering of those who have lost someone and will meet the group after a ny lost someone and will meet the group after any legal conceding

proceedings —— proceedings, but during the pandemic isn't the right time, downing street hazard. for jane, learning what has happened couldn't come soon enough. we would have learned lessons for now because at the minute, it is not looking good. and for me, i am hoping at the minute, it is not looking good. and for me, iam hoping it at the minute, it is not looking good. and for me, i am hoping it is not going to go down the same rout it did in march stop we already did once, —— same route, in march. jean's dad and her sister died in the same week. her father developed a temperature in march, a week later he died. it was such a shock because he died. it was such a shock because he had been in hospital many times, and always bounced back. i stayed with my dad obviously, until he died. it was really upsetting. i couldn't believe it. i was in shock, i was angry. he passed away on a saturday morning. later, jane's sister was taken saturday morning. later, jane's sister was ta ken unwell. jocelyn

saturday morning. later, jane's sister was taken unwell. jocelyn was 53 with underlying health conditions. she died in hospital, five days after her dad. jane says a lot has been hard to comprehend, but she is pushing for any lessons to be learned for the sake of her dad and her sister. how will you remember them? happy, funny, jolly people who everybody loved it. and as much as we cry, we laughed just as much because we got so many happy memories of both of them. that was jane rose finishing that report. she lost her father and sister in the space of five days. reflections from those who have been hit the hardest. our moscow correspondence travelled

to the yuka saso region in north—eastern russia to gauge the effects of climate change, both on local communities and on the planet. in siberia, they call their forests the lungs of the planet. if that is true, our planet is in big trouble. we were given a bird's eye view of a climate emergency. from the air, siberia's forest fires look like armageddon. a heatwave has been fuelling them and they are releasing record amounts of carbon. and because of the vastness of siberia, fighting them is incredibly difficult. this region alone, yakutia, is 13 times the size of britain. what's happening here in siberia has consequences for the whole world.

scientists believe these forest fires are producing huge amounts of greenhouse gases that are changing the climate of the planet. russia has one fifth of the world's forests. if they're burning, the fallout is global. for a closer look, we switch transport and head into the siberian taiga with the forest rangers. it is slow going. this is a real siberian forest path. not easy to get down, it will take us a while to get to the fire. but we are on the right track. it soon becomes clear that fire has swept through here,

destroying larch and silver birch and turning parts of this fairy tale forest into a wasteland. 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. ranger valentin says it's 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 are waiting 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 co2, 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 mean dry forest and more forest fires. more fires mean more carbon emissions being pumped into the atmosphere and more climate change. climate change affect everyone. we will be shown how it threatens this man's community. we are speeding along a river, the great siberian river shrouded in smoke. every day ivan and his friends patrolled this forest.

they recently put out a fire here close to the village. any lingering flame, any hint of danger is pounced on. 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 following that worries me. there will be less dry land and our community could end up underwater. life here will change. siberia and its fires may seem far away. but what happens here affects us all. we're one planet — we're interconnected. we face the same climate crisis. steve rosenberg, bbc news, siberia.

extraordinary. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. we will see you shortly. good morning from bbc london. i'm tolu adeoye. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, and the group which represents london councils are joining together to urge the government to extend the business rates holiday. businesses in the retail, hospitality, leisure and childcare sectors are currently benefiting from 100% relief from the rates for this financial year. many businesses say they will struggle to survive without an extension. hundreds of people have signed a petition against the possibility that a brent park honouring the former prime minister william gladstone could be renamed because of his family's links with the slave trade. the campaign, run by

‘save our statues' criticised a brent council report which said the name gladstone park could be reviewed. the council has said any changes would be subject to a public consultation. extra precautions have been put in place at synagogues across london to prevent the spread of the coronavirus ahead of start of the jewish new year. traditional rosh hashanah events will take place over the weekend, although scaled back. one of the synagogue rituals is the sounding of the shofar, the ram's horn. it will be blown by volunteers on street corners and outside people's homes for those who are isolating. in the beginning, it was very hard, but a length of the more we went into it, people started realising this is something serious. people are taking it very serious and they wa nt to are taking it very serious and they want to do what is right for them, for the kids and the community. fans will return to some english football league games this weekend for the first time in six months. charlton athletic will welcome back up to a thousand supporters to the valley. it's one of eight matches taking part in the government's crowd pilots this weekend. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there is a good service on the tubes

this morning, apart from planned works on waterloo & city loop this morning. on the roads, we can see a clear road there, tamworth road remains closed by west croydon station due to emergency repairs. that's took a look —— let's take a look at the weather. another fine start this morning across london. out towards the suburbs, temperature is high single figures at the moment, a freshfields of things. and of sunshine on offer through this morning. and through the rest of the day today. over the last couple of days, a noticeable reason out towards the ease, just particularly blowing onshore, it will make it feel quite cool in the shade here, but inland, highs today of 22, possibly 23 celsius, low 70s in fahrenheit. dry and clear overnight, still that breeze into tomorrow, temperature is once more about in double figures for most of us about in double figures for most of us into the start of your saturday. a lot of fine weather for the

weekend, we will just a lot of fine weather for the weekend, we willjust tell you that late on saturday there will be a bit of cloud just pushing our way from the south, could bring a shower although we mostly stay dry. sunshine for the next few days and feeling presently warm tomorrow afternoon, as well. much, much cooler for next week. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello. this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. we'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning: as the largest e—scooter trial in england is paused over safety concerns, we'll discuss their future. some of the people being helped by captain sir tom moore's new charity foundation, tell us how it will make a difference to their lives. and pink floyd

like you've never heard them before. drummer nick mason has formed a new superband to play some of their forgotten tracks. new england—wide lockdown measures are being considered by the government, to try and tackle the rising number of coronavirus cases. hospitality businesses could be forced to close under the rules, although schools and workplaces are expected to be kept open. the restrictions would be likely to last for a few weeks, although a final decision has not yet been made. nearly two million people in north—east england are the latest to face increased lockdown rules. from today, residents will be unable to meet anyone from outside their household. the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in the uk is now thought to be doubling every seven to eight days. here to explain what that means and how it could affect us over the coming days is gp dramir khan, whojoins us from leeds.

we are awaiting this morning, to speak to the hills secretary earlier —— later this morning and we will find out more about the thinking around the science but there are concerns that we are at a crucial stay dry now. real concerns. we see the numbers go up and we see an increase in the death rate as well, albeit they are still small numbers but they are very real numbers and we have been warned in the nhs about expect in an increase in hospital admissions over october and beyond and, really, without a vaccine the only way out of this is to get the test and trace system up and running, get people tested and, more importantly, get people traced and isolated. that is what spreads this virus. if we don't trace these people they walk around and spread it around. what we know is that what happens locally will affect what happens locally will affect what happens nationally as there is a debate now within government about the possibility of some sort of national lockdown for england. give

us an national lockdown for england. give us an idea of what you are seeing locally where you are.|j us an idea of what you are seeing locally where you are. i live in leeds and we are on a public hills watchlist so we have been to be very careful. surrounding us, the next city across is radford and parts of that are still in local restrictions and people are unable to sit in each other‘s houses and north yorkshire, the other end which borders leeds has seen cases quadruple in the last few weeks. so we are in a hot spot here and this is happening up and down the country, mainly in the north but it does help —— happen elsewhere and if we do not sort ourselves out, both as a public, really, and adhere to social distancing guidelines, wash our hands religiously when we come in for 20 seconds and wear masks, as well as that we need the government to get their act together as well with the test and trace system. we will end up in a national

restriction, maybe not a lockdown but the restrictions that the government is considering. you will know that we are renting the cold and flu season and that would be the thing that would normally be happening —— are entering the cold and flu season. whatever your situation you may be thinking differently about how you feel each day when you wake up. do you have a sniffle or a cough? do you have some ground rules on at what point people need to treated differently than they would have done before? to be honest it is very difficult to tell the difference. the key symptoms of the difference. the key symptoms of the coronavirus, as most people know, is a fever or high—temperature. if you measure with a thermometer the cut—off point is 37.8 degrees and above dig a new, cough and a change or loss of the sense of smell and taste. if you have any of those symptoms you need to do your best and get a test done. flu and cold symptoms, you don't

tend to get sniffles or a runny nose with coronavirus. sneezing is a rare symptom of the coronavirus as well. so those are the things that really help decipher it but if you have got a fever, a new cough or a change in your sense of smell and taste, get a test. and even doctors have a hard time deciphering between those things which is why it is so important that testing is up to speed. and know this is something you keep coming back to every time in every answer to us now, the necessity of getting a test. when you talk to one of your patients, maybe they call and say they are worried about a son or daughter and presumably your answer is if they qualify on those grounds, you would say get a test. and if you can't get a test, what if the reality is, and we know this from talking to people, that they cannot get one now or it

isa that they cannot get one now or it is a long way away, any number of reasons why it is not practical, what then? any number of reasons why it is yesterday i was taking calls from people just like that who were struggling to get test. and we do have a facility in bradford cold red hubs where we can see that these are patients with potential coronavirus symptoms away from normal surgeries. all we do there, we don't decide whether they have the virus or not because only a test can do that but we make sure they are well enough to stay at home or if they need to go into hospital. it puts us in a precarious situation. ideally we need them to get a test, a quick result within 2a hours. if they are negative we can see them in our surgery but if they are poorly and they need the treatment. but it slows all that in and puts extra barriers in place. both for us as clinicians and them as patients to ta ke clinicians and them as patients to take will you be in the surgery

later today? i will. take will you be in the surgery latertoday? iwill. once take will you be in the surgery later today? i will. once i get my trousers on. just don't ask there. that sounds like too much information. thank you very much, doctor. 0k. information. thank you very much, doctor. ok. i was information. thank you very much, doctor. 0k. iwas not information. thank you very much, doctor. ok. i was not expecting that. 0k. doctor. ok. i was not expecting that. ok. time now for this fall with mike. was rather silent. a player that can change games on this own is returning to the premier league. what are football fans like about star place returning? absolutely delighted. they need him right now. they were upset when he left in 2013 but he had done so much for tottenham that you can understand the law of the champions league and a clublike real madrid. but now he shows this loyalty to

totte n ha m by but now he shows this loyalty to tottenham by returning at the air of 31. -- at tottenham by returning at the air of 31. —— at the age of 21. —— 31. gareth bale will fly to london today, to complete his return to tottenham. seven years after moving to real madrid, for what was then a world—record fee of £85 million, he's coming back to north london on a season—long loan. bale's departure from real madrid has been a long time coming. his reported salary is £600,000 per week, and yet he's not been a regular starter in spain and so it's time to move him on. tottenham are believed to be paying around 40% of those wages, which, will still make him the best—paid player, in the premier league and this is what he'd bring to spurs. that winning mentality. four champions league titles and over a hundred goals for the spanish giants in seven seasons. well, it looks like spurs need him — tottenham scraped past bulgarian side, lokomotiv plovdiv, in the europa league last night, 2—1. we can't show you the goals because the feed from bulgaria cut out!

it came backjust after the final whistle. obviously there were a lot of questions for manager jose mourinho afterwards about bale's move — but he wouldn't play ball. i don't comment on something that i don't know. for me, this moment until i am told that gareth is a totte n ha m until i am told that gareth is a tottenham player, i still until i am told that gareth is a tottenham player, istill think until i am told that gareth is a tottenham player, i still think and feel and respect the fact that he is another clubs player so i will not comment. there's a story building at welsh side connah's quay nomads, after three players arrived for their game feeling unwell. manager andy morrison says they "had to turn a blind eye" and ask them to get on with the match — even though four other players had tested positive for covid—19 before the game and were in isolation. they lost the tie to dinamo tblisi. elsewhere, northern irish side coleraine, came from 2—0 down,

to force penalties against motherwell of the scottish premiership. but they couldn't convert any of their spot kicks, so motherwell are through, along with rangers and aberdeen. all the results and reports are on the bbc sport website premier league side wolves, were knocked out of the league cup, by stoke of the championship last night, and burnley beat sheffield united on penalties. most assured were brighton, who eased past league one, portsmouth 4—0. three brighton players scored theirfirst goals in english football — including alireza ya hanbakhsh with the best of them. newly—crowned us open champion, naomi osaka has pulled out of next week's french open with a hamstring injury. johanna konta is likely to be there though and she looks in decent form, too, to replicate her run to the semi—finals in paris last year. she won her first match back on clay, since then, at the italian open in rome, beating irina—camelia begu, in straight sets.

