this is bbc news — the headlines at 4.00: hampshire police say they're dealing with an ongoing incident aboard a tanker near the coast off the isle of wight. more pressure on the government as thousands of doctors back the footballer marcus rashford's campaign for free school meals during the school holidays. after a public backlash, the welsh goverment says it will review its ban on supermarkets selling non—essential items during the country's two—week lockdown. spain's government announces a new state of emergency as it tackles the virus — a national curfew from from 11.00pm until 6.00 in the morning is due to come in from sunday. lewis hamilton makes history as he breaks the record for the most formula 1 wins ever — the british driver took the title from michael schumacher

at the grand prix in portugal. good afternoon. we start with breaking news this hour. police are dealing with an ongoing incident on board an oil tanker situated off the isle of wight. the tanker, named in reports as the liberian—registered nave andromeda, was due to dock in southampton earlier. hampshire constabulary said, "we are aware and dealing "with an ongoing incident on board a vessel which is situated south "of the isle of wight." the maritime coastguard agency said it was assisting police and search and rescue helicopters were at the scene. let's speak to our correspondent, anna o'neill. anna, this story has been developing over the last hour or so. we still only have partial information about what is actually happening on board

the tanker, but we do know that a police presence and a coast guard presence are in the area? that right, so we know that the nave andromeda, which was built in 2011, departed lagos in nigeria earlier this month, even though it is sailing under a liberian flag. as you say, it should have docked at southampton around 10:30am. there are unconfirmed reports that gave out a mayday signal at around nine m. hampshire police have confirmed the bbc they are dealing with the incident, as have the marina and coastguard agency. importa ntly, incident, as have the marina and coastguard agency. importantly, this hour we spoke to the lawyer for the owners of the nave andromeda and he orders it has been known that there we re orders it has been known that there were no a number of stowaways on board for some days and he says to us board for some days and he says to us it is categorically not a hijacking and that the situation is under control. there is believed to bea under control. there is believed to be a three mile exclusion zone around the vessel and of course the situation is ongoing while we find out more. yes, indeed. presumably this has been an issue all the way through about what was happening on the channel coast, the potential of illegal migrants to be using ships

andindeed illegal migrants to be using ships and indeed using trucks obviously as well on ferries to get into the uk. presumably, we don't know what the motives may be of any stowaways or indeed what it is they are actually hoping for? we don't at the moment, but of course having spoken to the lawyer we know it is not a hijacking, at least, which as i know what some people have been reporting. we know that it's not the case. and we know that the situation, according to the lawyer, is under control and those people on board are known to the owners of the boat and there are are a number of them and they are suspected to be stowaways, so we'll find out what the motive is, i guess, when that ship is allowed to dock. and as far as we are aware, the coast guard is presumably in touch with the ship itself and in touch with whoever is on board and in of the vessel and the coast helicopter has also been cited. that's right, we know there are two search and rescue helicopters, actually, from the marine and coastguard agency, from

the solent, they are both in attendance, dealing with the situation and assisting hampshire constabulary, which is dealing with the incident as the main port of call. anna o'neill, thanks very much. we will bring you any updates on that and we hope to be hearing in just a few minutes from some people down in the isle of wight about the situation and what we know so far, but just to update situation and what we know so far, butjust to update you that is a tanker which is in the area off the south of the isle of wight, it is the nave andromeda and it was, as anna says, sailing from... there we 90, anna says, sailing from... there we go, we can see some pictures of it that have been supplied by the reuters news agency. it is now sitting tight, as far as we know. it was due at to dock at 10:30am this morning, but it issued a mayday alert at 9am this morning. that incident ongoing. a government minister has defended the decision not to extend free school meals to disadvantaged children over the school holidays.

brandon lewis said providing support through local councils was "the right way" to help struggling families during the pandemic. pressure is mounting on the government from many sides, including more than 2,000 doctors, who have signed a letter saying england should follow scotland, wales and northern ireland in further funding meals outside of term time. here's our political correspondent, jessica parker. castle beach cafe in falmouth, cornwall, and owner fiona has said she will make free lunch bags this half term for any child who would normally get a free school meal. she says she's angry at the government's spending priorities. i know the country's under pressure, everybody‘s under pressure, but we're a wealthy country and if we've got hungry children, i think it's obscene, frankly. under scrutiny, ministers insist they are providing support for low—income families, billions extra in welfare and over £60 million via local councils, and congratulated organisations and businesses who are stepping in to help feed children this half term.

