and around the world. as coronavirus infections surge again in europe, the world health organisation issues a new warning. we are at a criticaljuncture in this pandemic. particularly in the northern hemisphere. the next few months are going to be very tough. in the uk, a national lockdown hits three million people in wales — the country is under full restrictions now for 16 days. sudan will normalise diplomatic relations with israel — the third arab state to do so in two months. and we hearfrom nicole kidman and hugh grant about their new project, a whodunnit set among the socialites of manhattan.

hello and welcome. governments across europe are sounding the alarm as the continent suffers a sharp increases in coronavirus infections. several countries in europe are reporting infection rates higher than during the first wave of the pandemic in march and april. italy has recorded more than 19—thousand new coronavirus cases in the last 2a hours. northern regions such as lombardy are again worst affected. in neighbouring france, it's a similar picture — more regions have been added to a strict overnight curfew. the country has just passed a million virus cases. and wales has begun a lockdown that will last for 16 days. we'll have more on the uk in a moment, but first freya cole reports on the situation in europe. temperature checks and public hand sanitizer.

it's a new norm in the centre of rome. but these measures are no longer enough. italy has recorded more than 19,000 new coronavirus cases in the last 2a hours. the highest daily tally since the start of the countries outbreak. translation: the situation is very worrying, very worrying. i hope for the best but it doesn't look good. i'm worried about the spread of the illness. the northern lombardy region is again the country's worst affected district and a night—time curfew has been enforced in an attempt to stop the contagion. in neighbouring france, it's a similar picture. from midnight, more regions will be added to a strict overnight curfew. it will impact more than 46 million people. but authorities say the health system needs protection. doctors say they live in fear of the powerful surge of the second wave.

translation: help us to avoid the tsunami. we don't want to relive the situation. hospital staff did not come out unscathed in the first crisis. we'd like to avoid getting back into that situation which was inhumane for everyone. the virus is also rampant in the czech republic where outrage is pointed towards the country's leaders. the press snapped the health minister breaking his very own rules. he was caught without a mask at a restaurant in prague with appeared to be illicitly open. the cost of dinner, his career. he's been ordered to resign. translation: i don't care who they invited they are and why, we can't preach water and drink wine. i think the minister should lead by example without exception. when our medics are fighting the front line to save our lives of our fellow citizens,

such a thing is inexcusable. spain has been grappling with the virus since the beginning of the outbreak. more than a million people have now tested positive to the virus. but there has been a lack of testing and leaders believe the actual tally is closer to three million. too many countries are seeing an exponential increase in cases and that's now leading to hospitals and icus running close or above capacity. and we are still only in october. the pandemic has created a vacuum of grief in society. families torn apart by a virus which again is out of control. a series of new coronavirus measures is coming into force across the uk, in england, greater manchester has entered tier 3, which has the toughest restrictions — and four council areas in south yorkshire will join them at midnight. in scotland, a new five tier system of restrictions has been

announced for november. meanwhile in wales — the first full national lockdown since march is beginning. from there, hywel griffith reports. a short, sharp shutdown. wales now has the most severe restrictions anywhere in the uk. some feel already pushed to their limit. louise has spent thousands of pounds making her gym safe, but like all cafes, bars, pubs and places of worship in wales, she too has to close the doors. it's just totally devastating, if i'm perfectly honest with you. you know, waking up this morning, it was really difficult not to have a wobble. the fire break covers the school holidays. for parents like bethan, staying at home makes for a tough half term. it really is difficult, just trying to get them out for short, sharp bits of exercise, you know, that social aspect that they're missing as well going to their sports club.

here in caerphilly, there was a last—minute shopping rush before six o'clock. nonessential retailers are closing, supermarkets stay open for essential items only. but it's not clear what they are. i'm not sure on things like books or newspapers. clothing, we are not going to be allowed to buy, i presume anything like that, footwear and all that, i think, is on the forbidden list. who deems what is essential? i suppose it's a little unsure. i'm thinking small items might be fine but larger items may be not. asda has already been closing off some aisles. it says it's deeply concerned about having to police purchases. there is a bigger prize at stake here than whether you need to buy a candle or not. it is a straightforward matter of fairness. we are in this together here in wales. no individual and no organisation is above the effort that we are all required to make. and that means the whole nation, regardless of local covid rates.

