this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at apm. 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. 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 is good because it is saving peoples lives, bad because it is affecting my nights 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 in half an hour — the travel show have visted london zoo and brazil's national museum — and spoken to travellers whose trips have been impacted by lockdown. that's coming up at 1630 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 a far better set of data now than we had a few months ago and we won't be afraid to use any restrictions necessary to keep the 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 our 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. little sign of students social distancing in 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 he's 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 currently being mooted, which would essentially allow us to buy ourselves some time. it's not a magic solution out of this, but it

enables us to sort of 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. a holiday—maker 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. he 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. 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. (0s)people have been paying their respects and served for 27 years. people have been paying their respects outside the court in washington. these are live pictures coming to you.

they first started laying flowers and tributes in the early hours and those tributes have continued throughout the day. 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, 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.

in the past hour presidenttrump has tweeted to say... and nomia iqbal has more on the political implications of justice ginsberg's death after a supreme courtjustice 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 fires 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 ——we have had reports of lots of campaign 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, justice brett kava nagh 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 court justice 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 it's one of those things that will probably be played out for some time. that was nomia iqbal there. and at 8:30 this evening, we've a special programme — dissenting 0pinion: an interview with ruth bader ginsburg — by razia iqbal — in which she talks about her life, career and contemporary america. we're just we'rejust going to we're just going to update you on the latest covid—i9 figures for the uk and scotland. start off with uk

figures as published in the government website. the last 24—hour period 4322 new cases have been recorded. but now brings the total number of cases to 385,936. in the same same period, 27 deaths, of those who have tested positive, have also been reported, say 27 deaths, and the deaths, then, are 41,732. that is the total and as far as scotla nd that is the total and as far as scotland goes 3000... new tests have been reported to testing positive in the last 24 hours. that compares to 203 the previous day. three people who tested positive in the last 28 days of dies. just to remind you the

figures for the uk. 4322 new positive cases of covid—19. and 27 deaths have been reported, of those people who have tested positive in the last 28 days. you are watching bbc news. it is 17 minutes past four. the headlines on bbc news... boris johnson is considering whether to tighten covid—19 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. we start with the premier league and 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 manager slaven bilic sent to the stands too. but the ten men managed got themselves level before everton romped home. calvert—lewin completing his hat trick there, i've been working hard to improve my game and be more clinical in front

clinical in front of goal served to be in the right place and just to be in the right place at the right time it is no coincidence, it is what i'm working hard on at the training ground but it is obviously a nice thing to have hit but i am not resting here, that's right i am not resting here i want to score more goals. the second game of the day is well under way — two sides who were battling against each other down in the championship a matter of months ago. it's currently 2—1 to leeds at elland road. still to come today, manchester united host crystal palace at old trafford and the late kick off sees west ham travel to arsenal. all four games in the scottish premiership are into the second half including second placed celtic in action against livingston. they're 2—1 up at the moment and can go top with a win today. elsewhere dundee united leading

st mirren, ross county are ahead at stjohnstone and it's level pegging between kilmarnock and hamilton. fans have returned to seven matches in the efl today — with capacity limited to 1,000 fans as part of government pilots looking at the return of supporters. one of those matches is at blackpool who are taking on swindon town. fans arriving at the ground had a very different experience to what they would have previously been used to — wearing face masks was compulsory and social distancing measures were in place. maximum bubble size of four, all sitting apart there. 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 rather busy in the last 24 hours too. they've agreed a £45 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. the man they're all chasing at the top of the leaderboard is patrick reed. the american holds a one—shot lead over comaptriot bryson dechambeau heading into today after a four under par second round. rory mcilroy is seven shots adrift. any time you play in the us open you know you're going to have one of those days that things just aren't quite going your way and you aren't quite hitting or pulling off quality golf 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 a little loose with some shots off tee and also irons so to be able to feel out and shoot even par after a

day like today, it's very positive and makes you feel good going into the weekend. in rugby league, warrington are on course to move a step closer to successfully defending their challenge cup trophy — but onlyjust. with minutes remaining, they're leading st helens 20—18 in their quarterfinal — josh charnley with two of warrington‘s four tries. today's other match sees hull fc take on wigan warriors. in rugby league, warrington are on course to move a step closer to successfully defending their challenge cup trophy — but onlyjust. with minutes remaining, they're leading st helens 20—18 in their quarterfinal — josh charnley with two of warrington‘s four tries. today's other match sees hull fc take on wigan warriors. that's all the sport for now. 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 questions. 0n the phone there's 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 cat—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 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've got, whether it is across the nhs or 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. two people have been killed and 14 others injured in a shooting 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. 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 450 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. police have criticised a woman who fell out of a moving car on the m25, while hanging out of the window filming a video for snapchat. in a tweet, surrey police traffic officers say she fell from the front seat of the car into a "live lane" on the motorway.

the woman hasn't been badly hurt — but police say it's lucky "she wasn't seriously injured or killed". the housing charity, shelter, estimates that more than 300,000 people living in rented accomodation 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 now 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