this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. going in, we are going in. celebration as nasa's space probe touches down on an asteroid 200 million miles away — in a mission that could give us a clue to how life on earth began. reports of fatal shootings in nigeria as police try to clear anti government protests in the city of lagos. google rejects accusations that it's breaking us competition rules, as the federal government files a lawsuit against the tech giant. and... putting aside animosity and embracing civility — we speak to two us election candidates hoping for a

better way. hello, welcome to the programme. nasa says its osiris—rex space probe has successfully touched down briefly on the asteroid, bennu. scientists have compared the manoeuvre to trying to park a remote—controlled car 300 million kilometres away, on an asteroid the size of the empire state building. the probe has been seven years in the planning at a cost ofjust over a billion dollars. paul hawkins reports. j°y joy at nasa. the probe lands on the asteroid. seconds later... were going in, going in. touchdown declared.” were going in, going in. touchdown declared. i can tell you everything went

exactly perfect which is the hallmark of this team. we have consistently beaten expectations over and over again. we have overcome the amazing challenges this asteroid has thrown at us. it may have the biggest hole of extra terrestrial rocks and the moon landings 50 years ago. that is still to be confirmed, nonetheless this mission is an incredible achievement because spinning through space 330 million kilometres from earth is bigger than the empire state building. even though the probe arrived in 2018, it has taken two years to find a suitable landing site because the scientists thought the surface would be sandy, but it was rocky. but they did identify a site called nightingale, and 110w site called nightingale, and now the probe has successfully landed, avoiding contact with successful rocks, gathered its

sample and lifted off bound for earth. a sample that should tell us about the chemistry of the planets and the sun when they formed 11.5 billion years ago. the only question now is how much did the probe gather? scientists should know very $0011 scientists should know very soon but it won't be until september 2023 when they can get their hands on it. paul hawkins, bbc news. 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 20 bodies, and dozens of wounded people. a 24—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... she is ok. she is ok. i am very much

in touch with her. we talked about 30 minutes ago. 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 no and she had to move away from where it was happening. but, she was ok to confirm what i had heard. in the uk, the prime minister announced that greater manchester will move to england's highest tier of coronavirus restrictions from friday. borisjohnson said "not to act now" would put the lives of manchester's

residents "at risk". he said he couldn't give greater manchester disproportionately more money than other tier 3 areas. we have made available up to £65 million to help local areas enforce restrictions. greater manchester will receive £22 million of this and that is on top of the extra £1 billion we are providing in funding for local authorities across the whole country. mayor andy burnham said the government had not offered enough financial support to "protect the poorest people in our communities". it is brutal, to be honest isn't it? 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 lease that they can get away with. let's get some of the day's other news...

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. 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 28 other people for damages. the saudis say the crown prince played no part in the killing. 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. with two weeks left until the us election, president trump has returned to the battleground state of pennsylvania, here's some of what he had to say to supporters at an election rally in erie... hello, i remember that great victory we had. cheering and applause. what a victory. 1a days from 110w what a victory. 1a days from now we are going to win the commonwealth of pennsylvania and we are going to win four more years in the white house. with your vote, we will continue to cut your taxes, cut regulations, support our great police, protect our second amendment. defend our borders,

keepjobs and amendment. defend our borders, keep jobs and wealth in america where it belongs. the us election has been bitterly fought this year but in one state there has been a refreshing change. 0pposing candidates in the race for the governor'sjob in candidates in the race for the governor's job in utah candidates in the race for the governor'sjob in utah released a remarkable ad on tuesday. republican spencer cox and law professor chris peterson, a democrat, appeared together to call for unity. i'm chris peterson. and i'm spencer cox. we are currently in the final days of campaigning against each other to be your next governor. and while i think you should vote for me... really, you should vote for me. ..there are some things we both agree on. we can debate issues without degrading each other‘s character. we can disagree without hating each other. and win or lose in utah, we work together. so let's show the country that there is a better way. my name's chris peterson. and i'm spencer cox. both: and we approve this message. and we can speak to

the two candidates now. if professor chris peterson is the democrat candidate for governor. he's in salt lake city. and lietenant governor spencer cox is running for the republicans. he's in sandy, utah. great to have you both on. spencer, let's start with you, where did this idea come from? i was actually talking with a friend who was very concerned about what was happening at the national level. it has become so negative, toxic in politics in the united states, and worry about what would happen on november the 4th, could we see violence and rioting? we said we need to do something. i have tremendous respect for chris peterson, my opponent. we started having a conversation and had this crazy idea that maybe we should cut an ad together and show that utah believes differently, show the rest of the united states there

