a -- be esse thelfer a -- be esse the party anti—semitism says the party committed unlawful act, with harassment and discrimination. under a-- be a -- be essentialfer my leadership, zero tolerance of anti—semitism will mean exactly that. if you are anti—semitic, you should be nowhere near this party, and we will make sure you are not. three dead in the french city of nice, after a knife attack. the mayor calls it an act of terrorism. scientists admit the —— predict the number of people infected are doubling every nine days. and we will talk to ross kemp about how you can still get involved in this yea r‘s can still get involved in this year's poppy appeal. a very good afternoon to you. jeremy

corbyn has been suspended from the labour party. it follows his response to a damning report into how complaints of anti—semitism were handled during his time as leader. the equality and human rights commission found the party was responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. sir keir starmer described it as a day of shame foreign labour and said the recommendations would be implemented in full -- recommendations would be implemented in full —— for labour. in the last few minutes, jeremy corbyn tweeted this. you will strongly contest the political intervention to suspend him from the party. i have made it absolutely clear, those who deny there has been an anti—semitism problem in the party are wrong. i will continue to support a zero tolerance approach to all forms of racism. a dramatic day for the

labour party. jonathan blake has the latest. well, we will actually bring in one of our political correspondent at westminster who can join us now. helen, as i was saying, so join us now. helen, as i was saying, so many developments in the past hour, it's hard to keep up. jeremy corbyn now fighting back to this decision by keir starmer to suspend him. a very strong response from jeremy corbyn, saying he will strongly contest the political intervention to suspend him. the decision has come from the labour party, not from sir keir starmer, it was a labour party spokesman who put out the state —— the statement that in light of the comments made earlier and his decision not to retract them, they would suspend him from the party, pending investigation. after more than 30

yea rs of investigation. after more than 30 years of sitting as a labour mp, jeremy corbyn will sit as an independent. he pushed back strongly. in a social media post this morning, jeremy corbyn said that while anti—semitism is abhorrent, but later went on to say that one anti—semite is one too many but the scale of the problem was dramatically overstated by opponents inside and outside the party for political reasons. sir keir starmer said that anyone who said that it was an exaggeration, that there was no place for them in the party. later, jeremy corbyn give an interview to broadcasters. he said what he was saying was the perception of the number of cases had been too high and that had been overstated. those statements have meant that the labour party has decided to suspend him, pending investigation. 0k, helen, back with

you ina investigation. 0k, helen, back with you in a minute. first, a report from jonathan blake. a struggle with anti—semitism that threatened to tear the labour party apart. complaints against members for prejudice againstjews, protests over a failure, as many saw it, to tackle the problem. a toxic time which dogged jeremy corbyn's leadership and saw some mps leave the party in anger. now an investigation by the uk's equality watchdog found labour political interference anti—semitism complaints, a failure to provide adequate training and harassment. the report also identified serious failings in leadership, a culture that could be seen to accept anti—semitism and requires labour to draw up an action plan within six weeks. in response, the man now in charge said it was a damning verdict. i found this report hard to read. it is a day of shame for the labour party. we have failed jewish people, our members, our supporters

and the british public. he said he would accept the report in full and offered an apology. i know how hard these last few years have been for you, how painful today will be and how hard you had to fight to have your voices heard. i think they don't acknowledge the work that i did to ensure that proper processes were brought into place. let us be clear, to start off, one anti—semite in the party is one anti—semite too many. i think it is clear that we do not accept and i do not accept and keir starmer does not accept, none of us accept anti—semitism in any form whatsoever in our party.

the man who just a year ago was labour leader and candidate for prime minister now finds himself suspended from the party he has belonged to all his adult life. a swift move by his successor that might shock some but should prove to others that sir keir starmer understands what is needed for the party to move on. it happened on his watch, he shamed the labour party, he sat at the centre of a party that enabled anti—semitism to spread from the fringes to the mainstream. this is not the end of everything that we have experienced. now it is about how we fix it. honestly, that now lies with keir starmer and his team. he needs to fix this. jeremy corbyn says he will strongly contest what he calls a political intervention to suspend him. today might marka intervention to suspend him. today might mark a watershed for labour, but not the end of the struggle. jonathan blake, bbc news,

westminster. this is a strong action from keir starmer. jeremy corbyn saying he will strongly contest this. is keir starmer risking a new labour war this. is keir starmer risking a new labourwar in the this. is keir starmer risking a new labour war in the labour party with this? it is certainly a big move. a year ago, jeremy corbyn was running to be prime ministerfor labour. now he is not able to sit as a labour mp. this will be seen as provocative —— provocative by some on the wing of the party that very much supported jeremy corbyn. he brought a lot of new supporters into the party under his leadership. it is certainly going to be very provocative to those people are really support him. sir keir starmer was under pressure and labour has been under pressure to show that they mean what they see on anti—semitism and some very tough words from sir keir starmer earlier. there was a lot of pressure from groups like the glm to say that they wa nted groups like the glm to say that they wanted to see that action was going

to follow words, not necessarily on jeremy corbyn, but in general there was pressure on labour to show that they are tackling this and have it in hand —— pressure fromjlm. in terms of the other thing that keir starmer has trying to do over the past few months, he has been trying to heal divisions within labour. this is certainly not a move that is likely to do that. helen, thank you very much again, helen kat. we will get more on this by speaking to alistair henderson from the head of the investigation. what you make of the investigation. what you make of the response from jeremy corbyn to the response from jeremy corbyn to the report? he said the issue has been dramatically overstated for political reasons? obviously, mr corbyn's response is a matterfor

him. alli corbyn's response is a matterfor him. all i can do is point you to the details of the report. the investigation was complex. your correspondence said there were a number of unlawful acts. the labour party is lawfully responsible for two of them. that was the tip of the iceberg. there are 18 cases we thought were borderline. there was anti—semitic conduct. there are many more examples by ordinary members of the labour party, often on social media. how long has this taken? 16 months. it started due to the huge

public concern and a couple of formal complaints we got from the campaign against anti—semitism, the jewish labour movement back in may last year. we got evidence from them. a series of whistle—blowers give us statements and information, we requested a huge amount of information from the labour party itself and selected some sample files to dig deep into and it's on the basis of all of that and a careful assessment of the evidence that we have reached ourfindings. they are quite detailed findings. for our viewers, paint a broader picture of what you think was going on in the labour party at that time. well, i think fundamentally what we have said is it is clear the labour party was not living up to its commitment to party with zero tolerance of anti—semitism. it's right to acknowledge there have been some improvements in their dealings with anti—semitism complaints from 2018 onwards, but nowhere near enough. we found a culture within the party that at best didn't do

enough to prevent anti—semitism and at worst could be seen to accept it. we identified serious failings in leadership and an inadequate process for handling complaints. it is hard not to conclude that anti—semitism within the labour party could have been tackled more effectively, if the leadership had chosen to do so. a particularly interesting thing to point out was we thought there was a stark contrast between the way that anti—semitism was tackled, and other types of complaints. sexual harassment complaints, for instance, for a long time the party has had a good process with adequate training and good sets of guidelines. but that sort of process has not been in place to deal with anti—semitism. you talk about leadership being to blame. as far as jeremy you talk about leadership being to blame. as far asjeremy corbyn has complained, he said in his latest tweet, i have made absolutely clear to those who deny there has been an anti—semitism problem in the labour party that they are wrong. i will

continue to support a zero tolerance policy towards all forms of racism. he clearly feels on this he has nothing to answer for. but you are saying it is notjust him. when you talk about the leadership of the labour party, who exactly do you mean? our investigation focused on the labour party as a whole, as an organisation, whether it or its employees or agents committed unlawful acts and whether they had an adequate system in place. the blame cannot be placed on one person, not even on the leader at the time, jeremy corbyn. we looked at the party of a whole and there are various bodies who had leadership, the office of the leader of the opposition included. it is right to see that as leader of the party at the time and with the evidence in the report of political interference, that mr corbyn does

has responsibility and accountability for that, but it is something that goes broader. and what happens now, now you have produced this long and substantial report? the first thing that happens is the labour party is six weeks, until ten december, to produce an action plan, detailed document setting out how they plan to implement the recommendations we have made. we will work with them to produce that. we will then and monitor how the action plan is put into practice. if there are any issues, we hope they will not be, because we have had a clear indication there will be cooperation, but if there are, we can use our powers to enforce that through the court. from the equality and human rights commission, thank you for your time.

the researchers say the pandemic has reached a critical stage. the government has said there are no plans at the moment for a full national lockdown. the epidemic is exhilarating in the number of new infections is estimated to be doubling every nine days. the study shows cases are rising in every age group in every region of england. nearly 100,000 people are catching the virus every day. the hardest hit area is yorkshire and the humber, where around one in a0 has the virus. while cases are highest in the north, infections are surging more rapidly in the south, where the estimated number two is above two.

the authors of the report say arise in older cases is deeply worrying. in the over 65 age group, there has been a doubling. these are the most vulnerable groups in terms of the risk the infection will lead to severe illness and hospitalisation. wales is already in lockdown, northern ireland and scotland's central belt are under tighter controls. in england, the study suggests tougher restrictions are required or communities need to be better at following the rules. either way, it says changes are urgently needed. we don't have a plan today to do a full national lockdown. we can see that there are arguments in favour of that in terms of simplicity and clarity, but there are very strong arguments against it as well. but labour leader sir keir

starmer has renewed his position. everybody is very concerned about the tragic number of cases and deaths. that is why i called for a circuit break that could have coincided with half term. my concern is that the tiered system is not doing enough to bring the infection rate down. it is notjust here. many european countries are also caught up european countries are also caught up in european countries are also caught upina european countries are also caught up in a second wave. the relaxation of restrictions over the summer allowed the virus to take off again. it has prompted new lockdowns in france and germany, to bring infections back under control. some scientists think the same will be neededin scientists think the same will be needed in england.|j scientists think the same will be needed in england. i don't know about a full national lockdown. that isa about a full national lockdown. that is a distinct possibility. there is also the chance we will end up there by default with i suspect not everywhere but nearly everywhere being moved up into tier 3. sol think that is the way it will probably go. but it is a

deteriorating situation, certainly. some hospitals are already under pressure. the concern is rapidly rising cases will in turn lead to greater hospital admissions and deaths. for now, the government is waiting to see whether tougher local restrictions are working. but with the difficult winter months fast approaching, the hand may be forced. catherine lacoste, bbc news. let's get some reaction from the joint directorfor let's get some reaction from the joint director for global health at the university of edinburgh. thank you very much indeed. at the moment, you very much indeed. at the moment, you are in croatia. i am in croatia. i also work as an adviser to the croatian government and at the moment i happen to be in zagreb. good to know. thanks for being with us. this imperial study that suggests nearly 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in england, it is an estimate but do you think it is a credible piece of

analysis? i would like to commend the authors of the study and say that england has better evidence about the real—time situation and practically hardly any other country in the world. so the study itself is everything that an epidemiologist wa nts to everything that an epidemiologist wants to see, large, nationally representative and based on very clear distinction who has and has not the disease. 0k, clear distinction who has and has not the disease. ok, it's not perfect, but it's very good. and the study itself is unfortunately better than the two options it leaves us with now. the official number of cases is around 20,000 per day, but this is obviously many times higher, this is obviously many times higher, this estimate. what are the implications of that? what do you think needs to happen in terms of restrictions now in england and in the rest of the uk as well perhaps? this is not surprising to epidemiologists. from the start, we knew there was a spectrum of symptoms and we would only be

testing those with very clear symptoms. we know that there has to bea symptoms. we know that there has to be a tale of infected people, but what we are not clear about was whether that tale was much less in infected symptoms affect other people are not and whether they develop a strong immunity or not. those are still some of the conundrums we are dealing with. but what we now know thanks to the study is what we always suspected, that the number of tested —— positively tested cases daily is much less than the number of actually infected people in england every day, which is about 100,000. the clear message of this study is that there is about 1 million people infected in england ona 1 million people infected in england on a daily basis actively and that there is another 100,000 coming tomorrow to be infected still. this is leaving us with another problem because the whole thing is

accelerating, so the rate of spread is getting worse, and especially in south—east england now. epidemiologists knew that the second wave would be coming and the second wave would be coming and the second wave is usually sometimes can be worse than the first way. they were warning about this for months. this is not a surprise. now we are left with a really poor choices at the moment, i'm afraid. is of those choices still what was being recommended by the sage group of scientists, of a circuit breaking lockdown? would you like to see that? well, we clearly are no longer doing enough to prevent transmission and the rapid rise in cases. if we don't do more, than we are doing now, we will see a rapid rise in cases, we will see completely overwhelmed hospitals and deaths directly from the virus. and we will see deaths among severe cases who

are not helped. and eventually we will see deaths among or other people with various ailments who could not get to the hospital because simply they were overrun with the problems, and the staff have been infected. so clearly this left unchecked would lead to something much more drastic, in terms of measures. and the sooner we act now, the lesser and more harsh laws measures will have to be. it is easier still to do something now than to wait until the wave gets even bigger. on the other hand, nobody wants a national lockdown. nobody even wants local lockdowns. nobody even wants local lockdowns. nobody wants the economy to suffer. the trouble is that we can see some countries, mainly in asia, who do not have to worry about this at all because they took this far more seriously from the start and it looks like they were overreacting all the time but in epidemiology,