i think it's complementary to what we are doing as a government. we are supportive of that, we support local authorities to do it, that's what the £63 million is there for and it's notjust £63 million, it is on top of the hundreds of millions we have put into local authorities to support those most in need. so no u—turn, no change in a word? i think we have the package in place, so people have the support they need during school holiday. estimates suggest a food voucher scheme like the one which ran over summer could cost around £20 million for half term. in scotland and wales, provision has already been extended until easter. for england, labour says cash distributed by councils might miss some families. not every council has stepped up, which means it becomes a postcode lottery for some children so some children will benefit from sitting and living in a council where they have decided to prioritise free school meals, but other councils,

for various reasons, might decide that money needs to go elsewhere. labour is promising to push for another vote on the issue before christmas and some conservative mps also want a rethink. if there is another vote brought by labour in the next few weeks in parliament, will you rebel against the government next time? yes, if there is another vote that says we need to bring the concession back for the christmas holidays, i will vote for that. 0n the pitch last night, marcus rashford, who won a government u—turn in the summer. campaigning against child poverty, he's built up momentum again. where that leads, it's still playing out. jessica parker, bbc news. joining me now is former children's minister, conservative mp for east worthing and shoreham, tim loughton. now, we should reassure people you have had a chance to go away from the webcam since you did the interview earlier with my colleagues at bbc south—east, but the point you are making remains a live one, presumably, that if this comes to a

vote and the government hasn't moved, having abstained or at least not been present for the vote earlier this week you would feel now obliged to vote against? yes, but i hope the government is going to listen to all the comments that are being made at them at the moment and a lot of feedback coming from my collea g u es a lot of feedback coming from my colleagues in parliament as well. i don't think it has been handled well andi don't think it has been handled well and i think it was the wrong decision. and i absolutely see that in the context, as you heard from brandon lewis earlier, a huge amount of support that has been given by the government and i think it is now running over £230 billion, of which people in particularly difficult circumstances have been helped out a lot and there were extra welfare payments, the extra 20p a week on universal credit has all been really welcome and necessary, but there are still some people who have been having problems and so it seems that continuing that very generous scheme, which no other government has ever done before, but we started in the easter holidays and summer and that should be carried on and we

wa nt and that should be carried on and we want the government to carry on the good work at a saudi done, effectively. when you are able to grasp from the debate this week or from what you have been told subsequently by ministers what he's thinking was behind scrapping it at this stage? because we are going into what is likely to be an even more demanding time for public because of the second wave of the pandemic. we are going into winter. it might seem rather odd to do it at this stage. i think there is a concern that they shouldn't become a permanent thing and i am not in favour of it becoming a permanent thing. we are in exceptional circumstances at the moment. the pandemic is still very much with us and on those circumstances i think it should be a continued thing, but also of course i think another reason for the government, again perfectly legitimate, is for the easter holidays, wits and holidays, so am summer holidays the schools we re so am summer holidays the schools were not backed properly and they didn't come back properly until september, so that support through schools haven't been available,

health care and this voucher system. but the circumstances have changed, the schools are back, but during school holidays, those families and particularly those families who now find themselves either out of a job or with a reduced income from a job, on furlough or whatever it may be, i am afraid there is still a case for this and frankly for the sake of £20 million for half term, but that is £20 million on top of £13 billion, i think that is it is much easier to carry on with a simple and effective scheme which most people understand and there is a certain sort of systemic status around —— totemic status around free school meals, along with the nhs, for example, so for goodness' sake, why don't we just do it? it sounds like a very simple question, which in that sense, the one you have posed, which also provokes the counter question, which is why didn't they do it? some people have seen this, politically this is more damaging to the government because of the sense that it is insensitive to the needs of

particular communities. people have played it against the north— south divide argument. they have also played against with the additional announcement late on friday evening that 80% of the laptops that government had told secondary schools they would expect to get to help promote learning for the disadvantaged children weren't after all going to be made available. they put that altogether and said, actually, this is what makes this all politically damaging, it gives an overall sense of the government perhaps being indifferent to the concerns of people are most disadvantaged. that is clearly not the case, is it? the £213 billion of indifference is quite a big difference, if you want to call it that. billion have gone into additional welfare measures, a further £63 millionjust additional welfare measures, a further £63 million just last week, my constituency got almost £730,000 for further welfare assistance funding, an extra 180 million, i think it is, for discretionary housing payments for people