isa rest of the united states there is a better way. we both agreed to do it and ten days later this was the final result. chris, what has been the final reaction? there must have been some of your supporters who are not happy? there are some folks that are worried about it but overwhelmingly it has been a positive reaction. here in the united states we have had such a level of acrimony for so long, people are yearning to have civility in our politics and the recommitment to our democratic elections. i am excited and proud to be part of a positive message, encouraging folks to work together and look to our common humanity as the primary source for compromise. seeing as you are both campaigning a little differently, i will try interviewing a little differently. i will ask you both this question stop spencer, what do you admire most about your opponent?“ you look at chris's background he was born in poverty, difficult circumstances on the

west side of salt lake city. his mother had handicaps that made it difficult, a single mum. he was able to make it, he got a scholarship to go to college. his history is truly remarkable. he has done great work in the state and federal government as well. trying to help people with this type of need. he is the type of public servant we should have. we disagree with lots of things and the wavy that accomplish these goals but he is a tremendous human being and we are lucky he is running for office here. what is your favourite thing about your opponent? spencer is a nice quy~ opponent? spencer is a nice guy. as spencer says, we disagree about many policy issues and we have been debating those throughout the campaign. buti debating those throughout the campaign. but i believe spencer's heart is in the right spot, trying to find common ground with people and do the best he can to make our state

successful and do well by the public. that being said we do disagree about a lot of things, but i have respect for him as a person, he is an upstanding gentlemen and if he is governor lam gentlemen and if he is governor i am confident he will have the best interests of the state in mind, as he goes forward. as will i. both of you have kind of change the discussion and thrown the spotlight of the world's attention on utah. you have 20 seconds each, spencer, what should the world know about the great state of utah? the world knows utah, the winter olympics in 2002 is one of the most beautiful places in the world. people come from all over the world, obviously not during the pandemic, five national parks, but it is the people. what you see today is representative of what the people in utah are. it may be unique in the rest of the world, but not here. chris,

your pitch to the world for utah? utah people are hard workers. we have a work ethic, we are entrepreneurial but we work together to try to solve problems. often time that means one political party over another, but today the key message is we another, but today the key message is we are another, but today the key message is we are willing to work together to solve problems. that is a positive role model for the rest of america and for many places around the world where we have division. it is important to ove rco m e division. it is important to overcome our differences to try to solve problems. 0k, before i let you both go, this is a competition, this is an election. spencer, who do you think will win? i hope i am victorious at the end of this, but whatever happens on november the 3rd we will work together to solve problems. chris, ten seconds do you? spencer is up in the polls but lam nipping spencer is up in the polls but i am nipping at his heels and closing. maybe this was a

strategic mistake and i can come from behind and win the election. whatever it is, i hope to do so graciously and with civility. chris peterson, spencer cox, thank you for being such good sports and good luck to you both. stay with us on bbc news, still to come. we meet the healthy british volunteers who will be deliberately infected with coronavirus — to try to speed up the race for a vaccine. a historic moment that many of his victims have waited forfour decades. waited forfor decades. the former dictator in the dock, older, slimmer and as he sat down, obedient enough. dawn and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside corum, it lights up a biblical

famine now in the 20th century. the depressing conclusion, in argentina today, it's actually cheaper to pay to your walls with money. we've had controversies in the past with great britain. but as good friends we have always found a good and lasting solution. concorde boughs out in style after almost three decades in service, an aircraft that has enthralled its many admirers for so long, taxis home one last time. this is bbc news, the latest headlines... celebrations as nasa's space probe touches down on an asteroid that could give us a clue as to how life on earth began.

nigerian soldiers have opened fire on anti—government protestors in the city of lagos. it comes after a second day of unrest. 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% of all general search—engine queries in the united states, and almost 95% 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 said... "today's lawsuit by the department ofjustice is deeply flawed. people use google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives." barbara comstock is a former republican congresswoman and senior justice department official. she's now a senior advisor at lobbying firm baker donelson. she's in virginia.

what do you make of this lawsuit? as they said it is deeply flawed and as a former justice department official i certainly didn't see anything here of concern. google is a company that has all kinds of free products that they give to people and if you don't like their products, you can use other free products. their products, you can use otherfree products. there are otherfree products. there are other search platforms you can use, microsoft has thing you have yahoo and that don't go which has different platforms. it is not a monopoly at all and these are free services with a very competitive market. things are changing all the time. there are competitors, i don't think anyone would argue there aren't competitors but google aren't competitors but google are so dominant in that space? but they weren't always and this is a very competitive market. years ago they said yahoo was a monopoly and could anybody catch up with them

