urges the public to keep to the latest rules. as thousands more cases are recorded, the health secretary says we are at a tipping point in the pandemic. we of course have to be prepared to take action if that's what's necessary. i don't think a lockdown is inevitable, but i think it's now more likely because of the near collapse of testing. with top scientific and medical advisers to deliver a live briefing tomorrow, we'll have the latest. also tonight: how some uk banks have failed to act on suspicious activity — leaked documents reveal scams and money laundering.

a deal to keep tiktok going in the us, as new american partners are founded for the chinese—owned app. the tour de france has its youngest champion for more than a century — tadej pogacar, who isjust 21. and a flypast for the few as the battle of britain is remembered, 80 years on. good evening. the government has issued a stark warning that we are at a tipping point on coronavirus cases and that there will be further restrictions in england unless people follow the rules. tomorrow, borisjohnson‘s key medical and scientific advisers will deliver a televised briefing on the threat posed by current cases and projections.

a legal duty is being brought in to self—isolate if you test positive — or have been identified as a close contact of someone who has — with thousands of pounds in fines possible. ourfirst report is from our political correspondent, iain watson. when it comes to complying with the rules and restrictions, the government says we are more lax than some of our continental counterparts. so as coronavirus cases increase, expect to hear tougher messages on enforcement. the health secretary says we are at tipping point. if everybody follows the rules, then we can avoid further national lockdowns. but we of course have to be prepared to take action if that's what's necessary. so we might be facing a further national lockdown if people don't obey the rules? that's exactly right. i don't rules? that's exactly right. i don't rule it out. i don't want to see it. injust over a week

rule it out. i don't want to see it. in just over a week from now on england, if you don't self—isolate when you should, you could face an initial fine when you should, you could face an initialfine of £1000. when you should, you could face an initial fine of £1000. and when you should, you could face an initialfine of £1000. and up to £10,000. the health secretary says we should tell the police if we see a rule breakers, but in london, not eve i’yo ne a rule breakers, but in london, not everyone will take that advice. that whole thing are telling on your neighbour, i think breaking up community is the last thing that should be encouraged. if there is a hefty fine in place or something like that, people might toe the line a bit better. the chief medical 0fficer, a bit better. the chief medical officer, on his way to number ten today. he and the government's scientific advisers have been pushing for swift action to slow the virus's spread. the prime minister has been in top level meetings to discuss his options. but he is also under pressure from his next—door neighbour the chancellor, who doesn't want to see a fragile economic recovery killed off. so it is likely that we will see new temporary measures across england, but that these will also fall far short of a full national lockdown.

while schools and workplaces are likely to remain open, some of the restrictions imposed on local lockdowns seem set to spread across england. at this cafe in leeds, there is no enthusiasm for a possible curfew. put a ten o'clock cu rfew, m ost possible curfew. put a ten o'clock curfew, most buyers will probably decide not to open back up because the trade won't be worth it. but also, it could work in a different way where all the students come all the people who go out through the day, the bars make the same amount of money but it will cause trouble through the day rather than the night. labour say they will support whatever new steps the government ta kes, whatever new steps the government takes, but... if i was the prime minister, i would apologise for the fa ct minister, i would apologise for the fact that we are in the situation with testing. throughout the summer we we re with testing. throughout the summer we were saying, prepare for the autumn. instead we had the exams fiasco. i would autumn. instead we had the exams fiasco. iwould make autumn. instead we had the exams fiasco. i would make fixing testing the number one priority and reinstate the daily press conferences so we all know what's going on. this is boris johnson's

key adviser dominic cummings, leaving downing street tonight after a long series of meetings. he and his boss conclusion? we are all going to have to do better at following the rules if we are to bring coronavirus under control. iain watson, bbc news. the latest government figures show the daily number of new infections remains high, with 3,899 cases recorded for the previous 2a hours. that means the average number of new cases per day in the last week was 3,679. the daily hospital numbers have also risen. 233 people were admitted on september 18th. this figure doesn t include scotland. there were 18 deaths of people who'd had a positive covid—19 test in the previous 28 days. on average in the last week, there were 21 such deaths per day, taking the total number across the uk to 41,777. meanwhile, ministers are closely watching covid cases elsewhere

in europe and the measures taken in other countries. 0ur health correspondent catherine burns reports. the intensive care unit in marseille, one of the worst affected areas of france, a familiar sight across the world in spring and one becoming more common in parts of europe as winter approaches. in spain, this neighbourhood of madrid and many others will go back into lockdown tomorrow. people are concerned. i think there is an awareness or a realisation that we relaxed too much, as many other countries did. the question is, how do we compare to other countries across europe? well, over the last fortnight if you look at cases for every 100,000 people, spain is on the highest at around 300. france is approaching 200, belgium and netherlands are just over 100 and we're lower than that on 69 cases for every 100,000 people. but other countries are much lower still. italy, sweden and germany