struggling with housing. there is a heck of a lot that has happened there to really help those most in need. my other criticism of this is the focus on free school meals, the publicity this is generated, and of course the rather disingenuous and frankly hypocritical way that the labour government has played it up. no labour government ever gave free school meals during the school holidays. it has actually taken away, deflected from the really important measures, really generous measures with taxpayers money that the government have come up with, targeting those most in need in recent months and that is why i think it is counter—productive and why carrying on that scheme for the next holiday and hopefully into christmas because this is going to come back again at christmas, i think would have been a sensible way ahead and hopefully we government have got the credit for it.|j ahead and hopefully we government have got the credit for it. i raised the laptop question because it was raised with us on bbc news by a teacher yesterday, who had discovered that he was expecting think about over 100 laptops and got an e—mail on think about over 100 laptops and got an e—mailona think about over 100 laptops and got an e—mail on a friday evening just

before half term saying, sorry, you're only going to get about 60 and he now has to make the choice between equally needy children who don't have access to a laptop or anything else to promote learning and doesn't know how many families might be affected if people have to isolate, if a family have symptoms of coronavirus all the rest of it. those are all unknowns, but his sense of frustration with the department for education was very, very clear and i wonder whether you share a sense of frustration with perhaps the leadership of that department at the moment?” perhaps the leadership of that department at the moment? i can see why that head teacher would be frustrated. again, let's see it in the bigger context and i think more than 340,000 laptops and tablet devices have so far been delivered. ithink... yes, but devices have so far been delivered. i think... yes, but you send them an e—mail at 5:50pm on a friday night before half term when people are expecting when they come back from half term they have got the demand and that need for kids, in the week when the government has made it mandatory for remote learning to be provided for all those children who need it, there's something wrong there somewhere, isn't there? sure.

there would appear... i don't know the full details of it, but they would appear to be a short—term delivery problem but how quickly we get them, but this is a huge programme andi get them, but this is a huge programme and i think we have taken something like a quarter of the uk's allocation of laptops that are sold normally in the shops for this scheme in the last few months, at a time when there is universal demand for them because lots of other countries are trying to do the same thing as well, so i don't think this isa thing as well, so i don't think this is a deliberate ploy, it is a question of how you get hold of the things and as i say, a huge amount have been delivered already, but we can do better and there may be reasons why, it was not known until last friday, i don't know, but let's put it in the context of a huge amount of support that has been given across the piece. tim lawton, former children's minister, and mp former children's minister, and mp for shoreham. thank you very much. let's return now to...

let get more now on that developing incident on board an oil tanker situated off the isle of wight. we can speak to the island's conservative mp bob seely. what your understanding of what is happening there with the tank at the moment? what we understand is that the 240 foot long oil tanker has dropped anchor about two miles off the south—east coast of the island. it is pretty visible for folks on the eastern side of the isle of wight. and there is talk of stowaways on the vessel and there is some concern that the captain may not be in full control, but clearly that his room and we don't know... i think the authorities are trying to ascertain what the facts are at the moment. presumably, if they are stowaways on a ship that is coming into port it doesn't go into port? you need to know what is going on because presumably people can't be sure whether this poses a potential threat not? i think my understanding is the isle of wight radio brought

in and they have got good contact with the coast guard and the port authorities are suggesting that the vessel should continue and for whatever reason the skipper put down anchor, rather than continue into solent water. potentially the movements could be much more restricted because he still more or less in open sea. here's a couple of miles of the island, but clearly he has decided to weigh anchor there, rather than to continue to land on the north of the island and into solent water. the question that would obviously raise, then, is whether the master is still actually in charge of the vessel or not. initial reports were suggesting that he wasn't, but i don't want to necessarily say that if that is not correct, but there is some concern about who is in control and how many stowaways there are on the ship and to what extent they present a threat to what extent they present a threat to the ship or the crew on the ship. these are questions that i suspect the authorities are trying to find

out very quickly, contacting the vessel. is this an issue that would be one that would trigger potentially our counterterrorism security interest? because you have got a vessel with large quantities of oil on board close enough to a populated place for any kind of concern over its safety and who is in control of it to presumably trigger some kind of reaction from the authorities? i think you sum it up the authorities? i think you sum it up very well indeed. clearly, there isa up very well indeed. clearly, there is a lot of contingency planning at the moment and i don't want to... this is all guesswork, so i absolutely need to say that, but it potentially comes under i think the acronym is in the ct, which is a marine counterterrorism and there are very few military units that deal with that, there is one further down the coast from where we are and i suspect they are working on some kind of contingency plan at the moment. the intelligence guys will

