this is bbc news. i'm james reynolds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the gatekeeper to the internet —the us government launches a massive anti — monopoly case against google. reports of fatal shootings in nigeria as police try to clear anti government protests. the uk prime minister imposes the toughest coronavirus restrictions on greater manchester after talks with local leaders over money collapse. we tried to get an approach with the leaders of greater manchester, a joint approach. u nfortu nately, manchester, a joint approach. unfortunately, the agreement was not reached. jubilation as nasa's space probe touches down on an asteroid

in a mission that could give us a clue to how life on earth began. hello and welcome. for billions of people around the world, it's the gatekeeper to the internet. now the search giant google is on the receiving end of massive anti monopoly lawsuit from the us government. it claims the company accounts "for nearly 90 percent of all general—search—engine queries in the united states, and almost 95 percent on mobile devices." the lawsuit adds: "general search engine competitors are denied vital distribution, scale, and product recognition—ensuring they have no real chance to challenge google." google though has hit back —— it says "today's lawsuit by the department of justice is deeply flawed. people use google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives. our north american technology reporter, james clayton, has the latest from san

franscisco. it's pretty clear that the department ofjustice thinks that google is monopolistic. the lawsuit strikes at the heart of the crib on the internet for small businesses and entrepreneurs beholding to and entrepreneurs beholding to an unholy monopoly. google is a monopolist and as you mentioned, 90% of all the searches in america on search engine searches are google searches and the question is, did they get there fairly and i think this with the loss for example, on android phones, google searches are the things that are preinstalled. if you going to safari, google have a deal with apple or google searches are preinstalled. it is not fair essentially, and it's going to conclude the anti—competitive practices of had a harmful effects on people. google says look, how can this possibly be

anti—consumer when the google search is free and you don't have to pay to use it? i think this is going be very difficult for them. because they're going to have to prove that there anti—consumer without acknowledging that it is free for consumers. is a break-up for consumers. is a break-up for google, given the word monopoly, is it a break up, is a possible? they have not said that they're going to break up google, but i think it's really interesting that three weeks ago, there was a congressional hearing on trust those democrat lead and some of things they we re lead and some of things they were saying for suggesting that google should be broken up and one of the things as may not be pa rt one of the things as may not be part of google and the also said that facebook had an unassailable lead in that apple was the gatekeeper to the app store and monopolistic. today, this is republican backed in the big issue now is that there are bipartisan supports for some kind of action, notjust

against google, but against big tech that is going to really worry tech that is going to really woi’i’y some tech that is going to really worry some of these silicon valley bigwigs here. it doesn't matter who winds the election, this campaign will continue. how long might this take to resolve before we know of finding? i think it is really important to say that it would ta ke yea rs important to say that it would take years if you look at google possible share price, it is substances and investors we re is substances and investors were not particularly perturbed by what happened here. another thing to remember here is that google is fabulously wealthy. it is worth over $1 trillion and has over $100 billion in cash, right? it can fight this if you look at all the other comparisons, the eu has been through this process as well, it takes years. do not expect google search to suddenly be any different tomorrow morning. let's take you to erie in pennsylvania where donald trump will address

an election rally shortly. these are the live pictures. might make to retain the white house, he would have to retain that state again. let's get more from our washington correspondent, lebo diseko. as you said, pennsylvania is absolutely key for both candidates and campaigns are going to see it is crucial to winning and it's got 20 electoral college votes and it's really important state and donald trump wanted by less than a percentage last time. joe biden is ahead there and you will also know that donald trump has been there several times and he is likely to go back again and i'm sure that we will see joe back again and i'm sure that we will seejoe biden too going back there. early voting started today in wisconsin, which is nearby part

of that former industrial stripper donald trump was really successful and managed to win a number of states —— industrial strip. where it was not so warm. quite surprising amount of enthusiasm in terms of fortress getting out there. people out here saying that election dates in two weeks' time but that may drive you absolutely mad because people already voting. it does not come down to november the 3rd, doesn't, there are millions and millions of people out voting already. yeah, absolutely. the last time i checked, they're more than 30 million early votes, some of them would've been done with dropping in their votes in boxes, others will have done early voting by mail cup but the election generally has already started and is already in motion. and we have the final debate with news about muting of microphones, which we did not have enough this debate. a muting of

