this is bbc news. the headlines. greater manchester is placed under tier three covid restrictions — and that's without a deal with local leaders over a financial support package borisjohnson said he couldn't wait any longer. not to act would put manchester's nhs, and the this is bbc news. lives of many of manchester's ifjoe biden has a very good night residents, at risk. on november the third, pubs, bars, bookmakers and soft play the jewel in his new crown would be georgia. areas will all close for 28 days — the southern state is local leaders say it's changing, becoming less republican the poorest who will suffer and more democratic. most. is this a government committed once a bastion of the old south, to levelling up this country? the state is younger, that is what they told more diverse and more urban. people in this city, the people who drive those taxis, the peach state who work in the pubs. is turning purple. many of them who may have voted for them. manchester is placed under they said to them the highest level of covid they would level up. what we've seen today is restrictions despite pushbacks from local leaders. a deliberate act of levelling down. business owners there say the young people volunteering to be

they may not survive. given the covid virus — part of the research also in the that programme.... could speed up a scientists in the uk will deliberately infect vaccine. volunteers with covid 19, the nasa spacecraft landing as they seek to better understand on an asteroid two hundred the virus and how future million miles away — it could give us a clue to how vaccines might fight it. life on earth began. and coming up, the care home residents taking to tiktok to help pass the time during lockdown. the health secretary matt hancock has said the ‘government‘s door is still open‘ to negotiations — after it announced the imposition of the toughest tier of coronavirus restrictions on greater manchester. mr hancock was addressing mps in the commons on why ministers decided that after ten days of tough

and sometimes acrimonious — negotiations the region needed to lockdown even further — without the explicit agreement of local leaders. in the end the argument was about the amount of money the government was willing to offer in additional financial support. speaking at tea—time, borisjohnsion said to wait any longer would put lives at risk. but the mayor of greater manchester accused the government of grinding down communities, saying the government's financial support package would increase poverty and homelessness. so greater manchester moves into the highest alert level on friday — that means pubs and bars that do not serve substantial meals will have to close. greater restrictions will also be placed on household mixing across the region. the city will receive 22 million pounds which includes supporting test and trace — but the government and local leaders — are understood to be continuing discussions over an additional economic support package. our deputy political editor, vicki young, has been following events as they unfolded today. for more than a week the politicians

have argued and for businesses that has meant uncertainty and anxiety. today the his wordst fears became reality for chris as his pub in wigan has got to close. we saw it coming, it is bad news for the business and we will struggle but good news to finally know ok, now we can start planning, making plans for the start and business and start figuring out what to do. we've been waiting in limbo for ten days, feels like a month. leaders have been asking for money in money to help workers whose income is wilful due to the closures they had until midday today to accept a final offer from government but there was no agreement and ministers in london said they would impose tougher restrictions. we met a generous and extensive offer to support manchester businesses and this offer was proportionate to the support we have given merseyside and

lancashire. the mayor did not accept this unfortunately and given the public health situation, i must now proceed with moving greater manchester as i say to the very high alert level. and here is the mayor andy burnham find out from a colleague important details about the new measures. at one minute past midnight on friday. he said the plans would increase poverty and hardship. at no point today will be offered enough to protect the poorest people in our communities through the punishing reality of the winter to come. his team calculated that £90 million was needed until the end of march, eventually he said he would accept 65 million. the government offered 60. this is a game of poker, their pain poker with peoples lives through a pandemic? the people who drive those taxis, work in the pubs, many of them may have voted for them. they said to them they would level

up but we have seen today a deliberate act of levelling down. so what help is that for areas in the very high alert level tier 3? the government offers financial support amounting to £8 per head of the local population. for greater manchester that would mean £22 million. this is just to fund contact tracing, enforcement and helping the clinically vulnerable. unlike lancashire and liverpool city region they could not reach a deal over an extra economic passage to help businesses. are wyou withdrawing the extra generous offer it now and what to say to the mayor of greater manchester who accused you of grinding down communities through these negotiations? i bitterly regret any restrictions that lead to damage to businesses and lives, of course i do. the funds are there, their massive. and what we

could not do, i hope people understand, was do a deal with greater manchester that would have been out of kilter with the agreements we had already reached with merseyside and with lancashire. the talks today have ended in failure, other areas including teesside and south yorkshire are locked in their own battle with the government over money. it is an urgent situation but progress is slow. this evening — the health secretary has been updating the house on the situation in greater manchester — he is insisting that businesses have been offered a generous package and says he hopes a deal with local leaders will still come. we've made a generous and extensive offer to support manchester's businesses. this offer was proportionate to the support that was given liverpool city region and lancashire. but regrettably the mayor rejected it. of course we do not want businesses in greater manchester to be a

disadvantage. so that offer remains on the table. our door is open to further discussions with local leaders in the coming days about business support. there's been an immediate and angry response from labour — sir keir starmer says the collapse of these talks is a sign of government failure, and accused ministers of treating local leaders with contempt. the shadow health secretary, jon ashworth, accused the government of trying to defeat the virus on the cheap. what a petty, vindictive, callous response in a national crisis, mr speaker. the prime minister may think he's punishing the politicians. in fact he's punishing the people of greater manchester. and this is the prime minister who has a blown hundred and 50 million on facemasks that we ren't suitable for nhs staff. he blown hundred and 30 million on testing kits that turned out to be unsafe and had to be recalled.

