we do not take these steps lightly, but we must take them and take them now, because we know that swift action is more likely to bring the virus under control. the new 10pm curfew in england and scotland sees crowds pouring onto the streets, and prompts calls for an urgent review. feeding the students who can't leave their halls of residence. thousands are now self—isolating at around a0 universities across the uk. the fraudsters trying to make easy money from a government—backed loan scheme to keep small businesses afloat. we have an investigation. and the pledge for nature: 65 countries sign up to save habitats and wildlife at risk from climate change.

let's ta ke let's take you to the white house because we are expecting donald trump to give a statement there. he's officially to talk about coronavirus testing in the united states, bearing in mind a 7.15 million cases have now been identified in the united states, 2005000 deaths. it'll be interesting to see whether the questions remain on that subject, and we'll be picking up on the new york times‘s publication of mr trump is my tax returns. the democrats certainly have seized on those claims that mr trump paid just $750 in income taxes in the first year of his presidency, and nothing for the previous 15 yea rs. and nothing for the previous 15 years. the democrats pointing out that the taxes that other people pay on average — for example, teachers, just over 7000, firefighters atjust

over $5,000, and nurses atjust over $10,000 - over $5,000, and nurses atjust over $10,000 — pointing out thatjoe biden and his wife in 2017 paid $3.7 million. anyway, we will be crossing to the white house when mr trump appears and taking that press conference. tough new measures are being introduced in parts of the north east of england to tackle rising coronavirus cases. from wednesday — those living in county durham, gateshead, sunderland, newcastle, north and south tyneside and northumberland will be prevented by law from mixing indoors with any other households. the health secretary matt hancock said the number of cases in the north east has continued to rise sharply despite the local lockdown and swift action was needed. here's our health editor, hugh pym. for parts of the north east of england, further curbs on how people go about their everyday lives. from wednesday, there will be a legally enforceable ban on mixing with other households in indoor

public venues like pubs, punishable with fines, it is the first such tightening of the rules in england. we will introduce legal restrictions on indoor mixing between households in any setting. mr speaker, we do not take these steps lightly, but we must take them and take them now, because we know that swift action is more likely to bring the viruses under control. singing. scenes like these in york on saturday night have raised questions about the new 10pm closing time for pubs, bars and restaurants — with people gathering on the streets after they had to leave local venues. there were crowds, too, in other cities after the earlier closing time and there have been calls for the curfew to be reviewed, after reports of people gathering in off—licences to buy alcohol. the big problem with it,

as far as i'm concerned, is it creates an incentive for more social gatherings in the home. we are told by the experts that that is the big reason, the big place where more transmission of the virus takes place. but downing street said the measures struck the right balance between protecting the public and allowing pubs and restaurants to continue trading. as well as the north—east, there are several other areas in the north of england covered by restrictions. the highest case numbers, according to latest data, are in burnley, with 270 per 100,000 population, knowsley, liverpool and newcastle, with 246 per 100,000. london's highest infection rates are a lot lower, with redbridge at 68 per 100,000 and barking and dagenham with 58. london councils have now been designated areas of concern on a watch list drawn up by public health officials, but some council

leaders feel that the published infection numbers understate the true position. in the borough of hammersmith and fulham, they were running mobile pop—up test centres, but they had to stop when the units were moved to other areas. now the council is concerned there are rising numbers of undetected cases. the government keep saying there is enough testing for everybody. that isn't our experience here. people who want to get tests can't get online to book them and, as a result, we are people, i'm sure of it, walking around our borough and all parts of london who are carrying the virus and are potentially a danger to other people and we just don't know about it. there are now calls from some local authorities in the capital for the government to impose the same restrictions already in place elsewhere in the country. hugh pym, bbc news. more than 16 million people in the uk are now under some form of local lockdown. some places like leicester have been under tighter restrictions for months now.