microphones. and would make a more organised debate? i am laughing because debates have been kind of a story and enough themselves. so, you will remember that very angry shouting first debate and particularly under cited voting. they were upset that they cannot hear, it was difficult to hear what was happening and there was the suggestion that perhaps candidates should have their mics muted. so, what is going to happen is in the debates, it's going to be split up in the 15 minute chunks and at the beginning of 15 minute sections, each candidate will have two minutes to state their case without interruption and thatis case without interruption and that is when the moderator will have the ability to mute their might. as you know, just because someone's mike is muted this not mean that you cannot hear the person next to them and also, there will be quite a bit of time where they will be quite a bit of time where they'll be debating each other.

so, we will see if there is any more orderly than it was the last time. soldiers have opened fire on anti—government protestors in the nigerian city of lagos, during a second day of widespread unrest across the country. an eyewitness said he counted around twenty bodies, and dozens of wounded people. a twenty—four hour curfew has come into force in the state of lagos. nnate 0korie was briefly at the demonstration but left before there were reports of shooting. his niece works in the area and is still there... iam very i am very much in touch with her. we have talked to the minister and from her office, you will see there is the head office. i had my office appear and so, not long after i was there, he came to me. and

i was lucky that the shooting had not started. so, luckily, i called my niece to find out if she had left the area. she told me know and she had to move away from where it was happening. but, she was ok to confirm what i had heard. let's get some of the day's other news brazil says a chinese—made coronavirus vaccine will be part of its national immunisation plan, in one of the first such efforts in the world to fight the pandemic. the governor of the country's largest state, sao paulo, said they will buy forty six million doses of china's experimental sinovac vaccine. joao doria said they expect to be able to begin immunisation in january next year. the fiancee of the murdered saudi journalist, jamal khashoggi has taken legal

action in the us against saudi arabia's crown prince, mohammed bin salman. hatice cengiz and a human rights group are suing the prince and twenty— eight other people for damages. the saudis say the crown prince played no part in the killing. france's president macron has announced a ban on an islamist group he said was directly involved in beheading a teacher last week. he said the sheikh yassin collective, named after the founder of the palestinian militant group hamas, would be outlawed on wednesday. the teacher, samuel paty, was murdered after showing students a cartoon of the prophet mohammed. it's dilemma for countr ies around the world fighting the coronavirus pandemic. how do you balance restrictions to safeguard people's health on one hand — and keeping the economy open on the other? the english city of manchester has been demanding more financial help to offset tough new measures. but there's been no agreement with central government. now prime minister boris johnson has gone ahead and imposed england's toughest coronavirus regime. here's vicky

young. his pub has to close. we saw it was coming. could be bad news for business in the struggle. the good news to finally get some information. to know we can stop partying and making plans now. and figure out what we will do. we have a wedding in limbo forten we will do. we have a wedding in limbo for ten days. that should been waiting. leaders have been demanding more money to help workers whose income will fall because of closures. they were given until midday to accept a final offerfrom they were given until midday to accept a final offer from the government, but there was no agreement and ministers in london said they would impose tougher restrictions. they made a generous and extensive offer to support manchester businesses. this offer was proportionate to the support we have given merseyside and lancashire. the mayor didn't

accept this unfortunately. given the public health situation, i must now proceed with moving greater manchester to the very high alert level. and here is the mayor, finding out scraps of information during his own press conference. £20 million only and they will pick up individual councils. news that didn't go down well here. it is brutal to be honest. this is an a 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 they can get away with. his team calculated that £90 million was needed until the end of march, eventually he said he would accept eventually he said he would a cce pt 65 eventually he said he would accept 65 million. the government offered 60. this is a game of poker? are they playing poker with peoples lives through a pandemic?

