this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak with the latest headlines at two. a quarter of the uk population is under extra lockdown rules — with new measures in force across parts of northern england and wales from today. it comes as 1,700 students in manchester are told to stay in their halls of residence for two weeks after a spike in coronavirus cases. tributes are paid to a popular and talented police officer killed at a custody centre in south london. sergeant matt ratana was shot, as a suspect in handcuffs was being booked in. us media say donald trump will nominate conservative federaljudge, amy coney barrett to the supreme court. a formal announcement from the white house is expected later. the dramatic moment a teenager

is rescued off the coast of portrush after jumping from rocks. and coming up — a collection of stories about environmentalists and their struggles to protect the natural world — that's in witness history here on bbc news in half an hour. good afternoon. more than a quarter of the uk population are living under stricter coronavirus lockdown rules, as new measures come into force this weekend. the rate at which the virus is spreading in britain has been speeding up. households in leeds, wigan, stockport and blackpool are now banned from mixing in each other‘s homes or gardens. in manchester, 1,700 students have been told to self—isolate for a fortnight,

after a spate of positive tests. households will also be banned from mixing in the welsh town of llanelli from 6pm, with cardiff and swansea following suit tomorrow. 0ur education correspondent dan johnson reports. the new term's only just started, and, here, they face two weeks of isolation — allowed out of their flats only for medical reasons. yeah, i've just gone for a test, because i've got symptoms, so i've worn my mask and walked the whole way and stuff. i think it's just kind of inevitable when you've had people come from all over the country too, you know, one place, and we all share a laundry room. people have tried, but i do think this is inevitably going to happen. this morning, worried parents were running resupply missions. she hates it. i mean, she loves the uni, but the isolation is really upsetting her. it's your youngest daughter, and just moved away from home, yeah.

it's worrying, ain't it? john's daughter chloe started criminology here last week. she was supposed to be coming home for the weekend, and we travelled up last night, and we got here and she says, we've been put in isolation for two weeks. so she can't come home, and we've just brought her a few essentials from the asda, and we've got to go back now without her. the council says more than 100 confirmed cases prompted it to put the two blocks into lockdown to stop the virus spreading more widely. we have taken quick and swift action. this was a decision that was made yesterday afternoon, so it's very much a live and moving situation. what we are trying to do, this is just two blocks of accommodation, what we're trying to do is contain. but there are concerns now for student welfare and the impact on their learning. this really has put students in an impossible situation. many of them are living independently for the first time, amongst nobody that they know, miles from home, isolated,

and now i'm hearing from students who are struggling to access basic necessities. more of this disruption looks inevitable — students live and study on top of each other, and the virus was already circulating more amongst this age group. no surprise some on the move this weekend wonder what they're heading into. the chair of the education select committee robert halfon says clearer guidance needs to be given to students and their families. it is very worrying. there are reports suggesting that up to 3000 students are in lockdown, in universities as far as dundee to exeter. i think the time has come for the department for education, the chief medical, the chief science officer to give a statement setting out the policy for university, to reassure university staff, to reassure students and their families because we don't want to have a situation

where students are in a lock—down in the halls of residence at christmas time. this would cause enormous anguish to both the students and families across the uk. let's speak to the general secretary of the university and college union, jo grady. thank you forjoining us. just describe the situation as you see it at the moment. as we see it, this is at the moment. as we see it, this is a completely avoidable but predictable mass. 0n the bank holiday weekend last month, new seeyou called for the government and universities to live as much teaching online because along with independent sage said this would happen, that it would be impossible without a functioning track and trace and with encouraging a million stu d e nts to trace and with encouraging a million students to move around the uk and establish new households that they wouldn't be new outbreaks and we are seeing exactly that. new guidance

isn't going to solve this, reminding people of measures that might work lots of this. what will solve it from your point of view? we think the best option now is for the government to instruct universities to move as much teaching that can be conducted online to do so. to then find ways that students who are trapped in their accommodation to safely return home or somewhere else if they do not wish to stay, because we have to rememberfor some students, university is home. they had to make sure those students that do need to leave don't suffer financial penalty because of the accommodation charges. many parents and students will be saying, we could have been doing our courses from home online. we are having to pay for this. and i have a lot of sympathy for them. the position we haveis sympathy for them. the position we have is to have remote learning as an option because we have been predicting and we have known this problem would happen. the government