so is it working? here's our medical editor, fergus walsh. at first glance, life may look back to normal in leicester. but people here haven't been able to meet inside each other‘s homes since march, unless they are part of a support bubble. you can only see friends in outdoor cafes, parks, or other public spaces. leicester was the first place in the uk to introduce local restrictions at the end ofjune, after a sharp rise in cases. they were tough — people were told to stay at home and only travel if it was vital. nonessential shops were shut for around a month. public health officials started going door—to—door doing testing. it worked. cases fell by half in the coming weeks and, in early august, restaurants, pubs and hairdressers reopened, about a month after the rest of england. and, in early september,

swimming pools and gyms reopened. but, in the past few weeks, cases have started to rise sharply again. there was a small increase in hospital admissions in leicester in june, but, mostly, the trend has been downward. cases have stopped falling, but are still way below the peak in april. very concerned that things are going the wrong way, and that those case numbers, we definitely need to get back down. i think to some extent pleased at the moment that we are still not seeing that result in hospital admissions, but fearful that is going to come, i think that is the key bit for me, is how do we protect those who are most vulnerable to admissions. caerphilly was the first local authority in wales to be placed under local restrictions since the 8th of september. people can't enter or leave the county without a reasonable excuse or meet friends indoors. early indications are the restrictions are working,

with cases falling sharply. across the uk, at least 16 million people are subject to extra restrictions. that is just under one in four of the total population. the uk restrictions are not yet as drastic as those taken in france's second city, marseille. all restaurants and bars were ordered to close at the weekend following a surge in cases and hospital admissions. businesses say it is a catastrophe. the dilemma there and here is how to control covid without wrecking the economy. fergus walsh, bbc news. around a0 universities across the uk have now reported cases of coronavirus and thousands of students are self—isolating as the new term begins. after a flood of complaints, scotland has now changed its guidance to allow students to return home — although the entire household would then have to isolate for 1h days. here's our education correspondent, dan johnson.

day four of this freshers lockdown, and the fun is running low, along with the food. behind the fences, the hopes of what student life should have been. we were sent here with the promise of, you guys can have a bit more of a normal unique experience — and within two weeks, they were, like, no, you can't. we were kind of sold a false dream. this was the start to term nobody wanted but so many could see coming. the government has gathered thousands of students together to live in close proximity, where they're going to use the same areas, so if you expect to send all these people back and not have that kind of a spike — either it's incompetence or poor planning. each university should have their own testing facility, and you could reduce cases and isolate individual houses. our house had no symptoms and nobody needed to get a test, but we are stuck in here now. universities are offering more support and say it will cover costs for the next fortnight. but there is no denial here that

students‘ fees and rents have been the priority. what do you say are those who came here on the promise of at least some face—to—face learning, and now find themselves locked up, learning online, feeling like they have been misled and are now trapped? well, i don't see these students as having been misled or trapped, actually. like many people, they are having to self—isolate, it's for two weeks. these students are on three or sometimes four—year courses, it's a short part of their study. it's worth saying student life is carrying on here to some degree. people are using the library, keeping social distance, of course — but with cases being reported at other universities, there will be more disruption. at the university of glasgow, supplies are arriving and there is more food on hand. alongside deliveries, parents have been helping make decisions the future. we talked about whether to defer studies till next year, but i think she's decided, is it going to be any better next year? might as well carry on.

in edinburgh, molly has been isolating, but today got the all—clear. they seem to be ok with sending a and changing whatever household we are in to get us into holes. but when it comes to letting us go home, it is a huge problem to change which household you are in. if you absolutely had to travel to your family had to isolate, you should avoid using public transport and crucially, members of your household will have to isolate for 1h days. in belfast, around 100 are isolating after 30 tested positive at queen's university and, in wales, aberystwyth is the latest to suspend face—to—face teaching after cases. there is more evidence today this age group is hit hardest by the pandemic. it was difficult getting here, and there is no easy time ahead. danjohnson, bbc news, manchester. almost two thirds of the welsh population are now under extra coronavirus restrictions, after three more areas in south wales went into local lockdown this evening. people living in neath port tolbot, torvine and the vale of glamorgan are now banned from entering