next to golf‘s second major, of this rearranged year, and rory mcilroy, and lee westwood, are in a group, just two shots behind leaderjustin thomas, after an eventful opening round at the us open in new york. mcilroy, is seeking his first major since 2014 — he and westwood started with solid rounds of 67. winged foot is one of the most fearsome courses in all of golf — but incredibly there were two holes, in one, from will zalatoris — and here, patrick reed. one bounce and in it pops. one of the most incredible things in sport because they really are a defiance of science. you need to put it in the right area, wait for the wind and slope, i have only had the men fought golf but yesterday there we re men fought golf but yesterday there were two. charlie doesn't believe in them. it was a 1—off. remember that gentlemen we had? it was a 1-off and we don't want to revisit that

because it stirred up a problem. we are outdoors a lot this morning which is a delight and pa rt this morning which is a delight and part of that is sarah in surrey in the greenhouse. are you going to get outside later? i will. good the greenhouse. are you going to get outside later? iwill. good morning to you both. i am at rhs garden wisley and at the moment i am inside the alpine to splay house. there are beautiful bulbs around here in the rhs are running a campaign, grow at home this autumn, trying to increase awareness about how important the autumn season is for gardeners and there are thousands of newly acquired green finger skills across the uk as many people have taken up gardening during lockdown. you may be wondering what to do after your spring and summer planting. autumn isa spring and summer planting. autumn is a key time and this week is national bulb planting week so get out there, plants and bulbs in your garden and you will be rewarded during the springtime. how was the

weather looking? a fresh start to the morning here with temperature is about eight degrees and across the uka about eight degrees and across the uk a fresh autumn feel to the weather first thing this morning. uk a fresh autumn feel to the weatherfirst thing this morning. a lot of dry weather on the cards, a warm and sunny day ahead for many of us warm and sunny day ahead for many of us today but it will feel and you will certainly notice the strength of the breeze especially in the south. a big area of high pressure is in charge of the weather at the moment, sitting out towards the east and the wind is rotating around that area of high pressure and that brings us that easterly breeze, particularly across southern parts of england and wales. there are one or two misty patches around first thing this morning and they are said to clear away quickly over the next few hours and then long spells of sunshine for most of us really day but there will be more cloud today across the north of scotland with perhaps one or two showers. elsewhere you should stay dry. the temperature today will range between 16 to 22 degrees and it will feel a little cooler, particularly around the east coast in the north—east and you will notice that easterly wind further south across england and

wales gusting to 35 mile an hour in the south—west. that should stay dry as we had through the course of the evening and overnight and it will turn fresh again with some misty and foggy patches falling here and there in the north, too much of a breeze for any fog further south. temperatures at eight or 9 degrees in the north, double figures for most of us in the south but it will bea most of us in the south but it will be a touch cooler in the rural spots. saturday will bring another dry and fine day with some sunshine, later in the day we could well have one or two heavy downpours for the channel islands, perhaps in the parts of devon and cornwall and they could push along the east coast later in the afternoon. temperatures on the warm side, 16— 2a degrees and those temperatures again are tempered by the brisk easterly wind sunday another largely fine and settle day with long spells of sunshine once again. could bejust those few showers lingering across the far south of england but it looks like they should clear away later in the day. temperatures are similarto later in the day. temperatures are similar to saturday, 16— 2a degrees

on sunday. all in all, a dry settled and fairly sunny weekend. a great weekend you have plans to be out and about in the garden. sarah, thank you very much. new rules for the hospitality come into force today, and it looks like there could be more in the coming weeks. and we're talking about the potential discussion there is going around at the moment of a lockdown, nationally. ben's at a pub in west london this morning. a beautiful backdrop you have there, ben. this is a tricky time for pubs and how they work within the restrictions, which are various, depending on where you are. yeah, good morning to you. we are down baby river thames in traffic this morning. ——we are down by the river thames in chiswick. lots to contain with right now, and lots to be thinking about over the next few

weeks. places like this are going to have to contend with new rules. let me explain what they are. because it will be mandatory in england for places like that, pubs and restau ra nts, places like that, pubs and restaurants, they will have to take your details. up until now it has been advisory, but from today it becomes mandatory. what they will have to do is get your name and contact details, the date and the time of your visit, and the point of thatis time of your visit, and the point of that is that if you do come into contact with coronavirus or an outbreak, that they will be able to contact outbreak, that they will be able to co nta ct you outbreak, that they will be able to contact you and treats you. it will be nhs test and trays that will get in touch with you. they will keep those details were 21 days to make sure. it is already the rule in wales and scotland and northern ireland, so this brings all of the countries together for the first time with the same rules. as you have does not, a lot of them to contend with, a lot for them to try and get their heads around as far as hospitality is concerned. so there

area hospitality is concerned. so there are a lot of differences across the country, as you have said. we went to two pubs on either side of the border. one in england, one in wales, they are right next door to each other. we asked how those weeks have been with those different rules. i'm bob, i'mjohn. i'm bob, i'm john. in england, we reopened on the fourth ofjuly and it was very busily. mostly drinking guys, it was very busily. mostly drinking guys, i think, it was very busily. mostly drinking guys, ithink, because people it was very busily. mostly drinking guys, i think, because people wanted to get out and socialise again. in wales, we were allowed to open indoors on the third of august. one of the new rules was we had to have the track and trays. we had a daily book, which is two or three pages every day, you had to sign with your name, yourtime of every day, you had to sign with your name, your time of arrival and telephone number. here and england ——in england the track and trace rules change on friday. by law we have to take the information.

however, since i've been doing it from the start, it's already in place. all i am taking is a mobile telephone number and your name. i have been trained in the royal air force, and i think it's because of my background i can't accept these have to be done. every time i have asked for people to sign, they have signed. if they didn't sign, then i wouldn't allow them in. i always class this as my house. so, i would let them into my house, and i think if it did come to that, well, they can leave. trying to keep all the rules at the same time, sitting, standing, all of that sort of thing is very difficult to keep in line at times. especially when you add alcohol to people, they start getting huggy and things like that. it is in our interest to follow the rules. if we don't follow the rules and it is also down, then i feel that if we have done everything we can do, to make it work, then we can't blame ourselves, you know, for the situation.

so, two very different stories of two pubs so close to each other. jonathan, the manager here in chiswick, good morning. give me a sense of how the last few weeks have been for you. you have been using the contact tracing system, you have out everyone give contact details, lots of precautions in place. how have the customers being? it has been different, that is for sure, but we have had this system in place from day one since we reopened. so we have always been tracking and tracing and keeping the information on file. nothing has changed for us in that respect regarding changes in the law. it's nice to see people coming back to the pub, we are trying to provide a safe environment. we have done that by wearing masks from day one, visors, i should say. and i think it has been as successful as it can be. and how hard is it for you to just run your business? frankly, you just wa nt to your business? frankly, you just want to get on with running a pub, don't you? but so many precautions

to abide by. does it make doing your job difficult? it is a challenge, thatis job difficult? it is a challenge, that is for sure. all you as we make sure we follow the guidelines that had been laid down and the law. in many ways, we welcome the mandatory inflation that we have taken now, because we have been doing it from the beginning. it is a good thing in our book. the overnight suggesting there may be further lockdown, we know there are local lockdowns in some parts of the country already, potentially could be hospitality closed to force a further outbreak, what would that mean to you? what would it mean for running this place? well, in all honesty, what will do is exactly what the government asks to do. the safety of ourteam, government asks to do. the safety of our team, the safety of our customers is paramount to us. and we followed those guidelines before they were actually law. so i think thatis they were actually law. so i think that is important to note. we are getting customers back in, and as long as things stay as they are, everything's fine. as they change, we will adapt, as we have already.

it's just about a bit of clarity, isn't it? jonathan, thank you very much. so, there you have it. business is saying we will get on with the rules, whatever they are, just give us some clarity so we know what is happening. these changes come into force today in england, bringing england in line with wales, scotla nd bringing england in line with wales, scotland and northern ireland as far as test and trace information is concerned. we will talk about the implications for the hospitality industry later. i will leave you with a rather glorious view of the river thames at this point in the morning. thejoggers, rowers and runners are all out. we will have more a little later. that is a lovely view. and i think we can skip further south—west, down the country right now, to weston—super—mare. claudia down there, this is all about the great his cleanup, getting under way today --it is his cleanup, getting under way today ——it is claudia down there, this is

all about the great british cleanup. where are you? i'm a tiny dot on the middle of the beach. there are litter pickers here. some of the people who have adopted this stretch of the beds, they will be aware of the marine conservation societies, the marine conservation societies, the great british bake off clean, always really successful. a really useful way to find the amount of litter that is discarded. —— great british beach clean. we have lizzie from the marine conservation society. things are different this year because you are, what? extending the queen? tell us why you are doing that? we have made it

longer this year so we can spread out beach cleans and get more people involved. and also keep them to small groups this year as well. and you were also asking people to adopt a local beach? is that the best way to do it, rather thanjust hit a local beach? is that the best way to do it, rather than just hit it once a year as it work? some volu nteers once a year as it work? some volunteers adopt a 100 metre stretch of beach and they record everything that they find on that beach using our survey forms and submit that back to us. that has been really important over the last 27 years we have been doing this to be able to monitor the litter levels, wet items and see how we can prevent it being there in the first place. lets have a quick look at what we have got.l lot of plastic. a plastic sheet here, a plastic store, plastic cups and lids, we even have shoes. you name it, we've got it. someone on

brea kfast name it, we've got it. someone on breakfast will be saying that is where you left that shoe a couple of months ago. and when lockdown started to ease, although the litter being discarded, you still finding any of that? i know local authorities worked really hard to get rid of it. and local volunteers kicking in as soon as they finished. we are still seeing rubbish washing up we are still seeing rubbish washing up on edges, but not to the true extent when lockdown is. lizzie, thank you and to the other volunteers. the message is to get involved, especially if you live near the coast. what you can find to help our coastlines as they can possibly be —— keep our coastlines asa possibly be —— keep our coastlines as a clean and tidy as they possibly can be. thank you, john maguire. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london. i'm tolu adeoye.

the mayor of london, sadiq khan, and the group which represents london councils are joining together to urge the government to extend the business rates holiday. companies in the retail, hospitality, leisure and childcare sectors are currently benefiting from a 100% relief from the rates for this financial year. many businesses across london say they will struggle to survive without an extension. extra precautions have been put in place at synagogues across london to prevent the spread of the virus ahead of start of the jewish new year. although scaled back. —— traditional rosh hashanah events will take place over the weekend, although scaled back. one of the synagogue rituals — is the sounding of the shofar — the ram's horn. it will be blown by volunteers on street corners and outside people's homes for those who are isolating. in the beginning, it was very hard, but a length of the more we went into it, people started realising this is something serious.

people are taking it very serious and they want to do what's right for them, for the kids and the community. fans will return to some english football league games this weekend for the first time in six months. charlton athletic will welcome back up to 1,000 supporters to the valley. it's one of eight matches taking part in the government's crowd pilots this weekend. the world —famous ronnie scott's jazz club will finally reopen this weekend following months of closure as a result of the pandemic. # i #ican # i can dream a million dreams, but how will they come true? it's hosted stars including ella fitzgerald and jules holland. the club celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, making it one of the oldest jazz clubs in the world. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service on the tubes this morning, apart from those planned works on the waterloo & city line. on the roads — there delays on the aao eastbound through perivale towards hanger lane.

finally — the m25 is slow anticlockwise approaching the dartford tunnel due to an earlier broken down vehicle. now the weather with sara thornton. another fine day, temperatures now the weather with sara thornton. anotherfine day, temperatures in single figures, a fresh deal to things. and you have sunshine on offer through this morning and through the rest of the day today. just in the ears, winds blowing onshore will feel quite cool in the shade here. inland, highs of 22, possibly 23 celsius and low 70s in fahrenheit. overnight, dry and clear, still the breeze with us into tomorrow, temperatures once more about in double figures for most of us about in double figures for most of us into the start of your saturday. a lot of fine weather for the weekend, i willjust tell you that later on saturday there will be a bit of cloud pushing in from the south, that could bring a shower, mostly we stay dry. sunshine for the next few days and feeling pleasantly warm tomorrow afternoon, as well. it

is much, much coolerfor next warm tomorrow afternoon, as well. it is much, much cooler for next week. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. yeah good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today: tougher national covid rules are discussed by the prime minister, after scientific advisors warn him of a significant rise in the death rate. options incude closing parts of the hospitality sector and limiting pub opening hours. two million people in the north—east of england come under new local regulations from today — similar rules could now be enforced in lancashire. one of the best players the premier league has ever seen is coming back. gareth bale is set to complete his retun to tottenham today, seven years after leaving for spain. we meet some of the people getting help from captain sir tom moore's new charity foundation.

