the prime minister uses his party conference speech to deliver a message of optimism for rebuilding the country after the pandemic borisjohnson promised to spread opportunity more fairly and to deliver a dynamic economic recovery after a ll after all we've been through, it isn't just after all we've been through, it isn'tjust enough to go back to normal. we'll bring you all the latest from our correspondents. also this lunchtime... a damning report says the church of england failed for decades to protect children from sexual abuse — preferring instead to protect its own reputation. president trump leaves hospital and returns to the white house — urging americans not to be afraid of covid. don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it. you are going to beat it.

we have the best medical equipment. we have the best medicines. figures obtained by the bbc show that firms planned to cut nearly half a million jobs during the first five months of the pandemic and red nose day will be plastic—free after schoolchildren persuaded comic relief to switch to a natural alternative. and coming up on bbc news, another liverpool player tests positive for coronavirus. xherdan shaqiri becomes the third this week and is self isolating while on international duty with switzerland. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. borisjohnson has delivered the closing speech of the virtual conservative party conference, attempting an upbeat tone in the face of

the coronavirus pandemic. mrjohnson set out his vision for a post—covid britain, promising to forge a new britain and "improve on the world that went before." he said he would ‘build back greener‘, setting a target of fuelling all of the uk's household energy use by offshore wind by 2030. on the economy and his government's unprecedented spending to try to shore up businesses and workers, he cautioned against "drawing the wrong conclusions," and relying permanently on the "uncle sugar" of the taxpayer. he also described as ‘nonsense‘ the suggestion that his own bout of covid 19 had — as he put it — ‘somehow robbed him of his mojo.‘ here's our political correspondent jonathan blake. from the moment he left downing street, the coronavirus pandemic cast its shadow over the prime minister ‘s speech, usually a chance to fire up the party faithful. this year, delivered to an almost empty room. borisjohnson said he and the

country had had enough of the virus which he likened to an alien invader. the uk would defeat it, he said, but the future would have to be different. it isn't enough just to go back to normal. we've lost too much. we've mourned too many. we've been through too much frustration and hardshipjust been through too much frustration and hardship just to settle for the status quo and to think that life can go on as it was before the plague. and it will not. the prime minister talked about his own brush with covid—19, dismissing claims he lost his mojo since his drivel that he compared his underlying condition of being overweight to chronic problems with the uk economy. long—term failure to tackle the deficit in skills, inadequate transport infrastructure, not enough homes people could afford to buy, especially young people, and far too many people across the whole

country, who felt ignored and left out, that the government was not on their side. the pandemic, he said, could be a chance to fix all that. there were reminders of commitments to recruit more police officers, build more hospitals, fix social ca re build more hospitals, fix social care but few new details. aside from the main announcement. to make the uk and world leader in wind power. the green industrial revolution that in the next ten years will create hundreds of thousands, if not millions, ofjobs. and we believe that in ten years time, offshore wind will be powering every home in the country with our target rising from 30 gigawatts to a0 gigawatts. you heard me right. your cattle, your washing machine, your cooker, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug—in electric vehicle, the whole lot, will get their juice vehicle, the whole lot, will get theirjuice cleanly vehicle, the whole lot, will get their juice cleanly and vehicle, the whole lot, will get theirjuice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands. the government response to the pandemic had gone against the conservatives instincts and in the future the state would

step back but mrjohnson promised action to help more people own their own home. we will help turn generation rent into generation by. we will fix the long—term problems of this country not by endlessly expanding the state but by giving power back to people. the fundamental life affirming power of home ownership, the power to decide what colour to paint your own front door. all parts, the prime minister said of the future uk transformed for the better, the one that labour would threaten —— threatened to level down, not up and he urged people to look forward. even in the darkest moments, we can see the bright future ahead. and, we can see how to build it and we are going to build it together. he may be trying to look past the pandemic but tackling that is still borisjohnson ‘s biggest challenge. jonathan blake, bbc news. 0ur deputy political editor,

vicki young, is in westminster. arousing tone from the prime minister but how is it likely to have gone down? —— are rousing tone. a lot of this was about reassuring his own party, grassroots, his own mps, tackling head—on the suggestions his brush with coronavirus has left him not with the energy that he previously had, com pletely the energy that he previously had, completely rejecting that, saying he still did have his mojo but also trying to reassure them that he really was still a freedom loving conservative, that this huge state intervention, helping the economy, having to take away people's liberties, close pubs early, saying very clearly, this is not something i want to do and it is not going to go on forever and of course he is well known for his natural optimism. the coronavirus pandemic really doesn't lend itself to that but he still did want to strike that note, talking about a rosy future, really not dwelling on the very difficult months that there are soon to come.

