if this is bbc world news, i'm shaun ley. our top stories... a senior government minister warns the second national lockdown in england could last more than a month amid fears that the rise in coronavirus cases could overwhelm hospitals. it comes as the opposition leader sir keir starmer says the uk government must use the month—long lockdown to improve the test and trace system. the government has to keep its side of the bargain here because if they don't use this time to fix test, trace and isolate, then i think the 2nd of december will be a review date, not an end date. the most powerful storm of the year — typhoon goni strikes the philippines, bringing wind speeds of up to 225 kilometres an hour. donald trump and joe biden each make a last bid for votes in swing

states that could be key to winning the white house. hello and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has announced a second national lockdown for england to prevent what he called a "medical and moral disaster" for the health service. pubs, restaurants, gyms and non—essential shops will have to close for at least four weeks from thursday. the senior cabinet office minister, michael gove, has warned the measures could be extended. jonathan blake reports. dreary weather and dire warnings set the scene for what in the end seemed inevitable. a national lockdown for england, the prime minister said, was now the only option. we've got to be humble in the face of nature.

and in this country, alas, as across much of europe, the virus is spreading even faster than the reasonable worst case scenario. and so now is the time to take action because there is no alternative. the last resort had become the only way forward, he argued, and in a matter of days, tough measures would be imposed, severely limiting people's lives. we will get through this but we must act now to contain this autumn surge. we are not going back to the full lockdown of march and april but i'm afraid, from thursday, the basic message is the same. stay at home, protect the nhs, and save lives. the decision marks a complete change in the government's approach. some had argued it should have come sooner but yesterday, acknowledged there were no easy options. the idea that there is some perfect time to act is a complete misapprehension.

there is basically no perfect time and there are no good solutions. mps will vote on the plans this week. some conservatives don't want another lockdown, labour said it would support the measures but ministers should have acted sooner. the prime minister has been forced to act. we are pleased he finally acted but i am so sad we've had weeks of dither from the prime minister. which has meant people have lost their lives. people have become seriously ill. he should have acted sooner. this is a move borisjohnson did not want to make but the reality of rising cases forced him to act. his hope will be that in four weeks' time, the outlook is brighter. jonathan blake, bbc news. we will have more on the england lockdown plans shortly. but first...

typhoon goni has made landfall in the philippines, battering southern provinces of the main island of luzon with driving rain and ferocious winds of more than 225 kilometres an hour. a million people have been moved to covid—secure evacuation centres and there's growing concern about 70,000 people living in the small town of virac, on the island of catanduanes, where the storm first reached land, as there's been no contact from there. i'm joined by the bbc‘s manila correspondent howard johnson. tell us about what we know about this community, the island where contact this community, the island where co nta ct has this community, the island where contact has been lost. virac is where the typhoon struck at around 5am. it's the nearest urban centre to where it made landfall, this area is around a kilometre away, this municipality of 70,000 people, not many details from the area, some photos here and there but not from

the town itself, lots of questions raised about this tends to happen in the philippines, electricity goes down, leading to a knock—on effect on communications like mobile phone networks so given this was the area that got the full brunt of the storm with winds of more than 260 kilometres an hour recorded at that time in the morning, there is our fear there could be really bad damage. what we have seen is more images from a nearby province. a famous tourist province, and the region has had a terrible flooding situation. this typhoon dumped lots of rain on the area, lots of pictures on social media of flooding, all the way up to roofs in some instances, we've seen cases of casualties, at the moment, four

confirmed casualties and we expect that total to go up as more details come in in the coming hours. as you've indicated already, this is not an you've indicated already, this is notan unfamiliar you've indicated already, this is not an unfamiliar experience for the island and the silence that make up the philippines so presumably there isa the philippines so presumably there is a fairly well established national emergency procedure? correct. around 20 storms come through this area every year, we covered the first one back in may and we saw a lot of the evacuation centres that have been put in place over the years to deal with this problem were being used as covid—i9 quarantine centres as well and they've had a bit of a struggle this year, having to find more space. churches, schools have helped out as well. today, the united nations said around 20 million people were in the path of this storm so that's been one of the issues, people had been advised to go and stay with friends and hunker down and here in manila,

