this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. our top story: the relentless rise in new coronavirus infections. france, italy and the czech republic become the latest countries to announce record numbers of daily cases. 10 days to go — president trump casts his vote early in florida, a state he has to win to be re—elected. who did you vote for today? i voted for a guy named trump. thank you very much, everybody. at least 18 people are killed and many others are injured in a suicide attack in kabul. i'm jane dougall, coming up on sport today in15 minutes‘ time... el classico from behind closed doors, but sergio ramos scores from the spot to help real madrid to victory over barcelona.

covid—19 continues its fast spread throughout europe. many countries are reacting and hoping to slow transmission by imposing new restrictions. in the latest developments, poland's president andrzej duda has tested positive for the virus, and is quarantining. he said in a video message that he has no symptoms. the country is seeing a record rise in coronavirus cases and it's imposed a partial lockdown. in spain ten of 17 regions have asked the central government

for an emergency decree to limit people's movements. they also want powers to impose cu rfews. meanwhile new daily records were seen in the czech republic. in france, where a further 138 people have died from covid—i9 and in italy, where the regions of lombardy and campania are worst affected. more than 23,000 cases were reported across the uk, up from friday's total. and from monday, in the belgian capital, brussels, masks will be mandatory in all settings and all culture and sporting venues will be forced to close. david campanale has this report. alarm bells are ringing right across europe. the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in the czech republic, which has registered its worst daily figure yet for new infections — more than 15,000. over the past week, more people with the virus have died there,

as a percentage of the population, than anywhere else in the world. but, for top health agencies, concern extends to all but a handful of eu countries. they have declared now to be a critical moment. too many countries are seeing an exponential increase in cases and that's now needing two hospitals and icus running close or above capacity and we are still only in october. we urge leaders to take immediate action. a string of countries, including russia, poland, italy and switzerland, have again seen their worst daily figures yet for coronavirus infections. poland's second wave is far bigger than its first. their number of new cases is 22 times higher than the highest number of cases in the spring, and deaths there over the past 2a hours have been the highest since the pandemic began. with the president admitting to testing positive, poland has moved to impose

the highest level of restrictions across the whole country. work is under way to set up temporary hospitals. 500 beds are being installed in the conference rooms of the country's biggest arena, warsaw's national stadium. translation: we have an exceptional situation this year. i call for visits to the cemetery and family reunions, especially with the elderly, to be limited as much as possible. in spain, the government will consider on sunday whether to bring in a new state of emergency. just days after registering more than 1 million confirmed virus cases, their regions responsible for managing public health care have been heaping pressure on the government to give them the legal right to impose tighter restrictions. as in the first wave of the virus the challenge is to ensure hospitals everywhere are not overwhelmed. but there are increasing reports

of intensive care units under severe strain. in one particularly hard—hit area area of belgium, liege, doctors have been likening the situation to trench warfare. in paris, a senior hospital administrator said the current second wave risksed being worse than the first. restrictions across europe are being tightened, but many on the front line feel it's too little, too late. david campanale, bbc news. professor raffaele bruno is the head of infectious diseases at the university of pavia and works in a hospital south of milan. he says the numbers of coronavirus patients at his hospital are growing, and governments need to implement harsher measures now to curb the spread of the infection. we cannot meet with the 300 normal patients without any intensive

support, and we can arrive at 100 patients in the intensive care unit. the problem right now, we are afraid about, you know, the people, the elderly people, people with comorbidities. we have to take into account that italy was the epicentre in the first wave of covid, but it has more than doubled in a day in cases across the country. for this reason, today, we are close to 5000 patients who have tested positive. now, your hospital was at the centre of the first major outbreak of the virus in italy. how does this compare now? the implication is different because right now, the

patients come into the hospital early. for this reason, we have more tools to manage them. in the first wave, we had patients that are arrived at the hospital with very important problems, respiratory problems, i mean, right now, we are able to see patients in their early face of the disease. —— phase. able to see patients in their early face of the disease. —— phasem aircoming in earlier, face of the disease. —— phasem air coming in earlier, does that mean they have a better chance of surviving? correct. for this reason, and also because right now, steroids, and oxygen, better than the first wave. doctor bruno, italy, like other countries in europe has just recorded another daily record in new cases. what measures should

