this is bbc news — with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm kasia madera... a teacher who showed pupils cartoons of the prophet muhammad is decapitated north of paris — france's president condemns it as a cowardly attack. translation: our fellow citizen was attacked in a cowardly way. he was the victim of an islamist terrorist attack. a no—deal brexit looks to be on the cards — as the uk calls off further trade talks with the european union. we need to continue the negotiations and i hope but i repeat, we are determined to reach a deal, but not at any. the united nations warns of a new wave of violence in afghanistan — that could threaten

fragile peace talks. in thailand — thousands of protesters defy a ban on gatherings and clash with police armed with batons and water cannon. a teacher who showed his pupils cartoons of the prophet muhammad has been decapitated outside his school in france. he was attacked by a man at around five o'clock local time in a suberb north of paris. the french president, emanuel macron visited the scene tonight and called it an islamist terrorist attack. translation: our fellow citizen was attacked in a cowardly way. he was the victim of an islamic terrorist attack. tonight, i want to say to all the teachers of france that we are with them, that the entire nation

will be by their side today and tomorrow, to protect and defend them, to allow them to do theirjobs, to raise free citizens. well our correspondent lucy williamson is on the scene — and sent us this update. the horror of this attack is really at odds with this quiet, sleepy, small suburb. the victim was a teacher at the local middle school behind me. he was attacked this afternoon by a man with a large knife who decapitated him and then posted an image on social media, before being confronted and shot dead by police. police sources have confirmed to us tonight that they believe the attacker may have been an 18—year—old man and that the motive may have been a lesson given by the victim to pupils at his school here — reportedly a lesson on freedom of speech, and he showed them cartoons of the prophet muhammad, the same cartoons we think that were reprinted by the satirical magazine, charlie hebdo.

now, the police said they are searching the house of the presumed attacker, the suspect that they shot dead earlier today. president macron has been here at this site this evening, calling it an act of islamist terrorism. "somebody wanted to destroy the republic," he said, "they won't succeed, we will stick together." but, yet again, tonight, there was a part of france that was suddenly the focus of this presidential solidarity, this national outrage and this local greed. lucy williamson, bbc news, france. ——solidarity, this national outrage and this local greif. lucy williamson, bbc news, france. the british government has said that brexit trade talks are over and "there is no point" negotiations continuing unless there's a fundamental shift in the eu's position. the prime minister boris johnson says the uk should get ready for leaving without a deal on january first after an eu summit in brussels insisted it is the british who should be making concessions. here's our europe editor katya adler.

eu leaders had lots on their mind at this summit — the covid crisis first and foremost. but eyes and ears here were also very focused today on downing street. how would borisjohnson react to their demand that the uk must give way first if a trade deal is to be agreed? the answer — not positively. it is clear from the summit that, after 45 years of membership, they are not willing, unless there is some fundamental change of approach, to offer this country the same terms as canada. and so, with high hearts and with complete confidence, we will prepare to embrace the alternative and we will prosper mightily. downing street's clear message — trade talks are over unless the eu changes its tune. "no chance", retorted france's emmanuel macron. translation: we are always aware that it is the united kingdom that wanted to leave the european union,

that is leaving the european union and that needs an agreement even more than we do. after months and months of eu and uk negotiators shuttling backwards and forwards between london and brussels, both sides are fed up. the key sticking points still in talks — the rights of eu fishermen to fish in uk waters after brexit, competition regulations — known as the level playing field — and how disputes should be resolved if a trade deal is agreed. angela merkel said today the eu's chief negotiator would head to london on monday to launch intense last—ditch talks but this evening, the government said no. as things stand, there was no point. this flexing muscles and ultimatum giving by the uk and the eu is hardly surprising at this stage but is it the end of the road or political

posturing before difficult compromises are reached 7 concessions are going to be needed by the government and the eu if a deal is to be found and for those who really believe in this deal, tonight feels like a case of so near and yet so far. katya adler, bbc news, brussels. the election commission in myanmar has cancelled next month's poll in several townships due to what it called unfavourable conditions. it said free and fair elections could not be guaranteed there but did not elaborate further. many of the areas named are said to be home to ethnic minorities. the general election planned for november 8th is being seen as a test of myanmar‘s fledgeling democractic government led by aung san suu kyi. the united nations in afghanistan has warned that a new wave of violence between the afghans and the taliban risks reversing what had been a downward trend in civilian casualties. it said the situation is threatening the fragile peace talks that are under way in the gulf state of qatar. well, the us special

