this is bbc news a very warm welcome if you're watching here in the uk, in pbs in america or the latest headlines for you around the globe. more than 150 from bbc news. more than 150 countries but not the us or nations have joined a world health organization project aimed at the common development china sign up to an agreement to distribute future covid—19 and fair distribution of future vaccines. this is not charity. it is in vaccines for covid—19. the every country's best interest. scheme hopes to have 2 billion doses available by the end of next year. the us and china have declined to sign up. pubs, we think we swim together. bars and have declined to sign up. pubs, bars a nd restau ra nts have declined to sign up. pubs, bars and restaurants in england english pubs and restaurants have been ordered to close by are to be ordered to close early as britain fights to 10pm amid new coronavirus contain a resurgence of the restrictions. government virus. scientific advisers have warned that without action and a debate gets fiercer over the little over three weeks could president's choice for the be 50,000 new cases a day. supreme court. donald trump says he will name president trump plans to a female nominee by the announce his female nominee for weekend. signs of global the us supreme court on

saturday. the death ofjustice warming. this year's arctic summer sea warming. this year's arctic summer sea ice melts to the with peter ginsberg has ignited smallest area since records a furious debate on whether her replacement should be chosen before or after november's began. presidential election. decisions on the supreme court can shake the country for decades. the world health organisation has called for more wealthy countries to join its global vaccine agreement which aims to distribute future vaccines against covid—19 in a fair and equitable way. more than 150 countries have signed up to the covax scheme, representing around two thirds of the world's population. but the us and china have declined to join the programme. the covax facility will help to bring the pandemic under control, save lives, accelerate the economic recovery and ensure that the race for vaccines is a collaboration, not a contest. this is not charity. it's in every country's

best interest. we sink or we swim together. doctorjames mcdevitt told me the programme is designed to ensure all countries have fair access. we have been pinning all their hopes on a vaccine to get us out of this mes in the global pandemic and imagine a world where there are countries that our hearts and countries that i have nots and watch ten by mike 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 warp speed, they want to produce 300 million doses and they have already spent $21 million, sorry, $21 billion which is more than the gross

domestic product of honduras. so countries could be in a situation where they cannot compete with the large manufacturers. the who is already very short of funds. what impact specifically is the us and china not taking part going to have? some people will lose out? certainly it would help the effort if the us and china and i think russia, that is a very large percentage of the world's population. 325 million population 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 is a fair degree of fallout. there are moral implications to not providing vaccines to all the world citizens. there are potentially political ramifications.

at least, countries think there are. some countries like russia seem to use the vaccine as a political tool and i think the real economic consequences to to not functioning like a world community. there are real concerns to about how confident people would be in a vaccine in this kind of, these discrepancies, this fight over who is responsible, he was going to do it best, is only going to feed into that lack of confidence, isn't it? the more ambiguity we have the worse things are going to be and that is working on a lot of different levels. if you look at countries such as russia has chosen to skip phase three clinical trials andjump into distributing the vaccine, if we put a vaccine out that is not safe, i think that is going to cause potential problems and potentially cause people not to get vaccinated for other diseases. if we put a vaccine out that is not distributed equitably i think that causes a different set of problems.

pubs and vestments are to be closed early. it is feared could quickly climb into the tens of thousands each day. no one wants to see a huge wave of covid cases in hospital with nhs staff working round the clock and ppe. the government's key advisers on the pandemic delivered a sombre warning. although hospital cases are low now compared to april, that could all change. if we don't do enough the virus this will take off and at the moment, that is the path that we are clearly on and if we do not change course then we are going to find ourselves in a very different problem. it is thought the epidemic is doubling in size in the uk every week.

we could have nearly 50,000 cases per day, and this was not a prediction from government scientists. it does not take into account measures to control covid, like the rule of six which only came 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 will be among younger people who are unlikely to fall ill. are you feeling tired? covid has had a profound impact on many who survived disease. the message today was take action now to tackle the rising 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 problems

that you would predict as a result of that. that requires speed, it requires action and it requires enough to be able to bring that down. if we look at admissions to hospital in england with a confirmed covid diagnosis, they've been rising for the past couple of weeks and now stand at around 200 patients per day. if we go back to the beginning of april, though, back then up to 3000 patients were being admitted every day so we're still a long way off that figure. one key problem that needs sorting is the delay many had faced trying to get a swab test to find out whether they have the infection. that is a key part of knowing exactly where and how quickly the virus is spreading. sadly, i am 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. spain has been hardest hit in europe. a new lockdown for madrid. three months after the last one ended. this time, restrictions are only in certain areas, particularly lower income districts of the capital such as here. and for now, at least,