and universities have been adamant that we would have some form of blended learning, they have been adamant the student experience can be delivered during a pandemic. we have been warning them this is not going to be the case. we have been saying we need to do online learning 110w saying we need to do online learning now because if we don't, in a matter ofa now because if we don't, in a matter of a few weeks, although it looks like a few days in the case of manchester, that many people will be quarantining, the manchester, that many people will be quara ntining, the delivery manchester, that many people will be quarantining, the delivery will be online regardless. my heart goes out to stu d e nts online regardless. my heart goes out to students and parents. i am getting e—mails from those concerned by the government can act now to get as many people who need to leave home safely and prevent further outbreaks amongst students, staff and university communities. 0bviously lester has two universities, the university of leicester and in that will be quite a logistical challenge to get them home and quickly. i think you had to

be careful about doing things too quickly but second of all, not all universities have returned. there is still a moment here where we can prevent more people moving their need to and with regards, ensuring people who need to leave can leave, that will have to be done in a sensible and scientific lead way, not just encouraging sensible and scientific lead way, notjust encouraging people to leave immediately, but we can't continue with this situation. at manchester metropolitan, our understanding is there will not be testing for everybody who has been self isolating. it is difficult to assume that unless all teaching goes online unc re—occurrences of outbreaks like this is the time goes on. obviously you have students in halls of residence, you also have accommodation off—campus. 0ur stu d e nts accommodation off—campus. 0ur students being communicated with properly? is there clarity? what is the situation? from what we are picking up on the ground, it is

chaotic so the university of leeds for example, we have seen social media that suggests if you are in halls owned by the university there is some sort of system that takes ca re of is some sort of system that takes care of you. if you are in private accommodation, we are less sure who is monitoring outbreaks, how they are reported. in scotland, students regardless of whether or not they are on campus 01’ at regardless of whether or not they are on campus or at home, they have been covered with the long blanket restrictions and we are concerned about students and the restrictions of their rights during this period. jo grady, general secretary for the university and college union, thank you. people who test negative for covid—19 have been unable to share the result with the new nhs app for england and wales, if they did not book the test through the app itself. it's led to confusion among some users who have been unable to switch off the apps self—isolation alerts, because they were unable to enter their negative result.

earlier our technology correspondent zoe klienman explained the issue. as with all of the stories about this app, it's more complicated than it sounds. so, basically, when you go to register symptoms in the outcome it then says to you you need to go and get tested. and when you get your test results, it asks you to alert the app, whether you get a positive or negative test, and it says you need to input a code. however, the app only launched on thursday and what people are finding is that when they get a negative test results are sent to them via text or e—mail, it doesn't have a code, so they can't input anything, and, yet, from the moment they've started reporting symptoms, they are getting a self isolation countdown that gets going, advising them to stay indoors for the next two weeks. so, they are feeling very frustrated they can't switch this alert off because they can't share the test results they have that's negative.

we are going to give you a response we have had from the spokesman from the department of health and social care. this has come via jessica parker, our political reporter. we are working to enable positive tests for people to add to the app. nhs test and trace will continue to contact people if your test is positive. advising you to self—isolate and for those who don't have a code, the contract races will be able to provide codes to insert in the app. that is a response from the department of health and social care. more as and when we get it of course. bars and restaurants in england will close tonight at 10pm. our business correspondent, katy austin, is here. we have had such a mixed response to this. what is the feel so far? may

