hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. in the last hour, the uk's chief medical officers say the country's coronavirus alert level needs to be raised. gates are increasing, hospitalizations are following, deaths unfortunately will follow that and there is that potential for this to move very fast. the advisors say the number of cases is virus is every week. new restrictions are expected tomorrow. spain too is taking action. in madrid, almost a million people are now under a strict lockdown. that's led to protests. we'll explain why. new revelations on secret football deals show chelsea owner roman abramovich had stakes in players outside his club in 2014. and the furore around the us supreme court grows all the time, as president trump says he'll choose his nominee this week.

we'll be live in washington. important covid developments in a number of countries. first, the uk, where thejoint biosecurity centre has recommended the covid alert level should be raised. it's currently at level 3 — which as you can see here means the epidemic is in general circulation. the recommendation is that it should move to level 4, where transmission is high or rising exponentially. and we've had this stark message from government's top scientistific advisors. is, and quite a big if, but if that continues unabated and this grows, doubling every seven days, then what you see of course, let's say they we re you see of course, let's say they were 5000 today and 10,000 next

week, 20,000 a week after, 40000 and after, you can see that by mid 0ctober if that continued, it would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of october per day. 50,000 cases per day would be expected to lead a month later, so the middle of november, to 200 plus deaths per day. now they were clear — that's not a prediction. it's a warning of what could happen if more isn't done to control the infection rate. this graph was used to illustrate the point — case numbers have the potential to escalate rapidly. and particular reason for concern is that case numbers are increasing across the population. these are cases broken down into age groups. the sharpest rise is among young adults, but all ages are seeing an increase, and then this is the geographical spead of the cases across england. the darker the areas, the higher the infection rate.

here's more from chief medical adviser chris whitty. so we have in a bad sense, literally turned a corner. 0nly relatively recently. i think everybody will realise that at this point, the seasons are against us. we are now going into the seasons, late autumn and winter, which benefit respiratory viruses and is very likely they will benefit covid as they do for example flu. now everything about today points towards new regulations in england. and we know borisjohnson will chair a meeting of the government's crisis management committee on tuesday. vicky young has more on that. i think we can expect there to be much further restrictions and chris whitty then suggesting that this transmission between households, the interactions between households, that could be one area they're looking at. there's been speculation the bbc's been told about a so—called circuit breaker. you could doa so—called circuit breaker. you could do a short break with quite severe

restrictions. the problem with that is that you suppress it for a couple weeks, and in this virus, as we seen, simply comes back again. now you may have heard this phrase ‘circuit breaker‘ pop up a lot recently. it's this idea that you bring in much stricter regulations for a relatively short period of time, say a fortnight, to try and regain control of the virus. not everyone‘s convinced. this is a former chief scientific advisor. if you really stop transmission for two weeks, that reduces the number of cases dramatically. again, they will grow, and unfortunately, this isa will grow, and unfortunately, this is a long haul. as they made clear, what we have to depend on is the science. so there are arguments over what restrictions should or shouldn't be used, and balancing the economic fall out it will cause. here's a tweet from the financial times' political editor george parker.

but the problems boris johnson faces within his own party go beyond that. here's sir graham brady, the chair of a committee of backbench mps speaking to the today programme. the government finds it entirely possible to put things to parliament very quickly when it's convenient for them to do so. i raised this issue a couple of weeks ago when we had the rule of six imposed. the rule of six was leaked on tuesday, formally amounts on wednesday —— formally amounts on wednesday —— formally announced. thursday in parliament, we had a day of general debates. it would have been entirely possible for those general debates toa possible for those general debates to a been swept aside and for a full

day's debate on the role of six. if we had that in advance of the imposition of the rule of six, we would have been able to rule out some important things on behalf of the british public. now this is about the emergency powers given to the government in march. there'll be a vote on whether to renew it for another six months next week. on sunday, the former president of the supreme court lady hale said that parliament had "surrendered" its role over the laws. but the government says it needs the power to act quickly. here's the transport minister grant shapps. all of that is reported back to parliament. all of that comes under scrutiny in parliament. i've been at the dispatch box myself when i've made changes to policies to the international quarantines. and

that's absolutely the right thing to do, but we're not living in normal times when we have the luxury of perhaps more time to pass different rules and change things. so there are these powers which enable these rules to change and pretty quickly. here's helen catt from westminster. help us understand the kind of options available to borisjohnson as he goes in tomorrow. weaves had the scenes that today, tomorrow we will find out what boris johnson plans to do about it. the signs are all there that he plans to do something, and you heard vicky talking about things like the possibility of a circuit breaker, a lot of options talk about over the last couple of weeks. we think for example it's likely perhaps there will be some restrictions announced on the hospitality sector, perhaps closing at ten o'clock at night. that sort of thing is likely to happen tomorrow. i think what is clear is that there is no political

