the founder of a cult—like group in the united states has been sentenced to 120 years injail after being convicted of sex trafficking and other crimes. keith raniere was the founder of the nxivm group, forcing women to have sex with him and branding welcome to bbc news — them with his initials. i'm mike embley. the bbc‘s tim allman reports. what the world needs i believe our top stories: is more human to human content. this was catherina mary in one week before election day court in brooklyn, the in the us, campaigning convicted leader of a fixed intensifies for donald cult. he had to sit and listen to 15 of his victims describe trump and joe biden. what they had in gone through we are going to have a great, as part of the nxivm group, also known as the row, mostly red wave, people that want to young women he abused and exploited and even branded. go out and all vote. the divisions in our nation are getting wider. angry people, certainly thejudges exploited and even branded. certainly the judges sentence which in effect incapacitates catherina reread for the rest of his life should hopefully upset, angerand getting wider. angry people, upset, anger and suspicion are growing. give them give them some sense a warning from scientists that levels of covid—19 antibodies in people who've been infected diminish rapidly. of morning and two others he burning anger on the streets would participate in a similar of philadelphia — looting and violence breaks out contact with when justice in a second night of unrest catches up with you as it did after another black man's today, it is severe, —— keith shot dead by police. raniere area. described guilty an american cult leader who had women branded with his intials and forced them to have sex

with him is sentenced to a 120—yearjail term. it to others and a woman admitted to recruiting who he would then abuse and treated like slaves. his lawyer say he is innocent and in a media campaign forced witnesses to give false testimony but he now welcome to our viewers on pbs faces the reality of spending the rest of his life behind in america and around the globe. in exactly a week, it will be election day, although 69 million americans have already voted to choose the world's most powerful leader. bars. and the decision process for the next president has already proved remarkable for the record number of postal votes and early voting — especially among the young. film fans got a taste joe biden has a substantial of the red carpet as organisers of the cannes film festival lead over president trump in opinion polls, nationally, kicked off a more low but a small number of states — key 3 day event, showcasing just 4 films and a short film ones that do sometimes swing between the two parties — competition. the 2 week film extravaganza, will actually decide which is the world's biggest the election. and some of those races cinema showcase, was cancelled still look tight. in may this year due our north america editor the coronavirus pandemic. 0rganisers hope the slimmed down event will give jon sopel is in georgia. the hard—hit industry a boost. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — one week to go, and joe biden has georgia of all places on his mind.

i'm @bbc mike embley. no democrat has won here in decades, yet polls suggest this once rock—solid republican state is there for the taking. joe, go home! though famous southern hospitality was markedly absent from the trump supporters who lined the roads leading to where he was speaking. so we worry we in the 2020 race? the key to this election hello there, it will remain u nsettled hello there, it will remain is what happens on the swing unsettled thanks to areas of low pressure bringing spells of states. joe biden has a steady rain and gales at times and lead in michigan, wisconsin and today unsettled, and blustery pennsylvania. the three northern industrial states that showers, heavy and foundry propelled donald trump to victory in 2016. but he is also across southern and northern level or ahead in iowa, areas. this contains the georgia, north carolina and re m na nts of areas. this contains the remnants of a hurricane, extremely strong winds on the arizona. and it is the same picture in florida and texas. southern flank, racing across and werejoe the north atlantic, generating picture in florida and texas. and were joe biden picture in florida and texas. big waves today across western and werejoe biden to anyone of those last two states, it is coastlines and even see some ha rd to those last two states, it is

hard to see how donald trump disruption to the ferry could win. the remarkable services for western scotland phenomenon about this election at times. if you are walking as early voting. in 2016135 along the coastline, take extra care. along the coastline, take extra ca re. lots of along the coastline, take extra care. lots of showers affecting many western portions of the million americans cast their ballot in the american uk, some merging together to presidential election. with a produce longer spells of week to go, so far, more than rainfall pa rt produce longer spells of rainfall part of wales, central and england with brighter 60 million americans have already voted. that means, if indicators of hail and thunder turner remains the same, and mixed in. the best chance of already half of americans have seeing the lengthy sunny spells already half of americans have will be across the eastern already voted. what is also astonishing is the number of parts of england in a young people who voted early. in 2016 in wishing michigan, qualitative day than yesterday, 10- 13 qualitative day than yesterday, 10— 13 celsius. showers continuing for a while during wednesday night but then they 7000 people aged between 18 and 29 went to the polls before begin to fade away and skies polling day. this time round clearing and turning chilly in the far north and east but further west, temperatures it's over 140,000 so far. in begin to rise with the next other words, a 20 fold weather system arriving increase. as a similar story in bringing wet and windy weather. you can see here on the florida, north carolina and in pressure charts, racing up from georgia, that number is 31,020 the south—west, lots of isobars on the chart, going to turn 16 and it is already 170,000 very windy once again so wet for southern and western areas this year. these are numbers to start thursday, dry and bright in the north and the thought to favour the democrats rain will eventually reach