you have to look like you are co nsta ntly you have to look like you are constantly overreacting to be successful. if you are waiting for the epidemics to creep up on you and are seeing the results, that means it's already too late. you're just seeing something that was happening to or three weeks ago and who knows how much worse it will get. and it is getting much worse very fast. professor, very good to talk to you. thank you. some newsjust professor, very good to talk to you. thank you. some news just coming into us from oxford city council. they are saying that the city is going to be moving up to tier 2 as from 1am on saturday. a tweet from oxford city council sing over the last three weeks we have not only seen a continued rise of cases in the city, but increasing evidence of the city, but increasing evidence of the spread of the virus beyond people in their teens and 20s to old and potentially more vulnerable age groups. and also they are saying it

is evident the virus is no longer confined to young people but it is affecting a much wider age range. so oxford city council seen the city is moving to tier 2 from saturday morning. three people have been killed in a knife attack in the french city of nice. it happened near a church and the mayor of nice said everything suggests it was a terrorist attack. president macron has been visiting the scene of the attack in nice. these images came in attack in nice. these images came in a short time ago. he has been talking to people outside the church where the attack happened at around 9am this morning. the country has now raised its terror alert level to the highest level. earlier, we heard

from hugh schofield who gave us some context around this latest attack in france. it is a time in which france definitely feels itself in the firing line from extremist groups in the middle east. this is in the wake of the trial related to the charlie hebdo masker and the republication of the cartoons and the killing of the teacher samuel paty. the statement from president macron that france will stand by its secular values. that has been twisted by many in the middle east into being

interpreted as an anti—islamic position by the french authorities with macron being accused of enacting fascist actions

nottinghamshire stands alone

so far in banning alcohol sales after 9pm in shops, but here, there is still a sense of unfairness about which businesses are hit. what is the difference in coming into a pub and having a pint, than going into a pub, having a meal and a pint? there is no logic to it. i do understand why they are doing it, but at the same time, you know, it is upsetting. it isn'tjust pubs shutting, more industries will close in nottinghamshire than any other tier 3 area. the rules have been branded by some as tier 3 plus. ido i do not understand why some beds and tattoo pa rlours i do not understand why some beds and tattoo parlours are being penalised more than other sectors and to me there is no rationale behind that, it seems like they're 20 doa behind that, it seems like they're 20 do a bit ofa behind that, it seems like they're 20 do a bit of a catch up which is really going to hurt our businesses and town centres and all of those businesses are a family which employ somebody, so i'm very gravely concerned about that.

a few weeks ago, case numbers in nottingham itself were the highest in the country and now the whole county will feel the force of the tightest restrictions. danjohnson, bbc news, worksop. just a reminder of that news i was bringing you, oxford city council now moving the city to tear two restrictions from one minute past midnight on saturday morning. scott and's first minister has announced that no local authority area will be moved into the highest level of coronavirus controls there when the new system coronavirus controls there when the new syste m co m es coronavirus controls there when the new system comes into effect on monday. it had been expected that north and south lanarkshire would be moved to level four, that is the highest level of restrictions in scotland, but the situation in both areas is now said to be stabilising. the first minister warned she could not rule out putting the whole of scotla nd not rule out putting the whole of scotland under the tightest level of measures if the pandemic does worsen. right, let's get a look at

the latest weather forecast. louise has the details. hello, it has been a cloudy, wet day so far with strengthening winds. the rain is going to continue to push its way steadily north—east across the whole of scotla nd steadily north—east across the whole of scotland as we close the day. at the same time, you can already start to see there is a clearance, which means the parts of wales, midlands and the south brightening for a time. three tonight, the rain continues to move steadily northwards. we will have a pulse of a wetter weather putting into wales and south—west england, with a scattering of showers in the far north—west. and incredibly mild night with a south—westerly wind, temperature is into double digits. are quite today for friday, despite some rain still to ease out of south—west wales, but then, as we move into saturday, it is a gear change once again, with a stormy speu change once again, with a stormy spell of weather, heavy rain, strong to severe gales likely across parts of the country. gusts in excess of six amount of power and that rain are six amount of power and that rain a re really six amount of power and that rain are really quite persistent. —— at

60 mph. that said, it is still going to be fairly mild. hello, you're watching bbc news. a look at our latest headlines. labour suspends jeremy corbyn look at our latest headlines. labour suspendsjeremy corbyn after a long—awaited report on anti—semitism it says the party committed unlawful a cts it says the party committed unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. under my leadership zero tolerance of anti—semitism will mean precisely that. if you're anti—semitic, you should be nowhere near this party. we will make sure

you are not. three dead in the french city of nice after a knife attack near a church. the mayor has called it an act of terrorism. scientists at imperial college london are estimating the number of people infected from coronavirus is doubling every nine days and they're calling for tougher restrictions. let's get a full sports round—up. sarah has that. sad news from the world of welsh rugby. tributes are pouring in. the legendary wales, british and irish lions and llanelli wingerjj williams has died at the age of 72. the welsh rugby union described him as one of the greatest wings to play for the country. the lions said he inspired a generation with his incredible running and finishing abilities. he scored 12 tries in 30 tests as wales won four five nations

titles during the 1970s, including two grand slams. williams also scored five tries in seven tests for the lions across two tours. jj williams who has died at the age of 72. wales captain alun wynjones will break the world record for most test match appearances when he leads his country against scotland in the six nations on saturday. the second—rower will make his 1a9th appearance for wales and the british and irish lions, overtaking new zealand's world cup—winning skipper richie mccaw. in the last three or four years he started to get the recognition for what he has achieved in the game and for wales and it took a while so hopefully he has a great outing against scotland. it would be nice for the team to perform well so it's a game to remember. when you break a record

like that, someone like ritchie, is some achievement and he will go down as one of the greatest players in welsh history and he deserves all the accolades and what he has achieved in the game. srum—half ben youngs will become just the second englishman to win 100 test caps in the six nations finale against italy this weekend. world cup winnerjason leonard is the only other england player to reach the milestone. meanwhile, fresh from helping exeter to a premiership and european cup double, lockjonny hill will make his international debut in rome. we needed to find a big, tall, strong lock to replace george cruz. he has been an outstanding member of ourteam. johnny has been doing thatjob for exeter, good in the line—out, good in defence and around the ruck area, carrying and stopping the opposition, so he has

been consistent in that. he's got a great attitude, great work ethic and he's a really fine example of what exeter produced. finn russell will start for scotland against wales on saturday. adding hastings drops to the bench as finn makes his first appearance. second row forward johnny gray will return to the side following their wins with exeter. this weekend's women's six nations game between ireland and france has been called off due to an outbreak of coronavirus within the french squad, with ireland told to prepare fora training camp this weekend instead. it's not clear whether france will forfeit the match or if it will be postponed until december to coincide with italy and scotland's meeting. champions england go in search of a grand slam against italy, having prepared for the match in a covid secure bubble. we got told as soon as we were going in there,

you have to keep two metres apart and constantly wear face masks and when we go out to train, we have a training block and we have to wash our hands, sanitise our hands, then we go back in, the balls get washed. it has become the norm in the last couple of weeks. at first we were like, what is this? this is ridiculous. but it's about safety. we don't want the virus to come into the squad and wipe a lot of players out, we want to keep them, so hopefully we can put a show on for fans next weekend. the men's and women's french cup competitions have been suspended till december the 1st and it has also halted all amateur football. the federation says all postponed matches will be played at a later date, the top three tiers of men's football and the women's top—flight can continue, as will international football. that is all the sport from

me for the moment, i will have more in the next hour. let's ta ke let's take you straight to nice. president macron is holding a news conference after that horrific attack in which three people died in what the mayor of nice has called a terror attack. ‘s listen to president macron. he speaks in french . president macron they're talking about that attack in nice and also he has referred to an attack on the french consulate in saudi arabia which took place at the same time.

president macron is in nice after three people died in that attack, a knife attack, near a church in nice. according to eyewitnesses, the suspected attacker tried to behead one of the victims and was shot by police and is now being treated in hospital. mr macron said he would like to express the support of france towards the catholic community of france and he said he has come up to nice to show solidarity that with the people. he said france is under attack. so dramatic words that from the president. let's take a listen. translation: this morning we decided to increase the alert level. i have decided that our army, in the next

few hours, will be more greatly mobilised in the context of operation sentinel and increase soldiers up to 7000 on our territory. we will protect all churches, areas of worship. we will protect our schools. after the half term tomorrow we shall have the council of defence, we shall have new measures with the continuity of what we have been doing, the continuity which i announced and which we implemented on a permanent basis. i welcome the mobilisation

and the minister of the interior who is with me in the next few hours. all the details will be provided on the fact that took place this morning and the unravelling of events. the author, it is not for me to comment now, simply to express our absolute determination and acts will be taken to protect all our citizens. in response, it is a message of absolute firmness which i'd like to express today and finally, it is a message of unity. in france, there is only one community, it is the national community, it is the national community and i would like to say to all our citizens, regardless of their religion, whether they are believers or not believers, that we must owe it to ourselves, that we

must owe it to ourselves, that we must never give in and show unity and no division. all our citizens today are deeply shocked as a result of what has happened and i call upon the unity of everyone. that is the message that i wanted to express here in nice today and i know how much the city and the department is suffering. i was herejust much the city and the department is suffering. i was here just a few weeks ago supporting the nation in nice, the catholics of france, we show firmness and that is the line which we will continue to follow. thank you very much. so, that is president macron in nicejust thank you very much. so, that is president macron in nice just saying there that the country has been attacked by islamist terrorists. also saying that if we are attacked,

it is because of our values, our values of freedom and our desire not to yield to tear out. just saying that the security forces will be deployed to step up protection of schools and place of worship. —— not to yield to terror. president macron visiting the scene of that attack. he has described it as an islamic terror attack. there are just six days to go before election day in the united states, with both donald trump andjoe the united states, with both donald trump and joe biden travelling from state to state to try to whip up some last minute support and still the major issue appears to be the coronavirus pandemic and the way it has been handled. the us government's scientific adviser has criticised president from micro—‘s rallies and has told the bbc they are bound to spread covid—19. —— president trump's rallies. the worst health crisis in more than a century is driving americans to the polls

in record numbers. 75 million have so far taken the opportunity to vote early and avoid cramming into crowding polling stations and there are still five more days to go. among the early voters wasjoe biden. he and his wife, jill, cast ballots in the home state of delaware and the democratic nominee properly took aim at his opponent, calling president trump's handling of the crisis an insult to its victims. we have lost more than 220,000 lives with this virus already but this administration has just given up. over the weekend, the white house chief of state, mark meadows, went on television and admitted they waved the white flag and declared surrender and he said, "we are not going to control the pandemic". the american people deserve so much better than this. in contrast to the more cautious approach of his rival, donald trump continues to campaign vigorously, two events in the swing state of arizona where lax rules

on social distancing make rallies of this kind easier. in bullhead city, arizona, the president said that while he planned to kill the virus, his opponent would kill the american dream. biden and the democrat socialists will delay the vaccine, prolong the pandemic, shut your schools and shut down the country. and your state is open, right? your state is nice and open. thank you. such rallies continue to concern mr trump's own medical advisors, among them, america's top infectious disease expert, doctor anthony fauci. they are potentially super spreading events because in situations historically over the last month we have seen that when you have congregations of people not wearing masks, not being separate from each other, crowds, that is clearly a situation that will lead to outbreaks.

polls show that the majority of americans disapprove of president trump's handling of the pandemic and given the sudden surge in coronavirus cases there, it is the one issue that could determine the outcome this election. early turnouts traditionally tend to favour democrats and joe biden continues to lead in the polls. if you learn anything from the presidential election four years ago, it is this, it doesn't do to take anything for granted. david willis, bbc news. we can go live at the states to wisconsin. kenosha is where jacob blake was shot by police in august. what impact is that having on the selection, do you think? in 2016, kenosha voted further donald trump by just 225 votes. that is

kenosha voted further donald trump byjust 225 votes. that is how narrowly he won in 2016. in wisconsin as a whole, he won it with just under 23,000 votes, so that is how important these states can be and within the states, these counties can be. these counties are used as a strategy to find out and get a sense of the pulse of the state as a whole and as you said there, kenosha was really the scene of race riots and president trump turned up here and presented himself asa turned up here and presented himself as a law and order candidate, but what is really on top people's mines is what was in david's piece there, coronavirus. wisconsin is one of the worst affected states in the united states. the hospitalisations are going up, deaths are going up and cases are going up by the thousands. with me here now isjesse from the capital times, she is an opinion editor and we can speak to her about the mood here in wisconsin. thank you so much forjoining us. when you

see rallies like the one that president trump held here in wisconsin a few days ago, people not socially distancing, not really wearing masks, how did people in wisconsin respond in general?” think it really varies and that is reflected in the differences in campaigning we have seen. the biden campaigning we have seen. the biden campaign is holding a lot of virtual events and driving events whereas, as you said, there is not a lot of distancing and mask wearing at trump campaigns. mask wearing overall is very popular in wisconsin, upwards of 70% of people here do support having a mask mandate. but obviously, that is not reflected in the base that showed up at those rallies. wisconsin, as i wasjust saying, ended up flipping further donald trump by a very narrow margin. how do you think these race riots that happened here in kenosha is going to impact the vote next week? we did have a new poll, yesterday from a law school at which it is our gold standard here and

that showed among the different issues, the protesters one is trending upwards, so i think that his base, that law and order very effective. i do not think it is effective. i do not think it is effective in terms of bringing over a potential swing voters or people who might be hanging out in the middle. 75 million americans have already voted, 1.a million people in wisconsin have voted for top how do you think that is going on for the state ? you think that is going on for the state? certainly in terms of mailing votes think that is benefiting democrats, but we are starting to see in person early voting which i think will benefit republicans. but at the moment it is about dropping off balance, but we cannot count ballots if they are not received by election day, so it is too late now to put them in the mail. but i think

we are on track to surpass tennant from 2016 and generally in wisconsin when there is no tenant, democrats tend to do better. a lot happening here in the united states, lots of issues on the agenda, but coronavirus at top of that including the economy as well as the impact of coronavirus on the economy have. we will be following updates here very closely and will be here live on election night to give our viewers the very latest. i'm sure you well, thank you very much indeed. let's ta ke thank you very much indeed. let's take you back to our main news today. jeremy corbyn has been suspended from the labour party following his response to a damning report into how complaints of anti—semitism were handled during his time as leader. we can talk now to someone who left the party because of anti—semitism.

