this is bbc news. the headlines... the prime minister says the coronavirus pandemic must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change in his party conference speech. after all we've been through, it isn't enough just to go back to normal. 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 urges americans not to be afraid of covid, after leaving hospital. don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it. you're 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 coming up — we'll hear how red nose day will be plastic—free after schoolchildren persuaded comic relief to switch to a natural alternative. borisjohnson has delivered the closing speech of the virtual conservative party conference, adopting an upbeat tone in the face of the uk's struggle with coronavirus and lockdowns. mrjohnson set out his post—covid vision, promising to forge a new britain and "improve on the world that went before." he said he would "build back greener," setting a target for offshore wind to generate enough electricity to power to every uk household by 2030. 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 hardship just to settle for the status quo ante, 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'd lost his mojo since as "drivel."

but 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 care, but few new details, aside from the main announcement — to make the uk a 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 kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug—in electric vehicle, the whole lot of them, will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands. the government's response to the pandemic, he said, 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 buy. 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, one labour, he said, would threaten to level down, not level 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 energy and environment analyst roger harrabin told me that it's a huge task ahead of the prime minister to achieve those wind farm goals. talking to experts this morning, it does seem that most people do actually believe this is achievable, albeit a real push. the question is, how does this fit into the broader picture, really? because it sounds very, very impressive to power everybody‘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 isjust a bit part, really. it is only 17% of the total energy in the uk. the rest goes to oil and gas and nuclear and hydro. so, really, in the bigger picture, there is still a massive amount to do to decarbonise the economy and to produce the sort of green jobs that the prime minister says he wants. and frankly, there is a great slew of decisions waiting to be made that are stacked up on the prime minister's desk, where investors are extremely nervous that they are not getting the clear signals they need as to long term policies supported by budgets. and they are calling for real clarity now across—the—board, notjust for onshore wind and offshore wind. and in a few minutes time, we'll be speaking to conservative gillian keegan — the ministerfor apprenticeships and skills. there's been another increase in the number of people

dying from coronavirus in england and wales. the virus was mentioned on 234 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 coronavirus in the country. infections have shot up in the city. it now has 529 cases per 100,000. last week, it was 322. measures to control the disease here clearly not working. and the answer, according to local authorities, put the test and trace system in their hands, instead of it being run at the national level. we are offering to take more local control of the test and trace system, because where council teams do the contacting, they do it via doorknocking, not via 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 at local control. other cities are also now witnessing significant increases in cases compared with last week. liverpool has a87 cases per 100,000, a rise of 225 from last week. newcastle, 435 per 100,000, a rise of 197. and nottingham, 382 per 100,000, 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 311,000 people vulnerable

to being infected by the virus, because they would not have been aware they were at risk. the labour party says it was a dangerous blunder. of the 118,000 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 in advance how many contacts there are, because you have to do the interviews with the index cases first. the test and trace system already under strain 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. with me now is to gillian keegan — the ministerfor

apprenticeships & skills. we heard the prime minister today talking about building back a better britain after the covid—19 crisis. but there is a fear amongst many people that the worst is still to come with me furlough scheme coming to an end... some sectors have been growing and have been run off their feet, but others have been closed down almost entirely or have had some restrictions. clearly, some of that will be an acceleration of a trend of decline that was already there. we know that, in terms of the shift to online. 0ther there. we know that, in terms of the shift to online. other sectors, when they can open again, will actually com pletely they can open again, will actually completely bounce back. but there is no doubt that we have to deal with the uncertainty. that uncertainty could go on for a period of time.

has been an unbelievable and i billions of pounds to support businesses and people in furlough, but clearly we cannot go on doing that for a long time. the prime minister's speech today was so important. i didn't get a chance to talk about it last week, but the key thing that we have announced is this investment in adult skills. every aduu investment in adult skills. every adult across the country can use a variety of different methods to train, to up skill, to go into a career that they have always wanted, and the government will be there to support them in gaining new skills. we are living in a very fast moving technological environment. we have all seen that with coronavirus. we all seen that with coronavirus. we all need to take this time, use the time wisely and help people to get the skills that will make them super valuable in the workplace. you mentioned economic uncertainty facing many people in many businesses. i don't know if you have had a chance to listen to the bbc

investigation that has been done today which says that there are 58,000 jobs potentially to be cut from the workforce in august as employers looked forward to the end of the furlough scheme in october, and that is nearing half a million in the previous five months. is a very scary figure for people. in the previous five months. is a very scary figure for peoplem in the previous five months. is a very scary figure for people. it is. that is why the chancellor announced a plan forjobs in the winter economic package. you cannot put a handbrake on parts of your economy and its not have any impact. we know that and that is why we have put all these various schemes in place to try and support people. the plan for jobs, obviously, that is largely focused on youth employment. youth unemployment is a particular concern for us right now. often, when you have this kind of economic disruption, it is young people that don't get the kind of opportunities.

people stay in theirjobs, people don't move around. young people do suffer. that is why we have introduced a raft of different types of schemes to help young people, whether they stay on in study, whether they stay on in study, whether they stay on in study, whether they do and apprenticeship 01’ whether they do and apprenticeship or whether they go on the kick—start scheme. all of those schemes are designed specifically to address this problem. every country across the world is dealing with this right 110w. the world is dealing with this right now. we know that there are impacts and we know it unfortunately will impact some people's jobs. the fear is if businesses are really badly hit and either fail to close or they go under because of the pandemic, they simply will not be jobs for those people to go to.|j they simply will not be jobs for those people to go to. i think we have to remember, this is something i see have to remember, this is something isee in have to remember, this is something i see in my role as apprenticeships and skills minister, for the first six weeks of the coronavirus, pretty much every sector i was talking to was talking about massive skill shortages. that ranged from

construction, engineering, policing, education, anything to do with science or digital, manufacturing. a whole host, health and social care as well, of areas where we have skill shortages. they are still there. a lot of economy, it, technology, health and social care, anything to do with labs and testing, there are a lot more people required in those than what we have. this is about taking the time and using the time to rebalance that and give people the opportunity to move across. many people have been doing this already. we have trained nearly 2.5 million older apprentices and thatis 2.5 million older apprentices and that is all ages since 2010. they have used that to completely swap careers or have used that to completely swap careers 01’ up have used that to completely swap careers or up skill careers. we have seen many examples of this. this is what we are trying to do. we are trying to provide support because we do have massive skill shortages

which are still there. can i take you back to the chancellor's speech where he talked about balancing the books in the medium—term? many people are asking what does that mean? does it mean tax rises? and what is the medium term? can you enlighten us? not really, but the chancellor will enlighten you when he makes those announcements. sorry to cut in, but what do you take him to cut in, but what do you take him to mean by the medium—term? is that for the next election?” to mean by the medium—term? is that for the next election? i don't know. the medium—term, in my mind, is the next few years... i don't know specifically what timeframe he is thinking of. they are probably working that out right now. this is still moving. we have so got a lot of schemes, a lot of announcements and a lot of investments still to make. but we know as conservatives that over the time period that is a sensible time period, short—term it

wouldn't be sensible and long—term is to long. medium—term is the sensible time period for us to address how we are going to balance the books and bring down our debt. which we know is something that concerns us. which we know is something that concerns us. it should concern all of us. this is real and it has an impact on our economy and on our fiscal strength. should people expect to see packs rises in at the medium—term? expect to see packs rises in at the medium-term? that is not for me to answer, but the chancellor will set that out —— tax rises. answer, but the chancellor will set that out -- tax rises. thank you. 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, gave us this update.

these figures give us a more recent and immediate snapshot of what is happening in the job and immediate snapshot of what is happening in thejob market right now. rather than the official unemployment figures but often look back and they have a time lag. these figures today based on what is known as the advanced noticed redundancy that employers have to give to the government if they are planning on laying off more than 20 staff as pa rt laying off more than 20 staff as part of a redundancy process. for any month of august, the figures show that employers planned 58,000 redundancies. that would take the total to just redundancies. that would take the total tojust under redundancies. that would take the total to just under 500,000. 498,000 in the first five months of this crisis. that suggests clearly about 100,000 jobs lost every month of this crisis. the big summer rush could be because the furlough scheme, the government support scheme, the government support scheme, is coming to an end at the end of october. the new support

scheme is less generous, many employers will be trying to get in before that comes into force. many sectors of the economy are not able to get back to any sort of normality, whether that is retail or hospitality, entertainment or events, they are still struggling to get their staff back to work. it is also worth bearing in mind as well that unless the redundancy process involves more than 20 people, they will not show up in the latestjob figures, so it is likely that the unemployment toll of the whole covid—19 crisis could end up being higher. the headlines on bbc news... borisjohnson delivers an upbeat speech to the conservative party conference, saying the coronavirus pandemic must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change.

a highly critical report finds that the church of england spent decades failing to take child abuse seriously — instead creating a culture where abusers were able to hide. president trump leaves hospital and returns to the white house — urging americans not to be afraid of covid. 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 take allegations seriously, and it 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 inquiry‘s findings will make uncomfortable reading. the wording is stark. the entire moral purpose of the anglican church criticised. the inquiry 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 but more importantly morally unacceptable to carry out this sort of abuse. the report says since the 1940s, 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 inquiry 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 again 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.