not talking about the huge job losses, but talking about the jobs of the future. there's an awful lot here that he talks about his government having to fix, the question is whether people want him and trust him and his government to do that. vicki young, thank you. so how significant is mrjohnson‘s pledge on green energy? let's speak to our environment analyst, roger harrabin. roger, what's your assessment? well, this is a huge task to get that much energy from offshore wind. but talking to experts this morning, it does seem that most people actually does seem that most people actually do believe this is achievable, albeit at a real push. the question is how does this fit into the broader picture, really? because it sounds very, very impressive the power everyone ‘s home with offshore wind but actually, people's homes are only about 30% of the total electricity that is used in the uk. the other two thirds goes to business in the way of industry and

offices. and then again, to put that into a broader perspective for the uk, electricity is just a bit part, really, it's only i7% of total energy in the uk, the rest goes to oil and gas, nuclear and hydro. energy in the uk, the rest goes to oiland gas, nuclearand hydro. so really, the bigger picture, there's still a massive amount to do to decarbonise the economy. and to produce the sort of green jobs at the prime minister says he and frankly, there is a great slew of decisions waiting to be made, stacked up on the prime minister ‘s desk, investors extremely nervous, they are not getting the clear signals they need long—term policies by budgets and they are calling for real clarity now across the board, not just real clarity now across the board, notjust on offshore wind. roger, thank you. a highly critical report has found the church of england failed over decades to protect children from sexual abuse, preferring instead to shield its own reputation. the independent inquiry

into child sexual abuse said the anglican church hadn't taken allegations seriously, and operated a culture where abusers were able to hide. in response, the church expressed shame and apologised for its record, saying it would learn lessons. daniela relph reports. singing. for church leaders, the enquiry findings will make uncomfortable reading. the wording is stark. the entire moral purpose of the anglican church criticised. the enquiry says the church protected its own reputation first and neglected the well—being of children for decades. we must see the support that is given to victims of child sexual abuse, be absolutely taking priority over anything else, when allegations are made. because in that way we will make sure that we send the message that it is both legally and morally unacceptable to carry out this sort of abuse.

the report says since the i9a0s, 390 clergy or trusted figures within the church were convicted of sexual offences against children. the church of england was found to have failed to take the abuse seriously and created a culture where abusers were able to hide. i swear by almighty god. the archbishop of canterbury gave evidence to the enquiry last year, answering questions for almost three hours and clearly emotional, he was asked what he had learned from the process. i have learned to be ashamed of the church. there was much to be ashamed of. in the diocese of chichester alone, a multitude of clergy were convicted of abusing children. canon gordon rideout, father robert coles, the reverend jonathan graves, father vickery house and bishop peter ball. for victims of abuse,

the church must now make change. 0nce survivors see real help and real support beginning to reach them from a church that has kind of mouthed support for a long time but not delivered it, i think once that happens, there could be a turning point. holy spirit of god, open our hearts... responding to the findings today, the church of england said it made shocking reading and expressed its shame acknowledging the impact on victims. the enquiry has called for lasting change, a fundamental shift that it says will require more than platitudes from church leaders. daniela relph, bbc news. there's been another increase in the number of people dying from coronavirus in england and wales. the virus was mentioned on 23a death certificates in the week to the 25th of september — a sharp rise on the previous seven days. it comes as officials race to find the contacts of thousands of infected people whose details were missing from the