will, not from the government, not from labour. they've also believed it would be catastrophic for the anaconda —— economy. they've all said they don't want to go back there. we've seen today, as well as there. we've seen today, as well as the public data, there's also been things happening behind the scenes. borisjohnson has things happening behind the scenes. boris johnson has been things happening behind the scenes. borisjohnson has been speaking to the first ministers of scotland, wales and northern ireland. he's bringing them into that cobra meeting to talk to his cabinet, and then he will address the house of commons tomorrow to talk about what measures the government would want to bring in. the fact of the prime minister is going to announce whatever he chooses to announce in the house of commons, is that a sign that perhaps the government is listening to some degree to the concerns of some mps haven't expressed about the role parliament —— have expressed? expressed about the role parliament -- have expressed? the convention is you should be... you should be

making those in the house. some sort of irritation expressed by the speaker of the house, that these changes have been announced not in the commons where they should be. but certainly, there is an issue around a growing feeling on the conservative backbenchers that too much restriction would be a bad thing. so there certainly seems to be much more of a sense of if there are going to be restrictions, a lot of conservative backbenchers would like to see them really, really justified as being the only way forward because of the potential impact on the economy and of course, the health impacts that come from that. helen, thank you very much indeed for your help. fears of a second wave of coronavirus have sent stock markets sharply downwards today and the sell off is going beyond europe. in new york the standard & poor index of 500

leading companies is currently down more than 2%. in london earlier, shares closed down 3.4%. there was a similar drop on france's cac 40 and in germany the dax closed more than 4% lower. let's get more michelle fleury in new york. so we've seen this huge... which is in some ways the most influential indicator of stocks because it is representative of such a broad array of companies. that being said, it's worth putting into some context. what we see at the moment comes after a huge run—up in the market over the summer. at the end of august, we would talk about record highs on the snp 500 —— it was being led by technology stocks. there were some concerns that perhaps all the upside of the recovery had been priced in, but they hadn't taken into account the fact that we were heading into the flu and winter season. there was this concern about

whether or not there might be a second wave, and i think as those fears become more real, we start to see investors readjust their expectations. that's really in some ways what is happening at the moment, so the numbers look big today, but if you take it since the coronavirus pandemic started, then you start to see it's reallyjust a sort of correction. they got a bit ahead of themselves. the other thing to note is that september, typically a bad month for the stock market, and that certainly seems to be the case. that's the financial markets, responding to events in europe. things are moving very fast in spain. a new lockdown has begun in madrid. as of today, more than 800,000 people can only leave their homes to go to work, school or to seek medical care. this is why. spain's rate of infection has been rising steeply of the last two months. in the last two weeks, there have been 126,000 thousand cases, and madrid is the worst affected area.

these new restrictions affect 37 health districts — many of which are in these six areas of madrid. they are mostly districts with lower incomes and higher numbers of immigrant than the population as a whole. for that reason, some see this as discrimination. and there have been small protests calling for better support and better health care. this was the scene that greeted spain's prime minister pedro sanchez when he arrived for a meeting with madrid's regional leader. that's isabel diaz ayuso, and she wants the army to assist the police with law enforcement, and wants the government to rebuild makeshift hospitals that were decommissioned in the summer. well, the government is offering extra help. this is the prime minister talking after the meeting. translation: this is not a game. we are facing a second wave with obviously different characteristics, it's leslie console and less fast but it continues to be very dangerous —— less lethal.

for more on the situation in madrid, here's guy hedgcoe. the city of madrid and the surrounding region have been the big concern throughout the second wave in terms of the number of infections. it hasn't come of the huge surprise that these new restrictions have been introduced in areas of madrid now. the big concern however is how successful they will be. if in a couple of weeks the numberof be. if in a couple of weeks the number of infections has started to drop substantially, people here in madrid can go back to something like normal. if that is not the case, there's a feeling that the local government here is going to have to introduce more drastic measures, possibly a blanket lockdown across the whole region. something that prime minister pedro sanchez has put on the table recently. there's been the possibility of regional governments introducing state of emergency in their local areas. that would allow local governments to

introduce quite drastic measures in localised fashion. without the need for national lockdown. leaked bank documents seen by bbc panorama show chelsea football club owner roman abramovich secretly owned stakes in players at other clubs. one of the footballers played against chelsea in two 2014 champions league games, which meant mr abramovich had a stake in twelve players on the pitch. mr abramovich‘s spokesman says the deals were lawful and did not breach rules or regulations at the time. richard bilton from bbc's panorama reports. this is the story of a football match. chelsea again sporting lisbon in 2014. secret files show chelsea owner roman abramovich had a steak and not 11, but 12 players on the pitch. in