or leaving the area without a reasonable excuse, and households cannot mix indoors. hywel griffith has been to port talbot to find out what people there think about the new restrictions. i think the minority are spoiling it for the majority. with the lockdown, people aren't going to follow rules. being a student who'sjust moved back, it's quite difficult. it means that i'm not able to go and see my family in newport. we've got grandchildren in cardiff and we won't be able to stay with them indoors any more. local lockdowns bring barriers and divisions. containing communities, as well as the virus. it's really hard for me, because she's my mum. and she's a great mum. for barbara, in swansea, it means more separation. visits to her 89—year—old mother's care home have stopped again, for at least a month. we don't know how long she's got, so itjust feels so sad that, at this time of her life,

we feel, ifeel, as if i've abandoned her. because she doesn't really understand what's happening. pa: i'd like to take this opportunity to welcome all visitors to barry island today... there are now 11 parts of wales under lockdown. people aren't allowed to meet indoors or leave their area without a valid reason. it means day—trip destinations like barry island can only draw a local crowd. obviously, it affects business and, if it affects business, it affects my staff. we're not a shopping centre, we're not a town centre, we're a beach, we've got the views, we've got the walks and we've lost that. it's notjust local tourism businesses that may suffer. anyone living in any of the lockdown zones has been told they are not allowed to leave to go on holiday. flights have to be cancelled, no—one can travel in or out. some question why people in english lockdown areas can still travel to the open parts of wales.

the welsh government wants everyone to show restraint. right now, with the nation facing a very serious second wave of coronavirus, it's incumbent upon everybody to do what they can to minimise the risk of the infection spreading. so, if anybody has to travel, then they should do so considering every particular risk that it involves. few here in barry expect they'll be taking off anywhere soon. most are resigned to living under these new limits for weeks, if not months. hywel griffith, bbc news in the vale of glamorgan. we've conducted more tests... straight to the white house, donald trump giving an update on coronavirus testing, but expect questions about his tax returns which of them published in the news of. secretary of education betsy devos, hi betsy, administration for

medication services and admiral jabbar, who is done such an incredible job. jabbar, who is done such an incrediblejob. thank jabbar, who is done such an incredible job. thank you, jabbar, who is done such an incrediblejob. thank you, admiral. we are alsojoined incrediblejob. thank you, admiral. we are also joined by mississippi governor tate reeves. had a tremendous victory, we're so proud of you. as well by abbot robert ford. robert, thank you very much. greatjob. ford. robert, thank you very much. great job. today ford. robert, thank you very much. greatjob. today i'm pleased to report that we are announcing our plan to distribute 150 million point—of—care tests in the coming weeks. very, very soon. this will be more than double the number of tests already performed. here's our plan, 50 million tests will go to protect the most vulnerable communities, which we've always promised to do, including 18 million for nursing homes, 15 million for assisted living facilities, 10 million for home health and hospice care

agencies, and nearly 1 home health and hospice care agencies, and nearly1 million for historically black colleges and universities, and also tribal nation colleges. 100 million rapid point—of—care tests will be given to states and territories to support effo rts states and territories to support efforts to reopen their economies and schools immediately, and fast as they can. for example, the support my administration is providing would allow every state to, on a very regular basis, test every teacher who needs it. this continues our critical effort to use testing to protect high risk communities. these new point—of—care tests are easy to use and return results within just minutes. you'll have a result in a maximum 15 minutes. no machine is required to reprocess them, so in the old days and we just started this, we have to go out and find these massive laboratories with tremendously expensive equipment. now we are down to just something that you'll see is really from a different planet. i would like to

ask admiraljabbar to come up and demonstrate how these tests are performed. he will do this very nicely. good luck, hope you don't test positive. thank you, mr president. as of today, the nation has performed over 111 million tests for the virus causing cove it. —— covid—19. we've achieved over1 million a day, and our numbers are approximately 920,000 per day. we are now at an inflection point in testing. we now have available on average 3 million tests a day, not including pool testing which could multiply that number several full. nearly half of our current tests are rapid point of care. including multiple uses of the titles of dpa, hundreds of millions of dollars in