and he's spending £7,000 a day on consultants as part of his failing 12 billion test in trace program. now what we've been hearing since mr hancock stood up in the commons is that labour are going to try to force a vote on the compensation for communties hit by tough local lockdowns. 0ur political correspondent jessica parkerjoins us now. labour using what's known as an opposition date debate tomorrow to have a debate on the financial support package for tier 3 areas and try to force a vote on that issue as well for them what they are saying is the workers whose businesses are forced to close they literally cannot go to work by law should be getting 80% of their wages as was the case at the beginning of the furloughs game. the new scheme that they chancellor has put forward for they chancellor has put forward for the coming months instead would pay two thirds of peoples wages where businesses are forced to close without one of the central arguments play out over recent days is people like andy bonham the labour leader greater manchester, the mayor there is saying that two thirds of peoples

wages isn't enough. the prime minister said actually if you type that up with a universal credit payment it will reach around the 80% level. although universal credit claims can be a somewhat variable. it will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow to see where any conservatives are unhappy with what's been going on and decide to with labor. but will have to see how that pans out tomorrow. meanwhile in the comments, matt hong lynette hancock has been explaining what's going to happen in greater manchester confirming that the fire from the government of £60 million for greater manchester for a business support is still on the table. we wait to hear from andy bonham and other local leaders to see whether they want to continue discussions on that basis. there are conservative mps from the greater manchester area who are not particularly happy about new restrictions. also the chair of the 1922 backbench committee, and influent shoulder can many let's have a listen

to him now. the lockdowns themselves cost lives as well as livelihoods. that they have a terrible toll on the mental health particularly of the young. does it except that it's better to do these things if they must be done by consent? and in that regard will you confirm that these measures will be brought to this house for approval and that in any case they will end with the sunset after 28 days. just expressing some discomfort about a further measure and the impact they have for .net hancock responded saying measures are better brought in by consent that the government store remains open for more consult. it will be kept under constant review. figures suggest bolton has the fastest rising number of coronavirus cases in greater manchester. it has been under some of the toughest covid retsrictions — and now it goes into tier 3.

0ur north of england correspondent, danny savage is in bolton and has been talking to people there. bolton has been under some sort of coronavirus restrictions for months without infection rate is still high. testing stations are busy. there were 1300 confirmed cases last week. people here think something more is needed. people have become blase and so now what you've got is, they are saying oh it won't affect me. well, they had the fear factor people stuck with it. some people are just carrying on as normal. and the rest of us are trying our best to abide by the rules. and that's not helping anybody. tier 3 restrictions will not turn places like bolton into ghost towns. many businesses will remain open, schools will continue to operate. and advise to make fewer journeys will continue to operate. and advise to make fewerjourneys is just that the advice of the law. as a result

many people we spoke into don't believe the tier 3 restrictions will have the desired effect here. do you think people will follow the rules this time? i don't think people will follow the rules as strictly as he did in march and april. the thought of christmas being cancelled, if it's going to be that you can i think people will break the rules to see family. the full lockdown thinking that it would wear off and nothings changed. now it seems like it's getting worse. vicki is self—employed for the top she supported andy burnham his efforts to get the best deal but can't see how many people will now make ends meet. my bills are not stopping paid, are they? if we lived on 80% that we would work 80% but we can't. it's going lower now. so that's another worry, is in a quiz not being able to afford everything. nothings get a change, the economy still rolls still got things to bear. it'sjust a still rolls still got things to bear. it's just a worry. still rolls still got things to bear. it'sjust a worry. it's taken a long time to get to the point of

restrictions being imposed. there is a wariness. you don't feel that the measure so a wariness. you don't feel that the measure so far this year have worked it all? obviously not, no. we are not any closer to an end result will he not result seems to be getting further and further away from an end result at the moment. once more into tougher restrictions goes greater manchester. to the reef of psalm and the annoyance of others. let's get more on this now withjonathan reynolds — no relation — who's labour shadow secretary of state for work and pensions and an mp in greater manchester. do you support the step to move greater manchester to tier 3? yes the case for more restrictions in greater manchester is widely agreed. i don't think it was inevitable but frankly, we've had what amounted to the tier 2 restrictions for over two months in the situation is still very worrying. what this row is about is about the level of economic support that should go with that. the fact that we are in a position tonight where we have been told

we're going into tier 3 but i can't tell my constituents what the support package will be because of that, it's frankly unbelievable. it's frustrating, it's worrying, the level of anger and greater manchester is absolutely palatable. to hear the difference between the government and our leaders and greater manchester it was £5 million. i'm not flippant about what 5 million pounders but in the context of spending £210 billion on the pandemic so far, it's unbelievable that we're in this position. and people are not happy. it's just not a satisfactory position to be in by any measure. the government says its offer of £60 million and still on the table. and he says the reason it can't go about thatis he says the reason it can't go about that is because it needs to offer the same proportionately as it did with lancashire and merseyside. isn't that a very sensible principal? no, it's not. i don't accept the governments case. first of all i think the attempt to negotiate with the country city by city, area by air is frankly so the

