the british prime minister borisjohnson has confirmed a 4—week national lockdown in england to try to halt the rising number of coronavirus cases. from thursday, people will be largely restricted to their own homes. schools and universities will stay open but non—essential shops, including bars and restaurants, will close. the us presidential candidates are making a "final weekend" dash around swing states. donald trump is in pennsylvania, and joe biden is in michigan — both states that could be key to winning the white house. super typhoon goni has made landfall in the philippines, with sustained winds of 225 kilometres an hour. so far, over 200,000 people have been evacuated. officials say goni, the most powerful storm this year, is causing catastrophic damage.

now on bbc news, emily maitlis and jon sopel bring us their insights from the campaign trail of the 2020 us presidential election race. there are four days to go. it is the final push, straining every sinew, and the big news coming out of america today is that maitlis has arrived.” have to say, i find the natives very friendly here. one of them picked me up from the airport, thank you, soames. another helped me get an unwieldy shopping trolley up a flight of steps when i was looking like a dalek. thank you, morgan. people have been so amazing. and research, for my part, i have brought you the revels, i will get them to you somehow. excellent. and i have some and then dams from athos one for you. what do i get? welcome to a na rrowcast! americast, from bbc news. it is

johnin americast, from bbc news. it is john in washington, dc. and emily, also in washington, dc. and it is anthony at home in arlington, virginia, after following resident around the country for three days. following resident around the country for three daysli following resident around the country for three days. i think when we last left you adjust down in arizona, texas, tell us what your week been like?m has been a crazy week, still hearing donald trump is my voice in my head. i still feel like i need to run to the next campaign event. six days, six rallies, when i was in nevada we then went over to arizona for two rallies, then to florida and north carolina and i'iow florida and north carolina and now i am back home. it has been a mad dash, donald trump is trying to win this presidential race just by dint of his energy and endurance down this stretch, remarkable last week for the president. and a formidable energy from him, he was tweeting at 2:57am. it is not just donald trump

was tweeting at 2:57am. it is notjust donald trump that is out and about, joe biden has been out and about more, but nothing like as much as donald trump. he has also been able to produce a bit of a superstar to come and help him, barack 0bama, the former president, a brilliant operator. and joe biden and barack 0bama will be on the stage together in michigan. it is all coming down toa michigan. it is all coming down to a few states now, over the course of this podcast we will talk about some of the places where they are going to be concentrating their energies. so, barack 0bama has been out and about, and also he has got the support of bruce springsteen and he is happy to have that as well, the boss has been weighing in as well about why democrats should, why people should be voting democrat in this election. we have lost our mojo, our fun, oui’ have lost our mojo, our fun, our happiness, our cheering on of others. shared experience of humanity that makes it all worth it. the challenges and

the triumphs that we shared and celebrated, the unique can—do spirit that america has always been known for. we are lost. we have lost so much in so short a time. on novemberthree, vote them out. so this week is technically known as celebrity endorsement week. it is when you start seeing all these characters come out, or they are asked to come out, and pledge their support. it doesn't always work. you might remember a lot of the as and a lot of hollywood cannot be hillary clinton the last time around in 2016 and it actually allowed donald trump to say, i don't need i don't need the a-list, don't need i don't need the a—list, i've got the little people, and his terminology. i've got the people who are on the street supporting me, not the street supporting me, not the glossy people at the top.

yet this time he has kind of had a little change of mind on that one. it has been coming out? well, we found out yesterday that the lil wayne has come out. we found out in the principal while we were on the principal while we were on the tarmac in north carolina while donald trump was supposedly meeting with troops. he was meeting with troops. so we we re he was meeting with troops. so we were scrambling to figure out if lil wayne was there also. it turns out this meeting happened in doral, in miami, florida, on thursday morning. we had been called to the principal to sit in donald trump's press pool at the resort in doral four hours. nothing happened. it turned out that was the meeting between lil wayne and trump. we had been wondering if it was a big photo, —— faked photo, we were trying to confirm from the white house if it was something that really happened, and on the flat part, on air force one press secretary kaylee mckinney came back and said, yes, had a productive meeting. she called it epic. the interesting thing about lil wayne is that anything that helps donald

