this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. scotland faces new restrictions to combat a rise in covid cases, with pubs and restaurants expected to be affected. the pharmaceutical company, roche, warns of problems with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. us markets slide after president trump abruptly shelves talks over a new stimulus package despite warnings from the fed chairman. republican mike pence and democrat kamala harris prepare to go head to head in what could be the most important vice presidential election debate in us history. uk taxpayers may lose tens of billions of pounds because the government's flagship covid loan scheme is at high risk of fraud, according

to the national audit office. a businessman from leeds linked to organised crime and gangsters agrees to pay almost £10 million to the national crime agency. facebook and instagram are banning all accounts linked to the far—right qanon conspiracy theory group after classifying it as dangerous. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, is to announce a tightening of lockdown later to try and slow a surge in new covid cases. the plans are expected to include more restrictions for pubs, restaurants

and other hospitality venues. travel restrictions could be put in place in parts of the country which have higher levels of covid. across scotland, on average, around 730 people are testing positive and a half times higher than a fortnight ago, when 285 virus cases were recorded every day. also this afternoon, scotland's education secretary, john swinney, will announce plans for exams next year after this year's were cancelled due to the pandemic. this report from james shaw. the scottish government has not said exactly which sectors will be affected by new restrictions. there have been hints that hospitality is one area which is being looked at. lots of factors make it easy for the virus to spread — the difficulty of social distancing, poor ventilation, crowds, alcohol, and households mixing together. nicola sturgeon has said schools will stay open and there won't be a scotland—wide travel ban, although local travel bans have not been ruled out. 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 and, apart from the october holidays, which are already planned, we are not proposing to close schools. changes could happen as soon as the weekend, when many schools will start autumn half—term holiday. not a happy prospect for those who had been planning to get away or are worried about theirjobs in hospitality. i work in a pub, so that would be hard for me. i would have nojob. but good to protect everyone, i guess. we had 12 weeks of this in march and abided by the rules at that stage. now we're just back where we started. the social aspect, i couldn't do it again, like, not going out and seeing my friends and stuff. it's just... for your mental health, as well, just couldn't do it. the big question around a possible

circuit breaker is, will it work? the scottish government's public health experts believe even a couple of weeks could buy time for the nhs. it might slow the spread of the virus just enough to get the health service through the winter months, which are always a challenge and are likely to be even harder in this year of coronavirus. james shaw, bbc news, glasgow. our political correspondent, nick eardley, is at westminster. is nick eardley, is at westminster. there any feeling westminster is there any feeling that the westminster government will end up following the scottish government when it makes its announcements today? i think they are reluctant to do too much at the moment, victoria. we keep hearing ministers say they are always looking at the data and assessing what is going on, but so far they have been reluctant to talk about specifics. we know the virus is still spreading rapidly in parts of the north of england. there is a lot of pressure to look at what is being done there, some local mayors saying this morning that they don't

think the approach is working so far. and in some cases, like the 10pm curfew, they think it is being counter—productive. but at the moment, the government is really relu cta nt, moment, the government is really reluctant, when it comes to england, to come up with specific examples of things it is looking at. we heard this morning from the international trade secretary liz truss. what's really important, though, is that we don't want to go back into a second lockdown where we end up having to close down the economy and the potential damage that has on people's livelihoods. what we're doing is keeping the balance there between protecting lives and livelihoods, and as i say, we keep it under review. that is clear, every day they will be looking at this stuff, reflected by the messages i'm getting. pat says, it seems to me that when the restrictions are lifted, the virus is rampant again. logically, is there any possible respite from it until we get a vaccine? that is a

big part of the question. the way the government has been trying to portray it in the last few days is that winter is going to be hard and it could be better once we get to spring. but inevitably, the big question we will all be asking this afternoon of ministers is, if scotla nd afternoon of ministers is, if scotland is about to introduce some tough restrictions, as we think, things like further curbs on hospitality and potentially bringing the curfew time earlier or even shutting pubs and restaurants some areas completely, if that does happen, why isn't england following suit? why aren't those areas of england where in some cases, the virus is far more rampant than in parts of scotland, why aren't we seeing more draconian measures being brought in? all of this is hard and one of the reasons ministers don't wa nt to one of the reasons ministers don't want to talk about examples and go into too much detail is because if they do, then people will start to think those things are happening. but clearly, in the last few days we

have seen a big increase in the number of people testing positive for the virus. there is a lot of concern about that, particularly in the north—west and north—east of england, and it does seem that at some point, something will have to be done. we are going to talk to the labour leader of leeds city council at 10.30, labour leader of leeds city council at10.30, and also labour leader of leeds city council at 10.30, and also the labour mayor of liverpool, two areas in the north of liverpool, two areas in the north of england that are seen cases go up dramatically despite restrictions, further restrictions and even further restrictions and even further restrictions. neville e—mails to say, i think we should try a new way, have days when different parts of society can go out. monday, people under40, tuesday between a0 and out. monday, people undera0, tuesday between a0 and 60 and so on. louise says yes, i would except further lockdown measures, with measures at the moment having little effect, is their only alternative? no, says this person on twitter, sparkly vegas. i would resist

further unnecessary restrictions because they have proven to be ineffective. sarah is a yes, but. if my area had rising numbers, then yes, but my council area in scotland has an average of five positive cases per day and has been steady like this for several weeks. so make sure further restrictions are targeted and then really enforced. thank you for those. if you are getting in touch, you are very welcome. the pharmaceutical company roche is warning of problems in the uk with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. it says problems with a move to a new warehouse means there could be a "very significant" drop in its processing capacity, which might take two weeks to fix. covid—19 tests are being prioritised. allan wilson is president of the institute of biomedical science. he told me that the problems could have a significant impact.

if it lasts more than a matter of days, then we do run the risk of having a significant impact on the laboratory's ability to deliver routine tests for diabetes and for other conditions and also, i think, for diagnosing some cancers. we use roche antibodies and pathology labs to detect cancers and that determines treatment that people get. so there's a whole range of implications for routine laboratory testing. we have contingency plans, every laboratory has a contingency plan. we have introduced those. so we are looking for alternative suppliers for roche products, where they are available. we're looking to prioritise testing and we can sometimes, where it's appropriate, if we get samples that are not temperature—dependent, we can then store them and we can test them later, once we get... but we are working very creatively

to minimise the impact of this. but if it goes into weeks, then it's more difficult to see how those contingency plans will work effectively. president trump has said he's calling off negotiations over a crucial covid—19 relief bill, until after next month's election. american stocks fell after the announcement. democratic presidential nominee joe biden said mr trump had "turned his back" on the american people. but the president placed the blame on the democratic—party controlled house of representatives. he tweeted: that was a reference to the democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi. here's what she has to say. we've done testing in the first bill, march ath, march ath, and the bill since, but they never would accept the science of what you need to do to stop this vicious virus. and that is what is in the heroes act, that i hope... whenever that happens, we will be able to... we will be able to implement.

and i don't want to wait two and a half, three and a half months until a new president. i would hope that this president now, with this moment of his own experience, would say, "let's prevent this "from happening to someone else, let's take care of those to whom it " has happened, let's further mourn, as a nation, "those who've lost their lives." let's get more now on president trump's decision — our north america correspondent is peter bowes. you know, it has taken a lot of people by surprise. it almost seems like political suicide to make a decision like that, to tell the millions of americans who are suffering, many of those people out of work, others involved in businesses that are just managing to cling on and hoping that there will be a new stimulus bill. to convey that news less than a month before the election is a very curious decision. jerome powell, the fed chairman, has said that the economy could result in a tragic situation if there isn't a stimulus bill agreement.

and a lot of people, on both sides of the aisle, have been saying that this news is very urgent, it's urgently needed in the next few days, never mind the next few weeks. because in delaying it now, it means that there probably won't be something, at least in terms of money in the pockets of americans, until the beginning of next year. one theory is that, having talked to republicans, especially in the senate, is that president trump's emphasis now in the limited number of days between now and the election, his focus is on getting a confirmation for his nominee for the supreme court, as opposed to tying up time in congress with this stimulus bill. facebook and instagram are banning all accounts linked to the far—right conspiracy theory group called qanon, after classifying it as dangerous. supporters believe a bizarre theory that there's a global plot against president trump involving paedophiles and satanists. here's a bit more information about the group.

0ur disinformation reporter marianna spring joins me now. why are they doing this and why now? facebook did crack down on qanon backin facebook did crack down on qanon back in august, but that crackdown doesn't appear to have been effective. they just banned doesn't appear to have been effective. theyjust banned groups and pages that had been promoting violent content, but qanon plugs a range of disinformation, from coronavirus to political disinformation about the us election, so it makes sense that they are looking to act now, weeks away from polling day in the us. this is a big move from facebook and one that will be difficult to go through with, because they are

planning to ban all qanon accounts on facebook, instagram and the like. qanon supporters are very versatile. what we noticed when the last crackdown happened was that they started to use more part hashtags like save our children or save the children in a bid to not only escape the new measures, but to reach new audiences, local facebook groups, pa rent audiences, local facebook groups, parent forums and other places. and then using this theme of child abuse and child trafficking to plan political disinformation and especially to smear opponents of president trump. so it will be hard to make it work. definitely. the issueis to make it work. definitely. the issue is that again, lots of critics will be saying, is this too late yet ain? will be saying, is this too late yet again? it has become such a big deal and so many people are now either believing it or coming across it that to get rid of it totally is going to be incredibly complex. it isa going to be incredibly complex. it is a bit ofa going to be incredibly complex. it is a bit of a pandora's box, you can't put it back in. a number of people i have spoken to were not even aware necessarily that some of

the disinformation they have come across is being promoted by qanon. i spoke to a number of us voters who say their friends and family now believe the democrats are running a child trafficking ring or thatjoe biden is a paedophile, all baseless claims, because of disinformation from qanon. but when confronted with this, this is part of a political disinformation campaign. they say, i am not qanon, i don't know what that is. so even if you remove all of the pages and groups, those who believe it and don't even realise what it is are still going to believe the disinformation. it is so wild, it is wild! that there is a global plot against president trump involving paedophiles and satanists. is there a conspiracy theory that they don't believe in? that is an important point. qanon has this belief that president trump is waging a secret war against satanic paedophiles, but it has lots of cult—like tentacles that reach into new areas, and it often retrospectively uses actual

events, for instance epstein and allegations made against him about child trafficking, to further fuel the conspiracy theory. but what is also important is that most people will not be exposed to the full extent of the rabbit hole. a lot of people will just come extent of the rabbit hole. a lot of people willjust come across stuff on the surface which could impact how they vote and what they think. even in the uk, this isn't something thatis even in the uk, this isn't something that is confined to the us. we have seen people taking to the streets in newcastle, liverpool and london with this hashtag save our children, sucked into qanon disinformation. save our children is an independent movement —— isn't an independent movement —— isn't an independent movement that is separate to qanon, it isa movement that is separate to qanon, it is a qanon rebound. i will be interested to see how qanon will try to escape this time. facebook trying to escape this time. facebook trying to crack down on all the accounts could take them a long time. the us election is only weeks away, so the risk that this has and will continue to impact voters is incredibly high. thank you, marianne. 0ur chat is becoming a daily thing, i knew it

worked! property in northern england and cash worth almost £10 million has been surrendered to the national crime agency. investigators say a leeds businessman has long been an associate of gangsters involved in murder, fraud and drugs. our home affairs correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. mansoor manni hussain, a high living wealthy property developer from leeds. for years, he's shown off a lavish lifestyle, attending vip events to pose alongside stars like beyonce and simon cowell. but his outward respectability masked the truth. his friends included this man, bradford gangster mohammed nisar khan, known on the streets as king meggy, jailed for life for murder. over 20 years, mansoor manni hussain bought properties in london, cheshire, and north yorkshire. the national crime agency believes they were paid for with profits from the violent gangs he acted for. today, he has handed a5 properties to the nca,

including this modern apartment block in leeds. and this seven—bedroom home, which he once lent to an armed robber rent—free. and that's because he faced an unexplained wealth order from the courts to reveal the origins of his mysterious riches. this is a really important case for the nca. it's the first time we have recovered assets in relation to an unexplained wealth order. he was laundering on behalf of high—level criminals in the leeds/bradford area, so ensuring that their assets and his assets were clean assets and couldn't be taken away. when investigators looked into manni hussain‘s life, they didn't find enough evidence to charge him with money—laundering, but the unexplained wealth order forced him to hand over his books. and when he couldn't show how he'd made his money, the game was up. manni hussain hasn't said why he's handed over the keys to property, including a luxury flat in this block opposite harrods. he remains unconvicted of crimes, but he's also the first suspected money—launderer in british history to hand over his wealth without a fight. dominic casciani, bbc news.

a court in greece has ruled that the far—right party, golden dawn, is a criminal organisation. riot police are outside the courtroom in athens where the ruling was made. nearly 70 members of the party have been on trial for the past five years, along with former members of parliament. the prime minister of ireland has told people to "act now" to stop the country returning to an "immediate comprehensive lockdown". the warning comes as the country's coronavirus threat level has risen to three. this means indoor gatherings are restricted to the maximum of six from one other household, and people are advised to work from home wherever possible. with me is professor sam mcconkey, an infectious disease specialist at the royal college of surgeons in ireland. also, i'm joined by mark mcgowan, owner of scholars town house and hotel and president of restaurant association ireland.