government can try and do the next phase of the pandemic more cheaply than the first phase. the reason we got to the position let's be clear because testing trace hasn't worked in the government have made the right decisions timely. in the government have made the right decisions timelylj in the government have made the right decisions timely. i don't accept that. the alternative though is that every region from now on for the next few weeks simply fights to get a better and better deal. and the first regions the one saint why didn't we get such a deal and then you have the national situation which is worse financially and in terms of unity the country than it is right now. absolutely. that is what the government have started to do. wouldn't a more sensible system bea do. wouldn't a more sensible system be a very clear set of criteria to what tier 3 means in terms of business closure? and then a clear naturally a great support package for what it will mean for those areas that you could then work out the density of businesses in those areas and make that calculation accordingly. they've tried to do this city by city, place by place to pick people often do it more cheaply. not to pick people off. they said no we don't like that

idea. they've come down and they haven't gone out. the difference is 5 million for top that is not as active factory position to walk away from him on tuesday night when you're putting in an enormous city into this restriction a minute past midnight on friday for top it's not an acceptable position to be in. we we re an acceptable position to be in. we were told by meeting earlier than the statement in parliament that the 60 million had gone entirely for now we understand they want individual cancels to have that relation ship with government. they give us a mayor to negotiate one area. it makes perfect sense... to reiterate tonight. the government is said but the prime minister and the secretary said that £60 million remains on the table. well, i hope to change their position and they're not walking away from negotiations. i do not agree with the attempt to try and split off different bits of greater manchester from each other. split off different bits of greater manchesterfrom each other. people are completely united behind the sta nce are completely united behind the stance that andy burnham has taken. cancel that council leaders are united. generally the best local

leaders in the greater manchester. these are serious people, they know what's at stake, they know what it will mean for people if we go into the status. a word if we can get a connection with him later. your leader keir starmer his call for a national circuit breaker lockdown. when not be rather pointless in areas with lower infection rates? no, it wouldn't. it would be a far better place. let me say first of all, we entered the national lockdown in greater manchester when our infection rates were around 20 and hundred thousand for that we understand what it means to take the burden of a national position. when not in any way unfamiliar with that. the whole point of how we are to deal with the surge required in hospital capacity is to move people from other parts of the country to areas like greater manchester that might need it. that's how the whole premise of the nightingale premises set up. the second thing i'd say is my constituency and greater

manchester sir on the eastern side of britain it's the edge with derbyshire. you step across the border and you're in the east midlands. the geography of england doesn't neatly split up into com pletely doesn't neatly split up into completely unconnected regions. you've got to understand that when you taken this approach. and the national approach with proper economics support would be the better... economics support would be the better... if you want to edit these astons, you must take control of this page asim and shabana razzaq run kidsaurus play centre in stockport — which reopened its doorsjust three weeks ago. thank you forjoining us. you just reopened. you're now going to have to shut down again. it's absolutely devastating hearing this on the news today. honestly, it's broken my heart. i have no words. ijust don't know what to say. every where else i believe some places, some play centres a re believe some places, some play centres are

still open. u nfortu nately centres are still open. unfortunately there saint manchester we re unfortunately there saint manchester were going to have to close. do you understand the logic for closing down soft play area in tier 3 restrictions as the virus increases? no, not really. i think soft play centres a re no, not really. i think soft play centres are quite safe. we are fogging every 90 minutes, sanitising every single thing in the play center. i believe we are quite safe. safer than a lot of places out there that are still out in the open. like trampoline places and gems. we've been categorised as the same place asa been categorised as the same place as a casino. and adult entertainment, yeah. how many kids come in every day to use the centre? we got a capacity of 91 at moment we've put it down to about 13 kids. and one session. which is a lot less

than you had before. oh yeah, definitely. we are working on 40% at the moment since we both spent six months of being close. what was that like, being close? oh, it was the ha rd est like, being close? oh, it was the hardest time in our life. wejust didn't know the future. didn't know if we'd be able to open up again. because the rules are changing every so often. and we were just so confused. we work to make our play centre covid secure. i think we've done an amazing job,. i'm looking behind you the line is a bit fuzzy but there's some really fun areas behind you. must be a great gathering spot. 0k, behind you. must be a great gathering spot. ok, i imagine it's way too late for kids to be playing. i got way too late for kids to be playing. igota way too late for kids to be playing. i got a really good view. before covid we had the largest ball

pit with 50 to 70,000 balls. 0bviously, with 50 to 70,000 balls. 0bviously, with covid we had to replace that. 0ur flooring with covid we had to replace that. 0urflooring which kids with covid we had to replace that. 0ur flooring which kids are absolutely loving. i imagine it must be an incredible gathering spot. what will families do when you're close to ? what will families do when you're close to? customers were in tears, basically. yes, i've had so many m essa 9 es basically. yes, i've had so many messages since the news has been out there. that it's so sad. the children was so happy once we were able to open. because were in the heart of the center. it was so easy for lots of people come to our play centre it's really affected children's mental health. and i really don't understand how they can say soft play centres are not safe and we have to close. ijust don't understand that. what is going to be like on thursday afternoon when you do have to up? very hard, very hard especially when we don't know details. we don't even know the financial support for us. is there any or not?

