good morning, and welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today: joe biden edges closer to the white house, and says he's got the votes to win the us election. i'm the us election. not here to declare that we have one. i'm not here to declare that we have one. but i am here to report that when the count is finished, we believe that we will be the winners. with the result on a knife edge, president trump starts legal action in key states, calling for the counting to be stopped. this there's a warning of stiff fines for rule breakers, as a four—week lockdown comes into force in england. a bruising night for manchester united in the champions league. poor defending costs them, as they lose 2—1 in istanbul,

to increase the pressure on their manager. it wouldn't be a lockdown without captain tom. he's back with a new walking campaign to help the lonely. good morning. mr and good morning. mrand wagnerto good morning. mr and wagner to watch out for this morning, particularly in southern areas but there will be some brightness and i will put that altogether in about ten minutes —— and fog to watch out for. it's thursday the 5th november. our top story. the result of the us election remains in the balance, as votes continue to be counted in key battleground states. this joe biden is inching closer to victory after claiming michigan overnight, with reports suggesting he will take more key states today. but the trump campaign is taking legal action in several areas, calling for counts to be stopped as our north america correspondent, ben wright reports.

there are still millions of votes to count, and this presidential race is not decided. in georgia, donald trump kept the narrowest of leads overjoe biden as pilots were tallied late in the night. it was a scene repeated in the handful of states that will now decide the election. at the moment, it isjoe biden sounding confident. he currently has more electoral college votes tha n currently has more electoral college votes than his rival and chalked up vital wins in the midwest, democratic game, and wisconsin looks to have gone the same way. here, the people rule. power cannot be taken oi’ people rule. power cannot be taken or asserted. it flows from the people. it is there will that determines who will be the president of the united states, and there will alone. in nevada, the two candidates are neck and neck and there will be more released on thursday. in arizona, joe biden slade slightly ahead while election officials

counted the remaining postal ballots —— stayed slightly ahead. after president ron prematurely declared victory and erroneously claimed in the tweets to have one states he hadn't, there are talk of lawsuits and complaints. we are going to win pennsylvania, but they're going to try and cheat is out of it because they know it's the only path to victory. we came here today and met with our lawyers and we will file a suit in pennsylvania. after an attempt by the trump campaign to stop the counting metric, the state's chief election officer called the malt lawsuit meritless. we have to on getting this right and we have seen is notjust in michigan but other states. a lot of times caught challenges are furthering political advantages rather than legal fights. we could still be waiting a while to discover who the next president will be as an unprecedented volume of postal votes are counted. but it is the current occu pa nt of are counted. but it is the current occupant of the white house who is trying to catch up will stop

ben joins us from washington now. ben, key votes are still being counted, what's the latest? any idea when we might know?m depends on what state we are looking at. pennsylvania, a massive part of the jigsaw that is left in terms of donald trump and joe biden wanting to ease their path to victory, but pennsylvania have said they might not have a final count by friday because they allow quite a long time, ithink because they allow quite a long time, i think it is three days, four votes to come in after election day so votes to come in after election day so long as they are stamped on election day so there is quite a lag. if you look at a state like georgia, busy counting right now, and arizona, you could get a result from their or a declaration within hours and that could suddenly shift the whole dynamic of the race and change the electoral college map and give eitherjoe biden or donald trumpa give eitherjoe biden or donald trump a sense of whether they will win this or not, so we don't know. it could be hours or a number of

days but it is clear that is that republicans and donald trump you feel on the back foot and are trying to throw sand into the wheels of the count by bringing forward lawsuits and making groundless claims of fraud, trying to cause delay, and some distress amongst american people about the whole process. then, thank you very much. and we'll be speaking to a former right hand man of president trump, anthony scaramucci, who served as his director of communications. that's in about 10 minutes' time. a new four—week lockdown has begun in england, with people told to stay at home, and non—essential shops, pubs and gyms ordered to close. there are strict new rules on mixing with other households too, and the police are warning there will be tough action against anyone who breaks the rules. anna o'neill reports. it's lights out for blackpool. no more visitors to the famous illuminations for now. the seaside town was already under england's

highest tier of restrictions are now the plug has been pulled on virtually all entertainment. over in the city of hull, people made the most of their last evening of relative freedom. might be the last chance before christmas. it was our anniversary, so it was a reason to come out. celebrate our anniversary. and there was also a celebratory atmosphere in london's soho. and there was also a celebratory atmosphere in london's sohom and there was also a celebratory atmosphere in london's soho. it kind of feels a bit like new year's eve. it has a new year's eve, christmas eve atmosphere in the air. it's a bit sad. it's a bit hard, because you want to celebrate my birthday is coming up. we don't know, do you know what i mean? police could be sinckler surrounded by crowds as they encourage people to go home and stay indoors for their own safety. the chair of the national police chiefs council warned there would be stiff fines for both breaching the new coronavirus regulations coming

in today. our officers and others will be out there and if people are not abiding by the rules, we will engage and explain and encourage them and if we have to, we will enforce them. so what are the new regulations? pubs and restaurants are now closed but take a ways can stay open. nonessential shops and entertainment venues are also closed. people cannot mix with other households in homes and gardens but meat and one person from another household in a public space is allowed. —— meeting one person. and you should stay at home unless you are going to work, education, essential shopping, exercise or medical reasons. the latest uk figures recorded a further a92 coronavirus deaths yesterday, the highest daily figure since may, and 25,177 confirmed cases. it is hoped that these new measures, which will stay in place for at least four weeks, will help to bring the deaths

and cases and pressure on the nhs down. let's get the latest now from our political correspondentjessica parker. there are reports that the chancellor rishi sunak will make an announcement on the furlough scheme later? what do you know about that? rishi sunak will be in the commons later today and we expect an update because he hasn't addressed the commons since they announced over the weekend that the furlough scheme would be extended over the months long english lockdown. i think it will be surprising if he announced anything new for that lockdown because it is already under way but questions are looming over the future, mainly, as we've been talking about this way, if scotland, wales, northern ireland decide they need to go into a further lockdown in the future beyond early december, will the workers get full 80% furlough? boris johnson suggested this week they would but there have been no details forthcoming, leading

toa been no details forthcoming, leading to a suspicion that the treasury was caught off—guard and has been trying to work out the detail since then, and remember it would mean that the treasury in westminster would be guaranteeing quite a lot of cash for future lockdown is and would have no say over introducing it, but there was anger when the furlough scheme was anger when the furlough scheme was extended at the last minute ahead of the lockdown in england. i think if the government doesn't make some sort of future guarantee for other parts of the uk you could face accusations that it prizes english jobs over say, scottish ones. the government has defended its new guidance for people visiting relatives in care homes in england. the measures suggest that care homes install floor—to—ceiling screens, visiting pods or encourage window visits. the national care forum says without urgent support the arrangements will leave many relatives, literally, "out in the cold." the governement says it had to strike a balance to allow visits but also keep residents and staff safe. fire safety officers and doctors are re—iterating the dangers posed by fireworks, as many prepare to celebrate bonfire night at home this year.

organised events in the uk have been cancelled because of the pandemic. the national fire chiefs council and the british burn association are urging people to plan carefully and safely if they are considering their own displays at home. scientists are calling for a shake—up of the penguin kingdom after concluding there are more varieties than previously thought. researchers at the university of bath say the "gentoo" penguin — found mainly in antarctica — is not one, but four species. they say counting the birds separately will help conservation efforts. the birds are known for their red—orange beak and white face patches. if there are four species, what is the difference? i guess that's what they're trying to find out. they have said there are four. yes. what

you've learnt over the years, it's not a specialist subject of mine, penguins. can we put the penguin department on it? we have got a yes. we have a yes from the team. they are on it. next time, more answers. there are three types of flamingos. sometimes there are more questions than answers, that is something i've learned. let's ask carroll. what's the weather like? good morning, everybody. this morning if you are out and about early on, watch out for mist and fog particularly across southern parts of england and around the midlands, east anglia and staffordshire. it is due to lived in some parts but we should see brightness coming through. at the other end of the country we have a weather front which is sinking south through the night, introducing more cloud across scotland, northern england and also northern ireland and also expect some drizzle. high pressure is in charge in the south and there is hardly a breath of wind which is why

the fog will linger a little longer but when it lists we will see sunny spells coming through. in the north, we have a stiff breeze coming in from the atlantic, so that is taking on quite a bit of cloud with it as well but in somewhere like aberdeenshire in the sunshine this afternoon could reach 15 degrees where as we are looking at 11 in cardiff. through the evening and overnight, again, clearer spells in the south and a cold night, like this morning and once again there will be fog patches forming but more ofa will be fog patches forming but more of a breeze, so we don't expect it to hang around as much, but look at the temperatures in the south. not as cold as we push further north. this fog should lift more readily tomorrow and once again tomorrow there will still be cloud around but equally some brighter skies, particularly in the south later on and temperature values, nothing to write home about that between 11 and 13. let's take a look at today's papers.

most papers this morning lead with the us election — the daily mail's headline is "donald trumped." the paper says after a knife—edge election, joe biden claims victory is in sight. "america holds its breath" is the headline in the times, and it runs a picture of donald trump, who has accused joe biden of stealing votes. "make america wait again," is the metro's headline. the paper says mr biden was "inching closer" to a win last night, while a "seemingly desperate" president threatened legal action. it points out that — even without all votes counted — mr biden had won more votes than any candidate in history, surpassing barack obama in 2008. and finally from america. the washington post has a map with the breakdown of the results so far. we're joined now by a former member of president trump's inner circle, anthony scaramucci. he helped mr trump reach the white house in 2016, and spent 11 days as his communications director. he joins us now from new york. thank you very much forjoining us

this morning. how surprised or unsurprised are you that we are where we are at this minute? well, i think people wanted the results at 1059 eastern standard time on election evening, so obviously we didn't get that but i think we are where we would be given the fact we have had the drama of coronavirus, so we have had the drama of coronavirus, so we just have to wait for the absentee ballots to be tabulated and they are being tabulated legally and ethically and there is no voter fraud. there has never been any proof of voter fraud. president trump has some protesters saying to stop the vote in certain states in protest are saying to start the vote and others, so it's kind of ridiculous. it is going to end. the a6th president of the us will bejoe biden and he had an incredible night. if you step back and look at

the whole thing, the largest vote total in history and flipped four or five states and beat the incumbent and we've only had three incumbents lose since world war ii and he brought with him the first female african—american vice president, so all in all, a very good showing for the vice president and as you may know, they have cut the airspace over delaware, so all the signs indicate that he's going to be the president very shortly, probably sometime tomorrow afternoon. the significance of the airspace being cut is preparing for an announcement? exactly right. that is usually a sign the secret service has notified the faa that this is coming to an end soon. you are the communications director for president trump for 11 days. you did

have some insight into him as to how the teams around him work. are you surprised as to how he is reacting toa surprised as to how he is reacting to a lack of results and calling for certain ballots to be recanted and threatening legal action?|j certain ballots to be recanted and threatening legal action? i am never really surprised at how he acts. i am surprised with the republican party, people like mitch mcconnell. these guys i am confused about. people inside the campaign told him not to give that speech on election night, there morning after. he gave it anyway. it was a disastrous beach. even governor christie, a very good personal friend beach. even governor christie, a very good personalfriend of mine renounced it. —— disastrous speech. this is why good people who have

worked for him, we felt it was our duty to speak out to the american people and the world to let them know what is really going on so we could remove him and return the country to some level of normalcy. let's assume that joe country to some level of normalcy. let's assume thatjoe biden is going to be announced the next president of the united states. between now and january the 20th, how do you think president trump and the republican camp will handle the transition? i am going to maintain my prediction on this because it is in the best interests of president trump that it is handled peacefully and he is collaborative. he has a whole host of problems in new york and there are investigatory problems in new york and the state. i know he really only thinks about himself. when he does a search he searches

his name. he is sitting there saying, how do i get myself out of this situation and avoid jail time for myself and family members? a venn diagram says the only way to do thatis venn diagram says the only way to do that is to be cooperative. that does not mean he may not start a political movement once he can play defence on these political investigations but i predict he will never run again for president. all that nonsense about him being a presidential candidate again in 202a, i do not believe. presidential candidate again in 2024, i do not believe. will he have the support in the republican party for that? i he has bounced back three, four times. there are traits about himi three, four times. there are traits about him i did not —— do not admire. what i do see, which worries me as

admire. what i do see, which worries measa admire. what i do see, which worries me as a long—time republican, the president, to his credit, got about 70 million votes, it could be higher once they are all tabulated and that will embolden the cause of attempting one —— trumpism. that could be a party problem for the next four to eight years, we were glad to see what happens. people who are hanging tough with mr trump. glad to see what happens. people who are hanging tough with mr trumpm joe biden is declared as the next president of the united states he said he will not represent blue or red states, he will represent all states. how concerned are you about cohesiveness, especially with the divisions this election has caused about the atmosphere and reaction to