at the moment, the storm is approaching but it has weakened significantly. it was an alert level four, warning of winds up to 260 kilometres an hour but at the moment the warning is down to alert level three, the wind level expecting to hit manila tonight, capital city of 30 million people, dropped to 165 kilometres, you see the wind blowing my jacket as we kilometres, you see the wind blowing myjacket as we speak. there is concern people here are also going to get inundated with rain and are lot of squatter communities could be exposed to the heavy rain and wind. howard johnson in the philippines, thank you. returning to the england lockdown plans now. 0ur political correspondent helen catt, joins me now we have had an indication of government thinking this morning in the wake of the announcement yesterday. what are ministers saying about the prospect this could be a

little bit longer than one month? 0bviously, little bit longer than one month? obviously, the question everyone is asking. we know we are going into this on thursday but how long will we stay in it is the question asked around regional lockdown s, towns and cities that went into much stricter measures several months ago. not quite lockdown level but stricter measures and they are still in them so there's been an ongoing questions about what actually means you can lift strict restrictions and when you talk about national lockdown that becomes even more acute. shall be saved. this morning, the cabinet office minister at michael gove, one of the most senior ministers here in the uk, has been out talking to broadcasters. boris johnson said yesterday this is in place until december the 2nd. it was put to michael gove is december the 2nd an absolute date and we will lift restrictions on? what we need to do is recognise and i am sure we will go into reasons why these measures are appropriate, we need to recognise we need to get the infection rate below one. we believe

on the basis of the evidence that we have, we will be able to do so and that from the 2nd of december, we will be able to move back to a fully regional approach, tiered approach, but obviously, we will be guided by the facts and given, of course, the way in which the virus has shown particular malignancy in the past few weeks, we need to be especially vigilant but our assumption on the basis of everything we know is we will be able to exit national restrictions on the 2nd of december. clearly a debate going on in government and within the conservative party, we have talked already about the unease amongst conservative backbenchers about this approach. what are the opposition going to do? are they going to swing in behind boris johnson going to do? are they going to swing in behind borisjohnson on this? yes, insofar as the labour party we re yes, insofar as the labour party were proposing a two—week circuit breaker, as they called it, similar national lockdown a couple of weeks ago, they wanted to start last week

so as ago, they wanted to start last week so as far as they are concerned this is too late so in wales, which is labour run, they are in the middle ofa labour run, they are in the middle of a circuit breaker which they will come out of on the 9th of november, as england goes on, it's all quite confusing! in principle, they are absolutely backing this although they think it has come to light but on the idea, should it be a finite, four—week timetable? again, room for manoeuvre. interestingly, the one thing the labour leader swung behind borisjohnson on this morning was the idea schools should stay open, the idea schools should stay open, the major difference between the spring lockdown and what england will go into on thursday, schools and colleges and universities will stay open. some of the teaching unions have said schools need to be made safer if this is going to be the outcome of this. sir keir starmer, the labour party leader said he did believe schools needed to stay open and on that issue of would be be able to come out after four weeks, here's what he said. the government has to keep its side of the bargain here because if they don't use this time to fix test,

trace and isolate, then i think the 2nd of december will be a review date, not an end date because for months and months and months, they promised a world beating test, trace and isolate system which is vital. if you don't test, you can trace, if you don't trace, you can't isolate, it's been busted for months, use the test to fix it because otherwise we will be back in the cycle for months and months and months. which of course is also the fear of some conservative mps, they want to see a clear strategy, endgame, forgetting out of these restrictions which they wa nted out of these restrictions which they wanted to see imposed in the first place and i think we will hear a lot more on that debate over the next few days when it comes up in parliament before a vote. ultimately, still the comments has to decide on this. he's already had some rebellion over the tiered system so presumably the fear in downing street is there could be more? helen, thank you.