2016, a bank identified more than $1 billion of suspicious payments involving offshore ‘s shell companies owned by roman abramovich. this includes for payments made by roman abramovich companies in cyprus. what's important is where mr abramovich‘s cash ins up. the virgin british islands got $156 million, thatis british islands got $156 million, that is a controversial company. the company was accused of being involved in the now band practice of third—party ownership. that is when someone other than the players on the club buys a financial stake in them. that doesn't really make sense because that has nothing to do in football, and their interests are purely financial. from an integrity of sport point of view, when you sign for a of sport point of view, when you signfora club, of sport point of view, when you sign for a club, your loyalty should be that club 100%. this is the

winger andre career leo. he played for lisbon that night, creating a goal, but he was half owned by roman abramovich‘s company. also owns sta kes abramovich‘s company. also owns stakes into other lisbon players. they did not play against chelsea, but roman abramovich‘s company was owed to boys and 6 million euros. third—party ownership was banned up by the fa in 2008, but wasn't banned by the fa in 2008, but wasn't banned by fifa until about 2015.|j by the fa in 2008, but wasn't banned by fifa until about 2015. i don't think it can possibly be possible for the owner of a football club to own players and other football clubs. that is precisely why third—party ownership is banned. it casts suspicion and a shadow right across football. from the documents i've seen, i would have wanted as chairman of the fa to investigate. mr abramovich‘s spokesman said the activity reports do not contain

allegations of wrongdoing, and no action was taken against the chelsea owner. they also said the deals relate to the period before fifa changed their rules. but no one knew until now that roman abramovich had a steak and more players than just the ones in blue. richard bilson, bbc news. analysis of the leaked documents also reveals another aspect of roman abramovich‘s financial dealings discovered by bbc arabic. the organisation is called elad — a right wing group which supports increased jewish settlement in east jerusalem. by allowing settlements in eastjerusalem israel is considered to be in breach of international law, although israel disputes that view. murad shishani from bbc arabic is in the newsroom. tell us more about what your

investigation found. this investigation found. this investigation was found that mr abramovich owned the three companies and controlled the fourth, in the british virgin islands that have been donating about more than $100 million to a settler organisation in eastjerusalem. the million to a settler organisation in east jerusalem. the investigation leads to that, and documents, they we re leads to that, and documents, they were talking about the banks facilitating some money laundering. but this case specifically doesn't fall into this. this is how the breach of international law and supporting settlements, but on another level, it's feeling the sensitive underground in jerusalem

with excavation on archaeology, which is a sensitive topic. causes many arab families to lose their house or be evicted. that keeps the role of the cycle ongoing on that, so therefore, the investigation found that mr abramovich had been supporting an organisation. he has donated the biggest chunk of his donation for them since between 2005 and 2018. has elad or mr abramovich commented on the fact that they work together? we had a separate response. mr abramovich‘s spokesperson said mr abramovich is generous and committed donor to israeli and jewish civil society, although elad said they abided by

the israeli rules and regulations and revealed the source of their findings to the authorities —— their funding. they say also, they announced in the city, there's a different name for that neighbourhood we are talking about. they said they are naming the donors who want to be revealed, but those donors who don't want to show their names, they are not announcing their name. inc. you very much indeed. bbc .com/ news is where to go. every year in the arctic, sea—ice expands during winter, and melts back in the summer. this year, it's shrunk to a near record low. the bbc's science correspondent jonathan amos says, "not quite 2012's record, but only the second time under 4 million in the satellite record." the 4 million he's referring to is the number of square

kilometres of sea ice in the summer. it was down to 3.74 million this year. scientists studying the sea—ice in the arctic have found another indicator of global warming. the blue line represents 2020. it just above the dotted line, which of that record from 2012. this downward trend, monitoring the ice is about 13% per decade. the national snow here is what greenpeace had to say about this. the rapid loss of sea ice in the arctic is an indicator of how closely our planet is circling

down, and as the arctic melt, more heat will be absorbed by the ocean and all of us will be more exposed to the devastating impacts of climate breakdown. professor of polar observation that you see a in the uk is here from geneva. thank you very much for your time. is there any doubt that this is being driven by climate change? no, i think from our cities and also looking at climate models and observations, what we are seeing is very strongly driven by global warming from increases in greenhouse gases. in fact, the relationship is strongly linear, so we've been able to quantify that for every added to the atmosphere, you melt about three m2 of sea ice. so it's not surprising we will continue on this downward trend. this year is quite striking in some ways in that we had a very low summer, despite return to