decisive action from sir keir starmer suspending jeremy corbyn, what is your reaction? it is a shocking day for the labour party and as the report found, the labour party is actually broken race relations equality legislation in three ways. i'm glad that keir starmer has made this statement, i think the decision has come from the labour party and it must now be considered in the normal way, but it is very importantly labour party learned its lessons and moves forward from today so that anti—semitism is not part of the labour party and as keir starmer says, anyone who sees it as a small problem and therefore to accept it is someone who really should not be in the labour party. so you think keir starmer is right to suspend jeremy corbyn a? because it is pretty clear that this could start a new civil war in the party, couldn't it? if the labour party want to make changes, they have to take decisive action and this statement comes out

from the labour party and it should be considered through the normal disciplinary processes, but what matters is that the labour party moves forward. it means there has to bea moves forward. it means there has to be a new way of looking at complaints so there is not political interference and it has to change the culture of the labour party. there are far too many people in the labour party who go along with anti—semitic tropes, leading conspiracy theorists and do not really understand what they are doing. they need to be educated. it isa doing. they need to be educated. it is a transformative process that needs to. jeremy corbyn has start said he will strongly contest this decision to suspend him. clearly anybody involved in the disciplinary process has every right to put their case and that is what should happen now and that should go into the normal processes of the labour party and the labour party has to take whatever action is needed to show that it has changed. you cannot have a party claiming it is antiracism...

who do you blame? what do you think went wrong and what was the problem in those years? when jeremy corbyn became leader, people from the far left ca m e became leader, people from the far left came into the party and started to dominate it and some of those people brought with them conspiracy theories which looked at thejewish people as a part of a controlling elite, drawing on old—fashioned long—standing anti—semitic theories and they somehow brought it into the culture of the labour party, sometimes dressed up as obsessive, and some believing it and some going along with it not understanding what it was. that started to take hold and that was what the problem was put up people at the top of the labour party who dealt with it

swiftly a nd labour party who dealt with it swiftly and clearly it could have been contained, but that did not happen. we therefore have the results today from the equality and human rights commission. thank you for being with us. with remembrance day coming up in the next few weeks, armed personnel will be taking to the streets in london for the poppy appeal. the event will be rather different this yet because of the covid—19 pandemic. serving personnel and volunteers will still be out distributing copies and raising as much money as they can for this yea r‘s much money as they can for this year's poppy appeal and we can talk to armed forces ambassador ross kemp whojoins us to armed forces ambassador ross kemp who joins us today. thanks for being with us, why did you want to get involved? i with us, why did you want to get involved ? i know with us, why did you want to get involved? i know you spent a lot of time with armed forces, making your documentaries down the years. yes,

not only that, my great grandparents both fought in the first world war. my both fought in the first world war. my grandfather left in 1939 and did not come back into 19a5 during the second world war. my father served out in cyprus and they were all members of the royal british legion. my members of the royal british legion. my grandmother, in her later years, spent five years in a royal british legion home, so i'm connected, my familyi legion home, so i'm connected, my family i guess, to the rbl and i think this year more than any other yearin think this year more than any other year in recent times there is a greater need from our armed forces community and from our veterans and theirfamilies for community and from our veterans and their families for help. people, because of covid—19, is suffering, as we know, but particularly people who have served our country full stops at the message this year is dig deep? dig deep and every pocket

cou nts dig deep? dig deep and every pocket counts was that we know the footfall has diminished and we have lost 30% of our volunteers because most of them are in a vulnerable bracket, but there are other ways, set, go on that website, by 20 poppies, and that website, by 20 poppies, and that out to your friends. —— rbl.org.uk. you can buy a pack, but that next to your nhs rainbow, many are working with nhs staff in wards, icus where people are suffering from covid—19, and if we have a bad winter, we get floods again for instance, we will ask for armed forces to help us, so this is an opportunity between now and the 11th to buy a poppy and say thank you and help people who desperately need our help. as i say, every poppy that he

accounts. just briefly, some of the work that the british legion does. it is immense, it helps people were isolated, people with depression, people with mental issues, physical health issues and poverty. which is going to become an increasing problem is with this pandemic carries on. it is a very sad state of affairs to get to the situation where someone who has served their country actually ends up homeless and the rbl works tirelessly to prevent that from happening. great to talk to you, ross, thank you so much for being with us. good luck with everything you are doing, armed forces ambassador ross kemp. just before the weather, we have some latest figures on test and trace in england. the latest statistics show that 28a,701 cantos were identified in the latest week and of those, just over 60% were reached and asked to self—isolate. —— contacts were

identified. 60% of the figure on that, we will bring you more analysis in the next hour. first, let's pause and take a look at the weather. good afternoon, apologies in advance, it is a bit of a classic by the story to tell with clouds, wind, rain, even temperature a talking point. this is the story at the moment. this when the front has been bringing a blanket of rain and strong winds and sandwiched between the two of these weather fronts, that south—westerly flow is a driving ina that south—westerly flow is a driving in a milder air that south—westerly flow is a driving in a milderairacross that south—westerly flow is a driving in a milder air across the country. you will notice the difference with the feel of the weather if the next couple of days, thatisif weather if the next couple of days, that is if you can escape the rain. this has been the story so far, that rain is stretching its way north and east, not quite reaching the final theist of scotland and already we are starting to see a clearance across parts of the south and interior wells in central england. some of the rain heavy across northwestern, south of scotland, with gusts of winds a0 to 50 mph which may be strong on exposed coasts. temperature should peak at

16, slightly above when they should be for the time of your foot up as we get through this evening and overnight, rain continues to drift steadily north. we will see a pulse of what i wear the fake time returning to wales and south—west england —— for a time, but it will bea mild england —— for a time, but it will be a mild night in comparison to those just gone, with temperatures at staying mildly and mid teens put up at staying mildly and mid teens put up with that wet weather still to clear from wales, up with that wet weather still to clearfrom wales, freddie up with that wet weather still to clear from wales, freddie should be acquired today. we should get something coming through, despite a few showers in scotland. scotland, northern england and eventually in north wales will see some sunny spells and highs of 16 possible for some. the weekend sees low—pressure work queueing up like buses in the atlantic. the first on saturday could be a significant storm it bringing some very heavy rain and some damaging gusts of wind, gales quite widely, severe gale is not out of the question. that coupled with the story we have had so far could

lead to much of a disruption. some of that rain it really quite intense as it pushes steadily eastwards. gusts of wind could be 60 mph plus on exposed areas and temperatures again on the milder side, 11 to 70 degrees. but it is certainly worth bearing in mind, if you have plans at this weekend, keep watching the forecast because we are heading for a very stormy spell of weather, gales or severe gales quite possible. take care.

good afternoon. this is bbc news with me, ben brown. the headlines: labour suspends jeremy corbyn, after a long—awaited report on anti—semitism says the party committed unlawful acts, with harassment and discrimination.

under my leadership, zero tolerance of anti—semitism will mean exactly that. if you are anti—semitic, you should be nowhere near this party, and we will make sure you are not. three people have been killed in the french city of nice, after a knife attack. the mayor calls it an act of terrorism. a stark report says the pandemic in england is now at a critical stage. a very good afternoon to you. jeremy corbyn has been suspended from the labour party, following his

response into a damning report into how complaints of anti—semitism are handled during his time as party leader. the equality and human rights commission found the party was responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and dissemination. the current leader, sir keir starmer, described it as a day of shame for labour. he said the recommendations would be implemented in full. but jeremy corbyn said the issue had been dramatically overstated for political reasons. in a tweet, he said... this report from our political correspondent, jonathan blake. all: shame on you, shame on you! a struggle with anti—semitism that threatened to tear the labour party apart. complaints against members for prejudice againstjews, protests over a failure, as many saw it, to tackle the problem. a toxic time that's now seen labour's former leader suspended. others left long ago, in anger,

of their own accord. now an investigation by the uk's equality watchdog found labour broke the law through political interference in anti—semitism complaints, a failure to provide adequate training, and harassment. the report also identifies serious failings in leadership, a culture that could be seen to accept anti—semitism and requires labour to draw up an action plan within six weeks. in response, the man now in charge said it was a damning verdict. i found this report hard to read. and it is a day of shame for the labour party. we have failed jewish people, our members, our supporters and the british public. he said he'd accept the report in full and offered an apology. i know how hard these last few years have been for you, how painful today will be, and how hard you had to fight to have your voices heard.

jeremy corbyn defended his actions, but in comments that would later see him suspended from labour, said his opponents had exaggerated the scale of anti—semitism. i think they don't acknowledge the work that i did to ensure there were proper processes were brought into place. let us be clear, to start off, one anti—semite in the party is one anti—semite too many. i think it is clear that we do not accept and i do not accept and keir starmer does not accept, none of us accept anti—semitism in any form whatsoever in our party. so, the man whojust a year ago was labour leader and candidate for prime minister now finds himself suspended from the party he has belonged to all his adult life. a swift move by his successor that may shock some but show proof to others that sir keir starmer understands what is needed for the party to move on. it happened on his watch, he shamed the labour party, he sat at the centre of a party that

enabled anti—semitism to spread from the fringes to the mainstream. this is not the end of everything that we've experienced. now it's about how we fix it. and, honestly, that now lies with keir starmer and his team. so we look, we will hold his feet to the fire. he needs to fix this. jeremy corbyn says he will strongly contest what he calls a political intervention to suspend him. today may mark a watershed for labour, but not the end of this struggle. jonathan blake, bbc news, westminster. let's get the latest from our political correspondent. strong action from sir keir starmer, but a strong reaction from jeremy corbyn? yes, jeremy corbyn pushing back very strongly against his suspension. he said he would strongly contest the political intervention to expel him.

he said the scale of the problem was dramatically overstated for political reasons. he says it is undeniable that a false impression has been created of the number of members accused of anti—semitism, and refers to some polling. he has urged members to stay calm whilst he hopes this problem is resolved amicably. there are others who have come out in support of him. john mcdonnell, the shadow chancellor underjeremy corbyn, said the decision to suspend him was profoundly wrong. he said, on the day we should all be moving forward and taking steps to fight anti—semitism, in the way of party unity, let's find a way to resolve this. that is the challenge for sir keir starmer. on one hand, he said some tough things in his speech earlier about the findings of the report being clear and stark and it was no room for equivocation and under his leadership zero tolerance would mean exactly that. he said

that after all of this if you still think the problem is exaggerate or factual, then you should be nowhere near the labour party. there is pressure on keir starmer to be doing tough as well as talking tough. there are things to be balanced across the party. and what you think are keir starmer‘s political calculations of this? clearly he will antagonise the corbynista left, if you like. but it is his calculation that he is strong enough to do that? if you listen to his speech earlier, a lot of it, even the podium said new leadership, a lot of it was about under my leadership in the party i lead. so there was a bit of a drawing of the line in the sand. in that sense, acting very quickly and without fear, if you like, no matter who you are in the party, if we think you should be suspended then you will be and that's a decisive way of doing

that, drawing a clear marker between keir starmer and jeremy corbyn. of course keir starmer being questioned because he was part of the shadow cabinet underjeremy corbyn. so in a sense that is drawing that line. helen, thank you very much. earlier, i spoke about this to the leader of the investigation. he started by giving me his reaction to that statement from jeremy corbyn. obviously mr corbyn's response is a matter for obviously mr corbyn's response is a matterfor him. all i can do is point you back to the details of our report. we looked at a wide range of evidence. we looked at more than 200 files, to begin with, of complaints. we selected a sample of 70 of those. 0f we selected a sample of 70 of those. of those, as you've been explaining, we found a number of unlawful acts. two in particular which the labour party was unlawful. there are 18

other cases we thought was borderline. there was anti—semitic conduct. and then many more in a sample, examples of anti—semitic conduct by ordinary members of the labour party, often on social media. it has been a big investigation, hasn't it? how long has this taken you? yes, it's taken around 16 months in total, we have been working hard on it. it has been slightly quicker than previous investigations under the equality act we have done. it started due to huge public concern and because we received some formal complaints from the campaign against anti—semitism and the jewish the campaign against anti—semitism and thejewish labour movement back in may last year. we did a large piece of work getting evidence from them from a series of whistle—blowers who give us state m e nts whistle—blowers who give us statements and information, we requested a large amount of information from the labour party itself and selected some sample files to dig deep into and it's on the basis on all of that and careful

assessment of the evidence we have reached our findings. they are quite detailed findings, butjust for our viewers, perhaps paint a broader picture of what you think was going on in the labour party at that time? well, i think fundamentally what we have said is its clear the labour party was not living up to its commitment to be a party with zero tolerance of anti—semitism. it's right to acknowledge there have been some improvements in the dealings with anti—semitism complaints from 2018 onwards, but nowhere near enough. we found a culture within the party that at best didn't do enough to prevent anti—semitism and at worst could be seen to accept it. we identified series failings in the leadership and an inadequate process for handling complaints. it is hard not to conclude that anti—semitism within the labour party could have been tackled more effectively of the leadership had chosen to do so. a particularly interesting thing to point out is we thought there was a stark contrast between the way