be we should look at this in terms of the broader picture, where we are at the economy is obviously the economy took a huge hit when the lockdown measures were in full force earlier in the year. the recovery from that is now the big question, how quickly to what extent can the country's businesses get back to anything like normal levels of activity? for hospitality particularly they had this big uptick in august, eat out to help out, saw loads of people out, spending their money again but a lot has changed since august. it seems a distant memory now. we are now at a different stage where there is a lot more caution about the increase in coronavirus cases and that has led the government to bring in these restrictions it says wear at restau ra nts, restrictions it says wear at restaurants, bars, pubs had to close at ten p:m.. the atmosphere has changed as far as those businesses are concerned, a lot of the optimism they had been feeling, that bounce

they had been feeling, that bounce they got, there is a lot more concerned now about the dampening effect that will have because it's not a question of the precise 10pm time they say is the problem, although for some that is a problem, they can't have another dinner serving. is the general of confidence, has it given people the impression that it's not as safe as it was to go out, to drink, to eat and that's the impression you get when you speak to a lot of restau ra nts, when you speak to a lot of restaurants, they are worried people are feeling put off. in scotland where nicola sturgeon was speaking and business leaders commented, they said the aim is to curtail the spread to suppress it, by bringing in their10pm spread to suppress it, by bringing in their 10pm curfew but the question is how long for. yes, and we don't know at the moment. that's the other worry that the businesses 110w the other worry that the businesses now say, where is the light at the end of the tunnel if we don't know how long the tunnel is. the government says we should be prepared to be restricted for six

months. there was criticism of that, again making the point it would make people less confident and around that time as well we had people are not being encouraged to go back into offices, which only a few weeks ago the government was telling people to do. there has been some concern for business groups about those mixed m essa 9 es business groups about those mixed messages or the air of uncertainty that creates. but speaking to the british chambers of commerce about what businesses are experiencing, they say because the current restrictions to affect the social side of life mostly, so bars and restau ra nts side of life mostly, so bars and restaurants etc, those are the businesses being hit most and other businesses being hit most and other businesses are not faring so badly but their concern is that as the number of local lockdown is in place kind of creeps up, much bigger swathes of the country living with further restrictions, the worry is if that becomes a new national

lockdown, that is when the whole of the economy starts to feel the hit again just the economy starts to feel the hit againjust as it the economy starts to feel the hit again just as it was getting back on its feet. tributes are being paid to the police officer shot dead at a south london custody centre yesterday morning. a friend of matt ratana, who was 5a, said he moved into working as a custody sergeant because he thought it would be safer. an investigation is under way into how the handcuffed suspect — who is in hospital with a bullet wound — was able to take the weapon into the centre. andy moore reports. a steady stream of people coming to lay flowers at the police station where matt ratana worked and died. among the hundreds of bouquets, a rugby ball and a police helmet, marking his twin passions in life. we wanted to do something, even just to lay flowers, do a little prayer and reallyjust hope that he rest in peace and his family cope as best as they can at this particular time. it's a very, very difficult time, we've all got to come together in the sort of times in support as much as we can. he had a very good lived professional experience

of dealing with communities and that was evident in the way that he policed and the way that he spoke under the way that he engaged. and, as a friend, when my own mother died in 2018, he spent the day with us as a family. i am at right head coach matt rata na. matt ratana came to the uk to play rugby for london irish. he was a coach at his local club. he was a great guy, at the every club day of the week. the club was his life, really, he put so much into everyone else, didn't expect anything else in return except for your best. he just embodied what the club meant and it was an honour, a class guy and really, really missed by everyone in the community. friends said the police officer, with 28 years' service, had moved into custody work because he was tired

of policing on the streets and thought he'd be safer. two investigations by the metropolitan police and the independent 0ffice for police conduct are under way. there was a large police presence at this location near croydon. it is understood the suspect was arrested here. investigators will want to find out how a revolver was apparently brought into the custody suite, despite an initial police search. sgt ratana was shot as he prepared to make a more thorough check with a metal detector. andy moore reporting there. let's speak to the former deputy assistant commissioner for the met police, rod jarman, he's also president, london policing college. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. we have a number of investigations that has been launched. what would be your immediate concern? good afternoon. 0bviously my immediate concern is with the family and friends of the colleague of so many officers who