massively but donald trump says scotland, albeit the northern he is confident that next isles, behind it drier and tuesday, there will be a red brighter but windy and noticing wave of his supporters coming to vote that will propel him to some milder air, 19 celsius, 11 victory. he is doing multiple rallies per day. today he is en degrees across the north of scotland. thursday night, windy route to michigan, wisconsin and nebraska. and there is a and mild and wet across northern and western areas and rainfall totals really starting sophisticated data mining to mount up across parts of operation that takes place at western scotland, north and this event, meaning that eve ryo ne this event, meaning that everyone who attends is also western scotland, north and west of wales, we could see registered to vote. this was some flooding by the end of his successful 2016 playbook. friday. writing up a scotland john sobel, bbc news, georgia. and northern ireland into the afternoon apply to schools across the south—eastern given the very mild ms, we could see the president is campaigning in three mid—west states today — here he is speaking in omaha, 18 or 19 degrees across the south and the east. as we head nebraska a short time ago. this election is a choice onto the weekend, more low between the trump super pressure systems racing off the recovery which is what we are having, or a ride atlantic, deep ones that could recovery which is what we are having, ora ride in depression. sad to say. and bring spells of gales or severe gales in some places. some bad newsjust came out depression. sad to say. and some bad news just came out on biden but i won't tell you about that. you will find that out tomorrow. laughs

we will get to that. man, that is something. biden has pledged the guest tax hike in the history of our country. the first man that i have ever seen campaign on the fact that i am going to raise your taxes. what is going on? i gave working families record—setting tax cuts, and in my second term, i will cut middle—class taxes very substantially more. the president in omaha nebraska, not a place you normally see republican candidates candidate in. joe biden‘s running mate kamala harris was speaking in las vegas where where she offered a blistering criticism of the president's response to the pandemic. the commander in chief of the united states has as their first responsibility, to concern themselves with the health and safety of the american people, and he failed, and therefore has forfeited his right to re— election.

kamala harris of course. a result from one of many lawsuits already under way, around this election, and doubtless more to come. ajudge in michigan has ruled that voters can bring guns to polling stations. this is bbc news, christopher murray struck down a directive by the michigan the headlines: secretary of state, banning a week before election day the open carrying of firearms in the us, 69 million people on election day. the state attorney general have already voted and has vowed to appeal the rivals for the white house against thejudge's ruling. are campaigning hard — the pandemic the topic of the day. lebo diseko is in washington and explained how difficult it is to predict what will happen on election day. donald trump claimed to voters they had a choice between a trump boom or a biden lockdown. mr biden visited georgia, look, i think that anybody who a state not thought winnable by democrats for decades, and accused mr trump was brave enough to predict the of mishandling the crisis. outcome of the election at this point is a lot braver than me. there's a second night certainly both campaigns really of unrest in philadelphia after another black man was shot dead by police. pushing, trying to get the last hundreds of people are on the streets and violence and looting has broken out. bits of their base energised to authorities say extra police and the national guard have been deployed. get out and vote. and even donald trump are saying to his researchers at imperial college london have found supporters in nebraska, get out levels of protective antibodies in people who've fought off and vote, don't take it for coronavirus wane quite rapidly after infection. the team say the drop was most granted. that was a message noticeable in people over 65 and in those who hadn't president 0bama, former

president 0bama pushed home as shown any symptoms. well. i think every vote counts. they are so close in so many places. interestingly, with georgia, the last time that a democratic candidate won then, boys to men were in the charts then, that is how long ago it was. the fact thatjoe biden has been therejust ago it was. the fact thatjoe biden has been there just goes to show that they think they have a chance and they are trying to get that state as well. and if they sign isn't it at the trump campaign senses trouble when the president appears and states he would not normally be expected to struggle in. nebraska is an interesting ones because unlike most of the other states, nebraska and also main split the number of electoral college votes they award. last time, donald trump won all of nebraska's five votes. the fact that he is in a pretty reliably republican the state shows that perhaps he is worried that his arrivaljoe biden could pick up some of those votes. the

republicans on their website and elsewhere are celebrating the fact that, as they put it, they controlled the pandemic. but i was just looking at the latest figures from our correspondence with the us reporting 500,000 new coronavirus cases in the past week. numbers admitted to hospital up 15% on last week. it doesn't sound controlled. that sounds like a very tricky claim to defend and i gather that the website has been defaced to some extent. gas, two parts of the question. there was, it seems, a hack that happened earlier on this evening. hackers broke into the site and said that they were tackling false information, fa ke tackling false information, fake news that was being posted by the campaign. the trump campaign has said that there has been reported to law enforcement and they are dealing with that. on the coronavirus, look, there is certainly, i think, coronavirus, look, there is certainly, ithink, some coronavirus, look, there is certainly, i think, some kind of distance between the different messages that the