anti—semitism was tackled and other types of complaints. sexual harassment complaints, for instance, the party for some time has had a good process with adequate training in place and a clear set of guidance. and yet despite far more attention being paid to anti—semitism, that sort of process has not been put in place to deal with anti—semitism. has not been put in place to deal with anti-semitism. and you talk about leadership, the leadership being to blame, but as far asjeremy corbyn is complained, in his latest tweet, he has made clear that those who deny the problem in the party are wrong. he clearly feels on this issue he has nothing to answerfor, but you are saying it is notjust him. when you talk about the leadership of the labour party, who exactly leadership of the labour party, who exa ctly d o leadership of the labour party, who exactly do you mean? our investigation focused on the organisation as a whole. whether

there was an adequate system in place. the blame for anti—semitism the labour party cannot be placed on one person, not even on the leader at the time, jeremy corbyn. we looked at the party of a whole and there are various bodies were leadership at the time, the nec, the ncc, the leader of the opposition's office, as well as mr corbyn himself. it is right to say that as leader of the party at the time, or for much of the time, and particularly with the evidence we have detailed in the report of political interference in the complaints mechanism from the leader of the oak —— leader of the opposition's office, that mr corbyn does have responsibility and accountability for that overall. but it's something that goes broader. what happens now? firstly, the labour party has six weeks, until ten december, to produce and action plan, setting out how they plan to implement recommendations we have

made. we will work with them to produce that. we will then follow up and monitor how the action plan is put into practice. if there are any issues, we hope there won't be because we have had a clear indication there will be cooperation, but if there were any issues with that, we can use our powers to enforce that action plan through the courts. that was alistair henderson from the equality and human rights commission talking to me earlier. new research estimates that nearly 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in england. analysis comes from imperial college london and shows the number of infections is doubling every nine days. the researchers say the pandemic has now reached a critical stage and called for tighter restrictions, but the government says, for now, it has no plans for a full national lockdown. here is our health correspondent, katharine da costa. the react study of nearly 86,000 volunteers paints a stark picture. restrictions haven't stopped the virus from spreading, or at least not yet. the epidemic is accelerating

and the number of new infections is estimated to be doubling every nine days. the study shows cases are rising in every age group in every region of england. nearly 100,000 people are catching the virus every day. the hardest hit area is yorkshire and the humber, where around one in a0 has the virus. while cases are highest in the north, infections are surging more rapidly in the south, where the estimated r number is above two. the authors of the report say a rise in older cases is deeply worrying. we are seeing that in the a5—65 age group, there has been a trebling. in the over 65 age group, there has been a doubling. we are seeing that in the a5—6a age group, there has been a trebling. in the 65—plus age group, there has been a doubling. these are the most vulnerable groups in terms of the risk

the infection will lead to severe illness and hospitalisation. wales is already in lockdown, northern ireland and scotland's central belt are under tighter controls. in england, the study suggests tougher restrictions are required or communities need to be better at following the rules. either way, it says changes are urgently needed. but the government is not changing its position. we don't have a plan today to do a full national lockdown. we can see that there are arguments in favour of that in terms of simplicity and clarity, but there are very strong arguments against it as well. but labour leader sir keir starmer has renewed his position. everybody is very concerned by the rising number of cases and tragically by the rising number of deaths. that is why i called for a circuit breaker that could have coincided with half term. my concern is that the tiered system is not doing enough to bring the infection rate down. it is notjust here. many european countries are also caught up in a second wave. a relaxation of restrictions

over the summer allowed the virus to take off again. it's prompted new lockdowns in france and germany, to bring infections back under control. some scientists think the same will be needed in england. i don't know about a full national lockdown. it is a distinct possibility. but there is also the chance we will end up there by default with, i suspect not everywhere but nearly everywhere, being moved up into tier 3. so i think that's the way it will probably go. but it's a deteriorating situation, certainly. some hospitals are already under pressure. the concern is rapidly rising cases will in turn lead to greater hospital admissions and deaths. for now, the government is waiting to see whether tougher local restrictions are working. but with the difficult winter months fast approaching, their hand may be forced. katharine da costa, bbc news. i have been talking to the joint

director of the centre for public health at edinburgh university.” would like to commend the authors of the study and say that england now has better evidence about the real—time situation than practically hardly any other country in the world, so the study itself is everything that an epidemiologist wa nts to everything that an epidemiologist wants to see. it's large, it is nationally representative and is based on the very clear distinction of who has and who has not the disease. 0k, of who has and who has not the disease. ok, it's not perfect, but it's very very good. in the study itself is unfortunately better than the two options it leaves us now. 0k, the two options it leaves us now. ok, because the official number of cases is around 20,000 per day, but this is obviously many times higher, this is obviously many times higher, this estimate. so what are the implications of that? what do you think needs to happen in terms of restrictions now in england and also in the rest of the uk perhaps? well,

this is not surprising to the epidemiologists. from the start, we knew there was a spectrum of symptoms and we would only be testing those with very clear symptoms. and we know that there has to bea symptoms. and we know that there has to be a tale of infected people, but what we are not clear about is whether that tail with the much lesser symptoms does go on to infect other people are not and whether they developed the strong immunity or not. so those are still some of the conundrums that we are dripping with epidemiology, but what we now know is what we always suspected that the number of testing —— positively tested cases daily is much less than the number of actually infected people in england every day, which is about 100,000. now, the clear message of this study is that there are about 1 million people infected in england on a daily basis actively and that there is another 100,000 coming tomorrow.

to be infected still. and this is leaving us with another problem because the whole thing is accelerating, so the rate of spread is getting worse, and especially in south—west england —— south—east england now. so epidemiologists knew the second wave would be coming and the second wave would be coming and the second wave is usually sometimes can be worse than the first wave and they were warning about this for months. this is not a surprise. now we're with really poor choices at the moment, i'm afraid. poor choices, but is one of those choices still what was being recommended by the sage group of scientists of a circuit breaking lockdown, would you like to see that? well, we clearly are no longer doing enough to prevent transmission and the rapid rise in cases. if we don't do more, than we are doing now, we will see a rapid rise in cases, we will see

com pletely rapid rise in cases, we will see completely overwhelmed hospitals, we will see deaths directly from the virus, then we will see deaths among severe cases who were not helped. and then eventually we will see deaths among all other people with various ailments who could not get to hospital because simply they were overrun with the problems and the staff have been infected. so clearly this left unchecked, and if we don't change anything, will lead to something much more drastic in terms of measures. and the sooner we act now, the lesser and more harsh those measures will have to be because it's easier still to do something now than to wait until the wave gets even bigger. on the other hand, nobody wants a lockdown. nobody wa nts a nobody wants a lockdown. nobody wants a national lockdown, nobody even wants a national lockdown, nobody eve n wa nts wants a national lockdown, nobody even wants local lockdowns. nobody wa nts even wants local lockdowns. nobody wants the economy to suffer. the trouble is that we can see some countries, mainly in asia, who do not have to worry about this at all

because they took this far more seriously from the start and it looked like they were overreacting all the time, but in epidemiology, you have to look like you are co nsta ntly you have to look like you are constantly overreacting to be successful. if you're waiting for the epidemics to creep up on you, and you are seeing the results, that means it is already too late, you're just seeing something that was happening two or three weeks ago and who knows how much it is going to get, and it is getting much worse very fast. the joint director of the centre for global health at the university of edinburgh. less than one infour university of edinburgh. less than one in four people in person covid—19 tests were provided with the result in 2a hours. 23% of in—person tests provided result within 2a hours in the week to 21 october, an improvement on the previous week but well below the peak seen at the end ofjune. those

are tests that drive through our walk—in centres or by mobile units. last week, the figure reached its lowest point since the programme started, with just 1a% receiving results within a day. a look at our latest headlines on bbc news. the labour party has suspended jeremy corbyn, after a long awaited report on anti—semitism said the party committed unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. three people have been killed in the french city of nice after a nice attack —— knife attack near a church. the mayor has called it an act of terrorism. nearly 100,000 people are catching coronavirus in england every day, according to a new report. more now on those horrific events in nice after three people died after a

knife attack. the mayor has said that everything suggests it was a terrorist attack. one suspect was shot by police and is now being treated in hospital. chaos and terror in the heart of another french city. streets closed, swarming with police and paramedics, the stunned aftermath of france's latest horrific attack. it took place around 9am in the city's neo—gothic basilica of notre dame. shouting allahu akbar, the attacker stabbed three people, including the caretaker. one of the victims is thought to have been beheaded. another, a woman, fled to a nearby cafe before dying. we heard many people shouting in the streets, so we saw by the window that there were many, many policemen coming and then we heard gunshots, many gunshots and more and more policemen.

the city's mayor called for unity but said it was clear this was terrorism. translation: nice, perhaps more than any other place in france, today's paying far too heavy a price by once again been a victim of islamic fascism. there is no doubt about the meaning of this act, given that the perpetrator did not stop repeating allahu akbar in front of us while he was receiving medical treatment. in paris, a minute's silence in the national assembly as word of events in nice began to emerge. france is still in shock after the murder of middle school teacher samuel paty, most french citizens proudly defending their country's secular values. for nice, memories too of 2016 when 86 people celebrating bastille day were killed by a tunisian immigrant driving a truck. but around the muslim world, there is anger

at what some describe as president macron's anti—islam agenda. pakistan's prime minister, imran khan, has accused the french president of encouraging islamophobia. turkey's president erdogan has urged turks to boycott french goods and said that president macron needed a mental health check. against this heated international backdrop and with an investigation in nicejust beginning, reports of violence elsewhere, in another southern city, avignon, the police shot dead a suspected islamist who was threatening passers—by. and in saudi arabia, a guard at the french consulate injeddah was attacked. the guard was wounded and the assailant taken into custody. paul adams, bbc news. in the last hour or so, the french president has been visiting the scene in nice. the attack happened outside the basilica of notre dame. he made a statement. translation:

ladies and gentlemen, once again our country has been struck. and islamist terrorist attack. once again this morning, three of our compatriots who died in nice in the basilica of nice. and very clearly it is france that is attacked. at the same time, in saudi arabia, a french consulate was attacked whilst events we re consulate was attacked whilst events were taking place on our home soil. i would like to see here, first and above all, the support of the entire nation by the catholics and others

and, just like in 2016, once again it is the catholics who are attacked and threatened in our country. before the holidays. the whole country is at the side, so that religion can continue to be practised freely, because it is our values and each religion must be able to practice, so today the whole nation is at the side of our catholic citizens. the second message i have is for the town of nice. the local people have been so badly affected, it is the third time that terrorism has struck your city

and its inhabitants. i know the shock felt by everyone, the whole world and once again i would like to express the solidarity of the whole nation if we are attacked once again, it is to defend our values, our taste for freedom, the possibility on our soil to believe freely and not give in to any terrorism. i say once again with much clarity, we shall never give in. president macron in nice, after that attack that attack that has left three people dead. earlier, our paris correspondent hugh schofield gave me some context around this latest attack. it is a time in which france definitely feels itself in the firing line from extremist groups in the middle east, certainly online there are calls for attacks

against france have been stepped up in recent weeks. in the wake of the trial related to the charlie hebdo massacre and the re—publication by charlie hebdo of the cartoons and then the killing two weeks ago of then the killing two weeks ago of the teacher samuel paty. and the restate m e nt the teacher samuel paty. and the restatement then by president macron of france's belief and the fact that it will stand by its secular values. that has been spun, some would say twisted by many in the middle east, into being interpreted as a kind of anti—islamic position by the french authorities with president macron being accused of enacting 1930s fascist actions against is lambs in france. and it is in that context that this attack is taking place. hugh schofield, raqqa —— paris correspondent. let's go back to the drummer in the labour party. keir

starmer suspending jeremy corbyn from the labour party in the row over anti—semitism. we have had a tweet from john mcdonnell. the close lieutenant when mr corbyn was leader. john mcdonnell says, on the day we should all be moving forward, taking all steps to fight anti—semitism, the suspension of jeremy corbyn is profoundly wrong in the interests of party unity. let's find a way of undoing and resolving this. i urge all party members to stay calm, as that is the best way to supportjeremy and each other. let's all call upon the leadership to lift the suspension. jeremy corbyn himself has already said he will strongly contest what he called a political intervention. much more than that to come. now a look at the weather with louise lear. it's been a cloudy and wet day so far the strengthening winds. the rain will continue to push its way steadily north and east across the whole of

scotla nd north and east across the whole of scotland as we close out the day. at the same time, you can start to see this clearance and that means for parts of wales, the midlands and the south, brightening up for a time. through the night tonight, the rain continues to move its way steadily northwards. at pulse of wet weather pushing into wales and south—west england with a scattering of servers on the far north—west. an incredibly mild night with a south—westerly wind. temperatures into double digits. a quiet day for friday, despite some rain still to ease out of south—west wales. but then, as we move into saturday, it's a gear change once again. a stormy spell of weather, heavy rain, strong to severe gales likely across parts of the country, gusts in excess of 60 mph, maybe more, and that rain really quite persistent. that said, still mild for the time of year, 11-17 . hello, good afternoon, you're watching bbc news. a look at our

latest headlines. labour suspends jeremy corbyn after a long—awaited report on anti—semitism says the party committed unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. under my leadership, zero tolerance of anti—semitism will be precisely that. if you are anti—semitic, you should be no where near this party. we will make sure you are not. three people have been killed in the french city of nice after a knife attack near a church. the mayor of nice has called it an act of terrorism. almost 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in england, that is the stark finding from senior scientists as they won the pandemic is now at a critical stage. warned that the pandemic. sarah has all the sport for us.

