this is bbc news with the latest headlines. boris johnson is holding talks this weekend — to decide whether to impose lockdown restrictions on the whole of england. local lockdown restrictions have come into force in some parts of the uk — with bars and restaurants closing early in north east england. i think people are going to go out during the day instead of going out at night. so it's not going to really change anything. it is good because it is saving peoples lives, bad because it is impacting on my night out. more than 800,000 people living in the spanish capital madrid, will go into lockdown — after a surge in the number of new infections. tributes are paid as the pioneering us supreme courtjudge —

and champion of women's rights — ruth bader ginsburg dies at the age of 87. president trump is expected to nominate a conservative replacement as soon as possible — with implications for the election and us policy. a leading homeless charity says more than 300,000 private renters in england have fallen behind on payments in the past few months. and coming up, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic — that's in, coronavirus: your stories — at 2:30pm. good afternoon.

borisjohnson is holding urgent talks this weekend to decide whether to impose lockdown restrictions on the whole of england, to tackle the current surge in coronavirus cases. the prime minister says the uk is now "seeing a second wave", with the number of new infections doubling every week and hospital admissions rising. at least 13.5 million people, roughly1 in 5 of the uk population, are already facing local restrictions. in london, additional measures are "increasingly likely", according to the mayor sadiq khan, who says he's extremely concerned by the speed with which the virus is spreading in the capital. it comes as governments across europe have announced new restrictions to tackle the surge in infections, including a lockdown in parts of the spanish capital madrid. spain has the highest number of coronavirus cases in europe, and madrid is once again the worst—hit region. one of the options the uk government is understood to be considering is a short period

of tighter rules across england — a so—called "circuit break" which might last two or three weeks and could include a ban on households mixing, and reduced opening hours or other restrictions for pubs and restau ra nts. jonathan blake has this report. closing time came early in newcastle last night. much of the north—east of england now under tighter restrictions, to slow the spread of coronavirus. ijust think, people are going to go out during the day now, instead of going out at night, so it's not going to really change anything. it's good 'cause it's saving people's lives, bad because it's impacting my nights out! so far, the government has used local lockdowns to contain covid—19 but, yesterday, borisjohnson said stricter rules across england may be needed, and ministers admit nothing is being ruled out. i think what the prime minister said was, we've got to be really careful about making sure that we can keep

the r rate down, the transmission rate down, so we're looking at the data. we've got far better of data now than we had a few months ago and we won't be afraid to use any restrictions necessary to keep rates of transmission down but we will look at it at local level, each particular area, in turn. little sign of students social distancing in aberystwyth last night. a time—limited tightening of restrictions is one possible plan, which labour say they would support, but shouldn't be necessary. labour will do whatever it takes to keep british citizens safe and, therefore, if the science says that's what is needed to happen, we are willing to support that, but i have to say that i think that this could have been avoided, if the government had got their test and tracing system in place and now we're having to look at more extreme measures, because the virus is out of control, and that could have been avoidable. this week, here in lancashire, west yorkshire, the midlands and merseyside, stricter regulations will come into force, but there is concern it should be happening sooner.

i believe that in lancashire the second wave has arrived, and in the north—west, and if we don't act now, it's going to get a lot worse, so this should be a warning sign, not just for lancashire and the north—west, but throughout the country. the work to find a vaccine goes on, as seen by the prime minister in oxford yesterday but, without that, and with winter approaching, decisions affecting us all are likely within days. a holidaymaker who did not self—isolate after returning to bolton was partly responsible for the area's "extreme spike" in coronavirus cases, the council leader said this morning. david greenhalgh said the area's high rate had been linked to people who refused to follow guidance. he added that one person — who later tested positive for the virus — went on a pub crawl in the town after returning from holiday.