iam rhs i am rhs wisely with a growing home this autumn campaign. a fresh start to the day here but many of us should see some sunshine. more in ten minutes. it's friday the 18th of september. our top story. tighter national restrictions across the whole of england are being discussed by downing street to try to slow the surging number of coronavirus cases. the measures which are being described as a "circuit break" have been raised, after a warning from the government's chief scientific advisors, that there would be a significant rise in the death rate, without further intervention. simonjones reports. this is what borisjohnson is desperate to avoid — another full—scale national lockdown, which he says would be a disaster for the economy. instead, the government

could introduce what's being called a circuit break — perhaps just for a fortnight — of tightened restrictions in england. schools would remain open, as would workplaces. but pubs and restaurants could have their opening hours cut. some public premises would have to close. no final decisions have been taken as the government waits to see the effect of the new rule of six. nearly 10 million people are living under stricter restrictions already. at midnight, people in large part of the north—east of england were told they could no longer socialise with those outside their own household or support bubble. why take notice of these new rules when they didn't take notice other rules? they keep changing them all the time, so you don't know what you're doing when you come out. it's better than — better than across the board. if we can try and do it where it is, it might stop it spreading. lancashire, with the exception of blackpool, is expected to be the next area to face local restrictions, with similar controls to the north—east

on socialising and a 10pm closing time for pubs and restaurants. but criticism remains of the testing system. there was frustration in sunderland yesterday when people turned up at this site to find no sign of any testing. ministers did not increase testing to levels that were needed, so it is not world—beating, it's a shambles. i wouldn't sit here and claim that this is, you know... world— beating? ..absolutely going, you know, exactly as i would hope it to go, but we are constantly improving. in the latest 24—hour period, 3,395 new coronavirus infections were recorded — that s slightly higher than the average for the past week. and with the prime minister warned by his advisers that there could be a significant number of deaths by the end of october without further interventions, there are some tough decisions ahead. simon jones, bbc news. let's get more on this now from our political correspondent jessica parker. we hear of new restrictions and,

potentially, a circuit breaker. yes. this idea of hitting a pause button on some national restriction for a few weeks. not a full lockdown like we saw earlier this year as simon was just reporting. we saw earlier this year as simon wasjust reporting. ministers clearly think that would be a disaster, not least of all economically. but it is very clear that scientists and ministers are worried about the current spike in cases. it is interesting because over the summer we heard about a whack a mole strategy, the idea of putting in restrictions in local areas but what we have seen recently is local has become regional and large swathes of the country are under some kind of restriction affecting millions of people and questions are inevitably asked in about what point this could become something england wide. no decisions have yet been made but we spoke a lot about past weeks and the balance

between reopening society be keeping the virus under control. we could be seeing some kind of national restriction over the coming weeks. the health secretary is expected to announce tighter restrictions for some more areas of lancashire later today. our reporter mairead smyth is in preston for us. mairead, what's the latest? what are you hearing locally? the details of this are still quite sketchy at the moment and they perhaps could be linked to that circuit breaker we heard about where the regional lockdowns makes more sense to do something at a national level but last night it came through that lancashire could be the next area to have a more regionalfocus to try and curb the escalation of cases of coronavirus. i am in preston this morning and there are

already restrictions in place here and in other parts of lancashire and that has been the case for a few weeks now. but the idea is that this could extend further into measures that have been brought into the north—east of the country at midnight last night, curbing your ability to mix with families and also an impact on grass root sport. in the north—east there is a ten o'clock curfew and it is not yet known if that will apply here so it all remains to be seen about what impact it will have on lancashire, an area that has already faced some restrictions to try and control the growth in cases. perhaps blackpool will not be included in this. we will not be included in this. we will hear more this morning and we expect that announcement to come around 11 o'clock. scientists say a rapid coronavirus test has been developed, that can accurately diagnose an infection within 90 minutes, without needing a specialist laboratory.

the device is already being used in eight nhs hospitals and the government has ordered more. it's most useful for helping to quickly identify people with covid—19 in hospitals, rather than mass testing. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world have now risen beyond 30 million. more than 940,000 people have died with covid—19 since the outbreak began in china — according to figures from johns hopkins university. the worst hit nations are the us, india and brazil, although infection rates across europe are rising rapidly. let's talk to sarah now. she is in the greenhouse now but i don't know if she will stay there all morning. is it if she will stay there all morning. isita if she will stay there all morning. is it a lovely day there? it will be a dutiful day, here and up it will be a dutiful day, here and up and down the country. it will be a dutiful day, here and up and down the countrylj it will be a dutiful day, here and up and down the country. i am inside the alpine display house at the moment in this area showcases mountainous plants and even the

plans here are socially distanced so they are well spaced apart to encourage the public to stay apart when viewing flowers. the rhs are running a campaign this autumn and celebrating national bulb planting week because it is the time of year to get out there and plant bulbs and they will come up in spring. today, what about the weather? a fresh start up and down the country, a chilly start first thing this morning. a few mist and fog patches but most of us are in for a sunny warm and dry day although it is feeling breezy and noticeable breezes coming in from the east today. any misty patches will clear away quickly over the next few hours and then up and down the uk there will be long spells of sunshine. a little bit of cloud across the north of scotland, perhaps a couple of showers and showers. easterly wind across southern parts of england and wales in particular. the temperature

today will be 16—22 degrees, warm in the sunshine but a little cooler around the east coast where we are exposed to the breeze. staying dry with a bit of misting is forming once again, particularly across parts of northern england and scotla nd parts of northern england and scotland in the temperatures first thing are staying in double in the south but around eight or 9 degrees further north, colder than that in the rural spots. saturday looks like another fine day with a lot of sunshine for most of us and a noticeable breeze coming in from the across parts of england and wales in particular. cloudy for the finals of scotla nd particular. cloudy for the finals of scotland we could see some heavy down pause in the far south and south—west later in the day. temperature about 16—24 on saturday so fine and the breeze in the sunshine and it looks like another fine day to come on sunday. a good weekend if you are getting out there and planting your autumn bulbs that should be coming up in time for spring.

as the government considers plans for england—wide measures to try to slow a surge of coronavirus cases local restrictions are continuing to be introduced across the uk. around 9.2 million people have local restrictions in place. today people living in lancashire are expected to be added to the list with the exception of blackpool. the virus is now understood to be doubling every seven to eight days, with more than 3,395 new coronavirus infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. further announcements are expected in other parts of northern england, including leeds, north yorkshire and liverpool which are all in what the government describes as a ‘critical phase' of transmission. let's speak to the liverpool mayorjoe anderson. good morning to you, great to have you on the programme. liverpool has been added to the government's corona list —— watch list of areas. you have had a fourfold increase. what is happening? it is a real

concern. clearly for some months of good weather and the fact that lockdown has been eased, all these things have contributed to an increase in infections where people have become lax about following guidelines and we see people not following the rules. all of the things that we have been asking people and as you rightly pointed out in the report it is notjust the north—west, it is the north—east and other parts of the country. a massive concern for everybody and in particular some places have been hard—hit for the particular some places have been ha rd—hit for the lockdown. particular some places have been hard—hit for the lockdown. this if people are not abiding by the rules, what needs to be done? we need a firm hand taken by the government?

there is talk, there has been discussion of a national lockdown to prevent a high spike in october. discussion of a national lockdown to prevent a high spike in 0ctober.|j think that is absolutely right that the government needs to be a lot firmer with the restrictions. many people were saying that it is too early to ease the way that we did and in hindsight people were saying that we have concerns about a month ago. fact of the matter is that we have to deal with it. the measures that the government will likely see and impose on liverpool today are similarto and impose on liverpool today are similar to what other area so yesterday. what i am worried about is that we do not tackle the measures now then we will head towards the winter and the christmas

period where we could be in a difficult decision, notjust here but across the country. in liverpool today, for instance and next week we have freshers week and students returning, 20,000 students within the next couple of weeks into the city of liverpool so we have massive issues and concerns. we still have taxi drivers from the midlands travelling to liverpool to work and for many, those things must be stopped by central government and central government has the power to do that. so even though there will be local or regional restriction, if you see this cross—border travel in between regions, when you say you think the government needs to take a firm hand, that that was the implication, what has happened so far? people in liverpool, those were flouted the rules have seen what has

happened in other areas and thought i will carry on doing what i am doing. if it becomes a national thing do you think a nationwide restriction, as we saw in march, do you think that is the answer? yes. and the reason why is because we cannot risk going in to a longer lockdown. when do you think, when do you think... because you deal with it in liverpool, you want national down when? it should look similar to what we had going back in april. i think we have got to enforce some of the rules that we put in place that we needed to do. for instance, about facemasks and coverings. there is no enforcement of that. the government announced last week that they will

put marshals and cities to help enforce those things. but we have not heard any more news on that. so there are things that the government are talking about that they are not following through on and if we do not arrest this now then we will have to take the action that we did in april and may and go into a stronger lockdown. has this message been put across by you to the government that you want a national lockdown? i think it is a question of every single area making representations to government and i know through the core cities network, through other organisations and representatives of city leaders they have been making strong recommendations to government. we see the test entry system falling apart at the seams because we do not have enough capacity in laboratories to test the results. why have we not

address that? why do we have universities and other people to test so we help the test and trace system ? we test so we help the test and trace system? we see about 400 children in liverpool at this juncture that are out of school again because of infections in those schools and by other students and staff. that is likely to get away as it spreads into the community with shops and retail because people are ignoring the rules about face coverings. that will spread back to the community so it must be arrested. joe anderson, mayor of liverpool, thank you for your thoughts this morning. let's talk to dr ian higginson who is a consultant in emergency medicine. what picture can you pamper us this morning of the situation in emergency units and hospitals? good morning. so, at the moment,

emergency departments in hospitals essentially report they are back to normal levels of activity from how we we re normal levels of activity from how we were before the coronavirus pandemic first struck. anecdotally, i think there are, there seems to be a very small increase in coronavirus patients coming through, potentially, basically we are now doing what we used to do but under a much more stringent infection control regime. which is necessary, due to the covid pandemic. the health secretary says the number of people in hospital is doubling every eight days. does that correspond with what you are seeing and hearing from your colleagues? i'm sorry, i don't have any up—to—date figures from my colleagues on that, so i can't answer that question. one of the big questions about the ability of emergency units to cope in other circumstances. what we do know is in december people are going to be advised to ring the 111 hotline before going to a&e. what impact do

you think that will have?” before going to a&e. what impact do you think that will have? i think the impact is uncertain. we do know if we can reduce the demand on emergency departments, then that will help emergency departments deal with both their current workload and any potential workload that may come about as a result of the resurgence of coronavirus. are you seeing more people coming into a&e, who possibly can get people coming into a&e, who possibly ca n get tests ? people coming into a&e, who possibly can get tests? —— cannot get tests? they're coming into hospitals because they cannot get tested?“ that adding to the workload? there are reports that is happening in some parts of the country to a variable degree, depending on where you are. emergency departments are not testing centres. we are obviously places where we teach our treat patients in emergencies. we don't have the tests or test follow—up facilities necessarily to provide that service. parents and

patients should access those services through the standard nhs test and trace systems rather than coming to emergency apartments for testing. and in march and april, there were questions about spittle is' barrenness for what might lie ahead. we know the scientists are warning the government now, that the risk there will be more lives lost now and more hospital admissions, obviously. —— questions about hospitals' preparedness. we have had much more time this time, and hospitals have introduced systems that enable us to cope more safely with patients with coronavirus. we have worked through many of the scenarios. a lot of the planning and preparation has been done. we are worried there are signs that crowding is coming back into emergency departments, as it was before the pandemic, so we know our hospitals are now running at full

capacity or out high capacity, trying to treat patients with both emergency conditions, and also all the stuff that wasn't happening during the first wave of coronavirus. hospitals are working ha rd coronavirus. hospitals are working hard at the moment. so, if there is a resurgence of coronavirus, we're going to have to look how we reorient state to what we're doing to treat any potential increase of patience. but we are planning and we are prepared. ok, doctor ian higginson, who is a consultant in emergency medicine, just giving us a picture on how it is in the hospital system as we speak this morning. it is 7:20am. on yesterday's programme captain sir tom moore told us about the charitable foundation he's set up to help those struggling with mental health, as well as grief and loneliness. it's been launched in memory of his late wife pamela, and in a moment we'll hear more about the charities that will benefit. first though, here's captain tom telling us why helping others is so important to him.

when pamela was in the home, i mean, she had me as a visitor, but some people, most of the people were ladies. they were really very poor old things. but nobody ever came to see them. year in and year out, i'm never ever had a visitor. and they must have been very lonely indeed. and, really, that is one of the things about this foundation, to help people who are in difficulties. not necessarily old people, because there are some young people who really are not properly looked after. so the foundation is there to help all sorts of people, where a little bit of hope will do a lot of good.