with me now is richard scorer, an abuse lawyer from slater and gordon who has worked with a number of victims of clerical abuse over the years. what is your reaction to this report? this is a very damning report. it is very critical of the church of england. it is clear that the church is continuing to fail victims and survivors even now. it is clear that bishops have far too much power and have not used it wisely and have used it to try and cover up, wisely and have used it to try and coverup, in wisely and have used it to try and cover up, in some cases, what is going on. it is clear there is still huge change required and it is a very damning report. i think the church of england needs to work hard to figure out how it can change and make sure those changes happen. just to be clear, who is it in a church structure that has the responsibility for the safeguarding of children? that responsibility

largely rests at the moment with bishops, they are assisted by safeguarding advisers, but the responsibility rests with them. one of the things that the report recommends is that responsivity is taken away recommends is that responsivity is ta ken away and recommends is that responsivity is taken away and placed with safeguarding officers. that is an important change. it is one of many changes that is needed. part of the problem is that this responsibility has arrested with bishops and they have not discharged it wisely. do you think as the report has set out the details that it offers any justice to the victims or at least a sense of justice? justice to the victims or at least a sense ofjustice? i think the justice comes from two things. one is the sense that the church is taking it seriously. there are many survivors who are still facing financial difficulties and other things, other issues today and need that support. that has to be addressed. but also make sure that the right changes come in for it the future within the church and also more broadly in terms of the law. when a few things that may come out

of this is mandatory reporting. we do need a law that says if you know about abuse going on within an organisation or institution that you have a legal duty to report that two police and social services so it can be investigated. we have got to get away with the situation where abuse allegations get dealt with in house because that is a recipe of cover—ups, that needs to change. because that is a recipe of cover-ups, that needs to change. can you just describe the sort of effect that this sort of abuse has on people who survived it? the effects can be a terrible and can be lifelong. i don't think i have ever represented a victim of child abuse who has ever really got over it in h2 sense. people are left with lifelong symptoms of nightmares, trauma, difficulties in relationships, difficulties in working and so on. all of these

things, the reaction, the difficulties can vary in each individual case. but those problems are very real and can often be lifelong. what the church of england needs to make sure is that allegations, when they come to light, not being covered up. they are being investigated rapidly and dealt with. but also that the church of england provides proper support to survivors when they need it and thatis to survivors when they need it and that is something that has been sorely lacking in the past. we saw the open letter of apology from the archbishops of canterbury and york and we saw there in the piece that ran earlier, justin talking about his shame at what had happened. do you think this will now be a trigger for a lasting change? you think this will now be a trigger for a lasting change ?|j you think this will now be a trigger for a lasting change? i can only hope so, but as the report says, we need more than platitudes here. we need more than platitudes here. we need real change within the church. and i think notjust within the church. they have a programme of change and they need to make sure

that that is progressed properly, even when the inquiry is gone and is not there to supervise and check that it not there to supervise and check thatitis not there to supervise and check that it is going on. but we also need wider legal changes, mandatory reporting as i have described. we need both of those things to make sure we don't fail victims and survivors in the future. thank you so survivors in the future. thank you so much for talking to us. richard, head of the abuse team at slater and gordon. 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 voicing 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, and it can mask

symptoms of illness. so there are two very strong reasons why his 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 uses 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 prevents the spread of the disease. these are the images the white house broadcast and wants voters to see. a dramatic return of a president who has taken on covid—19 and won. the story of struggle and recovery they can take into the final stages of the election campaign. the only question, whether image and reality will match. james landale, bbc news. 0ur washington correspondent

gary 0'donoghue watched the president's return to the white house there was a lot of astonishment about the sheer spectacle of it and the deliberate nest of that spectacle. it was, as james was staying there, mm and made for a television. —— a moment made. they had to go over the walking shots going back into the white house to film it a second time. they know this has an impact on all of that was designed to do that. the protest stations —— about feeling better. doubling down on that message about covid—19 not being something you need to be frightened of, saying he will learn to live with it on twitter, like we learn to live with

the flu. i think that is a message that will be difficult for those, the relatives of those 200,000 americans who have lost their lives since march. it will be difficult for them to except that. and more importantly at this political moment, republican voters do not back the president on the pandemic and he knows that. let us take a look at the weather now. a little bit of everything to close out our tuesday afternoon. sunny spells and scattered showers, and for some accompanied by gale force winds, especially over south wales and south—west england. still under this influence of low pressure, but so far most of the showers have been further south and west. some of their merging together for longer spells of rain at times. the best of the dry weather throughout the afternoon, eastern areas, eastern england and north—east scotland. top temperatures 12—16c. most of the showers across england and wales should tend to fade through the night. a north—westerly wind will keep feeding in

showers to the north—west, the great glen in particular. when we get some clearer skies we could see temperatures falling down into single figures but we start off on wednesday on a relatively quiet, dry and sunny note and that is how it will stay for many. a few scattered showers will continue into the far north—west. cloud and rain it gathers into the south—west, with top temperatures are perhaps of 16. that's it. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the prime minister says the coronavirus pandemic must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change in his party conference speech. after all we've been through, it isn't enough just to go back to normal. 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 urges americans not to be afraid of covid,

after leaving hospital. 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 coming up — we'll hear how red nose day will be plastic—free — after schoolchildren persuaded comic relief to switch to a natural alternative. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. a third liverpool player has tested positive for coronavirus in the space of a week. positive for coronavirus xherdan shaqiri found out he had the virus while on international duty with switzerland and he's now in isolation. it follows positive tests at the club for sadio mane and thiago alcantara. arsenal's new signing thomas partey is a classy player who'll fit in well

with mikel arteta's managerial style, according to his ghana team—mate kwesi appiah, the former crystal palace striker and afc wimbledon striker. partey cost arsenal £45 million — that was the biggest deal on transfer deadline day — and many commentators are saying that was a bargain. appiah played alongside him at the 2015 africa cup of nations, when ghana reached the final, and the pair are still good friends. i'm super excited. i'm an arsenal fan as well so this is a double bonus. i am excited to see what he can bring to the league. i know he's a talented player. anyone who knows anything about knows he is quality. james forrest has a stress fracture of the ankle. the scotland winger came off against riga in the europa league last month and has not played since. he is expected to miss

a further four to six weeks. england rugby head coach eddiejones is waiting for news of three players who'll have to withdraw from the upcoming 28—man training camp if they test positive for coronavirus. he was already unable to select players from six sides, because of the premiership play—offs and the delayed sale—worcester match, due to be played tomorrow because of an outbreak of the virus at sale. jones said he understood the current situation was likely to affect national squads, referring to the three england footballers waiting to hear if they've been dropped by england after breaking covid—19 rules, and he's hoping he can relying on players to act responsibly. we're dealing with young men, that sometimes make mistakes. we're not going to be any more perfect than any other team, but we're going to strive to set a good example and be good role models for the people around england and people around the rugby community, about the responsibility to act with discretion,

to act following the regulations at the moment and that is all we can do. the uncapped bristol fly—half callum sheedy has been named in the wales squad for their six test autumn schedule. he played for england in a non—cap game against the barbarians last year and he also qualified for ireland through his parents. coach wayne pivac said: "he was born in cardiff and i can tell he is welsh through and through". sheedy is one of seven uncapped players in a 38—strong squad. the laws of women's rugby union will be adapted to allow the premier 15s league to start this weekend. the changes mean players won't be tested for coronavirus but they will have to adhere to strict guidelines, including temperature checks and hygiene protocols. teams will play 35—minute halves and there will be fewer scrums. reserve weekends have been built into the fixture list to allow for matches to be rearranged in case

of an outbreak. to the french open where there's been another upset as third seed elina svitolina has been knocked out by qualifier nadia podoroksa. the world nuber 131 won in straight sets 6—2, 6—4 in their quarterfinal. the argentine becomes the first female qualifier ever to reach the last four of roland garros — and the first in 21 years to reach such a point in any grand slam. britain's geraint thomas has been forced to pull out of the giro d'italia, after suffering a fracture to his pelvis in a crash before yesterday's third stage. the welshman said it was very frustrating, especially as he was feeling in better shape than when he won the tour de france two years ago. he tweeted: "2020 you can just do one now." that's all the sport for now.

so president trump is out of hospital and back in the white house to continue his treatment for coronavirus. it was a theatrical return — he took off his mask and posed for pictures on the balcony — before releasing a video message telling them not to fear the virus. so, with the election just under a month away — how has all this been received by the american public? let's speak now to greg swenson, from republicans 0verseas, which is a political organisation for us citizens living abroad. i'm alsojoined byjohn scardino from democrats abroad. john was also media director for the commission on presidential debates in 1996 and 2000. good afternoon and thanks for joining us. can i start with greg. just watching that return to the white house of president trump, it felt very triumphalist and, look at me, ican felt very triumphalist and, look at me, i can do this, is there something you approve of? the president is trying his best to be positive and be an optimist, and it doesn't matter whether i approve it

01’ doesn't matter whether i approve it or not, i think it was wise, and i know he get criticism for using the balcony which some of the left—wing media suggested was a totalitarian measure, but i think using the balcony was wise because it is outside and there is nobody nearby. the president is an optimist and he will continue to lead from the front and try to put a positive spin on this. the main criticism has been that the president took off his mask and then went into the house still without his mask. taking off the mask to speak to the media and to speak to some supporters, when you are outside, i don't get the hysteria about it. if you went back in the house and he was in a close proximity to a bunch of people breathing or speaking loudly, yes, i would have an issue with that, but, look, the president is going to try to manage the right message to

convey to the american people that you should take it seriously and be careful and use your head but also don't let it completely stop you from living your life and i think thatis from living your life and i think that is important, especially because people's livelihoods are at sta ke because people's livelihoods are at stake is well as their health. john, from democrats abroad, this is happening with less than a month before the election. quite extraordinary the timing of this, what effect do you think this might have? the whole issue about managing the virus and the government response is really very much at the heart of this campaign and will continue to be. it is notjust about wearing a mask, although that is pa rt of wearing a mask, although that is part of it. frankly, i think it takes some courage to wear a mask, they are not the most glamorous things in the world, but god knows, there is president cared more about his image then apparently anything else. —— this is a president who cares more about his image. what is

at issue is how the response of the virus has been managed or mismanaged, and as recently as last week, just before he became ill, he said, we have turned the corner and it is in the rear—view mirror, but clearly it isn't. 40,000 people per day catching the virus at the moment and lots of deaths, very tragic, and it is not very sensitive or effective in the way that he has chosen to mismanage this. that i suppose is the point, apart from the theatre of the moment, was this an insensitive thing to do at a time when so many americans are suffering? no, especially because he isa suffering? no, especially because he is a patient now. i think perhaps you could argue that if he had not been personally affected or someone in his family had been affected, but the president is saying, turning the corner, i'm not sure it is the perfect language, but in effect, we

have turned the corner in the sense that in march and april the conditions were significantly worse and if the goal in the uk and the us was to flatten the curve, surely that has happened. there are minor spikes in cases and sometimes that is important and i'm not suggesting that we ignore that, but hospitalisation rates are significantly lower and i think what is important, to have some perspective. the president is not suggesting that we should not take it seriously. his flaws in managing the crisis were not in what he actually did or what he accomplished, but his flaws with the early press conferences in march and april which tended to go on for too long and were meandering and were not very effective. but in terms of what he has done, you can be proud of that. surely the conditions have improved quite a bit and also he has delivered on some things like mask production, ventilators, vaccine, a

list of plans thatjoe biden has, that the president has already accomplished in many respects. president trump is clearly playing up president trump is clearly playing up his own bullishness and his own robustness. might joe up his own bullishness and his own robustness. mightjoe biden suffer by contrast from that, in that he is more cautious rightly or wrongly and he is also elderly which is not a point against him but may appear more vulnerable in this context? joe biden has demonstrated that he is willing to take the advice of experts around him and apply that in an effective way and i think the leadership he has shown has been very effective and very useful, in trying to address this in a humane and sympathetic way. it does take some requirement to take some precautions and i think that is all he has been doing, saying, there are