trump get more young black men to maybe not vote republican, but maybe not vote democrat either, he will see is a win, because after george floyd, there was a feeling that was going to be a huge motivation, that millions of young black people would be coming up devoted didn't vote in 2016, and that could be very costly for donald trump lil wayne is very helpful in that respect, in that bed to get the black vote. there was somebody else in town as well, in these rallies that anthony has charted around the country, and that was one nigel farage, formerly of ukip, perhaps a little better known in the uk for his involvement in brexit. they have spent four years trying to delegitimise it. four years trying to push the russia hoax, four years of false impeachment. most human beings under that barrage would have given up. this is the single most resilient and bravest

person i have ever met in my life. you might say if lil wayne is there to get the black vote out, then nigel farage is most definitely there to get the white vote out. and we have seen, four years, pepping the white vote out. and we have seen, four years, popping up in the gold elevator in trump tower, popping up in mississippi, popping up tower, popping up in mississippi, popping up iust again last week, i am not sure what the connection is necessarily, to what trump is talking about, going forwards, but yeah, he is seen as the donald trump celebrity endorsement. so when we came onto the stage, donald trump in his earlier remarks hinted at farage has president that was present, saying the king of europe was in the audience. apparently that is the way trump thinks of him. and speaking of europe, we have right here. the king of europe! i don't think... king of england he would take, king of

britain he would take, i don't think he wants to be of europe. it is actually the least upper site title for nigel farage anybody has ever thought up, ever. “— anybody has ever thought up, ever. —— apposite. it is sort of delicious, actually. so we have borisjohnson, weld king, nigel farage, king of europe, we are big on monarchies, aren't we? let's move on to talk to some of the players who we re talk to some of the players who were involved in getting out the vote for next tuesday's election, and we have been working furiously behind the scenes. guy cecil is the chair ofa scenes. guy cecil is the chair of a super pac, one of these organisations which is not part of the democratic party orjoe biden but is offering support and hoping to getjoe biden elected. i just want to introduce a clip ofjoe biden speaking about covid, and let's talk on the other end of it. first, i will go to every governor to make them put a

mask mandating states, and if they refuse i will go to the mayors and county executives and get local moss requirements in place nationwide. as president, i will mandate mask wearing in all federal buildings and all interstate transportation. because masks save lives, period. guy cecil, welcome to americast, thank you for being with us. four days ago, i don't know whether you heard anthony saying in the introduction that donald trump is being far more energetic, doing far more rallies, sleepy joe, doing a lot less. is that deliberate? is that part of his covid strategy to show, look at me, i'm much more careful, i don't do big rallies? well, i think part of the strategy is to make sure that we don't have a major party candidate who is responsible for the illness and deaths of thousands of americans, you know, priorities released a polljust this week which said that in the close of

underground states, anywhere from two—thirds to three quarters in those states disapproved of the rallies that donald trump was doing around the country, and so the reality is that cases in the us are rising, deaths are rising, and it is irresponsible for donald trump to be holding super spreader events, whether they are on spreader events, whether they are on the white house grounds or whether they are in airport hangers in battleground states across the country. sojoe biden is behaving responsibly. he understands that in this case could public health policy is also good politics. let me ask you, where are you worried about right now? there are a lot of people who would probably like to seejoe biden ta ke probably like to seejoe biden take up residence in florida for the next few days, but he won't, he is all over the place, he is in the midwestern states. i wonder if you think he is overstretching by heading to texas and georgia when there is plenty of work perhaps still to be done to democrat home.

you know, ithink to be done to democrat home. you know, i think the strategy of the biden campaign is the right one, which is, we need to create as many paths to 270 electoral votes as possible. we saw what happens last time and we don't focus on a range of states, that can get biden over the top. you know, today he is in the upper midwest, he is in michigan, wisconsin and minnesota yesterday. he was in florida, kamala harris is in texas. so we can florida, kamala harris is in texas. 50 we can make sure florida, kamala harris is in texas. so we can make sure that covering the 6—10 closest battleground states, and i would say that the thing about florida, i am a native floridian, i was born and raised in south florida, but donald trump must win florida in orderto win donald trump must win florida in order to win this election. ifjoe biden in order to win this election. if joe biden is in order to win this election. ifjoe biden is able to win florida tuesday night or wednesday morning, then the election is effectively over. there is no path to 270 electoral votes for donald trump without florida. but for joe biden, we have a lot of

parts to 270 and we are within a point or two in many of the states that they are expanding the map to like texas and iowa. let us talk about the economy, thatis let us talk about the economy, that is the one area in polling where people say that donald trump has the clear lead over joe biden. better trusted, better able to bring backjobs, to bring back growth in the us economy. i just want to play another clip of your candidates talking about taxation and who will and who will not be here. nobody making less than $400,000 will pay a penny more in tax under my proposal. that isa in tax under my proposal. that is a promise? that is a guaranteed promise, i give you my word. you think it is a good idea to raise taxes when the economy is in dire straits? depends who you are raising them on. if you are raising them on. if you are raising them on. if you are raising them on somebody who is making year, it is not a problem if they pay 39.6%, which everybody should pay, raise another $90 billion. i have to say, to

