so, the isobars are going to pinch together. the winds are going to blow even more strongly. republican leaders in congress it will feel even colder. have said there will be yes, a day of sunshine and showers, but prolonged an orderly transfer of power, outbreaks of rain across parts should president trump lose of eastern england. november's election. and there's going to be some very strong winds in east he appeared to cast doubt anglia. gusts could reach in excess on the transition on of 60 mph, strong enough wednesday, again raising potentially to bring down a tree or two, so there could be some questions about the probity transport disruption. and there's heavy rain in the forecast, too, of the vote, with so many particularly lincolnshire ballots likely to be into parts of east anglia with around 20—a0 millimetres orso, perhaps a bit cast by mail. the french prime minister's warned it is a race more in places. we could also see some localised flooding, but away against time to avoid a second coronavirus wave as bad from the east, some sunshine, feeling really cold, as the first. though, given the strength it comes as the country records of those northerly winds. those northerly winds continue to blow into saturday, a record number of new cases slightly less strongly. another cold start to the day, the threat again of a bit since mass testing began, with more than 16,000 people more rain running down testing positive in 2a hours. into parts of east anglia in particular. further west, pressure's building a bit, the british chancellor of the exchequer‘s announced should be a drier kind plans to replace the current of day, showers fewer and farther between. furlough job support scheme temperatures still struggling and still feeling cold for workers as the country in the wind, and cold tries to contain coronavirus nights around as well. as we head through saturday infections. night, it'll be cold enough for some frost patches rishi sunak said his primary in the countryside in scotland. we've still got goal remained to support northerly winds as well across eastern parts of england. potentially a few showers the labour market, or spots of rain. but he warned he wouldn't be further west, brighter able to save everyjob. with some sunshine. winds turning a little bit lighter here, so perhaps not

feeling quite as chilly. looking into the forecast into next week, it stays unsettled with low pressure. those temperatures coming up, though, a few degrees. that's your weather. the singer—songwriter michael cue in yourcar the singer—songwriter michael cue in your car has won the mercury prize for his self titled third album. the 33—year—old's victory was revealed live on the bbc‘s the 0ne show. will gompertz has more. it was a case of third time lucky for the 33—year—old london born musician, winning the prestigious award for his third album, which earned him the nomination. it was a happy ending toa the nomination. it was a happy ending to a prolonged period of self—doubt for the singer—songwriter. always been kind of worried about my place

in the musical landscape, where i fit in the musical landscape, where ifit in, all those kind of questions. and with this one, i kind of made a decision i wa nted kind of made a decision i wanted to not really worry about those things and create my own land, you know? this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: # shine your light... the album donald trump is not backing has a song cycle approach, down — he questions blending one track into another as the singer x —— explores if the presidential election can be honest, despite senior republicans distancing themselves from his comments. we want to make sure the election is honest and i'm not sure that it can be. issues like identity. they i don't know that it can be. aren't protest songs, but they have something to say.” a race against time in france aren't protest songs, but they have something to say. i want to see black players, black to avoid another deadly conductors, not just to see black players, black conductors, notjust in the coronavirus wave, as boxes we are used to seeing, the country reports a record number of new cases. ourselves in music, you know? the uk government unveils we can be anything, you know, a plan to top up workers' wages these are things we are going as covid cases rise and fears to have to struggle with very long time. music is a great, i of mass unemployment grow. constantly accused of kidnap guess, home, for that kind of because her child's a different fight. my hero. my hero. he is

at times upbeat and at other times introspective and soulful. there are hints of hendrix's psychedelic rhythm and at other times dylan's soulful lyrics. there is no dull moment in his album, it is consistent throughout. it is a musically adventurous, meticulously produced album by a royal academy of music dropout turned mercury prize winning artist. will gompertz, bbc news. congratulations to him. now on bbc news, philippa thomas hears from people around the world about their extraordinary experiences during the pandemic

and how covid—i9 has changed their lives. welcome to coronavirus: your stories, a programme about how covid—i9 is changing lives. i'm philippa thomas — and this week we take you to england, europe, and africa as we hear personal stories about livelihoods lost to lockdown, part of the global fallout that's affecting millions of people right now. later, the restaurant owner who has had to close his doors. dean and christine newman set up their family restaurant in leicester 35 years ago, and made a success of it. like so many other small businesses, dean says the pandemic, the lockdown, and recession is a triple blow that is harder to survive. from the world —famous kruger national park

in south africa, independent safari operator khimbini hlongwane tells us what happens when the tourists disappear, to the people and to the animals. we start in malta, with airline pilot luke mifsud, whose dream job was axed injune. he tells us he's wanted to fly ever since he was a toddler. my mother says i wanted to become a pilot since i was two and a half. and we were on our way, on a family holiday to tunisia, and it still also the time when the cabin crew used to come up and down the aisle and they used to the children into the cockpit. and i just remember seeing all these buttons and lights and everything and i said, "this is where i want to be." and years later, you qualified. i guess that means a lot to you and your family.