i know captain tom is very, very keen to see this money and this foundation support charities. including the mental health charity, mind, the royal british legion and two hospices. joining us now is paul farmer, the chief executive of mind, and nadia slatch, who's three—year—old son rayyan has been receiving care at the helen and douglas house children's hospice. nadia, let's start off with you. tell us about your situation and what has been happening with your family? we were first introduced to helen and douglas house in 2014. we didn't know what to expect with hospices. we had another son who has u nfortu nately hospices. we had another son who has unfortunately passed away now. he used the hospice for end—of—life and palliative care. it was amazing the job they did and it is special memories we made with him were absolutely amazing. unfortunately, if you months later with rayyan, we

realised he had a condition and we went back to the hospice. they welcomed us with open arms and the ca re welcomed us with open arms and the care they give, we just cannot thank them enough. it has become like a home from home. nadia, you and your family have clearly been through a terrible, terrible time. and i can only imagine what comfort it is to know that a place like that exists that offers the kind of help it does. absolutely. we would be lost if we didn't have a place like that. at the moment we use it for before coded and respite. —— before covid—19. we used it for downtime, making family memories, and the care tea m making family memories, and the care team make it so special for us. making family memories, and the care team make it so specialfor us. they do notjust look after the children, they look after the whole family. so, you know. you, nadia. paul, let's talk to you, the chief executive of mind. how important is it to be part of this foundation

that captain tom is setting up? good morning, neither. ithink that captain tom is setting up? good morning, neither. i think your viewers saw yesterday the really powerful interview you had with captain tom. and what an incredibly inspirational figure captain tom. and what an incredibly inspirationalfigure he is for so many people. and the formation of his foundation i think is going to raise much—needed funds for many important charities, including our own at mind. it becomes a really important point for us as a charity and many other charities where funds are tight at a time when we are seeing increased demand for people with mental health problems. and i think captain tom ticket really shone a light on the experience of older people, who really highlighted that complex relationship of feeling lonely and deteriorating mental health. as a real beacon of hope, he wa nts health. as a real beacon of hope, he wants us all to think positively and

unite mental health. nadia, how important is it that, you know, not just those who need it are being treated, but the families as well? the pressure on them, when you are visiting and trying to be positive and getting on with everyday life and getting on with everyday life and doing the stuff we deal with, how important is a you —— how important is that support? it's very important. not just for respite, they have an outreach team to see they have an outreach team to see the child in the home. they have sibling support, so siblings get support as well. they have a bereavement team, so obviously when my other son died, we had support for them. and just a place where we can make memories together. that is so important for us as a family. nadia, that is such an important message, isn't it? i'm imagining during this time you had contact

with other families. maybe some who haven't had the opportunity or access to these kinds of facilities? of course. i don't want people to feel daunted when they hear the word hospice, because people think oh, it isa hospice, because people think oh, it is a place to die. as it was nothing like that. helen and douglas house is so colourful and warming, and the environment and atmosphere is beyond imaginable. ican environment and atmosphere is beyond imaginable. i can say to people they can self refer and go to the website, get all the information, their consultants can refer them. it is something they will treasure, because it is an amazing place. while, picking up on that, i think to be honest nadia's approach to everything that has gone on with her family is extraordinary. reaching out to help them and help being there, it is so important that when people are in need, they reach out, and people are getting better about doing that now. but we still know there are lots of people who do not. that is absolutely right. and that

story and experience shows the huge importance of the charities captain took‘s —— captain tom's foundation is supporting. at mind we are trying to break down the stigma and say it is ok not to be ok. encouraging people to reach out for help and support. the charities are all there to provide that little bit of hope, that connection, to be able to provide support for people. but we know there is still lots of stigma about doing that, about seeking out for help. and probably this time more than any other it is really important for us to be open about our mental health, how we're feeling, and how we reach out for mental and support. paul farmer, thank you, paul farmer is chief executive of mind. and nadia slatch, thank you so much. thank you.

it is 7:27am. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london. i'm tolu adeoye. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, and the group which represents london councils are joining together to urge the government to extend the business rates holiday. companies in the retail, hospitality, leisure and childcare sectors are currently benefiting from a 100% relief from the rates for this financial year. many businesses across london say they will struggle to survive without an extention. extra precautions have been put in place at synagogues across london to prevent the spread of the coronavirus ahead of start of the jewish new year. traditional rosh hashanah events will take place over the weekend — although scaled back. one of the synagogue rituals is the sounding of the shofar, the ram's horn. it will be blown by volunteers on street corners and outside people's homes for those who are isolating. in the beginning, it was very hard,

but i think the more we went into it, and people started realising that this is something serious. that people are taking it very serious, and they want to do what's right for them, for their kids and for the community. fans will return to some english football league games this weekend for the first time in six months. charlton athletic will welcome back up to 1,000 supporters to the valley. it's one of eight matches taking part in the government's crowd pilots this weekend. the world —famous ronnie scott's jazz club will finally reopen this weekend following months of closure as a result of the pandemic. # but how can they come true? it's hosted stars including ella fitzgerald and jules holland. the club celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, making it one of the oldest jazz clubs in the world. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service on the tubes this morning.

that is apart from those planned works on the waterloo & city line. on the roads, there are delays on the a40 eastbound seems clear towards hanger lane. that was following an accident earlier. finally, the m25 is slow anti—clockwise approaching the dartford tunnel due to an earlier broken down vehicle. now the weather with sara thornton. good morning to you. anotherfine start across london. in the suburbs, temperatures in high single figures at the moment. a fresh feel to things but plenty of sunshine on offer through this morning. and through the rest of the day today. like the last couple of days, still a noticeable breeze out is particularly, just blowing on shore, it will make you feel quite cool in the shade here, but inland, highs of 22, possibly 23 celsius, somewhere low 70s in fahrenheit overnight, dry and clear, still that reads with us into tomorrow, and pictures once more in double figures for most of us more in double figures for most of us into the start of your saturday.

a lot of fine weather for the weekend, i willjust tell you that later on saturday there will be a bit of cloud just pushing our way from the south, could bring a shower, mostly, though, we stay dry. lots of sunshine to the next few days and dealing pleasantly warm tomorrow as well. it is much, much cooler for next week. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. more stories on bbc radio, london. hello. this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. as we've been hearing this morning, the government could enforce tighter national restrictions across the whole of england, to try to stem the rising number of coronavirus cases. the prime minister was warned by advisors that there could be a "significant number of deaths" by the end of next month. we're joined now by the health secretary matt hancock. good morning and thank you for joining us. this is quite worrying,

that there is a significant number of deaths by the end of october if there are no further interventions and the advice from the chief scientific advisors saying that perhaps a circuit break, almost a version of national lockdown is needed to what is in the plan now? we have seen an acceleration in the number of cases over the last couple of weeks and we have also, sadly, seen that the number of people hospitalised with coronavirus is doubling about every eight days so we do need to take action. i took action yesterday in the north—east, working with the councils they are where there has been a very sharp rise and, obviously, we have brought in this week the rule of six. it is absolutely critical that people follow these rules, follow the rule of six and local restrictions, if you have them in your area and,

also, if people have tested positive or if people have been in close contact with someone who has tested positive that they self isolate. if we do all these things then we can avoid having to take serious further measures to a further national lockdown is the last line of defence. the first line of defence is all of us doing hands, face and space to the basics. getting a test if you have symptoms, not coming forward for a test if you do not have symptoms but self isolating if you have been requested to. we all know the rules now and we know the basic. the rule of six is super simple, to make it as easy as possible to follow and that is what we all must do to try and get through this and get it back under control. but the fact of the matter, we know the rules now, the rule of six, the simple way of saying what

we need to do, fine. but people are not doing it. we spoke to the mayor of liverpool who said that he wants national down now because there needs to be a stop full we now see what the virus understood to be doubling the seven or eight days with 3000 cases reported just yesterday. now when national lockdown came in, cases were doubling every three or four days. is that your tipping point? is that where we need to get to before a national lockdown is imposed? we are now taking more local action. we have far more tools. i am talking about the national level. have far more tools. i am talking about the national levellj have far more tools. i am talking about the national level. i know and iam about the national level. i know and i am answering it this way to say that we now have far more tools at our disposal to be able to make more targeted interventions like the action i took in the north—east yesterday and we will be making a further announcement later today in

the normal way in terms of further local action. and that helps us to avoid a national lockdown but a national lock down is the last line of defence. as we saw in spring it is the thing that we can do to keep people safe if that is needed. so we are watching vigilantly but we can see the number of cases accelerating, as you say, and we are prepared to do what it takes, both to protect lives and to protect livelihoods. both are so important. how prepared are you to impose your national lockdown if these local measures, these regional measures do not work. back to the mayor of liverpool saying it is all very well having local restrictions but they are not working. he has given so many examples of how concerned they are concerned about the longer term effects what is the plan? is the plan in place if national down

happens? we do not yet have a local lockdown measure in liverpool and so the local lockdowns have seemed to be effective. we have seen that in luton and we saw it previously in leicester although the case rate is going upa leicester although the case rate is going up a bit in leicester again. so the localised approach is more targeted and that is the biggest tool that we are using at the moment. but the first line of defence, i describe a national lockdown as the last line but the first line is everybody doing their part. i think the warning overnight is salutary. this is a moment, again, when the country needs to come together and we need, collectively, to do what we all, every single one of us as citizens, needs to do. you have made that

message very clear, needs to do. you have made that message very clear, health secretary. i wanted to get to the nitty—gritty and get some clarity. if the last line of defence is national lockdown, absolute national lock down that we saw in march, what is the step before it? there are plans in place that are not total lockdown but effectively will mean eve ryo ne lockdown but effectively will mean everyone is under the same rules?“ you think about it, the social distancing rules apply across the nation, the rule of six. that they are not working and this is why you have had to introduce more regional lockdowns. i'm talking about the national picture because this is what is on the front pages and what is being discussed by the government with this circuit rake. we want to avoid a national lockdown but we are prepared to do it if we are need to. so the way i have tried to describe it, and it is very important for every single person watching, is that the hope we have as a nation of

avoiding a full—blown national lockdown is that everybody comes together and follows the rules that are in place now. the rule of six and then the local restrictions where they are and the basics of hands, face and space. and that we do not rule out further action, we can't and we should not. it would be wrong to. but what we do say is that we understand the seriousness of action like that and we do not take any of these decisions lightly. the big hope we have is that if we can come together and follow the existing rules and get this under control but it is a serious situation. i would like to hear what you have been told in terms of briefing by chief scientists. scientists say that there will be a loss of life, the potential for loss of life if further intervention does not look happen. you've describe what you are prepared to put in.

when they say there is going to be further loss of life, what numbers have you been told? what death rates are we going to see, what numbers? obviously we hope to avoid that. of course, but you have been given a scenario in orderfor you to course, but you have been given a scenario in order for you to act stop what have you been told? we publish the information that we have on how the virus is spreading and, in fact, the most significant of these and the best data source that we have is the office for national statistics survey which is published on friday lunchtime. everyone will see later today the best figures that we have in government. these are the figures that went base our decisions on. those are retrospective. i want to know what you have been warned about. you had a meeting with chief scientists and they said to you, look, if further

restrictions are not put in place we are looking at numbers like this. and that is obviously concerned you and rightly so. what have they told you? what and rightly so. what have they told you ? what have and rightly so. what have they told you? what have you been told to worry about? there is no precise figure because we all know that these are uncertain times and that is the nature of a pandemic. the good news is that compared to last time we now know far more about how clinically to treat coronavirus when people are seriously ill, we have got two drugs that we know work thanks to the work of british scientist. that help people who are in serious conditions in hospital and we know far more about what we all need to do to prevent the spread and protect ourselves. for instance, this morning, we are also publishing the winter plan for social care and we have far more understanding of the virus to be able to protect

people in social care with the ppe which obviously was a problem in spring and is now massively, massively more and better prepared on that front and, obviously, the mass testing. the testing that we have which is huge compared to last time. let's talk about testing. we had a dog, a consultant in emergency medicine on the programme a few minutes ago and he has said, he has intimated that there are signs that crowding is coming back into emergency departments as it was before the pandemic. he said hospitals are running in full or high—capacity trade to treat patients with emergency conditions and the stuff that wasn't happening, these are his words, during the first wave. so when you talk about social care can you guarantee that if hospitals are close to capacity

and dealing with things other than coronavirus at the moment and we see an increase in the rates of infection, can you guarantee that what we saw, that people will not be moved into care home settings without testing now? absolutely. and thatis without testing now? absolutely. and that is one of the many things that we have learnt. because of the asymptomatic transmission and we have that testing capacity on a com pletely have that testing capacity on a completely different scale from the first time around because we built it and we have spent summer building it. and on emergency care, i have been working closely with the royal couege been working closely with the royal college of emergency medicine to bring in the measures that we announced yesterday which is money to expand amd so they are physically bigger but also rolling out the 111 numberand bigger but also rolling out the 111 number and they can help you get to the right care you need and then let

the right care you need and then let the emergency department know that you are coming so you have an appointed time, just to deal with these problems. we are putting into place measures all the time, the amd measures i place measures all the time, the amd measures i announced place measures all the time, the amd measures i announced yesterday with an extra £2.7 billion of cash for the nhs for winter and then the social care winter plan for today and, especially, the infection control in social care to help protect people because, of course, as we well know, some of the most vulnerable to the disease are in social care. a couple of questions on testing. you spoke about ramping up on testing. you spoke about ramping up testing. how will you make that happen? this is obviously critical and we have all seen, especially this week, the challenges. we are on track to increase the capacity on testing to half a million a day from just over a quarter of a million now and we are doing that by getting more machines into the laboratories