british viewers, $400,000 sounds like a huge amount to set your bar at. basically he is saying, what, 1.8% of the population only will pay higher taxes? and he is the guy on the left. so i am guessing he has been quite spooked by donald trump's tax policies and by the fa ct trump's tax policies and by the fact that he always leaves on the economy? well, first of all, when you look at arizona, michigan, wisconsin, florida, pennsylvania, and you ask vote rs pennsylvania, and you ask voters today, who do they think will do a betterjob of getting us will do a betterjob of getting us out of our economic mass close to covid, in all six of those states, joe biden actually leads donald trump. and so a lot of this new territory around the economy is changing because americans understand we will not get the economy back on track if we don't get covid under control. the other reality is that we have been dealing with taxes in

america under this administration where the very wealthy and the biggest corporations have rewarded over and overand overagain, corporations have rewarded over and over and over again, while we have a president who wants to cut social security and medicare. and so the biden campaign, which has set the market $400,000, can raise enough revenue to make sure we are moving money into state and local governments have to balance their budgets and are really struggling because of covid, we can move money into couege covid, we can move money into college affordability, into infrastructure bills. the reality is that is a market that we think the american people will accept, that we can get passed through the senate and the house, so that we can begin being that begin bringing more revenue to fix the structural problems that we have in this country. you are breathing, eating, sleeping this. you are looking at the polls. it all looks quite good at the moment. joe biden is ahead where he needs to be had. what is keeping you awake at night? well, you know, congenitally, democrats in america, we like to worry about everything. it seems to be in

our dna. the number one thing i worry about is the extreme methods that conservatives and republicans have gone to to make it more difficult to vote. the republican party has committed $30 million to litigation to make it more difficult to vote by mail, and early and in person. the president assad he wants to recruit 50,000 poll watches, which is code for poll intimidator is to make it more difficult for people to vote. —— president has said. we are still dealing with litigation around our country in terms of how people can vote, how late their ballot can arrive, if it is sent by mail, which is particularly important even that we are in the middle of a pandemic. we just want to make sure that every vote that gets cast is counted. when a political party can no longer win with the votes that are out there they try to change the dynamic of the voting, they try to change the voting, they try to change the numberof the voting, they try to change the number of people that are eligible to vote, how when they can vote, and we want to make

sure that we are addressing the systemic problems over the next four days, this will continue to bea four days, this will continue to be a challenge even after the election and it is a number one thing right now i think that democrats are concerned about. thank you so much indeed for being with us. i wanted turnout to jenna alice. for being with us. i wanted turnout tojenna alice. she has counsel to donald trump to the trump campaign stop you just wa nt to trump campaign stop you just want to pick up on what guy was saying there because he was talking about being kept awake at night by the thought that there was going to be intimidation of voters, that people who were eligible to vote wouldn't be able to. what do you say to that, is that true? that isjust simply not true? that isjust simply not true and if you look at the factors of election integrity, america has always been built on the foundation of protecting the right of the american people to vote for the people that we put in office, so election integrity matters, which means that there should be requirement such as voter id, like the president has

a lwa ys id, like the president has always said, there should be reasonable checks, there always should be ballot integrity to make sure that there isn't fraud going on, so what the trump campaign and the rnc is fighting for and has been fighting for and has been fighting for and has been fighting for this entire election cycle for every race, not just the election cycle for every race, notjust the presidential race but all the way down ticket is to make sure that every eligible citizen's vote is counted, and counted once. but it's more than that, isn't it, jenna? it's about donald trump saying that he wants people to watch over the polls. we don't know what that means but a lot of people are going to interpret that as turning up at the stations, in open carry states may be that means with weapons, and checking on what other people are doing at the polling station. that is intimidation. first of all, he never said anything about vigilantes so i'm not sure where you are getting that precise term, but no, we have army for trump precise term, but no, we have armyfortrump .com, precise term, but no, we have army for trump .com, you're welcome to go and look at the