the election result across the united states? so i do think it is leadership. if he makes that transformation and we may from this partisan to something that is post—partisan, and i think the president is well—positioned to do that. he is a lifelong centrist and he is the oldest person to ascend to the presidency. i am hoping he is the oldest person to ascend to the presidency. iam hoping he he is the oldest person to ascend to the presidency. i am hoping he will have the transformative moment when he will try to nip the country together. there are things he can do like an education reform bill and infrastructure bill. he can find common cause with the republican party on theirs. i am hoping cooler heads will prevail. i believe if he stopped the nonsensical tweeting and the rhetoric on twitter and the bullying of private citizens by the president of the united states on

twitter, it will reduce a lot of the tension and anxiety in the united states and perhaps around the world. thank you for your time with us this morning. we can speak now tojulia manchester, who is a political reporterfor the hill. she's in washington dc this morning. we arejust coming up to 20 we are just coming up to 20 past six in the morning in the uk. what am i waking up to this morning? what are the key indicators to look forward to next? joe biden definitely has a significant need. some people described him as knocking on the door of the white house right now. he won michigan and wisconsin yesterday, to macro major wins. we are waiting for vote totals out of pennsylvania, nevada as well. law seats had been filed in michigan and

pennsylvania, hoping to stop the boat count or delaying it somehow and we were hard to see how that plays out. —— the vote count. and we were hard to see how that plays out. -- the vote count. talk us plays out. -- the vote count. talk us through those, you mentioned nevada, arizona, pennsylvania. a lot of people will have picked up the fa ct of people will have picked up the fact that pennsylvania may be the final curtain ina fact that pennsylvania may be the final curtain in a whole process. talk us through those three states. in pennsylvania, the issue was there we re in pennsylvania, the issue was there were so many in pennsylvania, the issue was there were so many mail in ballots and they did not start counting them until recently, on election day. they had an influx of mail—in ballots a nd they had an influx of mail—in ballots and that will create a delay. we saw president trump had a bit of a slight lead overjoe biden but in arizona and nevada joe biden had a bit of there needing no

states, which might explain my president trump is trying to put lawsuits on the state in the east coast, like pennsylvania, where he appears to be narrowing but wanting to plant more votes in arizona and nevada in an attempt to close the gap with joe biden. it had been widely predicted that donald trump would recall to law in this situation. that has already begun. precisely what is it he is challenging? he is challenging a lot of mail—in ballots, specifically when they were received. where does that process go? we will had to see. we will start with state and local courts. if unchallenged it could go toa courts. if unchallenged it could go to a higher supreme court. thank you for your time.

the other thing we will be waking up to is lockdown in england. non—essential retailers and services in england have been forced to close from today until the 2nd of december, as part of the national lockdown. the government has extended the furlough scheme until next month, which will cover most of the wages for staff unable to work, but it's going to be a tough winter for millions of businesses, as nina warhurst has been finding out. what will be missed in the four weeks ahead? sitting for a quiet drink, nipping out for a treat. feeling closer to friends and to is strangers. but it's more than that for business. here, a final flurry to get revenue up before the shutters come down. the last lockdown affects us a lot, so many people are scared to come to have their hair cut. this man's four staff will go on furlough but

he has overheads and stock that won't sell and the support on offer might not be enough. i think they might help some businesses to paying the rent and stuff like that but if they're not opening in december, it's going to affect the business, so we might close down injanuary, orany... so, we don't know yet, so... could be that bad, then? yeah, that could be. yeah. but a few doors down, here's millie. this lockdown has brought christmas brides through the doors early to make sure they make it down the aisle. we've had to increase our hours so we can get brides in, so we can order before lockdown because, for some brides, pushing to december is going to be too late. so, yeah, we've definitely seen a pick up the past few days. so in a way, will that pre—lockdown flurry help you over the hump. the flurry is something that's going to give us a lot more confidence as we head into, like, four weeks closed. and whilst some prepare for their big day, others wonder what tomorrow might bring. jade will lose a lot of her trade. grooming will only be allowed if it affects a dog's welfare. she's newly self—employed

and in the last lockdown had to lean on universal credit, one of the many who fell through the cracks. i feel a bit left out and also i understand that you can't give to everyone, unfortunately, can you ? you have to, unfortunately, choose where this money can go. you are incredibly understanding that the government can't support everybody equally but what does it do to you emotionally, being on that financial roller—coaster? it doesn't do much for the mental health, to be honest. it's very down at the moment. if i put myself fully in it, i don't know where i would be mentally. really? so you take a step back. really? and look at it to see that, you know... day by day. it's just one of those things. yeah. a few shops down, peter's feeling confident. he has history here. 29 years of trading on this spot. his online sales soared in the spring. what did he learn from lockdown? he'll miss footfall but he'll

also miss his pal, dean. this time, i'm going to be keeping one member of staff on with me full time. why's that? because it's quite depressing in the summer, doing that on my own, yeah. really? so i'm keeping dean on the company and hopefully will be busy with our online. you sound sort of cautiously optimistic? yeah, yeah. we're just going to have to grind it out this month, simple as that, really. hopefully, it is just till the 2nd of december. for businesses, four weeks start now. of adapting, inventing and hoping to survive. nina warhurst, bbc news. a lotta people waking up to the new restrictions in england. —— lot of people. we will be speaking to the justice secretary later. if you have questions you would like to put to him, do let us know this morning and

all that unusual ways. that is my could be useful ways. good morning from bbc london. i'm lynda hardy. the met are urging londoners to "stick to the rules" as the latest national lockdown comes into force today. scotland yard says the public responded brilliantly during the first wave and more recently with the increased tier 2 restrictions. but the service says it's ready and prepared to take enforcement action against those who deliberately breach the rules and put people at risk. fire chiefs in the capital are asking us to "think twice" before holding firework displays this bonfire night. with organised events cancelled because of cancelled because of the latest restrictions, there's concern more people could hold diy displays in their own gardens. health workers are concerned too with the organisation representing plastic surgeons, fearing there could be an increase in accidents and serious injuries this year. the iconic christmas grotto

at harrods has been cancelled, as coronavirus restrictions close stores across the capital. in normal times, the historic toy shop sees crowds of children queue to see santa before christmas. a spokesperson said harrods would soon be announcing new plans to safely bring the spirit of christmas to customers at home, online and in store. london's travel watchdog has written to the mayor calling on him to keep bus fares in the capital low following the government's tfl bailout. london travelwatch accepts that fares will rise overall next year. but they want sadiq khan to keep bus travel at an affordale level. they say that any increase would hit londoners on the lowest incomes, who rely on buses to get around, the hardest. let's take a look at the travel situation now... on the tubes...

northbound traffic on the blackwall tunnel southern approach is slow from blackwall lane london bound traffic on the a13 is building from dagenham into barking. in kensington, gas works continue on north end rd, with a contraflow to the south of west kensington station now the weather with kate kinsella. good morning. another very chilly start this morning, temperatures hovering around the 0 celsius mark. we also have some fairly dense mist and fog. the fog is going to be quite stubborn, it's really going to take its time to lift. through the morning it's likely to linger. it's not going to be until this afternoon when we start to see it burn back a little to some hazy, sunny spells. the wind is light today and the temperature feeling cold between 9 and 10 celsius the maximum. overnight tonight, we should get some clearer spells but once again we're going to see the mist and fog developing. shouldn't linger too far into friday morning as we develop a south easterly breeze and that willjust help to lift it a little quicker. the minimum temperature overnight between 3 and 5 celsius. another chilly start tomorrow — still that mist and fog.

eventually, it will start to lift and we'll get some sunshine through friday. as we head into the weekend, it is looking like a dry day for saturday and the temperature just a little bit milder. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now though it's back to charlie and naga. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. it's 6.31am. we'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning. it's bonfire night, but with organised displays cancelled, there are worries about people planning fireworks at home. we'll hear from the national fire chiefs council about safety concerns. we're back in lockdown, and many people may be facing a long, lonely winter — but captain sir tom moore is trying to help people get through it with his new campaign. we'll hearfrom him

later on the show. and after entries flooded in from across the world, we can reveal the winner of the world puddle jumping championships here on breakfast this morning. that's just before eight o'clock. what a joy. look at that. the nhs in england returns to its highest state of alert today, amid warnings that hospitals will continue filling up with covid patients for at least the next two weeks. it means staff can be moved around the country, while patients may be sent to other regions for treatment if the virus threatens to overwhelm local services. let's speak to chris hopson, chief executive of nhs providers, which represents hopsital trusts. thank you so much forjoining us. can you tell me, in your words, what you see is the overall picture? what we know is that the number of seriously ill and ill patients

coming into hospital has increased rapidly over the last few weeks, and effectively what that is that in orderfor the nhs effectively what that is that in order for the nhs to effectively what that is that in orderfor the nhs to make use of effectively what that is that in order for the nhs to make use of the fantastic fact that we are a national health service, we need to coordinate and ensure that if hospitals need to move patients to other hospitals, if we need to trigger the use of nightingale hospitals, then effectively that needs to be coordinated effectively, so needs to be coordinated effectively, so that is why the nhs has moved up to level four, the most serious level of incident, because it's no longer normal business for the nhs. the levels of people and number of patients we are seeing on the level of coordination required means we have to step up a gear to make sure this is all being managed effectively. so alert level for, what does it mean in terms of potential patients, someone who is ill, or someone who is watching this morning, what does it mean to them? what it means is this is more than

the nhs behind administrative measures. patients won't see any particular difference. if i could give a really clear message to anyone watching, it is this, if you are feeling ill and if you have got are feeling ill and if you have got a new lump or bump, and if you're concerned about your health, please, please come forward. there were too many people in the first phase of covid who for all the right reasons wa nted covid who for all the right reasons wanted to protect the nhs who actually didn't come forward when they should have done, so it's really important that we can't help you unless you come forward, so help us you unless you come forward, so help us to help you. the second message we wa nt us to help you. the second message we want to give to everybody is that effectively we have a new lockdown measures in place now and it's incredibly important that everybody follows those new rules, because to be frank, if we carry on seeing the increase in the number of patients that we are currently seeing, we won't be able to look after everybody in the way we would want to, particularly overwinter, so the clear message is, if you need help,

come forward but also please, please follow the lockdown rules. if you need help and you come forward, do you get the treatment you need? the nhs is open for business for everybody, so yes, of course, we will do everything we possibly can to ensure that anyone who comes forward needing treatment can get that treatment and that is precisely why we and our trusted leaders on the ground have been arguing that a lockdown is so important because if you want to ensure the nhs has the capacity to look after people overwinter and look after what covid patients there are, but also recover some of the care backlogs we had in the first phase then we have to ensure there is enough capacity in the way we ensure there is enough capacity is by controlling the number of covid patients coming into hospital. is that absolutely enough capacity today, and if so, what are you concerned might be the tipping point that would get us to a point

where the nhs doesn't have the capacity to treat those who need it? we need to be careful. it's not an on 01’ we need to be careful. it's not an on or off switch where effectively suddenly one day you have enough capacity and the next day you have none. effectively what happens is that in certain parts of the country where we are under real pressure, for example, yes, hospitals are beginning to have to do slow down the rate at which they are recovering the care backlogs, but to give you an example, one of the reasons we are going into level four, in liverpool, we know they are under real pressure and there was a danger that they might have to pull back on cancer surgery cases, so the whole point was that the nhs structure moved into action quickly in those patients have been moved to other hospitals in nearby areas and that's the reason we are going to level four, but the bit that is important is i wouldn't want anybody to get the message from what i'm saying that they shouldn't come forward. you come forward, we will

look after you and we have the capacity to look after you. chris, thank you. dr rosemary leonard, joins us now from south london. good morning to you. that higher state of alert for the nhs, what does that look and feel like in your surgery? we are certainly busy and, weirdly, we would actually like to stay that way, and we want people to keep coming to see us. we are open for business and interestingly, my local hospital here in south london, andi local hospital here in south london, and i have three big teaching hospitals on my doorstep, they are very much open for business and they have done a magnificentjob on catching up on the backlog. and i had a patient yesterday who said, yes, i've got an appointment in early december and i thought she was going to say it was sometime next year, so the hospitals are very much

functioning now. can i ask you about the clinically extremely vulnerable people? we have now entered this morning the lockdown, but the guidelines around what people should do are different now, because shielding is no longer a phrase used. explain a little more about that, who those people are, and what they are advised to do. so, shielding covered a lot of people and people who felt they should ended up locked in their homes and it was very restricted and it's certainly had effects on mental health. so the shielding group has been split into two, the clinically vulnerable and the clinically extremely vulnerable. and it is that latter group, the extremely vulnerable who are now being recommended to stay at home as much as possible, and very importantly, not go to work or out to work. so if you are in the extremely vulnerable