the average winter air temperatures. it was quite cold this winter. i was up it was quite cold this winter. i was up there during november through april, and it was very cold. —39 -40. but april, and it was very cold. —39 —40. but despite that, it was still ata —40. but despite that, it was still at a very low sea ice level. the second lowest in at least 40 years, and probably much longer. based on other observations that go back prior to the satellite data record. aside from it being evidence of the broader problem of climate change, why does losing this ice matter? everything on this planet is connected. if you start changing the arctic and you remove that reflected seaice arctic and you remove that reflected sea ice cover, the ocean is going to observe that heat. this is what we're already seeing today, the arctic is warming and other places as fast as a —— fast as the rest of the planet. the ocean absorbing the heat that would normally go back out to space, it warms up, and before it can form again in winter, and has to release all the heat back to the

atmosphere. we get this app and applied warming in the arctic —— amplified warming. we think about 2 degrees of global warming as a whole, we are looking at 9 degrees in the arctic. it's quite enhanced. this has large impacts on permafrost and other glaciers and ice caps in the arctic. so everything is connected, and if it starts warming up connected, and if it starts warming up so much faster than the rest of the planet, it will start impacting our large—scale weather patterns. so basically, what happens in the arctic doesn't just stay there. you mentioned you spent several months there recently. is it conspicuous, there recently. is it conspicuous, the change of the ice compared to what you may have seen just a few yea rs what you may have seen just a few years ago? i think for us, i was pa rt years ago? i think for us, i was part of the year—long mosaic expedition. it was a bit challenging to find a really thick ice base during observatory. the ice was

quite thin compared to what it would have been 20 to 30 years ago, and what was interesting to me, what i noticed in the arctic this winter was how dynamic the ice cover was. any time we had unusual storms that would come in and push the ice around, things would open up. there we re around, things would open up. there were to get opening in the ice, and i was surprised at how quickly the ice moved around. thank you very much indeed. there's more on that story from jonathan amos and my other collea g u es jonathan amos and my other colleagues in the bbc science unit. the other bbc news website. just go to the front page, bbc .com/ news. click on science and you will find coverage of that story and many other science stories as well. in a few minutes, stay with us. we will turn to south africa and india as we

continue to give you a full update on the covid—19 pandemic. here on the bbc news channel, many of you have lots of questions about what's happening. we will be putting some of those questions to our experts injust over some of those questions to our experts in just over an some of those questions to our experts injust over an hour at some of those questions to our experts in just over an hour at 8:30 p:m., so get in touch with us by e—mailing your questions i bbc .co .uk oryou can e—mailing your questions i bbc .co .uk or you can use the hashtag bbc your questions on twitter. our guest will be chris smith, from the university of cambridge. many of us have had sparkling sunshine to the course of the day. that's certainly true across southern areas of scotla nd true across southern areas of scotland as well. guys like these have been pretty widespread, but a

cross northern ireland, it stayed rather cloudy —— skies like this. some rain affecting the very far north west. we will see a change in a much cooler weather conditions this week, so the low today, temperatures of 21 and part of aberdeen sure. 26 degrees across parts of east anglia, much colder weather is going to move in as we head across the autumn. into the middle part of the week, and by the end of the week, northerly winds will drop those temperatures down significantly. overnight tonight, we've got rain across the north west of scotland. that will turn increasingly heavy and persistent here. clear skies initially for england and wales, but mist and fog patches will develop later in the night. particularly around the midlands with poor visibility here, poor visibility also in parts of wales. that low cloud particularly for quite a time before it breaks. northwest, this band of rain inching in. i headed on this weatherfront,

we will get some fairly gusty winds. a windy day for northern ireland and scotland. and across the very far north of england. those temperatures across east anglia, which is the highest reaching 26 celsius. that really is the last of the warm days, because we go through tuesday night into wednesday, this cold front will increasingly spread its way southwards, and those temperatures will be dropping away. it will turn quite cold tuesday night across scotland, northern ireland, england and wales still relatively mild at 12 to 15 degrees. that colder air will work southwards as that cold front continues to push east during wednesday. outbreaks of rain for england and wales, turning increasingly heavy across eastern areas and becoming quite windy around some of our coast later in the day. scotland and northern ireland seemed the best of the dry weather and sunshine, but it will feel cooler. high 11—13 , and that

cooler weather will spread across the whole of the uk by thursday.

hello, i'm ros atkins. this is outside source. the uk moves its coronavirus alert level from three to four. boris johnson's chief medical officers say the covid alert level needs to move from three to four. earlier, senior advisers explained how the virus was once again spreading at speed. hospitalizations are following, death will follow that. and there's the potential for this to move very fast. advisers the cases are doubling every week. new are expected tomorrow. —— new restrictions are expected tomorrow. in madrid, close to a million people are now under a strict lockdown as spain tries to control the virus too. president trump says he will choose his supreme court nominee this week. we will be live in washington.