reasonable steps that we should take. my concern with president trump is his disregard for scientific fact and council around him, even at the debates the other night, he and his family arrived and they refused to follow the health protocols that were established by the clinic which was one of the leading health clinics in the world and the requirement was that the organisers of the commission of the debates, they asked everybody to wear masks in the audience, but his family and those in the trump group at the debate refused to wear a mask and there are even videos of someone from the clinic asking people in the trump entourage to wear masks, and they were refused. while everybody else in the audience was wearing a they refused the advice of the health experts, and those are the things which concern me, the

disregard he betrays and those around him portray. there is a perception that the president, greg, that the president is disdainful of coronavirus precautions.” that the president is disdainful of coronavirus precautions. i don't think he is disdainful and i think he has had to manage the task of balancing and addressing the current risk with maintaining a confidence for the country to emerge in a positive fashion. i think he has done that very well. anthony fauci has even spoken about the president, that he never disregarded anthony farrell key or any of the other scientist —— anthony what we have learned is that managing the crisis and having a thriving economy are two things which are not incompatible. he has got to do both. it is important for him to maintain the confidence of

the country but also maintain the livelihoods and the education for the children and maintain and protect the most vulnerable but also keep an eye on the livelihoods of so many americans and other health—related issues, so that is why he was against permanent lockdown. he did the original lockdown, 15 days and he extended it to 30 days, but it was very important to the president to maintain the balance and to say that he has disregard of the science is an exaggeration. his press conferences an exaggeration. his press c0 nfe re nces we re an exaggeration. his press conferences we re not an exaggeration. his press conferences were not well delivered, asi conferences were not well delivered, as i said, but apart from that, his actual accomplishments have been very good and he has paid quite a bit of attention to it but he has also had to balance it with the thriving economy which he has achieved in the first three years of his presidency and we have already seen a his presidency and we have already seen a massive his presidency and we have already seen a massive recovery his presidency and we have already seen a massive recovery since then. john, you worked on the presidential

debates in 1996 and 2000 and the next debate is going to happen at the end of next week, is it in jeopardy? i don't think so and i hope not. iwelcome president trump back to the campaign trail. we are looking forward to the debate next week. vice presidential debate tonight, as you know. the result of the previous debate was very good forjoe biden, the previous debate was very good for joe biden, i the previous debate was very good forjoe biden, ithink the previous debate was very good forjoe biden, i think and the previous debate was very good forjoe biden, ithink and polling has shown that he did well. a wall streetjournal has shown that he did well. a wall street journal poll out today, i haven't seen these numbers, so i'm going out on a limb, but i'm told it shows, this is the wall street journal, a publication owned by rupert murdoch, and it showsjoe biden in front by 10—12 points after the last debate, so i'm very much looking forward to the next debate. the commission has looked at the

ground rules, so that they can be a bit more civil, both of the candidates, and that there can be more communication to the audience and to the viewers, rather than so much shouting as there was before. we are going to have to leave it there. thanks for joining we are going to have to leave it there. thanks forjoining us. 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 bomb, and they plant things in soil so they are all made out of paper and natural resources. 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 £70 million for charities. since we are a small school of around 110, and out of the whole country, they actually listened to us. they certainly did, and from now on, the red nose will be a lot greener. fiona lamdin, bbc news. liz bonnin is a science, wildlife and natural history presenter, who is also a biochemist and wild animal biologist.

what are these plastic free nose made of? a by-product of sugar cane, a substance which is made, it is a compostable substance at the moment. it is early days. comic relief have been planning to make a plastic free nose for quite a while. these amazing children from that school really help to fast track the process. it is a laborious process, a slow process, to make sure that the red notice of the future will be entirely compostable, that at the moment they are looking like they will have to go through an industrial facility but it is a massive step in the right direction. even the pain is plastic free this year. that really is an achievement, so year. that really is an achievement, so when will they be available to buy? i'm not sure of the

availability. january is what they are talking about and they will be available in sainsbury‘s, argos, and online. i think it is january. how important is it that red nose day has taken this step? how much plastic was generated and wasted by making the old noses? it is incredibly important. it is testa m e nt to incredibly important. it is testament to what the public can achieve by making their voices heard and testament to how different businesses and organisations can each do their bit. if i give you an idea of the scale of how much single—use plastic is produced, and how much virgin plastic each year, 400 million tonnes, every year, and thatis 400 million tonnes, every year, and that is set to increase to 800 million tonnes per year, so any reduction is an absolute bonus. they sell a large amount of red noses

every year so this is going to make a massive difference, and it is also putting out the message that the public want change, from every area of our lives, including a charity that does incredible work to help disadvantaged people around the world, so it is as much an incredible message as making an incredible message as making an incredible difference to the amount of plastics, single—use plastics, that we produce every year. so interesting, this change has been driven by primary schoolchildren. so often younger people really get this message. if the climate strikes and the amount of young people vocalising about the future they wa nt vocalising about the future they want is anything to go by, this is testa m e nt to want is anything to go by, this is testament to what children can achieve and this primary school was the first to ask for it but there we re the first to ask for it but there were many other schools involved when we held a panel to answer some of their questions. it is heartening. also a reminder that there is a lot on our children's

shoulders at the moment and as adults we have got to step up and comic relief certainly did. thanks for joining comic relief certainly did. thanks forjoining us. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. hello, there. it is an autumn afternoon of sunshine and showers, we are still under the influence of low pressure but most of the frequent showers look likely to be the further west and south you are with this weakening weather front. so, this has been the story so far today. some of those showers merging for longer spells of rain across north—west england and north wales, with the odd rumble of thunder and hail can't be ruled out for the remainder of the day. and those showers will continue to drift away slowly eastwards. accompanied by gale force gusts of wind across exposed coasts of south wales and southwest england. the best of the dry weather across north—east england and scotland. temperatures peaking this afternoon perhaps 12 and 16 degrees. as we move through the evening, some of the showers across england and wales will start to ease away. winds swing round to

a north—westerly and driving in some showers here to the north—west of the great glen. elsewhere, we get some clear skies, we could see temperatures getting down to into single figures. so we start off tomorrow, still with that brisk north—westerly wind, feeding showers into the north—west of scotland. elsewhere, largely dry, relatively sunny. but we will see cloud enhancing and some rain towards the end of the afternoon into the far south—west. but, again, temperatures perhaps peaking widely into the mid—teens. a pleasant day. as we move through the latter stages of wednesday into thursday, however, there is another spell of heavy rain expected to move its way across england and wales. the position of that rain still subject to change and particularly as we go from thursday into friday, we can see this trailing weather front and we have what's known as pulses of wet weather developing and moving their way across the south. now, the potential on thursday is for the rain due just to sit across the channel coast,

but it could just be that little bit further north and if that happens, we will not get that 17 degrees. but there will be a good deal of sunshine across much of the midlands, northern england, wales, a few scattered showers into scotland. by friday there's more wet weather potentially coming across england and wales but there is a glimmer of welcome news as we move into the weekend, because high pressure is set to build very slowly from the west. we still run the risk of a few showers across eastern england, isobars coming from a vertical direction. a cold northerly wind is set to kick in as we go through the weekend, dragging in drier but calmer and colder weather for all.

this is bbc news. the headlines... the prime minister says the coronavirus pandemic must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change in his party conference speech. after all we've been through, it isn't enough just to go back to normal. 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 urges americans not to be afraid of covid after leaving hospital. don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it. you're 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 coming up, we'll hear how

red nose day will be plastic—free, after schoolchildren persuaded comic relief to switch to a natural alternative. hello, good afternoon. borisjohnson has delivered the closing speech of the virtual conservative party conference, adopting an upbeat tone in the face of the uk's struggle with coronavirus and lockdowns. mrjohnson set out his post—covid vision, promising to forge a new britain and "improve on the world that went before." he said he would "build back greener," setting a target for offshore wind to generate enough electricity to power to every uk household by 2030. 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 hardship just to settle for the status quo ante, 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'd lost his mojo since as "drivel."

but 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 care, but few new details, aside from the main announcement — to make the uk a 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 40 gigawatts. you heard me right.

your kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug—in electric vehicle, the whole lot of them, will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands. the government's response to the pandemic, he said, 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 buy. 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 — one labour, he said, would threaten to level down, not level 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. let's talk to our political correspondent jess parker at westminster. just to pick up on that last point made byjonathan, boris johnson wa nts to made byjonathan, boris johnson wants to look beyond the covid—19 pandemic and its effects, but some people think that actually things are going to get worse before they get better. we have heard from boris johnson himself in the last few days that it johnson himself in the last few days thatitis johnson himself in the last few days that it is going to be a bumpy a few months up to christmas and possibly beyond that. clearly, an attempt during this party conference speech made virtually because of coronavirus to move ahead of the

situation that the country is currently in. maybe not focus on issues that could lead to questions about the government's performance and handling of coronavirus. conservative mps are among those who have been critical of boris johnson's administration. and strike an optimistic note. looking ahead to 2030, this promise to try and generate enough offshore para with things like floating wind farms to generate enough power for homes. things like floating wind farms to generate enough powerfor homes. if he delivers on his wider agenda... i think the issue of that as you allude to is that at the moment people are taking things day by day. christmas seems like a long way away at the moment, let alone 2030. suggestions that the prime minister felt he had to bat away suggestions that somehow his own brush with

covid—19 had affected his mojo? that somehow his own brush with covid-19 had affected his mojo? at any party conference he would have been speaking to a crowd. he likes a crowd, he gets energised by one. he couldn't have a crowd in front of him today but he was nevertheless trying to reach out to conservative grassroots, reach out to conservative mps, number of whom frankly think he has lost his mojo in recent months. insisting he is fighting fit after his own brush with coronavirus. and i think also trying to reassure people that politically he is the man they thought he was going to be. praise the private sector, making it very clear he didn't like the idea of huge state intervention, but saying that the government had basically been put in this situation by the covid—19 pandemic. that is certainly what he was setting out to do. however, i think there will still be people in the conservative party who think that the restrictions have on it to fire, who think the state is intervening to much. you can try and

look ahead... too far. 0ur energy and environment analyst roger harrabin told me that it's a huge task ahead of the prime minister to achieve these wind farm goals. talking to experts this morning, it does seem that most people do actually believe this is achievable, albeit a real push. the question is, how does this fit into the broader picture, really? because it sounds very, very impressive to power everybody‘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 isjust a bit part, really. it is only 17% of total energy in the uk. the rest goes to oil and gas and nuclear and hydro. so, really, in the bigger picture, there is still a massive amount