professor sa m professor sam mcconkey, is ireland ata professor sam mcconkey, is ireland at a critical moment? we did really well back in may and june and got down to tiny bits of coronavirus and controlled outbreaks. unfortunately in dublin, in august that has deteriorated and now in the rest of the country in september, the numbers have gone back up. so the trajectory is bleak at this point, but we have taken action in the last few days to try and control that, which i hope will at least stabilise it. many of us believe that we need more dramatic action to bring the numbers down, rather than staying at these high levels. but our government has decided that we will ta ke government has decided that we will take this level three action. we have a five level framework and at present, we are at level three of restrictions. what do you think you should be at? my view and that of many of us in england, scotland and ireland is that we should follow the

example of the pacific rim in asia, where big countries like australia, south korea, new zealand and china have controlled this completely and suppress transmission of covid—19 com pletely suppress transmission of covid—19 completely and been able to open up their businesses, their residence and social life to a large extent. of course, keeping control of immigration and control of incoming travellers and putting them in strict quarantine for 1a days. i believe that is the model until we get vaccines. so you don't agree with level three restrictions. five is the maximum. do you think it should be five? three will keep us where we are at, which is hundreds of cases per day, with hospitalisations and deaths. if we wa nt to hospitalisations and deaths. if we want to really bring it down and control it and get down to what i would call a civilised life again, we need to really control all transmission of covid—19 on our island. because we are island nations, we have the ability to do this, as has australia, new zealand, even this, as has australia, new zealand, eve n pla ces this, as has australia, new zealand, even places like the 0rkney this, as has australia, new zealand,

even places like the orkney islands, the isle of man. they have all controlled this well. sorry to interrupt, sam mcconkey. butjust so iam clear, interrupt, sam mcconkey. butjust so i am clear, do you think ireland should go back to a national lockdown that we saw earlier this yearfor lockdown that we saw earlier this year for a lockdown that we saw earlier this yearfor a period of time? lockdown that we saw earlier this year for a period of time? yes. more restrictive measures. level five allows us to go five kilometres. it keeps schools open, so this lockdown currently is very ambiguous. it means different things in different countries, so we have to move away from the idea of lockdown. it is too simplistic. we have a clearly laid out level five, and it allows ta keaway out level five, and it allows takeaway food and for schools and colleges to continue. lockdown is not a useful phrase. that is a fair point. we should be at our level five. point taken. let me bring in mark mcgowan, president of the restau ra nt mark mcgowan, president of the restaurant association of ireland. can your businesses and those of your members survive with the latest level of restrictions, or is it

going to be really tough? many businesses won't survive. this morning there are about 250,000 hospitality employees with serious doubts about the future is. there have been fundamental miscalculations and it is down to an under resourced health service executive. the decision was made to kick the road because they are obviously worried about cases coming in. but hospitality industries are paying the price. and you are saying that that is not where transmission is happening? - itself industry has proven itself since lockdown. it has come back quite well since the reopening. we have taken on all kinds of safety precautions including a safety charter provided by our tourism board. most of our employees in most

businesses have completed this safety charter and the rate of transmission through hospitality businesses has been extremely low. so we are not really buying into it. we think hospitality are paying the price. i don't know if it is a bad image that the hospitality industry has throughout society. image that the hospitality industry has throughout societylj image that the hospitality industry has throughout society. i don't think many would want to be a politician at the moment trying to make these decisions and achieve that balance. what would you suggest is the alternative, from your point of view? sam mcconkey would have a better idea in terms of infectious disease and how it works, but my understanding is that within a two metre distance in a restaurant environment, it is quite safe, especially if it's a controlled environment. these draconian measures have been put in place in

ireland and they have not been put in place throughout europe. there are one or two countries that have taken precautions, but the majority of restaurants have opened and they are staying open safely. let's go back to sam. is mark wright, that transmissions are not going on in hospitality in ireland, it is elsewhere? i think hospitality is one element where transmission is happening. it is true that we are now down to only 15 people eating outside, table service only and wearing masks, so we have restricted the restaurants and bars in ireland to out dour —— outdoor table service only. we sometimes see people who are drunk doing crazy things, but i accept that they are a minority of

the restaurants and bars. but there have been outbreaks among large groups of people who are perhaps under the influence of alcohol. alcohol leads to more social proximity and singing and that has been part of the problem. thank you both. can i say something for a second? in fairness, sam, ithink both. can i say something for a second? in fairness, sam, i think it is down to how we police actions and i think proper measures should be put in place for bar owners countrywide to make sure we are serving alcohol safely. then this wouldn't be an issue. cheers, mark. and professor sam mcconkey, infectious diseases expert at the royal college of surgeons in ireland. mark mcgowan is the president of the restaurant association of ireland. how can we measure the infectiousness of tiny covid—19 particles in the air that we breathe?

that's been a challenge facing scientists all over the world as they try to understand the virus. now experts at the university of bristol have come up with some ground—breaking technology to examine the smallest of droplets while they are in the air. jon kay reports. it's one of the biggest questions we face right now — how long does covid—19 stay infectious in the air, whether we're at work, on public transport or socialising? at a secret location, scientists from the university of bristol are trying to find the answer. we were given exclusive access as they made their final preparations at this sealed laboratory. they're now taking samples containing the coronavirus, placing them in this unique bit of kit and, using an electric field, levitating the tiny droplets, making them hang around in the air for minutes or hours at a time just as they would in the real world. then, by adjusting the temperature, humidity and light, they can find

out what impact those conditions have on the infectiousness of the virus. we're trying to directly mimic the type of particles produced by people when they are coughing and breathing and these kind of things, and then see how long the virus remains infectious in the aerosol phase. these are the first images from the covid experiments, six microscopic droplets suspended in the air. this project is about studying the smallest airborne particles, those that are invisible to the naked eye. we can look at how the virus remains infectious. the man in charge told me the research could be particularly useful as we head into winter, spending more time indoors. how does this help us understand how covid could be spread in a pub or an office or factory? it helps us better understand the survival of the virus. we're particularly concerned in terms of airborne transmission in poorly ventilated spaces, spaces where people might be talking very loud,

they might be singing, where they're generating a lot of these small, inhalable aerosol particles. this research is set to last a year, with the first results before christmas. the scientists hope it will add to our wider understanding of the risks we face and the changes we may still need to make. one of the world's greatest rock guitarists, eddie van halen, has died at the age of 65. he had been having treatment for throat cancer. his band van halen had huge success in the ‘70s and ‘80s — selling more than 80 million records worldwide. lisa hampele has been looking back on his career. eddie van halen didn't sound like anyone else. he was said to have a kind of fury. van halen, the band, featuring eddie's explosive guitar solos, became a staple of the sunset strip music scene in the 19705 and ‘80s. they had a string of hits.

he was a classically trained pianist and his trademark melodic style and use of harmonics helped make him one of rock's most influential guitarists. he performed with some of the music industry's biggest stars, including michaeljackson. eddie van halen had health problems throughout his career and was first diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago. his death was announced by his son wolfgang, a bass player who joined the band in later years. he said: it's very seldom you meet somebody who's a pure soul, who's a beautiful person. i never once heard eddie ever say anything bad about anybody and especially other bands. as you can well imagine, this business is full of big egos, yours truly included.

eddie was an "aw, shucks" kind of matter—of—fact guy and i will tell you... i'm sorry, i'm getting a little choked up. sammy hagar, the band's formerfront man, who departed under acrimonious circumstances, shared a picture of the two of them with the words "heartbroken and speechless". and thousands more have paid tribute to one of rock's superstars. hello, good morning, this is bbc news with victoria derbyshire. the headlines: scotland faces new restrictions to combat a rise in covid cases — with pubs and restaurants expected to be affected. the pharmaceutical company roche warns of problems with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. us markets slide after president trump abruptly shelves talks over a new stimulus package despite warnings

from the fed chairman. republican mike pence and democrat kamala harris prepare to go head to head in what could be the most important vice presidential election debate in us history. uk taxpayers may lose tens of billions of pounds because the government's flagship covid loan scheme is at high risk of fraud according to the national audit office. a businessman from leeds linked to organised crime and gangsters agrees to pay almost £10 million to the national crime agency. facebook and instagram are banning all accounts linked to the far—right q-anon conspiracy theory group, after classifying it as dangerous. wednesday evening will see another major moment in the us presidential election campaign. with less than a month until votes are counted, the vice presidential candidates will meet in utah to debate

for the first and only time. 0rganisers are expecting more than 100 million people to watch what's likely to be the most important vp debate in american political history. sophie long reports from salt lake city. judge kavanaugh, i am concerned whether you will treat every american equally. she is a senator from california, known for her incisive questioning of president trump's nominees for the supreme court. i know full well the importance of presidential leadership. he has been president trump's right—hand man for the past four years. tonight, they will take to a specially—adapted stage for a debate that will be watched by tens of millions of voters. vp debates are not normally the headline act of a presidential election campaign but this one is anything but normal. given the age of their bosses and the fact that president trump's recent hospitalisation with coronavirus means we don't yet know if the remaining two presidential debates will even take place, tonight's meeting

between kamala harris and mike pence will be the most important of its kind in history. they take over under the death or the resignation of the president of the united states. when you have one candidate that's fairly old and one candidate that's sick right now, everyone is talking about it. there's no way that you can't talk about that particular issue because there is at least some track where one of these two candidates could end up being president of the united states. we are an independent collection of latter day saint women from across the political spectrum, who speak for ourselves. in this deeply religious state, president trump's first term and his reaction to covid—19 has led lifelong republicans to look for something different. i wish no ill towards him. but i think that it's time for us to once again think about doing better. this should have never been a critical issue. coronavirus should have been something where we all come together and work together for the good of everyone. and that's why character matters in a president.

but at this pro—trump potato bar, yes, there is such a thing, people think his personal handling of the pandemic is a show of strength. when you're a soldier, you're at risk and you're at a war, and you're fighting something, you go in there and you've got to rally your troops. you've got to build the morale of the troops. you got to be victorious, you can't be afraid. and that's what i look at it as. and unfortunately, some soldiers when they go to war, they get wounded. tonight, mike pence will be going into battle for the current commander—in—chief against a former prosecutor fighting for his competitor, joe biden. with less than a month to go and a campaign thrown into chaos by covid—19, the stakes are high. sophie long, bbc news, salt lake city. uk tax payers may lose tens of billions of pounds because the government's flagship covid loan scheme is at high risk of fraud and of firms being unable to pay the money back. a report by the national audit 0ffice found that the scheme was vulnerable to multiple applications and organised crime.

angus crawford reports. meet sue and dave, victims of a fraud that came out of the blue. i've just gone from tears to anger. now, i'm going to be scared to do anything. a fake company, a new bank account. sue's identity stolen by criminals. it's got your mother's maiden name. oh, my god. my god! that's correct, is it? yes. you have set up a business. what? sussiebuddy services. they're having a laugh, aren't they? the gang then got themselves a government bounce back loan in sue's name. i'm gobsmacked. absolutely gobsmacked. so you applied for this loan, sussiebuddy services. you're trading as that. 50 grand. at 2.5% interest. that's immoral. today, we announced a brand—new... the bounce back loan scheme was set up by the chancellor in may to help struggling firms.

but, today, the national audit office says there's a very high level of fraud risk caused by self—certification, multiple applications, impersonation and organised crime. the civil service mentioned to the ministers that fraud would be an issue and it's only over time that the counter—fraud processes have really been embedded. if the estimates prove to be correct, that's a significant loss to the taxpayer. the government says it's trying to minimise fraud, with lenders implementing a range of protections. but sue and dave are left worried and angry. angus crawford, bbc news. with coronavirus infections rising across parts of the north of england, labour leaders in liverpool, leeds, newcastle, and manchester have written to the uk government's health secretary to say local restrictions aren't working and are confusing to the point of being counterproductive.

we can speak now to some of the signatories of this letter — joe anderson is the labour mayor of liverpool, where infections topped a87 cases per 100,000 people, and councillor nick forbes, who is the labour leader of newcastle city council — where the infection rate stands at a2a cases per 100,000 people. just to compare, when a foreign country has a infection rate of 20 country has an infection rate of 20 cases per 100,000 people, the uk government's guidelines requires people returning from there to quarantine for 1a days. also with us is dr elisabetta groppelli, a virologist at st george's university. welcome. lick forms, let's look at the figures for newcastle. when your city was on the watch list, the risk list, 28 cases per 100,000 people. lockdown restrictions came in at the end of august and the latest figures

show cases per 100,000 have gone up massively to aoa. why? two a2a. show cases per 100,000 have gone up massively to 404. why? two 424. the lockdown measures we had in place have probably dampened down the rise in numbers. so they have been worth having in place. but the problem we have had is that firstly, those lockdown measures haven't been matched by financial compensation for affected businesses. we can continue see the failure of the national track and trace system which is not serving us well —— we continue to see. we want to fix this, that is our offer to government. none of us want to be in restrictions for any longer than we need to be. 0r restrictions that are any tighter than they need to be. but to get to that position, we need government to work with us on a new package of measures. we are making a five point offer to government over help that we can make to put our cities right again. joe anderson

from liverpool, a similar picture in liverpool, you were put on the watch list at the end of august with 31 cases of coronavirus per 100,000 people. lockdown restrictions came in one month later and nowjust over a month after restrictions came in, they have gone up 15 fold. why?” think nick hasjust they have gone up 15 fold. why?” think nick has just explained. 70% of the houses in liverpool are concentrated in the poorest wards in the city. we have people returning to work, children going back to school, students coming back into our cities. i think it was predictable that we would see infection rates increase. the purpose of our communication and i spoke to matt hancock this morning, i had spoke to matt hancock this morning, ihada spoke to matt hancock this morning, i had a conversation with him. 0h, yeah. the purpose of writing to him was to say to him that we believe that newcastle, manchester,

ourselves, we are in different positions and need to take different actions to tackle the virus. what did he say? in fairness to him, he was very receptive to the plan. he is lobbying hard for the support, what we are asking for. nick is right, i made it clear to him that governments have a responsibility for our health and well—being and our economic well—being as well. it is important that he understands that. i talked to him about the crisis in care in the city. we have a number of residential homes, now, closing. three in the last seven days have been announced in the city. we have a real problem and concern. i have said to him, from my point of view, we need to look at a marshall plan for the north west. where the government intervenes. to

support the localities to do bespoke actions and take the spoke action. he was perceptive to that. that is interesting. let's go back to newcastle and nick forbes. if the health health secretary left you to it, what would you do locally that isn't being done already? —— if the health secretary. in terms of restrictions. we need effective test and trace, which is flexible and integrated into our local systems. that isn't what we have at the moment. that is number one, would you change restrictions or bring in further restrictions? we will not get through this with restrictions alone, this has to be done through public compliance. people have to wa nt public compliance. people have to want to participate in social distancing. collectively, we can all make the difference. the problem is, the way... the confusion around the messaging, the confusion around what you can and can't do in different areas, the fact that we have a

patchwork quilt of different regulations applied all over different bits of the north means people are scratching their heads saying, "i don't know what the rules are." if matt hancock saying, "i don't know what the rules are. " if matt hancock debut control, what would you change today in your area? —— gave new control. what would you change today in your area? -- gave new control. what i would change in of restrictions? -- gave you control. yeah. clearly, the ten pn curfew is creating an artificial point for people to come into town —— ten pn curfew. to get drunk and do other things. that was never the intention. what would you do? i would be more flexible around that. the thing we need to avoid are more house parties. we know the biggest spread of the virus at the moment is from house parties. better to have people out where you can see them doing things than it is to have things happening behind closed doors. more flexibility, what do you mean? give me the practical implications of what you are saying. i would have flexible opening hours