the police are informing people rather than finding them. but the new measures are already having an impact, albeit on peoples' pockets. this restau ra nt peoples' pockets. this restaurant is just inside one of their zones with restrictions, reducing its clientele. translation: we have to close at10p at translation: we have to close at 10p at night and that is too early for us to serve supper. for the next few weeks we will lose customers at lunchtime because a lot of our customers are from outside this area. the areas of madrid with these new measures were introduced we re new measures were introduced were chosen by the local authorities because of their particularly high rates of infection. but many of the local residents are unhappy at the restrictions, seeing them as discriminatory. then they should build around madrid not only in poor areas like this one in other areas very close to this.

translation: 100 metres away there are no restrictions. but here, there are. these measures won't work at all, he adds. we're just won't work at all, he adds. we'rejust going to won't work at all, he adds. we're just going to waste two weeks and the whole of madrid will have to go into lockdown. translation: there are many elements that make the madrid region are unique that is why we need a special plan for madrid. for now, that plan consists of this localised partial lockdown. with hospital admission starting to climb, the true test for this latest attempt to thwart the coronavirus will be whether it manages to ease the pressure on the local health care system. the number of deaths in the us

is reaching 200,000 people. i spoke to the director at texas children's hospital and asked them how things got so bad when the country are such good medical resources. 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 the entrance of the virus from europe into new york in march, i'm sorry, in early february. allowed transmission to go on for weeks undetected. that because that horrific epidemic in new york city where you heard sirens wailing day and night and then we still did not learn from our mistakes in new york city and we never mounted a national response, really. we allowed a strategy in which states were in the lead in the us would provide some back—up support, supply chain management, but never mounted a national strategy. and then we allowed a massive resurgence across our southern

states so what you see is a biphasic epidemic, a big peak of cases and deaths in march and april and then a second major peak across the summer, and now we oppose to get yet third peak as we move into the fall. the numbers are starting to pick back up again so some estimates able to easily reach 300,000 deaths by the end of the year, or predicted unpredictable. when you stand back from it, is that really fair? you know that so many countries, developing and developed, are still struggling. you think any government, any president actually 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 centers for disease control is considered a model for the world in terms of how to model public health agencies. we missed that, and then we never provided the advocacy and leadership in the directive to prevent that resurgence and for me that was particularly

reprehensible that we allowed that big spike to the curve and we knew exactly what was coming, we knew exactly what needed to be done. we learned the hard lessons after we saw what happened in europe and we learned them again in new york and allowing that resurgence was particularly tragic and of course were forcing schools to reopen in areas of high transmission in colleges and universities and this will happen at that time, i'm sorry to say. there does seem to be concern even among people who have recovered that they could be long—term implications. the figures could go up for years. well, that is it, isn't it? as you have already seen in the united kingdom, that is one piece but there is another very important component which is what some are calling long haul survivors. those who have long lasting symptoms from an injury or an injury to the lungs, vasculature, their heart, and there is a lot of concerns

about the long—term neurological effects. we are seeing cognitive disturbances and some refer to it as brain fog, that prevent individuals from being fully engaged in the workforce and back to a normal existence. in severe depression also, so the bottom line is we think this virus is going to be haunting us for years to come even after we have vaccines. do stay with us if you can. there is much more to come. nearly six weeks to the us election day. what about those conspiracy theories on mine? music. ben johnson, the fastest man on earth, is flying home to canada in disgrace. all athletes should be clean going into the games. i'm just happy that justice is served. it is a simple fact that this morning, these people were in their homes. tonight, those homes have been

burnt down by serbian soldiers and police. all the taliban positions along here have been strengthened, presumably in case the americans invade. it's no use having a secret service which cannot preserve its own secrets against the world. and so, the british government has no option but to continue this action, even after any adverse judgement in australia. concorde had crossed the atlantic faster than any plane ever before, breaking the record by six minutes. the latest headlines. a least

150 countries have signed up to an agreement to distribute future covid—19 vaccines valley. the us and china have not signed up. english pubs and restau ra nts not signed up. english pubs and restaurants are to be ordered to close early as britain fights to contain a resurgence of coronavirus. 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. 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.