president trump says he'll nominate a new supreme courtjustice by the end of the week. democrats say they will do everything they can to stop that person taking a seat on the court. this bitter political battle began after the death of ruth bader ginsburg on friday. she's spent 27 years on the supreme court. well today it was confirmed her body will lie in state inside the us capitol building on friday. according to her grand—daughter, justice ginsburg made a dying wish. here's the senior democrat chuck schumer on what it was. she said... president trump has suggested that the democrats made that quote up — though there's no evidence that's true. and we know that ruth bader ginsburg had been extremely critical of donald trump.

she was also the leading liberal member on the supreme court. and the make—up of the supreme court is of huge importance — it often has the final say on matters of huge national importance from abortion to election disputes. and because each justice is appointed for life, each choice impacts americans for years. before ruth bader ginsburg died, fivejustices had been appointed by republican presidents and four under democratic administrations. if donald trump's nominee is successful it would give the court a strong conservative majority of 6—3. the stakes are very high. here's the american law professor lawerence douglas. also bear in mind that the supreme court right now is presently constituted untiljustice ginsburg's death. it was already a very conservative supreme court and probably the most conservative supreme court the united states has seen since 1937, since the early days of the roosevelt administration.

the debate over whether the senate should vote on a newjustice this close to november's election immediately takes us back to 2016 and a similar battle towards the end of president obama's second term. in february of that year supreme courtjustice antonin scalia died. president obama nominated this man, merrick garland, to succeed him. but republicans refused to hold confirmation hearings, saying the senate should not a vote on supreme court nominations in a presidential election year. this was the republican senate leader mitch mcconnell at the time. the american people are perfectly capable of having their say, their say on this issue. so let's give them a voice. let's let the american people decide. well, mitch mcconnell is still the republican senate leader, and it won't surprise you that his position has evolved. this is what he said a couple of days ago. another republican who's changed his mind is the chairman

of the senate judiciary committee lindsey graham. this weekend he said he was "dead set on confirming donald trump's nominee." this was lindsey graham back in 2016. i want you to use my words against me. if there is a republican president in 2016, and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say lindsey graham said let's let the next president whoever it might be make that nomination, you can use my words against me and you would be absolutely right. chuck schumer has been making the counter—argument over the weekend. if that sounds familiar, it's deliberately so. it's a word—for—word copy of the tweet mitch mcconnell put out in 2016. but republicans say the democrats have also changed their mind. here's senator ted cruz.

we had this fight at the end of the barack obama term, and at the time, all the democrats were saying confirm the nominee and all the republicans were saying we will not confirm the nominee. senator cruz went on to say why he believes this time is different. here's some more. and there is a big difference in the senate with whether the senate is of the same party of the president or a different party of the president. when the senate has been of the same party of the president, the vacancy occurs in an election year, of the 29 times, in 19 of them, of those 19, the senate has confirmed those nominees 17 times. so if the parties are the same, the senate confirms the nominee. when the parties are different, that has happened ten times, merrick garland was one of them. of those ten, the senate has confirmed that nominees only twice. it's true that this time around the president and a majority of the senate are from the same party. the republicans currently control the senate by 53 seats to 47. however two republican senators have

already shifted on this issue. susan collins says she won't vote on a newjustice before election day. lisa murkowski has gone even further, saying she won't vote on a nominee until after inauguration day. and the democrats are trying to get more republicans to switch sides. here's chuck schumer again. and we only need two more senators to say that they will abide by rbg's wish. two have already said it. we need two more. so americans, if you care about these rights, if you don't want big powerful wealthy special interests to turn the clock back 100 years even, please, our fervent plea and wish, is that you call your senator and say abide by the wishes of this saintly, brilliant, caring woman. gary o'donghue at the supreme court, washington.

gary, i whole range of opinions on this but who actually decides whether the senate will get a vote or not? the leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell come get to decide that. he runs the table because he renders the majority, the processes they will be hearings in the judiciary. that is run by republicans as well lindsey graham. you saw in that series of clips. he said hold me to it. if there is a va ca ncy said hold me to it. if there is a vacancy this year. but he is planning to hold those hearings. so they get to choose. they could be all sorts of delaying tactics that democrats can indulge in, they threaten some of those indeed, but essentially, the republicans hold all the trump cards here, and they get to decide when it happens. and if they do decide they want to go ahead before the election, we have seen previous nomination processes on capitol hill become better and