that could be applied for the licensing trade. i would also ask for the powers to be able to ban alcohol sales before ten pn for the powers to be able to ban alcohol sales before ten pm so that people don'tjust come out of pubs and go to the nearest supermarket and go to the nearest supermarket and buy lots of booze and go to a house party. what would you do in liverpool if matt hancock says you decide local measures? that is the point about having a conversation and communication when it is about what we can see and do. we had a spike in one of our wards when we had targeted approaches and people working to bring that down. i agree about the 10am rule in bars and restau ra nts, about the 10am rule in bars and restaurants, it is counter—productive. it forces businesses to close, they can't keep going because it is economically unviable for them to do so. yet most of those venues are covid safe. in my view, we should be allowing them to stay open. where they fail to comply with the rules, we should

have the power, local government should have the power, to close them down immediately. we don't have that power at the minute. we only have the power to close outdoor venues. understood. these are the things we need to see in place. local venues. designed and were king with council working with the government actually make sure that we are different and we have to be treated in that way —— and working with councils. let me bring in dr elisabetta groppelli. hello to you. if restrictions are working effectively enough, is the a nswer to working effectively enough, is the answer to have more of them, or to change them, or at the answer lie elsewhere when an alternative approach? there is a group of experts and scientists who say we should protect the vulnerable and elderly and let everybody else go about their business, they call it focused prevention. i think it will have to be and it must be a

combination of all these factors. a pandemic and a virus like the coronavirus is not going to be tackled and slow down and eliminated byjust one set of restrictions and measures. unfortunately, at the moment, what is supposed to be absolutely fantastic weapon against transmission, which is the test, trace and isolate system is not working and therefore we have to look at other measures and this includes restrictions around social interactions. the uk government has tackled social interactions with individuals. it wants to keep open schools and businesses but unfortunately at the moment, this doesn't seem to be strong enough and having the slow down and bringing down the cases. more restrictions or increasing the strictness of these restrictions unfortunately, because it can be implemented immediately

quite quickly, seems inevitable to me. wright, 0k. nick, let me come back to you briefly and finally, if i may back to you briefly and finally, if imay —— back to you briefly and finally, if i may —— right. joe anderson said he had a productive conversation with matt hancock, the uk government's health secretary. do you think he will let you take over testing and tracing locally? and why do you think, considering local leaders, local public health officials have been calling for this for months, it hasn't happened already? unfortunately, the government have locked themselves into a pattern of trying to defend a national system predominantly delivered by the private sector, whichjust doesn't deliver deliver for local communities in the way we needed to. if that locked in because of ideology, because of a private contract, locked in, in what way? because the government entered into a private contract and spend £10 billion in private contracts for the test and trace system. our argument has always been come across the

major cities of the north, allow us to integrate the testing capacity we need into our hospital laboratories because we can get it done quicker, more efficiently, and more flexibly by doing it locally, then the government can ever do by doing it nationally. 0k. thank you all very much, we will see what happens, we appreciate your insight from newcastle, the labour leader, councillor nick forbes. the labour mayor of liverpool, thank you, joe anderson and dr elisabetta groppelli, a viral adjust at saint georges university, thanks for your time. a restrictions in auckland, new zealand's largest city will be lifted this week. prime ministerjacinda ardern made the announcement as she expressed confidence a second wave of infections in the city has been almost eliminated. 0ur correspondent shaimaa khalil in sydney says this is good news. in a few hours, new zealand's biggest city willjoin the rest of the country going into alert

level one, which is basically no restrictions, and that is after ten consecutive days of no community transition of covid—19. the last six community cases from that outbreak that happened back in august have recovered, according to health officials. now, you remember, new zealand was celebrating being covid free for 100 days earlier in the year after that strict lockdown and the restrictions having eased, but then in august, another outbreak hit 0akland. the biggest the country has ever seen. 180 cases linked to that very cluster. and then 0akland went into lockdown. now, jacinda ardern has said that this cluster is now almost all completely eliminated, but 95% eliminated. about 95% eliminated. and that is why they are eating those restrictions, which means there will be no 100—people limit on gatherings, for example. no social distancing required in bars, in restaurants. so, things going back to normal at a crucial time, of course. because this is happening just over

a week ahead of a general election. thank you for your messages about whether you could deal with further and even tighter restrictions. roger says i am 65, i am male and at reasonably high risk from coronavirus. however, this obsession with the disease is out of proportion and very damaging to people and the economy. it is fairly obvious that people with comorbidities should take extra care but the members of the population who are at low risk should be able to go about their daily lives with only minimal disruption. jeanette says the one thing i would not accept is for a second time telling my grandchildren aged five and three and three months that i can no longer look after them. i didn't eat out to help out, i haven't been to pubs, i haven't been on holiday, my family has stuck to the rules and behaved cautiously. jane says i would accept further restrictions

because i am still shielding, watching the utter mess and chaos going on in a mixture of despair and resignation. vaccines are my only hope of rejoining society. steve says if further restrictions and another lockdown complete lockdown was needed to stop the spread of the virus, i would accept those restrictions and lockdown. sadly, they are still far too many people within the uk who refuse to recognise the deadly threat of this virus. you very much for those. exclusive new figures suggest almost half of all sexual abuse content online worldwide is "self—generated", meaning children are coerced into creating it themselves. that's according to research by the internet watch foundation, which says it has seen a 15% increase on the previous year. rachel stonehouse reports, and because of the nature of the story you might find it distressing and the voice

of the mum has been changed to protect her son's identity. it was terrifying, i mean, i have to say i didn't eat or sleep for about three months. mandy's son was groomed online through a game called roblox. to protect her and her son, we aren't identifying her and mandy's not her real name. we were just taking photographs of our beloved dog, you know. my partner's phone and my phone weren't to hand and my son's phone was available, so we just took some pictures of the dog and my partner looked back through them and... ..found that there were two naked photographs. so, obviously, the phone was confiscated and ijust went through the phone and i found requests from an unknown to say — naked pictures. disturbingly, the person who groomed mandy's son then went on to access his facebook account and used it to groom other children. when he was grooming other children through our son's facebook, and we were getting all these images through facebook, naked images of nine and ten—year—olds, bending over and all this sort of thing,

i was just in absolute... a torrent of tears. and that was just the first one. and then we probably got another 60 images through our son's facebook account, which we couldn't close, because facebook wouldn't let us close it. the family reported it to the police, but no further action has been taken. this type of grooming is becoming increasingly common. it's called self generated, meaning the content is created by the children themselves, often under the direction of the groomer. the internet watch foundation is a charity which removes child sexual abuse from the web. how much of a concern is self generated content and the rate at which it's increasing? it's extremely concerning because, you know, children have this technology at their fingertips but it's also spiralling out of control in terms of self—generated content. 0ur figures so far for the year, for the half year, suggest we're now at aa% of our actioned content is actually self generated. so, this is increasing

very, very quickly. isabel's job involves searching for child abuse online, to get it taken down. again, we're protecting her identity because of the work she does. i'm not going to lie, it's not always an easyjob, because every single day i come to work, i am seeing thousands and thousands of images of children being raped, sexually abused, kind of the worst images i've ever seen in my entire life. most of what we see in terms of self—generated content is usually a single child kind of alone in their bedroom or bathroom and they're being coerced by someone on the other side of the screen to perform sexual acts. but what we're seeing now is now kind of more sibling self—generated content, so that's where there's what appears to be kind of a pair of siblings together in the same home and they're both talking to somebody on the other side of the screen.

and the people the other side are coaxing them into sexual abuse and to sexually abuse each other. for me, it's the fact that i'm able to remove them, to stop people from accidentally stumbling across these images in the first place, and also mainly for the victims. in a statement, facebook say grooming is not tolerated on its platform and they've now disabled the account. roblox told us they are committed to protecting the safety of children and have stringent chat filters to block inappropriate content. but, for mandy, these companies are not taking enough responsibility. they arejust grooming grounds, you know. and the fact that roblox didn't even have the courtesy to get back in contact with us, it's just horrific. rachel stonehouse, bbc news. the american musician, johnny nash, has died at the age of 80. # i can see clearly now, the rain is gone.#

the singer—songwriter is best known for his reggae—inspired 1972 single i can see clearly now, which sold more than a million copies. his son told us media nash died at home of natural causes. you're watching bbc news... now the weather with carol kirkwood. hopefully. hello, again. today's looking to be a much drier day than it was yesterday, with a bit more sunshine around. having said that, we still have a peppering of showers across parts of the north and west. through the day, we'll see the cloud thicken across the south—west and then we'll see some rain arrive and we will see the wind strengthen in southern areas. what we have at the moment is some showers across the north and west. still gusty winds, that north—westerly wind blowing them in across the north and west of scotland.

showers across northern ireland and northern england tending to fade, but at the same time the clouds are building in from the south—west, heralding the arrival of a band of rain across south—west england and south—west wales. as we push further east towards east anglia, the midlands, northern england, northern ireland and much of scotland, it will be dry and bright with sunshine before we run back into the showers across the north and west of scotland. this evening and overnight, this area of low pressure, with its two fronts, is going to come our way and bring heavy rain, particularly across wales, the north midlands and into northern england, pushing eastwards. then the second front comes in behind it. murky conditions in the south, but relatively mild. but it's to the north of that weatherfront that we have some clear skies. patchy mist and fog could form and it will be cooler here. tomorrow morning, we lose the first front into the north sea quickly. the second one heads southwards and in its wake, it will leave a fair bit of cloud,

particularly across lincolnshire and east anglia. you can see a lot of bright skies developing behind it, with still some showers across parts of the north and west. temperatures of the north and west. 9—17 . as we head into friday, the rain which has come in from the west overnight is pushing southeastwards, so it looks at the moment like it's going to be a wet afternoon across england and also wales, with showers continuing across northern ireland and northern and western scotland. in between, something drier and brighter. temperatures ranging from nine to about 15 degrees. into the weekend, the wind direction changes as high pressure starts to develop over us. so the wind becomes more of a northerly, which is the colder direction. that's reflected in the temperatures, but there will be a lot of dry weather around. but we could see some showers in the north and east.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 11. scotland faces new restrictions to combat a rise in covid cases, with pubs and restaurants expected to be affected. the health secretary matt hancock says the rise in coronavirus infection rates — and in hospitalisations — shows there is a "serious problem". the pharmaceutical company, roche, warns of problems with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. a businessman from leeds linked to organised crime and gangsters agrees to pay almost £10 million to the national crime agency. facebook and instagram are banning all accounts linked to the far—right qanon conspiracy theory group, after classifying it as dangerous.

scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon is to announce a tightening of lockdown later to try and slow a surge in new covid cases. the plans are expected to include more restrictions for pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues. travel restrictions could be put in place in parts of the country which have higher levels of covid. across scotland on average around 730 people are testing positive for the virus each day, which is more than two and half times higher than a fortnight ago when 285 virus cases were recorded every day. also this afternoon, scotland's education secretary, john swinney will announce plans for exams next year after this

summer's were cancelled due to the pandemic. this report from james shaw. the scottish government has not said exactly which sectors will be affected by new restrictions. there have been hints that hospitality is one area which is being looked at. lots of factors make it easy for the virus to spread — the difficulty of social distancing, poor ventilation, crowds, alcohol, and households mixing together. nicola sturgeon has said schools will stay open and there won't be a scotland—wide travel ban, although local travel bans have not been ruled out. 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 and, apart from the october holidays, which are already planned, we are not proposing to close schools. changes could happen as soon as the weekend, when many schools will start autumn half—term holidays. not a happy prospect for those who had been planning to get away or are worried

about theirjobs in hospitality. i work in a pub, so that would be hard for me. i would have nojob. but good to protect everyone, i guess. we had 12 weeks of this in march and abided by the rules at that stage. now we're just back where we started. the social aspect, i couldn't do it again, like, not going out and seeing my friends and stuff. it's just... for your mental health, as well, just couldn't do it. the big question around a possible circuit breaker is, will it work? the scottish government's public health experts believe even a couple of weeks could buy time for the nhs. it might slow the spread of the virus just enough to get the health service through the winter months, which are always a challenge and are likely to be even harder in this year of coronavirus. james shaw, bbc news, glasgow. in a moment will talk to our deputy political editor, vicki young. first to our scotland

correspondent, lorna gordon. lorna, correspondent, lorna gordon. tell us more abouty are lorna, tell us more about what you are expecting later. you might well, the scottish government cabinet has been meeting this morning. 0r the scottish government cabinet has been meeting this morning. or we expect nicola sturgeon to stand up in holyrood just before three o'clock to announce what these new restrictions will be. she has talked about additional targeted steps being required to bring the virus back under control before winter months. we now possibly more about what it won't be than what it will be. we know it won't be a national lockdown like back in march, we know that people won't be confined to their homes like they were back then, we know that schools will not be shut wholly or partially, and we know that there won't be a nationwide travel ban but of course that does leave room, perhaps, for more targeted geographical restrictions, so perhaps possibly a travel ban in areas where the virus is particularly rising fast, part of

west central scotland and the lothians for instance, and also i think it's interesting that they say there may be targeted measures toward hospitality because of course, here in scotland, we are banned from meeting socially in each others homes, so will they focus more effort on the hospitality industry in particular, what's known as the night—time economy, so pubs, bars and clubs. we don't know exactly if that is going to happen, but certainly the industry is very concerned about this. paul waterson from the scottish licensed trade association was on bbc breakfast a little earlier, he talked about some of the numbers ofjobs at risk. he said the ten o'clock closing time and affected the industry very badly. he said scotland could lose about a third of its pubs and 25% of its staff or 12,500 people. he said these new potential restrictions, that could increase to losing two thirds of the premises and double that amount of staff, so you are

talking 25,000 jobs potentially going. the pub industry, the hotel industry, are asking for more support if new restrictions are brought in. nicola sturgeon, i think, is all too aware of these concerns. she says this is about balancing, protecting health and protecting the economy and the scottish government has said that they will, when it published any restrictions this afternoon, they will also publish the evidence backing them up, justifying the reasons for bringing the men and what effect that might have and i think that's an acknowledgement of their part about the weariness on their part about the weariness on the part of some of the public about these potential new restrictions and these potential new restrictions and the worries from some businesses about the effect these restriction might have on them. and, on education, you said that schools won't shut, but it is expected there will be an announcement later on exams. what is expected on that front? exams were cancelled here in scotla nd front? exams were cancelled here in scotland for the first time ever as a result of coronavirus and then

there was a lot of disquiet about there was a lot of disquiet about the marking system that was brought in on the scottish government had to reverse it. to base it on teacher assessments in the end. 0ne reverse it. to base it on teacher assessments in the end. one of the options they might have is to cancel what are known as national fives. they are broadly equivalent to gcse. another equivalent might be to push back the hires by a week or two as the academic year runs a little earlier here in scotland, i suppose it's just to give it a bit of flexing the system. because of all the disruption and the fact, i guess, that a lot of kids might be off at one point or another through the year, so they are looking at what they are going to do to make the system robust and primarily, to protect those highers which are the important exams for those trying to go to university or get a job in the speculation is that perhaps they