such anybody catch up with them such a mark google did, but they are co nsta ntly a mark google did, but they are constantly improving and changing their project so they can stay competitive. if you are looking to search for books and things you want to buy, that search platform might be amazon or ebay, or even walmart. it depends on what you are searching for and you have to keep those markets competitive. but these are free services that the american people and people all over the world but use them love the services. they have 80 to 90% approval and congress and government is down at about 18%, the products that got us through covid and allowed us to do work and line up and do things like this. but don't you wa nt to things like this. but don't you want to see more competition, an environment that fosters and makes it easier for competitors to come through? when i was in congress i was in northern virginia just outside of dc that has a very vibrant technology community. there is

all kinds of competition here because this changes so rapidly, you don't know what they come. zoom came in and started, everyone talks about zooming and having meetings and now google, microsoft and other platforms you can use or skype, lots of others but zoom came out of nowhere and started competing with the big guys. we know it is a very competitive market. what this is doing is going after a competitive company because they are successful. we know our tech companies, out of the top 20, 11 of them are american and nine are chinese. people are probably happy yesterday about this lawsuit with the chinese competitors who have seen our us government coming from the left and the right, going after a successful com pa ny left and the right, going after a successful company that is providing these free services that people all over the world love and use. 0k, we will have

to leave it there, but thank you for coming on. thank you. 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 afghan forces have to be ready. not a question of are they ready, they have to be ready and the commitment i see from them as they understand they are the security forces that must secure the afghan people. afghans writing for the fight. these menjust signed up. thousands of young recruits, they are put through their paces at kabul‘s training centre. the afghan army struggle with desertions but for now they are keen. translation: lived in holland for seven years. i came back to my country. my country needs me to fight the enemy.

the taliban are training, too. 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 play politics and negotiate in good will. they may be good at that kind of ward that instills fear into people and threatened them. it is a different ball game once they get into the more conventional warfare. what is your top worry now? my personal worry is our own failure. if we are not able to secure and save afghanistan from the civil war. how likely is the threat of civil war right now? it is very likely. but we are doing what we

can to mitigate it. north of kabul at the largest us base, 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. but this troop pull—out is not just a day. but this troop pull—out is notjust a question of military hardware, afg ha ns notjust a question of military hardware, afghans say they feel it is growing impact on their own lives. years ago when us forces surged, so too did life here. now the life blood in this town is draining, too. jobs are drying up. you can feel the uncertainty on the streets and fear. translation: 10096. i am scared. the taliban are here, they are here. they are here amongst us. how close are we to the taliban from where we are standing now. 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 a us engagement which dragged on for nearly 20 yea rs. which dragged on for nearly 20 years. a moment now fraught with both risk and resolve. least a set, bbc news in afghanistan. the british guitarist spencer davis has died. he was 81 and had been undergoing treatment for pneumonia in california. # keep on running. # keep on running... 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.

that's it from me, you can get me on twitter. tuesday may not have been the sunniest day of the month so far but it ended on something ofa far but it ended on something of a high. what a contrast as we move into the new day to see some really quite heavy rain moving into part of england and wales. it will feel cooler across some areas. low pressure dominating the weather through tuesday throwing the weather fronts across northern and western scotland but is towards the bay skate we look for the next development. that is tied in with storm barbara. the air is coming from the south so it's not a cold start to wednesday, but it will be a wet one across southern areas and the rain keeps coming through the rain keeps coming through the morning, easily 30 to 110 millimetres quite widely. bits

and pieces of weather to the north and rain across the western isles of scotland and the north and west of the mainland but the drip and drug getting into northern ireland. top temperature will be 17. the rain becoming a little bit lighter perhaps as the area of low pressure and its energy gradually move away towards scandinavia. as we move into thursday, the isobars begin to open upa thursday, the isobars begin to open up a touch with the ridge of high pressure meandering in from the atlantic. that is not to say it will be a completely dry day. much drier for the greater part of england and wales, but the northerly brings in showers to the eastern side of scotland, some getting into the north of england. the odd shower a little bit further through wales, may be the south—east and the high on the day, if you are lucky, around 16, but closer to 8 degrees. make the most of the dry weather on thursday. because here we are on friday with a new set of weather fronts bringing cloud, wind and rain backin

bringing cloud, wind and rain back in from the atlantic. i am not promising anybody a dry day through friday. the rain starts off across northern and western parts, but the band weakens as it works its way down towards the south—eastern quarter and through east anglia. even here, there will be a spot of rain. brighter skies following on behind at the temperature is pretty much where we would expect to see them for this time of year. a quick look at the weekend. we have another set of weather fronts working across northern and western parts, trying to get across towards east anglia and the south—east. just whether they make it is open to some doubt.

this is bbc news. the headlines: nasa says its osiris—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. 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 20 bodies and at least 50 people who were injured. demonstrators have been calling for widespread reforms, but intially started protesting against the notorious police unit, known as sars. the uk government is imposing the toughest coronavirus restrictions on manchester in the north of england from friday after failing to persuade the city's mayor to implement it voluntarily. the mayor wanted a better compensation deal.