tonight at 10, the prime minister imposes the toughest coronavirus restrictions on greater manchester from friday after talks with local leaders over money collapse. after ten days of bitter wrangling — there was still no agreement and boris johnson said he couldn't wait any longer. not to act would put manchester's nhs, and the lives of many of manchester's residents, at risk. hundreds of pubs and bars will have to close as well as casinos and betting shops, and people are advised not to travel in or out of the area. this is no way to run the country in a national crisis. this is not right. they should not be doing this, grinding people down, trying to accept the least that they can get away with.

we'll have the latest as greater manchester prepares for the changes. also tonight... this woman is one of around 90 people in britain who've volunteered to be deliberately infected with coronavirus, to try to speed up the race for a vaccine. the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing hears from a man who alerted a security guard after seeing the suicide bomber, but says he was fobbed off. commentator: that is brilliant! and marcus rashford gives manchester united a winning return to the champions league. and coming up in sport on bbc news... talks take place over the creation of a new european premier league, involving the top sides from across the continent. good evening. the prime minister has

imposed tier 3 restrictions on greater manchester from friday — england's highest coronavirus alert level — after talks with local leaders collapsed as they wrangled over money. the government offered to give the region £60 million to help people through the new measures. but the mayor, andy burnham, wanted £5 million more and refused the offer, saying it wasn't enough. hours later, boris johnson went ahead and imposed the toughest restrictions, saying "not to act now" would put the lives of manchester's residents "at risk". but from midnight on thursday, all pubs and bars that do not serve substantial meals will have to close. there'll be no household mixing anywhere indoors or in private gardens. casinos and betting shops will shut. the region will receive £22 million to help with test and trace among other things. but talks are expected to resume with the government and local leaders about how much more will be given as an economic support package for businesses.

the government's offer of £60 million is still on the table. first tonight, our deputy political editor, vicki young. for more than a week, the politicians have argued and for businesses that has meant uncertainty and anxiety. today, chris's worst fears became reality as his pub in wigan has got to close. we sort of knew it coming. it's bad news for the business and a struggle, but good news to finally get some information. to finally know, 0k, now we can start planning, making plans for the staff and business and start figuring out what we're actually going to do. we've been waiting in limbo for ten days. feels like a month. greater manchester's leaders have been demanding more money to help workers whose income will fall due to the closures. they were given until midday today to accept a final offer from government but there was no agreement and ministers in london said they'd impose tougher restrictions. we made a generous and extensive offer to support manchester's

business, and i want to stress this offer was proportionate to the support we have given merseyside and lancashire. the mayor didn't 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 mayorfinding out scraps of information during his own press conference. it's going to be £20 million only and they will try to pick off individual councils. news that didn't go down well here... it's brutal, to be honest. this is no way to run the country in a national crisis. it isn't. this is not right. they should not be doing this, grinding people down, trying to accept the least that they can get away with. 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. is this is a game of poker? are they playing playing poker with people's lives through a pandemic? the people who drive those taxis, who work in the pubs, many of them may have voted for them. they said to them they would level up, but what we have seen today is a deliberate act of levelling down. so, what help is there 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. on top of that, lancashire and liverpool city region also agreed extra packages worth millions but talks on similar funding for greater manchester have stalled. are you withdrawing the extra what you called generous offer, is it now off the table? and what do you say to the mayor

of greater manchester who has accused you of grinding down communities through these negotiations? i bitterly regret any restrictions that lead to damage to businesses and to people's lives, of course i do. the funds are there, they're massive. what we couldn't do, i hope people understand, was to 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. later downing street clarified that the offer of £60 million was still on the table. other areas including teesside and south yorkshire are locked in their own battle with the government over money. it's an urgent situation, but progress is slow. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. greater manchester is one of the largest local

authority areas in the uk. it's been under tighter restrictions for three months already. it's made up of ten separate boroughs, all of which will move to the highest alert level, affecting around 2.8 million people. greater manchester joins the liverpool city region and lancashire in the ‘very high‘, or tier 3, alert level. bolton in greater manchester has the fastest rising number of coronavirus cases. it was already under some of the toughest covid restrictions. 0ur north of england correspondent, danny savage is there. already a high—profile campaign in bolton telling people what to do and what the restrictions are at the moment, there are signs in the town centre and there are loudspeakers which broadcast messages, telling people where to go and how to get a test if they need one. the idea of these two or three restrictions are to drive down the cases and stop the spread of coronavirus —— the idea of these tier 3 restrictions. we have met people today and they are doubtful that these restrictions will work. bolton has been under some sort