might cancel the exams for nat 55 and bring in a continuous assessment system instead. thank you very much, lorna. just before we talk to vicky young rising numbers the health secretary matt hancock has just said that of infections and an increase in people being hospitalised from coronavirus shows that there is a serious problem. he's been speaking at a confederation of british industry webinar. we werejust confederation of british industry webinar. we were just hearing there from lorna gordon about what is likely to come later from the scottish government and we've seen several times throughout this crisis that, where scotland has led, the government in westminster has followed, so how much pressure as is going to put on the government to perhaps bring forward similar measures? well, i think all parts of the united kingdom are looking at what they need to do because everywhere, cases are rising and the government in london obviously are

facing the same issues, trying to balance health, saving peoples lives as many as possible, with trying to keep as much of the economy open as possible. in england, of course, it's particularly interesting because there seems to be this geographical difference. you have lots of those, mainly the cities in the north of england experiencing very high numbers of cases, but there are still parts of england, places in the east of england, for example, the south—west where the numbers aren't so high. so that is why the government is reluctant to bring in another national blanket measure beyond the measure they brought in about the rule of six, which of course is being superseded in many areas. the main problem that we are dealing with is that it doesn't look like the local measures are working and that is causing local leaders, the mayors of some of those cities like manchester and liverpool, to say that they want more control over what goes on there and real anxiety because people don't really feel that they know

what is going on in terms of where is the spreading, who is suffering from it. there are feelings among some conservatives that actually, quite a lot of the cities, it is being driven by a lot of testing in universities, people under the age of 21, getting it in huge numbers, but of course they are less likely to get seriously ill and end up in hospital, so as ever, its balance. there is of course, a difference of opinion amongst conservatives about how much further they should go. this was the international secretary, liz truss. what's really important, though, is that we don't want to go back into a second lockdown where we end up having to close down the economy and the potential damage that has on people's livelihoods. what we're doing is keeping the balance there between protecting lives and livelihoods, and as i say, we keep it under review. so, everything under review, i think that's the main message there but clearly, there is alarm in government about these numbers are

rising. looking very carefully at that, i think of course, there is an element of digging deeper into the numbers andi element of digging deeper into the numbers and i think that is another interesting point here. if nicola sturgeon puts out a lot of analysis of what's going on, that will put pressure on boris johnson of what's going on, that will put pressure on borisjohnson to do the same here. i think there are a lot of independent commentators collating the figures, looking at where it spreading, we don't seem to be getting that from central government, i think that means that a lot of people, including those local leaders, feel that they just don't have a clear picture what going on. thank you very much, vicky. the pharmaceutical company, roche, is warning of problems in the uk with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. it says problems with a move to a new warehouse means there could be a "very significant" drop in its processing capacity which might take two weeks to fix. covid—19 tests are being prioritised. allan wilson is president of the institute of biomedical science. he told me that the problems could have a significant impact.

if it lasts more than a matter of days, then we do run the risk of having a significant impact on the laboratory's ability to deliver routine tests for diabetes and for other conditions and also, i think, for diagnosing some cancers. we use roche antibodies and pathology labs to detect cancers and that determines treatment that people get. so there's a whole range of implications for routine laboratory testing. we have contingency plans, every laboratory has a contingency plan. we have introduced those. so we are looking for alternative suppliers for roche products, where they are available. we're looking to prioritise testing and we can sometimes, where it's appropriate, if we get samples that are not temperature—dependent, we can then store them and we can test them later, once we get... but we are working very creatively to minimise the impact of this. but if it goes into weeks, then it's more difficult to see how those contingency plans

will work effectively. a court in greece has ruled that the far—right party, golden dawn, is a criminal organisation. riot police are outside the courtroom in athens where the ruling was made. nearly 70 members of the party have been on trial for the past five years, along with former members of parliament. lots of developments coming up today. we will get the details from scotland's first minister this afternoon about the new measures that are likely to come in and scotla nd that are likely to come in and scotland to enable what will be a two—week circuit breaker. it won't mean people having to stay at home or schools being closed beyond half term, but possibly new restrictions on hospitality, so that will be announced later, alongside also news

on scottish exams. 0f announced later, alongside also news on scottish exams. of course the gcses, a—levels and scottish equivalents were all cancelled last summer. they will be saying what will happen next summer. you are watching bbc news. property in northern england and cash worth almost £10 million has been surrendered to the national crime agency. investigators say a leeds businessman has long been an associate of gangsters involved in murder, fraud and drugs. our home affairs correspondent, dominic casciani, reports. mansoor manni hussain, a high living wealthy property developer from leeds. for years, he's shown off a lavish lifestyle, attending vip events to pose alongside stars like beyonce and simon cowell. but his outward respectability masked the truth. his friends included this man, bradford gangster mohammed nisar khan, known on the streets as king meggy, jailed for life for murder.

over 20 years, mansoor manni hussain bought properties in london, cheshire, and north yorkshire. the national crime agency believes they were paid for with profits from the violent gangs he acted for. today, he has handed a5 properties to the nca, including this modern apartment block in leeds. and this seven—bedroom home, which he once lent to an armed robber rent—free. and that's because he faced an unexplained wealth order from the courts to reveal the origins of his mysterious riches. this is a really important case for the nca. it's the first time we have recovered assets in relation to an unexplained wealth order. he was laundering on behalf of high—level criminals in the leeds/bradford area, so ensuring that their assets and his assets were clean assets and couldn't be taken away. when investigators looked into manni hussain's life, they didn't find enough evidence to charge him with money—laundering, but the unexplained wealth order forced him to hand over his books. and when he couldn't show how he'd

made his money, the game was up. manni hussain hasn't said why he's handed over the keys to property, including a luxury flat in this block opposite harrods. he remains unconvicted of crimes, but he's also the first suspected money—launderer in british history to hand over his wealth without a fight. dominic casciani, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. scotland faces new restrictions to combat a rise in covid cases, with pubs and restaurants expected to be affected. the pharmaceutical company roche warns of problems with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. a businessman from leeds linked to organised crime and gangsters agrees to pay almost £10 million to the national crime agency. tributes from across the music world are being paid

to guitarist eddie van halen, who has died at the age of 65. the co—founder and lead guitarist of van halen, who are best known for their hit song jump, had been suffering from throat cancer. he's being remembered as a gifted musician with a big smile. tony iommi, the lead guitarist of black sabbath, was a friend of eddie van halen, and hejoins us on the line now. thank you forjoining us. i know it must be a difficult day for you. i know that you have also said publicly that he was a very special kind of person, so tell us more about him. 0roh, kind of person, so tell us more about him. 0r oh, absolutely. i've known eddie since 1978 and he came on the first black sabbath tour with us. he's been a friend ever since, such a wonderful person, such a

brilliant player and you know, he has been such a good friend for all these years. those few chords that we just heard our these years. those few chords that wejust heard our iconic, aren't they? the skill that he had in creating the music is very rare and his skills were notjust in rock, classical as well. oh, he came up with a style as well that nobody had heard before and of course, guitar players have tried to copy him but never the same. he was such a unique guitar player, and a very special person. what was he like about his music? some people will their talent more likely than others. 0thers music? some people will their talent more likely than others. others have to put more work into it. what was his approach? he was a natural guitar player. his solos were just incredible, as i say, a came up with

this style... hejust incredible, as i say, a came up with this style... he just knew exactly what to play, the right solo for the right song and everything was very natural to him and he didn't read music, it was all from the heart. you didn't read music, did you say? you didn't read music, did you say? you might know, he didn't read music. he just learned you might know, he didn't read music. hejust learned to play without music. its exceptional, i've come across that in others, but not very often. he came from a musical background, so obviously were surrounded by music from very early on. but still, to be able to create music without actually being able to read or write it down is an extraordinary thing. you might well, yeah. yeah, i'm the same, i've never read music. it all comes from the inside and you play a certain way.

when you don't read music, you play ina when you don't read music, you play in a different style every time you play, so it's unique. how will you remember him? you said you have known him since 1978, that will be a lot of memories obviously. yeah, and i've been through all the cancer things with him in the past few yea rs. things with him in the past few years. i'm amazed he's been able to hang in there because he really has suffered, you know, he had half a tongue cut away and over the years, different things have kept coming back and he has held in there, used to fly over to australia for treatments and backwards and forwards, he really has held in their and he was a real fighter, forwards, he really has held in their and he was a realfighter, you know? unfortunately, . . . their and he was a realfighter, you know? unfortunately, . .. what would you say to people watching about how you say to people watching about how you want him to be remembered? he was a very special person. his

playing was unique and there is nobody else like him. he was a creator, unique creator. just fantastic. all his fans are going to remember him for his guitar playing, of course, because that's what it's all about, but i knew him personally andi all about, but i knew him personally and i knew what sort of a nice person he was. very shy, really. but asa person he was. very shy, really. but as a musician, you can't fault him at all. he was brilliant. tony iommi, thank you very much for joining us and sharing your memories and i'm sure that in all of our heads, will be those opening chords ofjump by van halen. let's go back to the news that nicola sturgeon is about to announce measures to slow coronavirus. let's speak now to stephen reicher, professor of social psychology

at the university of st andrews—— he has been advising the scottish and uk governments on covid—19 and is a member of independent sage. what do you think is going on? because we have had these new localised restrictions, there is the rule of six and yet cases are still rising, so why is that comedy thing? they are. at the moment, —— rising, so why is that comedy thing? they are. at the moment, -- why is that happening? if we do nothing, we could be back at the same level as in march and clearly, that would be a terrible situation to be in. the good news is, we have two or three weeks grace in which to do something and if we squander it, we will indeed be in a real mess and then the prospect of a real hard lockdown looms, so it is a matter of doing something now in the short term in order to stop legs going wrong, the

nhs getting over the wound —— the nhs getting over the wound —— the nhs getting over the wound —— the nhs getting overwhelmed. 0ne nhs getting over the wound —— the nhs getting overwhelmed. one of the lessons that we are learning is that half measures don't get us very far. so, local restrictions did work in some places, they worked in leicester, but they have to be comprehensive. you have to look at all the areas in which we come into contact with others who can spread the infection and the key areas of course our work, already people are working from home as far as possible and the first minister has ruled out closing down workplaces. the second area is the home and it seems quite area is the home and it seems quite a lot of transmission is in the home, as the public, we have to take our responsibility seriously around that and the third is in the area of leisure. so, hospitality, yes, but also indoor attractions, indoor visitor spaces and so on and that's where there is room for manoeuvre and that's probably therefore where changes are going to be made.

psychologically, we are in a very different place from where we were before. i guess there was a lot more fear around potentially that propelled people into going into lockdown with a pretty positive attitude in terms of doing what it took. now, there will be a lot of people who will have experienced covid and come through it and felt that, actually, the impact on them was very minor so perhaps not fully seeing the reasons any for measures. what do you think is the way the government needs to handle this in terms of making sure that cases are reduced while at the same time, keeping the public onside in the measures? 0r keeping the public onside in the measures? or if you communicate too much fear, people often turn off, they try to turn aside, they try to

deny things. i think proper communication of risk is important, along with what we can do to mitigate that risk so that we don't feel helpless, we don't feel that there is nothing we can do, we know precisely what we can do in order to stop the pandemic. i think it is important to reiterate the risks and indeedin important to reiterate the risks and indeed in some ways, the risks were becoming more aware of greater risks, such as long covid, so the problem isn't that you might die from this disease, but that it might do you harm in the long term. so we need clarity. the second thing we need clarity. the second thing we need is support for people to do the things we ask of them. so, government and employers have a response ability to help people. the biggest thing we need to get people to do is to self—isolate if they get the disease, they get the infection. seu the disease, they get the infection. self isolation isn't easy, it's not easy financially, it's not easy if you have caring responsibilities, it's not easy if you live in a multi—generational household, so you can't just say to people,

self—isolate, without asking what they need and how can we help them stop if the government takes its responsibility seriously and employers take their responsibilities seriously, it's much easier to ask the public to ta ke much easier to ask the public to take responsibilities seriously. i wa nt to take responsibilities seriously. i want to make one more point about clarity. when you look at where the problems are, the media often will fixate on the spectacular violations, house parties, the raves and of course they are newsworthy and of course they are newsworthy and makea and of course they are newsworthy and make a good headline. the evidence seems to show, actually, the real problem isn't a few people flag ra ntly the real problem isn't a few people flagrantly violating, it's a lot of people, perfectly decent people, slightly bending the rules. inviting a few more people around and the danger is that if we fixate on those spectacular violations, people think, oh, its not relevant to me, it's not for me it's for all of us, we have to be aware of all our responsibilities. as i say, it's for the government to supporters, it's for the public to act and observe

those limitations because if we don't, we are seriously going to be in trouble. thank you very much, professor stephen reicher. tesco has reported its profits have soared over the past six months, despite the pandemic. the supermarket giant said sales in the uk and ireland rose more than 8% and it made a profit of £551 million. customers have been buying more food and online orders have doubled. we can speak to our business presenter sima kotecha. people are stocking up and preparing obviously then what lies ahead. 0h, she has gone. we will try to resolve that and get to sima kotecha.

aerosol is talking about the droplets in the air and how they spread infection. how can we measure the infectiousness of tiny covid—19 particles in the air that we breathe? that's been a challenge facing scientists all over the world, as they try to understand the virus. now, experts at the university of bristol have come up with some ground—breaking technology to examine the smallest of droplets while they are in the air. jon kay reports. this it's one of the biggest questions we face right now — how long does covid—19 stay infectious in the air, whether we're at work, on public transport or socialising? at a secret location, scientists from the university of bristol are trying to find the answer. we were given exclusive access as they made their final preparations at this sealed laboratory. they're now taking samples containing the coronavirus, placing them in this unique bit of kit and, using an electric field, levitating the tiny droplets,

making them hang around in the air for minutes or hours at a time just as they would in the real world. then, by adjusting the temperature, humidity and light, they can find out what impact those conditions have on the infectiousness of the virus. we're trying to directly mimic the type of particles produced by people when they are coughing and breathing and these kind of things, and then see how long the virus remains infectious in the aerosol phase. these are the first images from the covid experiments, six microscopic droplets suspended in the air. this project is about studying the smallest airborne particles, those that are invisible to the naked eye. we can look at how the virus remains infectious. the man in charge told me the research could be particularly useful as we head into winter, spending more time indoors. how does this help us understand how covid could be spread in a pub or an office or factory?