let's just fill you in with more details — it will start on thursday and is scheduled to last a month. under the restrictions, restaurants and pubs will close — but takeaways and deliveries will be allowed. all non—essential retail will shut, but supermarkets will stay open. mixing with other households inside homes, or in private gardens, will be banned — except for childcare and other forms of support. and unlike the first lockdown — schools, colleges and universities will stay open. travel will be discouraged — except for work. why is it all being done? these are the latest figures. just under 22,000 new coronavirus infections in the 24—hour period to saturday, taking the total number of uk cases up taking the total number of uk cases up to taking the total number of uk cases upto1 taking the total number of uk cases up to 1 million. taking the total number of uk cases up to1 million. the taking the total number of uk cases up to 1 million. the average taking the total number of uk cases up to1 million. the average number of new cases reported every day in

the last week is just over 22 and a half thousand. 326 deaths were reported yesterday. people who died within 28 days of having received a positive covid—19 test. it means on average in the past week, 259 deaths we re average in the past week, 259 deaths were announced every day, taking the total number of deaths across the uk during the course of the pandemic so far to more than 46 and a half thousand. professor calum semple is a virologist at the university of liverpool — and a member of sage the scientific advisory group for emergencies — that advises the government. he's been telling me why this lockdown is necessary. we have gone to the line and held off as long as possible. this is what i can see between making this important decision. and nobody wants a lockdown but speaking in medical terms, the country is sick and it needs this medicine, nobody likes the taste of it, but it needs it.

if we delayed any longer, we would go past a point of no return where it would become inevitable that the nhs would be overwhelmed by cases of covid, leaving no room for important other treatments such as the car crashes, that people that need intensive care beds after cancer treatment, after major operations. it's clearly a judgment call in the end, when a decision is made to do this. sage were advising this should be done perhaps, some members of sage advising it should be done several weeks ago, the government waited to see its judgment of all the evidence taken together. what difference, i know this is hypothetical, i appreciate that, but from the scientific modelling, what difference might it have made if this had happened, if we had gone into lockdown maybe six weeks ago or four six weeks ago or four weeks ago, that the

period, before we started to see this big rise? i think it is a mistake to think it is hypothetical, it is well proven, we know this from previous outbreaks in other countries and in the uk, that the earlier you make a decisive intervention, the lower you push the numbers and if you leave that intervention to a later point, because you are at a higher part of the curve, you only come down slightly less so inevitably with these issues, the earlier you act, the better it is for controlling the outbreak. but the challenge is then balancing the impact on society and other parts of the economy, and that's the political decision, and that's what we've seen happen, the political decision was to leave it a little later, keep the economy going and try the tiered approach. it's not just approaching it's notjust approaching 16 minutes past ten. let's look at the

headlines. a senior government minister once the second national lockdown in england could last more than a month, amid fears coronavirus case could overwhelm hospitals. the most powerful storm of the year at typhoon goni strikes the philippines. bringing wind speeds of up philippines. bringing wind speeds of up to 225 kilometres an hour. donald trump andjoe up to 225 kilometres an hour. donald trump and joe biden each make a last bid for votes in swing states that could be key to winning the white house. in sweden, national guidelines will change today to allow public gatherings of up to 300 people, as long as social distancing measures are in place. but in some parts of sweden, people are being advised to avoid public places and interacting with anyone outside of their household. we can speak now to professor sian griffiths, who is emeritus professor at the

chinese university of hong kong and shejoins us now and she joins us now from 0xwich. professor, thank you forjoining us. let me ask you about the approach of sweden has taken thus far during this pandemic. which has appeared to be distinctive from any other country? how has it fared? well, it's interesting, they don't have the same approach to lockdown, the population are given guidance, the science, given guidance but i sometimes think we pretend that they haven't had national restrictions, there have been stopped in sweden, they've always made children the priority. something that we are actually now moving into in our next policy face in england. in sweden, there was a permitted failure around