he scored 12 tries in 30 tests as wales won four five nations titles during the 1970s, including two grand slams. williams also scored five tries in seven tests for the lions across two tours. wales captain alun wynjones will break the world record for most test match appearances when he leads his country against scotland in the six nations on saturday. the second—rower will make his 1a9th appearance for wales and the british and irish lions, overtaking new zealand's world cup—winning skipper richie mccaw. pub in the last three or four years he started to get the recognition for what he has achieved in the game and what he achieved wales and that

took a while, so hopefully he has a great outing on a saturday against scotla nd great outing on a saturday against scotland and to break the record from someone like richie mccaw is some achievement and he will go down as one of the greatest players in welsh history and he thoroughly deserves all accolades this week for what he has achieved in the game. faint rustle will start for scotland in the game on saturday. adam hastings dropped to the bench as... -- finn hastings dropped to the bench as... —— finn russell will start for scotland. jonny gray returned to the side following their european and penmanship cup wins with exeter. scrum—half ben youngs will become just the second englishman to win 100 test caps in the six nations finale against italy this weekend. world cup winnerjason leonard is the only other england player to reach the milestone. meanwhile, exeter locked jonny hill

will make his international debut in rome. we needed to find a big, tall, strong lock to replace george cruz. he has been an outstanding member of our team. jonny has been doing thatjob for exeter, good in the line—out, good in defence and around the ruck area, carrying and stopping the opposition, so he has been consistent in that. he's got a great attitude, great work ethic and he's a really fine example of what exeter produced. this weekend's women's six nations game between ireland and france has been called off, due to an outbreak of coronavirus within the french squad, with ireland told to prepare fora training camp this weekend instead. it's not clear whether france will forfeit the match or if it will be postponed until december to coincide with italy and scotland's meeting. champions england go in search of a grand slam against italy, having prepared for the match in a covid—secure bubble. we got told as soon as we were going in there,

you have to keep two metres, girls, and constantly wear face masks and when we go out to train, we have a training block and we have to wash our hands, sanitise our hands, then we go back in, the balls get washed. it has become the norm in the last couple of weeks. at first we were like, what is this? this is ridiculous. but actually it's about safety. we don't want the virus to come into the squad and wipe a load of players out, we want to keep them, so hopefully we can put a show on for fans next weekend. finally, newcastle united have agreed to refund a season ticket holders for behind closed doors games this season. some fans had money withdrawn from their bank accou nts money withdrawn from their bank accounts as part of a long—term at season ticket deals, despite being unable to attend matches because of coronavirus. but the club it says it will now reimburse fans in three stages over this season, the first five home league games of this

campaign will reach fans by mid december. that is all the sports fan out. i have will have more in the next hour. another addition to what we know about coronavirus restrictions and we're hearing that telford and wrekin council have been placed into the high covert category —— code 19 category from midnight tomorrow. telford and wrekin council say they have been placed into the hi covid—19 category from midnight tomorrow, so we'll find out more about that as it comes into us, but from one minute past midnight, so in other words the very early hours of saturday morning. telford and wrekin moving from covid tier 1, to tear

to. lets go back to our main story this hour that jeremy corbyn has been suspended from the labour party following his response to a damning report into how complaints of anti—semitism were handled during his time as leader. the equality and human rights commission found that the party was responsible for unlawful acts of harrasment and discrimination. the current leader, sir keir starmer, described it as "a day of shame" for labour. let's have a listen to what sir keir starmer had to say on that news conference this morning. as the report makes clear, this cannot be solved just by changing the party's processes and structures. we also need a culture change in the labour party. it must become, once again, an open and welcoming place for people from all backgrounds and all communities. under my leadership, zero tolerance for anti—semitism will mean precisely that. if you are anti—semitic, you should be nowhere near this party. and we will make sure you are not.

and if, after all the pain, all the grief and all the evidence in this report, there are still those who think there is no problem with anti—semitism in the labour party, that it is all exaggerated or a factional attack, then frankly you are part of the problem too and you should be nowhere near the labour party either. this report is painful to read, but i urge everyone to do so. because this must be a line in the sand. there can be no more missed opportunities, no denials or excuses. under my leadership, labour will act decisively against anti—semitism in all its forms. we will repair the breach. i know it will take time and hard work, but when i stood for leader of this party, i was clear that my first priority would be to root out anti—semitism and rebuild trust.

that started in april. we have made progress and it will intensify today. but i will only consider it a success when those members who left our party because of anti—semitism feel safe to return and when we no longer hear the words labour and anti—semitism in the same sentence. that was keir starmer a little earlier at a news conference. earlier i spoke to dame louise ellman who left the labour party due to anti—semitism and got her reaction to mr corbyn's suspension and the report. it is a shocking day for the labour party and as the report found, the labour party has actually broken race relations equality legislation in three ways. i'm glad that keir starmer has made this statement, i think the decision has come from the labour party and it must now be considered in the normal way,

but it is very important that the labour party learns its lessons and moves forward from today, so that anti—semitism is not part of the labour party and as keir starmer said, anyone who sees it as a small problem and therefore to accept it is someone who really should not be in the labour party. so you think keir starmer is right to suspend jeremy corbyn? because it is pretty clear that this could start a new civil war in the party, couldn't it? if the labour party want to make changes, they have to take decisive action and this statement comes, i understand, from the labour party and they then must be considered in the normal way and through the normal disciplinary processes, but what matters is that the labour party moves forward. it means there has to be a new way of looking at complaints so there is not political interference and it has to change the culture of the labour party. there are far too many people in the labour party who go along

with anti—semitic tropes, believing conspiracy theories and they do not fully understand exactly what they are doing. they need to be educated. so, it is about a whole transformative process that needs to start. jeremy corbyn has said he will strongly contest this decision to suspend him. clearly anybody involved in the disciplinary process has every right to put their case and that is what should happen now and that should go into the normal processes of the labour party and the labour party has to take whatever action is needed to show that it has changed. you cannot have a party claiming to be antiracist, as the labour party does, yet unable to see the racism it itself enacts towardsjewish people. that has to be a thing of the past. who do you blame for what happened? what do you think went wrong in essence and what was the problem in those years in the labour party? whenjeremy corbyn became leader of the labour party, people from the far left came into the party and started to dominate it and some of those

people brought with them conspiracy theories which looked at thejewish people as part of a controlling elite, drawing on old —fashioned long—standing anti—semitic theories and they somehow brought that into the culture of the labour party, sometimes dressed up as a very obsessive anti—zionism and other people went along with it, some believing it and some not understanding what it was. that started to take hold and that was what the problem. if people at the top of the labour party had dealt with it swiftly and clearly it could have been contained. that did not happen and so we have come to today's shameful results where the equality and human rights commission finds the labour party breaking policy legislation on at least three counts. when the country went into lockdown earlier this year, it was in part to

protect the nhs from being overwhelmed. one consequence of that was that the numbers of people visiting their gp with symptoms of cancer plummeted. macmillan cancer once there could be as many as 50,000 people and diagnosed in the uk. it once at that cancer care is at a crossroads and that the backlog could at best take 18 months to tackle in england alone. lynda, let because i can start with you, outline the problem, because we talk about the deaths from covid and the number of covid cases we are facing, but there is this real and growing problem about cancer care. thank you for giving us the opportunity to come and talk about this new report, because i

think it is incredibly important that we recognise that cancer really must not become the forgotten exceeded during the pandemic. we analyse data which was available about what happened to cancer services during the pandemic and estimated that up to 50,000 cancers may have gone undiagnosed and these will be people who are perhaps sitting at home and have not gone to the gp to get their symptoms checked and in some instances there will be people who are waiting to start the treatment. i think our first message would be if you are sitting at home and if you are worried about anything, please do make sure you get yourself along to your gp and get yourself along to your gp and get yourself along to your gp and get yourself diagnosed as quickly as you possibly can, because we note that early diagnosis saves lives. we are also at an interesting point where we can see the second wave of the pandemic and obviously it is in the pandemic and obviously it is in the news and all over the place and we really want to make sure that this problem does not actually get worse. so we have some clear calls for government around to sure that cancer services are ring fenced during this period of time and that also we do not see any redeployment of staff of vital services away from

cancer away to other services in the coming months. we also need to make sure anyone coming into contact with cancer services that staff and patients get access to the right to protect equipment and testing during this time, because we already have a problem, let's not make it worse over the winter. rees, let'sjust talk about your issues personally. —— ruth. you are diagnosed with breast cancer last december, i think. and how has the whole covid—19 crisis impacted on your ca re covid—19 crisis impacted on your care and treatment? it was... everything was going as normal and thenl everything was going as normal and then i had my first therapy on the ath of march and then obviously we wanted to lock down pretty soon after that and we had to have the discussion that i could be at risk of covid because i would have no immune system during chemotherapy, we had to have the discretion whether to continue or whether to stop my treatment, which was tough.

—— have the discussion whether to stop my treatment. talk through what the last few months have been like. they have been pretty hard, because i have had to go through chemotherapy during lockdown and you do not know when you're going to have your treatment, you know it is going to be, but is it to be stopped and you are watching the news constantly. it is hard enough dealing with the cancer and then on top of that covid, the mindset is totally all over the place at times. i suppose it is the unpredictable is your what is going to happen. i suppose it is the unpredictable is your what is going to happenm i suppose it is the unpredictable is your what is going to happen. it is and what is so crazy as i have actually said well, i am so lucky to have had my treatment continued. the word lucky and having my treatment continued in this country should not be in the same sentence. itjust should not. everybody should be getting treatment. lynda, i suppose there are two issues. there's this point about diagnosis and a lack of

people coming forward for whatever reason not going to their gps, but also interruptions, as we havejust been hearing the from ruth, treatment. yes, i think ruth you just put it beautifully, the way that your cancer treatment has been interrupted over the last few months andi interrupted over the last few months and i think there are those at two issues, so again i would like to reiterate if anybody out there thinks they may have something that does not quite feel right, actually the nhs is completely open for business. staff have been working harder than ever before and will continue to do so. that's to be able to treat cancer patients going forward. it is also really disruptive for people when their treatment gets disrupted, so again, thatis treatment gets disrupted, so again, that is where we are asking governments in all four nations to make sure that during this second wave of covid we do not make matters worse by ring fencing cancer services. we know that in many parts of the country they have been able to create services and spaces that are covid free and safe for people to be able to be treated and we would like that to be universally available for everybody, so that we do not see the sort of interruptions

that ruth was talking about, because cancer is the most difficult time for people. we know that when they have a cancer diagnosis people went to the uncertainty, anxiety, it really difficult to deal with and let's do not make that any worse thanit let's do not make that any worse than it needs to be during this time. ruth, back to you, what kind of additional help to think there should be for patients like yourself at this time? my team, they have been absolutely wonderful. they have been absolutely wonderful. they have been like my angels. i cannot fault them at all. i do worry about the pressure they are and as well. i think the problem is now, as a cancer patient, i have turned to mcmillan as a charity to support me when i have been really hurt and upset and lonely and not understanding and they have been there on the end of the line. is a charity, it scares me that they are losing funds due to covid and we need this wrap around us that is not there. because of lockdown, there has been in a community that i could go to where you could go and discuss

with other patients what it is like. it has all been stripped bare, silly mindset and the mental health side of it and the emotional side of it has been left quite open. -- so the mindset. that is a point, the whole mental health side of it, notjust the physical trauma of being a cancer patient, but the mental suffering and the mental uncertainty, is that ruth was just telling us about in this particular time of covid. absolutely and we note that psychological issues that people face when they have cancer are people face when they have cancer a re really people face when they have cancer are really quite profound. that is white macmillan cancer is there for people seven days a week, eight till eight. —— white macmillan cancer is there. we also have a buddy system so you can be paired up with people. we have also launched a new counselling service online to be able to support people with issues such as the ones that ruth has just described and also to be able to do our bit at macmillan cancer and take the pressure of the nhs, because as

we know, for my services are really stretched at this moment in time, so please do get in touch with macmillan cancer if you're suffering or know someone who need some support. ruth, what is the latest on your ca re support. ruth, what is the latest on your care at the moment, how are you feeling? as you can see, this is growing, so i would say to anybody who was scared of cancer, it is scary, but i'm here and yes, prognosis is really good, sojust please step forward and get yourself looked at. very good advice and really good luck to you, our thoughts with you. thank you both for being with us. just a quick appearance from ruth's cat there. let mejust bring appearance from ruth's cat there. let me just bring you up—to—date with some more restrictions that we arejust with some more restrictions that we are just getting with some more restrictions that we arejust getting details with some more restrictions that we are just getting details of now. department of health and social care

saying that the following areas are moving to tier two from a minute past midnight on saturday morning, yorkshire and the humber, east riding of yorkshire, kingston upon hull, north east lincolnshire, north lincolnshire, west midlands, dudley, staffordshire, telford and the rican, east midlands, amber valley, bolsover, derbyshire dales, derby city, south derbyshire, the whole of high peak, chalmers, east of england, luton and in the south—east, oxford city as well. matt hancock saying we continue to see a worrying rise in cases right across the country. it is clear that decisive action is needed. now to the united states. there are just six days to go before election day in the united states with both donald trump and joe biden travelling from state to state to whip up last minute support. and still the major issue appears to be coronavirus. the us government scientific adviser,

anthony fauci, has criticised president trump's rallies, telling the bbc they are bound to spread covid—19. here's our north america correspondent, david willis. the worst health crisis in more than a century is driving americans to the polls in record numbers. 75 million have so far taken the opportunity to vote early and avoid cramming into crowded polling stations and there are still five more days to go. among the early voters wasjoe biden. he and his wife, jill, cast ballots in their home state of delaware and the democratic nominee promptly took aim at his opponent, calling president trump's handling of the crisis an insult to its victims. we have lost more than 220,000 lives with this virus already but this administration has just given up. over the weekend, the white house chief of state, mark meadows, went on television and admitted they waved the white flag and declared surrender and he said, "we are not going to

control the pandemic". the american people deserve so much better than this. in contrast to the more cautious approach of his rival, donald trump continues to campaign vigorously, two events in the swing state of arizona where relaxed rules on social distancing make rallies of this kind easier. in bullhead city, arizona, the president said that while he planned to kill the virus, his opponent would kill the american dream. biden and the democrat socialists will delay the vaccine, prolong the pandemic, shut your schools and shut down the country. and your state is open, right? your state is nice and open. thank you. such rallies continue to concern mr trump's own medical advisors, among them, america's top infectious disease expert, doctor anthony fauci.

