this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines... the uk records over 1a,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, 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. the uk has seen a sharp rise in the number of new coronavirus cases, according to the latest government figures released in the past hour. there were 14,542 new infections recorded today — that's up from 12,594 yesterday, an increase of nearly 2,000. a further 76 people have died within 28 days of testing

positive with the virus. that takes the total number of deaths across the uk to 42,445. 0ur health correspondent, nick triggle, is with me. nick, i think you were focusing very much on the number of hospital admissions in particular in these new sister? yes, we know the number of cases have been rising, and that has translated to a gradually increasing number of hospital admissions per day. of what we've seen over the last 24 hours, these we re seen over the last 24 hours, these were the figures for sunday in england, there were 478 admissions — that's up from 386 on saturday. that's the highest single figure for a day since earlyjune, and it is a rise of a quarter, which is quite remarkable. we've seen gradual

increases in hospital admissions. these are people who are seriously ill, and people are obviously very concerned. we need some context for the figures. at the peak, there are over 3000 admissions per day. this is the time of year where we will be seeing a rise in admissions, and we should sadly expect these figures to keep going up. in winter generally you could have around 1000 emergency admissions for respiratory illnesses. what we don't know, because we are only counting the coronavirus cases, is what's happening with flu and other respiratory illnesses. so this number of admissions may be lower than previous years but because we are only counting the covid—19 admissions, we only know what's happening with them. in terms of the number of cases, another sharp rise, a lot of them focusing on different regions in the country. we were speaking to the director of health in manchester yesterday who was saying that actually there's a very

high number of cases there related due to students returning to university. we've seen a lot of cases in hospital admissions in the north of england, the northwest, northeast in yorkshire. cities like manchester, liverpool, and newcastle have an infection rate of 500 per 100,000 - that's have an infection rate of 500 per 100,000 — that's well over ten times the national average, put in the context. these are really high rates. but what's not clear yet as we know these are big university cities and we know a number of stu d e nts cities and we know a number of students are testing positive, some without any symptoms or disease. so what is unclear is we know infection levels are rising in the community, but some of this may be down to the stu d e nts but some of this may be down to the students in these cities too. thanks very much, nick. the rise in the number of people dying from coronavirus in england and wales 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. 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 correspondent, jess parker. borisjohnson is always the darling of the tory party conference, isn't he? he loves to whip up the audience and get lots of laughs. it must be a very strange experience there for him to be in an empty room. he couldn't draw on the energy of the crowd as he does so like to do, as you say. but it was very interesting as well because he was really trying to tell the grassroots and his own mpsa to tell the grassroots and his own mps a couple of things, because of

concerns that have arisen in those corners in the last few months. first of all, he's the man they chose to be the party leader. use the same type of character, that freedom loving tory, as he puts it, that won the 2019 general election, and that he still has his mojo. there have been concerns raised by conservative mps have spoken to here who feel the prime minister isn't quite the man that they knew when they first chose him to be their leader. but he absolutely dismissed that. then i think there a wider ideological concern about the direction of the conservative party. the argument boris johnson direction of the conservative party. the argument borisjohnson was making is that yes, the state has been doing unprecedented levels of intervention, it is not something he isa intervention, it is not something he is a conservative leader wants to do, but it is a situation that's arisen because of coronavirus. but he went out of his way to appraise the private sector, some red meat for the grassroots as well, criticising so—called lefty human rights lawyers. 0ne senior

grassroots lawyer i spoke to this afternoon and welcome to the broad thrust of the speech, but there was to late hint of skepticism there because they were saying actually ministers were still going around spending money and an unprecedented way that concern them. so boris johnson has said some things that will please the grassroots today, but they want to see action as well. when he talked about still having his mojo and so on, do you think he isa his mojo and so on, do you think he is a bit fed up with the sniping that has been from some tory mps and some newspaper columnists, suggesting that maybe he won't be prime ministerfor that suggesting that maybe he won't be prime minister for that much longer, that may be rishi sunak will take overin that may be rishi sunak will take over ina that may be rishi sunak will take over in a year or that may be rishi sunak will take over ina yearorso? that may be rishi sunak will take over in a year or so? it's quite interesting because rishi sunak made his speech yesterday, which was remarkably short. and he heaped praise on the prime minister. boris johnson today made it much longer and wide—ranging speech, although not the usual speech that we usually see in crowded conservative party conference. but i think we've seen