ijust simply don't know how will survive. it's devastating for us. it's easy when they announce it on the news that we have to shut but what kind of support and we can get from the government? are you able to access the furlough scheme for firms able to access the furlough scheme forfirms which able to access the furlough scheme for firms which have able to access the furlough scheme forfirms which have been able to access the furlough scheme for firms which have been ordered legally to close. there is the furlough scheme which has been the subject of argument put up are you able to access that, due to how to get that? no idea, to be honest. i'll find out. at the moment all the information is not quite clear yet. are you going to find a way outside the soft play centre of at least waving to the kids in the street? you must know most of them by now. yes, definitely. we walked to the town centre children approach is all that's the lady. that's the gentleman from cancerous. we like one big family. they've accepted us

——jim soros. one big family. they've accepted us —— jim soros. closing one big family. they've accepted us ——jim soros. closing will be really, really heartbreaking. would love to speak to you again. thank you forjoining us. the latest government figures show, there were 21,331 new coronavirus infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period. the average number of new cases reported per day in the last week, is now 18, 235. 877 people have been admitted to hospital on average each day over the week to last friday. 241 deaths were reported that's people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. that means on average in the past week 136 deaths were announced every day. it takes the total number of deaths so far across the uk to 43,967. 0ur health editor hugh pym explained the significance of the figures. that national figure for daily reported deaths will come as a pretty big surprise to many

people up from 80 the previous day and it was stressed at the media conference that the tuesday you often got a bit of a jump in the figures because of delays reporting deaths from the weekend. but even so professorjonathan bunton at the briefing, the deputy chief medical officer, made clear he expected the death number to rise from there in the days and weeks to come. there was a lot of focus on the north—west of england. charts were shown demonstrating the number of patients in hospital with covid has been rising, the number of new admissions rising and is the highest in england. but an interesting story with the number of new cases in the north—west, let's take a look at a chart which was shown and these are different age groups. you can see the younger age groups there, the green and blue lines at the top, the number of new cases per 100,000 in the north—west falling partly because of high numbers of tests before and rather less so now but it carries on rising in the older age

groups but it appears to be flattening a little bit after quite steep increases. and of course cases are people newly diagnosed, all the hospital and death figures relate back to cases which would have merged to as weeks ago so the planning may point to something a tiny bit more encouraging in the north—west. the uk is set to become the first country in the world to conduct so—called "human challenge trials" — that's where volunteers are deliberately infected with the coronavirus. the aim is to speed up the race to get a covid—19 vaccine. healthy volunteers will be monitored for side effects for up to a year. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh reports. estefania wants to be deliberately infected with coronavirus. good girl! ..all in the name of science. she's part of 1day sooner, a group which is campaigning for so—called challenge trials. for a young, healthy person, the probabilities of me dying or anything is very, very low.

so when i think about what society gains by getting a vaccine sooner, i'm not that worried about the risks. thousands of people, like edward, are part of covid vaccine trials but it could be months before we know whether the jab protects them against coronavirus. in a challenge trial, volunteers are immunised and then infected with the virus, so it's clear straightaway if the vaccine works. scientists need to know how much coronavirus is required to ensure that the volunteers get infected. so the first people on the trials won't get a vaccine, they'll simply get a predetermined dose of coronavirus. now, amazingly, there are thousands of people ready to sign up for this sort of thing. so, up to two weeks they'll spend in here, so they'll be closely monitored. those taking part will need to be aged between 18—30 and are likely to receive around £11000.

but what about the potential dangers of getting covid—19? so we're only going to be innoculating people who have the very lowest potential risk for a severe outcome. the trial has been designed that they will have very minimal disease, potentially not even any symptoms. gary is a challenge trial veteran. he's had malaria as part of one study and this is him drinking a solution laced with typhoid bacteria. the experimental typhoid vaccine he was trailing worked and is now saving lives. really, the confirmation that you really were part of something which really made a huge difference to lives around the world, you know, we're talking thousands of people that can now benefit from a typhoid vaccine, yeah, that was pretty fantastic. the world owes a debt of gratitude to all the medical volunteers but especially those

ready to get a disease. challenge studies don't replace conventional trials but they might just speed up the process of finding out which coronavirus vaccines work best. fergus walsh, bbc news. later this evening, an american spacecraft will touchdown on an asteroid the size of the empire state building, some 200 million miles from earth. the audacious nasa—led expedition aims to collect dust and grit from the surface. researchers believe the rocks could offer clues to the origins of the solar system and even life on earth. here's our science correspondent, victoria gill. and lift off of 0siris—rex. its seven year mission to boldly go to the asteroid bennu and back. the beginning of a 1.25 billion milejourney. and today, four years after it launched, nasa's 0siris—rex probe will make a flyby grasp for samples

of rock from the surface of an asteroid called bennu. this is a bold mission. the probe will lower itself onto the 500 metre wide asteroid for just a few seconds, enough time for its sampling arm to vacuum up some precious dust and grit. it sounds like extraordinary lengths to go to to grab rocks from an asteroid and then get them back to earth. so why go to all this trouble? asteroids like bennu formed in the very earliest times far can far can of the solar system. and they are basically the building blocks of the planet. so basically this time capsule that will tell us about what was going on in the early solar system and how i solar system, how the sun and the planets formed and evolved. the eagle has landed! it's half a century since the apollo astronauts brought kilos of moon rock back home. and if this sampling mission works, it will give scientists the biggest cache of space rock since those famous lunar excursions. but researchers will have to wait before they can drill into the secrets of this 11.5 billion—year—old asteroid.

