a warm welcome to bbc news. our top stories. more then 150 countries but not the us or china sign up to an agreement to distribute future vaccines. this is not charity. this is not charity. this is not charity. this is in every country's best interest. we think we swim together. english pubs and restau ra nts together. english pubs and restaurants are to be ordered to close early as britain fights to contain a resurgence of coronavirus. debate gets theatre over the presents choice over the supreme court. donald trump says he will name a female nominee by the weekend. arctic summer sea ice melts the smallest area since records began.

the world health organization has called for more wealthy countries tojoin has called for more wealthy countries to join its global vaccine agreement. it aims to distribute future vaccines against covid—19 in a fair and equitable way. at least 150 countries are signed up to the scheme. that represents around two thirds of the worlds population. the us and china, though, have declined. the covax facility will help to bring the pandemic under control, save lives. ensure that the race for vaccines is a collaboration not a contest. this is not charity,

it is in every country's best interest. we think we swim together. the senior vice president and dean of clinical affairs in houston told me the programme is designed to ensure all countries have fair access. here we have been pinning all our hopes on a vaccine to get us our hopes on a vaccine to get us out of this mess and imagine a world where there are countries that are habits and countries that are habits and countries that are habits and countries that i have is not andl countries that i have is not and i think what covax is attempting to do is avoid a situation where some countries just don't have access to the vaccine. so if you look at the us case, for example, operation work speed, to push 300 million doses and have spent $21 million. sorry, $21 billion. more than the gross domestic product. so countries could be ina product. so countries could be in a situation where they cannot compete with large

manufacturers. it is already very short of funds. what impact specifically is the us and china not taking part going to have? it seems that in some people are going to lose out. certainly it would help the effort of the us and china and i think russia is also not on board, a very large percentage of the world's population. 225 million people in the us alone. i think we are balancing some political issues. obviously, the poor relations between who and the us government right now isn't helping matters. i can't speak to china's motivations but i think potentially there isa fairdegree but i think potentially there is a fair degree of fallout. i think there are moral implications to not providing vaccines to all the world's citizens. i think there are potential the political ramifications are countries think there are. countries like russia seem to be using the vaccine is apolitical too and i

think the real economic consequences not functioning like a world community. there are real concerns, too, about about how confident people will be about a vaccine and this kind of, this discrepancy and fight over who is responsible and he will do best is only going to feed and that lack of confidence, isn't it? yes. i think the moral ambiguity we have and the more ambiguity we have and the more ambiguity we have and the more ambiguity we have a think the worst things are going to be. if you look at countries now, notably russia, which has chosen to skip phase three clinical trials and jump right into distributing a vaccine, if we put a vaccine out that is not safe, that is going to cause potential problems and will potentially cause people not to get vaccinated for other diseases. if we put a vaccine out that it is not equitably i think that causes a different set of problems. pubs and restaurants in england will be required to

close early under new plans to tackle a resurgence of the coronavirus. they are due to be announced by the prime minister. it is feared infections could quickly climb into the tens of thousands each day without action. our medical editor has more. no one wants to see more covid cases in hospital. but the government's key advisers on the pandemic delivered a sombre warning. although hospital cases are low flow warning. although hospital cases are low now compared to april, that could all change. if we don't do enough, the vibe it will take off and at the the pa rt it will take off and at the the part that we are clearly on and if we do not change because then we're going to find ourselves in a very difficult position. it is thought to the epidemic is doubling in size in the uk every week. now, if that was to happen for the next four weeks we could have nearly

50,000 cases per day. now, this wasn't a prediction from government scientists and it doesn't take into account measures to control covid like the rule of six which only comes into force a week ago. and it would still be half the estimated number of cases that we saw in early april. government scientists are worried that we could be just a few weeks behind spain and france. where cases have soared in recent weeks. although much of that be among younger people who are unlikely to fall ill. are you feeling tired? covid has had a profound impact on many who survived the disease. the message today was take action now to tackle the rise in cases or see the virus spreading again among the vulnerable with perhaps 200 deaths a day by november. the challenge, therefore, is to make sure that we do not enter into this exponential growth and end up with the problem is

that you would predict as a result of that. that requires speed, it requires action and it requires enough in order to be able to bring that down.“ we look at admissions to hospital in england with the confirmed covid diagnosis, they've been fighting for the past couple of weeks and now stand at about 200 patients per day. if we go back to the beginning of april, though, back then up to 3000 patients we re back then up to 3000 patients were being admitted every day so were being admitted every day so we're still a long way off that figure. one key problem that figure. one key problem that needs sorting is the delay many have faced trying to get a swa b test many have faced trying to get a swab test to find out whether they have the infection. that isa they have the infection. that is a key part of knowing exactly where and how quickly the virus is sadly, i'm not that optimistic that we can suppress the epidemic as much as we would like. and i think we do need to start thinking about how we identify and advise and protect the most