ina number of conference. but i think we've seen in a number of occasions boris johnson trying to reassert some authority. because the truth is you couldn't talk about the longview, clea n couldn't talk about the longview, clean or green 01’ couldn't talk about the longview, clean or green or britain in 2030, and he did talk a lot about that. but his administration is still com pletely but his administration is still completely absorbed in tackling the coronavirus crisis. there are still conservative mps who think his strategy is wrong or have particular practical concerns about some elements of the strategy. so on a consistent basis now over recent months, he's tried to come out fighting and defend his strategy, and assert his authority. just, many thanks indeed. 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. the headlines on bbc news... 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. donald trump is criticised for downplaying the dangers of coronavirus, as he returns to the white house after leaving hospital.

donald trump has been criticised for apparently downplaying the threat of coronavirus. in a tweet, he compared the pandemic to the flu season, saying that in most populations it was less lethal. twitter said it violated its twitter rules about spreading misleading information. more on that in a moment. earlier, mr trump returned to the white house to continue his treatment for coronavirus after spending three nights in hospital. 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, 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, mr trump 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. facebook has now removed a post by donald trump in which he falsely said flu was more lethal than coronavirus. and twitter has added a warning that a tweet violated its rules about spreading misleading and potentially harmful information

related to covid—19. lets get more on this. 0ur social media reporter, marianna spring, joins me now. just explain a bit more with what facebook and twitter have done on from's comments that flu is more dangerous than covid—19. from's comments that flu is more dangerous than covid-19. this is only the second time facebook has removed one of mr trump's posts about coronavirus, the others have said is spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. they've acted quite strongly in this instance, saying incorrect information about the strip the macro severity of coronavirus will be removed from the platform. they've done so with mr trump. twitter similarly have whacked a big label over the top of his tweet, which says that the tweet contains misinformation which could possibly be harmful and prevents you actually seeing the text of the tweet when you were looking on your twitter feed. both of these are pretty strong responses to dispense

information that has been peddled by mrtrump about information that has been peddled by mr trump about the severity of the coronavirus and comparing it to flu. although we don't know the total death tally link to coronavirus, we do know that there appears to be almost ten times higher than that of regular seasonal flu. so what he's saying is incorrect. i think many people will be reassured that social media sites are being more proactive about this, they've been widely criticised for a failure to tackle dangerous misinformation on their platform. in fact, a few months ago, bbc investigated the impact of information like this, downplaying the severity of coronavirus. it's been linked to many falling seriously ill. he's been saying quite a lot since he came out of hospital about the flu, but also about not being afraid of the virus, telling americans to not fear the coronavirus. what's been the impact of all that on social media? lots of those comments have been picked up

ina number of those comments have been picked up in a number of facebook groups and used in different ways — the suggestion that we shouldn't be afraid of coronavirus or that the flu is much worse have been used by a number of people who post in pro trump and anti—mask facebook groups to fuel conspiracy theories of the pandemic is a hoax. that is false — 01’ pandemic is a hoax. that is false — or that it is not that serious, which numbers in the us would say otherwise. 0n the other side, we see lots of others outrage about trump's comments, talking about the loved ones they've lost or patients they've seen who were severely affected by coronavirus and how dangerous these comments can be. thank you very much indeed. let's talk more about what's happening with the american election. i'm joined by us pollster john zogby from new york. thanks for being with us. so donald trump is coming out of hospital, that extraordinary video set to

music at the white house put out with him landing in the helicopter on the balcony and saluting, and so on the balcony and saluting, and so on— on the balcony and saluting, and so on — what do you think this whole episode has done to the election?” only know from my own polling that first polls to come out after trump was admitted from hospital — the short answer is it's working for him. we had biden leading 49—47, meaning that from previous polls that we've done, biden's numbers are about the same, frozen. it is trump who in the last two months, the last month, and the last week has gone from the low 40s into a 47. he strengthened his support among republicans, strengthened among conservatives, among voters over 65, amongst whites and evangelicals — those are his base, but he stronger amongst his base that he's been in a while. is out because people are feeling sympathetic to him, to put it bluntly? honestly i don't know.