government's records. richard galpin reports. manchester, now proclaimed as one of the areas hardest hit by a coronavirus in the country. infections have shot up in the city. it now has 529 cases per hundred thousand, last week it was 322. measures to control the disease here clearly not working. and the answer, according to local authorities, put that test and trace system in their hands, instead of it being run at the national level. we are offering to take more local control for the test and trace system, because where council teams do the contacting, they do it by doorknocking, not through call centres, they have a higher success rate and the system now needs to move decisively in this direction, from doing too much at a national level, to much more local control. other cities are also now witnessing significant increases in cases compared with last week. liverpool has a87 cases

per hundred thousand, a rise of 225 from last week. newcastle, a35 per hundred thousand, a rise of 197. nottingham has 382 per hundred thousand, a rise of 331 from last week. meanwhile, the fallout from the revelation that almost 16,000 new coronavirus cases were lost and therefore not entered into the test and trace system continues to reverberate. it is believed to have been an it failure, out of date software being used. research by the bbc indicates the failure of the system left at least 3a,000 people vulnerable to being infected by the virus, because they would not have been aware they we re at risk. the labour party says it was a dangerous blunder. of the a8,000 contacts, not the indexed cases, the contacts,

how many have been traced and how many are now isolating? so, that information will of course be made available in the normal way, when that has been completed, but you cannot know advance how many contacts there are, because you have to do the interviews with the index cases first. the test and trace system is already under strain and will be under increasing pressure as winter approaches, a time when the virus can spread more easily. more glitches and other problems with the system could have particularly serious consequences then. richard galpin, bbc news. time is coming up to a quarter past one. our top story this lunchtime. the prime minister uses his party conference speech to deliver a message of optimism for rebuilding the country after the pandemic. and still to come, russian opposition leader alexei navalny says he believes he was poisoned by the russian authorities. coming up on bbc news, race favourite geraint thomas pulls

out of the giro d'italia after crashing ahead of yesterday's third stage. scans have now revealed he's broken his pelvis and will no longer be able to continue. president trump has made a dramatic return to the white house to continue his treatment for coronavirus after spending three nights in hospital. shortly after arriving, mr trump took to the balcony to pose for pictures and removed his mask, defying warnings that he would still be contagious. the president later released a video message to americans, telling them not to fear the virus. but questions remain over the seriousness of his illness and the wisdom of his actions. james landale reports. mr president, how many staff... donald trump is a sick man. he has coronavirus, he has been treated with steroids, antiviral drugs and experimental therapies and yet, after just three days at the walter reed

medical center, he left, to continue his treatment at home. do you think you might be a super spreader, mr president? usa! he had been reluctant to go to hospital in the first place and was clearly keen to leave, much to the joy of his supporters who have been holding a vigil outside. the doctors warned earlier that the president was still not out of the woods, but he was safe to leave. we are looking to this weekend, if we can get through to monday, with him remaining the same or improving, better yet, then we will all take that final deep sigh of relief. and this is what it was all about, a highly choreographed return to the white house lawn on marine 0ne. timed for the early evening news bulletins, all designed to get his re—election campaign back on track. 0n the south portico balcony, the president removed the mask he has been so reluctant to wear, a deliberate

symbolic act by a man who doctors say is still contagious. a man who needs to breathe deeply after climbing just a few steps. we are going back, we are going back to work, we are going to be out front. as your leader, i had to do that, i knew that there was danger to it, but i had to do it. i stood out front, i led. nobody that is a leader would not do what i did. and i know there is a risk, there is a danger, but that is ok. and now i am better and maybe i am immune, i don't know. and yet not all are convinced by his optimism, with some medical experts advising caution. he is now on dexamethasone, which, as anyone who has been on a steroid can tell you, causes mania, causes psychosis, at a minimum, it makes you feel really, really good, it can mask symptoms of illness, so there are two very strong reasons why he is saying he feels good, does not necessarily mean he is out of the woods. thank you for being here.

