for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm philippa thomas. donald trump says he hopes to name a woman within the next week as his choice to replace the supreme court judge ruth bader ginsburg. the proposal triggers a battle, between republicans and democrats about chosing a replacement before the us presidential election. stiff financial penalties for anyone in england, who tests positive for coronavirus but fails to self—isolate. thousands of people gather in the thai capital, bangkok, calling for reform of the political system and the monarchy.

hello and welcome. a political battle is shaping up in america, following the death at the age of 87, of the supreme court judge, ruth bader ginsburg, a champion of women's, and minority rights. donald trump says he's likely to put forward a woman as his nominee next week. but his democratic rival, joe biden, insists the decision must wait until after the november poll. here's our north america editor, jon sopel. no, not the death of a rock star or a movie legend. this spontaneous vigil in washington last night is for a judge. the supreme court plays a critical role in american life and ruth bader ginsburg, or rbg, became a cultural icon. it was beyond my wildest imagination that i would one day become the notorious rbg. i, ruth bader ginsburg...

she helped define modern america with the force of her legal argument on equal pay, abortion, disabled, health care. and a determination that women should play as big a part in american public life as men. it contributes to the end of the days when women, at least half the talent pool in our society, appear in high places only as one at a time performers. in herfinal years, despite multiple cancer diagnoses, she never missed a day of oral argument, feisty and formidable to the end. so what's the big deal? isn't this just another judicial appointment? well, no. a strong conservative majority now within sight on the supreme court will help shape america for decades to come. rbg's death has electrified the presidential election campaign and who should fill her boots and when has become political dynamite.

last night donald trump, who seemed stumped by her death, was playing his cards close to his chest. whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. i'm actually saddened to hear that, i'm saddened to hear that. thank you very much. the flag at the white house may be flying at half mast, but politics goes on. donald trump making clear he is going to nominate a conservative replacement without delay. democrats though, led by presidential candidate joe biden, say no decision should be made until after a new president is sworn in. let me be clear that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the senate to consider. just before ruth bader ginsburg died, she made it clear she felt that her position shouldn't be filled until after the election.

it seems unlikely she will get her dying wish. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. gloria allred is a leading women's rights attorney — a fellow trailblazer in the legal profession. she told me what ruth bader ginsburg meant to her and so many others. she is a she—ro to me and millions of others around the world. and she was everything i expected and more in terms of her very strong commitment to women's right. it wasn't just what she did. it is who she was. and i had an opportunity to share with her many of the women's rights cases that we have done. we are the leading women's rights law firm in the united states. and to listen to her and what she hoped for for the future. this is a woman, we call her an icon, a superhero, a giant, a pioneer, trailblazer,

and she is all of that is so much more. because she was so courageous throughout her entire life. speaking about gender equality, fighting for it, not only as a lawyer before the united states supreme court, arguing so many cases involving gender equality, but in addition when she took the bench and became a justice of the supreme court 27 years ago. so how does it feel to you knowing her and sharing a lot of her passions to have donald trump nominating her replacement? first of all, i think it is obscene that senator mitch mcconnell and donald trump are talking about her replacement. she is not even been buried yet. and they are just in a rush to nominate

or appoint a replacement. this is so disgusting, and i want to say that her granddaughter said that justice ginsburg, her last wish, i will read it to you, she said about her grandmother, "my most fervent wish is that i would not be replaced until a new president is installed." so they're not even giving her last wish. at this point, let us play you what the leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell, had to say about the timing. let's let the american people decide. our view is this, give the people a voice in filling this vacancy. what do you say to that argument? i say, can you spell hypocrisy with a h? you should, then you should

attach it to the name of senator mitch mcconnell, because he blocked president obama's nomination to the supreme court, merrick garland, when president obama was i think 9—11 months before the end of president obama's term, saying it should have been done and an election year which is complete and utter nonsense. now we're 45 days before the election of the next president of united states, and they want to just jam this through. and the rumours are that they want to nominate perhaps a woman who is anti—choice, anti—roe versus wade, and in other words, anti—a woman's right to choose legal safe, affordable and available abortions, something that was so important tojustice ginsburg, so this is something that it is really dynamite and we will have to fight it with every breath that we have and people will have to fight

this and they have to know, they have to vote, they have the vote early with their mail—in ballots, and they must protest in this manner whether it is in the streets, whether it is outside in the voting booths or whether it is by mail, we cannot let this happen because the supreme court justice will serve for the rest of her hair her or his life. i was touring the country and reporting when hillary clinton was standing for office against donald trump for years ago, and i heard so many democrats, including young women, say she is not exactly candidate i want and i don't know whether i will go out there and campaigned for her. what is your message to voters who are left and progressive butjust might not make it? i would say vote as though your life depends on it. because it does. we cannot afford to sit on the sidelines. sitting on the sidelines and not voting is the same

