this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the latest headlines. borisjohnson considers whether to tighten covid—19 measures in england, after saying the uk was "now seeing a second wave". 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's 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 court judge 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 , click, looks at how tech can help us get back to work, from a digital twin of st pancras station, to the latest tech developments from silicon valley. that's in half an hour on bbc news.

borisjohnson is spending the weekend considering whether to tighten covid—19 measures in england, after saying the uk was "now seeing a second wave". figures show the number of infections is doubling roughly every week. former government adviser, prof neil ferguson said, new measures were needed "sooner rather than later". 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. one of the options the government is understood to be considering is a so—called "circuit break" — a short period of tighter rules across england which might last several weeks and could include a possible ban on households mixing, plus reduced opening hours or other restrictions for pubs and restaurants. 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 try 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'll 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'd 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 testing 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's 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. jonathan blake, bbc news. dr mike tildesley is associate professor in infectious disease modelling at the university of warwick , and is also a member of the modelling sub—group of the government's advisory committee, sage. he told me that we're entering a concerning phase. we are starting to see cases rising in many regions throughout the country and, of course, several regions have already gone into local lockdowns. the concern is, now of course, it is true that whilst cases are going up, deaths are remaining relatively low, partly because a lot of the infection is in young people at the moment, but as you've already discussed, the concern is that it may not stay like that and we're already starting to see some evidence that hospitalisations are going up a little bit and so, it's possible in a few weeks' time,

if there isn't action taken, we might start to see that reflected in the number of deaths. so that's why this idea of a circuit breaker is being mooted, which would essentially allow us to buy ourselves some time. it's not a magic solution out of this, but it allows us to hit the rewind button, effectively. reduce r hopefully below one for a time and allow us to reset, so that we can reduce the pressure on the health service and hopefully, reduce the impact of the second wave we're experiencing. now, i know that when you model, you add different factors in and obviously then adjust. so, in terms of the circuit breaker, what factors would you 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 and the idea with the model is that effectively,

this is reducing the r—number so the hope is that what you are doing is that you're going from a situation where r is greater than one and in that case, the disease is exponentially growing in the population. such that r then goes below one and then hopefully the number of cases starts decreasing in the population. sorry, i'm just going to interrupt. what exactly would you need to do for the r figure to adjust practically? practically, what we are doing in models is, we're essentially trying to predict how these 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've already observed and then what we do, is they get recalibrated when lockdown comes in. bearing in mind, we've already had an opportunity to 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 adherence, because i think this is the big uncertainty going forward, because we know that adherence at the start of the epidemic was actually really, really good. there are some suggestions that perhaps adherence is dropping a little bit in the population at the moment and that's the thing that we need to really stress. for this circuit breaker to work, we really need adherence to be at high levels, so it has maximum effect. more than 850,000 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 to 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.

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 on 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, 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 simply to many by her initials, rbg. that report came from nomia iqbal in washington, who went on to tell me what the political implications of justice ginsberg's death might be. after a supreme court justice dies 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 want to fill that seat and it is likely they will fill it with a conservative justice. one of the names that has been linked with the vacancy is amy coney barrett. she is a catholic. she has indicated that she would overturn roe v wade, now this is the law that allows women in america to have an abortion. so that 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 reelection campaign, it fires up that conservative base of his. but make no mistake, this is also an opportunity for the democrat

campaign base to fire up. we have had reports of lots of community groups affiliated with the democrats saying that they have had millions of dollars donated following ruth bader ginsberg's death to help joe 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 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. voting rights, presidential powers, who you can get married too, if you can own a gun, immigrant rights, you know, and every single issue in american life is on the line here.

which is why the supreme court is so significant and lots of surveys have suggested that actually when it comes to elections the supreme courtjustice is actually a really big 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 needs to be 51 republican senators who will back this. some republican senators have indicated they won't confirm the nomination, but its one of those things that will probably be played out for some time. a new cancer task force set up by nhs england will meet next week to support the recovery of cancer services and to try and increase the number of referrals.