0ur health correspondent naomi grimley is here. let's talk to the stats on the numbers first. first of all, they area number. numbers first. first of all, they are a number. what is happening there? well, we that that is coming up. the government has suggested that it up. the government has suggested thatitis up. the government has suggested that it is around 1.1 to 1.4for the whole of uk. 0f that it is around 1.1 to 1.4for the whole of uk. of course, the idea of the another is how many people does one person who has been infected going to expect and they movie is that once you are above one you are into this sort of trainer that events where at the moment they say cases are doubling around every seven to eight days, so that is why it is important to keep that down. early in the week there was a lot of talk about we don't have to panic as much because mortality rate isn't that high. what's the feeling at the moment? well, it's to that hospital

are getting much better at treating those who turn up, particularly end up those who turn up, particularly end up in intensive care with this disease, but bear in mind that at the moment the incidents that we are seeing at the moment are in younger members of society and that is not expected to continue, it is not going to stay obediently in those younger age groups. we're already seeing this in france and we have seen it in texas. the same thing happened in texas where young people started to have it and then it bled, if you like, into older age groups so if you like, into older age groups so that is when your hospitalisation figures push up and they have already started pushing up in places like birmingham which is why they are getting ready to put back on stand by the nightingale hospitals. we know that by chance and is going to his options this weekend. 0ne we know that by chance and is going to his options this weekend. one of those we heard of the end of the week was the circuit breaker and it has just led to lots of people asking questions, you know, there is an accusation of mixed messaging, they just take us an accusation of mixed messaging, theyjust take us through the circuit breaker. what would it look

like? the first thing about it is it is not a full lockdown. it would mean people would still be able to go to work, there wouldn't be the large stopping of nhs treatment for other things, and if schools were in not on half term then those would continue, sewed wood universities. but it might mean that the hospitality industry has to dial back so things like curfews at ten o'clock, may be taken away only in some cases, table service before ten o'clock. we are already seeing this, in fact, o'clock. we are already seeing this, infact, in o'clock. we are already seeing this, in fact, in many regions of the uk because 30 million of us are already living in under some kind of restrictions like this. does that tie in with what professor ferguson said earlier this morning, then? well, what they worried about is the riskiest place, the places we are most like to pick up the virus, and he is very much at the view that this is a good idea to do it sooner rather than later although at the moment it sounds like the government might be thinking of coinciding with

half term, but half term is in 0ctober, so the big question is do we have enough time or should we bring forward? 0k, we have enough time or should we bring forward? ok, so the government, who are saying test and traces the way to get a handle on this. i will be doing? well, this was a terrible week for the government because it was revealed that two thirds of us were not getting a test results back within the ambition of 25 hours which is what the prime minister said that the energy would be the case are they really need to put more capacity on. we are told that machines are going into the laps, new lads coming online, but that does beg the question whether it is enoughin does beg the question whether it is enough in this intervening period because, remember, universities are now going to be coming back, which means thousands of students converging on big cities were right around the country. thank you very much. dr mike tildesley is associate professor in infectious disease modelling at the university of warwick. he is also a member of the modelling sub—group of the government's advisory committee, sage.

hejoins us now. thank you he joins us now. thank you very much for joining he joins us now. thank you very much forjoining us. we heard a little bit about sage and modelling this week and also touched on this morning with professor ferguson. but i would like to know is, in terms of the modelling, where are we now and where are we heading? so, we are going to quite a concerning phase and is your correspondence hasjust been talking about we are starting to see cases rising in many regions throughout the country and of course several regions of overly gone in local lockdown. the concern is that of course this is true that whilst cases are going up debts of remaining relatively low, partly because a lot of the infection is in young people at the moment, but as young people at the moment, but as you have already discussed the concern as it may not stay like that. —— deaths are remaining low. we have already started to see some evidence that hospitalisations are going upa evidence that hospitalisations are going up a little bit so it is possible in a few weeks' time if there is an action taken we might

start to see that reflected a number of deaths so that is why this idea of deaths so that is why this idea ofa of deaths so that is why this idea of a circuit breaker is clearly being mooted which would essentially allow us to buy ourselves on time. it is not a magic solution out of this but it enables us to sort of hit the rewind button, effectively, reduce our hopefully below one for a period of time, and allow us to reset so we can period of time, and allow us to reset so we can reduce period of time, and allow us to reset so we can reduce the pressure on the health service and hopefully reduce the impacts of the second wave we are experiencing.” reduce the impacts of the second wave we are experiencing. i know that in your model you are different factors and on the net are just so in terms of the circuit breaker what factors we do need to add in for that adjustment to actually get a hold on the infections? well, obviously, there are things that we need to consider so of course as has been talked about certain sectors may be closing when the circuit breaker kicks in on the idea with the model is effectively this is reducing the number so the hope is that what you are doing is you are going from a situation where r is greater than one and in that case