campaign has given. donald trump, in that nebraska stop, saying on the one hand we're going crush the virus. 0n the other hand, saying that he is sick about hearing david mcatee, ko two, covid. the us reaching a new 7—day high when it comes to daily figures. 70,000 people a day a —— are being diagnosed. hospitalisations are up as well and 26 having trouble with the numbers of people in hospital. some states even having to having to turn to those field hospitals we saw right at the beginning of the pandemic. i'm not sure if we are turning the corner. i'm not sure if the coronavirus really cares that we are tired of hearing about it. it is here. the strict covid lockdown imposed nearly four months ago on the australian state of victoria has been lifted. four, three, two, one. yay! you get the idea, that is how it was greeted.

and people in the city of melbourne began flocking to restaurants and pubs at the stroke of midnight local time. victoria was at the epicentre of australia's second wave, and saw cases surge to more than 700 per day injuly. scientists have found that immunity to coronavirus may decline sooner than had previously thought. a study by imperial college london found the number of people with covid—19 antibodies had fallen by around a quarter between june and september. adults under the age of 24 had the highest levels of antibodies — but those over 75 the lowest. here's our science correspondent rebecca morelle. antibodies are the immune system's best defence against covid—19. they block the virus from entering our cells, and stay around in case of reinfection, but the latest research has found they don't last long. it does suggest that immunity is likely to wane over time after you've been infected, and we're now about six months past that first wave of infection. it does suggest that immunity

tends to wane over time. this is not particularly surprising because seasonal coronaviruses, which we've known about for a long time, do tend to produce some immunity, but it does wane after 6—12 months. this is one of the largest surveys of its kind, carried out across england on more than 350,000 people. in june, scientists found that 6% of adults who had been tested had detectible coronavirus antibodies. by september, though, that had fallen to 4.4%. that's a drop of more than a quarter in a matter of months, and the fastest decline was seen in people aged over 75, and in those who'd had the virus with no symptoms. so does this mean you can get covid twice? there have now been a few confirmed cases of reinfection, but it's not yet clear whether symptoms are less severe the second time around because the body's defences are already primed. and scientists are studying other parts of the immune system, like t—cells, to see if they play

a longer lasting role. all of this has implications for the vaccines in development around the world. if natural immunity doesn't last long, what does this mean for them? i think we should remain optimistic about the up—and—coming sars—cov—2 vaccines. they will work in very different ways to drive the immune response. and so we can remain hopeful that they will indeuce a more robust and more long—lasting immune response that will protect people for much longer than natural infection would. it may well be that future covid vaccines need to be administered more than once. achieving herd immunity is unlikely without a vaccine, especially if antibodies to natural infection are shortlived. so for now, it means everyone's sticking to the rules of hands, face and space, as there's still much we need to learn about coronavirus and immunity. rebecca morelle, bbc news. professor trevor drew is director of the australian center for disease

preparedness. professor, i am sure you are very busy and have been waiting to come on airfor us. thank you very much for that. what do you very much for that. what do you make of this latest research? as your previous reporter has mentioned, although immunity to the novel coronavirus, sales coronavirus to make is complex, we do know that other aspects of immunity, such as innate immunity and t cell immunity, are also essential to the body's response to these diseases. and possibly more important stop they are involved in the killing of infected cells and in stimulating the quicker production of antibodies. it is very inefficient for the body to maintain high levels of antibodies if there is no work for them to do. so they will naturally decline. and i think it is also important to highlight two of observations made by this group which

haven't been so effectively reported. that is that they analyse the data into two groups, and those with covid—19 where it was confirmed by the molecular test pcr because they we re molecular test pcr because they were ill. and they compare that group with those people who had been asymptomatic and had actually been unaware of their original infection. what they found was that those who were clinically ill had a much less announced decline in their antibodies compared to those who had had a very mild or an apparent infection. so it does suggest that mild disease doesn't induce a strong response but if you are clinically ill, you will have a much better response. 0n the other thing they noted was that there was no change in the levels of antibodies seen in healthcare workers, possibly due to continued exposure to the virus. so the more virus there is out there, the more it will boost your immunity and