group, and you can't work from home, you shouldn't go out to work. letters a nd you shouldn't go out to work. letters and e—mails will be going out to those affected who are the extremely vulnerable, and there is also a new service up and running by local councils where they can get extra help, so for instance, older people, somebody in their 90s for insta nce people, somebody in their 90s for instance last time round he has no other health conditions, last time round they would have felt they had to shield, but now they don't. they are vulnerable but not extremely vulnerable and the extremely vulnerable and the extremely vulnerable are people undergoing active treatment for cancers, people with certain cancers like blood cancers, people who have cystic fibrosis, severe lung disease and a new one this time round is adults with down syndrome are included in that group. and also people with severe kidney disease are also in the group. i don't know what those

people, some of those people in those groups, you will have had contact with them over a long period of time and in some ways if there is confusion about this, because on the one hand, those people have possibly made their own decisions about how much they will go out before they we re much they will go out before they were told not go out at all, and now they are told that is not quite appropriate, but then they see the numbers and the infection rate and they see the numbers of deaths as announced yesterday. are people making their own minds up as to what they will do? yes, and i think there is huge confusion and actually to a large extent, whether you are clinically vulnerable or extremely vulnerable, the main thing is to ta ke vulnerable, the main thing is to take care. but the big change this time round is that you can go out. last time it was basically stay at home, don't go anywhere, but you can go out for a walk this time round. that's important. you can go out for a walk and someone who is extremely vulnerable can also come to my

surgery, whereas vulnerable can also come to my surgery, whereas before it would have been me going to them and the advice is that can go out for health ca re advice is that can go out for health care and to hospital and you can go to the dentist if you needed dental work. the other big difference is children. we now know that a lot of children. we now know that a lot of children who thought they should be shielding, actually, they aren't at very high risk of covid infection and unless they are extremely vulnerable, and those children will be under the care of a hospital specialist, children who are vulnerable can actually go to school now and the emphasis is to go to school if you possibly can. always good to catch up with you. we will watch with interest how things change over the next few days and weeks. thank you very much. doctor rosemary leonard, who we have to speak to about how things will work in practice. the messages because we spoke to chris and doctor rosemary is that if you have any concerns about your health, go forward, get in touch with your gp, get in touch

with the nhs. they are there to treat you. mike is taking a look at a poor performance, unforgivable, says the manager. some questions for the manager. but they had been impressive in the champions league until last night. it was like watching under—10s football, according to the former manchester united star, paul scholes, on a humbling, champions league night for the team, in turkey. this is what he means. where are the defenders, as the former newcastle striker, demba ba, is given the freedom of the city. he may be 35 but the united players couldn't catch him, and they lost 2—1 to the turkish champions istanbul bashaksehir. the defeat is another blow for manager ole gunnar solskjaer, with united also struggling in the premier league. it's early on, and you know, opinions are out there all the time and you have to stay strong, and i'm

employed by the club to do a job and ido employed by the club to do a job and i do that to the best of my ability with our staff. in contrast, chelseaa are making great progress, but their match with rennes turned on a very harsh decision in the first half. the referee looked at the var monitor and awarded chelsea a penalty here for handball, he also showed the rennes defender, dalbert a red card. timo werner scored the spot kick, on the way to a 3—0 win for chelsea, which keeps them top of group e. however, midfielder kai havertz missed the game after testing positive for coronavirus before kick off. england may be back in lockdown today, but in scotland some football fans will be allowed back into matches this weekend. teams located in tier 1 areas of scotland, will be allowed to let in, up to 300 supporters, for games, so that will include ross county's scottish premiership match tomorrow night. they're based in dingwall in the highlands, which is considered a lower risk area. fans will have to adhere to strict covid protocols. later we will be speaking to their chief executive. it was a historic night,

for one of tennis' greats in paris. rafa nadal notched up his 1,000th career win, on the professional tour by beating feliciano lopez at the paris masters — although lopez was happy enough to smile for the cameras, as the spaniard celebrated the milestone, after the match. it puts nadal fourth on the men's all—time list for matches won, behind jimmy connors, roger federer and ivan lendl. now, while a round of golf, isn't allowed in england from today, you can enjoy, a spectacular sight on on a course, in dubai this week. all rather illuminating, at the women's moonlight classic, which is being held as a day—night competition forjust the second time. the players are allowed, to use lazers to map out their shots, and of course being at night, they can expect nocturnal visitors, like these foxes on the course all week. the flags are lit up so players can see them. england's meghan maclaren finished round one, a shots off the lead.

foxes are renowned for scaling —— stealing golf balls, so if you don't get there on time, you won't know where it is, especially at night. doesn't it look beautiful? spectacular site and sometimes the balls are lit up as well with these little led lights. beautiful. why doesn't fox want to steal a golf ball? doesn't eat them. they are drawn to them. they play and they do things for no reason. they don't wa nt to things for no reason. they don't want to eat them, it's just for the thrill of the kill, i guess, if you're a fox. thank you very much. let's have a chat with carol about the weather. i would say decidedly nippy overnight. with that be fair? absolutely, for some of us but others, it has been

quite mild. mild in the north of the country. kirkwall in the northern isles, 13 degrees at the moment. further south, under clearer skies, temperatures much lower, as charlie suggested. mild in the north because we have had a weather front sinking south, taking cloud and rain, moving south—west through the night and it will continue to move during the day. this high cloud is over us and not much of a breeze so it will take time to lift. when it does lift, we are seeing some sunshine. the wind is coming in from the atlantic, breezy in the far north of scotland and the northern isles, bringing in cloud. we will see sunshine in aberdeenshire, where we have highs of 15 degrees, ten in london, 12 in plymouth and belfast. tonight there

will be clear skies in the south of england and also wales. we will see the return of mist and fog. temperature wise, we are looking at 10 degrees as the overnight low in stornoway. in towns and cities, we are looking at between four and six. tomorrow again, it will brighten up across parts of england and also wales. a bitter cloud around but some brightness nonetheless. mostly dry. —— bit of cloud. temperatures ranging from 11 in the north to 13 as we push further south. it will turn milder. you can see the blue hues being replaced by milder yellows a nd hues being replaced by milder yellows and oranges. that will be slow progress but it will eventually

get there. saturday are still a lot of dry weather around. you might see patchy mist and fog. the wind will pick up across the south—west. this is heralding the arrival of an area of low pressure. temperature wise, ten to 15. you can see a seven and eight on the charts. this is a low pressure coming our way. there is a weather front which will introduce some rain, not particularly heavy rain. the head of that committee rain. the head of that committee rain generally in the west but we will see some spots getting into the east as well. —— ahead of that, rain, generally in the west. the us presidential election is still hanging in the balance this morning and the states of wisconsin and michigan have been key battlegrounds. let's get the latest from those two crucial places. we're joined now by professor dan hopkins

from the university of pennsylvania, along with quinn klinefelter, a journalist in detroit. very good morning to you this morning. professor hopkins, can you give me, away from your role and the focus of the research you are doing, just as a human being, can you give a sense of how you are feeling today? i would say i am a little tired, i have hardly slept in the last a8 hours as i have watched numbers trickling in from all over the country. unlike the uk, we don't have announcements in the constituency is a few hours after completion of voting. we had to wait and scanner websites across the country to know it is happening. —— we have to wait and scan websites. millions of americans have

participated. we do know there is legal action and donald trump has said that. this is linked to postal ballots. can you explain what the reality of the issue is and why it is so important? traditionally, different american states have voted differently. states like arizona have long used mail to vote. in pennsylvania, almost everyone traditionally voted in person. coronavirus has caused lockdown is, not only in the uk but forced americans to vote in different ways and americans are voting by mail for the first time. there are concerns about how to cast the mail ballot legally. it has opened the door to litigation and court cases challenging exactly which votes will count and which will not. we have heard the view in pennsylvania.

let's go to michigan. what is happening and how much clarity is being offered at the moment? not that much. the media outlets have called the race here for former vice presidentjoe called the race here for former vice president joe biden and called the race here for former vice presidentjoe biden and he seems to be on the pathway to becoming president. at the same time, not only in pennsylvania but pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, where there is normally a blue wall which president trump managed to turn and it looks like joe biden has regain back. president trump is not all that opaque about a lot of the things he has done. he hmmfi lot of the things he has done. he forecast he would question results coming in through the post all those who came early and he has done so. he came out last night and declared that he had won the election and, as

he has told his followers many times before hand, the only way he could lose was if the democrats cheated. he began laying the framework of contesting these in court today by launching a number of lawsuits. one of them was not pennsylvania, one of them was in michigan. they were frivolous lawsuits, challenging that observers could not get in and watch as they should be allowed to. i was around a very large building and people were busily counting ballots. there are already hundreds of observers watching the ballot process and outside there were another 100 or so donald trump supporters, chanting, stop the count, stop the count. they had a parade float with a giant trump sign on it which was circling the

building. it sounds very basic but surely if you vote and your vote is submitted before the deadline, then your vote should count? all of the states have had different ways, particularly in terms of postal votes, some would start planting as soon as votes, some would start planting as soon as they got in or some would not count until all the votes were in. but surely your vote should count? —— start counting. in. but surely your vote should count? -- start counting. you would think so. the president has laid the groundwork to challenge these. he had people who were not supporting him politically. here in michigan, they have militia members who can be riled up and actually bear arms. the president was tacitly, very tacitly supporting some of that action. if

in fact we can say the democrats won because they cheated, they had taken this election away from your president, said get out there and defend your president. to an extent thatis defend your president. to an extent that is has happened. there have been... there were organised protests ready to stake count every vote, it should count. the president is saying it should not count if there was cheating. if i can pick up on that thought with you, to what extent on that thought with you, to what exte nt ca n on that thought with you, to what extent can it may be in pennsylvania and the rest of the us, given how divisive the campaign has been, to what extent do you think people, when there is a decision, will segment now we have a president and we can get behind him? —— will say. what will matter is the condition around which we solidify around the

president. public officials at state and local levels, if they are unanimous in saying this is our president medically if it isjoe biden. republican governors and senators have already started to suggest, that that outcome is for joe biden to be president next. what many of us are worried about is the fa ct many of us are worried about is the fact you never get that period just after an election back to help convince people that it was a legitimate election and a fair election. many of us are deeply alarmed by the president's rhetoric precisely because it may have a long lasting effect on how people perceive the legitimacy of this winner. thank you, both. from two

key areas we are looking at. thank you both very much. during the difficult days of the last lockdown back in the spring, captain sir tom moore lifted our spirits and raised an incredible amount of money for the nhs. now he's launched a new campaign to support those who feel "lonely and frightened" during this lockdown, and it involves walking — something he's rather good at. i can walk with people or people can walk with me. people who find it rather slow like me, if we can all do a little walk together and show that we all have the right idea in mind, that we're all looking for the future, for things to get better. the veteran raised more than £33 million for the nhs by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. the challenge encourages people to log their walking on social media using the hashtag #walkwithtom over

the next week. we'll hear more from captain tom about his campaign after 8:30am this morning. his energy is boundless. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london. i'm lynda hardy. the met are urging londoners to "stick to the rules" as the lockdown comes into force today. scotland yard says the public responded brilliantly during the first wave and in the most recent increased tier 2 restrictions. but it says it's ready and prepared to take enforcement action against those who deliberately breach the rules and put people at risk. fire chiefs in the capital are asking us to ‘think twice' before holding firework displays this bonfire night. with organised events

cancelled there's concern more people could hold ‘diy displays' in their own gardens. we are much more aware of the risk this time around. we are still providing a full service but nevertheless we can only deal with so nevertheless we can only deal with so many calls at one time. fireworks can travel a great deal of distance and cause fires elsewhere. the iconic christmas grotto at harrods has been cancelled, as covid restrictions close stores across the capital. in normal times, the historic toy shop sees crowds of children queue to see santa before christmas. harrods says it will be announcing plans to safely bring the spirit of christmas to customers at home, online and in store. london's travel watchdog has written to the mayor calling on him to keep bus fares in the capital low following the government's tfl bailout. london travelwatch says it accepts that fares will rise overall next year, but they're calling for bus travel to be kept at an affordable level.