we didn't ask why, but it could very well be that they saw the reality of the fact that these are conservatives now — the reality that joe biden could win, now they're paying attention and saying we shouldn't fool around with us any more. but that's just speculation, i can only go by what the numbers say. do see this mound or the dust more than ever —— now more than ever, the difference between these two candidates is so much, we heard donald trump saying not to be afraid of the virus, taking off his mask on the balcony of the white house. joe biden is very much keeping a social distance at all times, always wearing his mask? i think there are two things, two major themes to this campaign that have come to a head. the first is science versus skepticism— and to a great degree,

that's where we're at right now, and it is covert related. although a big issue amongst younger voters of climate change. the other is empathy versus rage, with biden carving out that empathy scope for himself, and the incumbent raging against the machine — which is really interesting no matter which way you draw that. i think that when it really co m es draw that. i think that when it really comes down to it, that also puts into play their personalities as well. trump is trying to be robust. "hey, i be coronavirus," he tells people. always comes down to those key swing states in the end. what do you think in particular is going on there? we just have some new polling coming out this morning, showing that the swing states have biden leading but not by much, and really very little change. they've been swinging back and forth from a tight biden lead to several points

higherfor biden. tight biden lead to several points higher for biden. but still, tight biden lead to several points higherfor biden. but still, this is all really too close to call. there's something else at play here that we have defined in this poll that we have defined in this poll that we have defined in this poll that we did. that is that biden leads trump by 16 points among those who say they've already voted or will vote by mail. trump leads biden by 18 points among those who say they will vote on election day. we have a mess here that will happen. just on that, how do people do you think have already voted? 8-9% tell us think have already voted? 8-9% tell us that, and of course that will climb in the next few weeks. but when all is said and done, we are looking at about over 40% who will be voting by mail. and a couple more tv debates, assuming that they happen — do you think they could still be crucial? i think so. this

isa still be crucial? i think so. this is a close race, that's what it's looking like to me. there's that sense that anything that could move that relatively small number of undecided voters one where the other, or instill in them to not vote could benefit donald trump. both of these candidates are in their 70s. we've seen donald trump going to hospital and so on. does that make the vice presidential contest in the vice presidential debate this week even more important thanit debate this week even more important than it might normally be? absolutely. no one was talking vice president. there have been a few consequential vice presidential debates, they can move it a point here or there. but now anything that moves a point here or there could moves a point here or there could move an election. so yeah, we will be scrutinising two polar opposites not only ideology and by way of gender, but personality wise as well

thought it could be fascinating. gender, but personality wise as well thought it could be fascinatingm certainly is and it's fascinating to talk to you. thanks very much for being with us on 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—16 celsius. 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 celsius. that's it. take care. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the uk records over 14 and a half thousand 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 a ll after all we have been through, it is not enough just to go back to

normal. facebook removes a post by president trump in which he claimed covid—19 was "less lethal" than the flu. 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 is one of the winners of the nobel prize for physics — for his research into black holes new restrictions to try to stem the spead of coronavirus will be introduced in scotland tomorrow but will fall short of a full lockdown, the first minister nicola sturgeon has announced. she was speaking as 800 new cases of covid—19 were confirmed acoss the country, with the number of people in hospital with the virus rising by 44 overnight to 262. we by 44 overnight to 262. are not proposing another lockdown

we are not proposing another lockdown at this stage, not even on a temporary basis. we're not going to be asking you to stand inside your own homes, we are not about to impose travel restrictions on all of the country. we are not about to shut the entire economy, we not about to halt the immobilization of the nhs and apart from this those are the plan, were not proposing to close schools. 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 submit 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.