to do to decarbonise the economy and to produce the sort of green jobs that the prime minister says he wants. and frankly, there is a great slew of decisions waiting to be made that are stacked up on the prime minister's desk, where investors are extremely nervous that they are not getting the clear signals they need as to long—term policies supported by budgets. and they are calling for real clarity now across the board, notjust for onshore wind and offshore wind. the leader of the liberal democrats sir ed daveyjoins me now. we can see that you care great deal about wind power from the backdrop that you have got. what do you think about the prime minister's goal, 2030, enough energy generated by offshore wind farms for every home? is that realistic? identical that is ambitious enough. i am pleased that

the prime minister is realising it is the future —— i don't think. i have to say, we were building britain's offshore industry are making britain the world leader in offshore wind, borisjohnson was writing and attacking me, attacking the liberal democrats for doing that. he said a wind turbine couldn't take the skin off a rice pudding. iam couldn't take the skin off a rice pudding. i am glad... couldn't take the skin off a rice pudding. iam glad... the couldn't take the skin off a rice pudding. i am glad... the problem is, the plans outlined today, as your environment correspondent was saying, i'm anywhere near as ambitious enough if we're going to get the real green economy that we need. today promising £160 million for a certain ports. how much would the sort of a more ambitious project that you wanted to see cost? that

would go into the tens of billions of pounds, went eight? we need to get the private sector investment m, get the private sector investment in, and that is what i did when i was running it. we managed to get people to invest in a factory for wind turbines in hull, creating greenjobs there. the investment wind turbines in hull, creating green jobs there. the investment was way more than the prime minister announced today and we got cash to do it. he doesn't show the latest ship —— leadership, that is the problem. decarbonising our heating system, the lack of ambition is what really comes across to me. and i afraid it is because the prime minister, over a number of and i afraid it is because the prime minister, overa number of years, has actually fought against the green agenda. he has written against it, he has campaigned against it. he lacks any credible and understanding. iam lacks any credible and understanding. i am willing to give him a second chance. if he really commits to making britain a greener economy and creating those jobs,

across the whole of the uk and the regions where they desperately need thejobs, we will regions where they desperately need the jobs, we will back that. but i am afraid the speech today is pretty weak. and coming from someone who was attacking wind powerjust a a few weeks ago, it doesn't really ring true. but he is a convert, isn't he? but eight to convert would be more ambitious. i am a frayed, just as europe bbc research has shown, thejob of just as europe bbc research has shown, the job of greening just as europe bbc research has shown, thejob of greening britain —— afraid. we are going to need far greater leadership and far greater investment. i have talked about, for the liberal democrats, a £150 billion green economic recovery plan over the next few years which deals with power and wind farms and so on. but it also deals with buildings, transport, we need that level of ambition which we were sadly lacking

today. i wonder whether at a time when the government is asked repeated questions about how it is going to fund the unprecedented spending eight has had to carry out because of the coronavirus epidemic, if it were then to be talking about further billions spending on wind farms and so on, people would simply shake their heads in disbelief? no, i don't, because this is about having jobs instead of having people unemployed. it is about having business in the future instead of investing in business of the past. the cost of climate change will com pletely the cost of climate change will completely outweigh the sorts of investment i am talking about. i don't think really, economically, we have a choice. we have got to make this investment. if we invest in this investment. if we invest in this green energy, because we managed as a liberal democrats to get the cost of offshore wind down, what we are doing by investing now

is giving future generations much cheaper energy as well as tackling climate change. future generations will thank us for making this essential green investment that the liberal democrats are talking about. thank you very much. the leader of the liberal democrats. there's been another increase in the number of people dying from coronavirus in england and wales. the virus was mentioned on 234 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 coronavirus in the country. infections have shot up in the city. it now has 529 cases per 100,000. last week, it was 322. measures to control the disease here clearly not working.

and the answer, according to local authorities, put the test and trace system in their hands, instead of it being run at the national level. we are offering to take more local control of the test and trace system, because where council teams do the contacting, they do it via doorknocking, not via 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 at local control. other cities are also now witnessing significant increases in cases compared with last week. liverpool has 487 cases per 100,000, a rise of 225 from last week. newcastle, 435 per 100,000, a rise of 197. and nottingham, 382 per 100,000, 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 34,000 people vulnerable to being infected by the virus, because they would not have been aware they were at risk. the labour party says it was a dangerous blunder. of the 48,000 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 in advance how many contacts there are, because you have to do the interviews with the index cases first. the test and trace system already under strain 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. 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 take 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 inquiry‘s findings will make uncomfortable reading. the wording is stark. the entire moral purpose of the anglican church criticised. the inquiry 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 but more importantly morally unacceptable to carry out this sort of abuse. the report says since the 1940s, 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 inquiry 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 again 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 inquiry has called for lasting change, a fundamental shift that it says will require more than platitudes from church leaders. daniela relph, bbc news.

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 are sick? donald trump is a sick man. he has coronavirus. he's been treated with steroids, antiviral drugs and experimental therapies. and yet, afterjust 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 vigil outside. the doctors warned earlier the president was still not out of the woods, but he was safe to leave. we're 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 when the evening news bulletins when on air, all designed to get his re—election campaign back on track. 0n the south portico balcony, the president removed the mask he's 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 stairs. 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's a leader would not do what i did. and i know there's a risk, there's a danger, but that's ok. and now i am better and maybe i'm immune, i don't know. and yet not all are convinced by his optimism, with some medical experts voicing 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 that his saying he feels good doesn't 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 mr trump would use his experience to stress the importance of masks. i would hope that the president, having gone through

what he went through — and i am glad he seems to be coming along pretty well — would communicate the right lesson to the american people. masks matter. these masks, they matter. it matters, it saves lives, it prevents the spread of the disease. these are the images the white house broadcast and wants voters to see. the dramatic return of a president who has taken on covid—19 and won. a story of struggle and recovery they can take into the final stages of the election campaign. the only question — whether image and reality will match. james landale, bbc news. and we can speak now to larry sabato, who's director of the center for politics at the university of virginia. what effect do you think that the president's contracting covid—19 is likely to have on the election and

vote are perception of him? some predicted a wave of sympathy or a sympathy vote. not only is there no sympathy vote. not only is there no sympathy vote, he has actually lost ground in the national surveys that have been taken. i think it will be closer, but you would much rather be joe biden and donald trump at this point. the covid—19 episode didn't go the way the donald trump people thought it would. is this on the basis of poles that were taken after the president was admitted to hospital? that is correct. nbc wall streetjournal over the weekend had biden in a 14 point leader and this morning a national survey of likely voters showed that biden had a 16 point lead. that is interesting.

inevitably, these are the statistics that... what you think of the showmanship of his return to the white house? it has failed? yes. this is not the apprentice. this is governing america. it is being in charge. conclusions that the president has been very irresponsible in how he has handled covid—19. they believe his actions earlier in the year probably resulted in more deaths in the united states. and they also believe he has been reckless in the last few months, as proven by the fact that you have got a couple dozen people who are either directly in the white house or covering the white house who have now come down with covid—19. who have now come down with covid-19. do you expect to see him change his behaviour in the next few days given that he is now ill with covid—19, and by that i mean more

mask wearing? it is possible. it is a little late, but it is always possible. i don't think it will change that much at this point. we are change that much at this point. we a re less change that much at this point. we are less than a month from the election. people have already, for the most part, made up their minds, and what has happened in this episode in the last week or so, it has really hurried into the vote on both sides, but especially on the anti—trump side. both sides, but especially on the anti-trump side. and people have already started voting? millions have already voted. i voted a a few weeks ago. people he wants to make sure their votes are counted are anxious to go out there and vote. it is very possible it is easier and safer during the pandemic... and as we all know, the election is fought in certain states, in the swing states as they are called. has there

been any detailed polling in those states after the president's contracting of covid—19. states after the president's contracting of covid-19. we have got some in pennsylvania, arizona. joe biden has gained ground in all of those states. however, it is closer in the swing states than it is nationally. why? because california, washington, illinois, newjersey, the places that are deeply blue and democratic have gone totally to the democratic have gone totally to the democratic party. joe biden is winning by 30, 35 democratic party. joe biden is winning by 30,35 points. it may be higher in california. but joe biden was going to get california anyway, but is he going to get pennsylvania? he is leading in pennsylvania now. the pollin average of the poll

since, joe biden is ahead dot... the white house saying president trump will be in the debate that is taking place next week. what's to both candidates need to do, what doesjoe biden need to do to maintain his position? the joke, if you can call it that this morning, is thatjoe biden's new running mate is nascar. he always wears his mask —— running mate is mask. trump, he has to make sure he doesn't give a performance like the first debate. people were repulsed by the debate, that they

we re repulsed by the debate, that they were also unsettled first about it. they have heard enough about it, they have watched it again or pieces of it again, and they now blame trump almost entirely for the disaster and embarrassment of that debate. very interesting. good to talk to you. thank you. thank you. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. hello there. a little bit everything to close out our tuesday afternoon. sunny spells and scattered showers — for some as well accompanied by gale—force gusts of wind, particularly across south wales and south west england. still under this influence of low pressure. so far, most of the showers have been further south and west, some of them merging together for longer spells of rain at times. the best of the drier weather throughout the afternoon, sheltered eastern areas, eastern england and north and east scotland. top temperatures, 12 to 16 degrees. most of the showers across england

and wales should tend to fade through the night. but a north—westerly wind will keep feeding in some showers to the north—west of the great glen in particular. where we get some clearer skies, we could see temperatures falling down into single figures. we start off on wednesday on a relatively dry and sunny note, and that is how it will stay for many. a few scattered showers continuing into the far north—west. cloud and rain gathers into the south—west. top temperatures, perhaps, of 16 degrees. that is it. take care. if hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the prime minister says the coronavirus pandemic must be

a catalyst to speed up social and economic change — in his party conference speech. after all we've been through, it isn't enough just to go back to normal. 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 urges americans not to be afraid of covid, after leaving hospital. 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 coming up — we'll hear how red nose day will be plastic—free — after school children persuaded comic relief to switch to a natural alternative. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. police will not prosecute the three england footballers who've admitted being at a party together on saturday night.

jadon sancho, tammy abraham and ben chilwell have apologised but are still to hear whether they will be dropped from the england squad. it was a surprise birthday party for abraham who said he was totally unaware of the gathering. a third liverpool player has tested positive for coronavirus in the space of a week. xherdan shaqiri found out he had the virus while on international duty with switzerland and he's now in isolation. it follows positive tests at the club for sadio mane and thiago alcantara. arsenal's new signing thomas partey is a classy player who'll fit in well with mikel arteta's managerial style, according to his ghana team—mate kwesi appiah, the former crystal palace striker and afc wimbledon striker. partey cost arsenal £45 million — that was the biggest deal on transfer deadline day — and many commentators are saying that was a bargain. appiah played alongside him at the 2015 africa cup of nations, when ghana reached the final, and the pair are still good friends.