yes, definitely. i mean, i got my first commercialjob with air malta, which is the national airline of the maltese islands, so it was like a nice sense of pride to be able to fly for your national airline. i was lucky enough to have all my family present when we did the first base training in malta, which was six take—off and landings of the plane. it was an experience for me and for my parents and the whole of my family, like nothing else. and when the pandemic came to souther europe, to the mediterranean, luke, how did the airline use your skills to start with? the worst place where the virus was hitting was italy at the time. and the government and the airline took the decision to drastically reduce the number of flights leaving the country, for obvious reasons. but the pilot community and our union in general went above and beyond. so we tried to help them with rostering flights that were going to these countries, and we ended up repatriating thousands of tourists that were stuck in malta, back home, and lots of brought back maltese back home. we even serviced some

destinations we didn't do before. we went to beirut to bring back some nurses that were stuck there. we also did the run flights daily. the run flight, for example, we bring back radioactive isotopes that we need for our hospitals to function. so we were bringing in essential supplies to the country as well during the pandemic. and then what happened to you injune? the company had released a refreshed schedule for the summer period. so we were starting to have a normal summer schedule. the company decided to let go over half of the pilot complement. what was your experience, luke? tell us about the day you found out you're not to be flying anymore? we were sent an e—mail

on a friday night at 11:10 at night, informing us of the decision that the company was making us redundant. i actually found out through the newspapers the next day, because by that time, i was already in bed and the next morning, i opened the newspapers before i opened my email. i hear this happened to you, it happened to a lot of your fellow pilots. coming back to your story, was it a blow for your family as well, because it sounds as if your whole family is in the dream with you? it broke my heart, but after all this happened, my parents actually lent us money. it is not like we planned for this, me and my wife, we planned for this. we put some savings away for a rainy day because aviation has always been volatile, but we never expected something like this and, luckily, we don't have any big, major commitments, we only have the loan on our home property, we don't have kids at the moment so no school fees, nothing else.

other people, obviously, if you have a certain salary, you base your life on that salary. so you take a particular home loan, maybe car payments, and some of the pilots that were made redundant were the sole breadwinner of the family, so it's put everyone in this sort of limbo. there'll be a lot of people around the world watching you, luke, thinking, "i don't know whether myjob is going to survive, i don't know whether i'm going to get enough pay in." so much vulnerability. the thing is, like me, there are thousands of other pilots looking forjobs now. even if there were positions available, we are stuck in place because we can't even go to any assessment because of the travel restrictions. and now it's up to us to keep our licenses valid. if we don't go into the simulator at least once a year, everything we have worked so hard to achieve up until now just vanishes. so are you talking to other pilots about things like that? you've got to keep going to the simulator, you've got to keep going just in the hope

that the industry recovers. i am in contact with the 69 pilots that have been made redundant from my company, plus the ones that are still in employment. it is just trying to form a sort of support group and push each other. now there a group on facebook as well that is trying to put a collective on all the european pilots together, just to share experiences, try to find a partner for the simulators. it's going to be a tough ride. and foryou, luke, do you think you will fly again, do you think you will get back into the air as a pilot? the situation as it is here, in malta, i don't think it is going to come anytime soon. abroad, as i said, there are so many pilots that have been made redundant, it's going to be a cut—throat sort of world because for us to come back, we hear projections that the aviation is going to recover by next

year, then it's adjusted to the year after that. now we're hearing 2025. so we still don't know. so how would you sum up the way you feel right now? it's a tough life. it's a challenging life. but, at the same time, it's a fruitful life. i mean, the time i spent in the plane with my colleagues was the best time of my life. luke mifsud in malta, on the life he's lost but hopes to regain. next, we go to south africa where experienced safari guide khimbini hlongwane set up his own company vomba tours four years ago. in the pandemic, khimbini has lost business, had to lay off