the people who drive those taxis and work in the pubs, many of them who may have voted, they said to them they will level on. what we have seen today is a deliberate act of leveling down. so what help is there for areas in the very high alert level tier 3? the government offers financial support amounted to £8 per head of the local population. for greater manchester, that would mean £22 million. this isjust too manchester, that would mean £22 million. this is just too fun because a tracing enforcement to help in the clinically vulnerable. 0n to help in the clinically vulnerable. on top of that, lancashire and liverpool city region also agreed extra economic packages worth millions. but talks on similar funding for greater manchester have stalled. are you withdrawing the extra what you call generous offer? is that off the table? what do you say to the mayor of greater manchester who was accused you of grinding down communities through these negotiations?” am bitterly regret

any restrictions that lead to damage to businesses and peoples lives, course i do. the funds are there. they are massive. and what we can do, people understand, was to a deal with greater manchester that really would've been out of kilter with the agreements we had already reached with merseyside and lancashire. later, duncan clarified that the offer of 60 million was still on the table. 0ther the offer of 60 million was still on the table. other areas including teesside and south yorkshire are locked in their own battle. —— downing street clarified. an urgent situation but progress is slow. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: woman who is one of around 90 people in britain who've volunteered to be deliberately infected with coronavirus — to try to speed up

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the latest headlines this is bbc news, the latest headlines: google is being sued by the us government in a massive anti—monopoly case against the internet giant. but the company has denied abusing its market dominance. nigerian soldiers have opened fire on anti—government protestors in the city of lagos. it comes after a second day of unrest. there are just two weeks to go until the us election. this week the bbc is looking at how president trump's "america first" strategy has changed the world. over the course of our series, we will be talking to correspondents based across the world to find out more about the situation in their region. part of that process is to bring us troops back home from countries like afghanistan — where they've been embroiled for nearly 20 years — that comes as the afghan government and taliban insurgents attempt to broker a peace deal.

0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, has been speaking exclusively to the top us commander in afghanistan — general scott miller. from kabul, she sent this report. flying out of the heavily fortified kabul headquarters. to an intensifying fight in the provinces beyond. today the us top soldier is heading west. dropping in on beleaguered forces in the province. general miller knows the details of every district. but afghans in charge here raise the alarm. taliban forces are stealthily closing in on this city. it is much the same across the country. a looming us pull—out is on everybody‘s mind. his presence has meant a signal american support. i will say not only the violence but the rhetoric on all sides need to go down. the rhetoric should not be threatening and inciting more violence. when everybody should be doing is finding ways to bring this down. but we will defend the afghan security forces. we have shown a great

deal of restraint because we are trying to make this peace process work. going home is on their minds too. they've all seen the tweets from president trump, their commander—in—chief, declaring they should be home by christmas. but the february deal between the united states and the taliban says the final pull—out is next spring. if it continues like this, can you leave in may? these are political decisions. we make military recommendations. i will leave that for policy guidance and a view on how the peace process is going. the afg ha n forces have peace process is going. the afghan forces have to be ready. not a question of are they ready, they have to be ready in the commitment i see from them as they understand they are the security forces that must secure the afghan people. afg ha ns afghans writing for the fight. these men just signed afghans writing for the fight. these menjust signed up. thousands of young recruits but through their paces at

the biggest training centre. the afg ha n biggest training centre. the afghan army struggles with defections and desertion. for now they are keen. translation: i live in holland for seven years. i came back to my country. my country needs me to fightan my country. my country needs me to fight an enemy. the taliban are training as well. slick videos like this are propaganda weapons. which can be as powerful as guns on the ground. both sides are preparing for war now. while they talk about peace. the taliban could place my politics and negotiate in good well. —— could place my politics was that they may be get at the war that still fear into people and threaten them. that instills fear into people. it isa that instills fear into people. it is a different ball game once they get into the more conventional warfare. what is your top worried now? my

personal worry is our own failure. if we are not able to secure a safe afghanistan from civil war. how likely is that threat of a civil war? very likely. but we are doing what we can to mitigate it. north of kabul come at the largest us base in bag run, they are getting ready to go. day by day, there are growing signs that american troops are packing up. this used to be pa rt packing up. this used to be part of its biggest military base. it is shrinking by the day. this true pull—out is in just a question of military hardware. afg ha ns just a question of military hardware. afghans say they feel it is growing impact in their own lives. here's ago, when us forces surged, so too did a life and bag ron. now the lifeblood in this town is draining as well. jobs