figures from cancer research uk estimate there were 350,000 fewer urgent suspected cancer referrals during the summer and 3 million people were not screened. now most services are back up and running but september and october are expected to be much busier than normal as hospitals try to deal with the backlog. our health correspondent dominic hughes has been to liverpool's clatterbridge cancer centre. in liverpool's new clatterbridge cancer centre, which opened injune, treatment is up and running. the coronavirus meant face—to—face contact with patients like ian were greatly reduced. so his first appointment actually meeting staff comes as a relief. i find consultations face—to—face a lot more better because you can ask question. 0n the phone there is no eye contact, which i find it unusual. here in liverpool and right across the uk, cancer services are now gradually coming back up to speed. that means a lot of thought is now being put into how to resume those services safely and also what happens if the coronavirus come surging back. infection control and social distancing also means it now takes

longer to treat people safely. take a small breath in and hold your breath. and there are concerns about how much capacity there is to reduce the backlog of patients. we still are dealing with the pandemic and the knock—on effects of that. we're also approaching winter pressures, so that's been why it is so important that this hospital opened on time when it did so that we are in a good position to offer that additional capacity and support our patients. at the start of this year, hattie gaynor was celebrating success on the tv show the greatest dancer. i'm here today for my pet ct scan. now she's under undergoing treatment for recently diagnosed breast cancer. her initial concerns of a lump were missed. during lockdown, she could only get a telephone consultation with her gp. any young girl, i'm 28. i'm not a hypochondriac. i don'tjust bring ring up about nothing, you know? i know that they don't know that necessarily but i think i should

have been seen and i think i should have been examined. the tasks force set up by nhs england will start work next week, aiming to get more people checked and tested. we're working to try and match the capacity that we have got, whether it is across the nhs of indeed the independent sector to the demand that we can see coming through and we are expecting during september, october, that we're probably going to see more than the usual number of people. the next few months at cancer centres like casterbridge will be crucial in reducing the backlog of people waiting for life—saving treatment. dominic hughes, bbc news, liverpool. the headlines on bbc news... boris johnson is considering whether to tighten covid—i9 measures in england, after saying the uk was "now seeing a second wave". 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 court judge and champion of women's rights — ruth bader ginsburg — dies at the age of 87. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's holly hamilton. dominic calvert—lewin scored his first hat—trick in professional football as everton beat west brom 5—2. carlo ancelotti's side had to come back from an early west brom goal... with everton‘s big summer signing james rodrieguez putting them 2—1 ahead before the break. west brom had kieran gibbs sent off and their manager slaven bilic sent to the stands as well. but the ten men managed got themselves level before everton romped home. calvert—lewin completing that hat trick, his fourth goal of the season. i've been working hard to improve my

game and be more clinical in front of goal served to be in the right place under the right time it is no coincidence and to be on the training ground but it is obviously a nice back to have hit but i am not besting here, ito score more goals. that's right i am not resting here i wa nt to that's right i am not resting here i want to score more goals. next today — two sides who were battling against each other down in the championship a matter of months ago. now both leeds and fulham will be looking for their first win of the season. four games have just got under way in the scottish premiership including second placed celtic in action against livingston. neil lennon's side can go leapfrog rangers and go top with a win. we're still waiting for official confirmation of gareth bale re—signing for tottenham from real madrid on loan for the season. he arrived at spurs training ground yesterday, with crowds of spurs fans waiting for him,

but as yet there's been no announcement to confirm he's once again a tottenham player, seven years after he left white hart lane for madrid for what was a world record fee at the time. liverpool have been busy in the last 2a hours too. they've agreed a £a5 million deal for wolves forward diogo jota. it comes less than a day, after midfielder thiago alcantara joined from european champions bayern munich. the third day of the us open has just got under way with some of the biggest names in golf having already fallen by the wayside at the notorious winged foot course. for rory mcilroy, there was a danger for much of his second round front nine that he would fail to make the cut as he slipped to 3 under par, seven shots behind leader, patrick reed. but the shot of the day went to this man —