be looking at this vessel, where it is from, who is on it and who should be on it, the people who are on it you shouldn't be on it, the stowaways, and very importantly what it is carrying and the potential threat if it comes closer to land, soi threat if it comes closer to land, so i think all of these questions have been looked at funny military point of view, the kit options to board the vessel, either peacefully with the agreement of people on the vessel or not so peacefully if that agreement isn't coming and if the situation worsens. i don't want to...i situation worsens. i don't want to... igot situation worsens. i don't want to... i got to be careful not to be alarmist here, a long way to go before that happens and at the moment i think people are trying to ascertain what the actual facts of the incident or the potential incident are before we can start talking about, you know, mounting operations on or around the vessel. we understand from our correspondent, anna 0'neill, who was talking to us earlier, that the coast guard helicopters are monitoring the tanker, presumably, as you say there is contact between the port authorities, the coastguard

and the tanker. we understand from sources connected to the company that they are aware of what has been going on, and they have told us that the ship was aware that there were some stowaways on board, people on board were aware of it was time. that presumably would raise the question of whether or not the port had been even advance notice of that. i'm assuming... for this, i'm guessing that they might have been, simply because again the local isle of wight radio was reporting the vessel was told to continue into southampton water, i understand, which is where it was heading, but the skipper decided he wasn't going to do that and he was going to stay put when he was, in mile or two of the south—east coast of the island. soiam the south—east coast of the island. so i am assuming that there has been conversations. i mean, what is interesting now, if correct, is why the skipper did not follow instructions from the port authorities at southampton, if it was then giving the instructions.

yes, indeed, and as you say, that will obviously be one of the questions. is this the sort of thing that would end up being kind of accelerated up the chain of command from coastguard and police up towards whitehall? yes, absolutely, and pretty quickly as well, simply because as you said very concisely yourself, you have got a situation where you have got a vessel from nigeria, you know, that has a sort ofg nigeria, you know, that has a sort of g hardy problem in some parts of the country, some sensitivity with that country, and the motives of the stowaways need to be clearly understood and it mightjust be that they are illegal immigrants trying to get away themselves, it might be a political component of this, but clearly they need to be reassured that not only the folks living on the island, but also southampton because this vessel was supposed to because this vessel was supposed to be coming into southampton earlier this afternoon, and if you look at the computer graphics and the maps, they were circling around a few times and zigzagging before they

decided to hold the boat, sorry, hold the vessel off the south—east coast of the island, so clearly something is going on that's not right. bob seely, mp for the isle of wight, thank you very much for talking to us and giving us that update on the situation as you understand it. we will bring you more, of course, as soon as we get it in the coming minutes and hours he'll here on bbc news. but let's pause now joined he'll here on bbc news. but let's pause nowjoined john watson at the bbc sport centre, who has some exciting news of his own. some brilliant performances in the world of sport. we start with lewis hamilton, with 92 grand prix victories, surpassing michael schumacher and the result means he also is in the driving championship as well, with his sights firmly set on equalling the german driver's titles, asjoe wilson reports. always thinking, always winning. for lewis hamilton and

formula 1, the circuit in portugal was new. the start, well, familiar. from pole position, hamilton led, but within seconds... ahead of lewis hamilton! he was second. team-mate, bell terry bought in front. he was hamilton's view, in pursuit, watching, hunting, passing. tarr started on pole, back into the lead now expected to give me a little while, but that was the race. hamilton has the best team, they have the best driver. simple. his victory. statistics prove who is best, but they are only part of it. a new history of formula 1 has just been written by maurice hamilton, no relation. he told me that lewis has taken the sport into new territory. he is not afraid to stand up and use his public platform to speak and to speak his mind. p1 may not agree with it, he doesn't really mind about that, just wants to get out there. so i think you will be remembered as the first grand driver who has been willing to stand up and

speak about matters outside motor racing. thousands were there to watch hamilton win. 0nly racing. thousands were there to watch hamilton win. only one of them really mattered. now the top of the world. it all began with just him and his dad. wilson, bbc news. he has come a long way, hasn't he, since that first victory back in 2007? great britain's tao geoghegan hart has won the giro d'italia, becoming the fifth rider to win a grand tour for the ineos grenadiers team. geoghegan hart began the day in second place overall, although level on time with australia's jai hindley. great britain's tao geoghegan hart has won the giro d'italia, the final stage was a ten—mile time trial on the streets of milan and geoghegan hart was the faster rider, winning by 39 seconds. hejoins bradley wiggins, chris froome, geraint thomas and simon yates in british cycling's history books, the fifth briton to win a grand tour and the second to win the giro after chris froome. league leaders everton suffered their first defeat of the premier league season at southampton.