let's take a look at the travel situation now... on the tubes... on the roads: now the weather with kate kinsella. good morning. another very chilly start this morning, temperatures hovering around the 0 celsius mark. we also have some fairly dense mist and fog. the fog is going to be quite stubborn, it's really going to take its time to lift. through the morning it's likely to linger. it's not going to be until this afternoon when we start to see it burn back a little to some hazy, sunny spells. the wind is light today and the temperature feeling cold between 9 and 10 celsius the maximum. overnight tonight, we should get some clearer spells but once again we're going to see the mist and fog developing. shouldn't linger too far into friday morning as we develop a south easterly breeze and that willjust

help to lift it a little quicker. the minimum temperature overnight between 3 and 5 celsius. another chilly start tomorrow — still that mist and fog. eventually, it will start to lift and we'll get some sunshine through friday. as we head into the weekend, it is looking like a dry day for saturday and the temperature just a little bit milder. i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. bye for now. good morning, and welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today. joe biden edges closer to the white house, and says he's got the votes to win the us election. i'm not here to declare we have one. but i am here to report that when

the county is finished, we believe we will be the winners. with the result on a knife edge, president trump starts legal action in key states — calling for the counting to be stopped. there's a warning of stiff fines for rule breakers, as a four—week lockdown comes into force in england. no defence for manchester united's lack of defending, here according to their manager, after what he says was an unforgiveable defeat to istanbul in the champions league. it wouldn't be a lockdown without captain tom. he's back with a new walking campaign to help the lonely. good morning. there is some dense mist and fog around this morning and afair bit mist and fog around this morning and a fair bit of clout, some brightness, and windy across the far north, but i will put the huddle together in ten minutes. —— i will put that altogether ten minutes. it's thursday 5th november. our top story. the result of the us election remains in the balance,

as votes continue to be counted in key battleground states. joe biden is inching closer to victory after claiming michigan overnight, with reports suggesting he will take more key states today. but the trump campaign is taking legal action in several areas, calling for counts to be stopped as our north america correspondent, ben wright reports. there are still millions of votes to count, and this presidential race is not decided. in georgia, donald trump kept the narrowest of leads over joe biden as ballots were tallied late in the night. it was a scene repeated in the handful of states that will now decide the election. at the moment, it isjoe biden sounding confident. he currently has more electoral college votes than his rival michigan and wisconsin looks to have gone the same way. here, the people rule. power cannot be taken or asserted.

it flows from the people. it is their will that determines who will be the president of the united states, and their will alone. in nevada, the two candidates are neck and neck and there will be more released on thursday. in arizona, joe biden stayed slightly ahead while election officials counted the remaining postal ballots. after president trump prematurely declared victory and erroneously claimed in tweets to have one states he hadn't, there are talk of lawsuits and complaints. we are going to win pennsylvania, but they're going to try and cheat is out of it because they know it's the only path to victory. we came here today and met with our lawyers and we will file a suit in pennsylvania.

after an attempt by the trump campaign to stop the count in michigan, the state's chief election officer called the lawsuit meritless. we have to on getting this right and we have seen is notjust in michigan but other states. a lot of times caught challenges are furthering political advantages rather than legal fights. we could still be waiting a while to discover who the next president will be as an unprecedented volume of postal votes are counted. but it is the current occupant of the white house who is trying to catch up. ben joins us from washington now. listening to joe biden's listening tojoe biden's comments, i'm not here to declare we are the winners, but we believe we will be the winners. simultaneously we have donald trump starting legal action, so donald trump starting legal action, so what happens next? the counting continues and ballots are being processed as we speak in arizona, georgia, and they are two of the most critical states to keep an eye on at the moment and the margin between the two is incredibly tight. you heard from eric trump, donald

trump's son, who said thatjoe biden can only win if he wins pennsylvania and that's not true. joe biden is very close to the winning threshold, 270 electoral college votes, and if he took nevada, georgia and arizona, a combination of those states, he has got this one. i think for donald trump, he really does need to win pennsylvania which is why a lot of the legal efforts we are hearing from the republicans are going to be focused on pennsylvania and that state is saying they will not com plete state is saying they will not complete their counting until friday. there is certainly the potential for this to drag on for quite a while, or we might suddenly find ina quite a while, or we might suddenly find in a few hours or early tomorrow morning in the us that the numbers have shifted underjoe biden has got up to 270. we don't know, but it's clear that donald trump is trying to throw sand into the electoral machinery, slow it down, called for a recount, because he knows he has the narrower path to

victory. we did hearfrom joe biden on wednesday, sounding emollient, suggesting there should be reconciliation after this. we haven't heard from donald trump for about 2a hours and it will be interesting on thursday whether he says something or chooses to take a similar tone or chooses to be more inflammatory. i think we can have a look at the live images in the studio which is one of the counting stations in georgia, and as you say, the work is progressing and all of those states say they are doing theirjob and carrying on regardless. i wonder, theirjob and carrying on regardless. iwonder, as theirjob and carrying on regardless. i wonder, as we look at those images, thought from you this moment in time, while america waits to find out what will happen. what is that feeling like? not quite as i expected it, to be honest. there was a lot of talk before the election of a lot of talk before the election of a potential vacuum, an impasse we knew would happen if this was a close election. as all of these postal ballots needed to be counted and it's not a surprise that there

isa and it's not a surprise that there is a delay now in waiting for a result and there was a fear in many states about the political agitation and unrest that might happen as both sides jockeyed and protested and tried to make their voices clear. we have got some of that happening. for instance, there is some sort of protest of people outside one of the counting offices in phoenix, arizona, but on the whole, it seems that the us is being patient and waiting to see how this plays out. there are ballots to be counted and donald trump's desire to discredit the whole process and claimed there was widespread fraud which he has said repeatedly with no evidence, it has not triggered the sort of unrest and backlash that i think some people feared. then, thank you very much. a new four—week lockdown has begun in england, with people told to stay at home, and non—essential shops, pubs and gyms ordered to close. there are strict new rules on mixing with other households too, and the police are warning there will be tough

action against anyone who breaks the rules. anna o'neill reports. it's lights out for blackpool. no more visitors to the famous illuminations for now. the seaside town was already under england's highest tier of restrictions and now the plug has been pulled on virtually all entertainment. over in hull last night, people made the most of their last evening of relative freedom. might be the last chance before christmas. it was our anniversary, so it was a reason to come out. celebrate our anniversary. and there was also a celebratory atmosphere in london's soho. it kind of feels a bit like new year's eve. it has a new year's eve, christmas eve atmosphere in the air. it's a bit sad. it's a bit hard, because you want to celebrate my birthday is coming up. we don't know, do

you know what i mean? police could be seen surrounded by crowds as they encourage people to go home and stay indoors for their own safety. the chair of the national police chiefs council warned there would be stiff fines for both breaching the new coronavirus regulations coming in today. our officers and others will be out there and if people are not abiding by the rules, we will engage and explain and encourage them and if we have to, we will enforce them. so what are the new regulations? pubs and restaurants are now closed but takeaways can stay open. nonessential shops and entertainment venues are also closed. people cannot mix with other households in homes and gardens but meeting one person from another household in a public space is allowed. and you should stay at home unless you are going to work, education, essentialshopping, exercise or medical reasons. the latest uk figures recorded a further a92 coronavirus deaths yesterday, the highest daily figure since may, and 25,177 confirmed cases.

it is hoped that these new measures, which will stay in place for at least four weeks, will help to bring the deaths and cases and pressure on the nhs down. let's get the latest now from our political correspondentjessica parker. there are reports that the chancellor rishi sunak will make an announcement on the furlough scheme later? yes, so rishi sunak will be in the house of commons in a foggy westminster later today and i think it will be something of a general update. we have not heard from rishi sunak in the commons since it was announced that the furlough was going to be extended, so it might be an update on the state of play and it would be surprising if he announced anything hugely new given the lockdown is now under way, but

questions loom about what happens in the future, namely, should scotland, wales, northern ireland decide they need to go into a further lockdown in the future beyond early december? will the workers there get full furlough, that 80% of wage subsidy. borisjohnson has suggested that yes, the scheme is uk wide, he has emphasised that there has been very little detail as to how that will work, leading to a suspicion that the treasury was caught off guard. remember, it would mean the treasury are guaranteeing quite a lot of money for future lockdown is that it would not have any say over, but there was an anger when the furlough was extended just as england was going into lockdown leading to claims that the government was prising englishjobs over claims that the government was prising english jobs over scottish or welsh jobs, prising english jobs over scottish or welshjobs, for prising english jobs over scottish or welsh jobs, for example, so prising english jobs over scottish or welshjobs, for example, so i think rishi sunak will want to push back at that claim today but plenty of people will want to pour over the detail of what he has to say. jessica, thank you very much. sainsbury‘s has announced that up to 3,500 jobs could go,

as it suffers loss of over £170 million over the last six months. job losses are likely at sainsbury‘s stores, with the potential closure of delis and fresh fish and meat counters. it comes as more than 2,500 jobs are set to go atjohn lewis and lloyds banking group, which were both announced yesterday. we will keep you up—to—date with the figures that are coming through in the last few days. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. you saw you sanessica in westminster, and thatis you sanessica in westminster, and that is a lazy picture for you to present. not just fog that is a lazy picture for you to present. notjust fog in the background, all over the screen. you are incorrigible. it is a picture from our weather watchers and some dense fog in basingstoke, and some dense fog in basingstoke, and across east anglia and through the midlands and also staffordshire

there is dense fog this morning, and that will take time to lift, and not much of a breeze moving it along, but it will lift as we go through the latter part of the morning and into the afternoon. you can see high pressure is in charge and that is because of not much wind. the weather sinks south across northern ireland and england and producing rain overnight and it is nowjust drizzle and we will see brightness coming in across eastern scotland but still windy in the north and some brightness developing across parts of england and wales. temperature wise, in the sunshine in aberdeenshire we could hit 15 degrees but further south, london looking at around nine and temperatures will be pressed in an area with cloud and fog all day. through the evening and overnight, there will be clear skies in the south and we will see mist and fog return but there will be more of a breeze so it means that the mist and fog will lift more readily tomorrow morning. these are the overnight lows, four and five in towns and

cities and lower in rural areas and as we push further north, it won't be as cold and in stornoway it will be as cold and in stornoway it will be 10 degrees. as we have free tomorrow we have areas of cloud and fog breaks up in southern areas and we see fog breaks up in southern areas and we see southern —— sunshine develop across parts of england and wales but in northern ireland and scotland you also will see some sunshine. temperatures ranging between 11 in the north to about 12 or 13 as we push to the south. carol, thanks very much. as we've been hearing, the result of the us election is still yet to be announced. let's take a look at the current state of the electoral map. joe biden claimed michigan last night, taking him closer to the white house — and he's also projected to win wisconsin. but the margins are still very tight — just a handul of swing states will determine who wins and who loses. the magic number is 270 electoral votes. donald trump is currently on 21a

and joe biden is on 2a3. so why is it so complicated to say who is winning? we're joined now from washington by cnbc white house correspondent, christina wilkie, along with sean rameswaram , host of podcast "today, explained". very good morning to you both. christina, maybe we can start with you, you are a white house correspondent. i know you have been covering the joe biden correspondent. i know you have been covering thejoe biden campaign very closely. as he watched when he gave his brief press conference earlier on, what did you see in what he said? what i saw was a very deliberate and thought out strategy of encouraging harm, of acting like a leader instead of claiming victory, of drawing a sharp contrast

between himself and the president, simply by encouraging people to have patience and acting like the leader that he claimed throughout the campaign donald trump was unable to be. a lot of people had suggested, number one, that the margins would bea number one, that the margins would be a lot higher at this point. the polls had suggested that, and some of the pundits looking at it. donald trump and the republicans have definitely done better than to a certain point. what do you make of where we are now compared with what was predicted? what a land two days ago is that trumpism is more resilient than many democrats or people on left believe it to be. —— what we learned. millions and millions of americans have watched trump in office with his

divisiveness and controversies and they are not put off. this is not something a lot of people anticipated. people have such polarised feelings about trump. it is difficult for those who do not like him to imagine what those who do like him are thinking about him. his economic message came through all summer, he demanded that businesses reopen and he has downplayed the coronavirus. there was clearly an audience for that which was bigger than anybody thought. where does it go from here with the result largely expected thatjoe biden will be in? in terms of unity and considering how fractious this whole election campaign has been, how soon or how optimistic are you that can be calmed? it seems like one of the two candidates is stressing that he wants to be president of the entire

country and that is joe wants to be president of the entire country and that isjoe biden. as we saw in his speech today, he tried to appeal to the entire country, to counting every last citizen's vote. president trump on the other hand is declaring victory, sending out legal teams. his personal attorney was saying there was massive corruption in philadelphia and he needed to get there as soon as possible. there are no news reports of massive corruption in philadelphia. even on the election we are seeing division between the president and his legal team and calls for unity from joe biden. the country is divided and polarised. we have seen a huge turnout for president trump and joe biden. joe biden has been around for a long time and there is a better chance that he can unite than the

incumbent. is there a problem with the system, the polling system and voting system, for people to be so angry about the way the votes are been counted and the fact there is a delay? i host a podcast and i'm not an expert but what seems to be part of the issue is how much emphasis is placed on polling in advance of an election. so much of the narrative is based around this poll and that poll and how pennsylvania is polling and how michigan is polling and what we are seeing is a discrepancy and a significant discrepancy in key battle ground states. the media does bear some responsibility and consta ntly bear some responsibility and constantly talking about polling and ultimately people are expecting things that do not bear out on election night was that this is not the first time we are seeing it and it is the second time in a row. show we try to talk about issues and

issues and candidates and in the case of president trump, his record because that can be very useful in this time. surprisingly, you do not hear a lot about it. how much discussion about president trump was impeached in his senate trial was this year and impeached in his senate trial was this yearand in impeached in his senate trial was this year and in the case of president trump, his record because that can be very useful in this time. surprisingly, you do not hear a lot about it. how much discussion about president trump was impeached in his senate trial was to share in this election? not a lot. is it possible for a decision to be made, a president to be elected with any legal issues outstanding?” a president to be elected with any legal issues outstanding? i have spoken to legal experts about a half—dozen cases that the trump campaign has brought in various states over the past two or three days. they are demanding a recount in wisconsin and challenging ballots already cast in pennsylvania. what legal experts tell me is the cases are haphazard, they are poorly assembled, and more importantly, thatjudges are very reluctant to step into... to wade into the

technicalities of how individual counties and states conduct elections was that they do not see that as the role of the judicial branch. there is very little... very few places that trump's legal challenges, legal manoeuvres can go realistically. thank you. christina wilkin is the nbc white house correspondent. and sean... thank you for your time this morning. all pupils and teachers at secondary schools in england will have to wear face masks from today. new government guidance says staff and children over the age of 11 should cover up when they're moving around schools but won't be required to wear them in the classroom. the measures were previously in place in areas deemed "high" and "very high" risk only but will now apply nationwide. let's speak to geoff barton, general secretary of the association of school & college leaders.