it helps us better understand the survival of the virus. we're particularly concerned in terms of airborne transmission in poorly ventilated spaces, spaces where people might be talking very loud, they might be singing, where they're generating a lot of these small, inhalable aerosol particles. this research is set to last a year, with the first results before christmas. the scientists hope it will add to our wider understanding of the risks we face and the changes we may still need to make. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. today we are looking at a fair bit of sunshine, quite a lot of dry weather, but we still have some showers and also some rain in the forecast. now, what's happening is we will continue with the showers and the gusty winds across the north and west of scotland, the showers in northern ireland and northern england should tend

to peter out and then we are looking at a lot of dry weather. but through the afternoon, the cloud is going to thicken in the south—west and here comes the rain. that rain will be heavy as it moves across us during the evening and overnight and the wind is going to strengthen as well. heavy rain across wales, northern england and the north midlands as it moves east. murky conditions in the south but mild in the north. under clear skies, it will be much cooler and we could see some patchy mist and fog form. tomorrow we lose that first band of rain quite quickly, the second one sinks south leaving quite a bit of cloud behind it, especially for lincolnshire and east anglia. towards the west, it brightens up but still those showers across the north and the west. they will continue through the day with highs of up to 17 celsius. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines. scotland faces new restrictions

to combat a rise in covid cases — with pubs and restaurants expected to be affected. the health secretary matt hancock says the rise in coronavirus infection rates — and in hospitalisations — shows there is a "serious problem". the pharmaceutical company, roche, warns of problems with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. a businessman from leeds linked to organised crime and gangsters agrees to pay almost £10 million to the national crime agency. facebook and instagram are banning all accounts linked to the far—right qanon conspiracy theory group, after classifying it as dangerous. let's stay with that band by facebook and instagram. supporters believe a bizarre theory that there's a global plot against president trump involving paedophiles and satanists. here's a bit more

information about the group. qanon is a very elaborate conspiracy theory that purports that the world is controlled by an elite cabal of satan—worshipping paedophiles. the qanon community believes that this cabal, 0ur disinformation reporter, marianna spring joins me now. ido i do love thatjob title. just start by telling us more about how much support there is for qanon and when they suddenly came to the fore because it is only relatively recently we have started hearing more about it. qanon effectively came out of the 2016 election of the president trump was elected as us president. it is really important to understand that qanon has a set of ha rd core understand that qanon has a set of hardcore believers, people who

follow what 0 says on messaging forms. they are people who claim to have security level clearance so they believe they have secret intel on what is going on in the upper echelons of society. however, it has become much more mainstream in recent months. with the pandemic, a lot of people spending time on social media and because qanon has adapted in many ways, it has rebranded, palatable to the more average facebook or instagram user. for example, following a crackdown by face —— facebook on the group, they started using new hashtags like save the children all save our children and encouraging people to oppose child abuse and paedophilia. 0bviously oppose child abuse and paedophilia. obviously the vast majority of people, hopefully all people, are opposed to that but it is important to understand this is part of a political disinformation campaign

and using these new hashtags allowed that at my conspiracy theory to reach parent groups, localforms, the average instagram feed with a lot of people coming across them without realising the bigger picture they were part of. so how much traffic has there been the qanon and is it possible to measure from that? as you say, they will be people perhaps aborting a hashtag without realising what it is linked to but it is possible to gauge how much actual support there is? there are millions of comments, likes, and interactions that this conspiracy theory has accumulated on facebook. bbc research shows over 100 million of those likes, comments and shares, which is comparatively... if we compare that to blackmail this matter, popular —— black lives matter, it doesn't compare but when we survey people and ask people if they know what qanon is, a lot of people have no idea but if you ask them about a number of the political

or coronavirus disinformation spread by this group they would recognise it. for instance, baseless claims that the democrats when a child trafficking ring joe biden is a paedophile or a number of conspiracy theories about the pandemic, the suggestion that it is a hoax, for example. so instagram and facebook are now cracking down on it. what impact is likely to have? this is a really big move and a bold one and it will be very difficult to enforce because, as i said, qanon is very good at shape shifting and avoiding these measures by rebranding itself and perhaps reaching new spaces and people. i think it is also very important to emphasise that the pandora's boxes open and even as facebook does succeed in removing all groups, all pages, all accounts, number of people are now subscribing to the set worldview without even necessarily realising it is to make. even here in the uk we have seen people taking to the streets with banners saying save our children. i've attended some of these rallies they have been liverpool, london,

and i've asked people about this. a lot of them said they do not support qanon but they do support... and then reel off various claims promoted by this group, not realising it is part of this wider political disinformation campaign which looks to smear anyone who is seen as opposition to president trump. it is very difficult to bring it under control, i guess. it is also important, i have spoken to a number of us voters who fear that their friends, number of us voters who fear that theirfriends, family, number of us voters who fear that their friends, family, neighbours, have already been influenced by this political disinformation. i spoke to a 68—year—old man who was a facebook group in florida and also 2a—year—old woman who uses instagram a lot and both of them said to me both of people that they know think thatjoe biden was a —— joe biden ru ns thatjoe biden was a —— joe biden runs a child trafficking ring and they won't vote for him now. with they won't vote for him now. with the us election weeks away, this

allowed and perhaps it too late. give very much. —— thank you very much. let's go back to the news that tesco reports profits have soared despite the pandemic. profits rose 8% and it made a profit of £551 million. customers have been buying more food and online orders have doubled. let's go to our business presenter. hopefully the technical gremlins are fixed. tell us more about these pretty hefty profits. you would have heard that analysts say that supermarkets have been the winner during this pandemic and these results definitely do reflect a very rosy picture for tesco. they have made pre—tax profits for the first half of this year, to the end of august 20 20, that is around 30% or so more than last year. however, it is banking business has made a

loss of 155 million and that will really d e nt loss of 155 million and that will really dent its balance sheet. like other supermarkets, it has had to adapt to the pandemic, it has had to put restrictions in place of social distancing measures, and all that has been an extra expense. it has had to hire a000 extra people since march to cope with the pandemic and it is hiring an additional 16,000 now to beef up its online operation. so all that will cost money and all that profit that it has made will have to offset those expenses. now, ken murphy is a new chief executive and he has only been in post for a week or so so he will be adamant that he needs to reassure investments this continuity, this momentum will carry on under his leadership. that doesn't mean to say there are no challenges ahead for him, there are several. 0ne, there are no challenges ahead for him, there are several. one, the uncertainty over brexit, no deal, and how that could have an impact on tesco's supply chain. what will

happen with this pandemic? how it will it continue? will it get worse ain? will it continue? will it get worse again? what ramifications that will have on the supply chain? thirdly, christmas. 0ne analyst said to me that a lot of supermarkets do buy their produce for christmas in january and february. will that produce a thing is that christmas crackers, actually sell as much when we are planning a lot smaller christmas gatherings this year because of those restrictions in place? no time for complacency for tesco and a big challenge ahead for this new chief executive. and as a consumer, my ears totally pricked up when you said what sounds like potentially a perfect storm of brexit, covid, christmas, will be to get everything we need? what is the news on supply chains? exactly. there are questions from many business leaders around this deal or no deal. they want to know what is going to happen. we know that the

government is hoping for a deal. that is what ministers have been saying. there is concern that if that doesn't happen, there will be blockages on that supply chain. tesco, like other supermarkets, will be watching closely because they know customers like you and me want our groceries on time, we want to have the christmas that we have every year, maybe not as many people, but we definitely do want our edge and people, but we definitely do want ouredge and our people, but we definitely do want our edge and our turkey, some of the things that do come from abroad from the eu. it is a critical time, as i say, for the chief executive, and as isaid he say, for the chief executive, and as i said he has only been in post for one week so he knows that the pressure is on and he knows that the investors will be watching very closely hoping that this momentum will continue. thank you very much. president trump has said he's calling off negotiations over a crucial covid—19 relief bill, until after next month's election. american stocks fell after the announcement. democratic presidential nominee joe biden said mr trump had "turned his back" on the american people. but the president placed the blame

on the democratic—party controlled (gfx tweet)he tweeted - "if i am sent a stand alone bill house of representatives. he tweeted — "if i am sent a stand alone bill for stimulus checks, they will go out to our great people immediately. i am ready to sign right now. are you listening nancy?" that was a reference to the democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi. here's what she has to say. we've done testing in the first bill, march ath, march ath, and the bill since, but they never would accept the science of what you need to do to stop this vicious virus. and that is what is in the heroes act, that i hope... whenever that happens, we will be able to... we will be able to implement. and i don't want to wait two and a half, three and a half months until a new president. i would hope that this president now, with this moment of his own experience, would say, "let's prevent this "from happening to someone else, let's take care of those to whom it " has happened, let's further mourn, as a nation,

"those who've lost their lives." nancy pelosi. let's get more now on president trump's decision — our north america correspondent is peter bowes. you know, it has taken a lot of people by surprise. it almost seems like political suicide to make a decision like that, to tell the millions of americans who are suffering, many of those people out of work, others involved in businesses that are just managing to cling on and hoping that there will be a new stimulus bill. to convey that news less than a month before the election is a very curious decision. jerome powell, the fed chairman, has said that the economy could result in a tragic situation if there isn't a stimulus bill agreement. and a lot of people, on both sides of the aisle, have been saying that this news is very urgent, it's urgently needed in the next few days, never mind the next few weeks. because in delaying it now, it means that there probably won't be something, at least in terms of money

in the pockets of americans, until the beginning of next year. one theory is that, having talked to republicans, especially in the senate, is that president trump's emphasis now in the limited number of days between now and the election, his focus is on getting a confirmation for his nominee for the supreme court, as opposed to tying up time in congress with this stimulus bill. tonight in utah, the democrat vice presidential candidate kamala harris and current vp mike pence, will go head—to—head in a debate. 0ur north america correspondent sophie long has more. judge kavanaugh, i am concerned whether you will treat every american equally. she is a senator from california known for her incisive questioning of president trump's nominees for the supreme court. i know full well the importance of presidential leadership. he has been president trump's right—hand man for the past four years.

tonight they will take to a specially adapted stage for a debate that will be watched by tens of millions of voters. vp debates are not normally the headline act of a presidential election campaign but this one is anything but normal. given the age of their bosses and the fact that president trump's recent hospitalisation with coronavirus means we don't yet know if the remaining two presidential debates will even take place, tonight's meeting between kamala harris and mike pence will be the most important of its kind in history. they take over under the death or the resignation of the president of the united states. when you have one candidate that's fairly old and one candidate that's sick right now, everyone is talking about it. there's no way that you can't talk about that particular issue because there is at least some track where one of these two candidates could end up being president of the united states. we are an independent collection of latter day saint women from across the political spectrum, who speak for ourselves. in this deeply religious state, president trump's first term and his reaction to covid—19 has led

lifelong republicans to look for something different. i wish no ill towards him. but i think that it's time for us to once again think about doing better. this should have never been a politcal issue. coronavirus should have been something where we all come together and work together for the good of everyone. and that's why character matters in a president. but at this pro—trump potato bar, yes, there is such a thing, people think his personal handling of the pandemic is a show of strength. when you're a soldier, you're at risk and you're at a war, and you're fighting something, you go in there and you've got to rally your troops. you've got to build the morale of the troops. you got to be victorious, you can't be afraid. and that's what i look at it as. and unfortunately, some soldiers when they go to war, they get wounded. tonight, mike pence will be going into battle for the current commander—in—chief against a former prosecutor fighting for his competitor, joe biden.

with less than a month to go and a campaign thrown into chaos by covid—19, the stakes are high. sophie long, bbc news, salt lake city. and you can see live coverage of the vice presidential debate on the bbc news channel and online from 1:30pm tomorrow morning, and you can also watch it tomorrow on the bbc iplayer. the headlines on bbc news. scotland faces new restrictions to combat a rise in covid cases — with pubs and restaurants expected to be affected. the health secretary matt hancock says the rise in coronavirus infection rates — and in hospitalisations — shows there is a "serious problem". a businessman from leeds linked to organised crime and gangsters agrees to pay almost £10 million to the national crime agency.

two scientists have been awarded the 2020 nobel prize in chemistry for developing the tools to edit dna. jenniferdoudna, seen here on the left and emmanuelle charpentier, won the prize for their work on a gene—editing technique. they are the first women to share the prize. the nobeljury said their work has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences. with remembrance day just over a month away, you'd normally expect to start seeing many poppy sellers appearing in yourarea. but with thousands of collectors shielding, that's not possible this year. so the royal british legion have had to think of different ways to make poppies available. 0ur reporterjohn maguire has been finding out how this year's appeal will work. it's quite calming, because you don't realise you're doing it. it's mesmerising to watch jeanette connell create her crochet poppies. more than 30 years ago, she suffered a brain haemorrhage and now she's only 3% of her vision left. she took up crocheting these intricate poppies after the death of her mother and now makes thousands to sell for the royal british legion. i love doing it because i know it's a good cause.

i didn't know what to do, so what i done is be positive and i thought, "well, if i can't do this, i can do something else." and this is where i find that i can do something. i probably crochet not realising that i'm not looking, i'm just doing but i find it comforting and i'll probably be doing this for a long time. but this year, it's different. due to covid, she's unable to take up her usual post crocheting and selling in a local supermarket, so they're available online and her hairdresser is helping out. she calls in to check on sales. jeanette has asthma, so doesn't wear a mask. how are you? got lots of poppies. just before lockdown, the d—day veteran harry billinge was awarded the mbe by the queen in recognition of his fundraising for a memorial to his fallen colleagues. he understands there will be restrictions this autumn, but he's determined to carry on in his comrades' memory.

i'm positive i'll be able to collect more money in october and christmas time than i have done in the past. and it means so much to you, this memorial, doesn't it? oh, yes, yes, it does. more than... ican't... i'm overwhelmed. i can't even talk about it, because i'll get tears in me eyes when i think. i can't forget. and i'm not able to forget. but i don't want to forget either, really. and it's that remembrance that inspires fundraising by veterans and so many others. vera barnaby has been collecting for more than 70 years and amassed a total of over £1 million. it means a lot to her. well, this is one of the poppies that was in place at the tower of london. and, unfortunately, i was too late to purchase one. the following year, at conference

of the women's section there was a raffle and, hey presto, i won. she's known in county durham as mrs poppy and has already started preparations, knowing there will be restrictions this year. we won't be allowed to go out to the street this year because we have to have no social contact with people. every year, you know from your previous record what's expected and you try to beat it. and we have been doing that, but after raising 34,000—odd last year, i don't think we'll get that, this year. but fingers crossed. you never know. so, what has been so successful for so many years will need to change for this remembrance season. but what won't change is the belief, the commitment, and the dedication to helping and honouring those who've served and those who made sacrifices.