are allaround 30, and cyprus isjust under ten. so the uk is at neither extreme, but the government is still watching the trends. i'm not in this for a popularity contest, i'm in this to keep the country safe. the concern is that as cases start to rise, that would be followed by an increase in deaths too. so let's again take spain, for example. you can see the cases started to rise more and more sharply since the start of last month. there is an uptick in deaths too, but that's much more gradual at this point. so far in the uk, the number of deaths being reported is still relatively low, but there tends to be a two to three week lag in those worst cases from someone getting infected, slowly getting more sick to eventually dying. empty streets in antwerp after a curfew was brought in this summer. the government likes to point to belgium as a more hopeful comparison, and stricter measures did seem to work there,

but numbers are now starting to rise. we shouldn't seize on one particular country, but we should select best practice from a number of different places. the key thing is that we do need to act now. we need to take action to reduce household mixing and introduce other measures to avoid more avoidable deaths in the weeks and months to come. right now, just as in the spring, we are potentially a few weeks behind countries with growing outbreaks in europe. the question is how far the government will be prepared to act to prevent us being another spain. catherine burns, bbc news. let's return to iain watson, who's in downing street. we had the warning this morning, iain, to follow the rules or else, but it sounds as though the thinking is progressing fast. it is moving pretty swiftly. the chief medical officer chief whitty and the chief scientific adviser sir patrick vallance will be giving a public briefing on the data tomorrow, mishal. but behind closed

doors in downing street today, there was a meeting between the health secretary, the prime minister and chancellor, poring over the data. what is worrying some people inside downing street, are grim predictions that the number of covert deaths could rise to 200, perhaps 300 a day by the end of next month unless people change their behaviour. some ministers simply prefer stern warning, saying, look, follow the rules or new restrictions will be brought in. but other ministers are pressing for much swifter action. the time for new nationwide restrictions, they believe, is right now. no definitive decisions were taken inside downing street today. nonetheless, i understand that the debate is around which temporary measures will be brought in, not whether to bring them in, especially in the leisure industry. the rule of six, remember, was only introduced less tha n six, remember, was only introduced less than a week ago but it looks as though within days, it could be superseded by a much stricter measures on social distancing. iain watson, thank you.

leaked documents have revealed how some uk banks have helped criminals, money launderers and russians under sanctions — and have also failed to stop crime when they suspected it. the documents ? known as the fincen files ? were leaked to buzzfeed news and shared with the bbc by the international consortium of investigativejournalists. they indicate that london is a hub for money laundering ? with billions of pounds worth of suspected dirty money moving through the system. richard bilton reports. most of his body was submerged under water. the files show the reality of fraud. it can be a messy business. he was bound. he had coverings over his face. you knew that he was deceased. raymond's body was found in a vineyard, and this is the dream that cost him his life. world capital market is managed by a team of experts... he was taken in by a scam. to make money, he needed

to recruit other investors. when they lost money, he was murdered. ..asia and europe... he was a victim in a scheme. he was a victim in a homicide. just a true, true victim. thousands lost money in the scam. the fraudsters stole $80 million. we've discovered that britain's biggest bank helped them get away with it. hsbc allowed the fraudsters to move the stolen cash around the world, even after the bank had been told it was a scam. the us part of the bank said it was unable to locate any accounts with the information stated on the subpoena. what hsbc didn't tell the regulator was that those accounts were in another country. the bank then carried on moving more than $30 million of stolen cash from the uk and us to the fraudsters' hsbc accounts in hong kong. so they had the information. they sat on it.

that's when they were just as guilty as the fraudsters in perpetuating the scheme. they knew about it and did nothing about it. hsbc didn't comment on the fraud case, but said it has been on a multi—yearjourney to overhaul its ability to combat financial crime. but the files show the secret story is that banks often don't stop crime and suspect behaviour. the leak is of suspicious activity reports — what banks have to tell the authorities if they think their clients may be up to no good. these documents contain some of the banking system's most closely guarded secrets — the suspicions big banks have about their wealthiest clients. and they show how the system has failed to stop criminals from laundering their cash. because banks have to send the reports, but they don't always act on them.