as voting for donald trump. it is a choice you make. and we have to make a choice to make this country better, safer, and one that really cares about gender equality, violence against women, the right of women to choose, equal rights, and i love justice ruth gaeta ginsburg, we must never forget her legacy. it is worldwide. she is the notorious rbg. she wanted to live every moment i know until the ex—president was installed, she didn't get to do that, she fought so hard, harder than most of us ever could at the age of 87. so we have to, for her, for our daughters and mothers our sisters, and our aunts and our brothers, we must fight against any nomination in any confirmation of donald trump

selection to the united states supreme court. because this will change our lives from each and every one of our lives for decades to come, and it will hurt our lives, and we cannot, cannot allow this to happen. in a sign of the uk government's increasing determination to tackle a steep rise in coronavirus infections in england, it will introduce stiff financial penalties for anyone failing to self—isolate after a positive coronavirus test. from 28 september, those who break the rules will be fined £1,000, with up to £10,000 for repeat offences. the prime minister, borisjohnson, is also considering further restrictions after warning the uk is "now seeing a second wave" of coronavirus. here's our political correspondent, iain watson. here in preston, households are already banned from meeting other households in their homes, gardens or indoor venues. from tuesday, curfews will be

imposed and have already been imposed in other parts of northern england and in the midlands, covering around one in five of the country's population. i have close family that passed away with covid, so i know exactly how this is serious. something needs to be done, but it's a shame we will not see our family is as much. and as the prime minister warned of a second wave of the virus, restrictions in lancashire could be a glimpse of the future across the whole of england. we have to be careful about making sure we can keep the r rate down so we're looking at the data, we have a far set of data now and we won't be afraid to use any restrictions necessary. the government introduced its rule of six only six days ago, yet this weekend, borisjohnson is pouring over the data to find out if it needs to go further. he wants to avoid a full national lockdown, he knows

that could shatter a fragile economy, so any plans emerging from downing street is likely to keep schools and offices open but the prime minister also wants existing restrictions to be more tightly enforced. the government's scientific advisers have suggested that as many as four out of five people could be bending or breaking the rules and self isolation. from 28 september in england, anyone with a positive coronavirus test or who has contacted by the track and trace system will have a legal duty to self—isolate, those who don't could be fined £1000 initially and up to £10,000 for repeat offenders. but if you are on benefits or in the low income and can't work from home you will receive a £500 lump sum to encourage self isolation. in precedent there was support for the idea of finding those who tested positive and who broke the rules. the people going out of their way to ignore the guidelines it's quite fair and proper that they should get

punished quite severely. that's not on for them to be going out and about and they should be fined. but i think the rules now are really, really complex. labour say they would support moves to control the spread of the virus but they wouldn't have started from here. i have to say i think this could have been avoided if the government had got their testing and tracing system in place and now we are having to look at more extreme measures because the virus is out of control. the cabinet was briefed by the governments medical and scientific officers today. the task now for the prime minister is to balance the health of the nation with help for the economy. iain watson, bbc news. france has announced almost 13,500 new confirmed infections — another daily record since the start of the outbreak there. the spike mirrors a rise in infections in many other parts of europe. more than 850,000 people living in and around spain's capital madrid are to be put under lockdown, after a surge in

the number of new infections. from monday, they will only be allowed to leave their local area to go to work and school, or fulfil legal obligations. you're watching bbc news. the headlines... donald trump says he hopes to name a woman within the next week as his choice to replace the supreme court judge ruth bader ginsburg. stiff financial penalties for anyone in england, who tests positive for coronavirus — but fails to self—isolate. let's get more now on the death of us supreme courtjustice ruth bader ginsburg. already there's a political battle under way over her replacement. if donald trump names her successor, conservatives will be able to celebrate a clear majority in the nation's highest court. 0ur washington correspondent, katty kay, told me this is a tectonic shift at this late stage in the us election campaign. it has put a whole new set

of issues on the table and members of the trump campaign, i was in contact with one late last night, they were suggesting to me that the very fact that americans are now going to be talking more about cultural issues, issues like abortion, gay rights, religious freedoms, race issues, in a legal context and not talking about the coronavirus so much, that helps donald trump. so republicans have woken up this morning feeling that the death of ruth bader ginsburg, who is being mourned throughout the country, and members of the supreme court from both the left and right have put out glowing tributes to her, that aside, the politics of this republicans feel is working in their favour. how much do you think could that effect turn out? there don't seem to be that many undecided voters but who comes out? you are right. you have covered american elections, you know this. there are never very many undecided voters.