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. the number of black students from the uk now studying at cambridge university has tripled in the past five years. the figures, obtained exclusively by the bbc, show that this year, 137 out of the three and a half thousand first year students are black and british. in 2015 there were just 38. but the numbers are still disproportionately low. ashley john—ba ptiste has followed three students during their first year at the university —— and has this report. success. three black british graduates who are starting out at

cambridge university. success from manchester and for his nigerian pa rents, manchester and for his nigerian parents, cambridge is a big deal. not long into the first term, we caught up at the barbershop. this is very nigerian culture into what is an upper—class white community and. sharon is from tottenham and they have come to visit. we saw this is so have come to visit. we saw this is so unattainable. when you go to the classes, you feel the only black person there, unique. they've changed hairstyles. a few weeks into her first changed hairstyles. a few weeks into herfirst term, far changed hairstyles. a few weeks into her first term, far beyond that she experienced racial discrimination from a white student at a social event. the incident involved racial slurs. he said, it was mainly to

shock. i could not say anything. everyone wasjust like shock. i could not say anything. everyone was just like on shock. i could not say anything. everyone wasjust like on my gosh, we cannot believe you just said that. no one spoke up apart from me and my black friend and you are like. i and my black friend and you are like. lam and my black friend and you are like. i am black and cambridge. she did not report the cambridge but confronted the student privately and she says he later apologised. the university says that they regret that the incident occurred and encourage students to come forward if the experience or witness such events. it was long after her incident that she hears about another incident of the staff member of one of the university colleges verbally abusing a black student.” was on the train and went to my fever from the seed, a man from trinity college looked at me and said... verbally assaulting me on this train and i think to myself,

but i have been spoken to if i was a white man. he really grates me that i get emotional about it because you feel like you have to be strong. my mum keeps saying to me, just keep fighting. she can sing, do you want to drop out. do you want to leave? i am fighting for every other black person who i know that it's to occu py person who i know that it's to occupy the space stuff by the university says that her college that she reported this to the transfer police. no action was taken. while measures are put in place to improve diversity, the university realise there's still a problem. do you think the disciplines that is institutionally racist stub delivery system has not been acknowledged as relevant to the whole intellectual, it is racist because it does not acknowledge it in peoples lives stop spy

challenges, the universities african caribbean society, also known as the acs is put on for the students. we are alljust your existing and thriving. it is the beautiful symbol of how far we've come. over this summer, black lives matter protests became prominent after the death of george floyd. byjuly, the academic year has ended and for sharon, there's some good news.” year has ended and for sharon, there's some good news. i got my exam results and somehow, i managed to get in. another year of navigating the coronavirus, the resilience is clear.

the full version of ashley john—ba ptiste's documentary, being black at cambridge, is available on the bbc iplayer, and you can watch it here on the bbc news channel at 1.30 on saturday afternoon. two brothers who were told to move away from their mother, while trying to comfort her at a funeral, have said the experience left them feeling angry and upset. craig and paul bicknell, from milton keynes, went to sit with their mother at their father's funeral because she was ‘vulnerable'. but a staff member at the crematorium interrupted the service to tell them to move away. jo black reports. it is my privilege to have been asked to conduct our service to celebrate the life of alan. in an instinctive moment, two sons comfort their mother at their father's funeral. then this happens. and official interrupts the service and the brothers are told to move their chairs back.

craig and paul bicknell were so angry they shared the footage online and it has been viewed thousands of times. it was absolutely heartbreaking, especially for my mum to witness something like that because she needed her sons by her side at the time. my daughter was in that she is 15 and she couldn't even sit by her mum and she was in pieces when a man came out with such aggression, it made a hard day even worse. when alan black took ill in september, craig and his brother paul moved into their mother's home to support her and become one household but that they travelled to the funeral together and had mentioned people involved in the service that they may need to move and comfort their mother. just looked so lost i looked at her i had to leave her side and a look at her from the distance i was at. she looked so upset and shocked by it and didn't seem to be there. that was more concerning for me.