there are seven seats that are a toss—up and so those senators may find that it is in their best interest for being it elected not to support or at least not to vote for the election before november three so we don't know for the republicans will follow in mind. there is barely a0 days before the election when in 2016, of course, more than 200 days to an election, the republicans refuse to consider president 0bama's nominee. yes. we sell a complete hypocritical move, frankly, 2016, where all that the republicans were crying foul that 0bama would replace justice scalia and it had been more than 200 days before the elections were even scheduled. so it is very obvious and there

are many new stories that are showing exactly the opposite statement is that the made at a time and again you had almost an entire yearand time and again you had almost an entire year and now only a0 days before the election. so there is some bad faith, or more precisely there is some very real politics going on where this is really about getting their person in the supreme court and the christian conservatives, i think they wa nt conservatives, i think they want amy barry because she is the best conservative on social issues. she is the one most likely to overturn roe v wade or support the rules that are making it impossible to have abortion clinics in many of the state said that even though abortion is technically legal there is no abortion clinic for low income women in particular or rural women to use and therefore it is a hollow right. i guess we should stress may be for people who think this is a slightly peripheral or obscure

issue just how important the courts decisions are. even if mrtrump courts decisions are. even if mr trump loses courts decisions are. even if mrtrump loses in courts decisions are. even if mr trump loses in november his appointment to the supreme court, a cell that conservative majority on the court, could shape the country for decades to come. absolutely. and there are many cultural fault lines right now. there issues in immigration, for example b border wall, asylum, the dreamers. you have voting rights, particularly lingering concerns about repression of voting rights of minorities. we just had a case in florida which the 11th circuitjoined in. essentially reversing the popular referendum, by floridians, that if you are a former thousand, convicted of a non—violent crime, you can now vote. and she essentially held in the majority and sated know not unless you have paid all your fees and fines and as a result tens of thousands of

floridians will not be able to vote and they are likely going to vote for the democratic nominee and that is another reason why she is on the shortlist is because she is from florida, she was nominated to the florida supreme court by the current republican governor and her husband is very active in the federalist society which isa in the federalist society which is a conservative legal organisation and so i think that's probably going to be someone that trump will take seriously because the only thing he really cares about right now is getting re—elected in november. they are finding more evidence of the impact of global warming. the arctic. also known as the north pole. an ocean surrounded by land. unlike antarctica, it doesn't have wind and ocean currents to keep it cold. that makes it more sensitive to climate change

which is what the latest revelation is no surprise. this summer's ch shrank to its lowest extent since they started using satellites to monitor in 1979. the average minimum from then to 1990 and the low point reported today, more than 3 million kilometres squared, is twice the size of french rhythmic france, germany and spain combined. there is less ice and more sea water. it does not mean sea levels are rising but it does mean this 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 that and that means that the ocea ns of that and that means that the oceans heat up and arctic temperatures rise further. 0n average, arctic sea ice is declining by 12% a decade which is why some forecasts say it could be ice free within 15 yea rs. could be ice free within 15 years. bad news for santa and even worse news for polar bears. earlier this year 1a, said they could be virtually extinct by the end of the

century. it would certainly meana century. it would certainly mean a profound shift in the region's marine ecosystem which is why prince charles delivered this morning at the start of a climate conference in new york. it is rapidly becoming a comprehensive catastrophe that would dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. with the permafrost melting in siberia, producing dire effects on global warming we can no longer go on as if there was no tomorrow and no ultimate reckoning for our abusive nature. without doubt, we must now put ourselves on a warlike footing, approaching our action from the perspective of a military style campaign. 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.

the us presidential election is just six weeks away, and aside from the main campaigning by president trump and his democratic rival, joe biden, voters are taking the debate online in record numbers. as they do, concerns are growing that conspiracy theories on various social media platforms on both sides of the political divide could have a meaningful impact on the outcome of the vote. 0ur reporter, marianna spring, who specialises in investigating disinformation has more details. 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 qanon'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. if you're in a dark place, you're very susceptible to easy answers to very complex problems. it's not just a domestic problem. whilst qanon appears to have originated in the us, it's these sorts of spaces that could be exploited by foreign interference campaigns as polling day approaches. marianna spring, bbc news. at this 150 countries have signed up to an agreement to distribute future covid—19 vaccines valley. the us and china have not signed up to that. there is much more on all the news anytime on the bbc

website and on our twitter feed. thank you for watching. 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 26—27 across the south of the country. low 20s for the north, but watch as we start to see the blue covers invade from the north and north—west. bringing that arctic air to our shoress. 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 with clear skies. a few mist and fog patches are banned in most places will be relatively mild but more cloud across scotland and 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 through 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 25 or 26 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 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 outbreaks 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 ridge 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 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 coast with 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 00:28:36,485 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 touch of frost in places.