john maguire, bbc news. and you can download your own poppy now by visiting the royal british legion website, britishlegion.org.uk. some of mexico's most popular tourist resorts are being evacuated as hurricane delta approaches from the east. the category a storm is expected to be the biggest to hit the country since hurricane wilma in 2005. guests have been ordered to leave hotels in the resort of cancun and the island of cozumel. the authorities are predicting floods and huge waves. last month was the warmest september on record across the world. it was 0.05 celsius hotter than the same month last year, which in turn was the previous record holder. the heat contributed to record wildfires in california and australia, and to the hottest day recorded ever in california's death valley. reports in the us say that two captured isis fighters nicknamed

"the beatles" are to be flown to the us for trial later today. alexanda kotey and elshafee elsheikh, who are accused of killing western hostages in syria, have been held at a us airbase in iraq for the past 12 months. the two men — both originally from london — were part of a group of four is jihadists in syria accused of carrying out sadistic punishments on their captives. prime minister's questions is coming up. our deputy political editor vicki young joins us now. hello. what you expecting?” hello. what you expecting? i think the backgrounds of this is going to inform really what a lot of the debate is about and that is a rising number of coronavirus cases, arising number of coronavirus cases, arising number of coronavirus cases, arising number of hospital admissions and we lack clarity amongst ministers and officials about what is going on, particularly in certain areas of the north of england. the other backdrop to this, of course, is a possibility of more restrictions been brought in by nicola sturgeon in scotland which

will inevitably put pressure on the government to do the same for england. i'm sure that the labour leader will have many questions to ask about all of this and i think a general feeling that despite all these different restrictions that are being brought in, that local lockdowns are simply not working, they are not so far having the desired effect. i think there are some element that in certain cities, of course, the number of university stu d e nts of course, the number of university students who have been infected and who are having the focus of testing on them that that is slightly skewing the numbers but i think the concern is that actually those cases are starting to seep further into the community and inevitably will start to hit those who are more vulnerable. now, back here in westminster and particularly in the palace of westminster, new guidance has been brought up by the speaker. if we look at the pictures today of the speaker's possession, this is what starts today in parliament every day, for the first time, they are wearing masks. the advice from

sir lindsay hoyle, the speaker, is that now around the palace of westminster, people should wear masks. so the examples he gave were if you are moving through corridors, when mps are voting, particularly where you can't socially distance, that should be done. he says if you are queueing forfood that should be done. he says if you are queueing for food or that should be done. he says if you are queueing forfood or drinks, again, as you are expected to do in shops, he thinks now that should be the way forward for the houses of parliament. you will know that there are hundreds, thousands of people who work there normally. of course there are restrictions at the moment. but still quite a lot of people coming through there and he is concerned. they have been a few cases, they want to make sure they're doing everything they can to protect people. that is really the backdrop to all of this, that rise in coronavirus cases. thank you. starting in five minutes or so and of course we will have full coverage. just before we catch up with the weather, the sad news that

the american musician johnny nash has died at the age of 80. # i nash has died at the age of 80. #ican nash has died at the age of 80. # i can see clearly now the rain has gone # i gone #ican gone # i can see all obstacles in my way... # the singer—songwriter is best known for his reggae—inspired 1972 single i can see clearly now, which sold more than a million copies. his son told us media, nash — died at home of natural causes. such a beautiful song. we have prime minister's questions coming up. now the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. today's looking to be a much drier day than it was yesterday, with a bit more sunshine around. having said that, we still have a peppering of showers across parts of the north and west. through the day, we'll see the cloud thicken across the south—west and then we'll see some rain arrive and also we will see the wind strengthen in southern areas. what we have at the moment is some showers across the north and west. still gusty winds, that north—westerly wind blowing

them in across the north and west of scotland. showers across northern ireland and northern england tending to fade, but at the same time the clouds are building in from the south—west, heralding the arrival of a band of rain across south—west england and south—west wales. as we push further east towards east anglia, the midlands, northern england, northern ireland and much of scotland, it will be dry and bright with sunshine before we run back into the showers across the north and west of scotland. temperatures 11 to 16 celsius. this evening and overnight, this area of low pressure, with its two fronts, is going to come our way and bring heavy rain, particularly across wales, the north midlands and into northern england, pushing eastwards. then the second front comes in behind it. murky conditions in the south but relatively mild. but it's to the north of that weatherfront that we have some clearer skies. patchy mist and fog could form and it will be cooler here. tomorrow morning we lose the first front into the north sea quickly. the second one heads southwards and in its wake, it will leave a fair bit of cloud, particularly across

lincolnshire and east anglia. you can see a lot of bright skies developing behind it, with still some showers across parts of the north and west. temperatures nine to 17 celsius. as we head into friday, the rain which has come in from the west overnight is pushing southeastwards, so it looks at the moment like it's going to be a wet afternoon across england and also wales, with showers continuing across northern ireland and northern and western scotland. in between, something drier and brighter. temperatures ranging from nine to 15 celsius. into the weekend, the wind direction changes as high pressure starts to develop over us. so the wind becomes more of a northerly, which is the colder direction. that's reflected in the temperatures, but there will be a lot of dry weather around. but we could see some showers in the north and east.

this is bbc news. the headlines. scotland faces new restrictions to combat a rise in covid cases, with pubs and restaurants expected to be affected. the pharmaceutical company, roche, warns of problems with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. and we'll be live in the commons in a few moments for prime ministers questions. not sure what the prime minister thinks the leader of the opposition is meant to do other than scrutinising. i will interrupt because it is time to go to the chamber. in addition to my duties in the house i shall have such further meetings later today. next month, the book which i have written will

be published, part of which covers brexit, and yes, by inference, eve ryo ne brexit, and yes, by inference, everyone will be in the book. will my right honourable friend agree with me that the last general election was not fought on how political parties might handle the coronavirus pandemic, but was categorically about ensuring that the result of the 2016 referendum was cemented in full. will my right honourable friend confirm that that is what he intends to see happen?” can indeed and i congratulate my right honourable friend on his new book, and i can assure him that this country has not only left the european union but onjanuary the 1st we will take a back full control of our money, our borders and our laws. we now come to the leader of

the opposition, keir starmer. mr speaker, this is a crucial moment if we are to gain control of the virus. yet, for eight days, nearly 16,000 positive tests were missed by the government. that means about a8,000 contacts were not traced. as of yesterday, thousands have still not been reached. does the prime minister accepted that this very basic mistake has put lives at risk? this is certainly a problem that we have fixed. the computer glitch, the error he refers to, has been addressed. all the 16,000 he refers to have in fact got there positive test results and should be self isolating, and as soon as we became aware of the missing data we brought in 800 people to chase up those index cases, and we continue to

chase their contacts, and i think it would be for the reassurance of the house and the country that the data points, the missing data points, now that we look at them, do not change our assessment of the epidemiology and the spread of the disease, and thatis and the spread of the disease, and that is why we continue with our package to suppress the virus, not just nationally, but locally and regionally as well. this isn'tjust a technical issue, it is a human issue, and the attempted reassurance by the prime ministerjust doesn't wash. in greater manchester, some of the missing cases date back to september the 18th. that's two and a half weeks ago. with three very serious consequences. it's now much harder to contact people after so long, the contacts of the 16,000. evenif long, the contacts of the 16,000. even if they are contacted successfully, for many the self isolation period has already

expired. and thirdly, important decisions on local restrictions were made using the wrong data. £12 billion has been invested in the system and yet a basic excel spreadsheet error brings it down. no wonder it has been described as intergalactic incompetence. so why, at this crucial moment, did it take so long to catch this error and to address it? he can't have it both ways. you can't call it a human error and a basic excel spreadsheet error. let mejust error and a basic excel spreadsheet error. let me just remind the house and the honourable gentleman of what i've just and the honourable gentleman of what i'vejust said. the and the honourable gentleman of what i've just said. the crucial thing and the honourable gentleman of what i'vejust said. the crucial thing is that yes, of course, there has been an error but the data points that we are looking at do not change the basic distribution of the disease andi basic distribution of the disease and i think it's important for people to understand that. that is really what he was trying to drive

out. although the cases in the country are considerably up this week on last week, the seven—day statistics show there are now a97 cases per 100,000 in liverpool, 522 cases per 100,000 in liverpool, 522 cases per 100,000 in liverpool, 522 cases per 100,000 in manchester, a22 in newcastle, and the key point there is that the local, regional approach combined with the national approach combined with the national approach remains correct, because two thirds of those admitted into hospital on sunday were in the north west, the north east and yorkshire, so that is why i think that approach continues to be correct. the prime minister says it doesn't alter the basic distribution, yet thousands of people have been walking around when they should have been self isolating. it patiently has an effect on the basic distribution. if

this was an isolated example, i think people might understand, but there is a pattern here on care homes, ppe, exams, testing. the prime minister ignores the warning signs, hurtles towards a car crash and then looks in the rear mirror and then looks in the rear mirror and says, what's all that about? it's quite literally government in hindsight. today is 100 days since the first local restrictions were introduced. 20 local areas in england have been under restrictions for two months. in 19 of those 20 areas, the infection rates have gone up. in rossendale they have gone up tenfold, but all the prime minster has to say is that it's too early to restrictions are working, but it's obvious that something has gone wrong here. so what is the prime minister going to do about it? mr speaker, as he knows, we are

continuing to provide support, £5 billion of support for the north west, the north—east for the extra restrictions that they are experiencing and we will continue to support all areas across the country that have to go into local measures. two weeks ago, i set out that strategy and i said we would go forward both with national measures and intensifying the rule of six, making sure we reinforce the rule six. two weeks ago, he supported it. i think he went on the nick ferrari show saying i support the rule of six, yes, i do. yet last night, mr speaker, the labour party abstained on the rule of six. he asks what we are doing to enforce local measures and he can't even be bothered to get his own side to support them

himself. mr speaker, for the prime minster‘s benefit, let me take this slowly for him. we support measures to protect health. we want track and trace to work. but the government is messing it up and it is our duty to point it out. let's get back to the question is, because these are not trick questions. i got the figures here. in bury, when restrictions we re here. in bury, when restrictions were introduced, the infection rate was around 20 a00,000. today it is 266. in burnley, it was 21 per hundred thousand, now it is a3a. in bolton, it was 18 per hundred thousand, now it is 255. the prime minister really needs to understand that local communities are angry and frustrated, so will he level with the people of bury, burnley and bolton and tell them what does he actually think the problem is here?

the problem is, alas, that the disease continues to spread in that way i described to the house earlier in the figures he gives are no surprise as they are fundamentally repetitions of what i have already told the house. and what we are doing is a combination of national and local measures, which one week he comes to the house and supports, and the next week he mysteriously decides to whisk his support away and he cannot even be bothered to mobilise his own benches to support something as fundamental as the rule of six, which he himself said only three weeks ago that he supported. he cannot continue to have it both ways. does he support the rule of six? yes or no? yes. but if the

prime minister can't see and hear local communities when they say the infection rate has gone up tenfold under restrictions and he doesn't realise that is a problem, then that is part of the problem. there is a further cause of anger. prime minister, if we actually —— if you actually listen to the question, we might get on better. there is further because of anger. lack of clarity about why particular restrictions have been introduced. for example, in the prime minster‘s and local authority, hillingdon, today there are 62 cases per hundred thousand yet no local restrictions. but in 20 local areas across england england were imposed where infection rates were low. in kirklees it was just 29 a00,000. local communities genuinely don't understand these differences. can he please explain for them. i think he has heard from

me and repeatedly from the government about why we are bringing in differentiated local restrictions and i'vejust in differentiated local restrictions and i've just given the figures for the north—east on the north west and i wish i could pretend that everything was going to be rosy in the midlands or indeed in london where alas we are also seeing infections arise, and that is why we need a concerted national effort. we need a concerted national effort. we need to follow the guidance, we need hands, face, space, get a test if you have symptoms and obey the rule of six and i think it quite extraordinary that the honourable gentleman said he personally supports the rule of six while allowing his entire party to abstain. the prime minister can't explain why an area goes into restriction, he can't expand what the different restrictions are, he cannot explain how restrictions end. this is getting ridiculous. next week, this house will vote on whether to improve —— week, this house will vote on whether to improve -- approve week, this house will vote on whether to improve —— approve the 10pm rule. the prime minister knows

there are deeply held views across there are deeply held views across the country in different ways on this. one question is now screaming out. is there a scientific basis for the 10pm rule? the public deserve to know. parliament deserves to know. if there is, why doesn't the government do itself a favour and publish it? if not, why doesn't the government review the rule? so will the prime minister commit to publishing the scientific basis for the 10pm rule before this house votes on it next monday? the basis on which we set out the curtailment of hospitality was the basis on which he accepted it two weeks ago. and that is to reduce the spread of the virus. and that is our objective. that is why we introduced the rule of six, which again, he supported only two weeks ago and

yet, last night, they abstained and today they are withdrawing their support for other restrictions. kind ofa support for other restrictions. kind of a signal does this send to the people of the country about the robustness of the labour party and their willingness to enforce the restrictions? that is not new leadership, that's no leadership. we are taking the tough decisions necessary , are taking the tough decisions necessary, imposing restrictions which we don't want to do, but imposing restrictions locally and nationally to fight the virus, to keep kids in education and to keep the bulk of our economy moving and at the same time, mr speaker, we are getting on with our agenda, the lifetime skills guarantee, the green industrial revolution by which we will take this country forward and build back better. two of the governments central policy are levelling up and housing. carlisle

and cumbria needs further infrastructure investment but it does have the capacity for increased housing development, especially in the garden village to the south of carlisle, so the government has the opportunity to help both the levelling up agenda and reducing the strain on housing in the south of england. to achieve this, the government could move departments out of london to the provinces, but not manchester and leeds. with the prime minister therefore let me know what he proposes in relation to moving a department of carlisle? irix blamed —— i've spent at least one happy night out in carlisle and i know it's a wonderful place and i certainly look with interest at the honourable gentleman's suggestion. we do have an ambitious programme to disperse and level up across the country. mr speaker, this week is challenge property week and i'd like

to thank all organisations across scotla nd to thank all organisations across scotland that the uk for helping families through the most difficult of times and there dedication and commitment should inspire every single one of us in the fight against poverty. with mass unemployment looming, having the right social security measures in place to help families in the long term is vital. mr speaker, the chancellor has so far refused to commit to make the £20 universal credit uplift permanent. this means that 60 million people face losing an income equivalent of £10a0 overnight. will the prime minister now commit to making the £20 slipped to credit permanent? i thanked him and welcome his support for universal credit, which the side of the house introduced. i am proud that we have been able to upgrade it in the way that we have