we have had to show a lot of support since. current government rules on the funeral to allow up to 30 people to attend and social distancing must be strictly adhered to. in a statement, milton keynes council said they were sorry to have upset the family and said... ijust feel, i mean, they haven't reached out to us at all, i know there has been some stuff said today and they have made a statement but they haven't reached out to the family. i would speak to somebody because they have admitted it was wrong, the way it took place. the guy who did what he did, i'd like to know what sort of training he had to interrupt a funeral, who told them to do that,

and to approach a family like that, maybe he needs some training in how to approach somebody in a situation like that because it wasn't very humane i don't think i could ever forgive him for that. jo black with that report. the renowned british mathematician, professor sir roger penrose has been named as one of three recipients of this year's nobel prize for physics. sir roger's research into black holes has been recognised alongside the work of the american astronomer, andrea ghez and the german astrophysicist, reinhard genzel. earlier i spoke to sir roger about the achievement and began by asking him how he heard he had been given the award. there are messages that came in and then they got dropped off and i was waiting between one message in the next. i didn't know what was going on. idid next. i didn't know what was going on. i did know was the nobel peace

prize award, some want to take a shower and the phone rang again. yes, i know people are asking what we're doing at the time but when you heard about the price. it is an amazing achievement you've had many amazing achievement you've had many amazing achievements in your life, but how does this rank? what is it like to be a nobel prize winner?m is an honour. it is a scientific honour. yes, there have been other improved with big that have been awarded. but, the nobel prizes something special and i'm really honoured and i think it is a great privilege tojoin me honoured and i think it is a great privilege to join me on honoured and i think it is a great privilege tojoin me on nobel laureates, yes, absolutely. a direct

course of einstein's theory of relativity, but this was the theory made quite a long time ago. thousand 1964, ar. mathematical piece of work, i do not think nobel prizes go to mathematics as such that it was for a physical entity and i think the question was the sort of model that people had in mind just before the war 1939 and they were a paper of general relativity, would have have a cloud of dust in that colla pses have a cloud of dust in that collapses in the picture they had was of what we would call a black hole. collapsible black hole. in two respects, there was dust, which means there is no pressure in the material, which works and where the other component you can imagine there is nothing to stop it going in there is nothing to stop it going in the more important point was it was

spherically symmetrical. soon, everything falls in words and there's nothing to stop with the fa ct there's nothing to stop with the fact that you get an infinite density at the middle point, many people worry whether it's which is one way or the other, make a point of infinite density, but then they will recess again. there was an expectation that many people had. i guess there was interest from 1962, i cannot remember the dates exactly when quasars were observed in these are objects admitting a huge amount of energy and that they were relatively small and people did begin to wonder what would happen to highly concentrated material. but the idea that, there's also paper the idea that, there's also paper the time by two russians and they

had claimed that in a general case, you wouldn't get the singular states where things went to infinity and went crazy. so come they tried to argue that this was not a real thing to worry about. but i did have a look at the paper they did not know there was a mistake in the work which turned it around. i think it was discovered later. but at the time, idid was discovered later. but at the time, i did not see the mistake. a list of the type of argument. i do not feel it was terribly convincing andi not feel it was terribly convincing and i needed to think about it fresh and i needed to think about it fresh andi and i needed to think about it fresh and i began to wonder, and it wasn't really trying to imagine myself inside a black hole in trying to work out what light rates did.“ that when the moment of inspiration

came to you? when you're walking in the woods? that was when i was formulating my general views about what to do about it and what kind of argument which you need in order to prove this or that. but i did not know how to characterize what a point of no return would be. and there is a story that i keep telling people that when i was being visited, add a lecture at that time that the college and, i was walking towards where i worked in dowson a conversation with robinson, a very able and distinguished mathematical physicist. he worked in dallas, texas knows a short visit and we had a conversation talking about, what a forget to walk around and we reach this little road and is across the road, the conversation stopped and

started up again. i went through all the things that happen to me during the things that happen to me during the day in what i had for breakfast and so on and so forth, that i can make to this occasion we cross the road and evidently when i cross the road, i have this image that the conversation had obliterated mum got to the side, but then i retrieved this, which was the notion of a trapped surface and this was the criterion which will tell you that in the assumptions of symmetry, so you did not need to assume more symmetrical, but touch of the roughly speaking, we he gets a point of no return and to just mathematics to see why this really was the point of no return and why you got something of the nature of what we now call a black hole. 0ut something of the nature of what we now call a black hole. out of crucial than the work done previously to get my mind around the kind of mathematics ever needed. but