vulnerable, the people who are more likely to get severely ill. enjoying the freedom to eat out late while they can. the weather and the rules are set to change. the government scientists say curbing the virus will continue to be an issue for the next six months. it could be a long winter. the number of deaths related to covid is very fast approaching 200,000 people, the highest amount anywhere in the world in the united states. let's speak now to the co—director of the centre for vaccine development at texas children's hospital. he is in houston by w to talk to you again. it does seem extraordinary that a country with access to such extraordinary medics and so much technology has got to this point. it is incredible, isn't

it? we never thought we would get to this point. but there has been so many missteps by the us government in getting us here, we missed at the entrance of the virus from europe new york in march and i am sorry, in early february, we allowed transmission to go on for weeks undetected and that caused a horrific epidemic in new york city where you heard sirens wailing day and night and we still did not learn from our m ista kes still did not learn from our mistakes in new york city and we never mounted a national response, really. we allowed a strategy which states were in the lead and the us would supply chain management but never mounted a national strategy and then we had the surgeons across our southern states and so we have a biphasic epidemic. a big peak of cases and deaths in march

and april and a second major peak across the summer and now we are poised to get a third peak as we move into the full. the numbers are starting to tick back up again so some estimates say we will easily reach 300,000 deaths by the end of the year. all predicted unpredictable. when you stand back from it is that really fair? you know that so many countries developing and developed are still struggling. didn't any government, any president could have done much better? no question. certainly we should have been able to detect the presence of the virus when it came into new york after all our centres of disease control is considered a model for the world in terms of how to model public health agencies. he missed that. and then we never provided the advocacy and leadership to prevent that resurgence and that was, for me, it was particularly reprehensible that we allowed that big spike to occur when we knew exactly what was coming. he knew exactly

what needed to be done. we learned the hard lessons after we saw what happened in europe. around again in new york in allowing that resurgence was particularly tragic and of course we are forcing schools to reopen in areas of high transmission and colleges and universities and this will happen a third time, i am sorry to say. there does seem to be concerned, even among people who have recovered that there could be really serious long—term implications. could be really serious long-term implications. the figures could go up four years. that is it, isn't it, as you have already seen in the united kingdom, that is our one piece but there is another very important component which is what some are calling long whole survivor meetings, those whole survivor meetings, those who have long lasting symptoms, permanent injury or long lasting injury due to their heart and vasculature, and there are concerns about the long—term effects neurologically, cognitive disturbances. some refer to it

as brainfog, disturbances. some refer to it as brain fog, that prevents individuals from being fully engaged in the workforce and bark to a normal existence. we think this virus will be hunting us for years to come even after we had vaccines. thank you very much for talking to us. thank you so much. president trump says he expects to announce his nominee for the supreme court on saturday. he said he wants the senate to confirm his nominee before november's presidential election. november's presidential election. ijust think it would be better. they asked if i'd rather have it. i'd rather have it before the election. i think it'd be better for our country. and we'll pick somebody that's outstanding, very qualified. they're all qualified, but somebody that is outstanding. and i'd rather see it all take place before the election. here are some of his

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. let's speak to the ceo of the national women's law centre. thank you for your time. what is your pet here? who's going to get it? i have to actually begin with what i heard president trump saying about confirming someone before the election. we are actually in the middle of an election back now. people have already started voting in virginia and north carolina and there are longline so i should begin by saying it is extraordinary to think that during an election that this is what the senate

would be doing and this is what this president would be doing. because of course, in 2016, eight months to go until the election, the republicans refuse to consider president obama's nomination. in this case though it looks like it is going to happen, doesn't it? there's nothing the democrats can do with the republican majority in the senate. first sure the person will make a nomination. i trust that is what he would do but we don't know what the senate will do and so we got to be really clear here that this is an issue that is not to be team. this is an in our constitution. in our democracy. and we know the sort ofjudges that president trump is considering. he has made it clear that his two litmus tests are a judge that will dismantle the affordable care act to make it harderfor people to affordable care act to make it harder for people to access health care and a judge that will attack reproductive

freedom in this country make it harder to access abortion care. so we know the sort ofjudges he is putting forward and the people on his lists meet his litmus test. on abortion in particular it is a curious one because it is very important to many people but actually, i think the poll suggest that most of the country supports the current state of the law on abortion. listen, there is widespread support across this country for abortion and that is what is so disturbing about this craven power grab that seems to be happening before my eyes. people in this country support access to abortion care. they support roe v wade which has been the law for 50 years. so the idea that the small extremist minority would in this moment up and our entire system of government in this way is really, really distressing and i think that's why we've seen long lines at the polls already in virginia and north carolina as people

are showing up in opposition. thank you very much for talking to us. do stay with this. there is much more to come on bbc news.