0siris—rex is due to return to earth with samples in september 2023. victoria gill, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav. hello there. we've had a couple of days of wet weather across parts of scotland and northern ireland, we got a new area of low pressure moving up from the south and that's going to impact parts of england and wales on wednesday with some pretty heavy rain in places, and also some fairly windy weather for some of us. the area of low pressure has brought another wet day for parts of northern ireland, southern and western scotland. that's going to push northwards and become confined to the north of scotland, also going to be very windy as we head through tonight. further south a lot of cloud, further showers ahead of this area of rain which will slowly spread up from the south during the early hours and turned very wet by the end of the night here. very mild too as you can see for most places. so wednesday looks thoroughly soggy and wet for a good portion of england and wales

through the day. some heavy bursts of rain mixed in to the system. a spell of strong winds affecting the far southeast for a time. it will be another fairly mild day, but not quite as mild as what we have had through tuesday. for thursday, a ridge of high pressure starts to move in so it turns little bit quieter before more low—pressure pushes into the west on friday. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. greater manchester is placed under tier three covid restrictions — and that's without a deal with local leaders over a financial support package — borisjohnson said he couldn't wait any longer pubs, bars, bookmakers and soft play areas will all close for 28 days — local leaders say it's the poorest who will suffer most. the young people volunteering to be given the covid virus — part of the research that could speed up a vaccine. the nasa spacecraft heading for an asteroid £200 million miles away — it could give us a clue to how life on earth began.

sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's the good evening. details have emerged over a breakaway competition — the european premier league — which would feature 18 of europe's biggest clubs. liverpool and manchester united are two of five english teams who have been approached along with the likes of real madrid and barcelona, along with clubs in france and germany it would replace the champions league currently run by uefa. fifa are said to be involved and backing the proposals. here's the bbc‘s football reporter simon stone this is... this is fee for‘s kind of alternative to the champions league. the champions league is the driver of uefa. their major club tournament. this is the fee for all tournament. this is the fee for all tournament and would be a major money spinner. the issue is where do

you get the games to fit in? because with the fifa competition does a lot of match nights. is a lot of throwing to be done in terms of the calendar which is the issue for uefa because they're not in charge of that. this is the power battle between fifa and uefa and clearly because the talks are taking place there's a lot of reasons why europe's major clubs will want to listen to with the financiers are wanting to say and what fifa are wanting to say and what fifa are wanting to say because clearly they can use that as leverage when it comes to dealing with uefa and also the premier league in discussions about the way that football will look from 2022 onwards. manchester united and chelsea are in champions league action this evening, and both have tough games to start their respective groups.

0le gunnar solskjaer‘s team are missing a number of their key players in france against paris saint germain. chelsea are at home to europa league champions sevilla currently goalless. while former chelsea player alvaro morata picked up a double forjuventus in their win at dynamo kiev in one of the early games for all the latest head to the bbc sport website. holders bayern munich will be without serge gnabry for their opening match against atletico madrid tomorrow after he tested positive for covid—19. it came after he trained with his team mates earlier this afternoon with the german club releasing a statement saying the 25—year—old is in good health and is now self—isolating at home. there's one match in the scottish premiership as well where aberdeen have raced ahead against bottom side hamilton at pittodrie. you can keep up to date with that and all seven matches in the english championship tonight on the bbc sport

website. after ten years with the british cycling team ineos grenadiers, and before that team sky, chris froome began his final grand tour before he leaves the team, stage one of the vuelta a espana. nick parrott was watching. before the last grand tour of the year got under way, chris said he did not have any big expectations. it was just great to be on the start line. given he has come back from crash injuries that could have ended his career, it's not surprising he is grateful. having twice won this race and twice been runner—up, he had every reason to say he was quietly optimistic. but that hope began to evaporate 11 miles from the finish. while he was looking back, his team—mates kept on the attack. he said it would be great for me to find out exactly where i am out. u nfortu nately find out exactly where i am out. unfortunately this is surely not where he wants to be. his

team leaderfinished where he wants to be. his team leader finished second where he wants to be. his team leaderfinished second behind where he wants to be. his team leader finished second behind the tour de france runner—up. chris trailed dead within minutes behind. many had hoped the bridge and could leave this on the high but after just the first day it looks like the tour of just the first day it looks like the tourof spain just the first day it looks like the tour of spain mayjust end up being a lap of honour. hopefully things improve for him. that's all the sport for now. the arguments about which restrictions to impose around the country continue but, once agreed, are people actually adherering to them? according to a new opinion poll a quarter of those surveyed said they were not following the rules. our home editor mark easton has been speaking to people around the uk in an online focus group. winter is coming, the clocks are about to go back, the covid graphs are all heading in the wrong direction. britain's mood is said to be disappointed, frustrated, but most of all worried. with the help of analysts at britain thinks, we have assembled a focus group from across the uk. how do people feel about the months ahead? things are quite bleak