thank you very much forjoining us again on breakfast. do you welcome this move? probably, had we been talking a year ago about young people wearing face masks in school it would have felt to be a parallel universe. that is a sign of how far we have moved general context. since schools generally reopened in september, lots of schools decided to expect in public areas and dining areas for face masks to be worn. the error that i represent by school leaders have said it is not a problem. —— de area. this feels to be the next step that all children and all staff will be expected to wear them. there has been comment on the fact this guidance came out yesterday afternoon. he said there was little in the guidance that could not have been communicated 72 hours ago and it is ridiculous it

lands on the desks of school leaders less tha n lands on the desks of school leaders less than 2a hours before lockdown. could the timing had been better to get this into practice? at a time in could always be better. it feels like a corporate chance of a government. —— their timing. like a corporate chance of a government. —— theirtiming. we like a corporate chance of a government. —— their timing. we had the announcement slightly haphazardly on saturday. here we are the night before it is happening people are starting to receive guidance on it. this respect to the government when they have said they will declare give further guidance to begin on monday. —— with respect. in the pecking order of issues that school leaders and college leaders had got me there are bigger issues than face you have got staff waiting for results of tests for coronavirus. that money could be

going in to catch up funding for young people and will start to be donated to supply teachers unless the government uses this period to sort out its testing process. how easyis sort out its testing process. how easy is it going to be to making sure pupils take masks off in a classroom because there have been concerns about the ability to communicate effectively? there is probably a lot of relief among schools and colleges that it will not apply in the classroom. the thought i would be in a mask on young people would be in a mask matching about what my lesson is like that would worry people. we have seen a like that would worry people. we have seen a sense like that would worry people. we have seen a sense of young people absolutely getting nestled that i spoke to hundreds of members yesterday, hughes said young people have responded extraordinarily to s. —— who said. we ought to pay tribute to teachers that young people will

ta ke to teachers that young people will take it in their stride in the way they do. the only bit they regret and we regret this, guidance is saying extracurricular activities, sports clubs and music that should not take place unless they are part of childcare. we know that playing football, rugby, or whatever of childcare. we know that playing football, rugby, orwhatever it might be as one way that young people should, in their bubbles, be able to continue to have physical how playing into mental health and i think that is a regrettable step in guidance. —— health. you may remember last month we told you all about the world puddle jumping championships and how they were still going ahead despite coronavirus. yes, online entries flooded in from across the world for this year's event, and some really made a splash. let's take a look. aagh! he laughs

ooh. she laughs you're mad! giggling there is so muchjoy there is so much joy from that. if i we re there is so much joy from that. if i were a judge, which i am not, i would say anyone actually ending fully in the puddle, lying down, get some kind of special commendation, i would have thought. i am not sure what the rules are around that. i

would be going on size of splash. i know we said it was international but they all look like they are uk paddles. i am but they all look like they are uk paddles. iam not but they all look like they are uk paddles. i am not sure. but they all look like they are uk paddles. iam not sure. we but they all look like they are uk paddles. i am not sure. we will see later. —— puddles. we'll be revealing the winner of the world puddle jumping championships at 7:50am. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm lynda hardy. the met are urging londoners to ‘stick to the rules' as the latest national lockdown comes into force today. scotland yard says the public responded brilliantly during the first wave and in the most recent increased ‘tier 2‘ restrictions. but it says it‘s ready and prepared to take enforcement action against those who deliberately breach the rules and put people at risk. tonight, we will have

more officers on duty fire chiefs in the capital are asking us to ‘think twice‘ before holding firework displays this bonfire night. with organised events cancelled, there‘s concern more people could hold ‘diy displays‘ in their own gardens. bonfire night is always a really busy time for us anyway, so we are much more aware of the risk this year round, which is why we are there, we will be there for everyone, still providing a full service. nevertheless we can only deal with so many calls at one time. fireworks can travel a great deal of distance and can cause fires elsewhere. the iconic christmas grotto at harrods has been cancelled, as covid restrictions close stores across the capital. in normal times, the historic toy shop sees crowds of children queue to see santa before christmas. harrods says it‘ll be announcing plans to safely bring the spirit of christmas to customers at home, online and in store. london‘s travel watchdog has written to the mayor calling on him to keep bus fares in the capital low following the government‘s

tfl bailout. london travelwatch says its accepts that fares will rise overall next year, but they‘re calling for bus travel to be kept at an affordable level. let‘s take a look at the travel situation now. now the weather with kate kinsella. good morning. another very chilly start this morning, temperatures hovering around the 0 celsius mark. we also have some fairly dense mist and fog. the fog is going to be quite stubborn, it‘s really going to take its time to lift. through the morning it‘s likely to linger. it‘s not going to be until this afternoon when we start to see it burn back a little to some

hazy, sunny spells. the wind is light today and the temperature feeling cold between 9 and 10 celsius the maximum. overnight tonight, we should get some clearer spells but once again we‘re going to see the mist and fog developing. shouldn‘t linger too far into friday morning as we develop a south easterly breeze and that willjust help to lift it a little quicker. the minimum temperature overnight between 3 and 5 celsius. another chilly start tomorrow — still that mist and fog. eventually, it will start to lift and we‘ll get some sunshine through friday. as we head into the weekend, it is looking like a dry day for saturday and the temperature just a little bit milder. and you can of course keep up to date on our website and social media throughout the day. i‘m back with another update from the bbc london newsroom in an hour‘s time. now though it‘s back to charlie and naga. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. a new four—week lockdown has

begun in england today, and police are warning there will be tough penalties for those who don‘t stick to the new rules. let‘s find out how that will work. we can speak to thejustice secretary robert buckland. good morning to you. i wonder, first of all, if you could tell us what will be different in the way that policing is done going into this lockdown? how will it be tangibly different? i think the principle of policing by consent is actually going to remain the same, and i think this time with the expanded number of covid marshals we are seeing in local areas, you will have a twin track approach where locally, covid marshals will inform and encourage people to comply and do the right thing and obey the regulations. where it is more intense, where intervention is

needed, police will be involved and the defined structure is —— the fining structure is still in force, £200 for a breach of that doubles on repeat offence up to a maximum of £6,a00, and the big fines for large gatherings, £10,000, remain very much in force, so there is quite a lot of continuity here but i think because we have sensibly calibrated the regulations to adjust for the experience we had last time, the public can expect that where there are egregious breaches, the police will intervene and the law will take its course. it sounds exactly the same as it was. there is a continuity there, which i think it is important. continuity means it is the same. it‘s a way of saying it is the same. it‘s a way of saying it is the same. it‘s a way of saying it is the same. certainty is a good thing. we have been through very uncertain times and have had to produce regulations at great pace and i think the public are looking for

certainty and continuity and that is what we will provide. you said there would be covid marshals. how many are there? i haven‘t got a precise number but i know that the funding for local authorities has been allocated by government and already we are seeing the marshals being deployed. have you seen any? i haven‘t met any but i know in my local area arrangements are being made. and i think that this will be another useful factor in dealing with the question notjust enforcement, but of information and encouragement and advice. what will a covid martial... how will we know? it's a covid martial... how will we know? it‘s important people know the rules and they are being enforced, but how do we know who a covid martial is? local authorities will make detailed decisions and that person will be identifiable in terms of id or

perhaps wearing some sort ofjacket to identify who they are. and it will be a person who will have been trained with regard to the regulations, the dos and don‘ts, and that person will be a useful source of advice and encouragement in order to make sure that we can avoid a situation where lots of people are being ticketed for infringements. and as is the case with the vast majority of the british people who we trust to do the right thing and have continued to do the right thing, more and more people will be encouraged to follow suit. in relation to enforcement, the latest figures suggest that as few as 20% of people who are required to quarantine, who‘d been identified and contact traced are actually fulfilling the whole of that quarantine period. so is there going to also be during this month long lockdown increased surveillance of

what people are doing and enforcement? i won't deny that that isa enforcement? i won't deny that that is a huge challenge and that is one of the reasons we are having to take the measures we are today. sadly, it has been difficult, frankly, with regards to the compliance of some people, only some people, with regard to the quarantine restrictions. i think it would be very ambitious of me to suggest that somehow we would be able to use the enforcement authorities to intervene in every case. i think, sadly, that is not logistically possible. but i think today is‘s change, the re—emphasis we are making about the importance of adhering to regulations and the challenge and the problems that the health services will face if we don‘t take action should reinforce the message to everybody who is in a position where they have to quarantine that compliance with that regulation is

vital if we are all going to play a pa rt vital if we are all going to play a part in protecting health services, saving lives and getting through this winter. what will be different in terms of test and trace during this month long period? no matter what politics you have, everyone agrees that one of the problems during the three—month lockdown was that not enough was done to change the testing system and i‘m sure you will say it increased during that time, buti will say it increased during that time, but i think even some government ministers have conceded that not enough was done. so during this month long period, which many people say effectively pauses the increase of the growth of the disease and hopefully brings it down, but may be pauses it, other things have to change. so what will be done in practical terms with test and trace during this month? we will carry on and redouble efforts to expand that system, notjust in terms of testing capacity, which is over half a million... what i'm

going to do very quickly, as you say that number, i‘m going to ask you how many people. you said capacity was at 500,000, so yesterday for example, how many people were tested ? example, how many people were tested? yesterday‘s figure, and i‘ve been looking at the figures in the last several days, it was over a quarter of a million people being tested and that is a huge change. i think it‘s really important that we get clarity on this because you are quoting the number of tests processed, but the question i‘m asking very clearly, and we have been down this path before and many people ask the same thing is, how many people have been tested? how many people have been tested? how many yesterday? i haven‘t got the up—to—date figure with regard to yesterday but what i‘m trying to do. the most recent? what i‘m trying to do is take the points you‘ve made about the need to continue to scale up about the need to continue to scale up the efforts and also to increase the speed by which we return those tests. lots of people are getting them the next day, which is good, but there are still too many who are

having to wait for days and we are going to continue to work to speed that up. yes, we have got to use this time notjust to deal with test and trace, but also to prepare for when we get a vaccine and to really get things ready for a system that will then prioritise those in greatest need so we can avoid a stop start scenario where we have to go into lockdown and out, which went just do damage to our health and well—being, but also the economy.- the beginning of december when the month long period ends, what does the r rate have to go back to a different system ? the r rate have to go back to a different system? we want that rate to get down below one. there were signs and some of the localised lockdown areas that things were beginning to change, but frankly, the evidence we saw notjust the pressure on health services, but the incidence of the virus across the

country meant that we had to take the significant step that today represents. i won‘t put any hard and fast click on the rate, but i will say that this particular period will end in early december. if there is to be any further change, we will have to come back to parliament and ask permission to do that. we will be watching those figures every day, and we will take appropriate action in line with the evidence presented to us. we understand that the chancellor will make a statement today in connection with possibly further measures to do with the furlough scheme, and looking beyond the 2nd of december, what can you tell us about that? i think it would be best to wait for the chancellor to make his announcement. he has shown great adaptability and fleetness of foot in making the adjustments we continue to need to do what it takes to protectjobs and save our economy. we know the extension of the furlough scheme was