here in ceredigion, they have the lowest in wales, just a fraction of those in caerphilly. haney isn't happy that this national lockdown means shutting down her salon. to compare us to cardiff or merthyr tydfil is ridiculous, i think. england are doing like the tiered lockdown, which makes more sense to me. but others feel it will protect them. sandra would be prepared to close her book shop for even longer. it's not the greatest thing to say as a business owner, but i think we probably need a longer, more meaningful lockdown. i think the localised measures aren't working. you know, we can see people crossing borders. who can open once this fire break ends still isn't clear. the hope is to save trade ahead of christmas. but there's already fear that the new year may see wales closing down again. hywel griffith, bbc news, caerphilly. martin mckee is professor of european public health

at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine — he gave me his take on the situation in europe right now. it's certainly not what i would hope for. it's extremely alarming and we really shouldn't be in this position by now. obviously when the pandemic hit at first nobody knew what to do and we needed to have very severe lockdowns. but we have had a lot of time to put things in place to prevent this happening. unfortunately, we haven't done that. such as what? well, we should have had really well—functioning test, trace and isolate in all countries. a number of countries do have that and moved quickly. but also i think it's quite clear that some have opened up too quickly. and i think what we are seeing now is the consequences of a well—known phenomenon in europe and that is the august summer holiday, where people were mixing in a way that, in retrospect, for some people as was predicted, has allowed the virus to spread

widely across many but not all parts of europe. there are, for example, germany has a really good test and trace system. again, they are seeing numbers going up as well. that's right. if we look at what happened, by the end of august we were beginning to see cases rise among young people and of course they were the group that were travelling and were socialising, going to hospitality venues particularly in the mediterranean. they brought it back. it's taken some time for it to filter into the older population which is what we are seeing now. the growth of the infection has been much slower than in the first phase. largely because people have now become accustomed to social distancing. even in the absence of restrictions they are being much more careful. but it is working its way through and we are now seeing it getting into the older populations with the rise in hospitalizations. tragically with the rise in deaths. there are a lot of individual circumstances in particular countries.

some countries did open up precipitously. the czech republic a good example where they had a goodbye to coronavirus party. parts of the united kingdom where the virus transmission was never fully suppressed. and of course, countries have been affected by the pattern of movement during the summer where people went on holidays and so on. which is protected some more than others. which has protected some more than others. how do you see the death rates comparing in different countries in comparison to their number of cases? is it lower than the peak of the pandemic? yes it is. what we are seeing is first of all, older people everywhere are protecting themselves much more. we learned much more about how to protect people in care homes, which we did not do well almost anywhere in the first wave. but the other really important thing is that once,

if people do become infected or severely ill, care in the hospitals have improved quite substantially. part of this is new drugs like dexamethasone and other drugs being used. a lot of it is people are simply becoming, health professionals are becoming much more experienced on what to do and when to start people on oxygen and ventilate them. and the importance of given them blood thinning agents when needed. there's been a great deal of knowledge even in the absence of the absence of any therapeutic breakthrough. let's look at some of the day's other news. vaccine makers astrazeneca and johnson & johnson say their coronavirus trials in the united states will resume after regulators gave them the all clear. it follows reports of illnesses among the trial participants. no links to the vaccines were found. the pentagon has condemned turkey for testing their russian—made s 400 missile defence system. turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan confirmed the test but said he was not bound by what the us thought on the matter. the pentagon threatened the nato member with ‘serious consequences‘. police in poland have used pepper

spray on hundreds of people protesting in warsaw against a court ruling to almost completely ban abortions. on thursday, the constitutional court ruled that ending the life of a deformed foetus was unconstitutional making abortion only valid in cases of rape or incest, or to protect the mother's life. sudan has become the third arab country in two months to recognise israel. it follows talks brokered by the united states. president trump could not resist taking a dig at his presidential rivaljoe biden as he made the announcement from the oval office, while on the line to israel's leader benjamin nethanyahu. do you think sleepyjoe could've made this deal, bibi? sleepyjoe. do you think he would've made this deal somehow? i don't think so. well, mr president, one thing i can tell you is that we appreciate the help for peace from anyone in america and we appreciate

what you have done. yeah. a diplomatic answer there from the israeli leader. nomia iqbal is our washington correspondent. she says today's deal will continue sudan's path away from international isolation. this is the third arab league country to recognise israeljoining the united arab emirates and bahrain. early in the week donald trump actually removed sudan from a list of terrorism. it was a list that sudan really wanted to come off because it'd been stopping it from getting much needed economic aid and investment. sudan has been in internationalization for quite a while. it was sanctioned back in the 90s by the us for harbouring the then al-qaeda leader osama bin laden. this deal today has been in the making for quite a bit. earlier in the year sudan had opened up its airspace to israeli aircraft. the secretary of state had visited a few months ago making him

the first secretary of state to do so in a decade. i think any country that has not recognised israel previously now recognising israel is a huge moment. what does it mean in the context of middle east peace? it doesn't mean a huge amount in direct terms. of course sudan is not in the middle east. history sometimes goes in small tech steps. what it does is pave the way for other arab countries to recognise israel. i imagine the ultimate goal will be for the president to get saudi arabia to recognise israel. both countries not at war and that would be a huge moment. it's not the deal of the century that donald trump had promised on the campaign trail, that was about bringing peace between the israelis and palestinians and of course iran is nowhere to be seen in any of the deals. the palestinian officials have viewed all these deals