i'm super excited. i'm an arsenal fan as well so this is a double bonus. i'm excited to see what he can bring to the league. i know he's a talented player. anyone who knows anything about him knows he's quality. he'll light up the premier league, that's for sure. england rugby head coach eddiejones is waiting for news of three players who'll have to withdraw from the upcoming 28—man training camp if they test positive for coronavirus. he was already unable to select players from six sides, because of the premiership play—offs and the delayed sale—worcester match, due to be played tomorrow because of an outbreak of the virus at sale. jones said he understood the current situation was likely to affect national squads, referring to the three england footballers waiting to hear if they've been dropped by england after breaking covid—19 rules, and he's hoping he can relying on players to act responsibly. we're dealing with young men that sometimes make mistakes. we're not going to be any more perfect than any other team,

but we're going to strive to set a good example and be good role models for the people around england and people around the rugby community, about the responsibility to act with discretion, to act following the regulations at the moment and that is all we can do. french prosecutors have opened an investigation into alleged spot—fixing in a women's doubles match at the french open. it involves a match in the first round. meanwhile, on the court there's been another upset. third seed elina svitolina has been knocked out by qualifier nadia podoroksa. the world nuber131 won in straight sets 6—2, 6—4 in their quarterfinal. the argentine becomes the first female qualifier ever to reach the last four of roland garros — and the first in 21 years to reach such a point in any grand slam.

britain's geraint thomas has been forced to pull out of the giro d'italia, after suffering a fracture to his pelvis in a crash before yesterday's third stage. the welshman said it was very frustrating, especially as he was feeling in better shape than when he won the tour de france two years ago. he tweeted: "2020 you can just do one now." and in today's fourth stage officials needed to examine the photo finish to decide who won. eventually arnaud demare on the right of the picture was given the victory ahead of peter sagan and davide ballerini. portugal'sjoao almeida retained the overall lead. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. some breaking news in the past few minutes — the global chemical weapons watchdog has confirmed the novichok—type nerve agent was found in samples from the russian opposition

activist, alexei navalny. 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. the russian government has denied any involvement in mr navalny‘s poisoning. 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 navalny had been flying from siberia to moscow back in august when he suddenly fell ill on the aeroplane and, in the interview, he talked about coming out in a cold sweat. but instead of pain, he said he was consumed by this overwhelming belief that he was going to die, as if his body was telling him this is the end. he said that was more terrifying than pain. this is how he described his experience. translation: it's difficult to explain because it is 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're becoming very ill. and in this interview, he pointed the finger of blame very clearly at president putin. he said that the russian president would have had to sanction the use of a military grade nerve agent like novichok used against him. he also believes that the russian authorities delayed his medical evacuation from siberia to germany because they were hoping that traces of novichok would disappearfrom his body. the kremlin all along has denied any involvement in this incident. but if he is right, if this did come from the top, then why was he targeted? one thing he said in this interview, he believes he may be targeted to silence other critics of the kremlin ahead of elections next year.

three scientists from the uk, germany and the united states have been awarded this year's nobel prize for physics for their research into black holes. the recipiants include sir roger penrose, an oxford academic and andrea ghez, from the university of california — who is only the fourth woman to win the physics prize. speaking at a virtual digital press conference this afteroon sir roger reacted to the announcement and explained how he heard the news. it was an extreme honour and great pleasure to hear the news this morning. slightly unusual way, pleasure to hear the news this morning. slightly unusualway, i had to get out of my shower to hear it. yes, it was for work that i did in 1964, i think, yes, it was for work that i did in 1964, ithink, to yes, it was for work that i did in 1964, i think, to do with the colla pse 1964, i think, to do with the collapse of material into what we now call a black hole. i had reason to believe, theoretical reason to believe, these things would be a generic expectation, if you had

enough matter together, they would create these things that we now call black holes. the importance of them was, well, it was appreciated at the time because there were radio signals people could not explain in any other way and it took a long time before they could explain the black hole idea. i think people were very sceptical at the time. it took a long time before black holes became accepted. they are pretty well accepted now. their importance is, ithink well accepted now. their importance is, i think there were only partially appreciated. sir roger penrose there. 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, gave us this update. these figures give us a more recent and immediate snapshot of what is happening in the job

market right now. rather than the official unemployment figures which often look back and they have a time lag. these figures today are based on what is known as the advanced noticed redundancy that employers have to give to the government if they are planning on laying off more than 20 staff as part of a redundancy process. let me explain what the figures mean. for the month of august, the figures show that employers planned 58,000 redundancies. that would take the total tojust under 500,000. 498,000 in the first five months of this crisis. that suggests clearly about 100,000 jobs lost every month of this crisis. the big summer rush could be because the furlough scheme, the government support scheme, is coming to an end at the end of october. it will be replaced by the job support scheme. the new support scheme is less generous, many employers will be

trying to get in before that comes into force. many sectors of the economy are not able to get back to any sort of normality, whether that's retail or hospitality, entertainment or events, they are still struggling to get their staff back to work. it's also worth bearing in mind that unless the redundancy process involves more than 20 people, they will not show up in the latestjob figures, so it is likely that the unemployment toll of the whole covid—19 crisis could end up being much higher than the figures suggest. nicola sturgeon has said that she expects to announce tomorrow new restrictions to control the spread of coronavirus in scotland. during her daily coronavirus briefing, the first minister said the scottish government was considering targetted measures to be put in place over the next couple of weeks.

as i said at the outset, we have not reached final decisions on additional steps we might take, we have got some further consideration to do. i hope it is helpful, in light of understanding speculation, for me to be clear about the some conclusions cabinet has reached about what we are not proposing to do at this stage, because of all of these different factors that we are weighing and taking into account. let me be clear, we are not proposing another lockdown at this stage, not even on a temporary basis. we're not going to be asking you to stay inside your own home in the way that we did back in march and while we have been asking people to think carefully about nonessential travel, especially overseas, and i would ask that again, and while restrictions on travel may sometimes be an option, may sometimes be necessary, for hotspot areas, we are not about to impose travel restrictions on the whole of the country. we are not about to shut down the entire economy and we are not about to halt the work of the nhs because it is vital that the nhs is there

for other things apart from covid. i hope this gives people some reassurance, but we are considering additional targeted steps that we could take over the next couple of weeks in addition to the household restrictions currently in place. to further stem the spread, and while we continue to strengthen our overall resilience in terms of living with this virus. that is our testing system which is working well but we continue to strengthen it, and also making sure that around compliance with restrictions and with all of the advice in the regulations, which we expect employers to have in place, but that is working well, and any further

restrictions that we need to do in the short term to help reduce the spread of the virus. 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's my privilege to have been asked to conduct our service to celebrate the life of alan wright. in an instinctive moment, two sons comfort their mother at their father's funeral. then this happens... an 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.

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 there, she's 15 and she couldn't even sit by her mum and she was in pieces when the man came out with such aggression, it made a hard day even worse. when alan took ill in september, craig and his brother paul moved into their mother's home to support her and become one household. they travelled to the funeral together and had mentioned to people involved in the service that they may need to move and comfort their mother. she just looked so lost, i looked at her, i had to leave her side and 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 funerals allow up to 30 people to attend but 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 him to do that, and to approach a family like that, maybe he needs some training in how to approach somebody in a situation

like that because it wasn't very humane and i don't think i could ever forgive him for that. jo black with that report. we have something from president trump on twitter. he says he's looking forward to the debate on the evening of the 15th of october in miami. there has been speculation about whether this date of the debate falls within the two week quarantine period that the president will have to observe. some discussion as to when he was first publicly diagnosed with having covid—19 and whether in fact this thursday, october 15 falls into that two—week period. anyway, in his

usual tone he's very confident that it go ahead. in another message he said he is feeling great. the headlines on bbc news... borisjohnson delivers an upbeat speech to the conservative party conference, saying the coronavirus pandemic must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change. a highly critical report finds that the church of england spent decades failing to take child abuse seriously — instead creating a culture where abusers were able to hide. president trump leaves hospital and returns to the white house — urging americans not to be afraid of covid. 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 bomb, and they plant things in soil so they are all made out of paper and natural resources. 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 £70 million for charities. since we are a small school of around 110, and out of the whole country, they actually listened to us. they certainly did, and from now on,

the red nose will be a lot greener. fiona lamdin, bbc news. news from a hospital in wakefield, the a&e department in pinderfields says they are extremely busy and people should only attend the department if they have a life—threatening illness or an emergency. it is not clear whether this is because of covid—19 or the start of flu and winter colds or a combination of it all. at the moment pinderfields a&e department is asking people only to turn up in the case of an emergency. more details later. one of the greatest rock bands of all time — led zeppelin — have won a long—running legal battle over claims it stole the opening guitar riff from its 1971 song "stairway to heaven." the band — one of the best—selling rock acts of all time — was handed victory after the us supreme court declined to take up the case.