and we are installing those as we speak. we hire more people to run them because it is a logistical exercise as well as a scientific part, just to get the samples into the right slots. we automate the process and that is important. that is on current technology and then there is the much discussed next—generation technologies, one of which was in the news today because it can do a rapid turnaround that small volumes per unit. but the unit is only the size of a shoebox and you do not need a former laboratory to do that and we are backing loads of those new technologies. half a million by when? by the end of october. so if that national testing system is not in place by the end of october, isn't national lockdown inevitable? the two are not as connected as that because the most important thing for avoiding the national lockdown is that people abide by social distancing and then if you have a positive test all the

symptoms of coronavirus... no, it is about whether you can get a test. not about the result but whether you can geta not about the result but whether you can get a test. because if that system is not in place this moonshot idea, it cannot work through coronavirus as it exists. there is not a link between the two. testing helps but the most important thing is that people follow the social distancing and that if you get a test result or you have symptoms then you should self isolate. and i think we have got to stress the importance of self isolation as well as the social distancing, because it is that self isolation that helps to break the transmission of the virus. testing is a critical part of that but is very important that people follow the self isolation and if you have been a close contact of someone who has tested positive then you should not come forward for a test u nless should not come forward for a test

unless you yourself have symptoms because you have to self isolate for two weeks whatever the result of the test because the virus incubates within that period of time. so of course testing is important that the first line of defence is people following the social distancing rules and self isolating if that is necessary. thank you for your time morning. it is 7:46am. mike, i guess, if you spent a fortune on one of the world's biggest football players, you would want him on the pitch pretty quick? history shows it is not necessarily like that. we can get nostalgic and romantic, but can gareth bale, 31, reproduce the magic that made him such a massive star at

spurs the first time around. he is set to complete his loan move, back to tottenham today, and if registered in time, he could just play on sunday, at southampton, the club where he first played aged 16, in 2006. after winning four champions league titles with real madrid, he's become increasingly isolated in spain, not being played much, so it suits everyone if he moves on, especially to spurs. given the love for him there, these nostalgic pictures, that explains why tottenham fans are over the moon, the ‘welsh wizard' is coming back after leaving in 2013. the feared from val gary are cut out just before the end, hence these shots. —— from bulgaria. and it looks as though they need him — they just about scraped past bulgarian side, lokomotiv plovdiv, in the europa league last night, coming from behind to win 2—1. i don't want to comment until i hear

gareth is a dozen players. i still think and feel and respect the fact that he is a real madrid player, so i'm not going to comment on a real madrid player. it'll be interesting to see whether there's any fall—out at welsh side, connah's quay nomads, after three players arrived for their europa league qualifier feeling unwell. remember the excitement when shamrock rovers were drawn at home to ac milan? well, zlatan ibrahimovic and the italian side were in dublin last night. and ibrahimovic scored in their 2—0 win. what a night, though, for the league of ireland side. all the results and reports are on the bbc sport website. tennis legend billiejean king has been speaking of her excitement at having the international, women's team competition, the fed cup, renamed after her.

it's the first time such an honour has gone to a woman. the billiejean king cup finals are scheduled for april in budapest. iam i am trying to wrap my head around it and pinch myself. i think about a lot, what we can do with this opportunity, what i can do for future generations and how we can help. i don't know, just make great girls and women on and off the court. that is the ultimate tribute, it means the name will live on for future generations. having a name on the tournament for evermore. she was a real game changer. thank you, mike. time for the weather now and sara is at rhs wisley in surrey this morning — finding out why autumn could be the best time to start planting in the garden. they have let me out. good morning,

yes, a stunning start to the day here at rhs wisley, loose skies, barely a cloud in the sky, birds are tweeting in the trees —— blue skies. this is one of the oldest parts of the garden, dating over 100 years here at wisley, and the glasshouse but was added in 2007. the gardeners here at wisley will be embarking on an autumn planting, planting daffodils, bogs, tulips as well, and they will come out during the spring months —— bulbs. go and plant your own autumn bulbs this time of year while the soil is still warm, and we should see some rain through autumn and winter and those bulbs will come out in spring. what about the weather? a fine start to the day, certainly, here, and across the uk we are looking at a dry and largely settled picture. a warm and sunny fields of the weather today, but you will notice a bit of a breeze coming

in from will notice a bit of a breeze coming infrom an will notice a bit of a breeze coming in from an easterly direction. that is because we have a big area of high pressure sitting the east. the winds will be rotating around that area of high pressure, bringing breezy conditions across the southern half of england and into wales as well. in the sunshine, temperatures will be doing reasonably well today, extent— 22 degrees, a little bit cooler when you are exposed to that breeze around the east coast, and more cloud around northern scotland with the odd shower as well stop overnight, largely dry and one or two misty pages with temperatures just about getting down into single figures, colder in rural spots. —— misty patches. largely fine and dry through the course of the weekend, because we still have that area of high pressure with us, giving things largely dry and settled. as we had the into saturday we still have that high pressure bringing that easterly breeze with us as well, so you will certainly notice that breeze across the southern half of england once again and into wales as well.

overnight temperatures getting down into single figures for some of us, asked about staying in double figures further south to start up your weekend. after that fresh sta rts your weekend. after that fresh starts of the day again, good sunshine on saturday, brisk winds coming in making things feel a little bit cooler, particularly across the east and north coast as well. afternoon temperatures, 16— 24 celsius in the sunshine, and hang dry, just some cloud across the far north of scotland for a time. we could see some heavy showers approach the channel isles, devon and cornwall. all an old, high pressure bringing us a dry, settled story over the next couple of days, it is looking like a decent weekend forgetting out and about, doing some gardening, and don't forget to plant those bulbs about now. sarah, that

is an extraordinary beautiful scene behind you. so rich. the colours and greens, so beautiful. what bulbs would you be planting? oh, what about some crocuses? they have a huge national collection here. i am inspired. charlie, you didn't tell me earlier if you have green fingers? i have been doing some mowing. does that count? tending to your garden. sort of, yeah. it is 7:53am. after the discovery of a tumour meant his right eye was removed as a child, guy mitchell doubted he'd ever achieve his dream of becoming a winning racing jockey. he spent 30 years trying to convince the authorities to grant him a licence, and he was finally successful last yea r. and now, he's made history by becoming the first visually impaired jockey to win a race. lewis coombes has his story. after losing his right eye aged six

yea rs old after losing his right eye aged six years old due to a cancerous tumour, doctor guy mitchell is used to overcoming adversity. guy was never given a formal reason why he was rejected, but says it was clear over his loss of vision. as years passed, a desire to compete as a jockey never diminished. until he was 46, that is. and on the extreme right here, the game is on! you don't succeed, try, try and try again. after finally passing the extensive physical and technical test required to gaina physical and technical test required to gain a jockey‘s license, guy didn't stop there. the game is on, and guy mitchell has now come throughjust in and guy mitchell has now come through just in front of old tom. on his fourth ride, he stared home 50—1 the game is on, becoming the first one i'd jockey to do so under british rule. following his

ambition, he now plans to take part in the amateurjockey championship and is looking for more rides. and you wouldn't bet against guy for fulfilling another dream. lewis coombes, bbc news. guy mitchelljoins us now. good morning. we havejust seen that winning race. iam no expert good morning. we havejust seen that winning race. i am no expert on horse racing, but give settled through of the final moments. oh, this belief does make disbelief, really, he came out the outside at a rate of knots ——he came out side at a rate of knots, and everything went silent. and i thought it must be that i wasn't in —— i was in front. idid not that i wasn't in —— i was in front. i did not look around and pushed to the line, hoping to win, which is what actually happened in the end.

guy, naga here. does the horse know when it has one? i have always been intrigued. you have such a close relationship with the horse it is inevitable. and they are such communicative animals and instinctive, but how did they react? i think some horses definitely know when they have done enough and when they have hit the front and you can see if you look at the replay. about half a furlong to go, he hit the front and his ears pricked, and he started to idle a bit, and that is when i started panicking, going, oh, dear, don't let them come back to us. i'm pushing. and he carried on. you also see he has some sheepskin pieces on his bridle, and that is also to keep him more focused, so, some horses are a bit quirky. guy, talk to us a little bit about you. at the age of six you lost your one

i. —— eye. we always this determined? yeah, you don't record your guilt and you make the most of what you have. i grew up in racing and racing was always my passion, is my passion, and i always wanted to beajump my passion, and i always wanted to be a jump jockey. so, my passion, and i always wanted to be ajumpjockey. so, becoming my passion, and i always wanted to be a jumpjockey. so, becoming an amateur jockey is be a jumpjockey. so, becoming an amateurjockey is a stepping stone to that. yes, it is something i have a lwa ys to that. yes, it is something i have always wanted to do. and guy, we saw always wanted to do. and guy, we saw a picture of you with a horse, you we re very a picture of you with a horse, you were very young a picture of you with a horse, you were very young there. when people say i want to be one of those jockeys we all watch, what were people saying to you? were they saying, forget it, it's not going to happen because you have only one eye. what was the reasoning? at the time, no, they didn't say that. everyone that was in racing probably wa nted everyone that was in racing probably wanted to be a jockey. and it wasn't

until i got to the age of 16 and i first applied. the standards at the time, the medical standards stipulated you cannot ride with monocular vision. those were the rules, and that is why i got pushed back stop luckily, you know, there are many things that have changed coming into the 21st century, and you will see jockeys riding coming into the 21st century, and you will seejockeys riding now. i know a jockey that has one leg, and other jockeys with know a jockey that has one leg, and otherjockeys with differing conditions. there will be people watching, children watching as they get ready for school. you were bullied as a child, and you decided no—one was going to get to bully you, and you are going to go for what you wanted. do you have something to say? look at you. you area something to say? look at you. you are a winner. you are a winner, and

you fought, and you one. all kids have a bit of bullying as they grow up. mine was obviously more targeted for obvious reasons. but, you know, at the end of the day, you have two pushback. and probably toughened me up pushback. and probably toughened me up and many of the person am today. well, congratulations to you, it was a 50-1 well, congratulations to you, it was a 50—1 shot. the game is on was the winning race, so, congratulations. are you winning, soon —— racing, soon? there are a couple of races in october. hopefully i will be back in the saddle then. good luck! thank you, thank you very much. we will see you at 8am with the headlines.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. our headlines today... tougher restrictions are discussed to slow the spread of coronavirus — the health secretary tells us he's not ruling out another national lockdown. a national lockdown is the last line of defence. it is, as we saw in the spring, it is the thing that we can do to keep people as safe, if that is needed. two million people in the north east of england come under new local regulations from today — similar rules could now be enforced across most of lancashire. there across most of lancashire. will be new roles for pu

restau ra nts there will be new roles for pubs and restaurants in england, for tracing customers. it will bring england into line with wales, scotland and northern ireland. but i will also ask what another lockdown could mean for the already struggling hospitality industry. the welsh wizard is returning. gareth bale is set to complete his move back to tottenham today. iamat i am at rhs wisley this morning, celebrating national bulb planting week. a stunning start to the day, blue skies. many of us are seeing a lot of dry weather over the next few days. i'll bring you more in ten minutes. it's friday the 18th of september. our top story, the health secretary has refused to rule out another national lockdown, as the government considers tougher restrictions to try to slow the surging number of coronavirus cases. these measures, which are being described as a "circuit break", come after a warning from the government's chief scientific advisors that there would be a significant rise in the death rate,

without further intervention. in the last half an hour health secretary matt hancock has told breakfast the government is willing to do whatever it takes to protect lives. we now have far more tools at our disposal to be able to make more targeted interventions, like the action that i took in the north—east yesterday. and we will be making a further announcement later today in the normal way, in terms of further local action. and that helps us to avoid a national lockdown. but a national lockdown is the last line of defence. it is, as we saw in the spring, it is the thing that we can do to keep people as safe, if that is needed. so we are watching vigilantly, but we can see this number of cases accelerating, as you say, and we are prepared to do what it takes to both protect lives, and to protect livelihoods. that was matt hancock.