coming up to christmas with the dark evenings coming in, there isn't much light at the end of the tunnel. i'm a bit anxious, a bit sad that it's come to this. worried about not being able to see my mother who lives on her own over christmas. ijust go with it, you know? you can only go with it, you can't change anything, so you just make the best of what you've got. i think christmas will be a write—off and i thinkjanuary and february next year will be a write—off as well. new polling published today found 73% of people say they have complied with the coronavirus rules all or nearly all of the time. a significant increase in compliance since last month. among the one in four people who admitted breaching the restrictions, 19% said they had seen friends and family knowing they were not supposed to. the only away i think everyone would listen as if there was one rule for all. everyone thinks if other areas haven't got the same restrictions, they think is unfair and just ignore it completely.

i think we should just have a national kind of lockdown, whether it is for a couple of weeks or a month. do you think in belfast, maureen, that there should be a national lockdown at this point? i think so, because we're getting mixed messages. you get yourself in a muddle where you don't know what restrictions have we and what restrictions have they? it needs to be all one voice. michael in peterborough, what do you think of going into a national lockdown again? well, i don't think we should have a national lockdown. itjust doesn't make sense to close people's business. the government people, the politicians, it doesn't affect them, it only affects people like us. recent polling by britain thinks found 73% of people agree it is one rule for them and another for us when it comes to the pandemic, withjust12% saying uk politicians understand people like them. what are your feelings about the disagreements we have

seen among politicians? it's unreasonable to expect, for example, the opposition to go along with decisions when they seem to be totally chaotic. how much longer are they going to keep us apart from our family and friends? human nature i think is going to go against the rules. just to try and get it under control, we do need to kind of work together with the government and do what they say. finally, a quick show of hands. if you are broadly optimistic about the next few months, raise your hand now. just two of our ten were upbeat. if you are broadly pessimistic about the next few months, raise your hand now. the other eight generally gloomy. pessimism has it, i'm afraid. thank you all very much indeed and good luck. that report was from our home editor mark easton. dr kerry rees is a senior lecturer in social psychology at university of gloucestershire — hejoins me now. do people break rules because they

are do people break rules because they a re weary do people break rules because they are weary or because they simply don't believe them? i think as the piece shows there a number of different motivations that people use ina different motivations that people use in a decision where to adhere to rules or to make the rules. first is to perceive them as strict rules or rules that they can bend. and that decision is based a of different motivations, one might be the type of messaging and so the more ambiguity the more people might feel like they're engaging with those rules whereas clear messages produce more adherence to the message because of the sanctions that are also applied to them. but the sense of collectivity in those rules as well. so for example our people orientated towards thinking about the collective or thinking about themselves? looking back to march and april what did you learn about

social behaviour in britain?|j and april what did you learn about social behaviour in britain? i think for me what i learned was people are resilient. in the large part people are motivated to think about their own welfare and on a proactive way of protecting their own welfare but also the welfare of the people around them including their community. in the first lockdown we all remember clapping once a week, there seems to be a reasonable spirit of togetherness around the country. how do you see things as we go into different regional lockdowns in this second wave? as i said to come in the problem lies in the messaging. i think many people would agree that we need to do something more stringent. but people don't agree what that is. and this is further confused by the ambiguity created by 0ctel regulations. so for example in wales we have essentially a lockdown starting off here and

it's a clear and consistent message with her in other parts of the country is less consistency. in some countries there is intense social shame if you break a rule such as south korea, if you go out of the house without a mask it will shout at you. is there any equivalent to the uk? i think that the more collective the country is historically, then the more social shamed is attached to any kind of breaking of any kind of rules. in this country i think it depends on the area of the country you are generally living in. some areas are perceived as more collective than others so that might plan to the decision whether people whisk to violate the rules and people are less concerned about shame and more individualistic countries printed by

spacing is a more individualist country and i think people are less concerned with social shame. they may be also influenced by age. historically, for example, people who were younger in the 40s and 50s had a country that was more conformist and more sensitive to the consequences of social shaming.“ there were a fixed and appointed his pandemic and do the exact date when it would all end, perhaps it would be easier if we can work towards that point, i think a lot of people find this hard because we just don't know when the end point is going to be. indeed. generally people tend to prefer a certainty, definite outcome and they tend to not do well in conditions of uncertainty. again i'm forced back to the messaging. with messaging especially very complex situations people tend to become polarised towards one or the other and as you have seen in the poll

with records of people are hearing one direction and a consistent quarter are veering in another direction. and i think for the both of those groups they are striving for a certain kind of certainty. 0ne way is that people adhere to the rules and for other people because they're so much uncertainty it will use that as a kind of way to legitimise. additionally certainty is what people tend to strive for. thank you. throughout this second wave of the pandemic ministers have been keen to ensure that — unlike the spring lockdown — school children do not miss out on time in the classroom. almost half of secondary schools in england sent home one or more pupils because of covid incidents last week. the latest national figures show that overall attendance in primary and secondary schools was just slightly down to 89%. 0n merseyside, the first area in england to be put into the highest coronavirus tier, liverpool city council said attendance across all its schools had fallen to 77% by yesterday.