paul hawkins reports. its opening guitar riff is iconic. music plays stairway to heaven, by rock legends led zeppelin. this is jimmy page, who created the band, speaking to the bbc in 2014 about the song. the idea of stairway was to have a piece of music, a composition, whereby it would just keep unfolding into more layers. his lawyers have been in american courts for six years, arguing he was not a fraud. the claim was that stairway to heaven ripped off another song, taurus, by a band called spirit. music plays. the claim was logged

by the estate of the band's late front man, randy wolfe. lawyers argued that led zeppelin became familiar with the spirit song after the bands played on the same night at a club in birmingham in1970, a year before stairway to heaven was released. bothjimmy page and lead singer robert plant argued they had never heard of the song until ten years ago. but a jury did not believe them. instead, they believed evidence from musicologists. they said the descending musical pattern in both songs was a common musical device. for example, you can hear it in chim chim cheree from mary poppins. # chim, chiminy, chim chiminy, chim chim, cheree #. at the heart of the debate was whether this was blatant copying or the natural evolution of music which borrows from other genres, as page himself admits. it started with. .. quite a fragile, exposed acoustic guitar, playing in sort of the style

of a poor man's bourree by bach. in march, a federal court ruled in favour of led zeppelin, but wolfe's estate appealed. now the supreme court has said it won't hear the appeal so the originaljudgment is final, not that the lawyer for wolfe's estate is backing down, claiming instead in a statement that led zeppelin won on a technicality. it means both page and plant are spared millions of dollars in compensation but that has not stopped rock fans continuing the debate. paul hawkins, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. hello, there. it is an autumn afternoon of sunshine and showers, we are still under the influence of low pressure but most of the frequent showers look likely

to be the further west and south you are with this weakening weather front. so, this has been the story so far today. some of those showers merging for longer spells of rain across north—west england and north wales, with the odd rumble of thunder and hail can't be ruled out for the remainder of the day. and those showers will continue to drift away slowly eastwards. accompanied by gale force gusts of wind across exposed coasts of south wales and southwest england. the best of the dry weather across north—east england and scotland. temperatures peaking this afternoon perhaps 12 and 16 degrees. as we move through the evening, some of the showers across england and wales will start to ease away. winds swing round to a north—westerly and driving in some showers here to the north—west of the great glen. elsewhere, we get some clear skies, we could see temperatures getting down to into single figures. so we start off tomorrow, still with that brisk north—westerly wind, feeding showers into the north—west of scotland. elsewhere, largely dry,

relatively sunny. but we will see cloud enhancing and some rain towards the end of the afternoon into the far south—west. but, again, temperatures perhaps peaking widely into the mid—teens. a pleasant day. as we move through the latter stages of wednesday into thursday, however, there is another spell of heavy rain expected to move its way across england and wales. the position of that rain still subject to change and particularly as we go from thursday into friday, we can see this trailing weather front and we have what's known as pulses of wet weather developing and moving their way across the south. now, the potential on thursday is for the rain due just to sit across the channel coast, but it could just be that little bit further north and if that happens, we will not get that 17 degrees. but there will be a good deal of sunshine across much of the midlands, northern england, wales, a few scattered showers into scotland. by friday there's more wet weather potentially coming across england and wales but there is a glimmer of welcome news as we move into the weekend, because high pressure is set to build very slowly from the west. we still run the risk of a few showers across eastern england, isobars coming

from a vertical direction. a cold northerly wind is set to kick in as we go through the weekend, dragging in drier but calmer and colder weather for all.

this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines... the prime minister tells the conservative party coronavirus must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change. after all we've been through, it isn't enough just to go back to normal. a damning report says the church of england failed, for decades, to protect children from sexual abuse — preferring to protect its own reputation. president trump urges americans not to be afraid of covid—19 after leaving hospital. don't let it dominate you. don't be afraid of it. you're going to beat it. we have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines. renowned british mathematician professor sir roger penrose is one of the winners of the nobel prize

for physics for his research into black holes. and coming up, red nose day goes plastic—free after schoolchildren persuaded comic relief to switch to a natural alternative. borisjohnson has delivered the closing speech of the virtual conservative party conference. he struck an upbeat tone, despite the coronavirus pandemic, setting out his post—covid vision — promising to forge a new britain and "improve on the world that went before." he said he would "build back greener," setting a target for offshore wind to generate enough electricity to power to every uk household by 2030. he also described as "nonsense"

the suggestion that his own bout of coronavirus had "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 hardship just to settle for the status quo ante, 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'd lost his mojo since as "drivel." but 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 care, but few new details, aside from the main announcement — to make the uk a 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 40 gigawatts.

you heard me right. your kettle, your washing machine, your cooker, your heating, your plug—in electric vehicle, the whole lot of them, will get their juice cleanly and without guilt from the breezes that blow around these islands. the government's response to the pandemic, he said, 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 buy. 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 — one labour, he said, would threaten to level down, not level 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. let's get more from our political correspondentjess parker. quite correspondent jess parker. a quite correspondentjess parker. a lot of bold promises1 including quite a lot of bold promises there, including one that he has still got his mojo. absolutely, that is after they have been questions, from conservative mps and as well as those in the grassroots, wondering if he is still the same man. i think thatis if he is still the same man. i think that is one of the reasons he really tried to adopt an optimistic, even

boisterous, note during this speech, something that he is known for as a characteristic. the question is, of course, will come as too yes you can look had to 2030 and took about how you might be able to buy that point arrive in the uk on a carbon free jet and go for a picnic in the wild belts i think he put it. but there are some very belts i think he put it. but there are some very immediate challenges that the prime minister faces, are some very immediate challenges that the prime ministerfaces, and i think at the moment some people may feel that they are looking day by day to get through this crisis. and even something like a christmas feels quite far away, let alone 2030. and you mentioned his kind of green promises. how bold do you think they are and what are environmentalists saying about these promises? they sound quite striking? i think they are regarded as pretty ambitious. there was something pretty typical about boris johnson

in there. he likes his big infrastructure projects. he is talking about things like floating wind farms. i think it is regarded as an ambitious plan. many governments across the world are looking to adopt a more green agendas. borisjohnson will not be alone in that. but saying the country will be a world leader in this area. again, of course, that is going to take an awful lot of effort, an awful lot of government investment over the coming years. what was notable was when she was talking about investment and infrastructure, the areas that he picked out, wales, scotland, keen to stress as he sees it the strength of the union. and northern england as well. a lot of politics are woven into the speech, i think, today. thank you. there's been another increase in the number of people dying from coronavirus in england and wales. the virus was mentioned on 234 death certificates in the week to the 25th of september,

a sharp rise on the previous seven days. it comes as officials are still trying 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 coronavirus in the country. infections have shot up in this city. it now has 529 cases per 100,000. last week, it was 322. measures to control the disease here clearly not working. and the answer, according to local authorities, put the test and trace system in their hands, instead of it being run at the national level. we are offering to take more local control of the test and trace system, because where council teams do the contacting, they do it via doorknocking, not via 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 487 cases per 100,000, a rise of 225 from last week. newcastle, 435 per 100,000, a rise of 197. and nottingham, 382 per 100,000, 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 34,000 people vulnerable to being infected by the virus, because they would not have been aware they were at risk. the labour party says

it was a dangerous blunder. of the 48,000 contacts, not the index 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 can't know in advance how many contacts there are, because you have to do the interviews with the index cases first. the test and trace system already under strain 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. we can speak to elisabetta groppelli, virologist and lecturer in global health at st george's university in london. thank you very much for being with us. thank you very much for being with us. looking at that report there, we

are seeing hundreds of cases per 100,000 in places like manchester. quite an alarming increase. what do you think is happening with the virus around the country?m you think is happening with the virus around the country? if we look at the data, possibly not particularly accurate, but it looks as though in the uk, the trajectory is going in at the wrong direction because it is going. what we have learned from coronavirus from our own experience in the uk but also in the rest of the world is that when cases start going up is quite difficult to rein it back. it is quite a fragile situation that needs to be managed and reigned back as quickly as possible, although that is quite challenging. this is a difficult situation where the uk finds itself at the moment. do you think the various restrictions, the sort of patchwork quilt of restrictions that there are in the uk, are they the sort of right

balance? i think it is very important to understand the situation at a local level and also target the restrictions and measures locally, specifically for what is required and what is required for that particular situation. but also, we need to understand that the uk government approach has been to target one part of our society which is our social interactions so that we can maintain education and work environments keep going. however, this doesn't seem to actually be doing much in terms of slowing down transmission or decreasing the number of cases. unfortunately, as the number of cases are going up and the number of cases are going up and the generation of confusion about what measures are required, possibly we're going towards the need of a more national, general approach, possibly a little bit stricter. we

have just got possibly a little bit stricter. we havejust got in possibly a little bit stricter. we have just got in the latest coronavirus figures for it the uk. let us bring them to our audience. in terms of the number of cases, 14,500 cases reported in the uk. that is up significantly from the last 24—hour period. so up to 14.5 thousand. and in terms of deaths, they are sharply up. that is 76. that is sharply up from 19 yesterday. 76 deaths within 28 days ofa yesterday. 76 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. what is your response to those figures? again, just underlining how sharp and steep is the number of cases now and deaths as well? yes, absolutely, i think this is proving the data

people writes in what we have seen already in the first wave. first, there is an increase in the number of cases and then there is an increase in the number of hospitalisations and deaths as well. u nfortu nately, hospitalisations and deaths as well. unfortunately, what we have seen already is the case is going up and now we're seeing the number of deaths going up which, u nfortu nately, deaths going up which, unfortunately, is what we are expecting. and because we know it is already ongoing, it is even more important to try and clamp down on a transmission, because now we are confirming that the trajectory, not just any number of cases, is going in the wrong way, and also in the number of deaths. the severity of the situation, the need for action at every level, individuals and also authorities. speaking of the need for action from individuals, we saw donald trump coming out having been treated for coronavirus telling

people, telling americans, don't be afraid of covid—19. what was your reaction when you heard that? fear, especially when it is irrational or paralysing, certainly never helps. i would say that the best cure for fear is knowledge. but when it comes to the coronavirus and this pandemic, the knowledge is actually understanding the severity of the situation, but also understanding that we are still very much playing catch up with the virus. at patient level, when it comes to actually managing patients in hospital at home, but also from a public health point of in terms of we are still not there when it comes to actually keeping down transmission in a manageable way. fear certainly doesn't help. we shouldn't be paralysed by it, but also knowledge, understanding and being aware of the

situation of the virus, because they are both not to be underestimated. good to talk to you. 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 take 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 inquiry‘s findings will make uncomfortable reading. the wording is stark. the entire moral purpose of the anglican church criticised. the inquiry 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 but more importantly morally unacceptable to carry out this sort of abuse. the report says since the 1940s, 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 inquiry 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 again 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 inquiry has called for lasting change, a fundamental shift that it says will require more than platitudes from church leaders. daniela relph, bbc news.