warmly welcomed and there were more measures for self—employed people as well, and i‘m sure we can expect, broadly, the same sort of careful intervention that he has championed throughout this crisis. and can i ask you finally, the lockdown has begun, andi ask you finally, the lockdown has begun, and i don‘t know where you have been or what you have done today, but does it feel or look any different? what contact have you had outside doing interviews? short of coming from where i stay in london in the week to the studio i have seen very in the week to the studio i have seen very few people. what i‘m noticing as i stand and listen to the traffic, there isn‘t the roar of eight traffic system, it is quieter andi eight traffic system, it is quieter and i will keep my eyes and ears open through the day to see what difference has occurred as a result of the restriction overnight. thank you very much for your time this morning. robert buckland, the justice secretary. mike is talking about manchester united and a

disappointed manager. you maybe see this in under ten football, but i can heara this in under ten football, but i can hear a lot of under ten manager saying their team would not do this. we can have a look in a minute. how footballing fortunes can change. a week after manchester united thrashed rb leipzig 5 nil, they were humbled in istanbul last night, and it started by gifting their opponents a bizarre opening goal. according to united‘s manager, his players forgot about the istanbul striker, demba ba in the bright orange shirt, during this corner, and the former newcastle man, has a free run on goal...it ended 2—1 to the turkish champions you shouldn't see those goals at this level. you should not concede easy goals like this. we know how ha rd easy goals like this. we know how hard it is to create chances and goals and when you give away soft goals and when you give away soft

goals like the blue we have done today, it makes it harder —— like the two we have done. there was controversy at chelsea and the french side rennes, will feel hard done by. the referee looked at the var monitor and awarded chelsea a penalty here for handball, he also showed the rennes defender, dalbert a red card. timo werner scored the spot kick, on the way to a 3—0 win for chelsea, which keeps them top of group e. however, midfielder kai havertz missed the game after testing positive for coronavirus before kick off. here‘s a lockdown quiz question for you. name the three players still ahead of rafal nadal, in matches won. rafa nadal notched up his 1,000th career win, on the professional tour by beating feliciano lopez at the paris masters. it puts nadal fourth on the men‘s all—time list for matches won, behind jimmy connors, roger federer and ivan lendl. britain‘s hugh carthy remains in the hunt to win cycling‘s final grand tour race of the season, the vuelta a espana. yesterday‘s stage was won by

belgium‘s tim wellens. but carthy in the pinkjersey here finished alongside his rivals and remains just a7 seconds behind overall leader primoz roglic. the race ends on sunday in madrid. you see loads of people doing it, so maybe you can show me how to do. you mean cycling without holding the handlebars. you do see it at the end of the race. can you do it? don't try it now. i could do it when i was a kid, but i can‘t do it now. i still struggle with one hand on the handlebars. keep both hands on it. i do. sensible, really. they do it all the time, though, don‘t they? how is your puddle jumping? lots of opportunities for that over half term and i did quite a bit with the dog. i was inspired by that story. i‘ve seen your technique, but we are

announcing the winner at nine o‘clock. announcing the winner at nine o'clock. i just announcing the winner at nine o'clock. ijust use the arms for a lift. i always run up. a good puddle jump lift. i always run up. a good puddle jump is when you live back in the puddle. what, fall back into it? if you can find a big enough one. i put that in a special category. it has a marking pattern of its own if you end up in a full puddle, but if you‘re up on a cold day... just embrace thejoy. you‘re up on a cold day... just embrace the joy. how about the weather for puddle jumping? because it was a beautiful clear day for a lot of the uk yesterday. can i ask, sorry, what is your puddle jumping technique? i would stand in the puddle then jump i would stand in the puddle then jump rather than take a running jump, because you get a good splash and that is half the fun. 0k, jump, because you get a good splash and that is half the fun. ok, i will give you that one. good morning, everybody. this morning for some of us everybody. this morning for some of us it is a beautiful start of the day and as you can see from this

lovely picture from wales of the sunrise, but also a lot of mist and fog, some dense fog around this morning particularly across parts of southern england, east anglia, the midlands and staffordshire. some of this will be very slow to lift and that‘s because we have high pressure across us that‘s because we have high pressure across us and in the centre you can see a across us and in the centre you can see a distinct lack of isobars, so there‘s no wind to move the follow along, but a lot of isobars across the far north of scotland, across the far north of scotland, across the mainland and the northern isles, another day of gusty winds. the mist and fog should mostly lift as we go through the latter part of the morning but some of it will stick, and if you are stuck under that, well, the temperatures will be suppressed. the winds coming in from the atlantic blow in some cloud across northern ireland and scotland in the shelter of the grampians we could see some sunshine and temperatures getting up to 15 degrees. further south, we are looking at nine or 12. as we head through the evening and overnight, under clear skies it will be a cold

night in southern areas and we will see night in southern areas and we will see mist and fog forming. quite a bit of cloud across the north of the country with one or two clearer skies, and you can see the temperatures in the north are going to be higher than the south, and don‘t forget the temperatures indicate what you can expect in towns and cities. in rural areas, it will be lower than this. with more ofa will be lower than this. with more of a breeze in southern areas tomorrow the mist and fog should lift more readily and we will see a return to some blue skies, some sunshine and in the north we still have a bit of cloud coming in but some eastern parts should see some brightness, if not some sunshine. temperatures between 11 in lerwick to about 13 in norwich. as we head through the weekend, we see a change in wind direction and will have more ofa in wind direction and will have more of a southerly component, and we lose the blue and see a return to the amberand lose the blue and see a return to the amber and yellow, indicating it will turn milder. so on saturday morning we start with a largely dry note, may be mist and fog first thing but a fair bit of dry weather

and sunshine, but later in the day, the wind will pick up across the south—west and we will pull in some rain and that is because we have an area of low pressure coming our way and the high pressure will have drifted off to central europe. so here it is, and the timing could change, but we expect it to move steadily north as we go through saturday night and into sunday, taking the cloud and rain with it. in graphic form, you can see cloud ahead of it and here comes the rain. not particularly heavy rain and a lot of it will be in the west but we could see some across parts of england getting into north—east scotla nd england getting into north—east scotland and in the south it should brighten up behind that. look at the temperatures, 15 or 16 degrees, so starting to climb but as we move further north, we are looking at between nine and 12, so roughly in the north, on average for this time of year, but above average in the south. thank you very much. we will see you later on stop

tonight is, of course, bonfire night — and in other years, many of us would be enjoying fireworks at an organised display. but they‘ve all been cancelled because of the pandemic — so more people may be tempted to plan their own event at home — leading to concerns from safety groups and medics. tim muffet reports. edenbridge in kent, where for almost 100 years each november there has been a bonfire and a parade. the streets here where i‘m standing, you cannot move through them. they are sort of from the edge of the kerb, up until the walls, just spectators watching and cheering on the parade as it goes by. this year, it ain‘t gonna happen, is it? it‘s not going to happen, no. it‘s very sad. it‘s a massive community event. we always support local charities. it could be our local scouts group, it could be some of the amateur dramatics groups that we have here, the brownies. we‘ve got the local museum. so, yeah, all of these local organisations, unfortunately, are not going to be getting any funds from us. for almost 30 years, as well as guy fawkes, an effigy of a public figure has also been burned. so it‘s usually a politician or an actor or a singer, someone who is famous and done

something bad or naughty, or been in the press for perhaps negative reasons. this year, had it been going ahead, who would you have done? i would have loved to have done a giant covid virus, i think that would have been really fitting. no—one would object to that, i would imagine. with organised firework displays cancelled, it‘s thought a third of uk households are considering having fireworks at home this year — a trend that had been going away seems to be back with a bang. it‘s kind of fun and you don‘t just miss the bonfire. at least it‘s better than nothing because otherwise we wouldn‘t be able to do anything at all. we've had neighbours behind us actually set them off regularly and we have holes in some of our shed roofs from it, so i'm not a huge fan. but there are renewed warnings about the potential danger fireworks pose.

nobody wants to hamper fun people are having as a family but this year, more than ever, we really do urge people to think twice because of the fact they are explosives, of the inherent danger. in the best of hands it can go wrong and the nhs simply is under immense pressure at the minute. alistair brown is a consultant plastic surgeon at the ulster hospital in belfast. we‘re quite shocked by what came in over the past week or two. one child had damaged the inner eye, the other nearly lost an eye. if the fireworks had been closer, could have lost her life. blasting to the hands are common, people misusing — lifting them. one child yesterday we operated on has a very significant injury to structure of his hand. i don't like them. what don‘t you like? bonfire nights. it‘s not just physical risks that concern some. joe is 16 and has autism. every single child in the world has had a terrible year.

the problem we have got to withjoe is thatjoe hates fireworks. obviously this year it‘s on another level because there are going to be lots and lots of garden parties. there is going to be lots of fireworks going off locally, so we‘ve had to prepare for that. joe will stay in a tent in his house and wear ear defenders. his mum julie totally understands that families simply want to have fun. the same goes for many dog owners, such as callum. but goose and fliss, his border collies, react badly to the bangs. they quiver and shake and they run and jump over everyone. they are scared the whole time. are you worried this year because there are no organised events, there will be more ongoing fireworks in people‘s gardens? definitely. we have seen it already. they started probably two weeks ago and it‘s not even bonfire night yet. the british fireworks association has said sales have been very good this year. they say there has been a surge in demand for traditional selection boxes to be used at home. in 2020, the moments

of brightness have been rare. thoe planning to have fun and with fireworks are being urged more than ever to do so safely. tim muffett, bbc news. we mentioned it a few minutes ago. the world puddle jumping championship. it would make no sense really to stop it. this is one of the highlights of the programme before me because we are going to announce the winner very shortly. the competition has been making a splash for the last eight years, and still went ahead — as a virtual tournament — and attracted entrants from all over the world. they sent him a chance to be assessed by the judges.

they sent him a chance to be assessed by thejudges. —— in their jumps. let‘s take a look at the top three. she laughs ooh. how wet are you now?! three very different techniques. when you had the running jump and a big splash, i thought that was excellent and then you had the pure i°y excellent and then you had the pure joy of spending time in a puddle with your buddy. and then we saw the

winner. a completely different technique, including rolling around in the puddle. and we can announce that the winner of this year‘s competition is three—year—old theo. he‘s with his dad aled, and competition judge, racheljames. good morning to you. what is happening? what is going on? looks like chaos. can we be the first ones to say, i hope you can hear us, well done on winning the championship. thank you. thank you. can you describe your technique for the jump you did? what did you do? ran. did you did? what did you do? ran. did you lie on the floor? yes. we watched the magnificent puddle

jumping. explain the rolling over in the paddle, is that a normal thing? —— the puddle. the paddle, is that a normal thing? -- the puddle. for him he likes to get wet and muddy, so he found the biggest puddle in the park and rolled on it. was this to go up against all those who entered the competition? we just went to the park. he likes finding muddy puddles andjumping in them. how park. he likes finding muddy puddles and jumping in them. how easy this morning? he is a little camera shy. he isa morning? he is a little camera shy. he is a bit tired this morning and getting ready for nursery. i don‘t know. how are you this morning? i'll

tell you what, what i am thinking is lovely to see you back, by the way. theo, can i ask you a question? can i ask you a question? do you think your dad should also do the puddle jumping with you? what i want to see next is a father and son jump, what do you think about that?” next is a father and son jump, what do you think about that? i used to do you think about that? i used to do all the time when i was his age, playing football, getting muddy in the park, so that wouldn‘t be a problem. rachel, you are the competitionjudge. do problem. rachel, you are the competition judge. do you want to talk us through the technique and what worked for you?” talk us through the technique and what worked for you? i think va was a very worthy winner. when you look at thejudging criteria, the height of thejump and

at thejudging criteria, the height of the jump and stickability, it was a fantastic effort. did you get entries from outside the uk? we did. the response was amazing. we had entries from italy, ukraine, and a fantastic entry from australia as well. this is puddle jumping in the sunshine. we saw the top three and we went through them. which was your favourite technique? the entrance that really put their knees into it andjumped that really put their knees into it and jumped really high always got the best results. should there be a separate award for the person doing the puddle jump list appropriately dressed? these

the puddle jump list appropriately dressed ? these children the puddle jump list appropriately dressed? these children are properly dressed? these children are properly dressed with wellington boots on. i like it when parents get genuinely annoyed. absolutely. some even took their shoes off to jump annoyed. absolutely. some even took their shoes off tojump into annoyed. absolutely. some even took their shoes off to jump into a puddle, and that was good to see. are you going to be out again today? i don‘t know what the weather is like. is it puddle weather today?” will be working and theo will be at nursery. after that we might go around and see if we can find any puddles and jump around. that would be brilliant. we would love to see that tradition carrying on. no problem at all. has theo vanished?