the disease is exponentially growing in the population such that our name goes below one and hopefully a number of cases that increasing the population. —— such that r then goes below one. what exactly would you need to do for that our forget to adjust, practically? —— rfigure. practically, what we're doing in the models as we are trying to predict how the sectors will react. how people will react to this introduction of lockdown. so, what we're doing is the models get, basically, fitted to the data that we have over the observed and then what we do is they recalibrated when lockdown comes in. bear in mind we have already had an opportunity to see the effect of this when lockdown was introduced in march. 0ne see the effect of this when lockdown was introduced in march. one of the key uncertainties, actually, that we need to think about with these models is a adherence because this is the big uncertainty going forward. we know that adherents at the start of the epidemic was

actually really, really good. there are some suggestions that perhaps adherents is dropping a little bit in the population at the moment and thatis in the population at the moment and that is the thing that we need to really stress. that this circuit breaker to work you really need adherence to be a high level so it has a maximum effect. 0k, we have heard from professor ferguson that we are in a perfect storm right now so we are in a perfect storm right now so obviously timing is key. there is also talk about the october half term and a two to three week period. is that time and connect? would it be long enough? well, it is absolutely true that timing is key and it is a little bit different, actually, from the measures that have been brought in so far. i know that there has been some criticism in the past from the government for maybe not be acting quickly enough but actually with this circuit breaker, if we are committing ourselves to a short time period and this is something that actually we need to do a little bit more work and to determine not only what is the optimal timing for introduction but also what's the optimal duration, as you really need to hit

this at the time it will have maximal effect so that you can reduce infection in the population toa reduce infection in the population to a lower love level so that effectively you can reset as i said, buying more times that you're not putting extra pressure on the health service as we move into the winter. finally, doctor, and we definitely now within the second wave? because we have heard a lot about how environmentalfactors in we have heard a lot about how environmental factors in the fact we are going into a cooler period in the winter season that infections will increase. is this part of your modelling? i would say that a second wave is a little bit of a red herring because in a way, it is one of the consequences of going into lockdown that we obviously reduce transmission and of course no one would argue with the reasons why we did that, but of course as we ease out of lockdown lease see cases start to climb and ultimately we are seeing this second wave of infection andi seeing this second wave of infection and i think the evidence we have seen and i think the evidence we have seenin and i think the evidence we have seen in the last couple of weeks with cases grown dramatically as you have already said, doubling about

every eight days, would imply that we have another wave of infection going forward. of course, with the modelling what we're doing is incorporating all the latest data as it becomes available so the outlets of these models always are taking into account the latest information as we have it. —— outputs of these models. the next few weeks are really, really crucial so that hopefully we don't set to go into large—scale interventions in the weeks. professor, thank you very much for your time. more than 830,000 people living in and around madrid are to be put under lockdown after a surge in the number of new infections. from monday, people will only be allowed to leave their local area go to work and school or fulfil legal obligations. officials have also set out plans to carry out a million coronavirus tests across the region. spain now has the highest number of cases in europe.

to events in the united states, where the us supreme courtjudge ruth bader ginsburg, a champion of women's rights, has died at the age of 87 after undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer. she became the second woman ever to sit on the supreme court and served for 27 years. hundreds of people have gathered outside the court in washington to pay their respects. nomia iqbal looks back at her life. ruth bader ginsburg was a powerful figurehead for liberals in the us. as a member of the highest court she had a say on contentious laws that profoundly impact the lives of americans. when the supreme court ruled in favour of george w bush in 2000, effectively deciding the presidential election in his favour, she famously said, "i dissent." she would go on to frequently use that phrase, cementing her as a cult figure who became became the subject of books, t—shirts, documentaries

and even parodied on late—night tv. thank you very much. it is amazing. i am soon to be 87 years old and everyone wants to take a picture with me. her declining health was closely watched by americans. now the confirmation of her death due to metastatic pancreatic cancer brings huge unpredictability in an election year. she led an amazing life. what else can you say? she was an amazing woman. whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. president barack 0bama also reacted. in a statement he said... justice ginsburg's full legacy

however will be defined by who replaces her, which is likely to be a conservativejudge. that would tip the court ideologically more to the right, altering american society for a generation to come. let me be clear that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider. the battle to replace ruth bader ginsburg has already started but for now hundreds of people have gathered here tonight to pay their respects to a feminist icon, a cultural heroine, known to many by her initials, rbg. that report from our north america correspondent nomia iqbal — and we can speak to nomia now who's at the supreme court. so, numbing, people continuing to lay tributes and reaction continues to come in as well from colleagues