they are potentially super spreading events because in situations historically over the last month we have seen that when you have congregations of people not wearing masks, not being separate from each other, crowds, that is clearly a situation that will lead to outbreaks. polls show that the majority of americans disapprove of president trump's handling of the pandemic and given the sudden surge in coronavirus cases there, it is the one issue that could determine the outcome of this election. early turnouts traditionally tend to favour democrats and joe biden continues to lead in the polls. if we learned anything from the presidential election four years ago, it is this, it doesn't do to take anything for granted. david willis, bbc news. bobby ball, one half of the comedy double act cannon and ball, has died at the age of 76. his death comes after he tested positive for covid—19.

the comedian, actor and author had been in hospital with breathing problems. his stage partner, tommy cannon, has tweeted saying he is "absolutely devastated." "i've lost my partner, my best friend and the funniest man i know." one of the greatest ever welsh rugby players jj williams has died at the age of 72. jj williams has scored! he was a member of the lions squad that earned a famous victory over south africa in 197a and helped wales to four five nations titles, including two grand slams, during the 1970s. he was also a national sprint champion and represented wales at the commonwealth games on the track. quite a sporting career. now, a latest look at the weather forecast

for you. apologies in advance, a pretty cluttered weather story to tell, clouds, wind, rain, even temperature at the talking point. this is the story at the moment, this weather front has been bringing a blanket of rain and strong winds and sandwiched in between the two of these weather fronts, that south—westerly flow is driving in milderair south—westerly flow is driving in milder air across the country. you'll notice the difference in the feel of the weather over the next next couple of days. that is if you can escape the rain. this has been the story so far, that rain is stretching north and east, not quite reaching the final east of scotland and already we are starting to see a clea ra nce across and already we are starting to see a clearance across parts of the south and inter—wales and central england as well. some of that rain heavy across north—western rennes, south—west scotland, with gusts of wind wide in excess of a0 to 50 mph. —— north west england. temperatures peaking slightly above when they should be for this time of year. as you get through this evening and overnight, the rain continues to drift steadily north. we will see a

pulse of wetter weather for a time returning to wales and south—west england, but it is going to be an incredibly mild at night in comparison to those thatjust gone, with temperatures widely staying in low to mid teens. we start tomorrow with that wet weather stood clear from wales, pushing down to the south—west and across the channel coast, but friday should be acquired today, some centring a treat despite a few showers in scotland. scotland, northern ireland, and england and eventually wales will see some sunny spells, highs of 16 degrees possible for some. the weekend sees low pressure queueing up like buses out in the atlantic. the first on saturday could be a significant storm bringing some very heavy rain and some damaging gusts of wind, gale is quite widely, severe gale is not out of the question put up that coupled with the story we have had so far could lead to some travel disruption. some of that rain it really quite intense as it pushes u nstead ily really quite intense as it pushes unsteadily eastwards, gusts of wind could be 60 mph plus in exposed

areas and temperatures again on the mild side. it is certainly worth bearing in mind if your plans this weekend, keep watching the focus because we are heading for a very stormy spell of weather, gales or to feel gales are quite possible. take care. “— feel gales are quite possible. take care. —— severe gales.

this is bbc news, the headlines at apm. labour suspends jeremy this is bbc news, the headlines at apm. labour suspendsjeremy corbyn after a long awaited report on anti—semitism says the party

committed unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. under my leadership, zero tolerance of anti—semitism will mean precisely that. if you are anti—semitic, you should be nowhere near this party, and we will make sure you are not. three people have died in the french city of nice after a knife attack near a church. the mayor calls it an act of terrorism. here, the government announces several areas across the country, including hull, derby and oxford will move into that here too high coronavirus alert on saturday morning. almost 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in england. the stock finding from senior scientists as they warn the pandemic is at a critical stage.

hello, very good afternoon. jeremy corbyn has been suspended from the labour party following his response toa damning labour party following his response to a damning report into how complaints of anti—semitism are handled during his time as leader. the equality and human rights commission found that the party was responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. the current leader, ckrt said keir starmer, described this as a day of shame for labour and said the commission's recommendations will followed in full, but mr corbyn said theissue followed in full, but mr corbyn said the issue had been overstated for political reasons. in a tweet he said... more details from a political respondent, jonathan blake. all: shame on you, shame on you! a struggle with anti—semitism

that threatened to tear the labour party apart. complaints against members for prejudice againstjews, protests over a failure, as many saw it, to tackle the problem. a toxic time that's now seen labour's former leader suspended. others left long ago, in anger, of their own accord. now an investigation by the uk's equality watchdog found labour broke the law through political interference in anti—semitism complaints, a failure to provide adequate training, and harassment. the report also identifies serious failings in leadership, a culture that could be seen to accept anti—semitism and requires labour to draw up an action plan within six weeks. in response, the man now in charge said it was a damning verdict. i found this report hard to read. and it is a day of shame for the labour party. we have failed jewish people, our members, our supporters and the british public. he said he'd accept the report in full and offered an apology.

i know how hard these last few years have been for you, how painful today will be, and how hard you had to fight to have your voices heard. jeremy corbyn defended his actions, but in comments that would later see him suspended from labour, said his opponents had exaggerated the scale of anti—semitism. i think they don't acknowledge the work that i did to ensure there were proper processes were brought into place. let us be clear, to start off, one anti—semite in the party is one anti—semite too many. i think it is clear that we do not accept and i do not accept and keir starmer does not accept, none of us accept anti—semitism in any form whatsoever in our party. so, the man whojust a year ago was labour leader and candidate for prime minister now finds himself suspended from the party he has belonged to all his adult life. a swift move by his successor that may shock some but show proof

to others that sir keir starmer understands what is needed for the party to move on. it happened on his watch, he shamed the labour party, he sat at the centre of a party that enabled anti—semitism to spread from the fringes to the mainstream. this is not the end of everything that we've experienced. now it's about how we fix it. and, honestly, that now lies with keir starmer and his team. so we look, we will hold his feet to the fire. he needs to fix this. jeremy corbyn says he will strongly contest what he calls a political intervention to suspend him. today may mark a watershed for labour, but not the end of this struggle. jonathan blake, bbc news, westminster. dame louise ellman left the labour party last year due to anti—semitism. party last year due to anti-semitism. when jeremy corbyn

became leader of the labour party, people from the far left came into the party and started to dominate it, and some of those people brought with them conspiracy theories which looked at the jewish people with them conspiracy theories which looked at thejewish people as part of the controlling elite drawing on old —fashioned long—standing anti—semitic theories, and they somehow brought that into the culture of the labour party, sometimes dressed up anti—semitism, this is what started to take hold. that's what the problem was, people at the top of the labour party who dealt with it swiftly and clearly could have been contained. that did not happen, so we come to today's shameful results, where the equalities and human rights commission finds the labour party breaking its own standards. we have also been talking here to

alistair henderson who is from the ehic. he told us more about what the investigation had found. i think fundamentally they were not living up to their standards. in dealing with anti—semitism complaints there was some efforts, but not enough. we found that those in the party at best did not do enough to prevent anti—semitism, and at worst could be seen to accept it, and we found failings and leadership and we found failings and leadership and an inadequate process. it could have been more effectively tackled at the leadership had chosen to do so. a particularly interesting thing to point out on that is that it was a stark contrast between how anti—semitism was tackled and other

types of complaint. sexual harassment complaints, for instance, the parties had to a very good process with adequate training in place and clear sets of guidance, yet with far more attention being put on anti—semitism, the process would not put in place. we are going to get more on this from our political correspondent, but there have been a number of people in the last little while, groups, tweeting their support forjeremy corbyn in all of this. the first is from the socialist campaign group, it says... there is also been comment from the labour grassroots campaign momentum, which says...

well, let's discuss all of this with our political correspondent. those tweets just give you a flavour of what is going on now inside labour. yes, this is a big risk that keir starmer and labour have taken in suspending jeremy corbyn. it sends out a signal that they mean what they say, there were tough words from keir starmer earlier talking about the recommendations of the port being clear and stark with no room for equivocation. you heard in the report, there, no room induced should be nowhere near the sub party if you are an anti—semite. the row has hinged on this, and he said that if you believe it is exaggerated or

factional then you shouldn't be nowhere near the party either, and thatis nowhere near the party either, and that is what has led to the suspensionjeremy corbyn, said in his response to the report saying that crimes had been overstated. many of those who were in the party due to an attraction tojeremy corbyn, there is a risk that this will cause division in the party there, but there is immense pressure on keir starmer to be seen to being toughened to be following up tough words on anti—semitism with action. he said swiftly, i am going to respond to the report, and act on the suggestions. i suppose, now, internally, we want to see what happens in the party. it could be bloody. it could, and one of the things keir starmer has been trying

to do since he took over as leader is to unite the party. this will not immediately help with that if we see the sort of infighting again, but you should not underestimate how big and divisive an issue anti—semitism has been over the last few years in labour. we have seen very, very ugly internalfight over labour. we have seen very, very ugly internal fight over this, and certainly what we saw from keir starmer earlier was a real attempt to draw a line and start to move on from this. we heard a lot of times in his speech him talking about my leadership over the labour party that i lead, the sense of trying to move the discussion on, so he will be trying to do that over this, but at the same time without trying to sort of reignite another civil war, if you like, in labour. thank you very much, we'll let you get away and get more reaction, and talking a lot about sir keir starmer cos reaction to this report, in the last few he's months been speaking to

journalists again about this, so let's hear a little of what he has has been saying. i made it clear that we won't tolerate anti—semitism all the denial of anti—semitism through the suggestion that it is exaggerated orfactional, which is why i was disappointed withjeremy corbyn plasma response, and that is why we have taken appropriate action which i support. the investigation has started today, i can't interfere with it and it has to be done according to the rules, but it will look into the statement that has been made this morning. sir keir starmer, leader of the labour party, and you will have more on that story after 5pm, among others i will be talking to dame margaret hodge among others. full stop now to coronavirus, because new research estimates that hundred thousand people are catching the virus every day in england. the analysis from imperial college london says the number of infections is doubling

every nine days. researchers say pandemic has now reached the critical stage and has called for tighter restrictions. but the government says it has no plans for now for a full national lockdown. our health correspondent kathryn to costa has a first report. the react the react study of nearly 86,000 volunteers paints a stark picture. restrictions haven't stopped the virus from spreading, or at least not yet. the epidemic is accelerating and the number of new infections is estimated to be doubling every nine days. the study shows cases are rising in every age group in every region of england. nearly 100,000 people are catching the virus every day. the hardest hit area is yorkshire and the humber, where around one in a0 has the virus. while cases are highest in the north, infections are surging more rapidly in the south, where the estimated r number is above two. the authors of the report say a rise in older cases is deeply worrying.