reasonably long—winded as well. is there a time, are the days available to get this done? i think there is. we played ginsberg herself was nominated in a round six weeks or so. “— nominated in a round six weeks or so. —— ruth made ginsberg. effectively all that really has to happen is that there has to be a vote in the senatejudiciary committee. that has a republican majority of the set before. and a vote on the floor the house. the process ca n vote on the floor the house. the process can be as quick or longer she wanted to be. senators across the spectrum will want a chance to quiz the nominee and indeed most senators will want to do that, not just on the committee itself. but of course tradition gets torn up in the source of circumstances. i think that could happen. the calculation really for mitch mcconnell is not really for mitch mcconnell is not really what the democrats are thinking. it is what his own side is thinking. it is what his own side is thinking. you heard there are two

republican senators already saying they don't think there should be a vote for the election. questions will there be more. will mitt romney say the same, will cory gardner say the same. if you get for against it, then the majority in the senate flips 5149 a favour the democrats. then mitch mcconnell has a real problem. stay with us. president trump has already pledged to nominate a woman. here are some of the frontrunners. amy coney barrett is a judge on the circuit court of appeals. she's 48 and previously served as a clerk for the conservative justice antonin scalia. barbara lagoa also serves on the circuit court of appeals. she's a 52—year—old cuban american. and while she's considered a staunch conservative, she received strong bipartisan support at her confirmation hearing. another name in the mix is appeals courtjudge allison rushing. she'd be particularly controversial because she's only 38—years—old. help us understand the criteria

which donald trump and the people advising him will be looking at when they consider the options here. the first criteria he has already set out is that it has to be a woman who gets the nomination this time around. he said that. the other criteria will be clearly based around conservatism come around the fa ct around conservatism come around the fact that the president has made a big thing about appointing conservative judges at the federal level and also at the supreme court level. somebody with good conservative credentials will be a big favourfor him conservative credentials will be a big favour for him and conservative credentials will be a big favourfor him and his supporters. because this is a huge motivating factor out there among evangelical voters, conservative voters, a lot of them feel that washington is a legislative place committee does not work. they feel a lot of the culture wars in america are to be found in part in the countries quartz right up to the supreme court. and that is why judges matter to those voters. thank

you, gary for your help. our lead story is england is changing us to run a virus alert level from three to four but through the hour we bring you up—to—date on the hour we bring you up—to—date on the pandemic around the world. next let's turn to south africa. next south africa — 500 pupils from one school have been quarantined after almost 100 of them tested positive. nomsa maseko has more on this. this is a shock to the country as you know, they are now trying to ease the lockdown regulations and also the number of infections have also lowered in the country, but it has emerged that 98 school pupils from a high school in the eastern cape tested positive. this comes after two pupils tested positive and then failed to report that to the school and the authorities there say the reason why there was such a huge outrage was because people

outbreak was because people the reason why there was such a huge outbreak was because people are not maintaining social distancing regulations and have also not been wearing masks. so now as a result, there has been a team of health experts along with health officials have now been taken down to the province for contact tracing. to india now — and the taj mahal is open for the first time since march — despite india's daily rate of infection now being the highest in the world. bbc hindi's sameer aatmaj mishr was there for the reopening. the iconic taj mahal, known as a symbol of love, has reopened today. it was closed with other monuments after the countrywide lockdown on the 17th of march this year to halt the spread of the coronavirus. the administration has restricted number of visitors to 5000 and has made several efforts to maintain social distancing. previously, it was closed for some days in 1978 due to flooding and in 1971 due to war between india and pakistan. as we continue to update you on the pandemic —

let's turn next to lesbos in greece. two weeks ago a huge migrant camp burned down — and the fire began hours after measures were announced to deal with a covid outbreak. well as you can see here, thousands of people have now moved into a new camp. everyone has to be tested — and 243 migrants were positive. in the next few hours a rescue effort will begin to help hundreds of stranded whales in australia. more than 250 of them are stuck in macquarie head which is a remote bay on the west coast of the island of tasmania. officials say at least 25 whales have already died. and that two large pods are stuck on sand bars a few hundred metres apart. they are believed to be pilot whales though that's not confirmed. here's marine bioligist dr vanessa pirotta how the whales are doing — and how the rescue may play out.

they have been on the sand bar for quite a period of time. their stress levels are quite a period of time. their stress levels a re really quite a period of time. their stress levels are really high, their cortisol levels are really high. these animals in some cases will u nfortu nately these animals in some cases will unfortunately succumb to that. but one of the ways authorities will be trying to tackle this is to look for individuals who might be doing quite well so there might be individuals that might be in a bit more water compared to others and better body condition. the authorities are being clear that helping the whales should be left to the experts. they're telling everyone else — asking people to... here's dr. pirotta again on why that's particularly important. no matter where this happens around the world, we stress that trained experts are best to help out here because these animals, they are five metres in length, a couple of turns, about as big as your car, and any movement from them can potentially injure or hurt you to some extent.