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 are sick? donald trump is a sick man. he has coronavirus. he's been treated with steroids, antiviral drugs and experimental therapies. and yet, afterjust 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 holding vigil outside. the doctors warned earlier the president was still not out of the woods, but he was safe to leave. we're 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 when the evening news bulletins were on air, all designed to get his re—election campaign back on track. 0n the south portico balcony, the president removed the mask he's 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 stairs. 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's a leader would not do what i did. and i know there's a risk, there's a danger, but that's ok. and now i am better and maybe i'm immune, i don't know. and yet not all are convinced by his optimism, with some medical experts voicing 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 that his saying he feels good doesn't 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 mr trump would use his experience to stress the importance of masks. i would hope that the president, having gone through

what he went through — and i am glad he seems to be coming along pretty well — would communicate the right lesson to the american people. masks matter. these masks, they matter. it matters, it saves lives, it prevents the spread of the disease. these are the images the white house broadcast and wants voters to see. the dramatic return of a president who has taken on covid—19 and won. a story of struggle and recovery they can take into the final stages of the election campaign. the only question — whether image and reality will match. james landale, bbc news. let's get more now on boris johnson's announcement of what he described as a green industrial revolution to transform the economy and create thousands ofjobs. he told an online conference of his conservative party that in ten years' time, all british homes would be

powered with offshore wind. mrjohnson said the country could not go back to the way it was before the pandemic, but would become a better place with improved transport and more homes. with me is helen clarkson, the ceo of the climate group, a organisation that works with business and government leaders around the world to address climate change. thanks very much for being with us. what was your response when you heard what the prime minister has been saying about what he sees as a green revolution? this is a great thing to hear and it is what we have been pushing for, and we're really pleased to hear him talking about it. in terms of specific commitments in things like wind, it is not the first time they have talked about this, it is in the conservative party manifesto. but they are talking about money going behind it, thatis talking about money going behind it, that is the critical bit. it is good to see this sort of leadership from the government. the uk will be the next host of the next big round of the climate talks next year. there

is an expectation that when you are hosting those climate talks, you eat from the front. it was this commitment with money behind it that we wa nt commitment with money behind it that we want to see —— lead from the front. he was talking about homes being powered by offshore wind. but homes are only a fraction of it. business, offices, factories and so on are the much bigger proportion? there is a lot to do and we need to think about those bigger systems and where they are getting their energy from and all of the different parts of the net zero commitments. the uk committee for climate change has trying to work out how to get to net zero. we are hearing that the government is going to put out a ten point plan between now and the end of the year. we are excited to see what else is in that. is like

electric, transportation industry. however we going to think about the food system. and, of course, things like heating and houses. this is a great step but we want to see the rest of that ten point plan and see how they deliver on those commitments. he was saying that the coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity and a way to reset what we're doing on climate change. do you see that we do that, that in some ways, a rather strange way perhaps, this is an opportunity?” think we need to be careful about words when people are still sick and dying, and we need to think about how it has impacted people's lives. but we have seen that the general public has been shaken up and businesses have been shaken up, and what we think of as normal does not need to be the way that we set out the future. addressing climate change is about reshaping the economy, reshaping our lives and

thinking differently about how we do things. there is that opportunity about how to capitalise on its and people thinking what i want from the future. schoolchildren saying what does our future look like and the fa ct does our future look like and the fact that to overcome the economic impact of the pandemic, we do need to put a lot of money into our economies. if we spend that money in the right way, we can hit our climate bowl. in that sense, those two things coming together does allow the government to look at this really seriously and understand how it can get to the net zero target. —— goal. it can get to the net zero target. -- goal. how do you think the uk is doing generally on climate promises compared to other countries? on that he table ranking, we will hear from the committee in a few weeks. the uk has had a strong leadership

position. we had a world leading legislation back in 2010. but we know from the science that no country in the world is doing enough, we are not doing it fast enough. we have got 2/2 emissions by 2030. the uk is a critical part of that. we have got the leadership of the un talks next year and i think we really need to embrace that potential of having the leadership position to really drag the rest of the world along as well and show what can be done. thank you very much for your time. thank you. 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 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 bomb, and they plant things in soil so they are all made out of paper and natural resources. 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 £70 million for charities. since we are a small school of around 110, and out of the whole country, they actually listened to us. they certainly did, and from now on, the red nose will be a lot greener. fiona lamdin, bbc news.

now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. a little bit everything to close out our tuesday afternoon. sunny spells and scattered showers — for some as well accompanied by gale—force gusts of wind, particularly across south wales and south west england. still under this influence of low pressure. so far, most of the showers have been further south and west, some of them merging together for longer spells of rain at times. the best of the drier weather throughout the afternoon, sheltered eastern areas, eastern england and north and east scotland. top temperatures, 12 to 16 degrees. most of the showers across england and wales should tend to fade through the night. but a north—westerly wind will keep feeding in some showers to the north—west of the great glen in particular. where we get some clearer skies, we could see temperatures falling down into single figures. we start off on wednesday on a relatively quiet, dry and sunny note, and that is how it will stay for many. a few scattered showers continue into the far north—west. cloud and rain gathers into the south—west. top temperatures, perhaps, of 16 degrees. that's it. take care.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: the prime minister tells the conservative party coronavirus must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change. after all we've been through, it isn't enough just to go back to normal. it comes as the uk records over 14,500 new cases of coronavirus — and a further 76 deaths a damning report says the church of england failed, for decades, to protect children from sexual abuse — preferring to protect its own reputation. president trump urges americans not to be afraid of covid—19,

after leaving hospital. renowned british mathematician, professor sir roger penrose is one of the winners of the nobel prize for physics — for his research into black holes. sport and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. the police have decided not to prosecute tammy abraham, jadon sancho and ben chilwell for attending a surprise birthday party for abraham. all three have apologised but are still to hear whether they will be dropped from the england squad, who have all been reminded by manager gareth southgate about the standards they should set. by manager gareth southgate we by manager gareth southgate had a welcome meei and we had a welcome meeting yesterday and he reminded us what it means and the expectations of playing for england and you have to be extra careful and follow the rules. those boys have apologised and that is first and foremost what they needed

to do but we all understand what it means to play for your country and that you have to remember that at all times. it's a tough situation but they have apologised so we have to move on. we'd like to apologise, as in the last bulletin we used an image of callum hudson—0doi instead of his chelsea team—mate tammy abraham. we are sorry for this error. a third liverpool player has tested positive for coronavirus in the space of a week. xherdan shaqiri found out he had the virus while on international duty with switzerland and he's now in isolation. it follows positive tests at the club for sadio mane and thiago alcantara. james forrest has a stress fracture of the ankle. the scotland winger came off against riga in the europa league last month and has not played since. he is expected to miss a further four to six weeks.

the uncapped bristol fly—half callum sheedy has been named in the wales squad for their six—test autumn schedule. he played for england in a non—cap game against the barbarians last year and he also qualified for ireland through his parents. sheedy is one of seven uncapped players in a 38—strong squad. in relation to eligibility, he told me that he was born in cardiff and raised in cardiff and he is welsh through and through and i can tell by his accent. he was very keen to represent his country and his country is wales so that is the short phone call around eligibility. he has been playing well for bristol. he is a good all—round player. 23 years of age, he has a big future in front of him. we have spoken to all the players. we had a assume court with about 55 players and we talked about the season coming —— we had a zoom call. we

think callum has a big future in the game and we are looking forward to working with him. french prosecutors have opened an investigation into alleged spot—fixing in a women's doubles match at the french open. it involves a match in the first round. meanwhile on the court there's been another upset. third seed elina svitolina has been knocked out by qualifier nadia podoroksa. the world nuber131 won in straight sets 6—2, 6—4 in their quarterfinal. the argentine becomes the first female qualifier ever to reach the last four of roland garros — and the first in 21 years to reach such a point in any grand slam. britain's geraint thomas has been forced to pull out of the giro d'italia, after suffering a fracture to his pelvis in a crash before yesterday's third stage. the welshman said it was very frustrating, especially as he was feeling in better shape than when he won the tour de france two years ago. he tweeted "2020 you can just do one now."

and in today's fourth stage officials needed to examine the photo finish to decide who won. eventually arnaud demare on the right of the picture was given the victory ahead of peter sagan and davide ballerini. portugal'sjoao almeida retained the overall lead. that's all the sport for now. 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, gave us this update. these figures give us a more recent and immediate snapshot of what is happening in the job market right now. rather than the official unemployment figures which often look

back and they have a time lag. these figures today are based on what is known as the advanced noticed redundancy form that employers have to give to the government if they are planning on laying off more than 20 staff as part of a redundancy process. let me explain what the figures mean. for the month of august, the figures show that employers planned 58,000 redundancies. that would take the total tojust under 500,000. 498,000 in the first five months of this crisis. that suggests clearly about 100,000 jobs lost every month of this crisis. the big summer rush could be because the furlough scheme, the government support scheme, is coming to an end at the end of october. it will be replaced by the job support scheme. the new support scheme is less generous, many employers will be trying to get in before that comes into force. many sectors of the economy are not able to get back to any sort of normality, whether that's retail or hospitality, entertainment

or events, they are still struggling to get their staff back to work. it's also worth bearing in mind that unless the redundancy process involves more than 20 people, they will not show up in the latestjob figures, so it is likely that the unemployment toll of the whole covid—19 crisis could end up being much higher than the figures suggest. germans have been told that a difficult time lies ahead as the number of covid cases continues to rise across the country. new daily infections are regularly over 2,000, but scientists and politicians are hopeful that minor restrictions already in place will keep infections under control. 0ur berlin correspondent for germany, the show is going on — just. its performers mastering the art of improvisation. doing what they can, where they can, while they can. there is always a risk. i think, though, and this is important to say, that culture means something. the situation of complete lockdown also means that bach and handel and shakespeare and goethe

and beethoven are just not saying what they have to say. europe's leaders immersed in the second wave. angela merkel, ever cautious, admits she's worried. german case numbers are rising, although they are still significantly lower than those of france, spain, britain. there is seriously a strong chance that things might get out of control. i think it is really down to how effectively the public health institutions can track cases and stamp out cases. so far, they've been doing a pretty good job. in a country traditionally obsessed with fresh air, there is a renewed respect for ventilation. the government now advises, and funds, organisations to install airing systems like those produced here. the firm expects a busy autumn, because, since the pandemic began,

they've also developed this, an air purifier designed to filter out aerosols from classrooms. to get a corona infection, it is not only that you have one aerosol, but you need to have a certain concentration of aerosols to be infected. if we can at least reduce the risk of being infected significantly — for everyone in the classroom — then it's great. there is no 100% certainty. as the season changes, new concerns arise. life, after all, is about to move back indoors. in towns and cities across this country, officials are trying to work out how to keep infections under control. there's lots of debate. should masks be worn in outdoor spaces? should alcohol sales be banned at night? but all agree on this — germany simply cannot afford a second lockdown.