we are seeing that in the 55—6a age group, there has been a trebling. in the 65—plus age group, there has been a doubling. these are the most vulnerable groups in terms of the risk the infection will lead to severe illness and hospitalisation. wales is already in lockdown, northern ireland and scotland's central belt are under tighter controls. in england, the study suggests tougher restrictions are required or communities need to be better at following the rules. either way, it says changes are urgently needed. but the government is not changing its position. we don't have a plan today to do a full national lockdown. we can see that there are arguments in favour of that in terms of simplicity and clarity, but there are very strong arguments against it as well. but labour leader sir keir starmer has renewed his position. everybody is very concerned by the rising number of cases

and tragically by the rising number of deaths. that is why i called for a circuit breaker that could have coincided with half term. my concern is that the tiered system is not doing enough to bring the infection rate down. it is notjust here. many european countries are also caught up in a second wave. a relaxation of restrictions over the summer allowed the virus to take off again. it's prompted new lockdowns in france and germany, to bring infections back under control. some scientists think the same will be needed in england. i don't know about a full national lockdown. it is a distinct possibility. but there is also the chance we will end up there by default with, i suspect not everywhere but nearly everywhere, being moved up into tier 3. so i think that's the way it will probably go. but it's a deteriorating situation, certainly. some hospitals are already under pressure. the concern is rapidly rising cases

will in turn lead to greater hospital admissions and deaths. for now, the government is waiting to see whether tougher local restrictions are working. but with the difficult winter months fast approaching, their hand may be forced. katharine da costa, bbc news. well, we will talk about the politics of all this in a moment. first of all, the science, is professor of infectious disease modelling from warwick can joins me. the figures that we are all talking about today from imperial college london, it's an estimate, as i understand it, but is this broadly wa ry understand it, but is this broadly wary are at, does this make sense?” think, sadly, unfortunately, this does make sense, and it's exactly the kind of thing we've been talking about for many weeks. it is very telling, if you go back to september, many of the cases were

coming in will with younger people, and when younger people are infected, they tend to have more mild symptoms. what is really telling is the shift to slightly older people, and we know this was said in your report, more elderly people are more susceptible to hospitalisation and, sadly, death. it is clear cases arising everywhere, the are number is rising, and this is coming and in less restriction reasons, it goes to show, if you want to avoid a situation where everywhere is interior to tier 3, we do need more strict option to turn this around. by strict option to turn this around. by which you mean taking a regional approach or something national? what would you advocate? again, as has been reported in europejust then,

the r number is possibly slightly higher in parts of the country where incidence is lower, and this is not surprising because parts of the country where instances is higher, they are already in tier 2 or tier 3, so this kind of circuit breaker which we discussed a few weeks ago would work better for those parts of the country where incidence is currently lower, because it could actually stop them advancing into higher tiers. so, i actually stop them advancing into highertiers. so, iwould be advocated much more proactive approach. if you are not in a situation where we are almost on a groundhog day situation. we could have a situation all over again where the tears situation is in catch up, so if we are not doing it by december we will almost end up in a national lockdown by default. the reason for making a swift decision getting on with it, i'm paraphrasing, but the reason for thatis

paraphrasing, but the reason for that is so that the nhs is not overwhelmed so that we have enough hospital beds. this is absolutely right, we only have to look in the situation in liverpool, where we see i see you occupancy is already very high. what we want to avoid is the nhs being overwhelmed, i'm getting testing tracer needs to be, and in order to do that we need urgent national action. we can bring the incidents down to lower levels and hopefully what we can do is protect the nhs and, of course, prevent all these parts of the country moving into higher tiers as we are approaching the winter months. it's interesting that you mention testing tracer, because isn't there a feeling, that the number of cases that such a pitch now that test and trace is struggling to keep up. to even have enough capacity? this is

another reason why a circuit breaker is potentially an option. i agree that a real opportunity to do this would have been over the half term period so that you are not massively impacting children in schools. one of the advantages with the circuit breaker is that if you can bring it down to the lower levels, you have time to get test and trace working, because those high incidence areas don't have the capacity for it to be working properly right now. isn't that what's happening in some european countries? some european politicians are being quite open about that. yes, and it's quite interesting, we are seeing more and more european countries saying almost daily that they are introducing some national scale controls. if you look at the situation in wales where they have adopted this firebreak, we see what the effects in and this will be. thank you, and i promised we would

talk about the politics of all of that. we will indeed come with the former head of strategy and speech writer for theresa may, former head of strategy and speech writerfor theresa may, whojoins me now. good afternoon to you. i hope you are able to hear a professor, there are, in warwick. i wonder what you think if government ministers we re you think if government ministers were listening to that, what the response would be. well, they have been very clear that at the moment the national lockdown is not something they would think about, and we can explore the reasons for that, but i think the main issue for people in number ten at the moment, former colleagues of mine who are looking at this, is that these statistics are incredibly stark, and a report that you have refer to the came out today, 100,000 people infected today, is incredibly stark, but it is only one input into the decision—making process. if you look at that, then you say, right, we have to look down and stop this

happening, but at number ten, you have to look at other things, the economic impact, the physical and mental health indications of those economic impacts, and you have to look at things in the round, some at the moment, pop and politics, the decision—making process has to look at all of these things, and you can't look at the one in isolation, so it's an incredibly complicated picture, but i think it's that broader picture that they are trying to look at, and they're doing it on a targeted regional basis rather than just a targeted regional basis rather thanjust a a targeted regional basis rather than just a blanket national lockdown. of course, and that is the difficulty for politicians across europe, trying to balance the economic impact with the health situation. i mean, what sort of lessons will have been learned from the first wave, if we take ourselves back to march? one hopes that there we re back to march? one hopes that there were strategies, people like you, other politicians sitting down going, right, we are in this for the long haul, let's really study what's going on now and try and work out

how best to deal with the situation later in the year. one hopes lessons we re later in the year. one hopes lessons were learned in march. some practical lessons were learnt in march about the way to protect nhs capacity, and some of the things we know that we did around care homes, we don't to repeat that, so the practical things are learned in that basis, but the big lesson to take from march in wave one, if we can put it like that, is that at that stage there are very clear about what their objective was with the public, and what their messaging was and what they wanted people to do, and what they wanted people to do, and at the moment that objective has been slightly lost. people are feeling now that we are not real clear what we're trying to do, i will try to eliminate this virus, are we trying to suppress it, i would try to live with it? that kind of clarity of message has been lost, andi of clarity of message has been lost, and i think people may be not adhering to the rules on the way

that they certainly did first time round. so, that is one of the big things, as well, but that messaging, we we re things, as well, but that messaging, we were just talking about and the nhs, and protecting the nhs, that is obviously one of the big issues here, in numberten, you obviously one of the big issues here, in number ten, you inevitably get called in to a meeting anyway, evenin get called in to a meeting anyway, even ina get called in to a meeting anyway, even in a good year, which is about the nhs winter crisis plan, because there is always stress on the nhs over winter with winter flu etc, there is always stress on the nhs over winter with winterflu etc, and that will be one of the major calculations to try drive policy decisions. so, you would sit down and discuss the situation with the nhs even in normal times. that tells its own story. i'm interested that you talk about clarity, because is itfairto you talk about clarity, because is it fair to say that the picture was clearer, everything affected the whole nation, broadly, and now we

are going for a regional approach, scientifically, perhaps, for understandable reasons, but is that more of a headache for politicians because, frankly, you can forgive people for being confused. you have to google what the restrictions are in yourarea, it to google what the restrictions are in your area, it is so hard to keep up. yes, it is much more complicated for a messaging point of view and a policy implementation point of view, but it is also something a lot of people called for. a lot of regional leaders were calling for this approach earlier in the pandemic, i now that the government has implemented it, a lot of the same people are criticising and having a go at them. there is a slight situation we can't really win if you're in national government, but, of course, from the start of this, it is absolutely right that the sort of national approach in england, from march onwards, but we have a lwa ys from march onwards, but we have always had different situations in wales and northern ireland and scotland. there has always been this

different approach across different nations, that has just been extended ona nations, that has just been extended on a regional basis. as i say, it's a lot of people called for this, but now there is doubt about it.“ a lot of people called for this, but now there is doubt about it. if you are there advising our speech writing now, would you be advocating, do you know what? can we please try and have something across the region, because otherwise it is going to be so complicated.” the region, because otherwise it is going to be so complicated. i think i would certainly be advocating more honesty about what the christmas period is going to involve. i think we need to level with the public about the fact that christmas is not going to be a christmas like any of us are accustomed to, whether it is ona us are accustomed to, whether it is on a tiered basis or on a national basis, we are not going to experiencing the kind of christmas we normally would. we need to be honest about that. i do think that pulling national and regional leaders together and trying to

present a united front would be better than some slightly regional approach where you see politics come into it between national, regional, local government, let's try and remove the politics and preventing them united front. i think the public would welcome that. thank you, former head of strategy and a speech writer for theresa may. just why we were talking, some new figures have come through in the last few moments. just try and go through these. the government saying that a further 280 people have died asaof that a further 280 people have died as a of thursday, again, to remind you, these are people who have died within 28 days of having a positive covert test. —— covid test. so, 280 deaths announced this last period

265 lab confirmed cases across the uk. these figures just threw in the last few moments. the time, now, 27 minutes past four, let's turn to another story entirely, because west midlands police say that a third body has been found in the hunt for the suspect anthony russell, who is wa nted the suspect anthony russell, who is wanted in connection with two deaths. the police are working to establish whether the body of a woman found near leamington spa could be linked to russell. mother and son judy and could be linked to russell. mother and sonjudy and david williams were found dead in flats in coventry. let's go to our correspondent who is covering the story. bring us up to date. yes, really the story has been

very much developing through the course of the week, because on sunday night, police found the body of 58—year—old julie williams at her flat in coventry. they then issued an urgent appeal to find her son, 32—year—old david williams, and they say that he was not a suspect in the case. they say they have found his body in coventry, where they lived, and at that stage they took the step of issuing on their website of 38—year—old anthony russell, and named him as a suspect in the case. they wanted the public to help him to to find him, because they did not know where he was, they thought he might have gone to devon or

cornwall, and asked the public not to approach him, and said he might be dangerous. today they have revealed that they are now working to find out whether the body of a woman who they have not named who they founding leamington spa is linked to this case. they say they have information which suggests that anthony russell may be collected to the staff. —— may be connected to his death. they say on this website that they very much want information collected to his whereabouts. much more coming up in the next half—hour, but it is have passed, which means we must pause and take a look at weather prospects. it has been a cloudy day was winds pushing across the whole of scotland. as we close out the day, you can already start to see there

is clearance, which means that the parts of wales in the south brightening up for a time. through the night tonight, the rain continues to move it that way steadily northwards, we will have a pulse of wet weather pushing into wales, and a scattering of showers in the far north—west. an incredibly mild night with the south west wind, temperature is into double digits. a quiet day for friday, raine still to ease at the south west wales, but as we move into saturday it's a gear change once again, with a stormy speu change once again, with a stormy spell of weather, heavy rain, strong to severe gales likely across parts of the country, gusts in excess of 60 miles an hour, maybe more, and that rain really quite persistent, but quite mild for the time of year, 11 to 17 degrees.

hello. this is bbc news. the headlines — labour suspends jeremy corbyn, after a long—awaited report on anti—semitism says the party committed unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. under my leadership, zero tolerance of anti—semitism will mean exactly that. if you are anti—semitic, you should be nowhere near this party, and we will make sure you are not. three dead in the french city of nice, after a knife attack near a church. the mayor calls it an act of terrorism. here, the government announces

several areas across the country, including hull, derby and oxford, are to move into the tier 2 high coronavirus alert level from saturday. almost 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in england — the stark finding from senior scientists, as they warn the pandemic is at a critical stage. we will talk more about the story around the labour party in this half hour, but right now we will talk about sport. sport and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's sarah mulkerrins. good afternoon. let's start with the news in the last half hour that the rfu is bringing charges against 13 unnamed barbarian players, for conduct prejudicial to the interests of the union or the game. england's match against the barbarians at twickenham last sunday was called off, following coronavirus protocol breaches. the rfu say they will face a range of charges, including individual breaches of the protocols, and also charges relating

to providing false statements during an investigation. the charges will be heard by online independent disciplinary panel. former england captain chris robshaw was among the players who apologised for the breach. jj williams has been hailed as "one of the greatest "wings to play for wales, the british & irish lions "and "llanelli" by the welsh rugby union, following his death at the age of 72. the lions, meanwhile, said he "inspired a generation "with his incredible running and finishing abilities". he scored 12 tries in 30 tests, as wales won four five nations titles during the 1970s, including two grand slams. williams also scored five tries in seven tests for the lions across two tours. wales captain alun wynjones will break the world record for most test match appearances, when he leads his country against scotland in the six nations on saturday. the second—rower will make his 1a9th appearance for wales and the british and irish lions,

overtaking new zealand's world cup—winning skipper richie mccaw. probably the last three or four yea rs, probably the last three or four years, he has started to get that recognition for what he has achieved in the game and for wales, and that took a while, so hopefully the great outing against scotland, break the record for someone like richie mccaw is some achievement and he will go down in one of the great players in wales history and he fully deserves all the accolades this week and what he has achieved in the game. finn russell will start for scotland in that game, making his first six nations appearance of this year, after falling out with head coach gregor townsend in january. captain stuart hogg and second—row forward jonny gray return to the side, following their european and premiership cup wins with exeter. scrum—half ben youngs will become just the second englishman to win 100 test caps against italy.

world cup winnerjason leonard is the only other player to reach the milestone. exeter lockjonny hill will make his international debut in rome. this weekend's women's six nations game between ireland and france has been called off, due to an outbreak of coronavirus within the french squad. it's not clear whether france will forfeit the match, or if it will be postponed until december, to coincide with italy and scotland's meeting. champions england go in search of a grand slam against italy, having prepared for the match in a covid—secure bubble. dan evans beat austria'sjurij rodionov in straight sets to reach the third round of the vienna open. his opponent had caused an upset, beating world number 12 denis shapovalov in the opening round, but evans proved too strong. he'll play either stefanos tsitsipas or grigor dimitrov next. the manager of irish side dundalk has compared his team's europa league game against arsenal

to a boxing mismatch. dudalk will be massive underdogs when they travel to the emirates this evening. currently third in the irish top flight, this is the second time in five years that they have reached the group stages and manager filippo giovagnoli recognises the size of his team's task. that is why it is obvious that there is like a heavyweight boxer against a super lightweight, right? so we will just need to a super lightweight, right? so we willjust need to try to make them run and uncomfortable a little bit. let's make the passion something may be bigger in our side. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour. president macron has said "france is under attack" after a man killed three people in a church in the southern city of nice. mr macron announced that he would be stepping up the deployment

of soldiers to protect key french sites, such as places of worship and schools, but was also adamant that the country would ‘not yield to terror‘. france has raised its terrorism alert to the highest level after the incident — which took place at the notre dame basilica at nine o'clock in the morning local time. the attacker is said to have burst in to the church where two of the victims, a man and a woman, suffered deep cuts to the throat. the third victim, also a woman, fled to a nearby bar, but died of her injuries. the church's caretaker is said to be one of those killed. chaos and terror in the heart of another french city. streets closed, swarming with police and paramedics, the stunned aftermath of france's latest horrific attack.