let's speak now to our political correspondentjessica parker. good morning. it's inevitable, the conversation now is if the government has had advice from senior chief scientific adviser is about these rising cases, that a national lockdown needs to be considered? i think it is clear that ministers are pretty worried about the situation, and some of the senior government advisers as well. i think what they are looking at, though, is not a national lockdown, what seems to be under consideration are putting in further restrictions across england, some of the like we have seen where there have been local lockdown recently. but it would be a significant step, because, clearly, ministers have recently talked about a sort of whack a mole strategy, trying to tackle local outbreaks at a local level. what we have seen recently is not so much local restrictions, but across whole regions, large swathes

of the country, affecting millions of the country, affecting millions of people. again, a sign of the concern of the spread of the virus. if they did move to more national restrictions, clearly, that would be a more blunt instrument than we have recently been seeing. thanks very much. ministers will set out further details today of their action plan to support care homes in england through the winter months. it includes access to free ppe and the appointment of a chief nurse for the sector. the government has already announced more than half a billion pounds of extra money to help with infection control. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world have now risen beyond 30 million. more than 940,000 people have died with covid—19 since the outbreak began in china — according to figures from johns hopkins university. the worst hit nations are the us, india and brazil, although infection rates across europe are rising rapidly. scientists say a rapid coronavirus test has been developed, that can accurately diagnose

an infection within 90 minutes without needing a specialist laboratory. the device is already being used in eight nhs hospitals and the government has ordered more. it's most useful for helping to quickly identify people with covid—19 in hospitals, rather than mass testing. the royal mint says it's not planning to make any new two pence or £2 coins in the next 10 years as demand has dropped. with more of us using contactless payments, the mint says there is a mountain of unused coins in storage. the national audit office says it could become harder to access cash in the future for those who rely on it. time for the weather now and sarah is at rhs wisley in surrey this morning — finding out why autumn could be the best time to start planting in the garden. we can officially say it is a beautiful place? a stunning start to the day, there are worse places to watch the

sunrise than rhs wisley. a gorgeous day, barely a cloud in the sky. a stunning view over the rock garden, more than 100 years old. the glasshouse was added in 2007. gardeners here are going to be embarking on their autumn planting soon, getting the bulbs on the ground this time of year and they will be coming up at spring. that is something the rhs are encouraging people to get involved with at home as well. if you have a newly acquired gardening skills due to lockdown, a lot of people have been spending more time at home and in their gardens, don't put your tools away just yet because their gardens, don't put your tools awayjust yet because it is time to be planting those bulbs that should be planting those bulbs that should be coming out in time for spring. so, what about the weather? for gardeners and growers, things are looking generally dry over the next couple of days because we have dry -- high couple of days because we have dry —— high pressure driving the weather. it will be quite breezy, a noticeable breeze across more southern parts of england and wales. we have a fewer early misty patches that should clear away pretty quickly and then long spells of

sunshine for many of us. temperature is doing fairly well for the time of year, between 16 and 22 degrees out there today. it will feel colder where you are exposed to that brisk easterly breeze around the east coast. as we head on into the afternoon and evening hours, things should stay dry and bright. a bit more cloud across northern scotland with one or two showers around. elsewhere should avoid their showers through the day and overnight. it will be turning quite chilly again under clear skies. temperatures getting down into single figures for the towns and cities in the north, and a bit colder than that in the countryside. further south, just about staying in double figures. a fresh start to saturday. a bit of miss tina's possible first thing. that should clear away to leave plenty of sunshine once again. breezy conditions, and easterly breeze coming in across southern parts of england and wales as well. temperatures doing fairly well. somewhere between 16 and 24 degrees, so it will feel quite warm where you are away from the breeze. cooler in

the east coast where the wind is coming from the north sea. looking like a coming from the north sea. looking likeafine, coming from the north sea. looking like a fine, dry we ahead. a great weekend for getting out, planting your autumn bulbs this weekend, which should be coming up during the spring. naga and charlie. let's go back to our main story. as the coronavirus infection rate climbs more local restrictions are being enforced in a bid to slow down its spread. so far around 9.2 million people across the uk are living under tighter rules which the government has been introducing sincejuly. in parts of the north—east, almost two million people are banned from meeting other households, and pub curfews are in place, after new rules came into force overnight. new local lockdown rules are also expected to be brought in for most of lancashire later today. we'll speak to mairead smyth in preston injust a moment, but first let's speak to our reporter olivia richwald who is in sunderland

for us this morning. these new restrictions, what do they look and feel like? well, it is 2 million people here in the north—east and england that are starting to be affected by the new restrictions this morning. they are going to have a big impact on people's lives. they will no longer be able to meet up with family and friends in their houses and gardens and nightlife will stop at 10pm. people have started to relax in recent weeks, and that has led to a surge in coronavirus cases. here in sunderland, there are now more than 100 positive tests per 100,000 people in the population. that is concerning the local authorities. that's not the only figure. there has also been an increase in the proportion of positive tests and the increase in the number of people testing positive in hospitals. this trio of boring factors lead to seven local authorities in the north—east asking the government to impose restrictions. those have come into

effect at midnight. so people are going to find lives will change. not being able to meet up with family and friends will affect things like children and grandchildren. they will not be able to visit each other unless they are ina to visit each other unless they are in a support bubble together. and nightlife, finishing a 10pm. friday nightlife, finishing a 10pm. friday night in newcastle would normally have been a busy night. it will be strange tonight, because it will come to an end at ten o'clock. people are also being asked to avoid public transport unless it is essential. well, a lot of people rely on the buses and the tyne and wear metro station. but if people aren't travelling, it is going to impact on businesses. but local authorities here are urging people to stick to the guidelines, to avoid what they say would be a more damaging, bigger, full lockdown. of course, this comes as the big universities in newcastle, sunderland and durham are welcoming back tens of thousands of students. thank you very much. let's talk to mairead smyth in preston.

what is happening where you are? good morning. well, when we think about lancashire, the figures speak for themselves. many places in this cou nty for themselves. many places in this county are in the top ten areas worst affected by coronavirus, looking at the figures that we have most recently. hank byrne has a rate of 144.4 per 100,000 of the population. preston, where i am this morning, 134.8. the top two macron three in the country. bolton is still half way out ahead in terms of the number of people affected by coronavirus. —— the top two or three in the country. the restrictions could be coming into effect here. it is not yet known if it will follow exactly what has happened in the north—east, where there are curfews in bars and pubs, as olivia mentioned. so, a big impact on the economy. we are not sure if that will happen in lancashire. certainly, the expectation is the way that people mix and interact with each other will change. there

will be an impact on public transport as well, only for emergencyjourneys. we are expecting the announcement later this morning, perhaps around 11 o'clock. certainly, when you look at the figures, they do speak for themselves. this area of the country, it is worse than the north—east where the restrictions have already been brought in. all of this perhaps falls into what we expect from the government, that there could be plans that affect the whole of the country, notjust here in lancashire, not just whole of the country, notjust here in lancashire, notjust down the road in the liverpool city region, where there is an expectation that measures will also be put in place. no confirmation of that. we will hear more about what is expected for lancashire later this morning. we do perhaps think that blackpool will be exempt from these changes, but, at the minute, people in lancashire have been subject to some restrictions for some weeks now. but this will take things further, and that news will come later today.

thanks very much. interesting, we are talking about lancashire. we can speak now to paul foster who's the leader of south ribble council — one of the areas facing new restrictions. thank you so much for being with us this morning. what do you understand about what is going to happen where you are in charge? good morning, naga. well, my understanding is that the reporters have said that we are going to be subject to the same restrictions as the north—east, rather frustratingly, believe restrictions as the north—east, ratherfrustratingly, believe it or not, we won't wind out until the government announces it. it has been that they have made some slight twea ks at that they have made some slight tweaks at times, but our understanding is that it is going to be significant lockdown for lancashire. when do you expect to be told? hopefully sometime later this morning. what feedback or data, or information, has been going between you and at a national level for this decision to come to a head? we are

really lucky in lancashire. we have the resilience forum, analysing the data every single day. and all of the councils in lancashire worked together on this. unfortunately, there is no getting away from it, nearly every single borough and district in lancashire is spiking. the numbers are scary. it does appear it is getting out of control. clearly, something has to be done. the numbers don't lie. it is particularly the last two weeks that we have started seeing it increasing, since the schools have gone back. people going back to work. there has been a significant increase. when you say scary, talk to me about what you see because we are talking about a doubling of cases every 7—8 days. when you look at where i am, we have blackburn, bolton, to the east, the virus doesn't no boundaries, does it, the numbers are significantly rising. here, for

example, where we have been significantly low for months, even we are up at 58, 60, per 100000 and thatis we are up at 58, 60, per 100000 and that is within the last seven days. it is spiking. my personal view is it is spiking now and we are getting into the second wave but my concern is, because of the testing, not good enough, it could be worse than we are actually seeing because i do worry that there are a number of people out there now who are unable to get tested that are positive so we must get the testing sorted. if we must get the testing sorted. if we are on top of the testing, and until we are on top of the testing i don't believe we will get on top of the virus. what is driving this scary rise in numbers? i think the public have listened and i am trying to be apolitical, lancashire, we wa nt to to be apolitical, lancashire, we want to support the government in what we we want everybody to get rid of this virus but you know, the co nsta nt of this virus but you know, the constant world beating track and

trace, i think people believed that, they genuinely did. they genuinely thought when there was a problem we would have the support mechanisms in place straightaway to deal with it but the kids have gone back to school. parents are being pushed back to work. you have the dine out to eat out, we have been forcing people in many respects people together ... but i will people in many respects people together but i will play devils advocate, i spoke to matt hancock earlier and his argument is, his response, you know, stay apart, make space, wear a face mask, if people are abiding by the rules, then the cases would naturally be lower and let's put aside back to school and eating, there are safety measures in place. there will be that push back a moment there, that if people aren't abiding by the rules then cases will spy? that is a possibility but we have sent all the kids back to school and the teachers and there was going to be an increase, clearly, on the demand on

testing. and the availability of testing. and the availability of testing locally has gone down and i genuinely believe, most people, most people in lancashire are trying to abide, most of the businesses are covid—19 clearly that's not enough to get on top of the virus. the virus is virile, it is all over us. i don't want to see a national lockdown so one of the things i am urging every single person in lancashire and in south ribble, we have to abide as best we can is the advice that we are being given. stay apart. that is the critical thing. families mingling, it's causing the biggest problems. tell me, now, if the lockdown measures come in and you say it's families mingling, this will be restricted, parts of the north—east, we are seeing no two households meeting, no meeting indoors, is that what you are expecting to happen? we are

expecting, no meeting found the outside of your direct bubble in your garden, your house, curfews on businesses from 10pm, do not socialise unless you are absolutely, you absolutely have to, table service at the restaurants and bars, thatis service at the restaurants and bars, that is how it should be, so sorry, the phone is going off. that is one of your colleagues! never mind! and do not as i said, do not socialise, try your best to stay in your bubble, in your protective bubble as best you can. good to talk to you. thank you for your thoughts this morning. let's pick up on some of the detail of the virus and what is happening exactly. devi sridhar is a professor of global public health at the university of edinburgh — shejoins us now. professor, a very good morning to

you. could you give us some perspective please, the virus understood to be doubling every 7—8 days, more than 3000 new cases reported on wednesday, the most recent figures so can you put those figures into some kind of perspective for us? we are at a stage when it could go quite badly and we could be in a position like we we re and we could be in a position like we were in march but if we can intervene early and get measures in place to try and get on top of that then we could be in a much better position and i think this is one of the lessons for all countries across the lessons for all countries across the world which is move early, go aggressively, get a check on the virus early because if you wait too long, it becomes a larger problem and you need to take more severe restrictions to try to stop the spread. we were just talking to paul foster, he represents south ribble and his words, the numbers are scary, he said he is not a medical expert that he said it's getting out of control and talked about 58 — 60 per 100,000 for he is. also, the

releva nce per 100,000 for he is. also, the relevance of a local lockdown, you lockdown one place, which has a particular spike. but obviously, it's particular spike. but obviously, its next door to another place. so how does the local lockdown work in relation to the virus spread? yes, i guess the first thing to say even the word lockdown can be used to express so many different things, it can be used in spain to mean you cannot even leave your home for a walk or it can be used to say there isa walk or it can be used to say there is a night—time curfew so be home before 10pm if you have essential work so i think what we will see across the country are restrictions being put in place. they are trying to make these as minimal as possible to make these as minimal as possible to keep a check on this and the restrictions are going to be and i don't think it willjust be local lockdown is, we will see them all over as we head into winter about restricting people meeting, indoor settings especially bars and pubs, crowded, house parties, we know a lot about this virus and where it spreads after these six months and soi spreads after these six months and so i think it will be more targeted

action towards a specific settings. and unfortunately it will affect a lot of the country in the weeks to come. what we are seeing is them trying to go after specific locations but as we head into winter the problems we see are only going to become amplified. can i ask you once again about going back to the numbers and we asked matt hancock about this. is there in scientific terms a tipping point number in relation to either the number of new cases, we know that is 3000, or about this doubling vigour and i remember at the beginning of the pandemic we talked quite a bit about that. the figure, it was doubling every 3—4 days, we are now 7—8 days so what is the tipping point at which we know we are in a very different place. i think the number now and hopefully come back into the public discussion is the r, which tells you you're heading into the virus and i think we are in quite dangerous territory because it is estimated to be above one, even 1.5

in some parts of the country so this means you are in exponential growth and this is quite worrying. what we really need to have a check on is the testing system because over the summer, the testing and tracing system should have been built up so people could be tested, at the results within 24 hours, south korea gives you results within four hours and that means you can quickly trace contacts and get them into isolation but we want to be moving towards quarantining the but we want to be moving towards quara ntining the people but we want to be moving towards quarantining the people who have the virus have been exposed to it rather than everybody and these kind of restrictions, assuming everyone has it and goes into lockdown, we really need to get testing and tracing sorted, this is how vietnam, thailand, new zealand, china, the use lockdown but they use it to build up test and trace. lockdown itself does not really do anything, itself does not really do anything, it is like pressing the pause button but as soon as you press play again the virus spread so you have to get testing and tracing in place while you are in the pause face, i think thatis you are in the pause face, i think that is one of the mistakes done in