website for election day integrity operations and to make sure that people understand that they are responsible for their own vote and to make sure that also any of the pole watches, that has a lwa ys of the pole watches, that has always been part of our american system to make sure that it american system to make sure thatitis american system to make sure that it is fair and accurate, is something that the american people as fellow citizens are willing to participate in, so this, again, is allabout election integrity, you can also go to protect the vote .com to see the principles of election integrity, where we are fighting and why this matters. it shouldn't be a partisan issue. just let me pick up on that stop you argued with emily over the use of the word vigilantes and fair enough. you just said join the army for trump. doesn't that sound just a tiny bit militaristic of what you want the people to do? no, not at all. if you understand our american history and certainly being the bbc you understand the revolutionary war and the

patriotism that we fought for our freedoms and why americans are really truly patriotic in terms of protecting our liberties and freedoms, it doesn't mean army and a literal sense, it means an army for trump in terms of a coalition and we have a variety of coalitions including evangelicals for trump and even democrats for trump. i think you are trying to take that phrase quite literally and a way that no—one else who has joined the army for trump has at all. i guess we wouldn't even be having this debate about what happens at the polling station if we weren't in the middle of this pandemic, and it has hit america incredibly badly, and donald trump has been talking about healthcare, he gave an interview last week, a lot of our viewers will remember that as being the one that he tried to tweet out early which ended rather abruptly, but he was asked about his healthcare plan, because we will all remember that he was talking

about repealing and replacing and clearly there hasn't been a healthcare plan, and clearly there hasn't been a healthca re plan, there and clearly there hasn't been a healthcare plan, there has been no replacement. let's have a listen. you promised that there was going to be a new health package, a healthcare plan. you said that it was going to be great, you said it's ready, it's going to be ready, it will be here in two weeks, it's going to be like nothing you've ever seen going to be like nothing you've ever seen before, and of course we haven't seen it. so why didn't you develop a health plan? it is developed, it is fully developed, it is going to be announced very soon, when we see what happens with 0bamacare. if the supreme court ends 0bamacare... 0bamacare. if the supreme court ends 0bamacare. .. we will have to see what happens. i hope that they end it. it will be so good if they end at. and if they ended, people with pre—existing conditions will be stranded and that isjust a fa ct. stranded and that isjust a fact. it's wrong, it's wrong. a new plan will happen, and we won't do anything and no plan

unless we have pre—existing conditions covered. it makes no sense, does it? to say that there is a healthcare plan that is fully developed when he's been president and in powerfor four years and we haven't seen anything. so what did that mean, jenna? i think the president answered that question fully and it absolutely made sense, because right now there is a case pending before the supreme court on the issue of 0bamacare and that was something that, if you watched the confirmation hearings of nowjustice amy coney barrett that is what the democrats focused on, was there pa rt of democrats focused on, was there part of the policy initiatives and wanting to somehow argue for policy during that confirmation hearing but they focused solely on that issue. that is an issue that has to be resolved and the president said very clearly, as sooner we know what the supreme court is going to do with 0bamacare, which is the position of the administration, that that is an

unconstitutional issue, then he will unveil that plan, so i'm not sure how that wasn't quite clear. jenna, can ijust pick up clear. jenna, can ijust pick up on that. what is the plan? if you are waiting on the result, why can't you tell the american people what the plan is to replace 0bamacare, if it is to replace 0bamacare, if it is struck down, and how you are going to cover people's pre—existing conditions?” think that that is a better question to the administration but it was very clear from president trump's answer that they are taking this one step ata time they are taking this one step at a time and will do the proper thing in the proper order, so it's wise to wait on the supreme court's decision and make sure, again, he has been focused on the response that has been really amazing from the administration to the pandemic, and making sure that every state has all of the available ppe and everything that they need. he has handled this ina that they need. he has handled this in a way that has truly minimised the unfortunate deaths in this country, like

other countries around the world with the china virus that has been unleashed, and the president has handled things exceptionally well and i think the american people, if they are honest, look at that and genuinely understand that he has been fighting for the people and putting us first. jenna, thank you so much, great to have you with us. we now come to the most important part of the podcast which is americanswer where you ask questions that make us look like idiots because they are such good questions. 0ne like idiots because they are such good questions. one of them in there i've already seen as an absolute corker of a difficult question, but anyway, let's go to chris from brighton, he is a jeweller. let's go to chris from brighton, he is ajeweller. hi, i'm chris from brighton and i'd like to know what time the us election results are actually going to start coming in, because i have actually booked the day off work to watch them. loving everything that you do. that's brilliant to have. stop you don't know if you've booked the day off work or maybe the rest of the week off work or