so far as a betrayal. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: 63 million people watched the final us presidential debate, but did it make any of them change their minds? we'll read the runes in nashvillle tennessee. a historic moment that many of his victims have 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 korem, it lights up a biblicalfamine now in the 20th century. the depressing conclusion, in argentina today, it's actually cheaper to paper 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 bows 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. italy has seen a record number of coronavirus infections in a single day, as cases increase across europe. president trump has announced that sudan will normalise diplomatic relations with israel — the third arab state to do so in two months. there was far less shouting and far more policy: the second and final presidential debate in nashville last night was a far cry from the chaotic shouting match last month. with just 12 days to go before november's election, joe biden and donald trump argued about the white house's handling of the pandemic, the economy, health care, race relations and climate change. they also accused each

other of corruption. from nashville our north america editor, jon sopel reports. applause. joe biden emerged onto the stage masked, the president, maskless. this was identical to the first food fight of a debate but this was altogether more restrained and all the better for it. yes, the shouting had been replaced by a series of emoji faces, eye rolls, mock indignation, derisive laughter, but the exchanges were still sharp. the president claimed coronavirus was turning a corner. we have a vaccine that is coming, it is ready, it's going to be announced within weeks. we are learning to live with it. we have no choice. we can't lock ourselves up in a basement likejoe does. he says that, you know, we are learning to live with it. people are learning to die with it. you folks at home will have an empty chair at the kitchen table this morning. that man or wife going to bed tonight and reaching over to try to touch their... out of habit, where their wife or husband was, is gone. the president went after the biden

family and the son of the former vice president, hunter, and the money he had made abroad. you've got $3.5 million, your family got $3.5 million, and you know, some day you are going to have to explain, why did you get $3.5... i never got any money from russia. butjoe biden was not going to take any lectures from the president about transparency. you have not released a single, solitary year of your tax return. what are you hiding? and on race and racism, claim and counter—claim. nobody has done more for the black community than donald trump, and if you look, with the exception of abraham lincoln... abraham lincoln here was one of the most racist presidents we have had in modern history. and there were harsh words traded over the administration's child separation policy, to discourage illegal immigration at the border. babies were separated from their parents and three years on, there are over 500 children who have become orphans because the us authorities don't know where their parents are. the president defended

what they had done. they are so well taken care of. they are in facilities that are so clean. but some of them have not been reunited... but they got separated from their parents, and it makes us a laughing stock and violates every notion of who we are as a nation. joe biden sought to portray himself as the healer and unifier, donald trump as the outsider who would fix america's broken politics. i went to a bar in nashville where trump supporters had gathered. most striking was how empty it was. three weeks ago, for the first debate, it was rammed with a few hundred people there. last night, there were around a dozen. so will this final debate make a difference to the outcome of the election? i think that most americans have already decided. i think it may change a few people's minds but statistically, it just doesn't change that many people's minds. debates don't. i'm still pretty much undecided. i think i'm just disappointed in both candidates. donald trump was much more disciplined, much more effective in the debate last night,

but is it too little, too late, with only 11 days to go until polling? and already in the united states, it seems that probably over a third of the electorate have already cast their ballots. jon sopel, bbc news, nashville, tennessee. conservationists are sounding the alarm after thousands of dead seals have washed ashore on the coast of namibia. they estimate more than 10,000 have died in recent weeks, the vast majority of them, says ocean conservation namibia, are premature pups. the exact reason for the die—off at the seal colony at pelican point is not fully clear, but one of the most likely causes is lack of food. nodia dreyer is the co—founder of ocean conservation namibiam which has been monitoring the situation at pelican point. he explains that female seals are known to sacrifice their pups when food gets scarce. we were out there this morning again and our estimation, we may have been a little conservative on our initial count

of around 5000. just the colony we're dealing with, we're estimating in excess of 7000 dead pups. these are premature pups. there are tiny little aborted fetuses. that is not counting the adults, the adult females and other pups lying dead on the beaches too. what is the likely cause thought to be? in history this has played out a few times before. it's normally down to food availability. it is the most likely because right now. because the animals are very emaciated. they are very thin on the beaches. obviously very malnourished. females don't have a huge range because they're all with current pups on the coast. if the fish looks far away they just

don't have a means to get the food and come back and nurse the pups. so they abort the foetus in an attempt to save themselves. can anything be done by humankind to help them? it's on such a big scale. if you had a couple of isolated individuals you could set up rehabilitation centres and try to feed them. but also the other big factor is that we can't say for certain that it is starvation. there could be toxins involved, sickness, disease and until we have a clearer picture of what the potential threats are, it's very difficult we also want to avoid too much human, animal interaction you have suggested that this has animal interaction. you have suggested that this has happened in the past. it has. we had a major die off in 1994. we lost about a third of the entire seal population which at that stage was more or less the same that it is now at 1.3 million seals.