welcome back. let's just quickly round up one main story put up more than 130 countries have signed up to an agreement to distribute future covid—19 vaccines valuable china, though, are not on the list. leaked documents involving trillions of dollars have revealed how some of the biggest banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money abound the world. it is latest ina abound the world. it is latest in a string of leaks over the past five years that have expose secret deals, money laundering and financial crime.

the files contain more than two and a half thousand documents. they include thousands of secret papers from the us treasury. the documents also show how korea managed to evade sanctions by laundering money through american banks. eric is a former us treasury official who worked on north korea sanctions under the current administration. very good to talk to you. i suppose we should stress these documents consist of what our hold suspicious reports. they are not proof of wrongdoing or crime. it is how banks report suspicious behaviour. what you make of them in relation to north korea in particular? that is exactly right and thanks for having me. they are a activity reports. they are banks flagging transactions that raise suspicions of illicit activity and particularly in the north korea context what the north korea context what the show, apparently reportedly, is that north korea, over a period of 15 yea rs, really korea, over a period of 15 years, really tried all sorts of different ways to access the us financial system using front

and shell companies and other deceptive tools to try to get access to us dollars. what does that tell you about how successful they have been? they don't necessarily tell you how successful they have been but we know from the department of justice indictments, from sanctions that have been issued by the us department of treasury, for example, that the north koreans have, over time, been seen to access in the amount of hundreds of millions of dollars over a period of ten or 15 years and the number may be significantly higher, but i think what it really does illustrate is that during the period from 2005—2006 onwards, even up to a few years ago there were holes, vulnerabilities and us financial system that us authorities have really been trying to plug with the cooperation of many of the globalfinancial cooperation of many of the global financial institutions. how does this make you feel about the global financial institutions and the banks in particular? if the bank fails

one of these reports cannot then continue, once the report has been submitted, can continue to deal with those clients with artificially knowing who they are? and continue without penalty? yes, great question because in some ways people look at the reports and they say, well, this must be evidence that the banks are dismissing all of this and there is all this infiltration but at the same time the banks are also catching it. they are flagging it and saying hey, us regulatory authorities, we think this is an issue. so you can look at it from two different ways, really. from my perspective, the thing i am more concerned about is not to be robots that i filed it as the ones that are not filed. the transactions that are never caught, that are really never identified. one other point i wa nt to identified. one other point i want to make here is that sometimes these accounts are actually kept open at the request of regulatory authorities. sometimes what us born postman would do is to ask these banks, hey, don't close

these banks, hey, don't close these accounts. keep them open because we want to track what's going on. we want you to report back so we can collect more information and intelligence are there a reason that these accou nts are there a reason that these accounts could potentially be kept open. very interesting to talk to you. thank you very much. american scientists are saying this year's arctic summer sea ice melted to the second smallest area since records began 42 years ago. just more evidence of the impact of global warming. the arctic, also known as the north pole. an ocean surrounded by land. unlike antarctica it does not have wind and ocean currents to keep it cold and that makes it more sensitive to climate change which is why the latest revelation is no surprise. the summer's sea ice shrank to its second lowest extent since they started using satellites to monitor it. the difference between the avid ice cap minimum to then and 1990 and

the low point reported today, more than 3 million kilometres squared, is twice the size of france, germany and spain combined. put simply, there was less ice and more sea water. that doesn't mean sea levels are rising but it does mean it asa are rising but it does mean it as a driver of climate change as a driver of climate change as well as a symptom. 80% of the sunlight that strikes the ice is reflected back into space but darker ocean water absorbs 90% of it and that means the oceans heat up and arctic temperatures rise further. on average, arctic sea ice is declining by 12% a decade which is why some forecasts say it could be ice free within 15 years. bad news for santander even worse free within 15 years. bad news for sa ntander even worse news for sa ntander even worse news for polar bears. earlier this year 1a, said they could be virtually extinct by the end of the century. it would also certainly mean a profound shift in the regionmarine ecosystems which is why prince charles delivered this morning at the