ca re there was a permitted failure around care homes, initially the advice was that you don't need to wear masks and ppe in care homes and subsequent large numbers of elderly people died and the swedish figures, the death rate figures look worse than the rest of the scandinavian countries. so, sweden ‘s approach has been much more one of not enforcing but providing advice. asking people to be aware, not to wear masks, as they don't think the evidence on masks is strong enough to be aware of social distancing, to be aware of the issues, to work from home if you can but not in such a rigorous way, not like we're being told, must work from home, if you can. it is a difference of tone and difference of compliance in the population. presumably quite a lot of that is cultural, to do with sweden ‘s traditions of policy—making, public

involvement and a sense of personal freedom? absolutely. i think the swedish approach underlines the need to be very culturally aware in response to the pandemic and trying to get that fine line that our government has been seeking, out of when do you come down heavy and when do you ask people to take responsibility themselves? i think in sweden, much more libertarian culture, and the approach was decided within that. very heavily criticised, i might add, in some scientific circumstances and the rates of disease are increasing at the moment, maybe not at the rate of other countries but they are increasing and they are seeing are few more deaths than they were seen, still lower than other countries so it's not that sweden has beaten covid, it's that it has managed it differently and the economy has

stayed stronger but again, it's only a population of 10 million people, smaller population, more cohesive population and the circumstances are different. those trade-offs, if they've taken place presumably, in every country, making these decisions, that's a debate which they've had quite openly in sweden? yes, again, that is within the culture, if you compare the culture of say the former regulatory approach taken in east asia, the east asian countries, where borders closed immediately, people again, very compliant population, say in hong kong, south korea, japan, much more compliant population, taking the lead from the government. every country, every situation needs to be judged in the sense of what is the population like and that applies also in sweden. in sweden, the regulations to are only in certain

parts of sweden. in the cities, in stockholm, for example, the limit is still 50 and just last week, people we re still 50 and just last week, people were being asked to not go to restau ra nts, were being asked to not go to restaurants, museums and public places. with that objective of cutting down interaction between people which enhances the disease spread so i think we should see sweden as part of an approach, you know, some rules are different, some are quite similar but population compliance is a huge factor here. you raise a really interesting point. if you look at the uk, we have four different administrations because we have the uk government but also devolved administrations in scotland, wales, and northern ireland. everyone apparently is operating on the same scientific advice but the policy choices and the timing which is as important as the timing which is as important as the choices seems to vary somewhat andi the choices seems to vary somewhat and i wonder what you make of that?

from a science point of view, you could say it's very simple, this is the fact, you should still be coming to the same conclusion but the interaction between politics and public and the science does not a lwa ys public and the science does not always work that way? absolutely right which is why all the way through this pandemic, scientists have been saying here is the scientific advice, this is what the modelling shows. this is what we think will happen, looking at the data around us, looking at the case rates, the hospital admissions etc. politicians need to take into account the social impact, economic impact, the acceptability of the moves impact, the acceptability of the m oves you impact, the acceptability of the moves you want to make because obviously, the policy needs to be the most effective to control the spread of the virus and it does require localjudgment, spread of the virus and it does require local judgment, it spread of the virus and it does require localjudgment, it does require localjudgment, it does require an understanding of your population. and of the norms and cultural values of the population because if we don't have compliance,

you can put on whatever regulations you can put on whatever regulations you like, unless the population comply with them, the impact will not be optimal. professor, a pleasure to speak to you, as always. thank you for being with us. with two days to go until the us presidential election, 91 million americans have already cast their ballot. that's two thirds of the total number of people that voted in 2016 and puts this year's election on course for a record turnout. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. a star powered rally forjoe biden in america's industrial heartland, detroit — also home to motown. # people, keep on learning... stevie wonder performed at the drive—in event, while barack 0bama launched another scathing attack on donald trump's record. i understand this is a president who wants full credit

for the economy he inherited and get zero blame for the pandemic he ignored, but thejob doesn't work that way. tweeting at the tv doesn't fix things. making stuff up doesn't make people's lives better. you've got to have a plan. mr 0bama said his former deputy would take the job seriously. joe biden criticised president trump over the amount he paid in taxes during his first year in office. $750 7 my lord. and remember when he was asked about why he only paid that much? "it's because i'm smart." he knew how to game the system. well, guess what, mr president, i'm coming for you! president trump has been campaigning in pennsylvania, where he held four events in one day. he won here in 2016 butjoe biden is ahead in the polls. hello, pennsylvania. let's go, pennsylvania.