staff, and witnessed a rising threat to the animals he wants to help conserve in the world—famous kruger national park. i'd been working in private game reserves for 20 years and i saw, as a guide, i saw people coming from america, seeing good animals and seeing, interacting with the locals that are saving them at the lodges, but they leave without seeing how people, these people that they see live in their real villages. i saw that gap and said, "if i can get these people out, that would grow their experience, but more than that it will provide jobs for the locals." people will be able to entertain these clients that i bring in, showcase their culture, as well as sell the craft that can make money out of that. and this is where it all started, this was the dream. as you set up your company, you were getting clients from all over the world and, guess, that changed your experience to, the things that you learned about. as a local, growing up

in a small village, and mostly raised by people that cannot read and write, one of the challenging things when, challenging thing when you go out and, all of a sudden, being a tracker and wanting to move into guiding, the biggest challenges understanding different cultures. you would mostly speak about animals, but there would be times when you speak about an elephant, even talking about a movie on a big screen, which are things that i hadn't experienced up until i was 28 years old. khimbini, what has the pandemic done to your company, to vomba tours? just like most other people it

has completely brought it down on its knees. everything had come to standstill. i know you had a good year last year, so presumably you have resources and, most importantly, people ready to go. we had a really, really good year last year. but that meant that that triggers us to want to grow our resources, buying more things, to be able to...that the company was demanding of us. so with this pandemic, it means we're left with so many things that we need to pay off every month, and we had grown our team to a large number than we would normally have because the business demanded that of us. this is what is making things very challenging for us. you so what kind of investments did you make? we have brought three vehicles that we obviously need

to repay every month. we have bought a larger minibus, 22—seater, and this is the one that we got literally a month before the pandemic, before it could even take the first clients. so with the coronavirus pandemic, it's really much more than just you or you and your direct employees that are suffering. we employ about seven people that are permanent. we had to let go five. we employed go five freelance guides that also, obviously, they had nojob. it's even harderfor them because they are freelancers, so they couldn't get money from the government to help them out. but there are also local guys, the guys that take people around the village, show them how we prepare the meals. they you those are guys that have also lost theirjobs.

but there are some that i didn't even know, one cannot even realise we're benefiting by people coming in, because they were selling the stuff directly to the clients but it was the result of us bringing the clients into the village and, all of a sudden, that's gone. and you're right outside one of the gates to kruger national park. i mean, you're on the doorstep. what about the animals — do you think there's more poaching as well? oh, yeah, forsure. initially, my biggest worry was that the rhino poaching, the commercial poaching, would be the biggest problem. but i've noted as well that with the pandemic, the way in which, the scale in which the size of this problem was, people were hungry, and one of the reason why people would be very wary of poaching is because the tourism brings money. why take out that lion, why take out that impala, if you can, if it can provide

jobs in the long run for you? but, all of a sudden, that was gone, and so the poaching ahead became a problem. luckily it wasn't so much on a commercial level, it was people hunting the odd impala, which are antelope, to feed themselves. khimbini, when we spoke a few weeks ago on this program to some volunteers in cape town, who are doing community work, they said the problem isn't so much the virus, it's the hunger, because people are out of work. certainly. up to about 70% ofjobs come from these neighbouring reserves. all of a sudden, that was gone, and the tourism, as you would be aware, it is the biggest hit but everyone is suffering. so the challenge is, people are starving, people are really starving.

as you come out of your winter, have you got any bookings for this year? is there any light at the end of the tunnel? there is a bit of light, there is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. we have some enquiries. some of them, most of them are of 2021, but at least you are hopeful, you say, "if i can survive until the end of the year, maybe things will start to change and pick up." one is very hopeful things will turn around. khimbini hlongwane hoping to welcome clients back to kruger national park. you're watching coronavirus: your stories, a program about how covid—19 is changing lives around the world. i'm philippa thomas and this week, we're hearing differing personal stories about livelihoods changed by lockdown. for many small business owners, almost most overnight, when the pandemic hit, customers disappeared and takings just dropped.