it took place around 9am in the city's neo—gothic basilica of notre dame. shouting allahu akbar, the attacker stabbed three people, including the caretaker. one of the victims is thought to have been beheaded. another, a woman, fled to a nearby cafe before dying. we heard many people shouting in the streets, so we saw by the window that there were many, many policemen coming and then we heard gunshots, many gunshots and more and more policemen. the city's mayor called for unity but said it was clear this was terrorism. translation: nice, perhaps more than any other place in france, today's paying far too heavy a price by once again been a victim of islamic fascism. there is no doubt about the meaning of this act, given that the perpetrator did not stop repeating allahu akbar in front of us while he was

receiving medical treatment. in paris, a minute's silence in the national assembly as word of events in nice began to emerge. france is still in shock after the murder of middle school teacher samuel paty, most french citizens proudly defending their country's secular values. for nice, memories too of 2016 when 86 people celebrating bastille day were killed by a tunisian immigrant driving a truck. but around the muslim world, there is anger at what some describe as president macron's anti—islam agenda. pakistan's prime minister, imran khan, has accused the french president of encouraging islamophobia. turkey's president erdogan has urged turks to boycott french goods and said that president macron needed a mental health check. against this heated international backdrop and with an investigation in nicejust beginning, reports of violence elsewhere. in another southern city, avignon, the police shot dead a suspected

islamist who was threatening passers—by. and in saudi arabia, a guard at the french consulate injeddah was attacked. the guard was wounded and the assailant taken into custody. paul adams, bbc news. the number of redundancies planned for by british employers last month reached close to record levels. data released to the bbc, after a freedom of information request, shows that more than 1,700 employers notified the government of plans to cut 20 or more posts. that's close to the peak levels seen in june and july. ben king reports. sarah burridge from leicester was furloughed from herjob at an asbestos removal company in march, with the government paying most of her salary. in august, she was made redundant. the job market is pretty dire at the moment. i have been looking mainly at sort of office administration, which is where i had come from,

but there is very, very little out there and what is out there, there are so many applicants for it. june saw nearly 1,900 employers notify government of redundancy plans and july saw nearly as many, according to figures obtained by the bbc. there was a brief lull in august, but in september, numbers were back up to 173a, with 82,000 jobs put at risk. oxford street is normally buzzing with early christmas shoppers at this time of year, but 2020 is different. the coronavirus is back. retail is one of the sectors that has been hit the hardest and that is one reason why so many employers have had to make redundancies. i think today's figures are pretty concerning, because we had seen numbers starting to fall last month and they do appear to be ticking up again now. i think if we see next month's figures rising, that will give us a pretty clear idea that firms are letting people

go with the end of furlough. furlough is due to end in two days' time, and the chancellor rishi sunak has introduced a partial replacement for it, called the job support scheme. 8% of the workforce are still on furlough, and next month's redundancy figures will show whether the government has done enough to save theirjobs. ben king, bbc news. let's ta ke let's take a few minutes to talk about something we haven't touched on yet this afternoon, because today is the deadline for people to share their views on the government's pose changes to the planning system. among the changes put forward is a controversial new formula to assess housing need in england. several conservative mps have raised concerns that the formula will lead to houses being built in the wrong parts of the country, and they've called on the government to think again. let's debate what is proposed and what is needed.

with me is hugh ellis, who's the policy director for the town and country planning association, which promotes quality affordable housing. also, i'mjoined byjohn myers, the co—founder of yimby, which stands for yes in my back yard, a grassroots movement, calling for a massive house—building programme across the country. very good afternoon to both of you gentlemen. hugh ellis, can i start with you, from the town and country planning association? what is needed and why, do you feel? well, there is no doubt the government has a very radical agenda on planning. the prime minister's white paper says they want to tear down the existing system and introduce a radical new system. i think the challenge behind thatisif system. i think the challenge behind that is if you want really good places you actually need strong planning, and you also need really strong democratic control. i think the challenge with the white paper is that the most likely consequence of it will be a free for all, where you need the cv houses built in the right places nor the quality nor the

affordability. so there is no a tremendous amount at stake. people are frustrated at planning but they are frustrated at planning but they are familiar with having a voice on it and what is at stake this winter and next year is whether we have a system where people are at the heart of it or whether or not development will simply happen, regardless of the views. in our view, you desperately need homes but you can't without consent. john myers, i think there is agreement, isn't there, that more housing is needed? we talk all the time about how difficult it is for younger people in particular to find somewhere to live frankly and somewhere that is affordable, but a free for all is not the answer, is it? i completely agree we need plenty more homes and a freefall is not the answer. to be clear, a freefall is not what the paper is proposing. the housing secretary will be keen to recognise —— the first to recognise he is keen to get people's feedback so these can be as clear as possible. the goal of the white paper is to bring

the democracy forward so people get a real say in what will be allowed and they have a clear idea of what will be allowed on their street in advance, because all too often under the current system, people object to a planning application and then it gets approved on appeal because they find out it was allowed in a local plan that was prepared years before they ever knew anything. so the idea is to fix that and create more certainty for everybody. what, so you think under these proposals, people at a local level would have a genuine say? they were genuinely be able to say for example, i am all for a big housing development on the edge of town, we need to houses, but actually it is to be, for example? would people really be able to have that sort of say? because people should have the right to object, shouldn't they? i completely agree people should have the right to be involved and decide the future of theirarea and the involved and decide the future of their area and the key behind this is to make sure development genuinely benefit local communities. all too often we see things that

just makes the place worse and i think you and i would agree on that. the key is to find ways where communities can plan for a future where the place they live is better and is improved and enhanced and more jobs are created by what is built near them. hugh ellis, do you recognise anything of whatjohn myers is describing there?” recognise anything of whatjohn myers is describing there? i think there is a really important argument going on for the soul of whether you have local democratic banning. if we are all agreed people should have a clear voice, the question is then why does the white paper for example specifically take now the right to be heard in front of a planning inspector out when plans are made? why for example has the government deregulated planning so 90,000 units of housing have come through a process that doesn't require full planning permission at all where people's voices are ignored, and the quality is so bad, we can all agree, it has been appalling, including tiny spaces around us, no gardens, no windows in some cases. i think

the great challenge here is we all share an ambition to make places that are zero carbon and genuinely affordable. the real problem here is what underlies the white paper is if you deregulate, you end up with positive outcomes. we are trying an experiment here, running poor quality housing that is unaffordable and if we have a shared ambition, i think the government will want to reach out again because the thing we need to post covid is healthy environments, healthy places, but we also need trust in local democracy. john myers, nobody hopefully once poor quality housing, surely? we should be better than that in 2020, shouldn't we? i absolutely agree, let me pick up specifically this right to be heard in front of a planning inspector. it is almost no

use, because legally the you can talk to a planning inspector until you're blue in the face but if the planner approves the developer and you're basically wasting your time unfortunately so we all agree we need to fix the democracy, work with the government to improve these proposals and make sure it works well, but we are also all agreed that radical change is needed because no one is happy with the current system. i'm sorry, we have to ever thank you very much. that consultation closes today. thank you very much. sorry we have to leave that, because lots of other pressing news this afternoon, as you are aware. more now on the labour anti—semitism report, and in the last hour sir keir starmer has been speaking, and defended his decision to suspend jeremy corbyn from the party. i made it clear that we won't tolerate anti—semitism or the denial

of anti—semitism through the suggestion that it is exaggerated or factional, and that is why i was disappointed with the response of jeremy corbyn and that is why appropriate action has been taken, which i fully support. this is an investigation that started today. it is very important for me not to interfere with it, it has to be done properly in accordance with the rules but it will look into the statement was made this morning. sir keir starmer, the leader of the labour party of course, and this is all about that report issued by the equality and human rights commission. law firm mishcon de reya represented the jewish labour movement throughout the european human rights commission report, katy coltonjoins me now, she's head of the politics and law group at mishcon de reya. hello, katie, very good afternoon. this has been an extraordinary day for the labour party and i don't think the ramifications have

finished playing out. what are your thoughts about the strength of the words in this report? absolutely, it has been an extraordinary day and i don't think we can underestimate just quite how unprecedented this report is. the e hrc does not give out unlawful act notices on a regular basis, the most far—reaching investigation to date was in 2016 into the metropolitan police, and then the e hrc made far—reaching recommendations but didn't go so far as saying the metropolitan police had breached a quality regulation. here it did so with the labour party, it said the labour party has acted in breach of the equality act and has issued an unlawful act notice. it is really unprecedented. jeremy corbyn has said amongst other things that there was not enough acknowledgement within the report of, as he put it, of the work i did to try to bring proper processes in.

was any account taken of that?” think the report goes into great detail about the complaint process and the failures repeatedly to address the complaint process. the labour party had numerous bites of the cherry to look at the processes and improve them but refused to do so and the labour party has repeatedly said in 2018 their situation exposed, —— improved whereas the ehrc report found that there was continued interference in there was continued interference in the complaint procedure right up until 2019 when the independent body was tasked to deal with it. it wasn't clear on how sanctions were given out, and there was huge delay in how complaints of anti—semitism we re in how complaints of anti—semitism were dealt with. what is interesting to note is they also looked at comparable complaint systems for insta nce comparable complaint systems for instance under the sexual harassment procedure and found there was not a similar political interference, it

was only in relation to complaints of anti—semitism, so i don't think it is fairforjeremy of anti—semitism, so i don't think it is fair forjeremy corbyn to say they have not given enough acknowledgement of that. the labour party has corresponded with the ehrc, it has responded to the draft report and the ehrc has considered that, forensically considered the evidence over two years and this is its conclusion and jeremy corbyn should have accepted that. and the leadership could have done a lot more over a long period, is that the contention? absolutely, not only that but the buck stops with them, and it was the leadership that was interfering in certain what they call political sensitive complaints of anti—semitism. the labour party in its first submission to the ehrc said it was of constitutional importance for the leadership of its to be involved in these complaints. it then amended its evidence before ehrc and accepted it was not appropriate for the leaderships office to be involved. so not only because they have done more that

they were directly responsible for incidents of indirect discrimination againstjewish members. incidents of indirect discrimination against jewish members. and was there any sense in which the ehrc could work out why it was going on, at this scale, for this length of time? you make the point that for example there were proper procedures in place if someone made a complaint about for example sexual harassment, so there were procedures clearly in place in certain circumstances, so why not around issues of anti—semitism? why not around issues of anti-semitism? that is the big question for the people who have been named in this report to answer. i don't think we can sit here and think about what the motivation or intent was. i think we have to look at the facts and say that this problem was not dealt with, and there was a real problem with anti—semitism within labour and hopefully the party will look at recommendations and implement them ina timely recommendations and implement them in a timely manner. katie colton, head of politics and law group at mishcon de reya the law firm, thank you very much for your time. thank

you. back to coronavirus. pizza express has announced it's cutting around 1,300 jobs across its uk restaurants after a fall in the number of customers in light of tightened covid restrictions. the company said that the roles will be cut from its 370 uk restaurants through both compulsory and voluntary redundancies. a decision, which it says it will help the company manage the challenges of this winter and beyond as it expects lower than usual footfall. the decision follows last august's announcement that around 1,100 jobs were at risk. now it's time for a look at the weather. we will be talking again about the

labour party report, the ehrc report, talking to dame margaret hodge among others about that. now it's time for a look at the weather. strong winds whipping up the seas across the coast this afternoon, and there has been some pretty persistent rain. you can see cloudy skies and a fairly dismal afternoon for many across the far north—west. this was cumbria earlier on, and if we ta ke this was cumbria earlier on, and if we take a look at the rain radar, can see that rain continues to drift its way north and east across the whole of scotland. there was a clea ra nce whole of scotland. there was a clearance behind across central and southern parts of england and wales. still windy with it though, still plenty of isobars behind that weather front. that is driving and much milder air. so as we go through the night those temperatures will not fall away very far at all for this time of year. it does mean that rain still yet to clear away. it will do so through the next few hours, leaving a trail of showers in the north west for a time and some

more persistent rain lingering across wales and south—west england. but look at these temperatures. overnight minimums of just but look at these temperatures. overnight minimums ofjust around eight to 1a degrees. for many, we are looking at low to mid teens first thing on friday morning. that cloud and rain across wales will sink its way steadily south and linger across the south coast for much of the day, brightening up though to the north of that, and that will allow for some sunny spells, top temperatures through the afternoon of nine to 16 or 17 degrees as a high. as we move out of friday, we really do change gear yet again, as we see these weather fronts pushing their way in from the atlantic, and we could on saturday see quite a significant area of low pressure, which will bring some stormy weather for a time. a spell of very heavy rain, the brighter colours denoting this as it tends to push its way steadily eastward and then a trail of sharper showers wrapping around that low, where the strongest of the winds are likely to sit. widespread gales, severe gales for some, with gusts in excess or

close to 60 or 70 mph. it does look as though those temperatures will still register on the mild side on your thermometer. we are looking at highs of 11 to 70 degrees, 63 more wet weather to come as we move into sunday. —— 11 to 17 degrees. keep watching the forecast for details on sunday but generally through the weekend it looks like the gales will cause an issue, coupled with some heavy rain.

this is bbc news. the headlines. labour suspends jeremy corbyn after a long—awaited report on anti—semitism says the party committed unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination.

under my leadership, zero tolerance of anti—semitism will mean exactly that. if you are anti—semitic, you should be nowhere near this party, and we will make sure you are not. the government announces that millions more people will be living under tier 2 restricitions, as several areas across the country — including hull, derby and oxford — are to move into the "high" coronavirus alert level from saturday almost 100,000 people are catching coronavirus every day in the england. the stark finding from senior scientists as they warn the pandemic