representative for afghanistan reconciliation, zalmay khalilzad, has tweeted about the peace process. he says... our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports from kabul. helicopter fire over helmand again. the afghan military pounding taliban targets. a week of all—out war after the taliban took more territory. another week of suffering for civilians. afghans escaping the violence, lives upended again, and it is notjust helmand. in eastern afghanistan, a classroom of empty spaces, of aching loss. two other boys, zaheer

and adnan, used to sit here. a few days ago a truck bomb killed them. translation: that day is still in my mind. it goes round and round in my thoughts. when the explosion happened, there was a massive cloud of smoke. even people farfrom here heard the explosion. it was a very big and loud. this was the target — a security base. 60 civilians killed or injured. the bomber struck at midday, as students headed home. in a province with both taliban and islamic state fighters, no one says they did it. we thought when the peace talks started, the war would end but look, i mean, even the talks are happening and the war continues right here. the violence in afghanistan now is an everyday kind of violence. afghans being killed as they leave their schools, as they go to work, when they are sitting at home. every afghan has a story

of loss, on every side of this war, which has dragged on for decades. this public hearing in kabul is one of the only spaces where they can share their stories and say their voices must be heard, including at the peace talks. we are not hopeful about the future in this case because if they end this war, maybe another war starts after the peace they bring because the wounds are still open. and the wounds are not healed. some day, little amina will tell her story, of her wounds. she was shot in the legs in may, just two hours old. her mother and others killed in the clinic after giving birth. an attack blamed on the islamic state group. bloodied blankets, a shocking symbol of this merciless war. but amina survived.

doctor bina saved her legs and her life. she's perfect, you know. i'm really happy. definitely she is the symbol of resilience for all of us, for afghanistan, for kabul, for everyone. including her father. translation: if i tell you about the pain i have suffered, no one in the world should suffer like this. my wife was murdered two hours after she gave birth but despite this, if there is peace, my child and my country will have a future. the hostilities in helmand have driven home how hard it will be to make peace. if the guns keep firing, even peace talks may not survive. lyse doucet, bbc news, kabul. the nigerian government has ordered that judicial panels of inquiry be set up to investigate allegations of abuse carried out by a notorious police unit,

popularly known as sars. the special anti—robbery squad has been accused of committing extrajudicial killings and torture. the unit was dissolved by the government last sunday but protests have continued. the bbc‘s mayeni jones sent this report from lagos. gunshots. cracking down on dissent. this social media footage filmed in lagos on monday reportedly shows live ammunition was used to disperse protesters against police brutality. this bystander had stepped out of his car when he was hit by a stray bullet. social media footage analysed by the bbc shows he was more than 250 metres away from the protest centers. the police said he was killed by demonstrators but eyewitnesses disagree. his wife is still in shock.

i can't even believe that my husband died like that. i never thought my husband would just disappear like this from me. he leave me for money. just needed money to go to work. isaid bye—bye, god be with you, god protect you and guide you. four days after he was killed the government of lagos announced the arrest of four officers involved in the shooting. young nigerians say the violent crackdown on police brutality protests including live round shows nothing has changed. it rained here earlier and thought we might end up in the protest it had to be the case. hundreds of people have showed up. there is a carnival

atmosphere but their aims are very serious. they are here to fight police brutality and they refuse to back down. activists have used social media to organise street demonstrations raising funds and recruit volunteers. we are just here to encourage the protesters, make sure that you don't go hungry, you don't go tired, you don't get wet. you have everything that you need and itsjust been amazing the support we've been seeing. we banded together together on a one unified factor of anybody can be killed. and now we are just sustaining as a unified youth to just ask for a better nigeria. the authorities have been slow to deliver. the central government is here to address some key demands. activists want compensation for the families of the victims and better funding for the police. they won't be easily appeased. this is bbc news — the headlines... a teacher who showed pupils cartoons of the prophet muhammad is decapitated north of paris — in an attack condemned by president macron.

a no—deal brexit looks to be on the cards — as the uk calls off further trade talks with the european union. federal prosecutors in the united states have formally charged a mexican former defence minister of drug trafficking and money laundering. general salvador cienfuegos was arrested at the airport in los angeles on thursday. he led the mexican army for six years during the presidency of enrique pena nieto. mexico's current president, andres manuel lopez obrador, said the arrest showed the extent of corruption in his predecessor's government. the bbc‘s will grant has more on the story. the first thing to jump out from the unsealed court documents against this general is the name.