of coronavirus restrictions for months longer than most places, but the 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 have got is that they say, "no, it won't affect me." while 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 advice to make fewerjourneys is just that — advice, not the law. as a result, many people we have spoken to 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 they did in march and april. the thought of christmas being cancelled, if it's going to be that you can't, i think people will break the rules to see their family. we've done the stint of the full lockdown, thinking that this would wear off, and nothing's changed and now it seems like it's getting worse. vicky is self—employed. she supported andy burnham's efforts to get the best deal but cannot see how many people will now make ends meet. your bills aren't going to stop being paid, are they? you know, if we could live on 80% then we would work 80% but we can't, and it's going lower now so that's another worry, isn't it? being able to afford everything. because nothing is going to change, the economy is still going, you've still got things to pay so, yeah, it's just a worry. it's taken a long time to get to the point of restrictions being imposed. there's a weariness, though. you don't feel the measures so far this year have worked at all? obviously not, no. we're not getting any closer to an end result so far, are we?

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 relief of some... so follow the rules, wear a face covering. ..and the annoyance of others. keep your two metre distance. danny savage, bbc news, bolton. 0ur deputy political editor vicki young is in westminster. all this wrangling over money over the last 10 days — a poker game is what the mayor of greater manchester called it. the government has spent hundreds of billion pounds during this pandemic and that they are haggling over £5 million and it doesn't feel like very much but the government says it would not be fair on other areas and they don't want to get into this building work wear the costs keep escalating, but imagine tonight —— a bidding war where the costs keep escalating. but imagine tonight, a business in manchester tonight, you have been told you are going to close on friday, but you don't

know the extent of the compensation you will receive, and all you can hear is politicians arguing. we have heard of a letter sent to andy burnham, who have said he has put his ego in front of getting an agreement, but there are others who support him, of course. there is one thing they do agree on, though, they are asking for the people to respect the rules. after all the bickering, they will have to hope that people are still listening. thanks for joining 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's almost 100 more than this time last week. it 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. let's speak to our health editor, hugh pym, now. that was a high death figure today — 241. it looks pretty surprising, 241 daily reported deaths, up from a meeting of the previous day, and you have the weekend effect where sometimes reported deaths are delayed pushing the figure up, but even so, england's deputy chief medical officer said at the briefing he expected the trend to go on upwards but he also said when questioned that he thought a national knock—down in england at the moment was inappropriate because of the big variations in regions infection rates. there was focus on the north—west of england, unsurprisingly, charts were shown

with hospital admission is increasing and the numbers in hospital with covid the highest in the north—west of any region, but hospitalfigures and the north—west of any region, but hospital figures and deaths relate back to cases which were first diagnosed a couple of weeks ago so what are cases doing now in the north—west? 0ne what are cases doing now in the north—west? one interesting chart showed that first of all, this is the north—west of england, the top two lines, younger people, and then the lines go up and then fall back again, probably because there was a lot of testing a few weeks back, them lethally older age groups, you can see them going up quite —— then the older age groups, you can see them going up quite substantially but then it flattening out, so maybe thatis but then it flattening out, so maybe that is a slightly more encouraging sign for the north of england. thanks forjoining us. families campaigning to see more of their relatives in care homes say changes to government guidance on visiting don't go far enough.

john's campaign, a group representing families of people with dementia, say they plan to go ahead with legal action, claiming they breach human rights. in lower risk areas, residents can usually have one visitor, but in higher risk areas the advice is that visits should only happen in exceptional circumstances. the government says its priority is keeping residents safe. alison holt has been speaking to those affected. the handful of times i've been able to go, mum has got really upset and said, "why don't you come in? you're getting wet." and, "i can't go on like this, nobody wants me." and, "why don't ijust drop dead?" it's horrible, horrible. this is the heartache behind the planned legal action. she just couldn't understand why we couldn't go in. she just said, "why have you dumped me here? they don't look after me." you know, she wasjust desperate. families divided by months of tight restrictions on care home visits. it's my belief that she died thinking that nobody

loved her any more. carole tennant‘s mum, jean, moved to a care home just before lockdown. they went from spending a lot of time together to a few visits through a window or in the garden. the 89—year—old deteriorated rapidly and died in september. i've got no problem with the home, they did a really good job, they kept covid out. but at what cost? and i don't mean the home, i mean across the country. at what cost? after so many covid—related deaths in care homes, government guidance and local restrictions are there to protect residents. but sheila brown was moved to a nursing home knowing she was nearing the end of her life. when somebody is on an end—of—life