two of hollywood's biggest stars, nicole kidman and hugh grant appear together for the first time in a new tv series. the undoing is a psychological thriller, which revolves around a successful rich couple, who appear to live the perfect life. our arts editor will gompertz spoke to them about the series and about the changes taking place in the entertainment industry. slow piano music. there's nicole. hello. i play a successful therapist. hugh plays a child oncologist. not all my patients die, anyway. 0h! why are you so dressed up? i liked the idea that he was a man who appeared to be wonderful on the surface and then... all hell breaks loose. tonight, the gruesome discovery of a mother bludgeoned to death... in recent years, i have done a lot of, um, what you would call character acting and i guess this was less like that.

it was back to someone closer to me, or old, fat hugh was used in this one. nicole, the undoing has a female director and you are a female lead. if you do ever want to talk... thank you. do you think things are changing in the movie and tv business? um... yeah, gradually, very... i mean, ithink, you know, it is slowly, slowly, everything is slow. as women who have some sort of opportunity, we have to actually make that call and say, "well, we actually want a female to direct this." hugh, are you noticing from the sort of scripts you are seeing, the business is genuinely becoming more diverse? there's a very strong impulse to make everything very diverse, yeah. if they are trying to make their project more diverse, it's coming from a good place, where that's a passion for them, that's an important cause, then that's all terrific.

but if it is done out of a sense of... fear of backlash, then i'm not sure that that's great, so healthy, creatively. is that enough, we've put in an appearance? can we go? the undoing touches on fear and backlash and class and race... i'll make it up to you later. make it up to be now. ..in what is a protected whodunnit among the manhattan set. make an englishman happy, go on. will gompertz, bbc news. good to see some hollywood stars backin good to see some hollywood stars back in action. and before we go, it's not everday you see a building go for a walk but in shanghai you just might. this old primary school walked to its new location to make way for a new commercial center. in attempt to preserve the building, engineers used nearly 200 devices that acted like legs to lift this 7000 tonne building which moved it step by step. the walk lasted 18 days, and the school will now transform into a cultural education facility.

great pictures there. that is it for me. you can reach great pictures there. that is it for me. you can reach me great pictures there. that is it for me. you can reach me online. thank you for watching. hello. if you are hoping to get out about this weekend the weather may have an impact on your plans. it is looking decidedly unsettled. it will be windy but heavy rain at times but not all the time. some drier and brighter moments as well. low pressure in charge for the weather at the moment. quite a big low in deep low as well. a lot of white lines and isobars quashing together. it shows we will have strong winds and the strongest of the ones will a lwa ys and the strongest of the ones will always be in association with this ban of rain. the wet kiss and when weather to start saturday across the western side of the uk, the rain ban will push it eastwards through the day and you can see the bright green and yellow colours showing up, a short and sharp bursts of really intense rainfall accompanied by the

really quality winds pushing eastwards as we go through the day. largely in the east will stay dry. showered from the west. windy for all and along the lines of the rain ban. at temperatures 17 degrees across the southeast. turning cooler and fresher from the northwest as i rain ban clears its way through. the rain ban clears its way through. the rain will persist across east anglia in the southeast for a good part of saturday night. claire spells and showers follow on from the west and don't forget, the clocks go back in oui’ don't forget, the clocks go back in our through the early hours of sunday. the end of the british summertime and at the weather goes, summer summertime and at the weather goes, summer has a long since left us, and tom in the with a chart that takes us tom in the with a chart that takes us into sunday. —— autumn weather chart. the northwest of the uk. pretty brisk winds on sunday, not quite as windy and i will have been on saturday. some swells of sunshine per showers as well in the most frequent and plentiful across the western areas i think we will also

see quite a few run again across the english channel coast. as i mentioned it will be windy, strongest winds across the west of scotland. these are the average wind speeds. why do cool phil as well. temperatures between 11 and 14 degrees. we head into the new working week, low pressure still with us. it will lose some of its intensity as we go into the monday. the winds will ease a lot of it was still some showers of margaret's mother ran around. and it is looking like a very unsettled week ahead. that is it for now. enjoy your weekend.

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the headlines. several countries in europe have reported coronavirus infection rates higher than during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring. in france, the government has imposed an overnight curfew on two—thirds of the country which will operate for the next six weeks. in the uk, a national lockdown has hit 3 million people in wales in an effort to reduce coronavirus. the country is under full restrictions now, for the next 16 days. us president donald trump has announced that sudan will normalize diplomatic relations with israel — the third arab state to do so in two months. mr trump also said he expected saudi arabia to follow soon. more than seven thousand dead seals have been washed ashore on the coast of namibia. most are premature pups. conservationists say it's likely the mothers are not getting enough to eat, which can cause them to give birth early.