prosecutors alleged that he was known as the godfather, which is an extraordinary allegation against the man who was at the time, lest we forget, the country's defence minister. now, the list of allegations i have here, the list of charges, involved first protecting the h2 cartel from nila terry operations, secondly, directing military operations against their rivals, also securing maritime transportation for drug shipments. now, those drug shipments involve methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine. involve methamphetamine, introducing cartel members to other bribe taking officials and the government and finally, warning the cartel of us investigations against them. taken as a whole, that is a very damning indictment of the man who was supposedly charged with leading the fight against the drug cartels. in terms of the political ramifications, i see two. one for the incumbent president, manwell, this will bolster his efforts to present himself as the man leading the charge against corruption in public life. secondly, of course, for his predecessor,

former president henrique. this is the second high—profile member of his government who has been arrested in recent months. previously, the former head of the state run energy company was arrested on alleged bribery charges and now this situation with the former defence minister. this comes at a time that they are trying to change the law on on impunity forformer presidents, all of which makes this extremely uncomfortable for former president andrey k. well along with mexico — the entire world has a stake in us foreign policy.

and therefore, the upcoming presidential election. americans will either re—elect president trump, a man who's shaken up the global system with his america first nationalism; or replace him with his democratic challenger, joe biden, the former vice president vowing to piece the international order back together again. so what exactly would change under a biden presidency? here's our state department correspondent barbara plett usher.

at the top of mr biden post what to do list is preparing strained relationship and re—engaging global alliances. he would also make fighting climate change a priority and rejoined the paris climate agreement which is one of the international accords that donald trump dumped. as is this. i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. this is another pull out that mr biden would reverse but only if iran resumed its compliance with the deal‘s nuclear agreements. he would end the saudi support in yemen. i think on the middle east there will be a sea change. a more per iran policy and a less pro—saudi policy. more per iran policy and a less pro-saudi policy. mike president trump, mr biden also wa nts to president trump, mr biden also wants to end the forever wars in afghanistan and iraq. although he would keep a small

troop presence in both the battle terrorism. what else would stay the same sort of? russian policies wouldn't actually change that much and china policy might change less than you would expect. on russia the relationship at the top would certainly look different. president trump often personally seemed ready to forgive vladimir putin for violating international norms but his administration published russia with sanctions and that would probably continue under a biden presidency. on china, mrtrump has traded his friendship with xijinping for has traded his friendship with xi jinping for accusations about spraying the coronavirus for harsh measures a new cold war rhetoric. mr biden also wa nts to war rhetoric. mr biden also wants to get tough on china especially with trade but he would be less confrontational and work more closely with allies to pressure beijing. joe biden says he wants to not only revive american leadership but

reinvented for the times yet the world has also changed over the world has also changed over the last four years, not only the last four years, not only the united states and his effo rts the united states and his efforts could reveal just the united states and his efforts could revealjust how much. barbara plett usher, bbc news, washington. let's keep the focus on the us. the us budget deficit has hit a record $3.1 trillion dollars in the fiscal year that's just concluded. this is more than twice as big as the previous record set during the financial crisis just over a decade ago. the increase in the gap between government income and spending was almost entirely due to the us coronavirus rescue package. polling stations have opened in new zealand, where voters are casting ballots in a general election and for two referendums. the labour prime minister, jacinda ardern, is hoping to win a second term in office. ms ardern has dubbed the vote "the covid election". new zealanders are also voting to decide whether or not to decriminalise the recreational use of cannabis, and if euthanasia should be allowed. protest organisers in the thai capital, bangkok, have told

thousands of demonstrators to go home and prepare for further action, after they turned out in defiance of a ban on gatherings of more than five people. water cannons were used to clear out the demonstrators calling for democratic reform. jonathan head has been following the unrest on the streets of bangkok. here we are on day two on this official ban on public gatherings. mobile phone lights, the beacons of modern day protest, are still shining. today, the police came in force to the location where we saw protesters occupy a big intersection yesterday and lock it off. and here we are, 800 metres down the road, and the protesters have quite simply moved here. this movement is still going, defying every attempt by the government to shut it down, and in many ways, these young activists have borrowed tactics, as they have in so much

of what they have done, from the people in hong kong, the protesters there. "be water" was their motto, move quickly, like a game of whack—a—mole, where the authorities go to stamp the protests out, of the young activists will move and have a flash mob show up in another part of the city. so the question now is, how long can these people keep up these daily, spontaneous protests, while the top leaders of the movement are in jail and facing heavy charges? but for the government too, how much longer can they try to suppress the views that are being expressed here, these astonishing views about the monarchy, critical views of the government, through the deployment of huge numbers of riot police and through the use of draconian laws? it is not at all clear that the government's tactics are working. by early evening, the police had had enough and want to break it all up. this time, they had greater

numbers and water cannon laced with chemicals. even with umbrellas and raincoats, it was too much for people who, in many cases, werejust commuters sharing what has become a national mood of rebellion. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. walk if you can — that's what we're being told during this pandemic. now one man has come up with an idea to make it easier for you to enjoy it — he has created a slow map — a vast map of 7000 paths linking towns and cities across britain. now he's looking for thousands of volunteers to test out his routes. as david sillito reports. we're in ledbury and sue and nina have, like millions of us, taken the government's advice to walk if you can. but while this is an area thick with footpaths...