keep you protect it. and there are two other points about this whole subject area i would like to raise. and the first is that these antibodies are really only generated two high levels when the pathogen is around. and, as it were, it is an outside inside organ, the lung. and antibodies are only really produced to a very high degree when the virus is in the blood. and so the antibodies, if the infection is just risk did to the long are likely to be very transient and low —— restricted. when barclayjust made the point earlier, but also vaccines work in a different way. they are given intramuscularly and they, we hope, will induce a much stronger immune response than a mild or in apparent infection of lungs. the other important point to raise is that other

coronaviruses, there are four that currently infect humans, and we catch them multiple times in our lives and they mostly circulate in winter. they cause common cold symptoms but what they have seen is that when you test for covid—19 type antibodies in people who have never met the disease. may be looking retrospectively at samples ta ken looking retrospectively at samples taken in 2019, 2018. about 3% of them do have antibodies that are react to two covid—19. and we assume thatis two covid—19. and we assume that is just a cross—reactivity among best coronaviruses. so antibodies and common cold viruses interest in winter would likely fade to undetectable would likely fade to u ndetecta ble levels would likely fade to undetectable levels over the summer period. and this is exactly what these findings have reported so it may be nothing to do with the sales coronavirus type to mark but just a cross—reactivity that wanes in the summer months. just a cross—reactivity that wanes in the summer monthslj don't think you need another question for me. i was very

clear and competitive. thank you very much. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the latest from philadelphia as the city sees another night of protests following the killing of a black man by police. indira gandhi, ruler of the world's largest democracy, died today. 0nly yesterday, she'd spoken of dying in the service of her country and said, "i would be proud of it. every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation." after 46 years of unhappiness, these two countries have concluded a chapter of history. no more suspicion, no more fear, no more uncertainty of what each day might bring. booster ignition and lift—off of discovery with a crew of six astronaut heroes and one american legend. enjoying the show is right. this is beautiful.

a milestone in human history. born today, this girl in india is the 7 billionth person on the planet. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: with one week to go until the us election, campaigning is intensifying for donald trump and his rival joe biden. levels of covid—19 antibodies in people who've had the virus diminish quite rapidly, say scientists. back to our top story now — the us election of course — and i wasjoined by republican strategist esther valdes clayton, who admits there's no room for complacency in the trump campaign.

the real clear politics polling is showing thatjoe biden is pulling ahead of the president by eight percentage points but really this is reflected in the strategy the two candidates are taking. joe biden continues to temper down a lot of his rallies and continues to social distance, the president continues to hold rallies to the tune of three in pennsylvania and a number in battleground states which are really going to decide the election. and whether you support president or jump election. and whether you support president orjump or not, his energy is hugely impressive and the enthusiasm of his crowds is impressive. but you know that his face, his co re but you know that his face, his core voters are not enough, are they, to getting back to the white house. what you see as his path to victory this time? the polling is showing that the rallies are attended by approximately 25% of registered democrats or undecided voters but not only that but a clear path to victory, notjust with his regular basis but also with the inroads that the republican party has made with minority

voters such as african—american community, which approximately 56% a p prove community, which approximately 56% approve of how the president has handled the economy in the last three years of his administration and also the latinos voters as well. it is going to offset a number of the white suburban voters that have been lost to thejoe biden campaign. latinos voted for the president in spite of his immigration rhetoric at the last election. close to 30%. those numbers are set to go higher and the pivotal set date where we will see high numbers around the battleground states of florida is with its large cuban population and it will safely return to the president side of an electoral victory. philadelphia is experiencing another night of unrest after the fatal police shooting of a black man. police say officers opened fire on 27—year—old walter wallace when he ignored orders to drop a knife he was holding. mark lobel reports. 0n on monday afternoon in west

philadelphia, this happened. two officers respond to a report of a man with a weapon. he breaks free from his mother after she says he tried to fit shield him and please say he then told the 27—year—old to drop their weapon and then this:. he was pronounced dead at the hospital. his father asked later why police did not first use a taser. the family of mr wallace that he called foran ambulance, of mr wallace that he called for an ambulance, not the police. it was an unjustified shooting. we have a person who had mental health issues. we have officers who i believe are not properly trained to deal with those mental health issues. philadelphia's town mare phil kelly calls it a tragic incident, pledging a full investigation. it's a matter not only carefully

considered by the special investigations unit and the assigned prosecutor, it is a matter that i am personally looking at carefully. this office has made clear that we believe in fairness. we believe in evenhanded justice. we are not out to cover for anybody and we are not out to get anybody. there was visible anger on the streets of philadelphia. hundreds of protesters face down right police, injuring several officers and looting multiple businesses. the white house had said they are prepared to deploy federal resources to enforce the law. in a statement released on tuesday, joe biden and kamala harris said: at the same time, they added addressing the looting: it is

above all another tragic, early end to a black life in america ofa end to a black life in america of a father, tween and sun, 00:23:11,045 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 leaving another city on edge.