clearly was so well loved because of his passion, what he was doing. i think it's tremendous to see police being promoted in the proper way, police officers do policing because they are passionate about immunity and society and they put themselves ina and society and they put themselves in a dangerous position to do that. my in a dangerous position to do that. my first concerns would obviously be there. what has to happen now is we have to give some space for the enquiry is to find out exactly what did happen. there is so much a supposition, there are so many things being gassed about what happened on the night, until those enquiries are finished we won't really know and we often think about policing as being something that is donein policing as being something that is done ina policing as being something that is done in a very clinical and clean way. but it's done in the middle of the night, it's done in the dark and it's done in a context of concern around how stop and search is done, how the powers are used, how much force is used when people are being searched and detained and also now of course with the safety and

security around covid—19 as well. for many members of the public, obviously you are coming at this from a policing perspective, for many members of the public the first question is how on earth did they can't get into a police station which should be a very secure location? what tends to happen when it comes to searches? 0bviously something happens on the road or out in the public, doesn't it? when a person is arrested they are normally searched but it depends upon the circumstances how detailed that search can be and we don't know what the circumstances were. if there is the circumstances were. if there is the risk of further problems if the officer is being more cursory, we also don't know what this gun is or what it looked like, how big it was. it is surprising how much people can conceal within areas that the police officers would not normally search in public for reasons of decency and

obviously the codes of practice prevent them from doing so. the suspect was arrested under suspicion of having ammunition and we understand he did indeed have some of that on him. how much of a problem is this? we had to look in society at the moment there is a real problem with firearms. if you look at policing generally, we are extremely lucky in this country to have such support for our police officers and to have police officers willing to put themselves at greater risk in order to prevent us having to arm our officers routinely, to ensure we can have that close relationship, so we are lucky about that but at times these absolutely awful things happen and of course they happen because somebody for some reason has decided they want to kill or injure a police officer, and in this circumstance it was during the search that was being carried out, it appears from what we have

been told, that the shooting took place. the one time when we are trying to make sure it is being safer for everybody is when the event happened. you mentioned there that the police are putting themselves at greater risk these days, particularly with things going on in society, many things the public don't know about, how are they feeling? how is the police and community feeling after what has taken place? we had yesterday and it has been mentioned many times that the police are a family. even if you don't know a person who this has happened to come it feels very close to you, it feels like someone you ca re to you, it feels like someone you care about, someone you know about, someone who has got a common belief system to you. here we will see offices in different levels of grief, officers will be quite rightly angry, officers will also be quite rightly very upset about this and will want to do whatever they can to make society better for the

future. rob jarman, thank you very much. some breaking news: in scotland there have been 714 new cases of covid—19 reported in the last 2a hours. this compares with 558 the previous day and is 11.5% of newly tested individuals. nicola sturgeon said this is the biggest daily tally of cases, but said far more people are now being tested. the first minister warned that cases are now rising across scotland and there is absolutely no room for complacency. and some more breaking news: glasgow university will refund all students in halls of residence one month's rent, along with a £50 payment for food.

at glasgow university, 124 cases of the virus were reported on thursday, with the number expected to rise. let's speak now to nathaniel ashley who is a student at the university of edinburgh. thank you for speaking to us here at bbc news. just picking up on that news that glasgow will be giving goodwill payment towards food and reimbursement of rent. is this something you are likely to see at edinburgh? i don't know about first—year students. i'm a fourth year student and i'm first—year students. i'm a fourth yearstudentand i'm in first—year students. i'm a fourth year student and i'm in private accommodation so i would be incredibly surprised if we were to get anything like that. it seems like the university is confused about the whole thing and not quite sure what to do about it. do you

think you should get some sort of reimbursement? i certainly wouldn't complain but obviously i don't know what kind of financial situation either the students or the university are in. it is a very confusing time for all of us i think. confusing time for everybody. can you just tell us the state of affairs at edinburgh university? what sort of measures have been put in place? on friday they announced that all students would be banned from pubs, restaurants, cafe ‘s, all that stuff and that we effectively wouldn't be allowed to go out and socialise even in a socially distanced way. so it kind of seems as though we are in a lockdown but they don't want to call it a lockdown. and we are told it is meant to only loss this weekend but again, that was only, there is confusion around that and we only found out when nicola sturgeon