hhs and dod investments, and regulatory flexibility including over 200 fda emergencies, clea enforcement, and enforcement of the prep act have led us to this inflection point, which brings us to why we are here today. on 27 august, after months of planning and only after months of planning and only after one day after the fda authorisation, the trump administration awarded a contract for $760 million to abbott for the delivery of 150 million of these abbott rapid tests. the by next now detects the presence of the covid—19 antigen, using a swab... that swab comes with the test and is used by a puritan. the reason why puritan swabs are here is because the reason why puritan swabs are here is because he administration uses a dpa and $120 million investment to make these swabs able to be used by abbott. it does not require an

instrument to determine the result. it is in15 instrument to determine the result. it is in 15 minutes, the result. testing may be performed by laboratories where the clea certificate of waiver. this is not a home test, but during the home, her health emergency, laboratories are permitted to extend their certificate to operate in temporary sites like schools or churches, or parking lots. we anticipate the test will generally be performed by a trained individual on a patient. i will demonstrate a self swab for you to show you just exactly how easy the test is performed. so literally, it almost could not be easier. it starts with six drops of liquid onto this piece of paper — one, two, three, four, five, six — and then there's a nasal swab. again, this is not the deep brain biopsy as we talk about. this will be generally done by health care provider but it can

be done supervise. it's this easy. one, two, three, four, five. into the test, twisted three times. the adhesive is pulled off, and you wait 15 minutes. and that is the test. it really could not be easier than this. this is a very sophisticated little piece of cardboard with lots of antibodies and incredible technology into that. we've already shipped 65,000 of these to disaster operations in california, oregon, texas and louisiana, and we've already shipped 2.1 million tests to 7600 nursing homes, over 900,000 tests to assisted living, 300,000 tests... to historically black coueges tests... to historically black colleges and universities. today, we start the shipment of 100 million tests to governors, beginning with a total of 6.5 million tests this week total of 6.5 million tests this week to be shipped this week. this is in

addition to the continuing support of other priorities like nursing homes. allocation to states and territories is based strictly on their population. governors have the flexibility to use these tests as they deem fit, but we strongly encourage governors to utilise them and settings that are uniquely in need of rapid low tech point—of—care tasks like opening and keeping open our k through 12 schools, supporting infrastructure and first responders, responding to outbreaks specifically in certain demographics or locations, and screening of surveillance and congregate settings. we just completed a briefing to the governors and their state health officials, and we heard words like a game changer for their states. thank you, mr president, for your leadership and support in all our efforts to defeat this virus. let me ask you, governor reeves, would you like to say something? do you agree? thank you, mr president,

for your leadership through this pandemic into this crisis. it was said by republicans and democrats alike earlier, this is a game changer. in our state of mississippi, our k through 12 schools have been open for nine weeks, our institutions of higher learning have been open for about the same. but while we have testing available now at least once a week in every county of our state, what this allocation will allow for us is we will have testing available for our k through 12 teachers every single day going forward. and the thing that we know is the kids learns, and secretary of education learns, and secretary of education learns so much, kids learn better in the classroom. and while we have 75-80% of the classroom. and while we have

75—80% of kids back in the classroom, we want 100% of kids back in the classroom. it is also critically important, are important, your decision to allocate on the front end to the historically black coueges front end to the historically black colleges and universities means the world to mississippi, are larger institutions had the financial resources to provide testing, but in mississippi with jackson state university and awkward state university, and mississippi valley state university, three of our institutions of higher learning will get an allocation of these tests, and it will make a difference. in kids all across our state will be better served because of it. and i wa nt better served because of it. and i want to personally thank you on behalf of the residents of mississippi for doing this. thank you. thank you, tate. great job. in a short period of time, my administration has built the most advanced testing system in the world. there's never been anything like this. when the pandemic struck, there were zero tests for the china

virus, but we marshalled all of america's resources to achieve these unparalleled capabilities. we slashed red tape and approved emergency authorizations for 2113 types of tests, that's how many to tests we had. i invoke to the defence production act, disturbing $171 million to expand testing production. we've done nearly twice as much testing per capita as france, italy and germany, and over six times more testing per capita than south korea. we've done far more than any other country. usually times 2—6. we performed nearly a0 million tests than india, and by the end of next month, we will have 100 million tests available on the market, more than half will be point—of—care tests, those with the quick ones with the best impact.