this is an unprecedented and remarkable leak that tells us, as never before, what the banks know about suspicious money movements. there's never been a leak like it before. the secret reports show the way banks have really been behaving, placing the uk at the heart of global money—laundering. richard bilton, bbc news. and you can see the full panorama programme, banking secrets of the rich and powerful, on bbc one at 7pm tomorrow evening. 0pposition campaigners in belarus say more than 130 people have been arrested around the country during the latest demonstrations against president alexander lu kashenko's disputed re—election. most of the arrests were in the capital minsk, where this was a sixth consecutive sunday of protest, involving around 100,000 people. police and troops sealed off key avenues leading to the presidential palace. president trump has given his blessing to a partial sale

of the chinese—owned social media platform tiktok to two american companies. oracle and walmart stepped in after the president threatened to ban tiktok from the us over national security concerns. it's been seen as part of a wider battle between the us and china for technological supremacy, as our media editor amol rajan explains. a cold war is under way between the world's leading two superpowers, though it's been little noticed by voters dealing with a global pandemic. what started as a battle over trade escalated into threats over the exchange rate for the yuan and it's now a major conflict. as ever in battles between ideologically conflicting superpowers, america and china are vying for technological supremacy. two companies illustrate that battle — huawei, with its dominance of 5g, and tiktok, a young entertainment platform already boasting over 800 million users.

# come on, shake your body, baby, do the conga. # i know you can't control yourself any longer. tiktok is owned by bytedance, now with $100 billion. its founder, zhang yiming, has pledged deep cooperation with the chinese communist party. that's why politicians of all stripes in america see tiktok, like huawei, as a national security threat, giving china access to the precious data and attention of american citizens. president trump's demand that it be sold to a non—chinese company and that the us treasury get a cut might be illegal. it's unprecedented in the us, but such assertions of sovereignty are already standard practice in china, where platforms like youtube and whatsapp are blocked along with foreign sources of news and religious instruction, and where the web is a tool of surveillance. in a sense, then, president trump is merely borrowing from china's playbook.

and these new methods of control go further than just the us and china. in india, for example, narendra modi's government has banned tiktok and other chinese—owned mobile apps. and other states have used various social media controls, monitoring and censorship. tiktok, then, isn'tjust a platform for video pranks. it proves that there is a battle for the soul of the internet in an era of rising net nationalism, where governments say that countries and not companies should control the web. with almost half of humanity not yet online, how and if this big digital chill spreads could shape the 21st century. amol rajan there. labour has begun its virtual party conference, with speeches and debates having to take place online because of coronavirus. it is keir starmer‘s first conference as leader. amid the challenges the party will now face under him is how to try and win back seats lost in the election last december.

0ur political correspondent alex forsyth reports from scunthorpe. steel is part of the very fabric of scu nthorpe, an industrial town for decades represented by labour mps. but here, like elsewhere, many voters last year turned away from traditions that often run deep. i really couldn't ever see me voting conservative in my lifetime. i was a lifelong labour supporter. steve felt he had little choice but to switch sides. committed to brexit, he felt let down by labour's position. i think there is a london elite. they didn't know the depth of feeling about brexit, and it was hostile. you know, people in northern towns had had enough. could you ever see yourself voting for keir starmer‘s labour party? i don't think so, no. he was too much of a remainer. brexit‘s been a big part of labour's problem in places like scunthorpe,

where almost 70% of people voted to leave. local activist max says the party has to work out how to deal with it and overcome divisions on personalities and policies. the challenge is going to be really big, and i don't want us to look back in ten years' time and say we didn't learn any of those lessons. but equally, we do have to not throw out the baby with the bath water. some of the economic messages that the labour party offered in terms of renationalisation, the manufacturing industry, those messages did go down well. do you think keir starmer is the right person to pull it back for labour in places like this? he's made a positive start so far, but there is lots of work to do. to win back these communities, labour must not only define what it stands for, but be able to sell it. sam and kat, while not enamoured by keir starmer, are pragmatic about his prospects. you know, he's got that suit and he's got the "sir" at the front of his name, so i think he's much more likely

to win because he fits what we think a politician should look like. but i am a little bit worried that he willjust be another tony blair. i think you can maybe work towards becoming more socialist once you have the right person in power in the first place. labour has to find a way to rebuild in seats like this, where many traditional voters turned away, and at the same time maintain the support thatjeremy corbyn won, particularly among younger voters. that's no easy feat. local boutique owners jackie and trish aren't convinced by any politician right now, but they are open to persuasion. we've been labour for so long and then we voted conservative this time. it's like, will i go back or won't i go back, so it's very open—minded. to me, you vote for whoever is hopefully going to give you the best outcome for your life and your family's lives. so some hope, perhaps, for labour to win back what's been lost, but it will be a long, hard road. alex forsyth, bbc news, scunthorpe.

sport, and slovenia's tadej pogacar today became the youngest tour de france champion in 116 years. the race took place two months later than usual because of coronavirus and brought the 21—year—old to the finishing line in paris as an unexpected winner. andy swiss reports. an extraordinary champion for these extraordinary times. behind the mask, tadej pogacar. few had backed him before the race, but after snatching the lead yesterday, today was his victory procession. the leader is never challenged on the final stage. there was even time to pose with a congratulations message. but other tour de france traditions were missing. covid meant no sipping champagne for the riders and no hordes of spectators. some cheered from the roadside, but as the riders whizzed past the parisian landmarks, the usual crowds were conspicuously absent. they missed a thrilling finish.