now they have to make heart—wrenching decisions about whether to stagger on or to stop. i've been taking a walk down memory lane with dean newman of newman's restaurant in the english city of leicester. i've always been in catering, and the idea was that i always wanted to work for myself, and this opportunity came and we took it. and tell us about the moment when you first walked up to the building. what did you think? that was unbelievable. it was something that, when you buy a house and you know that that's right for you, and that's what it was, it was just a matching of two things, and ijust thought, "yeah, i can make this work." and then that's a chance for you to be an independent

businessman, and for your family, i suppose, to grow up together with your venture. yes, my children, as they were growing up, worked on saturdays, and when they were little, they used to come and just do things in the office that we had downstairs, and when they weren't at school. and they were part of it. we've got three children, and they've all worked in it, and my grandchildren have as well. dean, is it fair to say that covid shut you down? yes. i couldn't see any way that we could take enough money to survive, when we have seven members of staff, some of those are part—time, and chris and i, and i couldn't see us taking enough money. i just thought that we'd be down by 30% or 40% in takings, and it wouldn't be a viable to try and operate, we just wouldn't take enough money. and i think sometimes, you have to go with your gut feeling, and be positive in all things, and not negative, and i think to try

and continue would have been absolutely ridiculous. we had a situation of a veg man that supplied us. i asked him for some fruit and veg two weeks into the pandemic, and he came back to me and he said, "i've liquidated my business, dean, i couldn't. .. "you were the only people that paid me this month." and i knew this was serious.

and i thought, well, "we have to make redundancies," and i just didn't want to do that. i...i just couldn't do that. i wanted to do everything properly, and just walk away, shut the door, and that was it, really. were you able to get the staff together to say goodbye, to kind of mark the leaving of the restaurant? when i knew that what we were going to do, i rang each member of staff and explained that we were calling it a day, and we couldn't see this operating. and they were all in agreement that it wouldn't work and, luckily, i wanted to do this early so it gave the staff an opportunity of finding alternative employment, because i thought that there'd be more businesses, as in my situation, that would not survive, and i wanted to give them the biggest opportunity of finding a job and, luckily, they've all got jobs, which is absolutely brilliant.

you had to work out, from what you are telling me, how to do the right thing. yes. i think you have a responsibility from your background, where you're from. my name's newman, my business was called newman's, i was very proud of my name, and i was very proud to do things in the best possible way for the best results for everybody, and i think we've done that. are you hearing from friends or colleagues in the business in similar situations? as you're saying, and a lot of viewers will know, a lot of restaurants and other hospitality venues are struggling or going out of business.

i've got two friends that have got establishments similar to ours. one is a family—run operation, other is a cafe, and one is a coffee shop. i've been in touch with both. both have not returned their furloughed staff because they're not taking enough money. they‘ re running it. . . how they're operating is they've reduced the opening hours, reduced the days that they work, increase prices, so that you can take enough but, basically, one is running on 38% of what he was doing, and the other one is at a0%. they're very nervous about the situation, and theyjust hope that they can get over this, and take enough money so they can keep the businesses going. but this week, we're hearing warnings about winter, a second lockdown, and in

leicester, where you are, knows about second lockdowns. yeah, i think it's really frightening. i'm just glad i haven't got that pressure anymore, because it is pressure, and it's something that you are not in control of, you have no control over. dean newman, it's newman's restaurant, it's well—known, it's been there for decades, obviously means something in the community. as you say, you're are able to walk away now, but what are you going to miss most? i'm going to miss most the camaraderie, the enjoyment. when you actually cook things, it's a great enjoyment, and it's a great enjoyment that you provide something that people enjoy and come in and you build a regular trade, and i'll miss the customers, just the fun. we've got lots of regular

people, and they rely on us to do a good job for them, and they trust us, and you build trust in a business, and that's how you build regular trade, that's what it's all about. the biggest thing i'll miss, there's so many nice people, and i've had a ball. dean newman, paying tribute to the business he had before the pandemic hit. i'm philippa thomas. thanks forjoining us for this week's coronavirus: your stories. hello again. if you went outside on thursday, i'm sure you noticed a certain autumnal chill in the air. but was it really cold enough for snow? well, actually, this wasn't snow, it was a massive hail storm that went through the bradford area and the 0tley area, quite close to leeds in west yorkshire.

and you can see the roads and the pavements turned white as those accumulations of hail built up. it must‘ve been quite some storm. now, the satellite picture shows low pressure over the uk with storm clouds rotating around it, and over the next few hours, we are going to see plenty more of those big showers. areas to watch out for, well, west wales in pembrokeshire and also into cornwall, could see some particularly heavy showers here. we're also going to see a band of persistent rain affecting parts of east anglia. now, as we go on through friday, pressure builds actually in the west, and this area of low pressure's 00:27:27,171 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 slow—moving.