with the results in less than 15 minutes. we've also prioritise resources for the most vulnerable, including nursing home residents, we delivered rapid testing devices to nearly 1a,000 certified nursing homes also we opened over 1000 community testing sites in low income communities. nobody could have done this. we invested an unprecedented $8 billion to help tribal communities have the tests and resources they need to combat the virus. and it is important to remember that as younger and healthier people returned to work and as we massively increase testing capacity... that's where we believe this price conference by donald trump at the white house. ill like this should not cause undue alarm, the total number of cases is not the full measure of success. hospital metrics... as we do more tests,

you'll have automatically more cases. we are relentlessly focused on protecting the vulnerable while enabling an americans to go back to work. we can do both, as florida and arizona, and other states have recently shown. over the last eight weeks, hospitalizations have declined by a8%, and they've just reached the lowest point since march, a long time ago. due to advancesin march, a long time ago. due to advances in treatment, the fatality rate has fallen 85% since april. our excess mortality has been considerably lower than comparable. excess mortality compares total deaths... donald trump just excess mortality compares total deaths... donald trumpjust talking about this latest game changer test, about this latest game changer test, a rapid test for coronavirus as he described it, 15 minutes to prove if you have had the virus or not, 6.5 million do to be shipped out this week. coming as the number of cases of coronavirus in the united states

reaches 7.15 million with 2005000 deaths so far. you're watching bbc news, let's catch up with some weather with susan powell. —— 2005000 deaths. good evening. it's a quiet weather story out there as we bring the first day of the working week to a close. tomorrow, another quiet day — if anything, perhaps more in the way of sunshine tomorrow. a lot of dry weather on the way and just light winds, all thanks to this ridge of high pressure now building in from the west. it has been rather more hit and miss today because we've had a weather front working its way west from east. thicker cloud and some rather persistent drizzle now pushing its way into eastern england, and that's where we'll find it in the smaller hours of tuesday — quite murky, as well, with that moisture in association with the weather front. to the west, light winds, clear skies and it is a little chilly across scotland and northern ireland, with temperatures on the lower end of single figures, perhaps a few pockets of fog in the sheltered glands. milder under the cloud, temperatures in the double figures.

so a grayer, gloomier, damper start across eastern counties of england, but it should brighten here is the morning goes on. come the afternoon, as you can see it's pretty much a dry start across the board. slim chance of a shower towards the southwest, perhaps across western scotland, but overall dry, light winds and temperatures in the mid to high teens. but that is pretty much where it ends. we get to wednesday and low pressure will take effect from the atlantic. even overnight tuesday into wednesday, the winds will strengthen the rain into northern ireland, but wednesday morning making its way to western scotland, wales, and the southwest of england. the southwest of scotland and northern ireland particularly favoured for some of the more heavy and persistent rain on wednesday. eastern england could escape some of the worst of it, but i think we will see a pulse of heavier rain coming in from the south here through the afternoon and into the evening, and a cooler feel. and, once that low pressure is through, we are left with a series of areas of low pressure dodging around each other as we go through the end of the week and on into the weekend.

and that'll make it very difficult for us to pinpoint the exact detail on when we will get the heaviest, most persistent rain and strongest winds. what i can tell you is that there is a clear signal low pressure will dominate our weather by the end of the week, dragging in cooler air, meaning it'll be often windy and rain at times will be heavy. if anything, perhaps thursday is offering a little bit of a respite from the wet and windy weather for many parts of the uk. but still a bit cooler than we've been used too. just take a look at the outlook — a case of rain, rain, and more rain in the coming days.

this is bbc news. election campaign has one unused after another. will the leaking of donald trump as my tax returns change anybody‘s mind? $750 with the amount he paid in federal income tax a year he won the presidency and the europe that as well campaigning in the carolinas, the notice time as vice president shall hope kamala harris is a visit. also... a rebellion brewing and conservative backbenchers as there are ever tighter restrictions to head of a second coronavirus