something like 6—8% in the middle. and this year around, it could be even less than that because people are telling pollsters they have already made up their mind. here is one issue, area where perhaps democrats may feel it helps them, because ruth bader ginsburg was such a champion of women and of women's rights and of women's equality, and women tend to decide american elections, perhaps this drives turned out amongst female voters in suburbs of important swing states, that perhaps is the kind of rosy picture that democrats are putting on what is otherwise a real blow to democrats today because they are looking at the makeup of the senate, the 53 republicans majority have in the senate and the fact they only need 51 votes in the senate in order to confirm whoever donald trump nominates. and that is a huge advantage to republicans. now, there are republicans who in the past who have said, "my goodness, we would not do this so close to an election". back in 2016, when president

ba rack 0bama nominated merrick garland as his supreme court nominee after the death of anthony scalia, who was a conservative justice, there were lots of republicans who said, "no, you cannot do this". and in fact, mitch mcconnell prevented them from nominating a democraticjustice so close to the election because he said it's not fair, the people should choose. well, you are hearing a very different tone from republicans today who are saying sure, that was 2016, this is 2020, the rules have changed, we feel it is in our rights. and they are really pushing ahead the idea trying to get this supreme court seat filled if not before the election and after the election and the lame duck session. that is bad news for a democrat, so they're clinging to this idea that perhaps it drives out turnout amongst female voters in favour of democrats because she was such a champion of women's rights. it seems the us is delaying its plan to ban tiktok downloads on

sunday. donald trump wanted to block the chinese—owned social media app because of security concerns. he now says he approves the sale of its us operations to oracle and walmart. conceptually, i think it's a great deal for america. they'll be hiring at least 25,000 people. it will most likely be incorporated in texas, it'll be brand—new company. it'll have nothing to do any outside land, any outside country. it will have nothing to do with china. wechat may not be spared a similar download ban, though. it's set to be kicked off apple's app store and google play on sunday. 0wner tencent called the decision "unfortu nate" while beijing is threatening to retailiate against firms investing in china if the us continues to ban chinese technology companies. in just under an hour, a deadline comes into effect after which washington says all un economic sanctions should be re—imposed on iran because it's breaching the nuclear deal it signed in 2015.

donald trump tore up the nuclear accord two years ago, but the us says it can still trigger a clause that would re—establish sanctions. 0ther signatories to the deal — including britain, france and germany — dispute this. they want to keep the agreement intact, and haven't agreed to reinstate the sanctions. tens of thousands of people have gathered in the rain in the thai capital, bangkok, calling for reform of the political system, and the monarchy. there have been a series of student—led demonstrations since mid—july growing in size as anti—government anger continues to grow. this protest, which is lasting two days, is expected to be one of the biggest — as jonathan head reports from bangkok. well, we've seen the momentum building throughout this year of this anti—government movement. frustrated by a lot of issues — the economy has been hammered by covid, the government that's in office now took power away,

which most people regard as questionable under a constitution written by the military and there've been a number of scandals. and that's brought people from all generations out in opposition to the government — this is the most ambitious rally yet, this university has long been associated with dissent. but perhaps more important, some of the students are also pushing for changes to thailand's monarchy. that is a very, very new development in a country where the royal institution has always been regarded as untouchable. so there's a sense of change and of danger here, too, about where this protest movement will lead. now i've got four young freshman here from the university who've come to join this protest. can i ask you first of all why you've come? what are the issues that you're concerned about? we came today because we want to see the change of our regime. we want to ask our government to change a new constitution.

do you want changes to the military, the army? because in thailand, the army is always so powerful. yes. i want the military to decrease their power, and the budget for the military to do something else, notjust the military. some of the student leaders have said that the monarchy must be changed. this is very new, we've never seen this in thailand before. but we all know it's a very sensitive issue and people are very nervous about speaking about it. do you feel you can talk about the monarchy and ask for change? the monarchy have lived in thailand for a long time. and we still respect them. i know the protesters have said there should be less money spent on the monarchy and less power over the army. i'm not sure that i can talk about this, it's very sensitive.

even if you're nervous — some of the student leaders today will talk about the monarchy while you're here. your parents must be worried. we are nervous but we still want to join this protest because we want everyone to continue protesting. north korea's propaganda machine could never be accused of being ahead of the curve. but there are signs of change signalling a new, more modern approach. pyongyang is believed to be behind several youtube and twitter accounts, aimed at foreign audiences, that are promoting a benign vision of the country in a friendly video blogging style, including a recent video series in english about life in pyongyang. krassimira twigg from bbc monitoring reports. this woman, the face of north korean state propaganda for decades. now compare this with this young video blogger. hello, my dearfriends. hi, i'm on a farm today.

