lockdown would mean forjobs. bond. james bond. sir sean connery — the very first screen james bond — has died at the age of 90. now on bbc news, our world. has coronavirus changed the way we buy clothes forever? and what about those who are being left behind? bangladesh is one of the world's most incredible economic success stories. at the heart of the country's economic boom is the garment industry. the first factory opened in the 1970s and now it is a $30 billion industry. barton, arcadia groups, tesco, river island... almost everybody has visited in my showroom. there are almost 5,000 garment

factories in bangladesh, employing mostly women. but could the coronavirus erase decades of progress in a matter of months? you see all this is justjeans. and those made for the... uk high street. theyjust keep here like that. how many days i can keep the jeans like that? where i have the space?! factories shut down, leaving thousands of people out of work... ..and worried about how they will survive.

bangladesh is the second largest manufacturer of ready—made garments in the world. this industry employs 4 million people in the country. 85% of them are women. the southern port city of chittagong. most of the clothing in these factories is made for fast fashion brands in america and europe. it's all about huge volumes and quick turnaround times.

mostafiz uddin is the owner of denim expert. this is pepejeans london. he employs 2,000 workers making jeans for big international brands. when he built the factory 11 years ago, mostafiz focused on creating a safe working environment. he wanted to put bangladesh on the map as a sustainable place to do business. in the past, safety issues were rampant in garment factories. building regulations were disregarded in construction. long working hours in cramped and hazardous factories were common.

these unsafe working practices were brought to the world's attention in 2013. the eight—storey rana plaza complex collapsed in the capital dhaka. 1,131; people were killed. did you go to rana plaza when it happened? immediately — itwas11.00, 11.30, something like that. i just took my shuttle and i ran away and i went to the rana plaza area and i see the things that are going on, ifeel so much helpless that i had really not things to do, no things to offer. from there, i decided, "0k, that is the time i really "start to how can i do good for people? "how can i change people's perceptions? "how can another rana plaza not happen? "

you really can see what i'm doing the last 20 years. if you check through my e—mails the last 20 years, you will see every single day i work up through night 3am. he lives with his wife and son in chittagong. i was thinking after...many days. ——i am seeing him. he has dozens of clients from all around the world. many come to visit him in his factory showroom. like this from marshall, us ambassador, from the danish ambassador. clients who buyjeans from him include famous fashion brands. and who's visited your lab? almost every high street retailer you can think

of visited over here like, at the moment boohoo, barton, topshop and then arcadia groups, tesco, river island... almost everybody have been visited in my showroom and they all had been written their comments over here, and they are all very happy. but things have changed dramatically since the coronavirus pandemic hit. on 9th of march, the first three cases of coronavirus were announced in dhaka. man on tannoy speaks own language 0n the 26th of march, the government ordered

all factories to lock down. millions of workers were sent home, with no idea when they would return to work. hosna and her husband both lost their jobs in garment factories. they live on the outskirts of dhaka in the tongi slum. they share one room with their baby, shareen, and aktar‘s mother. his mother also lost herjob in the garment industry when the factories closed.

social distancing here is a challenge. 0ne stove is shared amongst 20 families. there are six toilets and one communal washing area. the minimum wage for a garment worker in bangladesh is £74 a month. hosna and her family all worked overtime and earned nearly £275 a month between them. one month into the lockdown, hosna was called back into work.

but on the 3rd ofjune, she was laid off and given just 5,000 taka, around £16 in compensation. in chittagong, 17 days into the pandemic, mostafiz had to close his factory. he was receiving e—mails from buyers cancelling their orders.

many of the jeans had already been made and were ready to be dispatched. some had already been shipped. but some customers were saying they were no longer responsible for the payment of their order or were putting payment off indefinitely. when the pandemic hit, around $3 billion of orders were cancelled in bangladesh's garment industry. you see all this is justjeans. and those were all made for the high street. theyjust keep here like that. how many days i can keep the jeans like that? where i have this space?! you can see by yourself there is no space. everywhere, everywhere you can see. there is no space and it is not safe for the working condition. mostafiz pays for all materials

to make the jeans upfront. he borrows money from the bank for the denim and his workers‘ wages. he generally receives payment on delivery of the goods, not in advance. you can see all of these fabrics are from pakistan, china, india, turkey. and all these fabrics we bought from our manufacturing partners, oursuppliers, and they trusted us, they have produced these fabrics when we say to them to do it just like we trusted to our buyers and all these people, the same thing, our high street suppliers also trusted us and then we produce and then we ship. now, if you just look into all these fabrics, these are all $1, these are all here around $5—6 million of fabrics in this warehouse, and all of the fabric,

we borrowed the money from the bank and we purchase this because we trusted our clients and told them we would finish them. but they simply cancelled them. as i say, they don't want them. one of the companies that cancelled a large order was uk high street retailer peacocks. in total, they cancelled a contract for 113,600 pairs of jeans, worth over £162,000. in an e—mail to mostafiz, the company said it was cancelling payments for all stock already made and stock that had already shipped to its warehouse. 15,100 pairs had already been made and were ready to ship. another 111,500 jeans had had the material bought for them. we tried to contact them