cheering. we've got to do the same thing we did four years ago and i have a feeling, look at this, i have a feeling we're going to do it. mr trump told the crowd he would eradicate the coronavirus and get americans back to work. we want normal, we want normal, we want normal, let's go back, go back seven months. hello, how are you doing? but with record numbers of new coronavirus cases in the us over the past week, there's no sign of this country getting back to normal anytime soon. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. peru's most popular tourist site, machu picchu, will reopen to tourists later on sunday after being closed for the last seven months because of the coronavirus pandemic. the 15th century inca citadel, which until recently could expect as many as five thousand visitors a day will now be limited to just under 700.

wonderful images there. you are watching bbc world news. much more on bbc news. now, time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. some rough seasin with matt taylor. hello. some rough seas in western areas later, another day in which the winds will strengthen across the country. especially across parts of north and west scotland and west wales. for all of us, more rain around, some more than others. we have one approaching weather system which will affect us later, all linking into this area of low pressure which brought rain through the night. remnants of hurricane seated between us remnants of hurricane seated between us and ireland, pushing by the north—west of scotland with strengthening winds through the afternoon. a little bit of sunshine here and there, especially across central and eastern areas but flooding over in the west, northern ireland, southern scotland, north and west wales will see persistent rain to end the day, the risk of minor flooding.

rain to end the day, the risk of minorflooding. mild to the rain to end the day, the risk of minor flooding. mild to the south, 18 degrees possible, cooler day in scotla nd 18 degrees possible, cooler day in scotland and northern ireland. some of the strongest winds, 70—80 miles an hourto of the strongest winds, 70—80 miles an hour to finish the day in the north—west highlands, could see 65 miles an hour across parts of west wales and the winds transfer into parts of northern england tonight. tonight, some rain through the central swathe of the country, cleared to the north, pushing south chillier conditions, temperatures well into single figures across parts of scotland and northern ireland by early tomorrow, a mild night in the south and east, could be one of the warmest november night on record but colder air will win as we go through monday, pushing after this weather front clearing through the morning. that will produce outbreaks of rain across northern parts of east anglia and the south—east first thing. sunshine coming out, the rest of the day largely dry but for most of you, our story of sunshine and scattered showers, some of those heavy with hailand showers, some of those heavy with hail and thunder, most frequent in southern scotland, northern england, northern ireland, north and west

wales. wherever you are it will be colder than at the weekend, eight or 9 degrees highest in scotland and northern ireland, 13 in the south—east, windiest conditions tomorrow, southernmost counties of england and wales, especially earlier in the day, a0 or 50 mile an hour gusts. a sign of something quieter on the horizon, chalmers through tuesday and wednesday, towards the end of the week i pressure built in, we have not seen that for some time and it flips around to the other side of autumn, the mellow sound, more in the way of dry weather, wind is not so strong, sunshine by day, cold nights, with some overnight frost and fog. goodbye for now.

this is bbc news, the headlines: a senior government minister warns the second national lockdown in england could last more than a month — amid fears that the rise in coronavirus cases could overwhelm hospitals.

the uk opposition leader has welcomed the new measures, but is calling on the governmnent to use the time wisely and to improve the test and trace system. typhoon goni, has made landfall in the philippines, with sustained winds of 225 kilometres an hour. the most powerful storm this year has caused the evacuation of over of over 200,000 people. the us presidential candidates are making a "final weekend" dash around swing states. donald trump has been in pennsylvania and joe biden in michigan — both states that could be key to winning the white house. now on bbc news, as america votes for its next president, clive myrie visits the crucial state of arizona, revealing a nation unable to agree on fundamental issues like race, immigration and how best to tackle covid—19.