japan's hideki, matsuyama, who chipped the ball right past the hole — but somehow using the contours of the green perfectly to lure his shot all the way back into the hole, for a birdie. but it's reed who tops the leaderboard with a one shot lead — he gets his rund under way at 25 past 7. any time you play in the us open you know you're going to have one of those days where things aren't quite going your way and you aren't hitting or pulling off shots and things like that. i felt like today was that day and i left a decent amount of shots out there and i felt i was amount of shots out there and i felt iwasa amount of shots out there and i felt i was a little loose with some shots of tea and also irons so to be able to feel like that and on par after a day like today is very positive and makes you... going into the weekend. and it's another challenge cup quarterfinal double header this afternoon — first up it's a repeat of last year's final

as warrington take on st helens. and it's last year's runners up who are just in front at half time — warrington leading 16—8 at the break. today's other match sees hull fc take on wigan warriors. the second half will be getting back under way over on bbc one shortly. it's also available of the bbc sport website and app as well. all the detials at bbc.co.uk/sport. but that's it from me for now — more in the next hour. two people have been killed and 14 others injured in a 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. the uk government is to allow dozens more afghan interpreters who risked their lives working for british forces in helmand — to settle in the uk. it follows criticism of a previous relocation scheme which put stricter limits on those who could apply to live in the uk. but even these latest measures mean hundreds of former interpreters who worked for the british military will be left behind facing threats and danger.

jonathon beale reports. it wasn'tjust british troops risking their lives in afghanistan. hundreds of locally hired afghan interpreters often faced the same dangers. and the threats didn't go away when the british left helmand in 2014. some afghan interpreters have been allowed to settle in the uk, but under strict criteria. they had to be on the front line for at least a year before being made redundant. this isn't afghanistan, but a military training area in norfolk, where some of those afghans are still working alongside british troops, helping train the next rotation who will provide security in kabul. it's where ministers announced the relocation scheme will be expanded. the new rules will apply to those who worked on the front line for more than 18 months, but who resigned, often because of threats from the taliban.

so we will continue to look at making sure we look after those people who looked after us, looked after our soldiers that you see here today, and stand by them, because that is the honourable thing to do. it is right that we do right by them, the very people that have served alongside our forces in one of the most hostile and difficult places in the world. around a50 afghan interpreters and their families have already settled here in the uk. the expansion of this relocation scheme will allow dozens more to live here. but that still leaves hundreds of afghan interpreters who worked for british forces behind in afghanistan, living in potential danger. back in kabul, we spoke to one former afghan interpreter who does not meet the new criteria. we've protected the identity of both him and his young family, because they've received threats from the taliban. he worked as a translator for the british army in helmand for seven months.

but he says his length of service is irrelevant. he is still a target. the taliban or the is group don't have any criteria. whether you've done a one—dayjob or a ten—month job or a ten—yearjob. they're just waiting for an opportunity to get anyone. a translator or a labourer, anyone who has done a job with the western countries. ministers say they'll still consider relocating former afghan interpreters under a separate intimidation scheme on a case—by—case basis. but as yet, no one has been resettled in the uk under that scheme. today's announcement may be good news for some, but not for everyone who worked for the british. jonathan beale, bbc news. hello. 0ur weather pattern is looking pretty settled for the next

few days. the big area of high pressure that extends across the atlantic, meaning more sunshine across the in that the weekend and into next week, but it is busy to the south for the moment thanks to this area of low pressure sitting in the bay of biscay and you can see in that satellite picture that that low has also been pushing some cloud toward southern counties of england and you could see some shows are different in cornwall this evening and perhaps a few further east thanks to that area of low pressure but clear in the channel isles. pretty bright evening and night ahead though, thicker cloud will just gather and there could be the odd spot of drizzle here and it will turn a bit misty and murky. we will tend to see that break—up but clear skies to us what we have had today. temperatures looking pretty healthy for the time of year and we are into the mid 20s across the south.