in the political world? that's fight. the flag is here that the supreme court have been lowered and lots of people still making their way here. there is a vigil which is being set up just round the corner, flowers a nd being set up just round the corner, flowers and candles and people fighting most famous ginsberg quotes. many people were here last night as we saw in that report. it's really ha rd to night as we saw in that report. it's really hard to articulate just how significant the faded ginsberg was to people. you go to any shop here in washington, dc and you can find her on t—shirts and books and tote bags and, you know, she was a liberal icon and ice baked to lots of people asking what she meant and they said she set the standards for progressive values in america. she was the second woman appointed to supreme court and really admired by

young people as well. 87 years of age and loved by teenagers. she was nicknamed the note aureus are bg in reference to the rapper biggie smalls. —— nicknamed the notorious rbg. she was asked about that once and said she really enjoyed that. the legacy is really clear but the full legacy ofa is really clear but the full legacy of a supreme courtjustice in the end is defined by whoever replaces her and that has now turned into a political firestorm in the her and that has now turned into a politicalfirestorm in the us. the democrats and the republicans now battling over the seat that she has left va ca nt. battling over the seat that she has left vacant. she has been described asa left vacant. she has been described as a strategist, so she was fully aware of what would happen following her death and she expressed wish that she should be replaced after the election. why is this key? could you just described to us what is at

sta ke you just described to us what is at stake at the moment? she did express that. that is unfortunately not how it works in the end because after a supreme courtjustice it works in the end because after a supreme court justice di it works in the end because after a supreme courtjustice di is the president gets to pick the next person that is then confirmed by the senate although there is a whole process to go through before it gets to that stage and on average these hearings take around about 70 days. we have got around about a0 days before the election and president trump wants to replace her. he wants to fill the seat, the republicans wa nt to to fill the seat, the republicans want to fill that seat and it is likely they will fill it with a conservative justice. 0ne likely they will fill it with a conservative justice. one of the names that has been linked with the va ca ncy names that has been linked with the vacancy is amy coenie barrett. she isa vacancy is amy coenie barrett. she is a catholic. she has indicated that she would overturn vo v wade, now this is the law that allows women in america to have an abortion. —— overturn acting. this gives you a sense of why people on

the left, liberals are concerned about he would come after ruth bader ginsberg, but also, you know, this fired up donald trump's the election campaign. fires up the conservative base of his. —— said she would overturn roe v wade. make no mistake, this is also an opportunity for the democrat campaign based on the fired up. we have had little pots of lots of coming groups affiliated with the democrats saying that they have had millions of dollars donated following ruth bader ginsberg's death to helpjoe biden win, so this, this isjust added more uncertainty to an election which, as we know, is a very, very unprecedented one. you touch on a couple of issues there and i think you mentioned abortion and we learnt a little bit about the supreme court with the events surrounding brett kavanagh with the events surrounding brett kava nagh when he with the events surrounding brett kavanagh when he was elected. just describe to us how the supreme court is key to american life. why this

matters? well, the supreme court makes decisions that really do shape the lives of americans. we are talking about a range of issues here. though it invites, presidential powers, who you can get married too, if you can own a gun, immigrant rights, you know, every single issue in american life is on the line here. —— voting rights, presidential powers. it is actually really significant and lots of surveys have suggested that when it comes to elections the supreme court justice is actually a really big issue for a lot of the voters which issue for a lot of the voters which is why this has become a political firestorm. you know, what will happen next is that, as i mentioned, there will be names put forward, there will be names put forward, there needs to be 51 republican senators who will back this. some republican senators have indicated they won't confirm the nomination, but it is one of those things that

will probably be played out for some time. naomi iqbal, we will leave it there for now. thank you very much. two people have been killed and 1a others injured in a mass shooting in the american city of rochester, in new york state. police say a man and woman, both young adults, died at an illegal house party in the early hours of saturday — officers arriving at the site say they witnessed around 100 people running from the scene. the housing charity shelter estimates that more than 300,000 people living in rented properties in england, who weren't in arrears before the pandemic, have now fallen behind on their rent. a ban on evictions in england and wales, ends tomorrow. the government says other measures will protect tenants but housing organisations are calling for more support. here's our business correspondent katy austin. itjust seems like so long ago that i last did something like this.