thank you for having me. the president's staff stay he is still planning to debate withjoe biden next week as planned. the democratic candidate said he hoped that mr trump reduces experience to stress the importance of masks. i would hope that the president having gone through what he has gone through and i am glad he seems to be coming along pretty well, would communicate the right lesson to american people. masks matter. these masks, they matter. they matter, because it saves lives and prevent the spread of the disease. these are the images the white house broadcast and wants voters to see. a dramatic return of the president who has taken on covid—i9 and won. the story of struggle and recovery they can take into the final stages of the election. the only question, whether image and reality will match. james landale, bbc news. let's talk now to our washington correspondent gary 0'donoghue. how have people reacted to the

return of the president and the manner of it? i think there was a lot of astonishment about the sheer spectacle of it and the deliberate nature of it. as james said, it was a moment made for television, the president is well versed in the art of tv in that sense and to the extent that they even had to go over one of the walking shots later on when he went back into the white house, to fill it a second time. these things are important to the president, he knows they have an impactand president, he knows they have an impact and all that was designed to do that. and of course the protestations about feeling better, the doctors have already said he is not out of the woods yet. today we are seeing him on twitter attacking the democrats again but also doubling down on the message about covid not being something you need to be frightened of, saying we will learn to live with it like we learn

to live with the flu. i think that isa to live with the flu. i think that is a message that will be difficult for relatives of those 200,000 americans who have lost their lives, difficult to accept and more importantly, perhaps even in this political moment, republican support and republican voters do not back the president on the pandemic and he knows that. gary, many thanks. 0ur health correspondent michelle roberts is here. we keep hearing this phrase that he is not out of the woods yet? we keep hearing this phrase that he is not out of the woods yewm we keep hearing this phrase that he is not out of the woods yet? it is a good description. it is too early to say everything will be absolutely fine. from what we note with coronavirus, some people get a mild infection and they can recover, others need a lot more treatment and have serious infection. we know that mrtrump have serious infection. we know that mr trump needed some oxygen, his oxygen levels dipped which shows that his breathing was effected and

his lungs, where the virus can attack, it must have had some sort of toll on them. he has received a lot of medication but other people would not normally have access to that immediately. 0bviously he is the president and that is to be expected so he has had the best possible care. he seems to be up and well and talking and walking, everything you would hope at this stage but certainly the next week or so is the place to watch because coronavirus can come in a couple of waves, you can have a mild infection to begin with but things can go downhill. at the moment, the signs aren't looking good. michelle, many thanks. the russian opposition activist, alexei navalny, has said he believes he was poisoned by the russian authorities because they see him as a threat at next year's parliamentary elections. he was speaking in his first video interview since leaving hospital in germany last month. 0ur correspondent, steve rosenberg, is in moscow.

this interview was a fascinating but also terrifying insight into what it's like to be poisoned by novichok if you remember, alexei lobel they have been flying siberia to moscow in august when he fell ill on the aeroplane —— alexei navalny. he talked about coming out in a cold sweat. said it was consumed by an overwhelming belief that he would die as if his body was telling him this was the end. he said that was more terrifying than pain and this is how he described the experience. translation: it's difficult to explain because it's something that you don't experience in everyday life. there are some things that you haven't experienced, thank god. a heart attack, you've never had your leg chopped off with a chainsaw, but in general, you can imagine what it would be like to have your leg cut off with a chainsaw. here, you are in a cold sweat, you are becoming very ill.

in the interview, he pointed the finger of blame very clearly at president putin, saying the russian president would have had to sanction the use of a military grade nerve agent like novichok which was used against him. he also believes the russian authorities delayed his medical evacuation from siberia to germany because they were hoping that traces of novichok would disappearfrom his that traces of novichok would disappear from his body that traces of novichok would disappearfrom his body put that traces of novichok would disappear from his body put to the kremlin all along has denied any involvement in this incident. but if he is right and this did come from the top, why was he targeted? 0ne thing he said was that he believes he might have been targeted to silence the critics of the kremlin ahead of elections next year. steve, many thanks. british employers were planning to make 58,000 people redundant in august, according to figures obtained by the bbc. during the first five months of the coronavirus outbreak, firms were poised to cut nearly half a millionjobs. our business correspondent,

ben thompson, is in west london. this is a sobering figure? you are right and these figures give us a more recent and immediate snapshot of what is happening in the jobs market right now rather than the official unemployment figures which often look back, and they have a time—lag. these figures are based on what is known as the hr one, the advance notice of redundancy form that all employers have to submit to the government if they plan to lay off 20 or more staff as part of a redundancy process. let me explain what the figures tell us because for the month of august, they show that employers planned 58,000 redundancies which would take the total to just redundancies which would take the total tojust under redundancies which would take the total to just under 500,000. a98,000 in the first five months of this crisis. that clearly suggests about 100,000 jobs are lost every month of