0ur education correspondent, elaine dunkley, reports. this is chesterfield high in crosby. head teacher kevin sexton is faced with the daily pressure of educating children who are absent from school. 0k, we are going to go into year ten now to see some of the kids that have come back from being isolated, just to see if they are ok. bonjour! this week he has had to send him 400 children to self—isolate. almost a third of pupils at the school. we've got some of our year 11s on the second round of two weeks now, they've missed... they're going to miss four weeks out of seven. i've got a member of the english team who has only seen his class for five hours out of 28 in the last seven weeks. we have had students and staff in the last six saturday mornings doing catch up work. crosby is in a tier 3 area, which means it is under the toughest restrictions because of the high number of coronavirus cases. the worry here is that there is an unfairness, an inequality. children here are missing out

on more classroom time compared to those in other parts of the country, which leaves them at a disadvantage when it comes to exams. macey is in year 12 and is worried about the constant disruption. we'd come back for five days and then got sent home for two weeks. what's been the hardest thing for you? it's just like impacted the whole of learning, because we can't really settle in and get used to school because you don't know if you're going to get sent back home. once you've completed those, please do anything you can online... mr byrne is in his first year of teaching. lessons delivered to an empty classroom. this is very different, obviously, to the training that we got. this is if you like, everyone is at the first step, really. so even experienced teachers are experiencing this for the first time. remote learning has put pressure on resources. so this is our last laptop. we've had about 200 of them. but we could do was probably about another 300, 400 of these. and there are also fears about the strain on teachers. i've been on the phone to teachers

at nine o'clock asking them whether they have been in contact with the child who tested positive yesterday. for head teachers like mr sexton, at times it feels like there is no end in sight. i feel like it is about 75% of my time is now focused just on covid. it is a difficult balancing act of dealing with a pandemic and the demands of educating pupils. elaine dunkley, bbc news, in crosby. a man who raised suspicions about the manchester arena bomber salman abedi before the attack says a security steward seemed dismissive, saying that he was "already aware of him". christopher wild, who was picking up his teenage daughter from the ariana grande concert, told the inquiry into the bombings that he had confronted abedi about the contents of his rucksack. 0ur north of england correspondent, judith moritz, reports. salman abedi bent under the weight of his rucksack as he walked into manchester arena. he was keen to stay out of sight, and he went straight up a

flight of steps to an area not covered by cctv. trying to hide, he laid down here with his large bag by his side, but he was seen by a man waiting for his daughter who spotted the rucksack. i started to think about things that happened in the world, and ijust thought he could be very dangerous. what did you say to him? i asked him what he was doing there, and did he know how bad it looked in sitting there out of sight of everybody? what did the man reply, if anything? first he said he was waiting for somebody, then he just kept asking, after everything i said, hejust kept asking what the time was. christopher wilde was so worried, he went downstairs to tell a police officer, but they were nowhere to be seen, so he found a steward. mr wilde told the court that the steward, mohammed agha, didn't seem interested,

and fogged him off, telling him he already knew about the man with the rucksack. mr agha will give evidence himself later on in the inquiry. the court heard that when the bomb exploded chris wilde and his girlfriend were there. she was injured in the blast. like your partner, chris, you are keen that people do not blame mohammed agha for what happened that night? yeah, i realize that we're suffering, but i've still got a daughter, so i realize how lucky i am. my heart goes out to everybody. 22 people were murdered in the bombing. today, their families sent messages of thanks to the couple who tried to raise the alarm. judith moritz, bbc news. people living in flats with grenfell style flamable cladding and other fire safety problems have reacted with anger to a government minister suggesting

they will have to pay towards the cost of replacing it themselves. the housing safety minister lord greenhalgh says costs will be kept ‘affordable' and the government has set up a £1.6 billion fund to pay for repairing taller tower blocks. but flat leaseholders say the money is nowhere near enough and they'll now face huge bills for a problem they didn't create. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent sarah corker has been speaking to some of those affected. just despair. just let down. exhausted, both financially and emotionally. trapped living in unsafe flats with dangerous cladding. across britain, this is the reality for hundreds of thousands of people. in leeds, abi and her husband face crippling costs to remove the cladding from their building — a bill that could run into tens of thousands of pounds. it literally is just pulling and ripping our lives apart.