be in place to stop the surge, do you think? this is a very important question because, as you know, another lockdown could be the worst for the economic point of view, but right now, we need some restrictions to avoid the spread of infection. i don't know which kind of measures are the best, but right now, we need it. it's important to start these measures because the initial, if they started now, we have the effect after four weeks. it's just ten days left before the us election, and the american president, donald trump has voted it's just ten days left before the us election, and the american president, donald trump has voted in person in florida. he cast his vote at the palm beach county public library, initial, if they started now, we have the effect after four weeks.

in his adopted home state. he voted early, ahead of the official polling date — on the 3rd of november. just like mr trump, more than 53 million americans have already voted — either by post or in person. here's what mr trump had to sayjust after he cast his vote. it was a very secure vote. much more secure than when you send in a ballot, i can tell you that. everything was perfect, very strict. right by the rules. when you send in your ballot it could never be like that, it could never be secure like that, but they've done a fantasticjob over here, great people inside. but it's an honour to be voting, it's an honour to be in this great area, which i know so well. i hear we're doing very well in florida and we're who did you vote for today? i voted for a guy named trump. laughter. thank you very much, everybody. donald trump's democratic challenger joe biden has made two stops in the battle ground state of pennsylvania today. speaking at a drive—in rally in bucks county he attacked mr trump's record

in the fight against covid—19. there's going to be a dark winter ahead unless we change our ways. experts tell us we're going to lose nearly another 200,000 lives nationwide in the next several months. all because this president cares more about the stock market than he does you. because he refuses to follow the science. it's estimated that if we just wore masks, just wore masks over the next few months, experts in his own administration say we'd save 100,000 lives. let's speak now to anita kumar, she's the white house correspondent & associate editor at politico. anita, thank you forjoining us. why was it four weeks. anita, thank you for joining was it four weeks. anita, thank you forjoining us. why was it important to donald trump to vote early? well, he wanted to go to florida. he was in florida for a number of rallies. it's a huge state for him. he must win that state to win the presidency. so he wanted to do that. he also wanted to do it in person.

he also wanted to do it in person. he wanted to do exactly what you heard him say which is show people that it heard him say which is show people thatitis heard him say which is show people that it is ok to go to the polls in person, that it's safe, it's better than voting by mail, which as you know, he has been talking about for several months now, that voting by mail can lead to fraud, so he really wa nted mail can lead to fraud, so he really wanted to do that and do that in person. donald trump is swinging through four states today, in contrast, joe biden is really concentrating his energies in one location. what does that tell us about these campaigns? well, trump is doing what he did in 2016 which is doing what he did in 2016 which is these last few weeks, you know, after he got back up on the trail after he got back up on the trail after coronavirus, he is doing these rallies multiple times a day, to — four rallies a day, he things that pushes him over the edge. it did pushes him over the edge. it did push them over the edge in 2016. he is going to states primarily that he one last time, so is not looking so much to expand the map at this point, he's visiting one state on sunday, new hampshire, that he

didn't win, but primarily going to the states he won, he's trying to get those people who voted for him last time out to the polls. he feels like, obviously, if he can get those same groups of people out, that he could win. even some of the locations he's going to are not really the swing locations, per se, but more of his base conservative base. joe biden is doing, as you said, much less. he's been doing what he has been doing, which is sticking close to home, going to a few key states, including pennsylvania, which is really, really crucial for both men. they really crucial for both men. they really need to win this state. it's up really need to win this state. it's upforgrabs. really need to win this state. it's up for grabs. joe biden looks like he has an edge there, but it's very close, and this was a stunner last time, if you remember, no republican had won that state in quite some time when donald trump wanted to, so you will see joe biden time when donald trump wanted to, so you will seejoe biden stick to this coronavirus message saying that donald trump is not going to do a good job and he shouldn't be president because of that. joe biden is consistently ahead in the polls. what does trump need to due to pull ahead at this point? well, it's