yes, he is overtired, i think. problem at all. has theo vanished? yes, he is overtired, ithink. you get a better success and bay change. ready for nursery. if you send in your pictures, we will run them. the headlines are coming up.

good morning welcome to breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. our headlines today... joe biden edges closer to the white house, and says he‘s got the votes to win the us election. i‘m not here to declare that we‘ve won, but i am here to report, when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. with the result on a knife edge, president trump starts legal action in key states, calling for the counting to be stopped.

there‘s a warning of stiff fines for rule breakers, as a four—week lockdown comes into force in england. 3,500 jobs at sainsbury‘s could go, with closure to delis, meat and fish counters. an embarassing night for manchester united in the champions league, as their defenders give away the opening goal, in what their manager says, was an unforgiveable defeat to istanbul. it wouldn‘t be a lockdown without captain tom. he‘s back with a new walking campaign to help the lonely. there are some dense fog around this morning, particularly across southern and south—eastern areas, including the midlands and staffordshire. a fair amount of cloud elsewhere. but there is some sunshine and i can tell you where you can expect that in about ten minutes. it‘s thursday the 5th november. our top story.

the result of the us election remains in the balance, as votes continue to be counted in key battle ground states. joe biden is inching closer to victory after claiming michigan overnight, with reports suggesting he will take more key states today. but the trump campaign is taking legal action in several areas, calling for counts to be stopped as our north america correspondent, ben wright reports. there are still millions of votes to count, and this presidential race is not decided. in georgia, donald trump kept the narrowest of leads over joe biden as ballots were tallied late in the night. it was a scene repeated in the handful of states that will now decide this election. at the moment, it isjoe biden sounding confident. he currently has more electoral college votes than his rival and chalked up vital wins in the midwest, michigan, a democratic gain, and wisconsin looks to have gone the same way. here, the people rule. power can‘t be taken or asserted. it flows from the people. it is their will that determines

who will be the president of the united states, and their will alone. in nevada, the two candidates are neck and neck and the state will release more results on thursday. in arizona, once a republican stronghold, joe biden stayed slightly ahead while election officials counted the remaining postal ballots. after president trump prematurely declared victory and erroneously claimed in a tweet to have won states he hadn‘t, republicans filed a string of lawsuits and complaints. we‘re going to win pennsylvania, but they‘re going to try and cheat us out of it because they know it‘s their only path to victory. they know it‘s the only path to victory. we came here today and met with all our lawyers and we are going to file a suit in pennsylvania. after an attempt by the trump campaign to stop the count

in michigan, the state‘s chief election officer called the lawsuit meritless. we're focused on getting this right in a way that can withstand any court challenges. i'll also mention we've seen this not just in michigan but in other states. a lot of times court challenges or allegations are thrown around to further political agendas, as opposed to actual legal claims. we could still be waiting a while to discover who the next president will be as an unprecedented volume of postal votes are counted. but it‘s the current occupant of the white house who is trying to catch up. we can take a look now at the scene in atlanta, georgia, a key state where votes are still being counted, it‘s 3am in the morning there, and the indications are president trump could take that state. at the moment, there has never been more focus on those counting stations on the wrist right now, especially given those suggestions that donald trump will be taking legal action to check some of those places in what has been happening. many are saying this is still too

close to call. our north america correspondent ben wrightjoins us now from washington. the focus is on these counting centres and the inability of a call to be made at this moment in time? yeah, it‘s the middle of the night here in america, but the main us networks are still rolling with their election special programmes and following these counts which are going on right now. election offices in phoenix, arizona and atlanta, georgia are full of people processing the huge volume of ballots still to be counted. even though ballots still to be counted. even thouthoe ballots still to be counted. even though joe biden is ballots still to be counted. even thouthoe biden is confident, this is not a done dealfor either candidate. in arizona, wherejoe biden is slightly ahead, over the last couple of hours it seems his lead is narrowing. we don‘t know how that will play out in the five or six key swing states that will determine this in the hours and days

to come. but the reason thatjoe biden is more confident is he is ahead in terms of the electoral college, is closer to that winning margin of 270 electoral college votes, but also so many of the ballots that are being counted now across the us are postal ballots and we know that they have tended to lea n we know that they have tended to lean much more toward the democrats because they were more enthusiastic in encouraging their voters to use postal votes, but also they are coming from much more urban and metropolitan areas which tend to lea n metropolitan areas which tend to lean democratic, which is whyjoe biden thinks in the end he will piece together a path to victory. but we are not there yet and there are these lawsuits as well which donald trump is filing. calling for recou nts donald trump is filing. calling for recounts in a way to try to slow up and complete the process. then, i hope you get some sleep at some point! thank you. —— ben.

a new four—week lockdown has begun in england, with people told to stay at home, and non—essential shops, pubs and gyms ordered to close. ahead of the restrictions, police could be seen surrounded by crowds in london last night, as they encouraged people to go home and stay indoors for their own safety. on wednesday, the uk recorded a further a92 coronavirus deaths, the highest daily figure since 19 may. let‘s get the latest now from our political correspondentjessica parker. jessica, one of the issues now will be about compliance. new restrictions slightly different from before, but some of the principles remain the same. how will police be behaving now? yeah, i mean, there have been warnings that people are kind of commit the most egregious breaches of the new restrictions will face a stiff fine as we go into this new month long lockdown. different in a number of ways to the one we had back in march, but clearly lots of new restrictions on peoples lives for the next 28 days. borisjohnson has

peoples lives for the next 28 days. boris johnson has been peoples lives for the next 28 days. borisjohnson has been at pains to stress that these restrictions will automatically expire, it will legally end on the 2nd of december. mps here in westminster will have a say over what happens next. a number of conservatives are deeply unhappy at the restrictions which have been brought in, over 30 of them rebelled yesterday as mps voted on this new lockdown. i think there will be just a question over compliance, including to what extent people are able, willing, happy to quarantine when they are asked to. it is something you put to thejustice secretary robert macklin this morning. i won't deny that is a huge challenge. that's one of the reasons why we are having to take the measures we are today. sadly it's been difficult, frankly, with regards to the compliance of some people, at least some people, with regard to the quarantine restrictions. i think it would be very ambitious of me to suggest that somehow we will be able to use the enforcement authorities to intervene in every case. i think sadly that's not

logistically possible. so robert buckland saying not legitimately —— logistically possible to intervene in every case. another thing to look out for in westminster today, the chancellor will be up in the house of commons talking about the furlough scheme. we learned that as lockdown was being introduced in england, the furloughs scheme would be extended and people can‘t work because of restrictions being paid up to 80% of their wages for others not worked. the creative questions over what would happen beyond this month of lockdown in england, specifically if northern ireland, wales and scotland think they need to go into lockdown in future, would furlough be guaranteed? in future, would furlough be guaranteed ? the in future, would furlough be guaranteed? the prime minister has suggested that would be the case, but a lot of people want to detail from the chancellor rishi sunak later today. thank you.

the bank of england will pump an extra £150 billion into the economy. tighter restrictions, including another lockdown in england, are expected to push the uk into another downturn but the bank is hoping to avoid another recession. interest rates have been kept at a record low of 0.1%. sainsbury‘s has announced that up to 3,500 jobs could go, after suffering losses of more than £130 million over the last six months. job cuts are expected at meat, fish and deli counters at the supermarket chain. we can speak now to our correspondent frankie mccamley, to get more on this. what is interesting about this is that the supermarkets generally were thought to be doing ok as providers of essential goods, but sainsbury‘s has taken a hit, along with another —— number of other retailers? has taken a hit, along with another -- number of other retailers? yes, sainsbury‘s have said they will be speaking to employees about the impact this is going to have. it is

saying it is trying to find alternative jobs, but the saying it is trying to find alternativejobs, but the bottom line is sainsbury‘s has announced it is trying to act around 3500 jobs. most of these are going to come from argos stores. of course, sainsbury‘s bought argos back in 2016. it says it wants to close a20 argos stand—alone branches. many of those have been closed since the first lockdown back in march, some people might not be so surprised to see those not opening again. it wants to reduce the stand—alone stores to around 100 and move those two collection points inside sainsbury‘s stores, so people still will be able to shop at argos. this isn‘t going to shop at argos. this isn‘t going to happen straightaway. we expect this to happen gradually over three yea rs this to happen gradually over three years sainsbury‘s tries to save around 105 million. you mentioned sainsbury‘s is also going to get hit as we are going to see the meat counters, fish counters and

delicatessen counters closing to save another 60 million. people are shopping more at sainsbury‘s, people are not going out as much any more, but they are shopping online and thatis but they are shopping online and that is not as profitable for supermarkets. so we are seeing supermarkets. so we are seeing supermarkets here desperately trying to save money. frankie, thank you for bringing us up—to—date, frankie mccamley. here‘s carol with a look at this morning‘s weather. it is fairly mixed, charlie. some people are waking up to dense fog, especially over parts of southern, south—eastern england, the midlands and staffordshire. there is nothing to move the fog along and we have a weather front moving southward through the night, so that‘s brought cloud and rain, no drizzle, across scotland, northern ireland and

northern england. gusty winds over the far north of scotland and northern ireland. we could see temperatures in any sunshine get up to 15 degrees. come further south, we are looking at about 9—11, that is if you are not in an area that hangs on to the fog. but most of that should lift. overnight, mist and fog will reform in southern areas, another cold night. quite a bit of cloud around. milder in the north compared to the south. these temperatures indicate what you would expect in towns and cities, colder than that in rural areas. tomorrow, more of a breeze in the south, meaning the mist and fog should disperse more readily, will see some brightness and sunshine coming through, but still quite a bit of cloud around at times across scotland, northern ireland and northern england. temperatures ranging from 11 to 13 as we stripped down over norwich and also plymouth.

lots of questions coming in from people. many of you have lots of questions about the new national lockdown which starts in england today. we‘ll try and get some answers from the virologist chris smith and epidemiologist sian griffiths. let‘s get started with ourfirst question, from kj t cambs, who tweeted, what is the advice on travelling to see those in your support bubble? it says essential local travel, but what if support bubbles are 60 miles away in another town? the answer is that support bubbles are support bubbles and they are immune to distance and immune to coronavirus, unlike us humans, so you can travel. i think it would be

reasonable distances you should travel, if you decided yours support bubble was in australia then authorities might have something to say, but the importance of support bubbles is respected and you can travel to them. bubbles is respected and you can travelto them. i bubbles is respected and you can travel to them. i absolutely agree. there is more emphasis this time around in the guidance on maintaining family and social relationships, which were quite hard hit last time around, so you can, as long as you are clear who is in your bubble and you have one bubble, then that allows you to travel. we are allowed to go out as much as we like for exercise in this current lockdown, which is very different from the previous run. are you allowed to travel to your place of exercise? could you drive to the mountains? it should be as close as

home to possible, as close to your home to possible, as close to your home as possible for exercise. the guidelines are quite well written, quite easy to understand. have a look at the current lockdown guidelines. it does say you can travel for exercise, but be respectful, the more time you are out of your home, you are more likely to have accidents, have to make stops and have contact with other people. it is about minimising contact with other people to the greatest extent. yes you can meet up with one other person for physical exercise, but try to exercise as close as home as possible but you can travel to where you choose to exercise. this is an interesting one, she is asking if workman, for example a decorator, can come into her house during this new lockdown. i had on the radio someone asking,

if decorator is, if they can come to her house to do work, why can‘t a music teacher come in and give a socially distanced lesson. there are different rules for different providing different services? different rules for different providing different services7m different rules for different providing different services? it is based around whether it is an essential work. if you need someone to come in and fix a broken pipe, as long as he or she comes in wearing a mask and you keep social distance and you respect covid secure environments, you can have people into your house to do work that is essential. things like a music teacher, you sit very close to a child and that is discouraged because extracurricular activities are put on hold until next month, other than those inside a school bubble environment. this is trying to reduce the spread of the disease. chris, what about when a work person

is in the home? should homeowners be thinking about that, opening windows i suppose? yes, this is a respiratory infection, by and large. it doesn‘t rule out the fact that it lands on services and you can pick it up from there. most of the transmission will happen through the air. you can change the air where you are and the person working, less likely you are going to catch something. it is a two—way street, someone can catch something. it is a two—way street, someone can catch something from you. keep windows and doors open, and ventilate areas properly. if the work is happening outside, we have assumed a work person coming to your houseis assumed a work person coming to your house is going to be working indoors. if they are working outside the risk is much lower because anything taking place outside carries a much less risk. you are less likely to breathe in particles