she's one of the hosts of recent youtube videos about life in pyongyang aimed at foreign audiences. she seems approachable, relatable, and authentic. this north korean operation is fully focused on beautiful women... there's a little bit of north korean—style sex appeal being inserted into this campaign, just to get people to start thinking in a different way about north korea, beyond the nukes. pyongyang is believed to be behind several social media accounts that are racking up the numbers by promoting a more modern video blogging style. this campaign is an effort to finally push back against what is almost completely saturated anti—north korean message in the foreign media.

so today, i've decided to take you to someplace cool. they're trying to access the young audience on twitter and youtube, and show them how modern north korea is. but it's still really heavy with propaganda. these videos purport to give foreign viewers where access to the notoriously secretive state. but how authentic is this access? it's very much an act of ventriloquism. north korea has really tried to control what we see and how we see it. if you watch the images of the people in the fairground, there are far more adults. everybody is of the same age. the same thing with the restaurant. there's nobody in the restaurant except for two staff and two individuals who are eating — both of them alone. everything looks very staged, to the point of extreme artificiality. and while this new strategy has

provoked curiosity as it opens a new window into workings of the state propaganda, it has also alarmed for its potential to provide a soft power boost to a country with a dire human rights record. the slovenian cyclist tadej pogarcher is to be crowned the tour de france champion, following a remarkable turnaround on the penultimate day of the race. he overhauled the favourite, his compatriot primos roglic — who had been leading the race by almost a minute. atjust 21—years—old, pogachar is set to become the youngest winner of the race in 100 —and 11 years — and the first ever slovenian to wear the yellowjersey on the final ride into paris. lines are coming in on the news agencies now, donald trump says he will nominate a woman for the supreme court next week. thank you for watching. you can reach me on twitter —

i'm at @philippabbc. goodbye. hello. the first half of the weekend was dry, sunny and warm for many of us, and sunday promises more of the same. more dry weather, more warm sunshine, but there will be some exceptions. down towards the south, still the potential for 1—2 showers. you can see on our earlier satellite image, this swirl of cloud, low pressure across western europe that has thrown a few showers through the channel islands and the south of england — could be 1—2 more of those around through the day ahead. also, quite a lot of cloud across a good part of scotland, particularly around the northern and eastern coasts, through the central belt, and then down the eastern side of england. now, that low cloud of mist will tend to retreat towards the coast as the day wears on. so many spots will brighten up with some sunshine. but for northern coasts of scotland, and certainly shetland, it will stay, likely, quite grey

through the day. for many other parts of scotland, though, it will brighten up with some spells of sunshine. a fine looking day for northern ireland, 17 degrees in belfast. some north sea coasts of england staying grey, cloudy and cool. still a bit breezy further south, but with quite a lot of sunshine, temperatures getting up to 23—25 degrees. now, that breeze will be easing all the time. the winds falling light through sunday night into monday. that will allow some patches of fog to develop across some parts of england and wales. not as much fog further north — where it will be a rather chilly night, temperatures for some spots down into single digits. so, monday morning will dawn with some areas of cloud and fog across some parts of england and wales. that should tend to clear fairly quickly and then we see lots of sunshine. a bit more cloud rolling in through northern ireland and western scotland through the day — with some outbreaks of rain into the northern and western isles through the afternoon. it's another warm day with temperatures for many getting up into the 20s. but from tuesday and into the middle part of the week, things begin

to change quite dramatically. low pressure will take control. frontal systems bringing outbreaks of rain, some brisk winds at times, and we are going to start to tap into some much, much cooler air. temperatures are going to take quite a tumble. there is a bit of uncertainty about just how long that cooler spell will last, but you can see those temperatures dropping as we move through the coming week, and we will start to see some outbreaks of rain and some brisk winds at times.

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hoping to name a woman within the next week — as his choice to replace the supreme court judge, ruth bader ginsburg. the proposal has triggered a battle, between republicans and democrats about chosing a replacement — before the us presidential election. the british government says it's going to impose stiff financial fines — on people in england who fail to quarentine themselves, as part of coronavirus restrictions. anyone who tests positive for the infection — or is contacted through the test and trace system — will be legally required to self—isolate. tens of thousands of people have taken part in one of the largest anti—government demonstrations in thailand in years. protesters close to the royal palace in bangkok demanded the resignation of the prime minister, prayut chan—ocha the army general who led a coup six years ago. a new cancer task force set up by nhs england,