really difficult to see what he's hoping it's just to get more people out, more of those supporters that we re out, more of those supporters that were maybe not enthusiastic, thought they might skip it, because really, it's not just they might skip it, because really, it's notjust the national polls that shows thatjoe biden is winning and most of these battle ground states, but, you know, an election tends to tighten up right near the end. joe biden‘s campaign is saying that generally right near the end when you pull, it does tighten a little bit. so donald trump is looking to get out his supporters that might have set out, they weren't really sure what they wanted to do, get the back of the polls, but it's really hard to see how he really changes things significantly in the next ten days. you mentioned earlier, more than 50 million people in america already voted. i think that's about a third of the people that's about a third of the people that are going to vote by november three, so it's quite a lot of people, not a lot of time to change the minds of those last remaining people. we will be watching. at least 18 people have

died following a suicide bombing in kabul — the islamic state group said they carried out the attack. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani has the latest. according to officials, this suicide bomber was trying to get inside the tuition centre when he was challenged by the security guards and blew himself up. their bravery really preventing an even greater loss of life. the vast majority of these students would have been in their late teens and early 20s, many of them preparing for a university entrance exam. the islamic state group carried out a similar attack on another tuition centre two years ago. in fact, a tuition centre quite close by to this one in which more than a0 students were killed. the area in which these attacks have happened is largely populated by afghanistan's shia minority, which has been repeatedly targeted by is. in recent weeks, there has been an upsurge in fighting in afghanistan, but that's actually largely between the afghan government and the taliban, despite the fact that the two sides are engaged in peace

and a negotiations in qatar. is are not part of those talks, which in any case have largely stalled amidst attempts to resolve the luminary issues, stalled amidst attempts to resolve prelimanary issues, but whether it's is, whether it's the taliban, whether it's civilians being mistakenly targeted in government air strikes, ordinary afghans are dying on a daily basis. staying in afghanistan. afghan security forces say they have killed abu muhsin al—masri, a senior al-qaeda leader, during a special operation in ghazni province, which lies south—west of the capital kabul. believed to be the organisation's second—in—command, al—masri was on the fbi's most wanted terrorists list. he had been charged in the united states with having provided material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organisation, and conspiracy to kill us nationals. to cameroon now, where at least eight children have been killed, and several wounded after a gun attack on a school

in the city of kumba. reports from officials and parents say that the gunmen stormed a school and opened fire. a local government official has blamed the attack on insurgents who are seeking to form a breakaway state in cameroon‘s english—speaking west, though this has not been independently confirmed. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's jane dougal thank you very much. the spanish champion‘s real madrid is top of la liga after 3—1 victory over barcelona in the first game. they have had a slow start to their domestic season and they were behind after just five minutes domestic season and they were behind afterjust five minutes here with frederico's opener. the cattelan‘s where then level within three minutes. the catalans were level within three minutes through their teenage star ansu fati. real then re—gained the lead

in the second half through a penalty from captain sergio ramos. and the result was sealed when luka modric added a third in the final minute. it's still early days but barcelona are in 10th. staying with football and there were four matches in the english premier league on saturday. in the day's early kick—off, phil foden rescued a point for manchester city after a spectacular opening goal by michael antonio. so, more dropped points for pep guardiola and, afterwards, the manager was asked how many points this year's champions would need. i don't know. it looks like, but i don't know, so i'm not a guy who can predict the future and know what's going to happen. so, of course, we have already dropped points, seven, and it's a lot, but we struggle a lot for many absences, for the physical conditions, for many reasons. we knew it, and now it's just winning game by game and see what happens. we met at times, manchester city may played their defence, but when we had to, we got backin defence, but when we had to, we got back in and re—defended defence, but when we had to, we got back in and re-defended and made sure we got blocks and defended the

cross. if you are going to play manchester city, you are not going to play them without getting opportunities because they are so good. the quality they've got is always going to make it hard. but for me, i was complaining a little bit, seeing an awful lot of goals and not so many good defensive organisations. i thought we defended really well today, and we had two against manchester city. meanwhile at old trafford, it finished goalless betweeen manchester united and chelsea. the best chances fell to the home side in the second half, edison cavani and marcus rashford both going close. united remain in the bottom half of the table, down in 14th place. i think it's an even game, but i think, of course, if you look at the chances of a not many. but their keeper made two to fantastic saves, the one in the first half with the right foot, and especially the second one in the top corner. i'm standing right behind it, and i'm celebrating like it's the winning goal in the champions league final, but what a save. elsewhere crystal palace beat fulham