the final stage going to ireland's sam bennett. bennett's going to win! but in the pack behind him was pogacar, safely across the line to become the youngest champion since 190a. tomorrow, he turns 22 — not a bad birthday present. and after a race which many thought might never happen, for the organisers, simply having a winner will be the biggest victory of all. andy swiss, bbc news. it was the air battle that defended the country from the luftwaffe and forced hitler to postpone his plans for an invasion, costing nearly 1,500 pilots and air crew their lives. today the 80th anniversary of the battle of britain was commemorated at westminster abbey with a service that was its first major event since lockdown. sarah campbell reports. the sights and sounds of 19110 as a hurricane and three spitfires flew over london today. 80 years ago, the stakes

couldn't have been higher. sir winston churchill famously called the young pilots "the few." newsreel: hurricanes and spitfires roar into action. it was the first time a major military battle was fought in the air. the nazis' plan was to overwhelm the allied air defences and then launch a full—on invasion. their plan failed. today, the prime minister arrived at westminster abbey to remember those who fought so courageously, along with the leader of the opposition, all in masks, in this, the first major service to have taken place at the abbey since lockdown began in march. fanfare. more than 2,000 people would usually attend the service of remembrance, which has been held here every year since 19114. the pandemic meant numbers were restricted to fewer than 100, with no veterans present. however, their legacy and what they achieved against the odds lives on. some events, some people,

are not just significant. they are pivotal. the battle of britain was one of those pivotal events, and likewise, those who served in it, ourfriends from other nations, those working on the ground, ourfamilies at home, every one of them. carried through the abbey, the battle of britain roll of honour, which bears the names of the 1,497 pilots and aircrew who made the ultimate sacrifice. last post plays. as the service ended, the raf‘s aerial tribute. the heroism of those who took to the skies 80 years ago remembered. sarah campbell, bbc news.

there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. welcome to bbc london. good evening. in the short—term, through monday morning some mist and fog, low cloud could affect parts of england and wales which will tend to clear through the day and then largely dry

and sunny. sunnier than sunday across north—east england and south—east scotland brighter, some sunshine into parts of aberdeenshire, parts of aberdeen getting up to 19 but western scotla nd getting up to 19 but western scotland and northern ireland more cloud and more of a breeze it will bea cloud and more of a breeze it will be a touch cooler at 16 or 17. as we head through monday night into tuesday, we will see extensive cloud and the first signs of some outbreaks of rain, pretty heavy rain into the far north and west, some spells. relatively mild night compared with some of the nights we will have later in the week. into tuesday for england and wales largely dry, the chair in the west but were northern ireland and scotla nd but were northern ireland and scotland thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain, increasingly windy, gusts close to 50 in the far north—west. ahead of that still relatively warm. could get to 25 towards the south—east corner but that warmth will not last. through tuesday night

into wednesday morning we see the band of rain pushing further south—east and behind it as the winds switch around things turn much colder. wednesday morning scotland and northern ireland started five, 16 in south—east england but even here will turn cooler through wednesday as this frontal system moves through. it will bring rain and places during wednesday but see how the temperatures drop. it stays much cooler by day and night as we had towards the end of the week with further wind and rain at times.

hello. this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment with giles kenningham and polly mackenzie — first the headlines. the government warns the country is ata the government warns the country is at a tipping point and that restrictions could be tightened as thousands more restrictions have been recorded. if everyone follows the rules we can avoid further national lockdown is. but we, of course, have to be prepared to take action if that is what is necessary. boris johnson's action if that is what is necessary. borisjohnson's chief action if that is what is necessary. boris johnson's chief medical and scientific advisers will deliver a

live briefing tomorrow with the warning that the uk faces a very challenging winter. leaked documents reveal how some uk banks have allowed criminals and money launderers to move billions of pounds around the world. and they fly— past pounds around the world. and they fly—past over central london marks the 80th anniversary of the battle of britain following a memorial service at westminster abbey. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. joining me tonight — the political commentator and former conservative party press chief, giles kenningham, and the chief executive

of the think tank, demos, polly mackenzie. tomorrow's front pages starting with. .. the telegraph reports on a government warning that britain is in "the last chance saloon" to avoid tougher lockdown measures. it also reports on the battle of britain and the fly—past. the metro says england's chief medical officer chris whitty is expected to warn that the nation is heading in the wrong direction as concern mounts over a second wave. the mirror says chris witty is expected to appear next to the prime minister and the governments chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance, as they warn the country faces a "very challenging" winter ahead. the guardian reports london could be the latest area to get regional restrictions, with the city's mayor meeting counsel readers tomorrow to

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