maybe until the end of the year of work, we will try to get them to you as soon as we can, but the key thing to watch is that depending on where you are or depending on which state, there are different closing times of the poles, so some of the critical races within the polls close at 7pm our time, five hours later for the polls close at 7pm our time, five hours laterfor the uk obviously, many states will close their polls at seven o'clock. doesn't mean we will get a result. in the us instead of having an exit poll or counting every single one they doa counting every single one they do a projection, they do a call so when there is enough of a momentum to know that the other candidate can't when, then they will start calling those states, and florida is counting as we go along, it is counting all the mail and ballots, all the early ballots as we go so we will start to look at the results they. criticallyjust because you see lots of boats coming in early for the republicans or lots of it is coming and early for the

democrats doesn't mean that's where the result is, itjust means that they are counting different counties that might lead one way or another early so don't jump that. lead one way or another early so don'tjump that. the other thing they would say which is the midwestern states that we will be really focusing on, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin have a different system altogether. they will allow ballots up to, some of them, up to three days afterwards and so don't expect anything rapid from some of those critical states. what you remember at this point is that it is not one country, it is 50 states. they all have their own rules, rhymes the different counties have their own rules so this is where it gets really, really complicated and i guess we're going to need some patient. i thinkjust take the month off. just november. cani the month off. just november. can ijust the month off. just november. can i just pick the month off. just november. can ijust pick up on thatjust to say that the bbc us election 2020 programme is going to be on bbc one, on the news channel, on bbc world news, bbc iplayer from 1130 gmt next tuesday november the third and there will also be a programme all night on bbc radio and the

world service, so you will be able to hear and watch the confusion unfold through the course of the night, and also the other thing to add is that there are different states counting in different ways, so some states have been opening up some states have been opening up the postal votes and counting them as they go along. 0thers counting them as they go along. others are not going to open them until the day of polling itself and that is going to lead to a huge mismatch in the numbers of people of when we are going to know the results. anyway, that is it from us for now. americast will be back next week on tv and on radio for. who knows, we might know the name of a new president, or we might not. thanks for being with us. americast from bbc news.

hello. storm aiden brought torrential rain and gales to a large swathe of the uk on saturday. those strong winds really whipping up the waves, particularly across southern and western coasts. but as the rain eased and the skies cleared, it's been an opportunity through the night for many to see the blue moon — a second full moon this month — but it's only a brief respite from the rain. there's more to come overnight and into sunday. still a number of met office warnings in place for both the rain and the wind, and all the details are on our website. so this is how sunday shapes up. this is the area of low pressure responsible for storm aiden, now pulling away northwards. a second area of low pressure to the north—west of the uk, and notice how the isobars are tightly packed together, so it's another windy day. and we start the day for many very wet as well. that rain will clear away eastwards and behind it, some spells of sunshine,

although also some showers piling in from the west. and then another band of more persistent rain arriving into northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england, the midlands and wales, maybe south—west england later in the day, some heavy and persistent rain and also across the western side of scotland. temperatures in a range from 10 to 17 celsius. it may not always feel that way, given the wind and the rain. and those winds still very much a feature, particularly across western scotland, where they could still exceed 70 miles an hour in terms of gusts. and that rain keeps on falling through parts of northern england, wales and the midlands as we go through sunday night and into monday, also pushing into parts of south—west england as well, slowly starting to ease. and we start the new week very mild indeed — overnight temperatures not that much different from what we will see in the daytime. so this is where we are on monday. that frontal system starting to pull away but still showers or longer spells of rain pushing in from the west and still another windy day, so it's quite a messy picture to start the new week. if you like the weekend weather, it's just lingering into the new week. some places may manage to stay dry but those showers never too far away. and temperatures

again in a range from 10 to 17 celsius, so we are still fairly mild, but not for much longer. the winds definitely are still a feature, still quite gusty but gradually easing down, and that process will continue as we go through tuesday and into wednesday because, finally, we start to see an area of high pressure starting to build across the atlantic and heading our way, so that will start to settle things down. the winds will become lighter, it will generally become drier but with that it will also turn colder, both by day and by night.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with rachel burden and rogerjohnson. 0ur headlines today: a second national lockdown in england to last for a month. it comes in response to fears that the rise in coronavirus cases could overwhelm hospitals. i'm afraid, from thursday, the basic message is the same. stay—at—home, protect the nhs, and save lives. as infections surge, the total number of positive cases in the uk has now passed 1 million. the prevalence of this disease has been going up extremely rapidly over

the last few weeks.