are drying up. you can feel the uncertainty on the streets. and fear. translation: 10096. i am scared. the taliban are here. the army are here. they are here amongst us. how close are the taliban to where we are? translation: i don't know if it is you or me, but they are definitely amongst us. the end draws near for definitely amongst us. the end draws nearfor us engagement which dragged on for nearly 20 yea rs. which dragged on for nearly 20 years. a moment now fraught with both the risk and resolve. 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—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 mightjust speed up the process of finding out which coronavirus vaccines work best. fergus walsh, bbc news. nasa says its 0siris—rex space probe has touched down on bennu — an asteroid the size of the empire state building, some 200 million miles from earth. take a look at this. cheering. we are going in! touchdown! the nasa—led expedition has

collected dust and grit from the surface. researchers believe the rocks could offer clues to the origins of life on earth and reveal how our sun and solar system came into being. you can see how excited the scientists are. the british guitarist spencer davis has died. he was 81 and had been undergoing treatment for pneumonia in california. the band, named because he was the only member who enjoyed giving interviews, were best known for their 1960s hits keep on running, gimme some lovin' and i'm a man. the group split up in 1967. but spencer davis continued touring in later decades, often playing more than 200 shows a year. more on all the stores on a website. —— all of

the stores. lewis vaughan jones will website. —— all of the stores. lewis vaughanjones will be with you at the top of the hour. hello. tuesday may not have been the sunniest day of the month thus far, but it ended on something of a high. water contrast there as we move into the new day to see some really quite heavy rain moving into parts of england and wales. it will feel a little bit cooler across some areas. low pressure certainly dominating the weather through tuesday, throwing the weather front across the northern and western scotland, but down towards biscay that we look for the next development. that, in fact, is all tied in with storm barbara. the air is coming in from the south, so, it's not a cold start to the new day on wednesday, but it really will be a wet one across the southern areas and the rain just keeps on coming through the morning, easily 30 to 110 mm quite widely. bits and pieces of the rain further to the north and the old weather fronts

still producing rain across the northern western isles of scotland and the northwest of the mainland. but the odd drip and drab getting into northern ireland. come the afternoon, top temperatures 17 rather than 19 of tuesday, the rain becoming a little bit lighter as that area of low pressure and its energy gradually move away towards scandinavia. as you move into thursday, the isobars begin to open up a touch, a little ridge of high pressure just meanders in from the atlantic. that is not to say that it will be a completely dry day, certainly much drier for the greater part of england and wales, but the northerly ushers in showers to the eastern side of scotland, some getting into the north of england, the odd shower a little bit further towards the south of wales and maybe to the southeast. the highs of the day, if you're lucky, around 16. in lerwick, closer to 8 degrees. make the most of the dry weather on thursday, if that's the way, because here we are on friday with a new set of weather fronts bringing in the cloud and wind and rain back in from the atlantic and i'm really not promising anybody a dry day through

friday, the rain starts off across northern and western parts but you'll see, yes, the band weakens as it works its way down towards to east anglia and even here, there will be a spot of rain. brighter skies falling off behind, temperatures pretty much where we would expect to see them for this time of year. and a quick look at the weekend, another set of fronts working their way across northern and western parts, trying to get across towards east anglia in the southeast. just to make, open for some doubt.

show this is bbc news, the headlines google has rejected accusations that it's breaking us competition rules, after the federal government filed a lawsuit against the company. washington says the tech giant has abused its market dominance by paying to ensure its search engine is installed as the default option on devices. nigerian soldiers have opened fire on anti—government protestors in the city of lagos. it comes after a second day of unrest. a witness said he'd counted around twenty bodies and at least fifty people who were injured. demonstrators have been calling for widespread reforms, but intially started protesting against the notorious police unit, known as sars. nasa says its 0siris—rex space probe has touched down on the asteroid bennu. the mission of the probe is to collect a rare sample of dust, that could reveal how our sun and solar system came into being billions of years ago. now on bbc news...