the spring, the delays getting testing up and running. professor, very good to talk to you. chair of global public health at the university of edinburgh. it is just coming up to 23 minutes past eight. thank you forjoining us. from today, 11,000 volunteers will take to their local beaches armed with litter pickers, as the annual great british beach clean gets underway. this year, as well as collecting the usual debris, volunteers will also be recording how much ppe they find. what a wonderful site that is. we went there first thing this morning, the tide was out. the tide is now breakfast‘s john maguire is on a beach near weston—super—mare this morning. john, iam john, i am trying to pick you out! good morning to you and good morning everyone. you can tell the high tide line. you can see the seaweed and some of the other flotsam and jetsam that you get from the beach but

also, some of the letter that's washed in from the sea. lizzie, good morning, from the marine conservation society, what kind of things are you finding? we are finding lots of plastic, bottles, drinks cans, and some clothing as well, but also unfortunately a ppe mask. now, let's look at some of the stuff we've collected this morning. you mentioned ppe masks, i know that something you are thinking about this year. of course, all of a sudden, there is so much more of it around. exactly, the new single use item we are finding on the coastline, we are asking volunteers to record the letter they find but also record the ppe so we understand the true extent of the problem. that's one of the important thing is that you do every time you do the beach clean, use forms to get an idea of exactly what is out and about. it's been important over the years to monitor what is on the beach, how we stop items getting

there in the first place. let's look at what we've collected. some of the items are what you might expect. others, quite frankly, bizarre! you can see the common things we talk about, plastic bottles, fishing line as well. we have some of these, might look like plastic straws, but they are actually cotton bud sticks, these are things we put down the toilet instead of the bin. you can live miles away from the sea, what you do in your own bathroom can cause plastic pollution. they are a real problem, items of clothing, you know, lord only knows how they ended up know, lord only knows how they ended up here, there is a ppe mask there, thatis up here, there is a ppe mask there, that is the type of thing you think you might see more of. unfortunately, yes. we have been getting reports from volunteers over the last few months they are seeing an increase of this on beaches and it is another single use item that is harmful, we already see birds being tangled in masks so we know it's already harming wildlife so it's already harming wildlife so it's really important if you use it, to dispose of it properly, every

single time. we don't want to see a new wave of single use items in the environment. talking about the word disposable, let's come around and look behind us. they call these disposable barbecues. the idea you are supposed to dispose of them properly, not leave them on the beach, that is a bit of a sad sight. it really is, people come down to the beach to enjoy the environment, to be by the sea and enjoy the coast and unfortunately they are leaving it behind and it's a very simple thing to do, wring it to the beach, it simple to take it away with you. otherwise, this could cause real harm to the environment. lizzie, thank you. let's wander down to the shoreline. let's have a quick chat with a couple more of the volunteers. kayleigh, good morning. what sort of weird and wonderful things have you found. all sorts of plastic, plastic is the most common item that is found on beaches. quite sad to see. this is a beach quite regularly cleaned as well. on the

surface, it doesn't look like there isa surface, it doesn't look like there is a lot of letter but when you start to look through the sand really do find plastic lids. all sorts of straws and things like that which are really detrimental to the environment. good to see people and at about cleaning this stuff up and perhaps the only way, if people are going to insist on discarding these things. anna, hello. you adopt, you adopt a stretch of beach, that seems like an eminently sensible idea! tell us how that works. you basically come on your local beach, you choose a 100 metres stretch and you choose a 100 metres stretch and you have a line of people and you work your way up that stretch and re cord work your way up that stretch and record everything that you find. all right, great stuff. thank you to all of the volunteers here from the marine conservation society. we talked about recording the type of items that were found and that becomes the citizen science data, very important and it informs a lot

of the lobbying and campaigning that ta kes of the lobbying and campaigning that takes place, for example the 5p bag charge, the restrictions on carrier bags from supermarkets in the past couple of years. that has been a real game changer and that came from a lot of the information that was gathered on things like the beach clea n. gathered on things like the beach clean. from north of weston—super—mare, back to you guys in the studio. we are going to linger on the short way above you. so lovely. right now, time tojoin right now, time to join your local news teams. good morning from bbc london, i'm tolu adeoye. the mayor of london sadiq khan and the group which represents london's councils arejoining together to urge the government to extend the business rates holiday. companies in the retail, hospitality, leisure and childcare sectors are currently benefiting from a 100 per cent relief from the rates for this financial year. many businesses across london say they will struggle to survive without an extension.

extra precautions have been put in place at synagogues across london to prevent the spread of the coronavirus ahead of start of the jewish new year. traditional rosh hashanah events will take place over the weekend — although scaled back. one of the synagogue rituals is the sounding of the shofar — the ram's horn. it will be blown by volunteers on street corners — and outside people's homes for those who are isolating. in the beginning, it was very hard, but i think the more we went into it, and people started realising that this is something serious. that people are taking it very serious, and they want to do what's right for them, for their kids and for the community. fans will return to some english football league games this weekend — for the first time in six months. charlton athletic will welcome back up to a thousand supporters to the valley. it's one of eight matches taking part in the government's crowd pilots this weekend. the world —famous ronnie scott's jazz club will finally reopen this weekend following months of closure as a result of the pandemic.

it's hosted stars including ella fitzgerald and jools holland. this the club celebrated its 60th anniversary last year, making it one of the oldestjazz clubs in the world. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service on the tubes this morning. apart from those planned works on the waterloo and city line. on the roads — there are delays westbound on the limehouse link tunnel because of a broken down mobile crane. finally, there are queues eastbound on a40 from northolt — because of an earlier broken down vehicle — that's after the hanger lane underpass. now the weather with sara thornton. good morning to you. another fine start this morning across london. out towards the suburbs again, temperatures, high single figures at the moment. a somewhat fresh feel to things, but plenty of sunshine on offer through this morning. and, through the rest of the day today. now, like the last couple of days, still got a noticeable breeze out

towards the east particularly, just blowing on shore, it will make it feel quite cool in the shade here, but inland, highs today of 22, possibly 23 celsius, somewhere low 70s in fahrenheit. overnight tonight, dry and clear, still that breeze, though, with us into tomorrow, temperatures once more just about in double figures for most of us into the start of your saturday. a lot of fine weather for the weekend, i willjust tell you that later on saturday there will be a bit of cloud just pushing our way from the south, could bring a shower, mostly, though, we stay dry. lots of sunshine for the next few days and feeling pleasantly warm tomorrow afternoon as well. it's much, much cooler for next week. i'm back with the latest from bbc london in half an hour. now though it's back to charley and naga. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. as we've been hearing this morning,

tighter restrictions for england are being considered and the government has refused to rule out another national lockdown. let's speak now to the shadow health secretary, jonathan ashworth. welcome to the programme, mr ashworth. you will have heard what matt hancock has said this morning, and he has said that they are not ruling out the possibility of some kind of national restrictions. what do you make up what you have heard? well, it is obviously deeply concerning that inside government they feel we are now on the cusp of a deadly second spike, and they are looking at imposing more restrictions across the country. if they do impose those restrictions, i of course would understand why they would have to take that decision. we have always supported them when they have always supported them when they have taken have always supported them when they have ta ken tough have always supported them when they have taken tough decisions like imposing restrictions on the north—east yesterday or, as we understand, more restrictions imposed across lancashire. i think many people watching the programme this morning willjust want some

clarity. they will want to know what is going on. actually, if those restrictions come in, i'm afraid it is because the government failed to fix testing and tracing, back in the summer will be for the summer, we we re summer will be for the summer, we were warning the government that as were warning the government that as we head into autumn and winter, u nless we we head into autumn and winter, unless we have an effective testing and tracing system in place, we could be heading into a very bleak winter indeed. we didn't need to be on the situation. we need to get the testing fixed. we need to get a system that properly traces contract and gives people to support to isolate. without that, we lose control of the virus and i fear that is what is happening now.|j control of the virus and i fear that is what is happening now. i know there is an area of real concern for many people about testing, i'm not suggesting is not important for a second, because it is absolutely crucial. but if we leave that for a moment, as it stands, the government as saying that they are pausing the notion of a national lockdown. we

heard from the mayor of liverpool this morning. he was saying, frankly, the time is now. so, what do you think? is this the moment to give it a chance, to see whether we can get that daily rate down, or is this the time when the government needs to step up and move more quickly? well, i don't think what is actually being discussed in government, based on what the bbc has learned overnight, is actually a national lockdown like we saw back in march or april. it sounds like it is other restrictions nationwide, may be pubs closing, may be curfews, which some of these measures are being plummeted in other parts of the country at the moment, like bolton, parts of the north—east. but these restrictions should obviously bea these restrictions should obviously be a last resort. i appreciate you wa nt to be a last resort. i appreciate you want to park testing, because you have been giving us a lot of coverage, but it really is key to this. if you have effective testing and tracing, you don't need to

impose mass nationwide restrictions, because you have got control of the virus. but the problem with that is, you will understand very well, notwithstanding everyone agrees that there are real problems with the testing system and that needs has to be more efficient and better, and quicker, on a wider scale, as of now, it's a friday, in the middle of september, as of now, decisions still have to be made about what is the right way ahead now. so i'm just wondering whether you think these restrictions, and he rightly described them as restrictions, not a lockdown, but whether you think this would be the right time, now, given the problems that we know exist currently within the testing system ? exist currently within the testing system? well, i have not got access to the data which the government medical advisers have access to. but if the government decided to move ahead with these measures, then, of course, it would have the support of the opposition because we have supported them when they had to implement other tough measures. but these lockdown is, restrictions, whatever is implement it, extract a

heavy toll from people. there will be people watching the programme this morning who will feel absolutely fed up at this prospect. and the british people have made huge sacrifices for this. they have not gone to weddings, they have not said goodbye properly to their loved ones are funerals. but they have carried out their side of the bargain, they have honoured their side of the bargain. in return, the government was supposed to fix testing. if we end up in the situation where we have more restrictions, whether it is a cu rfew, restrictions, whether it is a curfew, more restrictions on who you can and can't visit, not being able to go into the home of your relatives, your mother or grandmother's home, that is because the government did not fix testing. i think they still have time now to put in place measures to fix testing and tracing, but we are running out of time. thank you very much. jonathan ashworth is the shadow health secretary. totte n ha m tottenham hotspur may be welcoming back an all—star. well, less of the

old, i suppose. back an all—star. well, less of the old, isuppose. are back an all—star. well, less of the old, i suppose. are we not going to sport? —— an old style. shall we talk about business, and go to the pub instead? beautiful blue skies, and what a delightful location. as we well know, the licensed trade, along with all sorts of other people in the entertainment business, they are really struggling about how they deal with the restrictions in place, different across all of the uk and within other areas as well?|j different across all of the uk and within other areas as well? i am wondering if naga has been on the wine already this morning! you are absolutely right. new restrictions coming into force in england, bringing england into line with wales, scotland and northern ireland. let me explain the changes. up ireland. let me explain the changes. up until now it has been advisory for hospitality firms in england to ta ke for hospitality firms in england to take your details when you arrive, but it will be mandatory from today. that is your name, contact details, the time and date of your visit. the

point is that it means nhs test and trace will be able to get hold of you if you were exposed to someone ina you if you were exposed to someone in a place like this. they will be able to reach you. they will keep those details for about 21 days. as we said, that brings you into line with wales, scotland and northern ireland. so, all of the home countries are on the same page. of course, we know there are well—documented problems for the hospitality industry. they are just getting back on their feet. different rules, up until now, have made it quite difficult for firms to be able to know what they need to do. we want to see two pubs, just next door to each other, but on either side of the england and wales border, right next door to each other. but they had a very different experience over the last few weeks. lam bob experience over the last few weeks. i am bob headley, owner of the bradford arms hotel. that in england. i am from the dolphin in wales. in england, we opened in july and it was very busy. people wanted

to socialise again. in wales, we we re allowed to socialise again. in wales, we were allowed to open indoors on the 3rd of august. one of the new rules was that we had to have track and trace. we have a daily book which is two or three pages every day. you have decided with your name, your time of arrival and telephone number. and england, the track and trace rules change on friday. by law we have to take the information. but because i've been doing it from the start, it is already in place. all i am taking is a mobile telephone numberand your name. am taking is a mobile telephone number and your name. i have am taking is a mobile telephone numberand your name. i have been am taking is a mobile telephone number and your name. i have been 22 years in the royal air force, and i think it is because of my background that i can accept these have to be done. every time i have asked for people to sign, they have signed. if they didn't sign, i would not allow them in. ialways they didn't sign, i would not allow them in. i always class this as my house. i wouldn't let them into my house, and i think if it did come to that, they would soon sign, or they can leave. trying to keep all of the