2—1 at craven cottage, wilfred zaha with the winner and currently liverpool are in action against sheffield united where it's1—1. sheffield united scoring first with a penalty and liverpool equalising just before half time. lewis hamilton is on track for a record breaking 92nd grand prix victory after taking pole position for the portuguese grand prix. the world champion starts ahead of his mercedes team mate valteri bottas with max verstappen in third. but there was a delay to qualifying after a drain cover came loose on the track. they've fixed it now. british rider teo geoghegan hart won stage 20 of the giro d'italia on saturday, beating jai hindley to the line in a sprint finish. hindley will wear the pinkjersey for the first time going into sunday's final stage, with geoghegan hart second in the overall standings on the same time. two rug by two rugby now.

ireland have recorded a resounding 50—17 victory over italy as the six nations resumed on saturday. their bonus point victory means they can win the tournament with another bonus point win in paris next weekend. 18 points forjonny sexton from boot and hand. but like so much sport at the moment, no fans were inside the stadium to watch it. that's all the sport for now. more on our website. thank you, jane. the spanish champion‘s real madrid is top of la more than three million people in wales are being asked to stay mainly at home for the next 16 days after the country began a new national lockdown to try to slow the spread of coronavirus. supermarkets are still open but there's been confusion over rules banning the sale of nonessential items. first minister mark drakeford said the welsh government will review "how the weekend has gone". 0ur wales correspondent, tomos morgan, has more. there's a sense of deja vu in wales today. as the firebreak starts,

the country is back under national lockdown for the next two weeks. caerphilly was the first area in wales to be put under strict local measures at the start of september, meaning it's been illegal for households to mix and for people to enter or leave local lockdown areas without good reason. we need it. if it's going to stop the spreading, 0k, it might hurt the economy, but they're doing it for a reason at the end of the day. ithink, you know, six weeks of a lockdown, itjust seems like a long time, do you know what i mean? it just seems never—ending. the rules now are much like in march. all nonessential businesses have been closed. but, this time around, those that are open have been stopped by the welsh labour government from selling nonessential goods. the new rule, though, has sparked frustration and confusion. we've got things like hardware. there's a little bit of gifting, cards, all the usual things you'd expect to see in a supermarket, and, you know, i'm sure that's replicated up and down the country, so not only are we possibly not

allowed to sell those going forward, it's how we would go about doing that. it's estimated that this firebreak could cost the welsh economy a further £500 million. so what retailers, hospitality, cafe, bars and restaurants will want from the welsh government is a guarantee, or at least a strategy for reopening, so they can make some profits again in the run—up to christmas. tomos morgan, bbc news, caerphilly. is this the moment for wholesale change in chile? that may seem odd for a country recently praised as being one of the most stable in the region, with dramatic falls in rates of poverty too. but many inequalities remain, and the past twelve months has seen a stream of protests and demonstrations, prompting a referendum this sunday on rewriting chile's ito—year old constitution.

chile is a country used earthquakes, but few people expected the shake—up that we seen this past year. injust 12 months, chile went from being in a way to stability, as its president described it, to a country wanting to the right to the rules. —— oasis of stability. it all started when santiago hiked its metro ticket prices byjust four cents. it represented the tipping point, emitting anger and resentment among millions struggling to make ends meet among a country that on the surface look like it was succeeding. in the weeks afterwards, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to call for change. among the demands, better education, more quality, and for many, the president's resignation. the demonstrations were largely