care pathway, the things that matter to them are family, quality of life, not quantity of life. for months, families have been saying rather than only being able to see their relatives through windows or in gardens, they should be given key worker status with access to testing and ppe. margaretjohnson has dementia and key worker status would allow her daughter to spend much more precious time with her. the people trying to get into care homes to see their loved ones are going to be careful, they are not the kind of people who are going to go to a rave, going to have a house party with 100 people in. you know, they are people who care about their families. the government says it will pilot key worker status to try to give families more time with relatives but it's not clear when that will happen. alison holt, bbc news. the uk is set to become the first country in the world to deliberately infect volunteers with coronavirus to speed up the race to get a

vaccine. healthy volunteers under the age of 30 will be paid to take part in the human challenge trials and they'll 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 straight away

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 and 30 and are likely to receive around £4000. 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 trialling 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 hundreds of 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. with less than three months to go before the brexit transition period comes to an end, business groups have reacted

with dismay after a phone call this afternoon with the prime minister and the cabinet office minster, michael gove. the companies were hoping for an update on the state of the trade talks with the eu. our business editor, simonjack, is with me. they also wanted to get across their level of concern over the state of these trade talks. they don't, they saw this as an important call at a crucial moment with trade talks seemingly on the rocks and they wanted to find out what was going on, if we would get a deal or not and express some hopes and fears. the call lasted just 21 minutes, the prime minister left after 15 and one attendee described it as terrible, terrible call unbelievably different electoral to businesses and what they're going through with the covid crisis. the pm reportedly said there was too much apathy in the business community and they needed to get ready and that came off, some said, like more of a lecture than listening it was basically a download from government rather than

two—way traffic. to be fair to the government, businesses have been told there are things they need to do deal or no deal and it wasn't all bad. iam do deal or no deal and it wasn't all bad. i am told mr gove said he still hoped it was possible to get a deal and promised to take up the idea of transition vouchers for some small businesses but he closed the call by saying it was a bit like moving house, a bit of disruption until you get used to the house you live in, it could be bigger and better. fair to say that message fell pretty flat. businesses were significantly less upbeat after the call than when they went on it. simon jack, thank you. the inquiry into the manchester arena bombing has heard from a man who was waiting to pick up his daughter after the ariana grande concert and saw the suicide bomber hiding with his rucksack. christopher wild said salman abedi looked on edge and nervous. mr wild then told a security guard about his concerns but said he was fobbed off. 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. i do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare... christopher wild told the court by video link that he saw the rucksack and was worried. 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, him 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 wild was so worried he went downstairs to tell a police officer, but they were nowhere to be seen, so he found a steward. mr wild told the court that the steward, mohammed agha, didn't seem interested, and fobbed 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 wild 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 realise that we're suffering, but i've still got a daughter, so i realise 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. thousands of blocks of flats around the uk contain cladding similar to the material used on grenfell tower and other fire risks. after the devastating fire there in 2017, the government said it would pay for tower blocks to be made safe. a £1.6 billion fund has been set up. but it's not enough. and now ministers have told leaseholders — many still in unsafe flats and unable to sell — that they too will also have to help foot the bill as sarah corker reports. 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, abby 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 is so unsafe, flat leaseholders have to pay £400 a month each for 24—hour fire wardens. abby says her life is on hold. if we want to have a family, we have to start now and we can't... 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 a 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 costs could still be significant even if they are affordable, couldn't they? our aim is to make sure that they are affordable. that has 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 are not freeholders, we didn't build it. i'm struggling to get to sleep and wake up all the time wondering if that noise that ijust heard was the fire alarm.

the couple sleep with a fire extinguisher by their bed. some flats are notjust 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. it just leaves me completely helpless. sarah corker, bbc news, in leeds. as we head into winter, the entire uk population is under some form of coronavirus restricions. we've lived like this for almost seven months. many say they are feeling very gloomy and anxious about what's ahead. here's our home editor mark easton. 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. 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 finds 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 way i think everyone would listen would probably be

if there was like a united one rule for all, because everyone thinks if other areas aren't having the same restrictions put on them, they feel like it's unfair and just ignore it completely. i generally think we should just have a national kind of lockdown, whether it is for a couple of weeks, whether it's for 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 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 families and friends and whatnot? human nature i think is going to go against the rules. just to try and get it under control, we do need tojust kind of work together with the government and kind of 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.