their early season form deserted them as saints took the lead through this effort from james ward—prowse. che adams added a second shortly after. and the day got worse for everton, as they finished the game with ten men after lucas digne was sent off. southampton move up to fifth. it's one of three games today in the top flight, wolves and newcastle kick off shortly. arsenal and leicester are the late game. that are the late game. kicks off at 7:15pm. a dramatic late penalty earned aberdeen a point against celtic in the scottish premiership. to level things at 3—3. celtic left frustrated as they hoped to end a run of two straight defeats with a win. the two sides meet again next week in the scottish cup. celtic now trail the league leaders rangers by three points.

rangers will extend their lead at the top to six points if they beat livingston this afternoon. livingstone this afternoon. they are into the second half at ibrox...they lead 2—0, jermain defoe with one of their goals. scotland staged a remarkable fightback to salvage a draw against france in the women's six nations. they were 13—3 down at one stage before this late try from rachael shankland helped them to a draw. england are not playing the bulgarians today as a result of those rubrics from the babar is‘ team, but you can honestly get plenty more reaction to that match and the big win for lewis hamilton today and of course the cycling success today and of course the cycling su ccess over today and of course the cycling success over on the bbc sport website this afternoon. that is all from me for now, i will be back with a full update in sports day at 6:30pm. i will see them. thank you very much. john watson there at the bbc sport centre. we may have been robbed of the bulgarians this

weekend, but at least we had the exeter wasps to enjoy. the welsh government has said a ban on supermarkets selling non—essential items during the country's two—week lockdown is to be reviewed later this week. more than 56,000 people have signed a petition to be allowed to buy items such as clothes and electrical goods. ministers had said they wanted to be fair to retailers ordered to close. health minister, vaughan gething, says the welsh government's approach aims to ensure the country's lockdown will remain short. to have an effective firebreak, we do need to reduce opportunities for people to go out and mix. and that is why we have this clarity in terms of what is essential and what not. almost all of the retailers, where people would like to go into shops, have an online offering as well. so even if you go to an entirely different retailer, there are a lot of stores that do this in any event. and online retail is permissible because it doesn't involve mixing. so we haven't cut down people's opportunity to buy goods in any form, it's about the in person activity that matters. there could be a reduction in the length of time people

have to self—isolate, if they've been in contact with someone who's tested positive for covid—19. the government has confirmed it's looking at the period of self—isolation, amid criticism of the test and trace programme. writing in the sunday telegraph, the conservative mp sir bernard jenkin said a "vacuum of leadership" in test and trace is affecting how far people comply with it. he urged the prime minister to send dido harding for a rest. catherine burns reports. right to the back of the throat, both sides by your tonsils. at the minute, if you have been in contact with someone with coronavirus you need to self—isolate for two weeks, but now confirmation that time might be shortened. there is no decision, i'm not here to make an announcement this morning. the teams are looking at this. as we are learning more about the virus and how we can manage and live

with the virus, and obviously we are always assessing these. the test and trace system is not fast enough. latest figures show 15% of people tested are getting results within 24 hours. it's not getting hold of enough people. tracers are reaching about 60% of close contacts of people who have had a positive test. and now its boss, dido harding, is being criticised by a senior tory backbencher. i do mean this as kindly as possible, she has been a tremendous asset, but the test and trace capability clearly needs to move up several gears and it's what leadership does, not who it is, that really matters. a study by king's college london found just 11% of people who had been in close contact with a positive case, and so needed to isolate for two weeks, actually fully stuck to it. the key question, though, is would it be safe to cut the time people are being asked to self—isolate for? within the 14 day period,

the first seven or eight days are probably those period of most likely to become infected and therefore the use of testing could be used if someone is negative at that point to reduce the need for them to do the full 14 days isolation. for now, this isjust an idea that's being looked at. the rules haven't changed and people are still being asked to self—isolate for two weeks. catherine burns, bbc news. spain's prime minister has announced a new state of emergency across the country in an attempt to control the spread of coronavirus. regions will be given powers to take their own decisions on health matters, including whether to introduce curfews. but there is to be a national curfew coming into force from 11pm this evening until 6am every day, which

could, the prime ministers suggested, run until next year. —— until may of next year. earlier i spoke to our correspondent in madrid, guy hedgecoe. well, shaun, he has confirmed the use of this state of emergency. it is the same legal mechanism that he used earlier in the year for that very strict lockdown that the country had, but he has said that this time round, it is not going to be a strict, full lockdown for the country, that what he is doing is putting, as you say, putting a certain amount of power in the hands of spain's 17 regional administrations for them to decide what is appropriate and what is not. he wants to see that curfew introduced across the country, between 11pm and 6am. that has been a concern, late night parties have been a big concern for the spanish government when it comes to contagion. also, he wants to see restrictions on movement between one region and another. that has been another major problem when it comes to infections. he also said that this state of emergency will last through until may of next year, so i think that came