for sussex dj ian, the music stopped in march. coronavirus restrictions mean there's still no work and he owes £3000 in rent. they were happy for me to pay 50% untiljuly, when they contacted me to start asking if i could pay any more. can you? no. he will now get a payment from the local council to help, but will still owe his landlord. my future here is certainly in the balance and it is worrying. it does... it's a big strain on your mental health, absolutely. a temporary ban on evictions in england and wales is now coming to an end, so possession hearings will be able to start again in the courts. cases that are really serious, like those involving anti—social behaviour or rent arrears that go back a really long way, will be prioritised and the notice period has been extended to six months. evictions still can't take place in areas under local lockdowns, where gatherings

in homes are restricted. the housing charity shelter says emergency measures have stopped an immediate wave of homelessness but more support is needed. if the government wants to actually solve the problem, instead of continually buying time, build social housing. and it does need, in the short term as well, to help people with this level of debt that has built up during the pandemic. 0ne landlords‘ group says its members have supported struggling tenants wherever possible but they can't afford to lose income for ever. it also wants the government to help people in england pay back missed rent, similar to measures announced in scotland and wales. we'd like to see the government step in as furlough‘s withdrawn and actually support those households to pay back some of the arrears they've built up and secure the tenancies that nobody wants to see fail but, inevitably, if debts continue to increase, will. the government says the six—month notice period and a so—called truce on evictions over christmas will help keep people in their homes over the winter. ian fears he can't afford

to stay in his for long. katy austin, bbc news. we can speak now to meera chindooroy, who's the deputy director for policy and campaigns at the residential landlords association. thank you forjoining us here. all eyes, really, what happens come tomorrow and i suppose monday. what are you expecting to happen? we are not expecting there to be a mass run to courts. we don't write our data shows that only 1% of landlords of either serve notice of intent to do so either serve notice of intent to do so and we know that the vast majority of landlords and tenants have been working together throughout the pandemic. 95% of te na nts have throughout the pandemic. 95% of tenants have either been able to pay their rent back as usual i have come to an agreement with the landlord, and our data from our members shows that 95% of those who have been poached have responded positively to

flexibility with tenants so we don't think that there is going to be a tsunami of evictions as has been suggested, but we do agree that there is a challenge in terms of ongoing inventory is being built up asa ongoing inventory is being built up as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. —— ongoing rent arrears. never, sorry, we'rejust losing your voice little bit there. what action would you like the government to take, because as you say, this is unsustainable, is it? we are calling together with other groups supporting tenants, for example shelter, crisis, and citizens advice for there to be direct support in the sector in the form as grants and loa ns for te na nts the sector in the form as grants and loans for tenants who have built up arrears during coronavirus through no fault of their own. there have been similar schemes in wales and scotla nd been similar schemes in wales and scotland so the uk government has found those in terms of... in england, and we are also calling for

the further support for the welfare system, so for the local housing allowa nce to system, so for the local housing allowance to be covered the average rent in the area, which will help us te na nts rent in the area, which will help us tenants who are struggling at the moment. because obviously we have we're hearing a lot from the site of the renters but the landlords also have commitments. however coping? we know that lots of landlords have also faced results as a result of that coronavirus prices. the vast majority of landlords only in one or two properties in that property tycoons by any means and around a third of landlords what i rental income as part of their pension over theirfull pension so income as part of their pension over their full pension so it has been an issue that where landlords have been relied on to sustain tenancies over the past few months and i really struggling to continue to do that in the longer term, which is why we are calling for there to be further... thank you very much for your time.

you are watching bbc news. let us catch up with the weather. here is susan powell. it is quite breezy to the south of the uk at the moment and that's thanks to this area of low pressure here, and that selfsame area of low pressure is just feeling some cloud in some southern counties of the uk at the moment and a few showers in the next few hours will clip into devon and cornwall. perhaps a few further east along the south coast as well. becoming clearerfor the channel islands after a very wet morning. into this evening, staying fine and dry, by the end of the night, bit more cloud pushing into central scotland on the north—east of england, could be a bit of drizzle, a bit murky on sunday, should shape up to be fine day with sunshine, it might just should shape up to be fine day with sunshine, it mightjust cling along the north sea coast a little and if

it does so