rules are the same time, sit down, don't stand at the bar, that sort of thing, it's difficult to keep them in line at times. especially when you add alcohol to people. they start hugging and things like that. it is in our interests to follow the rules. because if we don't follow the rules, and it is all shut down, i feel that if we have done everything that we can do to make it work, then you can't blame yourself for the situation. so, very different rules and a very different experience for those pub landlords. nicholas is with me this morning. he is from the trade magazine the morning advertiser. good morning. we heard some different experiences there, it has been a tough time for there, it has been a tough time for the industry getting back on its feet. finally the rules are in line across england, wales, northern ireland and scotland. what are they telling you about their willingness to hand over the information? customers have got used to it, they

are quite willing to hand over the information and pubs are good at adapting. it's great that it is in line with the rest of the uk. most of the pubs out there in england took the guidance, took it as law with only a few exceptions, so they are going to go straight into it and understand how to use it properly. lets talk about this possibility of further lock downs, may be a curfew on what time businesses come close, or maybe even a lockdown. the hospitality industry are struggling already. what could it mean? hospitality industry are struggling already. what could it mean7m could be devastating for the hospitality sector in general. in pubs, there are 900,000 jobs at risk with furlough coming to an end next month. if we go into lockdown, the government needs to step in and give more support. the industry needs more support. the industry needs more support. the industry needs more support now anyway. but it could be a real struggle. we missed the summer, the biggest trading period for pubs, the hottest summer on record. we are going to go into a cold winter and we don't know what

is going to happen in the run—up to christmas, we're sure. you talk about the cold winter, the nights are getting colder and darker. we have been fortunate to be able to set out in places like this, and that has made a difference. that's not to change. and christmas, a really crucial time for businesses in hospitality? we are lost, we don't know what is going to happen. we need more support from the government, there are lots ofjobs at risk. if we close pubs earlier in the evening, what will that mean? will it mean more people will come to the pubs at an earlier time, that we are going to have bottlenecks? it isa we are going to have bottlenecks? it is a real worry for the industry. we will keep a close eye on that. there you have it, the thoughts of what the industry might want to do and how it might adapt if some of those changes come down the line. i was talking to a landlord earlier who said, look, tell is what we need to do and we will do it. but a lot of uncertainty. we will talk more about that as we get more details. i'm going to leave you with a wonderful shot of the river thames, in the

sunshine, there are rowers, joggers and dog walkers. i used to love rowing on the river. what a lovely scene. nice and calm. but ben has a little seat by a river in the pub, you have a little podium thing, what more do you want? you don't get to set! it gives authority, but it doesn't stop me knocking over my mug. it's like delivering a lecture. this morning, when you through your cup on the floor in anger? my microphone cable wrapped around it. this replacement is stuck to the desk! one of football's biggest stars is on the verge, of a return to english football. gareth bale is due to fly to england today to complete a loan move to tottenham hotspur —

the club he left to join real madrid for a then record fee of £85 million. lets speak to former spurs boss harry redknapp, who indeed was boss at spurs, the whole time bale was playing there before. lovely to see you. a beautiful day down there on the south coast. so, yes, for those that don't know, why is this such a big deal? what makes him one of the best players the league has seen? well, he was amazing when he was at tottenham the first time around. here's a special talent. he is a matchwinner. he is somebody that can suddenly change the game with flashes of brilliance. he has the ability to pick the ball up he has the ability to pick the ball up and run or 50 yards, and hit a shot from 2530 yards into the top corner. he's got this amazing ability. he is a great all—round player. he has everything. you had such great times in your yea rs you had such great times in your years at tottenham together, manager of the year, finished fourth, but do

you still keep in touch with him? no, i haven't, iwill be you still keep in touch with him? no, i haven't, i will be honest with you. he went on to spain but i've followed his career very closely. great lad, not a problem, followed his career very closely. great lad, nota problem, comes followed his career very closely. great lad, not a problem, comes in and train sword, a family man, just and train sword, a family man, just a special player and i think this is an amazing signing for tottenham. —— trains hard. i thought tottenham would do well to finish in the top six, but this has changed everything, gareth coming in. now! am looking at tottenham and thinking, yes, you'd be certainly disappointed if they did not make the top four this year. that's interesting, people have talked about this missing piece in the jigsaw and we know the managerjose mourinho has always been keen to mammoth garage that matt —— gareth bale. like any manager you want to manage the best players. he can change that team. no different to when i was there, you bring in one

or two top players and they bring —— change everything like any club. totte n ha m change everything like any club. tottenham now, with gareth coming in, it will push them forward big time. i really do see them challenging certainly for a top four position this year, making the top for now. we all love nostalgia and romance in football but now 31, he hasn't been starting too much for real madrid recently so do you think he can still work magic at this level in the premier league? he is a very fit lad, great athlete, he's six foot two, six foot three, incredible physique, the ability to run short distances quickly, he's got everything, really, amazing player. and he would fit in with harry kane, making chances for him, right crossing ability. i'm sure everybody at tottenham and the fans especially are very, very excited

about having him back. you know, as about having him back. you know, as a person, how much would he have been hurting from all the stick that he had from the real madrid fans, even though he scored 105 goals, help them when four champions league titles. would it have been hurting him personally? of course, no one likes criticism, everyone wants to be liked but as you say, his record at real madrid was incredible. an out and out centre forward. to score that amount of goals, you couldn't have asked for much more. and in champions league finals. he really has done it on the big stage. you know, i think he will come back, it will be interesting to see howjose mourinho plays in. you've got harry kane there, other great players, the forward line, that is exciting, that will take some stopping, that will send fear through every defence in the country! exciting times ahead,

this yearfor tottenham. the country! exciting times ahead, this year for tottenham. even if spurs pay 40% of the reported £600,000 a week you will be the highest—paid player in the premier league. do you think there is any sort of gambler he worth every penny? i he is worth the money. it isa penny? i he is worth the money. it is a loan for a season. no long term, they don't have to pay a transfer, no long term contract. if things don't work out i am sure they will, but if they don't work out, it isa will, but if they don't work out, it is a loan for one season, daniel is a very shrewd operator, i am sure he has struck a very good deal. it will be interesting to eventually know the figures. how ironic if he goes to southampton this weekend, spurs play on sunday, he made his debut as a16 play on sunday, he made his debut as a 16 year back in 2006 against millwall, in the championship. that's right, i was there when he was a kid at southampton. you always felt he had this great ability. he was a left back. i honestly think he

would have gone on to become the best left back in the world but i switched him and pushed him forward because he gave me more going forward as a left—winger. he became, forward as a left—winger. he became, for me, the third best player in the world behind lionel messi and cristiano ronaldo. it's so exciting for everyone at tottenham, he can't make the difference, one of the players that can change everything at the club and i think that is what he will do. harry, thank you for your time. i've got such garden envy looking at all the shrubbery behind you. what are those red things come over your right shoulder.” you. what are those red things come over your right shoulder. i just sit there and look at it. i wouldn't know one flower from another but i do love looking at flowers! harry, it's naga in the studio. sarah is at rhs wisley this morning, if you want

advice on your garden, you could listen to her. what would you like to know? i just listen to her. what would you like to know? ijust water the plants. that's about the only thing i do. sandra says to me, have you water the plants, off i go and get the hose and i stand there for an hour, i enjoy it, it's very therapeutic. harry, it's charlie here in the studio, but do you get involved in the morning? no, charlie, we have astrotu rf! the morning? no, charlie, we have astroturf! that is cheating at gardening. what a joy. harry, thank you so much merger down, joining us, so lovely to speak to you. a footballer cheating at grass! —— a footballer cheating at grass! —— a football manager. no astroturf. sarah is in rhs wisley this morning, no astrotu rf sarah is in rhs wisley this morning, no astroturf there. we know all about harry ‘s back garden. good morning to you all. rhs wisley this

morning, stunning views, you can just about see autumn colours starting to come through and if you are one of the thousands of people who took up gardening during lockdown, autumn is not the time to stop. really important time of year in the gardening calendar and joining me as peter goodchild, team leader at rhs wisley. so why is old and important. it is important because we want to get plants into the ground with the warm soil temperatures, to encourage them to put on root growth for winter and they can take up the moisture from that and with boats, we will show you injust a moment, we can give you injust a moment, we can give you amazing displays through the spring. on that note, with bulbs we have a few pots of crocus and tulips, i'm going to show you how to report the lasagne planting. that sounds delicious. i'm going to do my best cooking display. there is

layers of bulbs, you have tulips, we are going to put on some hyacinths, some iris, some crocus. i'll start off, the tulips are in already, we have put mesh in the bottom of the pot to stop general compost going through. then space the tulips out evenly so when they come up you get a good display so i will put the compost on. you want to get the bulbs in about twice the depth and you want the pointy end facing upwards. again, spacing them out evenly. you can do these layers, put the layers in it like that, cover them, they will come through at different stages in the idea is you want, the larger bulbs at the bottom so they get the depth and then we pick bulbs that flower at different stages. that is great, lasagne planting, peter, thank you for showing us how to do that. so what

about the weather. if you are hoping to plant of the weekend. looking fine and dry for most of us, high pressure in charge. today, sunny, warm day across the uk, what you notice is it's going to be quite breezy, especially across parts of england and wales. drawing in the breeze around an area of high pressure. we started off on quite a fraction up this morning, some mist around that is burning off, long spells of sunshine through today for most of us. they be a little bit more cloud across northern scotland with perhaps the odd shower, elsewhere should stay largely try. cambridge is doing pretty well for the time of year, between 16 and 22 degrees, it will feel cooler around some of the east coast, you are exposed to the breeze coming in. you could see costs of 35 miles an hour in the south—west. through this evening and tonight it stays dry, long, clear spells, again there could be some mist forming particularly across northern england. temperatures dipping down

into single figures in the north, most of us staying in double figures further south. saturday looks like another largely dry and fine day, lots of sunshine around. just the risk of heavy downpours into the south—west later in the day, could push their way along the south coast but most places dry, temperature is about 16—24. but most places dry, temperature is about 16—24 . you will notice the strength of the breeze taking the edge of the temperatures. wisley try in the odd shower and again in the far south. mostly warm and trite weekend ahead. back to you in the studio. sarah, i am weekend ahead. back to you in the studio. sarah, iamjust listening intently can we listen to the birds? thank you, sarah, that was on cue. the blackbirds are tweeting about my head. sarah, thank you. from one bit of music to another.

the iconic rock band pink floyd are one of the best selling artists of all time. now, some of their forgotten tracks have been given a new lease of life. with the help of the blockheads and spandau ballet, the band's drummer, nick mason, has now released an album, which celebrates some of the group's classics. let's have a listen. # you pick the place and i'll choose the time # and i'll climb the hill in my own way # wait a while for the right day # and as i rise above the treeline and the clouds # i look down hearing the sound of the things you said today...# nick mason joins us now. very good morning to you! good morning. we should explain, showing those images. you were playing with

this new kind of supergroup i think you cold it. we see a crowd there, this was pre—lockdown? you cold it. we see a crowd there, this was pre-lockdown? absolutely. it was done more or less a year ago now. we've been waiting like a breeding hens to lay this egg. tell us about this egg, explained the project initially, what was the idea was to explore this early catalogue of pink floyd. it's something that's really not been heard enough, i think. and it's an opportunity for us and particularly for me, to be able to play again after what amounts to more or less a 20 year lay—off. amounts to more or less a 20 year lay-off. you are one of the only members to play on every studio album. you know the music. pretty well. when you were picking who to collaborate with, what was kind of your list of criteria? well, rather

sadly, i didn't actually pick this band, this band picked me! how did that happen? lee harris, the guitarist, came up with this idea of playing the early catalogue, guide like the idea, told me it was a good idea. and i was guaranteed a job because of the name of the band, really! i rather like the idea come on the face of it, it's like a pub quiz question, what links the blockheads, spandau ballet and pink floyd because on the face of it, those sound like very different areas of music? on the face of it, maybe they do but the fact of the matter is all the guys are consummate musicians. and fans of that particular period of music. it really, it's not very difficult to make something. at the roundhouse,

playing, what was it like? for me, an element of deja vu because the first time we have played their was october 1966, when we'd onlyjust finished being a turntable for the engines. i think, finished being a turntable for the engines. ithink, obviously, lovely to talk to you, i'm sure you are very much looking forward to get back playing live. absolutely. we are alljust waiting around. waiting for the gate to open, really. who knows when that will happen, all sorts of restrictions now in place and lots of problems for people in the industry. but so lovely to speak to you today. the drummer from pink floyd. there will be a lot of very devoted people and fans who will be so pleased that material is emerging. i am quite looking forward to it. nick mason's saucerful of secrets

live at the roundhouse is released today. soon we will talk about easy scooters, you remember there was a trial to put them on the roads and that has been withdrawn? we wouldn't mind hearing your views. we will be back with you shortly. it is 8:59am.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines. the government considers taking further measures across england — to try to slow the sharp rise in coronavirus infections. the hope that we have as a nation of avoiding a full—blown national lockdown is that everybody comes together and follows the rules that are in place now. more parts of lancashire are set to be put under further lockdown measures, but it's thought that blackpool won't be subject to the new restrictions. let us know if you think the measures where you are should be tightened or if they're too restrictive. on twitter, it's @annita—mcveigh or #bbcyourquestions.