and we will continue to support people across the country with the biggest cash increase in the national living wage this year and the result of universal credit so far has been that there are 200,000 fewer people in absolute poverty now than there were in 2010. i know he wasn't perhaps a keen supporter when it was introduced but i welcome his support today. returning to scotland with ian blackford. one of these days the prime minister might consider answering the question about making the £20 increase permanent. the joseph about making the £20 increase permanent. thejoseph rowntree foundation painted a clear picture. strip the 20p universal credit and thousands could move into poverty. 500,000 more people could end up in severe poverty. more than 50% below the poverty line. the resolution

foundation have called the apple of the living standards lifeline for millions of families during the pandemic. challenge poverty week is a moment for all of us to take unified action against poverty. the prime minister has an opportunity here and now. will he do the right thing and do the right thing and make the £20 uplift permanent.” thing and do the right thing and make the £20 uplift permanent. i do not want to underestimate the importance of what he is seeing. it is vital we tackle poverty in this country and that is why we are so proud of what we did with the national living wage and on universal credit we're putting another £1.7 billion into universal credit by 2023-202a another £1.7 billion into universal credit by 2023—202a and if that does not give the answer he wants then he can ask again next week but we will continue to support people and

families across this country and we will continue to spend £95 billion a yearin will continue to spend £95 billion a year in this country on working age welfare but the best thing we can do forfamilies for welfare but the best thing we can do for families for people on universal credit is to get this fight is done, get our economy moving again and get them back into well—paid high skilled jobs and that is what we are going to do. the review announced by the prime minister into transport and actions across the union will be hugely welcome in wales where the public want a new ma a relief road, a customer with times in north wales and an upgrade to the a380 a—385. does he agree that demonstrates a commitment to building back better ina commitment to building back better in a strong united kingdom?” commitment to building back better in a strong united kingdom? i thank him who represents a constituency i once fought for, he represented

well. the connection that he mentions i know well and i know that sir peter will certainly be looking at that scheme and many others in his union connectivity review. the prime minister is passionate about the union, as am i, and in welcoming the union, as am i, and in welcoming the review of connectivity within the review of connectivity within the union, as the member hasjust mentioned, would he agree that while it is good to consider connectivity across the irish sea it would be devastating to northern ireland to have barriers to trade in the irish sea? and did the remaining days of the negotiations with the european union cani the negotiations with the european union can i urge the prime minister to hold firm and to commit to protecting northern ireland's place within the internal market of the united kingdom by ensuring full and u nfettered united kingdom by ensuring full and unfettered access for our businesses and businesses who trade in either direction and for the consumers who

benefit from northern ireland being an integral part of the united kingdom? i think he is entirely right and kingdom? i think he is entirely rightandi kingdom? i think he is entirely right and i am sure his words will have been heard loud and clear by our friends have been heard loud and clear by ourfriends in have been heard loud and clear by our friends in brussels have been heard loud and clear by ourfriends in brussels butjust in case they have not we have the excellent uk internal market bill to prevent such barriers from arising. the prime minister is right in talking about levelling up and building back better but building back fairer. can he outline what support is available for towns that haven't received any high street in recent ventures such as prestwich in my constituency? and will he join my campaign to support local shops by congratulating the winner of my independent shop competition the only way is knelt? i can confirm to

him that in addition to the particular support he mentions we are directing another £160 billion of support for business and local authorities and business improvement districts and i am more than happy to congratulate the shop in radcliffe. across the uk our universities are struggling to contain the coronavirus with some 5000 cases reported in recent weeks. our communities deserve better and more local and immediate access to testing facilities but in leamington iam testing facilities but in leamington i am told that deloitte will not deliver on their testing facility until the end of this month, some four weeks after 7000 students will have arrived back in the town of wellington. my question is simple, as the government not expecting stu d e nts to as the government not expecting students to return to university?m

is very important that students should return to university in the way that they have and i want to thank the overwhelming majority of stu d e nts thank the overwhelming majority of students for will be complied with the complied with regulations and are doing what they can to suppress it. clearly there are particular problems in some parts of the country which we have discussed at length already and we will be pursuing the measures we outline to bring them down in those areas and i hope you will support them. in his statement on the 22nd of september he said that the chancellor and the culture secretary were working urgently on a support package for sports clubs that rely upon paying spectators. he also recognised the similar difficulties facing the conference and exhibition industry. i agree with his analysis and that support sector is important so when will that package becoming forward and will it include the conference and will it include the conference and exhibition industries?”

and will it include the conference and exhibition industries? i totally agree with him about the importance of the conference and exhibition industry, about £90 billion it is worth to this country so it is of massive importance. it was a very difficult decision to take to pose conferences and exhibitions. we want to get them open as fast as possible. of course they have had a lot of support, the 190 billion package is there to help businesses of all kinds, but the best way forward is to get the kind of testing systems that will enable not just conferences and businesses of that kind but all types, even theatres, to reopen and get back to normality, that is what we are ending for. yesterday the chancellor suggested that those who are musicians or work in the creative industries who cannot work because of covid restrictions, quote, should find new opportunities. and the

prime minister tell the house what jobs the hundreds of thousands of people including hundreds in my constituency who work in the fastest—growing part of our economy should be doing? because the answer from the chancellor of galway, finding ajob, you from the chancellor of galway, finding a job, you are not our problem, simply isn't good enough for these thousands of people who are truly talented and world leading within this country. that is simply not what the chancellor said. the chancellor has already provided £1.7 billion of support for the creative culture industries and we will ensure. . . culture industries and we will ensure... he is right to identify the massive economic value of those industries and that is why we are supporting them through these tough

times and that is why we are working to get the virus down and get our economy back to normal as fast as we possibly can and i hope he will support our strategy. to cheshire. building on that, can i welcome his excellent conservative party conference speech yesterday which outlined his vision of our government's plans for a green economy which will create hundreds of thousands of jobs? economy which will create hundreds of thousands ofjobs? would he agree with me that the merits of his green economy proposals extend far beyond energy production and also include the preservation of our green spaces? as the uk prepares to host cop26 while the prime minister sure the international community the way by committing the uk to championing greater protections for her torx screens and extend his vision to redesignate the chilterns area of outstanding natural beauty as a

national park following chilling lover's recommendation? —— julian glover. we are committed to protecting areas of outstanding natural beauty and i understand if you are considering recommendations and following the correct procedure but i hope she will also acknowledge ori but i hope she will also acknowledge or i hope she knows that this government is also leading the way globally in protecting biodiversity, in protecting habitat, protecting species, and that is what we are going to be doing in the g7 and in the run—up to cop26 in glasgow next year. unemployment has already gone up year. unemployment has already gone up 20% of my constituency this year. the end of furlough is leading to thousands more job losses the end of furlough is leading to thousands morejob losses in the end of furlough is leading to thousands more job losses in the

coming weeks. does the prime minister agree with me that tighter local lockdown restrictions like those imposed on merseyside should trigger automatic government support for local business and support schemes to prevent this economic card, carnage worsening? and will he connect today to such a targeted support package for merseyside as a matter of urgency, please? support package for merseyside as a matter of urgency, please ?” support package for merseyside as a matter of urgency, please? i share her feelings about the loss ofjobs and the potential loss ofjobs. it is wretched that we have to do this and we have already allocated £2.6 billion to the north west and her constituency has had £12 million, liverpool and another £a0 million, but we will continue to provide support across the country, to put our arms around jobs and livelihoods

in the country as we have done throughout this pandemic.” in the country as we have done throughout this pandemic. i welcome his confirmation of the 1a new hospitals this decade including in north hampshire which will serve my constituents in east hampshire and does he agree that this is a good opportunity to optimise health care provision across the wider area, making full use of valued community hospitals? yes, indeed. i can confirm that we are building a new hospital at basingstoke and north hampshire hospital, major refurbishment at the royal hampshire hospital in winchester and we will continue to support hampshire hospital's nhs foundation trust as they develop their plans, including such local infrastructure is also community hospital. restrictions on the north—east around opening times

and socialising with other households are limiting custom, reducing income and making it uneconomicalfor reducing income and making it uneconomical for many businesses to stay open including those in my constituency. what assurance can the prime minister gets myself and the local authorities that he will provide the necessary finance to mitigate their income and retain the 80,000 people mitigate their income and retain the 80 , 000 people employed mitigate their income and retain the 80,000 people employed in the hospitality and retail sectors? and will he meet local leaders to discuss their request for the support? she is entirely right to raise the issue of support for hospitality and we will continue to do any areas that face tougher restrictions we will continue to do whatever we can to support and she will be familiar with the big package we have already brought in but i think the party opposite needs to decide whether they are in favour of the plan to reduce transmission,

to bear down on the virus, or not, because svr than i am afraid they must recognise that there will also be consequences of that plan. the prime minister's new lifetime skills guarantee is hugely welcome. peterborough already has a new specialist university plan specialising in manufacturing, technology, science and engineering. thanks in part to the government's funding ofa thanks in part to the government's funding of a million super habanero city centre bringing back highly paid jobs to our city centre. does he agree it is vital to include aduu he agree it is vital to include adult learners in our vision for further education and universities so people in working cities like peterborough have the right skills to succeed? yes, i thank him because it is part of our plan to feel the green economic recovery that we put

£1a million from the getting building fund into peterborough to accelerate the key educational and research facility and we are also giving peterborough another £1 million of excel ability payment for investment into capital projects to enable peterborough to build back better. the government was right to increase universal credit by 20p a week to help families with the extra cost of the pandemic but at the moment that is due to be removed next april. he has declined to make to make it permanent but will he agree it would be unthinkable to cut everybody‘s benefit before the pandemic is over? of course we keep all these things under review. 1296

of our journalists all these things under review. 1296 of ourjournalists and chief executives come from a working—class background and 6% of doctors and barristers. does he agree he will need a renewed focus on social mobility from all institutions so we make much better use of all of the country's talent? that is exactly what this government was elected to do in 2019. we were elected to put 20,000 more police on our street spots to unite our country and to level up across our country and unleash the potential of the whole of the uk and that is what we are going to do. yesterday the prime minister said that it would be easy to build new homes without destroying our green spaces. many constituents on my part of coventry are concerned that the government is once again relying on dodgy figures to trample on green spaces and build

on affordable low quality homes in its place. as coventry is running out of greenfield sites where does he expect these new homes to be built? there is abundant brownfield space across the whole of the uk and i speak as somebody who used to be the planning authority for london andi the planning authority for london and i know of what i speak. the opportunity is there. in many cases the restrictions are caused by cumbersome planning procedures but they are also caused by the inability of young people to get the mortgages they want and to buy the homes that they want and that is why we are bringing forward our fixed—rate mortgages for 95% of the value of the property to help young people onto the property ladder. we are going to turn generation rent into generation by.

prime minister's questions has just finished. our deputy political editor vicki young joins us now. what do you take away from that prime minister's questions? clearly the prime minister under pressure again, as you would imagine, with those rising coronavirus numbers and rising hospital admissions. really under pressure over whether the measures that have already been introduced are in fact working. the labour leader keir starmer coming up with some statistics showing, he says, that 19 out of 20 areas in england that have been under restrictions for some time have seen their case numbers go up and in some cases go up very rapidly. i think really the broad question here, not just from labour, but from lots of people, is whether these measures are infact people, is whether these measures are in fact working. i think the problem is partly that you don't know what would have happened if the measures hadn't been introduced but

it is clearly the case that numbers are going up. in response to that, borisjohnson was quick to attack the labour leader because he says the labour leader because he says the labour leader has changed his mind all of this, that he previously said he supports, for example, the rule of six, that he supports that 10pm curfew in england on pubs and restau ra nts 10pm curfew in england on pubs and restaurants closing, but now seems to be changing his mind. there is certainly an awful lot of anxiety in government about what is going on. one official said to me earlier that the numbers are very much going on the numbers are very much going on the wrong direction. they are very concerned about that. matt hancock saying that they do have a serious problem on their hands. the big question, what you do about that? do you bring in further restrictions just in those areas, do you bring in national restrictions? the bbc understands there is a meeting today talking about changing the whole approach going to this three tier system whereby an area can have certain restrictions put on it but those restrictions would be uniform in the sense that you would know what the restrictions are going to

be. there is an awful lot going on here but we understand the prime minister is still weighing up all the options and remember too there was an option of a so—called circuit break, closing down more areas of the economy for a short time and then on top of that, of course, pressure because in scotland nicola sturgeon likely to bring in more restrictions later this afternoon. what about the evidence behind the restrictions? keir starmer also asked about the scientific evidence behind the 10pm curfew, it is controversial and some say they don't think there is any scientific evidence. keir starmer says if there is evidence, why not publish it, if not revoke the rule. when nicola sturgeon announces rejections, she will publish the evidence behind those restrictions. borisjohnson sidestepped that question. why is that the government being more transparent about the scientific evidence? i think this has been an issue and i think it is partly since we have stopped those daily press conferences. they did of course give

usa conferences. they did of course give us a lot more information. particularly when the scientists and the medical officer with there. you can ask them these kind of questions. since that has stopped, it does feel as though we simply don't have a lot of that information. the question is does the government actually have that information. as you say, if nicola sturgeon puts out several scenarios showing how closing certain things would make a difference, then there will be real pressure on the same to happen for england. i think that whole area of who is being affected, so for example we know in some of the city such as manchester, there has been a huge of students, many of them have been infected with coronavirus, but of course they are far less at risk. the problem is one that circulates amongst the wider community and that is the fear in some of these places. of course it doesn't just stay amongst the younger generation where they are less at risk. all of the science behind that it doesn't feel like we are given much of that. there are

tory mps who feel that this 10pm cu rfew tory mps who feel that this 10pm curfew is pretty pointless, all it is doing is stopping these businesses making more profit. also, in some cases, of course, forcing everybody out onto the streets and onto public transport onto the same time and forcing them back home. there will be a vote on this next week and it is interesting that if labour are now not supporting that measure that could spell some problems for government. thank you. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon is to announce a tightening of lockdown later to try and slow a surge in new covid cases. the plans are expected to include more restrictions for pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues. travel restrictions could be put in place in parts of the country which have higher levels of covid. across scotland on average around 730 people are testing positive for the virus each day. it is more than two and half times higher than a fortnight ago when 285 virus cases

were recorded every day. earlier i spoke to social psychologist professor stephen reicher who advises the scottish and uk governments about the effect of local lockdowns and how efficient they are. at the moment, we are about 10% of the infections at the peak in march, but at the rate of increase, by the end of this month, by the end of october, we could be back at the same level as march if we do nothing, and clearly that would be a terrible situation to be in. the good news is we've got two or three weeks' grace in which to do something and if we squander it, then indeed we will be in a real mess and then the prospect of a real hard lockdown looms, so it is a matter of doing something now in the short term in order to stop things going wrong, the nhs being overwhelmed, large numbers of people getting infected, and a big hit to the economy. i think one of the lessons that we are learning is, in a sense, half measures don't really get us very far.