to ask why they haven't paid for their orders, but have received no reply. its parent company, edinburgh woollen mill, has recently filed for administration, putting up to 211,000 jobs at risk in the uk. we work in trust and faith in everybody in this industry works like that. what we were supposed be producing in march, we had not ordered in february, we ordered that in december and the vessel ships from different parts of the world, china, turkey all of these places. so when the pandemic starts and everything shuts down, even that time it starts to come and then it starts to pile up. mostafiz is paying $2,000 a day to keep fabrics he has already ordered, but can't store at his factory at the port. containers after containers come in because we ordered the fabrics two or three months

before. i am not understanding what to do, the responsibility of 2,000 people. priority is feeding the families, feeding the workers, not to clear the goods for the port. it is not the buyer who did that commit millions of dollars of goods stuck on the port, but how can i save my worker? how can i keep them alive? in dhaka, with no income, hosna took on the onlyjob she could find, chopping nuts for a local shop. this earns herjust £1 a day.

her husband has not found work, so it looks found work, so looks after their daughter. his mother is now the family's main breadwinner, working four jobs a day cleaning houses. in april, thousands of workers joined protests outside factories demanding to be paid. but they were unsuccessful.

mostafiz received some support from the government in the form of low interest loans to help cover salaries. it was not enough to cover all his costs. he took drastic action to keep paying his workers. i sold my property, all the property. even the house where

you are sitting now, that house was sold. this one, this is my only house. last month... ..she sold all her jewelries and gold. and keep on paying to the people. so, we are poor, actually. how he overcomes this. he did not sleep. after 3—4 days, he asked me, i felt a pain in my chest. at times things were very difficult for some. at times things were very difficult.

if this straight, this is where i used to say to everybody. i would stand here and thought about just jump from here. suicide. that's what i used to think. people will think i am a coward.

mostafiz‘s factory reopened after one month. six months on, some buyers have now agreed to pay for orders they'd cancelled. many are still insisting on a discounted rate. mostafiz has taken on deep debts. i am suffering, i am a part

of the suffering, but it is not that i am the only person suffering. we are suffering, the group of manufacturers are suffering because it is not happen only in bangladesh. the situation, what has happened with me, maybe i am one person or i am one single country, but it is the same in all the production companies. the production countries. if you go to india, pakistan or other countries, they also have the same situation as an industry and as a community, we should make some kind of safety net where our workers are safe and they should not have suffered the way how they suffered... during the pandemic times. for decades the fast fashion industry has relied on cheap labour from countries like bangladesh. and for the millions of people like hosna, work in garment factories has provided a better standard of living.

imports of clothing to america were down 49% from april tojune and in the eu, they were down by 45%. recent studies showed for every ten workers laid off in bangladesh during the pandemic, only one has returned to work.

hello, some turbulent weather across the uk this weekend with some torrential rain and gales, strong winds really whipping up the waves across southern and western coasts and for western areas we have seen an excess of 25 millimetres of rain in just over 2a hours, well over an inch in places. other places have been clearing, some spells of sunshine and some respite for a time because there is more rain in the forecast for sunday, coupled with further gales, a number of met office yellow weather warnings in place, all the details on our website. wet and windy, courtesy of this area of low pressure, storm aid of low pressure, storm aidan

in pulling away northwards as we head overnight, but waiting in the wings is another area of low pressure, pushing further wind and rain eastwards, initially into northern ireland and then into the rest of the uk, with more rain pushing into the west of scotland and northern england and wales and transferring eastwards as the night moves on. still gusty winds, not quite as strong as they have been in places, but they will start to strengthen again tomorrow, particularly in western scotland. not a cold night, 6—8 c. sunday, we have got this area of low pressure to deal with. notice on the southern flank how closely isobars are together, that will bring some strong winds across the west of scotland. still a wet and windy day, but rain for northern ireland clearing and clear for most after the morning, a scattering of of the morning, a scattering of showers before more rain starts to pile in from the west, likely to be most persistent across northern parts of england, wales, northern ireland and again some gusty winds, particularly for western coasts and especially so across western scotland, where they will likely exceed 70 mph.

temperature, 10—14 c across the northern half of the uk and up to 17 degrees further south. we keep that rain going tomorrow evening into the midlands and wales, norhtern england, likely to see some flooding here again northern england, likely to see some flooding here again we have those warnings place from the met office. the weekend weather continues into monday for some, still a wet, blustery, if not very windy day and that slowly starts to ease on tuesday, as do the winds. then high pressure takes charge, so as we had to wednesday and the latter half of the week looks drier, less windy, but colder, particularly overnight.

this is bbc news. the headlines... the prime minister has announced a month—long lockdown in england from thursday, as the uk records its one millionth case of covid since the outbreak took hold. christmas is going to be different this year, perhaps very different, but it's my sincere hope and belief that, by taking tough action now, we can allow families across the country to be together. non—essential shops, bars and restaurants will close, but schools and universities will stay open. the prime minister will take the changes to parliament on monday. england's chief medical officer says there's been a "significant rate of increase" in covid cases across the entire country. the prevalence of this disease has been going up extremely rapidly