we've also got an update on another whale story from australia last week — a humpback whale that took a wrong turn into a crocodile—infested river has safely returned to sea. it was first seen in the east alligator river in the northern territory. which, despite the name, is full of crocodiles — wildlife experts were concerned they might attack the whale if it became stranded. well, wildlife australia tweeted these photos saying that the humpback had made it back out to sea after a seventeen day journey inland. stay with us on outside source — still to come... elephants have been dying in their hundreds in botswana. the reason appears to be found in the water they're drinking.

the uk prime minister has spoken to the leaders of scotland, wales and northern ireland today and made it clear that the rising infection rates are a cause for great concern. in a moment the latest from our scotland editor sarah smith and our ireland correspondent emma vardy, but first here's our wales correspondent hywell griffith. wales was relatively slow to come out of lockdown restriction, now new ones are coming thick an fast, four more areas added to the list. they willjoin the other, 850,000 people placed under tougher measure, what does it mean? people aren't allowed to travel in and out of the local council areas unless they have a valid reason like going to work, people aren't allowed to meet indoors with anyone not from their households and a 11pm curfew, but talk of a bigger south wales wide lockdown. in scotland nicola sturgeon says she wants to take fast and urgent action so she will make an announcement tomorrow,

to in her words try and bring the virus back under control, in scotland. it is up to the scottish government to set their own rule, but the first minister does say it makes sense in these circumstances, to try and have broadly similar rules, across the whole of the uk, even if they are not identical in every one of the uk nations, she spoke on the phone to boris johnson this afternoon, i am told the two are broadly in the same place when i comes to what they are planning so we could maybe expect similar announcements tomorrow. last week, localised restrictions were brought in here in post codes where cases of infections were highest we now those restrictions are being widened to cover the whole of northern ireland. so it means from tomorrow evening people will not be able to visit other people homes, indoors with a few exceptions for things like childcare but it will feel like a significant step back from where we were.

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. i'm ros atkins. our lead story: the uk has risen its coronavirus alert to level four, meaning transmission is high or rising exponentially. the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has been hearing more testimonies from the families of the 22 people who died in may 2017. our north of england correspondent judith moritz has been listening to the tributes from the families of nelljones, elaine mciver and michelle kiss. start making your way towards the city centre, please. in the aftermath of the manchester arena attack, news cameras captured some of the chaos and horror. but they couldn't tell the whole story — only the hurt and the bereaved can do that. like the family of michelle kiss, whose murder leaves three children without a mother. on that fateful night, michelle was just waiting for our daughter. she wasjust being a mum.

in the days after the attack, the people of manchester stood together in grief. michelle's husband described the comfort he got from that city—wide support. they demonstrated in the most incredible way that choosing love can be the more powerfulforce. for this, i say thank you to the wonderful manchester people, for restoring my faith in humanity during the hardest time of my life. through pictures, video, music and anecdotes, little by little we are getting to know each of those who died, through the tributes

their families have created. some come to court to speak in person, others to watch, as their words are read out orfilms shown. hi, i'm elaine mciver‘s sister, linda. "do a pen portrait", they said. the mcivers said that pictures would paint a thousand words for them, and opened their family photo album in tribute to elaine. thejones family came to court and also chose to show photos, explaining that 14—year—old nell lit up their days with energy and passion. afterwards, the inquiry chairman spoke directly to them. what comes over most strongly is the sense of loss that everyone feels at her death. and my overwhelming impression is, what a waste. elaine, michelle and nell were remembered as embracing life. not thought of as victims, but with love, as a sister, a sweetheart and a soulmate. judith moritz, bbc news, manchester.

you can find full coverage of the inquiry into the attack via the bbc website. do you remember the mysterious deaths of hundreds of elephants in botswana earlier this year? well, we may now have an explanation — they have may have been killed by algae in pools of water where they drink. botswana is home to around a third of africa's elephant population. around 130,000 of them are there. and the elephants began dying in may when 169 of the animals were found dead. the next month, it was 187 more. it was clear poachers were unlikely to responsible because the elephant‘s tusks were untouched. there were lots theories from anthrax to starvation — to an unknown virus. well, today — officials held a press conference to tell us what they think happened.