tweeted it after the announcement. there is a lot of talk about social life around the subject of knock—downs and universities. what is upsetting more, how are students feeling that they can't go out and socialise with obviously for many it is an exciting time in their lives, or they don't know what is going on? honestly i think we are upset about both. partially we understand that obviously students have a reputation for going out clubbing a lot but i think not being able to do the same things that everyone else is allowed to do, so everyone else can get a coffee with a friend as long as they are socially distance, or they can meet on the meadows whereas we are not allowed to do that even if we act as sensibly as we possibly can, so that feels like we are being targeted in a particular way that is not pleasant. but yeah, it is also the suddenness of it. we had no idea something like this was coming and

we had very little information about how long it is going to last, how they are going to enforce it, so i think for most people, our first reaction when we heard it was a number of questions about how the hell it was going to work. one of the questions i have got is obviously you have said you are in private accommodation so you are off—campus. in terms of the difference of the impact on your life, i presume that is not affecting you being able to go out shopping. what are you hearing from friends on campus? do they have measures to keep people in or out? there is nothing on campus. they have closed all the student bars and everything which is a fairly obvious course of action. but it is hard to say because obviously most of my friends are in the third and fourth year so we are in private accommodation. i don't really know

what is going on hill holes. i have heard they are going to try to enforce it there and make sure no one is trying to leave at all. there isa one is trying to leave at all. there is a lot of confusion and i think there is meant to be a yellow and red card there is meant to be a yellow and red ca rd system there is meant to be a yellow and red card system where supposedly, i assume if you commit one offence against it, then they warn you and if you commit to micro, they are saying you are at risk of expulsion. what do you make of that? the potential discontinuation of study? how have students responded to that? again, it is sheer confusion, the idea that they could do that so suddenly. think that we really don't have any idea of how to obey the guidelines as they exist. we are not sure if we don't live on campus if we are allowed to go out and go shopping, and so to have so little clarification around their and yet

haveit clarification around their and yet have it be so important to us, then if we do get caught doing it, to have four years of work at short would be devastating to be honest. nathaniel ashley, good luck to you in yourfinalyearof nathaniel ashley, good luck to you in your final year of university and thank you very much for speaking to us. do stay safe. thank you. we are going to take you to central london. these are the latest pictures we have received. this approach is here taking place is an anti—lockdown demonstration around the trafalgar square area this afternoon. you can see a variety of flags there, placards as well. basically saying we do not consent. this is what the rally is. nobody is wearing face coverings, you have a few masks there but not medical masks. no social distancing, the demonstrators are protesting against

the government lockdown measures, there have been police presence, clapping, cheering, shouting, we will win. the latest pictures from trafalgar square in central london. more now on the news that president trump is expected to formally announce his nominee to fill the supreme court seat left vacant by the death of ruth bader ginsburg today. us media reports say he will nominate federal appeals courtjudge, amy coney barrett. she's known for her conservative religious views and has called abortion immoral. david willis reports. amy coney barrett is an outspoken conservative and the ideological opposite of the woman she is expected to replace. a devout catholic and mother of seven, she was the early favourite to take the place of ruth bader ginsberg, a liberal icon and the first woman ever to lie in state in the us capital.

and her nomination will come before miss ginsberg has even been laid to rest, with what is already becoming a highly contentious presidential election only weeks away, president trump clearly believes time is of the essence. i think this will end up in the supreme court, and i think it's very important that we have nine justices, and i think the system is going to go very quickly. i'll be submitting at five o'clock on saturday, the name of the person i chose for this most important of all positions. and i think we should go very quickly. at the age ofjust a8, amy coney barrett would be the youngest justice on the supreme court bench. appointments are for life and hers would cement the 9—member panel's shift to the right, possibly for as long as a generation. its sharpest ideological swing in nearly three decades. shortlisted in 2018 for the supreme court nomination that went to brett kavanagh, it is amy coney barrett's