the crisis. the big summer rush could be because the government below scheme is coming to an end at the end of october to be replaced by the end of october to be replaced by the drop support scheme —— furlough scheme put that is less generous so employers might be going to get in before it comes into force. we also know that many sectors of the economy are not able to get back to any sort of normality, whether retail or hospitality, entertainment or events, they are still struggling to get their staff back to work. it was also worth bearing in mind that u nless was also worth bearing in mind that unless the redundancy process involves more than 20 people, that will not show up in the latest figures. it is likely the toll for this, the unemployment toll of the whole covid crisis, could end up being much higher than the latest figures really suggest. thank you very much. two brothers who were told to move away from their mother while trying to comfort her at a funeral have said the experience left them feeling angry and upset. craig and paul bicknell,

from milton keynes, went to sit with their mother at their father's funeral because she was ‘vulnerable'. but a staff member at the crematorium interrupted the service to tell them to move away. jo black reports. it is my privilege to have been asked to conduct our service to celebrate the life of alan. in an instinctive moment, two sons comfort their mother at their father's funeral. then this happens. and official interrupts the service and the brothers are told to move their chairs back. craig and paul bicknell were so angry they shared the footage online and it has been viewed thousands of times. the footage online and it has been viewed thousands of timesm the footage online and it has been viewed thousands of times. it was absolutely heartbreaking, especially for my mum to witness something like that because she needed her sons by her side at the time. my daughter

was in that she is 15 and she couldn't even sit by her mum and she was in pieces when a man came out with such aggression, it made a hard day even worse. when alan black took ill in september, craig and his brother paul moved into their mother's home to support her and become one household but that they travelled to the funeral together and had mentioned people involved in the service that they may need to move and comfort of their mother. just looked so lost i looked at her i had to leave her side and a look at her from the distance i was at. she looked so upset and shocked by it and didn't seem to be there. that was more concerning for me. we have had to show a lot of support since. current government rules on the funeral to allow up to 30 people to attend and social distancing must be strictly adhered to. in a statement, milton keynes council said they were sorry to have upset the family and

said... ijust feel, i mean, they haven't reached out to us at all, i know there has been some stuff said today and they have made a statement but they haven't reached out to the family. i would speak to somebody because they have admitted it was wrong, the way it took place. the guy who did what he did, i'd like to know what sort of training he had to interrupt a funeral, who told them to do that, and to approach a family like that, maybe he needs some training in how to approach somebody ina training in how to approach somebody in a situation like that because it wasn't very humane i don't think i could ever forgive him for that. wasn't very humane i don't think i could ever forgive him for thatm black with that report. the founder of comic relief, richard curtis, has praised children in cornwall for encouraging

the charity to make next year's red nose day plastic—free. pupils at fourlanesend community primary school made their own noses out of household goods last year, and won the backing of sir david attenborough. fiona lamdin reports. this is where it all started three years ago, with these primary schoolchildren in cornwall. i was sitting on the sofa and ifound the red nose under the sofa, from the year before. and thought about how foamy and plasticky it felt. and noah's idea of the plastic—free nose was born. the school council then wrote to comic relief, sir david attenborough, and theirmp. i kept on nagging miss norton because i thought it was a great idea and we needed to carry on thinking about it. they even suggested how the noses could be made. so, this one is a papier—mache, and it's supposed to be like a seed and then lauren made one out

of string and it's really funny so i think they are great ideas. a couple of years went by, and then the news last month they had all been dreaming of. it nearly went in the junk box, i must admit. and then i thought, oh, better just check. and got quite a surprise! i was shocked. well, i'm not allowed to wear it because of covid but let me show you one of the first plastic—free red noses made from a by—product of sugar cane. we felt well and truly nudged, well and truly told off and it has been a long journey but i think we've got there. they are gorgeous noses and we are really pleased to be sort of part of a younger generation that is, you know, insisting that we all do something about climate change. over the last three decades, the plastic red nose has raised over