isolation of bacteria in our freshwater system is a concern because it has the potential to negatively impact on our wildlife population. so — what does "cyano—bacteria toxin involvement" mean? well cyano—bacteria is a reasonably common micro—organism which is found world—wide — and it thrives in still water. in fact you may have seen it yourself — it's the green—blue algae that sometimes forms on top of standing water. the problem is that some species of cyano—bacteria produce toxins. and if the level of toxins is high enough — it can can poison animals, birds and fish. niall mccann is from national park rescue here in the uk. he's been in contact with colleagues botswana throughout this investigation. thank you forjoining us. my first question is why did all these elephants died but we didn't see evidence of lots of other animals die? that is the million-dollar question. we still don't know. what we can say on the base of today's

results is that those cyanobacteria are in the water. that is suggestive that it might be the reason it is coming elephants but not definitive. the only way to prove what killed the elephant sues to identify those toxins and the elephant carcass themselves and we having it done that. but can we say at least these algae blooms were more common in 2020 then they might normally be? we can certainly go back and tested empirically. what i think is really worth think is climate change is as ever the threat amplify here. the blooms are exacerbated by warmer temperatures. this entire region is heating up so these types of situations where cyanobacteria will become a more frequent and more severe as time goes by. which makes all the more important we identify where they are happening so we can mitigate the effects.|j where they are happening so we can mitigate the effects. i was going to ask her about that. even if these are happening, what can be done to mitigate the potential damage they can do? we use a few mechanisms across the world. the blooms affect

people, livestock, wildlife. some of the mechanisms are biological, using grazers or trying to get water flow going through. some of them a chemical we are trying to get phosphate fixing chemicals into the water. all of those are quite extreme measures. the other way of doing it is erecting a barrier to stop the animal from going there. but all of these are very difficult to do. it is important to identify what is going and what is killing them in what else could be at risk and then you can develop mitigation plan from all of that. it's a possibility that very sad these deaths are that this kind of thing is always happen and it is just part of the ecosystem of botswana and lhasa by the southern african countries? we never seen it before. that is worth reiterating. this is an unprecedented death in terms of the number and the suddenness of the death. 330 are being referred by the government but ever write notes to run number will be higher. it is difficult to identify the elements

from there. we're talking many will have died from this. that simply has never happened before. as with all of this, the wildfires in the west coast and the flex here in the uk, climate change, that threat multiplier and amplifier so we'll it will be happening more more frequently. just then i'm afraid, but i'm interested and started to but i'm interested and started to but has enough stock? the desk stop. stopped. that shaft they stopped. the most important reason is the elephants have fled as she would do if your friends and family were dying, you will leave the area as well. that is what the elephants have done. they have rent to the east. they are not dying any more. we appreciate you explaining that to us. that story will be investigated for a great deal longer. it sounds like progress is being made towards understanding why those hundreds of elephants died back in april may and june. that finishes this addition of outside source. thank you for watching. you will know i don't go anywhere. i will be back in a few

minutes. we bring in the next edition of outside source and all the big stories from around the world. hello. many of us have had sparkling sunshine through the course of the day. that is true across england and wales and also across parts of southern areas of scotland. skies like this have been pretty widespread but across northern ireland, it stayed rather cloudy and we had some thicker cloud still in the northwest of scotland. and some rain affecting the far northwest. through this week we will see a change to much cooler weather conditions, so today we have seen temperatures of 21 in parts of aberdeenshire, 26 degrees across parts of east anglia, much colder weather is going to move in as we head across the autumn equinox which is tuesday into the middle part of the week and by the end of the week northerly winds will really drop those temperatures down significantly. overnight tonight, we have a rain

across the northwest of scotland, that will turn increasingly heavy and persistent here, clear skies initially for england and wales but mist and fog patch is will develop later in the night, especially around the midlands with poor visibility here and in parts of wales. and that mist and fog and low cloud could take quite a time tuesday morning before it thins and breaks. then we will see sunshine coming out and further northwest this band of rain edging in and ahead of this weather front, we will get fairly gusty winds so a windy day for northern ireland and scotland and across the very far north of england to the east of the pennines. pretty gusty. the highest temperatures today across east anglia where we should see highs reaching about 26 celsius. that really is the last of the warm days because as we go through tuesday night into wednesday, this cold front will increasingly spread its way south and as it does so, those temperatures will be dropping away. it will turn quite cool across scotland and northern ireland,

england and wales for the most part and still relatively mild at 12 to 15 degrees but that cold air will continue to work southwards as this cold front continues to push the east and south words during wednesday. outbreaks rain for england wales in the rain turns heavy and persistent across eastern areas and become a quite windy around some of our coast later in the day, scotland and northern ireland seeing the best of the dry weather and sunshine but it will feel cooler, highs of of 11 to 13 degrees and that cooler weather is spreading across the whole of the uk by thursday.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. in the last hour, the uk has raised its coronavirus alert level. the government's chief scientists say the virus is spreading at speed. cases are increasing, hospitalizations are following, deaths unfortunately will follow that and there is that potential for this to move very fast. the advisors say the number of cases of virus is doubling every week — new restrictions are expected tomorrow. spain too is taking action. in madrid almost a million people are now under a strict lockdown. that's led to protests — we'll explain why. and the furore around the us supreme court grows all the time — president trump says he'll choose his nominee this week. new revelations on secret football deals,