so, local restrictions did work in some places, they worked in leicester, but they have got to be comprehensive and you have got to look at all the areas in which we come into contact with others and can spread the infection. the key areas, of course, are work, already people are working at home as far as possible and the first minister has ruled out closing down workplaces, the second area is the home, and it seems quite a lot of the transmission is in the home and we the public have got to take our responsibilities seriously around that, and the third is in the area of leisure, so hospitality, yes, but also indoor attractions, indoor visitor spaces and so on, and that is where there is room for manoeuvre and that is probably therefore where changes are going to be made. psychologically, we are in a very different place from where we were before. i guess there was a lot more fear

around, potentially, that propelled people into going into the lockdown with a pretty positive attitude in terms of doing what it took. now there will be, obviously, a lot of people who will have experienced covid and come through it and felt like, well, actually, the impact on them was very minor so perhaps not fully seeing the reasons anymore for tough measures. what do you think is the way the government needs to handle this in terms of making sure that cases are reduced while at the same time keeping the public onside in the measures? so i wouldn't use the word fear because, actually, if you communicate too much fear, people often turn off, they turn aside, they try and deny things. i think proper communication of risk is important, along with what we can do to mitigate that risk so that we don't feel helpless, we don't feel that there is nothing we can do. we know precisely what we can do

in order to stop the pandemic. i think it is important to reiterate the risk and, indeed, in some ways, we are becoming more aware of greater risks, long covid, so that the problem isn't that you will die from this disease but it might do you harm in the long term. so i think we need clarity about the information. the second thing we need is we need support for people to do the things we ask of them, so government and employers have got a responsibility to help people. the biggest thing we need to get people to do is to self—isolate if they get the disease, if they get the infection. self isolation isn't easy, it is not easy financially, it's not easy if you have got caring responsibilities, it is not easy if you live in a multi—generational household, so you can'tjust say to people self—isolate without asking, well, what do they need and how can we help them? i think if the government takes its responsibilities seriously and employers take their responsibilities seriously, it is much easier to ask of the public

that we take the responsibilities seriously. hurricane delta has made landfall in mexcio. the category a storm is expected to be the biggest to hit the country since hurricane wilma in 2005. guests have been ordered to leave hotels in some of mexico's most popular tourist resorts — places like cancun and the island of cozumel. the authorities are predicting floods and huge waves. last month was the warmest september on record across the world. it was 0.05 celsius hotter than the same month last year, which in turn was the previous record holder. the heat contributed to record wildfires in california and australia, and to the hottest day recorded ever in california's death valley. two scientists have been awarded the 2020 nobel prize in chemistry for developing the tools to edit dna. jennifer doudna, seen here on the left and emmanuelle charpentier, won the prize for their work on a gene—editing technique. they are the first women

to share the prize. the nobeljury said their work has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences. the headlines on bbc news. scotland faces new restrictions to combat a rise in covid cases, with pubs and restaurants expected to be affected. the health secretary matt hancock says the rise in coronavirus infection rates and in hospitalisations shows there is a "serious problem". the pharmaceutical company, roche, warns of problems with the supply of coronavirus swabs and nhs tests for other conditions, including cancer. it is 12:a5pm. we are going to talk about remembrance day. with remembrance day just over a month away,

you'd normally expect to start seeing many poppy sellers appearing in yourarea. but with thousands of collectors shielding, that's not possible this year. so the royal british legion have had to think of different ways to make poppies available. our reporterjohn maguire has been finding out how this year's appeal will work. it's quite calming, because you don't realise you're doing it. it's mesmerising to watch jeanette connell create her crochet poppies. more than 30 years ago, she suffered a brain haemorrhage and now she's only 3% of her vision left. she took up crocheting these intricate poppies after the death of her mother and now makes thousands to sell for the royal british legion. i love doing it because i know it's a good cause. i didn't know what to do, so what i done is be positive and i thought, "well, if i can't do this, i can do something else." and this is where i find that i can do something. i probably crochet not realising that i'm not looking, i'm just doing but i find it comforting and i'll probably be doing this for a long time. but this year, it's different. due to covid, she's unable to take up her usual post crocheting

and selling in a local supermarket, so they're available online and her hairdresser is helping out. she calls in to check on sales. jeanette has asthma, so doesn't wear a mask. how are you? got lots of poppies. just before lockdown, the d—day veteran harry billinge was awarded the mbe by the queen in recognition of his fundraising for a memorial to his fallen colleagues. he understands there will be restrictions this autumn, but he's determined to carry on in his comrades' memory. i'm positive i'll be able to collect more money in october and christmas time than i have done in the past. and it means so much to you, this memorial, doesn't it? oh, yes, yes, it does. more than... ican't... i'm overwhelmed. i can't even talk about it, because i'll get tears in me eyes when i think. i can't forget. and i'm not able to forget.

but i don't want to forget either, really. and it's that remembrance that inspires fundraising by veterans and so many others. vera barnaby has been collecting for more than 70 years and amassed a total of over £1 million. it means a lot to her. well, this is one of the poppies that was in place at the tower of london. and, unfortunately, i was too late to purchase one. the following year, at conference of the women's section there was a raffle and, hey presto, i won. she's known in county durham as mrs poppy and has already started preparations, knowing there will be restrictions this year. we won't be allowed to go out to the street this year because we have to have no social contact with people. every year, you know from your previous record what's expected

and you try to beat it. and we have been doing that, but after raising 34,000—odd last year, i don't think we'll get that, this year. but fingers crossed. you never know. so, what has been so successful for so many years will need to change for this remembrance season. but what won't change is the belief, the commitment, and the dedication to helping and honouring those who've served and those who made sacrifices. john maguire, bbc news. a court in greece has ruled that the far—right party, golden dawn, is a criminal organisation. clashes erupted in the capital, athens, as thejudges made their verdict on almost 70 members of the party. its leadership has been on trial for the past five years, along with former members of parliament. reports in the us say that two captured isis fighters —

nicknamed "the beatles" by their former captives because of their british accents — are to be flown to the us for trial later today. alexanda kotey and el shafee el sheikh who are accused of killing western hostages in syria have been held at a us airbase in iraq for the past 12 months. the two men, both originally from london, were part of a group of four is jihadists in syria accused of carrying out sadistic punishments on their captives. a court in kenya has found two men guilty of helping islamist militants stage an attack on a shopping mall in nairobi in 2013. 67 people died in the siege of the westgate shopping centre by gunmen from the jihadist group al shabaab, which is linked to al-qaeda. a third man who also faced charges under the country's terrorism prevention act was acquited. exclusive new figures suggest almost half of all sexual abuse content online is "self—generated" meaning children are coerced into creating it themselves. that's according to research

by the internet watch foundation, which says it's a 15% increase on the previous year. you may find rachel stonehouse's report distressing — the voice of the mum has been changed to protect her son's identity? it was terrifying, i mean, i have to say i didn't eat or sleep for about three months. mandy's son was groomed online through a game called roblox. to protect her and her son, we aren't identifying her and mandy's not her real name. we were just taking photographs of our beloved dog, you know. my partner's phone and my phone weren't to hand and my son's phone was available, so we just took some pictures of the dog and my partner looked back through them and... ..found that there were two naked photographs. so, obviously, the phone was confiscated and ijust went through the phone and i found requests from an unknown to say — naked pictures. disturbingly, the person who groomed mandy's son then went on

to access his facebook account and used it to groom other children. when he was grooming other children through our son's facebook, and we were getting all these images through facebook, naked images of nine and ten—year—olds, bending over and all this sort of thing, i was just in absolute... a torrent of tears. and that was just the first one. and then we probably got another 60 images through our son's facebook account, which we couldn't close, because facebook wouldn't let us close it. the family reported it to the police, but no further action has been taken. this type of grooming is becoming increasingly common. it's called self generated, meaning the content is created by the children themselves, often under the direction of the groomer. the internet watch foundation is a charity which removes child sexual abuse from the web. how much of a concern is self generated content and the rate at which it's increasing?

it's extremely concerning because, you know, children have this technology at their fingertips but it's also spiralling out of control in terms of self—generated content. our figures so far for the year, for the half year, suggest we're now at aa% of our actioned content is actually self generated. so, this is increasing very, very quickly. isabel's job involves searching for child abuse online, to get it taken down. again, we're protecting her identity because of the work she does. i'm not going to lie, it's not always an easyjob, because every single day i come to work, i am seeing thousands and thousands of images of children being raped, sexually abused, kind of the worst images i've ever seen in my entire life. most of what we see in terms of self—generated content is usually a single child kind of alone in their bedroom or bathroom and they're being coerced by someone on the other side of the screen to perform sexual acts.

but what we're seeing now is kind of more sibling self—generated content, so that's where there's what appears to be kind of a pair of siblings together in the same home and they're both talking to somebody on the other side of the screen. and the people the other side are coaxing them into sexual abuse and to sexually abuse each other. for me, it's the fact that i'm able to remove them, to stop people from accidentally stumbling across these images in the first place, and also mainly for the victims. in a statement, facebook say grooming is not tolerated on its platform and they've now disabled the account. roblox told us they are committed to protecting the safety of children and have stringent chat filters to block inappropriate content. but, for mandy, these companies are not taking enough responsibility. they arejust grooming grounds, you know. and the fact that roblox didn't even

have the courtesy to get back in contact with us, it's just horrific. rachel stonehouse, bbc news. the revered rock guitarist eddie van halen, an exuberant inspiration to so many other guitarists, has died at the age of 65. #jump!# the co—founder and lead guitarist of van halen had been suffering from throat cancer. the band had huge commercial success in the ‘70s and ‘80s selling more than 80 million records worldwide. the single ‘jump' reached number one in the us charts. we've been speaking gene simmons, the rock legend and co—lead singer of heavy metal icons kiss. he shared some of his memories of eddie van halen. i saw them in a club a long, long time ago, and i was so awed by the class and the grandeur. it is difficult to talk in rock terms with a band

that i didn't use tapes, didn't use backing tracks, nothing like that. all that music came out of eddy‘s hand. i had never heard any guitar player like that, certainly since hendrix. but i want to say a moment, for me it is heartbreaking today, because i remember a young, innocent eddie van halen who must have been 20 years old. i took the band into the studio and we recorded 15 songs that i produced, but it ain't about me. i want to take a moment and tell you that it's very seldom you meet somebody who is a pure soul, he isa he is a beautiful person. i never once heard eddie ever say anything bad about anybody, and especially other bands. and as you can well imagine, this business is full of big egos, yours truly included. you get speechless when you meet somebody

who really enjoyed life, i never saw him hang out at the usual clubs where rock stars go for the money and the chicks and all that stuff. never once saw him. it was always about the music. and if you ever saw van halen live, and if you haven't, shame on you. if you ever saw them live, eddie would be playing guitar, smiling from ear to ear. he really lived life the way you should, just enjoy it, you only get one time around. my prayers and condolences to his family and his friends, and certainly to the fans. greatness has passed. there will never be another like him. remembering eddie van halen. some breaking news. the jane greene king is planning to put around 800 jobs and to close dozen of pubs following

trade slumped after the 10pm hospitality curfew. there has been controversy hospitality curfew. there has been co ntrove rsy over hospitality curfew. there has been controversy over that curfew. psyche of starmer was raising —— sir keir starmer was raising the issue, saying the government said publish scientific evidence behind the cu rfew scientific evidence behind the curfew and if it won't publish, he'd they should reconsider it. thatjust throw, greene king cutting jobs. they are linking directly to the cu rfew. they are linking directly to the curfew. the latest coming up at one and with jane hill. now look at the weather. good afternoon. we have seen fewer showers on the whole throughout this afternoon, a beautiful shot here of whitby taken in the sunshine. not too far away, autumnal colours coming through in leeds. we have had showers in the north but also across the south of wales. a beautiful rainbow. most of the show is now confined to the north because further south the cloud is starting to fill in. this length of cloud sticking out in the atla ntic length of cloud sticking out in the atlantic is a developing area of low pressure set to bring us our next

speu pressure set to bring us our next spell of wet and windy weather. we have the sunshine, it will tend to diminish as this cloud rolls in, continues its progress in through the rest of the afternoon. by the evening, it will be looking quite wet through some areas. still pleasa ntly warm wet through some areas. still pleasantly warm if you are in the sunshine. as well as the wet weather, the winds will strengthen again, pushing the wetter weather in across the south—west of england, wales and northern ireland for the beginning of the evening rush hour. whilst we continue with the sunshine further north but showers, particular for the north and north—west of scotland, but many other parts of scotland seeing the dry weather. it looks rather quite wet through the evening, across not just northern ireland and the south of another much of england and wales as well. that will hold temperatures up, the cloud, rain and stronger wind. further north with a light winds across scotland, we could see temperatures dipping towards freezing in the glans. by morning, the rain starting to move out of the way. it drags its heels in the south and it could be quite heavy here

with some lively downpours but as it pulls away, the afternoon looks drier and brighter, more pulls away, the afternoon looks drierand brighter, more sunshine. by drierand brighter, more sunshine. by that stage, centring in the north replaced by more showers. again, between those temperatures will get up between those temperatures will get up into the mid—teens which is about where they should be. for the beginning of october. some uncertainty regarding friday. it looks like we will see another area of low pressure moving, another area of low pressure moving, another area of rain potentially further north. it gradually works its way southward, showers following on behind. quite a chilly wind starts to set in. temperatures won't be quite as high across scotland and further south because of the rain. they will be down a degree or two by the end of friday. for the weekend, a brisk wind from the north, feeling cool of all of us but a lot of dry weather to be found. goodbye.

scotland faces tighter restrictions to try to control the growing number of covid cases. the hospitality industry and travel could be affected — business owners say they need government help. we're not businesses that can just be turned on and turned off. we're dealing with fresh food, we're dealing with, you know, long—term bookings, people that are planning special occasions in advance. the confidence issue across the board, that is what is going to be the hardest thing. we'll have more from scotland and will be live in other parts of the uk with rising covid numbers. also this lunchtime. a major supplier of coronavirus swabs and cancer tests to the nhs has warned it's experiencing significant distribution problems.