it is interesting to hear described that moment because it's on the moment of inspiration in the same way that a composer or a novelist might have a moment of inspiration and that you mathematical physicist. there were other cases i can think of like that. yes indeed. and there sort the famous mathematician singular skin on the bus and he had the sudden thought and i hear differently, he was sort of saying that he was not thinking about it. i was thinking about these problems. i was thinking about these problems. i was more focused on the conversation than that though. i guess, maybe it was having myself be a bit distracted for a moment and thinking ata distracted for a moment and thinking at a slightly different way and this idea of a trapped surface was something that was a nice characterisation which didn't assume any kind of symmetry or anything and you could, i then went back to my

office it'd take me too long using the tools that have been developing at that point to sketch out a of the black hole singularities are generic. we do not have much time left, if you get to say it in a nutshell, what is it still the puzzles you about black holes might we not know? what are the riddles of persist? the nature of the singularity, that is of the densities and curvatures blow up to infinity to equations give up. the question is, what do you really do at that point we do not know and what are the advantages that you don't really need to know. like wolves do, according to stephen hawking is that eventually, and it ta kes hawking is that eventually, and it takes incredible length of time, is that black holes will evaporate away

and get smaller and smaller. it ta kes and get smaller and smaller. it takes of the biggest ones, more than a global year, and after that time, they will have disappeared and after they've disappeared, elected feel is what really happened in the other thing with the singularity and how important is that to the final end of the black hole. but this is not something we can dismiss because it is so far in the future, because it is so far in the future, because it is of relevant to done the research with my contemporaries. we have a paper recently published in monthly notices of the society where we claim that there is evidence for what we call the final demise of a

black hole, but not in our eon, when ice on, i mean big bang and remove future. i claimed there was an eon prior to ours in this remote future morphed into our big bang and the black hole remnants, proclaim that there is six points which are pretty clearly in both the satellites which are mapped on the background and it is pretty convincing. we are out of time, i'm afraid but it is fascinating to hear you talk with such enthusiasm and it is not often we discuss this on the bbc news channel. very quickly, how are you going to celebrate your amazing achievement? i have no idea. it's a little difficult because locked down. he have to see. you have made

any arrangements yet. the further east, more shelter and fewer showers in the little bit more sunshine as you can see across north yorkshire, threatening —looking cloud for much of the day and parts of west wells in rough seas as the wind discuss close to gil for so post close as well. sharp shares of west and making their way eastward through the day, they will ease down will see in window a fine weather, but i just want to point out the massive cloud near the atlantic. more rain to come across parts of england and wales in particular thursday and friday. showers who ease and will keep order to sharp shares of the far northwest of scotland, but where skies continue, temperatures dipped down to single figures but that will be a good deal of sunshine around and keep that

brisk northwesterly wind feeding the showers hear this a good for the afternoon, the sunshine and turning increasingly hazy with patchy rain. temperatures whiteley, perhaps speaking into the mid—teens but it is through the overnight to its thursday morning that we will see a speu thursday morning that we will see a spell of more heavy and persistent rain will need to keep an eye on that after the events he had of the weekender that will gradually drifted to instantly eastwards, but this with the front may linger for a time, bringing the potentialfor further pulses of web weather, particularly across southern england. we begin on a wet note and hopefully that system louise and we will keep an eye on then how quickly it eases the way, and allowing some brightness to depend on the temperatures. forgive us and shine, but sees 17 degrees with the cooler feel in the far northwest of scotland. friday, still brings the risk of more rain particularly across england and wales but that we

can show signs of improvement and thatis can show signs of improvement and that is because if an area of how light pressure slowly pushing in from the atlantic and we can see some winter weather running down the east coast but a northerly wind is going to keep kicking and that means it will feel noticeably cooler as well as we head towards the weekend. fewer showers with the brisk old wind.

a sharp rise in the number of people admitted to hospital with covid — as cities in northern england call on the government to give them more powers to slow soaring infection rates. manchester, liverpool, newcastle and leeds say the current restrictions are not working, they're confusing and some are counterproductive. we are facing the worst of both worlds here. the infection rate is going up, the economy of our city is tanking. almost 3,000 people with covid are now in hospital in england. boris johnson tells the conservative party's first virtual conference that the country will have a bright future after the pandemic.