grenfell happened over three years ago and nothing has changed. it's so unsafe that flat leaseholders have to pay £400 a month each for 24—hour fire wardens. abi says her life is on hold. if we want to have a family, we have to start now, and we can't financially because we might have to declare bankruptcy due to this. we couldn't bring up a child in an unsafe home. the grenfell tower fire exposed serious issues with building regulations and the government is providing £1.6 billion to remove dangerous cladding. but analysis suggests that money will coverjust one third of the highest risk blocks. leaseholders in flats across the uk with cladding and fire safety issues are facing huge repair bills. and already, nearly 3000 buildings have applied for government help to cover the costs, including the albion works here in

manchester. and in a significant change in position, the minister for building safety admitted to a committee of mps that leaseholders would now have to cover some of the costs. affordability means it has to be something they can afford and they won't go bankrupt, so that's the whole point. right, but the cost could still be significant even if they're affordable, couldn't they, for instance? our aim is to make sure that they are affordable. that's angered campaigners. i feel very let down. alexander and anastasia say they shouldn't be liable for safety problems with cladding on this manchester block. i think it's really unfair because, one, we don't own the building, we're not freeholders. we didn't build it. we struggle to get to sleep and wake up all the time wondering if that noise that ijust heard is the fire alarm. the couple sleep with a fire extinguisher by their bed. some flats aren't just unsafe, but now effectively

worthless. people can't move, people can't buy, people can't sell. people can't remortgage. so it is definitely slowing the housing market. this is a crisis that has left many people feeling broken. we feel completely ignored. itjust leaves me completely helpless. sarah corker, bbc news, in leeds. the last six months have been a tough time for many care homes across the uk. now — as they've been exploring new ways of staying entertained — residents at one home in west yorkshire have made themselves social media stars. # tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen. # pour myself a cup of ambition... residents at this care home in 0tley may not work nine to five, but they've found a way of keeping themselves occupied. since the start of the pandemic, they've been engaging in one of this year's most popular trends — tiktok.

# i've got to break free. # god knows... # god knows i want to break free... we felt like we needed a little bit of a boost in the home, i was a bit new to tiktok, so i didn't really know what it was about. it's just stemmed from there, really, we started off doing a couple of birthday tiktoks, but now we have tiktok friday, we do them every week, and we all love them. # football's coming home. # it's coming home... the videos were initially used as a way for residents to show their families they were coping during a particularly difficult and isolating year. # wow, you can really dance! little did they know they'd end up going viral on tiktok, with one of their videos

receiving more than 250,000 views. well, it was really fun. i mean, when we're stuck in here and we can't get out, things like that really do cheer us up. do you enjoy the tiktok videos that we make? of course! it occupies me where i wouldn't have anything to do. what do you think about the number of people that viewed? well, it must be wonderful for them, like it's wonderful for me. they've had a lot of views. have they? yeah. was i on one of them? you're on one of them. oh, good. has it cheered you up through lockdown? oh, yes! yeah? oh, that's good. care homes closed their doors to visitors seven months ago, but those at teal beck house have assured their families there's no need to worry about them. # and then a hero comes along. # with the strength to carry on. # and you cast

your fears aside. # and you know you can survive... # now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. it's been a very wet start to the week across parts of scotland and northern ireland, but as we reach the middle parts of the week it's england and wales that will bear the brunt of some of the heaviest rain and also some pretty windy weather thanks to a new area of low pressure moving up from the south. and he could cause a few issues with the chance of some localised flooding in some places. this area of low pressure has been affecting much of the western side of the uk during tuesday. it's brought some heavy rain to northern ireland into southwestern and western parts of scotland. it's going to linger on here through the course of the night and is going to be quite windy too. to the south there will be quite a bit of cloud around, if you showers and then across the extreme south we will see this new area of low pressure moving up to bring some heavy persistent rain by the end of the night. but it will introduce some very mild air, 12 to 14 degrees here. nine to 11 degrees further north.

we have still got this front of strong winds affecting the north of scotland. this new area of the pressure will be pushing up across england and wales, and is named by the spanish met service as storm barbara. it has brought a lot of disruption there. but for us it won't be quite as severe. but could still pack quite a punch and bring some very wet weather. some low class flooding, some atrocious conditions on the road as you move through the morning and for a time in the latter part of the morning into the early afternoon you could see swathes of strong winds, gale force winds affecting the far southeast and through the channels. so strong winds here and also across the north and the west of scotland. in between, blustery but not quite as windy. we will see a mixture of sunshine and showers were longer spells of rain. again, a mild day to come for many, not quite as mild as what we have had on tuesday. but still 15 or maybe 17 degrees will be the high, low teens further north. the area of low pressure just slipped away into scandinavia thursday. if it if they hang back with that other low across northern scotland, so could see for the rain and strong winds across northern

and eastern scotland. for a while through thursday morning. if you showers further south, there is a ridge of high pressure continues to build in for thursday and then things will turn a bit more settled for the afternoon. increasing amounts of sunshine and the winds also turning a little bit later too. but it won't be quite as mild, it will be a cooler air mass. so it will feel fresher with temperatures of 90 maybe 15 degrees closer to the seasonal normal. for friday though we start to see in the area of low pressure pushing into northern and western areas. the winds will pick up again and it stays very windy with further rain 00:58:34,904 --> 613566587:00:42,693 as 613566587:00:42,693 --> 1227133173:02:50,482 we 1227133173:02:50,482 --> 1840699759:04:58,271 head 1840699759:04:58,271 --> 2454266345:07:06,061 on 2454266345:07:06,061 --> 3067832931:09:13,850 into 3067832931:09:13,850 --> 3681399517:11:21,639 the 3681399517:11:21,639 --> 4294966103:13:29,428 weekend.