restricted, determined, but it could be a long winter. jenny hill, bbc news, bavaria. the global chemical weapons watchdog has confirmed a novichok—type nerve agent was found in samples taken from the russian opposition activist, alexei navalny. mr navalny 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. the russian government has denied any involvement in mr navalny‘s poisoning. 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 navalny had been flying from siberia to moscow back in august when he suddenly fell ill on the aeroplane and, in the interview, he talked about coming out in a cold sweat. but instead of pain, he said he was consumed

by this overwhelming belief that he was going to die, as if his body was telling him this is the end. he said that was more terrifying than pain. this is how he described his experience. translation: it's difficult to explain because it is 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're becoming very ill. and in this interview, he pointed the finger of blame very clearly at president putin. he said that the russian president would have had to sanction the use of a military grade nerve agent like novichok used against him. he also believes that the russian authorities delayed his medical evacuation from siberia to germany because they were hoping that traces of novichok

would disappearfrom his body. the kremlin all along has denied any involvement in this incident. but if he is right, if this did come from the top, then why was he targeted? one thing he said in this interview, he believes he may be targeted to silence other critics of the kremlin ahead of elections next year. three scientists have been awarded the 2020 nobel prize in physics for their work on understanding black holes. the winners were announced at a televised ceremony as the in—person event was cancelled this year. half of the prize was awarded to sir roger penrose, the 89—year old english mathematical physicist, for his discovery that black hole formation is a prediction of the general theory of relativity. the rest of the prize is shared between german scientist andrea ghez

and american reinhard genzel for discovering the supermassive compact object at the centre of the galaxy. andrea ghez is only the fourth woman ever to receive the physics prize. and i'm delighted to say we are nowjoined by sir roger penrose. congratulations, fantastic achievement. you heard about this when you were in the shower? more or less, although it wasn't quite like that! how did you hear the news, this morning? there were messages that came and it was while i was waiting between one message and the next, i didn't know what was going on. i hadn't known that it was the award of the nobel prize at that point so i went to take a shower and then the phone rang again so i had to come out. i know people always ask what you were doing when you found out. amazing achievement. you

have had many amazing achievements in your life but how does this rank? what does it feel like to be a nobel prizewinner? as an honour it is the main one, of course. the main scientific honour. there have been other impressive things which people seem other impressive things which people seem to have awarded me for. you nobel prize is something very special and i'm really honoured and i think it is a great privilege to join the nobel prize winners. i think it is a great privilege to join the nobel prize winnersm i think it is a great privilege to join the nobel prize winners. it is for your work on black holes and that they are a direct consequence of einstein's theory of relativity but this was a discovery made quite a long time ago? 1964, yes. mathematical piece of work so i don't think nobel prizes normally go

to mathematics as such but it was about a physical entity. the question was, although the sort of model that people had in mind was known just before the war in 1939, when 0ppenheimer wrote a paper which was a discussion of general relativity, what happens if you have a cloud of dust and that collapses and the picture they had was of the kind we would call a black hole, but that was very special in a couple of respects. it was what they thought dust so there was no pressure in the material, which actually works one way or the other, but you can imagine if there is no pressure there is nothing to stop it going in. the other more important point, it was exactly spherically symmetrical so everything falls inwards towards the central point, nothing to stop it, and the fact you getan nothing to stop it, and the fact you get an infinite density at that middle point is not such a surprise,

so middle point is not such a surprise, so many people thought, if you had a thing and it swishes this way and that, instead of making the point of infinite density, it would squish out again, but that was an expectation that many people had. in the early 1960 four and earlier. —— 1964. i think there was interest from 92, i can't remember exactly, -- 1962. from 92, i can't remember exactly, —— 1962. quasars were emitting a relatively amount of energy, and people wondered what would happen to highly concentrated material. the idea that they would squish out... there was a paper at the time by two russians, and they had claimed that ina russians, and they had claimed that in a general case you would not get these single estates where things would go to infinity and then go crazy so would go to infinity and then go crazy so they try to argue that this

was not a real thing to worry about. i had was not a real thing to worry about. ihada was not a real thing to worry about. i had a look at the paper and i did not know there was actually a mistake in the work which turned it around. it was discovered later, i think. but at the time i did not see the mistake. i just think. but at the time i did not see the mistake. ijust saw think. but at the time i did not see the mistake. i just saw the type think. but at the time i did not see the mistake. ijust saw the type of argument they were using, i did not feel was terribly convincing. i needed to think about it afresh. and so needed to think about it afresh. and so that was how it began, a walk in the woods, really, trying to imagine myself inside the black hole and trying to work out what light rays did. is that when the moment of inspiration came to you, when you we re inspiration came to you, when you were walking in the woods? that is when i was forming my general views about what to do about it and what kind of argument you would need in order to prove this or that, but i

did not know how to characterise what a point of no return would be. there is a story i keep telling people, i had a lectureship at that time at birkbeck college and i was walking towards where i worked. i was ina walking towards where i worked. i was in a conversation with robinson, a distinguished and able mathematical physicist who worked in general relativity. he was english but worked in texas. we had a conversation. he was wonderful at talking and he talked to me. we reached a road that we crossed and as we crossed the road the conversation stopped and then we got to the other side and started up again, but when he left, i had a strange feeling of elation, i couldn't figure out why, and i went through what happened to me during the day, what i had for breakfast and everything, and then i came back

to this occasion when i crossed the road. evidently when i crossed the road. evidently when i crossed the road i had an image, which the conversation had obliterated when i got to the other side, but when i retrieved it which was a notion of what i call a trapped surface and this was a criterion which would tell you without any assumptions of symmetry or anything like that, so you did not need to assume it was symmetrical, but it tells you roughly speaking when you got to a point of no return and you had to do some mathematics to see why this was a point of no return and why you got something of the nature of what we now call a black hole. that was the crucial, i don't know if that was more crucial than the work i did previously to get my mind around the mathematics that one needed to deal with. it is interesting to hear you describe that moment because it sounds like a moment of inspiration in the same way that a composer or a novelist might have a moment of inspiration, yet you are a

mathematical physicist. yes, indeed. there is a famous one with a mathematician who said he was getting on the bus and he had a thought... he argued it differently. he said he was not thinking about it. you see, i was thinking about these problems. when i've robinson was talking to me i was more interested in the conversation about when it stopped, i had thoughts and they came crowding back. maybe it was having myself a bit distracted from it, led to me thinking in a different way, this idea of a trapped surface was something which was a nice characterisation which did not assume any kind of symmetry. i then went back to my office and it did not take me too long, using the tools i had been developing until that point, to sketch out a kind of proof that the black hole

singularities were generic. we don't have much time left, and if you could say this in a nutshell, what is it still that puzzles you about black holes? what do we still not know? what are the riddles? the nature of the similarity, when i say singularity, that is where density and curvature blows up to infinity and curvature blows up to infinity and the equations give up. at that point, we don't really know, but one of the black holes is that you don't really need to know because you don't see what is going on in the inside. the black holes do, according to stephen hawking, eventually, and it takes an incredible length of time, eventually they will evaporate away and they get smaller and smaller and smaller, but for the biggest one it ta kes smaller, but for the biggest one it takes more than a google unit which is ten to the power of 100. 2103 is

the figure. it is a long time. —— ten to the power of 103. when they are disappearing, you have to know what happens, and you have to think about the singularity and how important it is in the final demise of the black hole. but this is not something which we can dismiss as unimportant because it is so far in the future, because it is of releva nce to the future, because it is of relevance to work we have done recently with polish colleagues and a korean in the us, as well, we have a korean in the us, as well, we have a paper recently published comic in the vile astronomical society, where we claim there is evidence for talking points —— published monthly in the royal astronomical society. we claimed there was an aeon prior to hours and its remote future

morphed into our big bang and the black hole remnants are what we see and we can claim that we can actually seek about six points which are actually seek about six points which a re clearly in actually seek about six points which are clearly in both the big satellites which map the cosmic background is stop it is pretty convincing, that there these are hawking points. we are out of time, i'm afraid, but fascinating to hear you talk. fascinating to hear you talk with such enthusiasm and it is not often that we talk about mathematical physics on the bbc news channel. how are you going to celebrate your achievement? i've no idea, it is a bit difficult because of lockdown, but we have not made any arrangements as yet. many congratulations from everyone here. my congratulations from everyone here. my pleasure indeed.

it's just weeks until what's being called the most important us presidential election ever. both candidates have put religion at the centre of their campaign. although white evangelicals helped donald trump into the white house in 2016, this year the picture is more complex. in north carolina, there's less than a percentage point between the two candidates. lebo diseko has been speaking to christian voters in this swing state. this is north carolina. donald trump one big here in 2016 helped in part by christian voters. i would describe myself politically as a christian conservative patriot. according to exit polls, eight out of ten white evangelicals voted for donald trump.

my faith and relationship with jesus christ influences my decisions. the leadership dictates the society we live in and i would prefer it continued to stay the god centred country that it was originally created to be. this year the race in north carolina is tight but a different type of christian could help swing the state. i know the church is a diverse place. there are black people like me, latinos and an increasingly vocal christian left so i wanted to speak with people we don't usually hear from in a state that could vote either way. covid—19 and the job losses it brought have hit black and latino communities disproportionately hard. we started this in march. this pastor offers drive—through meals for the needy in his church on the outskirts of the state capital. during the pandemic demand increased tenfold. the black christian vote is more energised this election cycle, because what we have seen is that it lives really do depend on it. he wants all of his congregation to vote. i do not believe that president trump stands for

christian values. i believe that president trump preys on the christian faith in order to seek re—election. more than a quarter of all christians are black or latino, and these groups generally vote for the democratic party but republicans are hoping to win over voters like this 19—year—old, rose. pros for trump would be the abortion, that is something i agree with as a christian. latino christians have been called the ultimate swing voter. nearly half are catholic and tend to be more socially conservative. but donald trump's stance on immigration can be difficult. rose's mum is from honduras and the temporary scheme which allowed her to be in the us is now in limbo. i would like to see him give a chance to immigrants, give them an opportunity to live in this country and not have to worry

about getting deported. everyone i have spoken with was really worried about what is happening in america. whilst they may have different view about what should be done about it, what they have in common is their faith. it is the lens which they see the world, including politics, and that is whyjesus could be key to winning this election. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. a little bit of everything to close out our tuesday afternoon. sunny spells and scattered showers, and for some accompanied by gale force winds, especially over south wales and south—west england. still under this influence of low pressure, but so far most of the showers have been further south and west. some of their merging together

for longer spells of rain at times. the best of the dry weather throughout the afternoon, eastern areas, eastern england and north—east scotland. top temperatures 12—16c. most of the showers across england and wales should tend to fade through the night. a north—westerly wind will keep feeding in showers to the north—west, the great glen in particular. when we get some clearer skies we could see temperatures falling down into single figures but we start off on wednesday on a relatively quiet, dry and sunny note and that is how it will stay for many. a few scattered showers will continue into the far north—west. cloud and rain it gathers into the south—west, with top temperatures are perhaps of 16. that's it.

this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines... the uk records over 14,500 new cases of coronavirus — and a further 76 deaths. the prime minister tells the conservative party coronavirus must be a catalyst to speed up social and economic change. after all we've been through, it isn't enough just to go back to normal. donald trump is criticised for downplaying the dangers of coronavirus, as he returns to the white house after leaving hospital. a damning report says the church of england failed for decades to protect children from sexual abuse, preferring to protect its own reputation. renowned british mathematician, professor sir roger penrose,