peaceful but clashes with protesters and heavy—handed responses by the authorities have marked this past year too. chile's current constitution was drawn up and 1980 under former dictator augusto pinochet. in a modern democracy, there is no place for it, critics argue, and they say access to basic services shouldn't be in the hands of private businesses. the old system needs to change. after a pause in protesting because of covid—19, people have returned to the streets. peaceful protests like this and more troubling ones like this. tension is high in chile and so our expectations. tension is high in chile and so are expectations. translation: the problem that chile has and the social movement has shown, is that it's a system made just for a few people that guarantees immunity, impunity, and that dignified life for the privileged few, what we want to have as a constitution that guarantees equality and rights for eve ryo ne guarantees equality and rights for everyone with dignified conditions

where there is no such thing as first and second class citizens. chileans are expected to approve a new constitution, but there are critics. those who say the current set of rules helped this country to prosper, and tearing it up could bring economic instability at the worst possible time. chile needs to look forward. it seems to me that what many people wa nt seems to me that what many people want to do is rewrite history and deny the existence of the presence and the importance it has in implementing the economic model.“ it rewriting the past or wanting to move forward with the clean slate? however you look at it, sunday's boat will define chile's future. katie watson, bbc news. a nasa space probe which slammed into an asteroid on tuesday to collect a sample of rock fragments is at risk of losing its consignment. the 0siris—rex mission aims to bring material from the asteroid bennu back to earth in 2023.

the team in charge of the spacecraft said excess rock fragments had wedged open the lid of the collector and particles they had hoped to study back on earth were now drifting off into space. scientists are now trying to stow the samples on the spacecraft far more quickly than planned. you are watching bbc news. now, the weather with ben rich. hello there, it's that night of the year when the clocks go back, marking the end of british summertime. but of course that is nothing to do with the weather. of course, what we saw on saturday proves we are very much in the grip of autumn weather, strong, squally winds and heavy rain along this weather front swept southwards and low pressure staying —— so as we had to tonight, stirring to clear eastward through central and eastern parts of a month, some of that clipping into southern style and part—time, then we see clear spells following on but plenty of showers rattling in from the west, blown in on a brisk wind. it's going

to be quite a cool night as well, temperatures across some parts of scotla nd temperatures across some parts of scotland getting down to 1—2 , more widely between 4—10 . but for tomorrow, it is looking like an autumnal day. yes, there will be some spells of sunshine, but some brisk winds and some blustery showers, and outcome of the showers will focus and across western areas, so through northern ireland, western scotland, parts of northwest england, wales and the southwest will also see some blowing in from the english channel coasts. the further east you are, well, not as many showers, parts of my feasting than in eastern scotland may well stay dry with some spells of sunshine. windy for all. those of the average wind speeds, gusts will be higher than that, cost of around 50 mph for exposed spots in western scotland. and a fairly cool feel as well, top temperatures between 10—14 degrees. as we had through sunday night, further showers rattling in from the west. could see a slightly more prolonged spell of rain for a time across western scotland. as we get into monday, well, it stays very u nsettled, get into monday, well, it stays very unsettled, but i think the focus for

the showers will shift a little bit further southwards. so, the showers will shift a little bit furthersouthwards. so, particularly pressing than in wales, northern ireland seeing some as well, but scotla nd ireland seeing some as well, but scotland should start to dry out a little bit from the north. today was —— stays fairly cool though with 11-14 . this —— stays fairly cool though with 11—14. this area of low pressure that's been with us clears away, but things don't really settle down. there is a big low that's going to send to the northwest of the uk, that will drive showers and longer spells of rain through the weekend some perhaps more widespread wet weather towards the end of the week. so certainly in unsettled outlook with some outbreaks of rain at times, but hopefully there will also be some spells of sunshine.

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south yorkshire is the latest region to move to england's top level of restrictions — local leaders in sheffield call for an exit plan. the question is, at what point will we come out of tier 3? no one's able to answer that question. even the mayor is asking that question and, well, the mayor should have asked that question when he was negotiating with the government for the last ten days. police in gloucestershire begin border patrols to stop non—essential travel as wales begins its first full day of a firebreak lockdown. the first minister of wales thanks people for their efforts in staying at home and says, "we all have a responsibility "to stop the virus spreading." headteachers in england say they're "bitterly disappointed" that the number of laptops they're given for deprived children has been cut by 80%. who did you vote for today? i voted for a guy named trump. president trump casts his vote for the us election