climate conference in new york. it is now rapidly becoming a competitive catastrophe that would wipe the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. with the permafrost melting in siberia, for instance, producing dire effects on global warming, we can no longer go on like this as if there was no tomorrow and no ultimate reckoning for our abusive nature. without doubt, we must now put ourselves on a warlike fitting, approaching our action from the perspective ofa our action from the perspective of a military style campaign. the good news is, the solution isa simple the good news is, the solution is a simple one. cut greenhouse gases and stop the planet warming so quickly. the bad news is, the major polluting nations cannot agree on a plan of action that does enough. just six weeks into the us presidential election. there are concerns that conspiracy theories could have a meaningful impact. a reporter

sent this report. there is the election campaign you see on the surface. and then there's the one being waged beneath it, a subterranean social media campaign sucking people into a world dominated by conspiracy theories. and it could impact their vote. qanon is one of them. it claims president trump is fighting a secret war against elite, satan—worshipping paedophiles. though completely unfounded, it's been entertained by the man himself. these are people that love our country, they just don't like seeing it. so, i don't really know anything about it other than they do supposedly like me. tom long runs a local facebook group in the swing state of florida. it's one of the places false claims from qanon has reached. you see all these crazy things that are posted and reposted, and then reposted. and if you know that person, you think, oh, that person knows what they're talking about. and then it gets spread, and spread, and spread. even though it's completely false. qanon has also surfaced on younger platforms

like instagram and tik—tok. jade flury is from houston, texas. she says it could affect how her friends vote. honestly, they believe that the republican party and the democrat party are both just evil. so, they think that they're better offjust not voting. they have no idea that it's linked to qanon. some of them do, and some of them don't. i would say the majority of them have no idea. exclusive research from the bbc shows that qanon has generated over 100 million comments, shares and likes online this year. that increased sharply over the summer, with more people at home because of lockdown. social media sites stepped in and began to slow oanon's spread. by then, it had already reached the mainstream. qanon is a very pervasive conspiracy theory with a lot of very cult—like tentacles that can really grab onto people's minds when they spend a lot of time online.

temperatures have been well above the seasonal average recently. lots of sunshine around but as we head through this week all that summery weather is about to change to something a lot more autumnal. as we reach the end of the week. through monday we saw highs of 20—27 across the south of the country. low 20s for the north but what shall we start to see the blue covers invade from the north and north—west. bringing that arctic air to our shells. that will push temperatures below the seasonal average by the end of the week struggling to get into double figures by the north of the uk. changes taking place early on tuesday across the north—west of the country, an act of where the front bringing windy weather here, at

base of rain for the south, tuesday will start generally dry it clear skies. a few mist and fog patches are banned in most and fog patches are banned in m ost pla ces and fog patches are banned in most places will be relatively mild but more cloud across ireland to start tuesday. at base of rain continue in the northern western isles in particular. some of that heavier here and windier too. as we head to the day that rain will push south—eastwards into much of scotland and northern ireland. but for england and wales the last of the warm, sunny days for those highs of 2526 degrees. perhaps the odd shower developing in the midlands as clouds begin to increase in the west as we head on into the evening. overnight, rain band in the north—west continues to migrate south—eastwards. going through central areas by the end of the night and that will make the difference between much colder chilly conditions across scotla nd chilly conditions across scotland and northern ireland by the end of tuesday night versus something a bit milder still ahead of that weather front for england and wales but will be cloudy here without base of rain. as we move into

wednesday that when the front will push its way eastwards affecting much of england and wales with some rain at times, this brief veg of high pressure will tend to settle things down across scotland and northern ireland but it will be much chillier here so the best of the sunshine across the west of the sunshine across the west of the country by the odd shower. england and wales cloudy skies and outbreaks of rain across eastern areas and some of this will be quite heavy at times. turning windier around the temperatures ranging from the low to high teens so of a deeply feeling noticeably different. towards the end of the week all the areas we much cooler with showers and long spells of rain. chilly by day and chilly by night with a touch of frost in places.

latest headlines for you from bbc news. more than 150 nations have joined the world health organization project aimed at the common development and fair distribution of future vaccines against covid—19. they hope to have 2 billion doses available by the end of next year. the us and china have declined to sign up. pubs, bars and restaurants in england are ordered to close by 10pm in england are ordered to close by10pm and a in england are ordered to close by 10pm and a new virus restrictions. the government's scientific advisers have warned that in a little over three weeks' time without any action that could be 50,000 new cases a day. donald trump has said it will probably female nominee for the us supreme court on saturday. she will be a replacement for ruth peter ginsberg who died on and has intensified the debate about whether the decision should be taken before the rafter the next election. —— before or after. this it's about 2:30am