..the suggested route on our phone to get to the next village was far from pleasant or safe. horns blaring i'm really starting to regret my route here. i don't think it's really working. i think we need to find... ..a better way to wellington heath and someone has been working on that. what is it? slow ways is a project to create a network of walking routes that connect all the great britain's towns, cities and thousands of villages. this is daniel raven—ellison, geographer, walker and the man behind the slow map of britain, an attempt to show the best, direct, safe, pleasant walking route between our towns and villages. during lockdown about 700 people came together on the project and created 7000 routes that stretch for 100,000 kilometres, which is the equivalent of 2.5 laps of the equator. so this is the theory that your

volunteers have come up with, now it's got to be tested, i'm yeah, some of these routes just may not work in practice on the ground, so we need to find 10,000 people to help us walk io0,000 kilometres of slow ways routes. which takes us back to sue and nina and plan b. i took out dan's map and suggested the new slow route, which took away from the cars through a hereford cider orchard. better than my first one? yes, it's really nice, isn't it? a huge improvement, i mean this is what walking's all about for me, being out in an apple orchard, birdsong. what more do you want? so, routei is a winner, just another 99,998 kilometres to go. david sillitoe, bbc news, ledbury. i think we need to volunteer. lovely story there. you can reach me on twitter —

i'm @bbckasiamadera thanks for watching, bye—bye. hello there, the weather is set to change in a big way next week. but before then essentially we've got more of the same and probably skies looking a bit like this across many parts of the country. there will be a lot of cloud around this weekend. for many places, it may be dry, but for all of us, it's going to be on the cool side. we've still got this nose of high pressure sitting across the uk. keeping this area of low pressure away, but threatening with some showers in the far south—west. also got cooler air coming down from the north, bringing all this cloud into scotland, into northern england and into northern ireland and there maybe a bit of drizzle in that quite low cloud as well, so quite grey and gloomy. further south, still fairly cloudy out there but there may be a little sunshine at times, the odd shower more

especially towards the far south west of england. for many of us, temperatures like they were on friday, 12—13 degrees. that cloud still around into the evening and the cloudier skies continue to move across the northern half of the uk overnight. and again, a few pockets of light rain or drizzle further south. some breaks in the cloud perhaps. the cloud certainly thinner here, so temperatures could be a bit lower than those sort of numbers suggest. but for many, we're looking at sixes and sevens on saturday night into sunday morning and a lot of cloud again on sunday. and again, we've got a few pockets of light rain or drizzle here and there. the showers should be moving away from the south west over more southern parts of england and wales. there will be a better chance of seeing some sunshine, giving the temperatures a bit of a boost, 14 or 15 degrees, contrast that with the eight or nine that we're struggling up to the north—east of scotland and perhaps the north—east of england. high pressure over the weekend, doesn't last into next week. instead, we've got areas of low pressure coming in steadily from the atlantic,

and that means the weather is changing. so, we've got some rain on the way on monday. at the moment, it looks like it's mainly going to be across northern ireland and into scotland, some heavier rain over the hills. england and wales with a little bit of sunshine at times. there will be a stronger wind from the south at this time. and that means temperatures are going to be higher, perhaps as high as 15 or 16 in the south—east of the uk. next week, though, looks very different from what we've seen just recently. it will be a bit milder but the winds will be strengthening with showers or longer spells of rain.

this is bbc news — the headlines...

president macron of france has paid tribute to a teacher beheaded by a knifeman in a suburb of paris, saying he was killed for advocating freedom of expression. he called him a victim of an islamist terror attack and declared that obscurantism and violence would not win. britain's prime minister borisjohnson has said the country should prepare for ending the brexit transition period without a trade deal at the end of this year. he said this could only be avoided if the european union fundamentally changed its negotiating position. officials in afghanistan say us forces have carried out more air strikes on taliban positions in the southern province of helmand, where heavy fighting has been raging for several days. the taliban launched a major assault on lashkar gah but afghan forces have managed to recapture some territory.