of the virus, which could infect you or you infect someone else. this one has come in anonymously. people in the extremely vulnerable category have been advised to work from home. will those who are unable to work from home be receiving any financial support to do this? shielding, as we knew it before, that is no longer officially at a time? shielding is no longer term. last time the vulnerable and the clinically extremely vulnerable groups were advised to shield. this time it is only the severely clinically compromised people. people who will be informed by letters from their gp they are in this group, but they are advised to stay working from home or just to stay home if they are in the older age group. they can get support and there is a variety of support and there is a variety of support they can get and it is worth going on the website, once you have got your letter, go on the website

to see which group you fall into under playful support. it is worth emphasising to the vulnerable group that the general restrictions, the stay home but continue to go for a walk, only go out for shopping or essential reasons, that applies for the vulnerable group. so vulnerable people, based on aged or having one ofa people, based on aged or having one of a series of conditions that are no longer in the extremely vulnerable group, they don't need to worry about shielding, theyjust need to stick by the general rule is that the rest of us are sticking by. chris, there is a responsibility on employers in this equation isn‘t there? yes, everyone watching this who is in work is advised to work from home where possible. where it is impossible for a pleasant to work from home, there is an expectation

and an obligation on the employer to make sure their place of work is so called covid secure. that is the reason we have the differences we have this time. steps have been taken to make environments, public places, places of work, schools, covid secure. the risk of transmission now is different to what it was in march and april. that is where the guidance is different this time. most people should be trying to work from home to the greatest extent possible. where that isn‘t possible, they need to ensure their employer has made sure their place of work is covid secure. there are other steps people can take to minimise the risk, having a conversation with your employer about maybe adjusting your hours of work. making it so groups of people don‘t all work at the same time. so you come to work in a staggered fashion. it minimises the number of work at one time and reduce the number of transmissions. travel off peak if you have to take public

transport. you are less likely to be ina group transport. you are less likely to be in a group of people, much less risk of transmission. these things might be possible to implement, some or all of them, which can help and do their bit to reduce the risk of transmitting infections. sticking with the subject of those who are vulnerable. someone on twitter has said, if parents are clinically vulnerable, should we be sending our children to school? sean, you will be aware of the important discussions of getting children to school and the priority, but they will be parents who are concerned because of the way they naturally mix? the advice is children to go to school, children from vulnerable households should go to school. it is based on the fact that children are less likely to transmit disease, you know, if they get it, the transmission rate is less. and one would imagine in a vulnerable

household measures have been taken to decrease the risk of passing it on. keeping surfaces clear, keeping social distance if you can. all those environmental issues, keeping good ventilation. all those environmental issues, if you are extremely clinically vulnerable and your children go to school, you do that in the home. if your kids are at school, we are seeing increased measures in school. older children and teachers will be asked to wear masks in old circulation space, as well as going on public transport. all of this, as chris says, all of these little things will decrease these little things will decrease the risk of transmission of the disease. i think that is what we are aiming to do, bring down the rate of transmission, break the chains of transmission, break the chains of transmission and then bring the r number down below one so the pandemic starts to lessen and we can gradually get back to a different

way of living. chris, iwill point this question in your direction. andrew says, will things like masks and social distancing help to reduce the transmission of seasonal flu?” think they will help to reduce the transmission of every respiratory infection. the data is to look to australia and new zealand. the way the flue works, it makes a big, global circuit and transmits from one country to the next, arriving in any given territory coinciding with the winter in that particular geography. we look at the antipodean areas, like australia and new zealand to get some idea of what sort of flu will turn up here in our following winter. they have reported their quietest flu season for many yea rs their quietest flu season for many years and they attributed this to physical distancing and all these other awareness factor is going on

under the mitigating factors preventing coronavirus transmission but it is cutting down the transmission of the flu. one silver lining to this coronavirus cloud is we will see fewer transmissions of other respiratory infections and we are hoping for a quiet flu winter. while they all essentially transmitted in the same way, is it that simple? it is not essentially simple in terms of the virus particles are different sizes and those sorts of things. it is not the same. but the general impact is the same. but the general impact is the same. if we can reduce the rates of flu at the same time as covid rates, it will decrease the pressure on the nhs. these measures are being taken to enable us to deal with the severe consequences of covid. if we have less flu, because every winter we get flu admissions into hospital and

if we get less flu, the covid cases will be able to be treated within the system. so wearing masks will decrease other respiratory viruses. if people can stick to the face covering and guidance, that will help contribute to a safer nhs.” covering and guidance, that will help contribute to a safer nhs. i am just going to say thank you to both of you. thank you for spraining all of you. thank you for spraining all of that. our viewers to send questions in and i know it resonates with so many people watching. you have explain things so clearly, it is lovely. chris, you have got to up your flower sta kes. chris, you have got to up your flower stakes. it is just technical equipment. i will take a look at the view after this and i will see if i can up my game for next time. the gau ntlet can up my game for next time. the gauntlet is thrown down. you have a small amount of foliage, but yours is so much more colourful. better luck next time, chris. i have flower

envy now. thank you to both of you. 8.26 is the time. we will talk about the economy and jobs and how things look going forward. nonessential retailers and services in england have been forced to close from today until 2nd december, as part of the national lockdown. the government has extended the furlough scheme until next month, which will cover most of the wages for staff unable to work, but it‘s going to be a tough winter for millions of businesses, as nina warhurst has been finding out. what will be missed in the four weeks ahead? sitting for a quiet drink, nipping out for a treat. feeling closer to friends and to strangers. but it‘s more than that for business. here, a final flurry to get revenue up before the shutters come down. the last lockdown affects us a lot, so many people are scared to come to have their hair cut.

this man‘s four staff will go on furlough but he has overheads and stock that won‘t sell and the support on offer might not be enough. i think they might help some businesses to paying the rent and stuff like that but if they‘re not opening in december, it‘s going to affect the business, so we might close down injanuary, orany... so, we don‘t know yet, so... could be that bad, then? yeah, that could be. yeah. but a few doors down, here‘s millie. this lockdown has brought christmas brides through the doors early to make sure they make it down the aisle. we‘ve had to increase our hours so we can get brides in, so we can order before lockdown because, for some brides, pushing to december is going to be too late. so, yeah, we‘ve definitely seen a pick up the past few days. so in a way, will that pre—lockdown flurry help you over the hump? the flurry is something that‘s going to give us a lot more confidence as we head into, like, four weeks closed. and whilst some prepare for their big day, others wonder

what tomorrow might bring. jade will lose a lot of her trade. grooming will only be allowed if it affects a dog‘s welfare. she‘s newly self—employed and in the last lockdown had to lean on universal credit, one of the many who fell through the cracks. i feel a bit left out and also i understand that you can‘t give to everyone, unfortunately, can you ? you have to, unfortunately, choose where this money can go. you are incredibly understanding that the government can‘t support everybody equally but what does it do to you emotionally, being on that financial roller—coaster? it doesn‘t do much for the mental health, to be honest. it‘s very down at the moment. if i put myself fully in it, i don‘t know where i would be mentally. really? so you take a step back. really? and look at it to see that, you know... day by day. it‘s just one of those things. yeah. a few shops down, peter‘s feeling confident.

he has history here. 29 years of trading on this spot. his online sales soared in the spring. what did he learn from lockdown? he‘ll miss footfall but he‘ll also miss his pal, dean. this time, i‘m going to be keeping one member of staff on with me full time. why‘s that? because it‘s quite depressing in the summer, doing that on my own, yeah. really? so i‘m keeping dean on the company and hopefully we‘ll be busy with our online. you sound sort of cautiously optimistic? yeah, yeah. we‘re just going to have to grind it out this month, simple as that, really. hopefully, it is just till the 2nd of december. for businesses, four weeks start now. of adapting, inventing and hoping to survive. nina warhurst, bbc news. we‘re back in lockdown, and many people may be facing a long, lonely winter, but captain sir tom moore is trying

to help people get through it with his new campaign. we‘ll hear all about it later on the show. and when he talks, we listen. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i‘m lynda hardy. the met are urging londoners to "stick to the rules" as the latest national lockdown comes into force today. scotland yard says the public responded brilliantly during the first wave and in the most recent increased tier 2 restrictions. but it says it‘s ready and prepared to take enforcement action against those who deliberately breach the rules and put people at risk. fire chiefs in the capital are asking us to ‘think twice‘ before holding firework displays this bonfire night. with organised events cancelled, there‘s concern more people could hold diy displays in their own gardens. bonfire night is always a really

busy time for us anyway. so we are much more aware of the risk this year round, which is why we are there, we will be there for everyone. we are still providing a full service, but nevertheless we can only deal with so many calls at one time. fireworks can travel a great deal of distance and cause fires elsewhere. the iconic christmas grotto at harrods has been cancelled, as covid restrictions close stores across the capital. in normal times, the historic toy shop sees crowds of children queue to see santa before christmas. harrods says it‘ll be announcing plans to safely bring the spirit of christmas to customers at home, online and in store. london‘s travel watchdog has written to the mayor calling on him to keep bus fares in the capital low following the government‘s tfl bailout. london travelwatch says its accepts that fares will rise overall next year, but they‘re calling for bus travel to be kept at an affordable level for those who rely on buses. let‘s take a look at

the travel situation now... now the weather with kate kinsella. good morning. well, it‘s another very chilly start this morning. temperatures hovering around the 0 celsius mark. we also have some fairly dense mist and fog and that fog is going to be quite stubborn, it‘s really going to take its time to lift. through the morning it is likely to linger. it‘s not going to be until this afternoon until we see it burn back a little to some hazy, sunny spells. the wind is light today and the temperature feeling cold — between nine and 10 celsius the maximum. overnight tonight, we should get some clearer spells but once again we are going to see that mist and fog developing. shouldn‘t linger too far into friday

morning as we develop a south easterly breeze and that willjust help to lift it a little quicker. minimum temperature overnight, between three and five celsius. another chilly start tomorrow, still that mist and fog but eventually it will start to lift and we‘ll get some sunshine through friday. as we head into the weekend it is looking like a dry day for saturday and the temperature — just a little bit milder. and there‘s much more news and features on our website, twitter, facebook and instagram, and we‘re back with your final breakfast update shortly after nine. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. now, after we‘re off air today, you can watch morning live, with kym marsh and gethinjones, who are here to tell us what‘s on today‘s programme.

good morning, charlie and nag. after more than 36 hours of seemingly unending presidential drama, your are bringing things a little closer to home and i can officially confirm there will be no stars and stripes on today‘s morning live. there will be no stars and stripes on today's morning live. clara amfo will be here to brighten up our morning because today england joins wales and northern ireland in a national lockdown. after break-ups on the rise after the first lockdown, we have tips on how to survive the second lockdown. we have enlisted the help of a hostage negotiator. a bit extreme, that? communication is crucial, but what if you can't understand the words you are hearing. today i will introduce you to my nephew albee who

was diagnosed with autism at the age of five. i will be finding out why what i say and what he hears are two separate things and will be getting some tips on how we can improve communication. it is a lovely film. and back by popular demand, our resident vet doctorjames greenwood joins us for tips about the regular everyday household objects that could be putting your pet at risk. he was not willing to look at the camera, his pet! plus how music could help keep furry family members keep calm this bonfire night. send them —— send in your questions. charlie was worried that your chair wasn‘t very comfortable. charlie was worried that your chair wasn't very comfortable. what was going on there? a bit of music to

start the day, charlie! thanks very much, take care. it‘s still too close to call whetherjoe biden or donald trump will occupy the white house for the next four years, as key battle ground states continue to count the votes. let‘s remind ourselves of where the race currently stands. biden has claimed victory in michigan, and is projected to do the same in wisconsin. the democrats lead the polls with 2a3 to trump‘s 21a, but they need 270 to win, so it‘s all still to play for. let‘s speak now to supporters on both sides, inge kjemptrum is chair of democrats abroad uk. we‘re also joined by greg swenson from the group republicans overseas. you are with republicans overseas and you will be watching very

closely. particularly over the last nine or ten hours, listening tojoe biden and president trump. what is your sense about what is going to happen next? i think what is clear is it is a really close election, they want to make sure all the ballots are counted, they are going through that process specifically in arizona. i was surprised that arizona. i was surprised that arizona flip to the democrats the other night when fox and some other networks called it, but it turned out that ballots which hadn‘t been counted came from precincts which lea n towards counted came from precincts which lean towards the president. that doesn‘t mean it will change, but they need to be counted because in some of those precincts he was leading at 70%. it is very similar to 2016 where states like michigan we re

to 2016 where states like michigan were only one by 10,000 votes. 20 in wisconsin and a0 in another state. the trump campaign was in a better shape than was anticipated in the press, so this is what we ended up with. it is very similar to 2016. in some ways, it reminds me of the year 2000 with al gore and george w bush. given that there is no evidence of voting fraud, is it responsible for the way the president has suggested that there is some kind of fraud going on? well, there is no doubt that with the increase in male in voting, that increases the opportunity and the likelihood of fraud. it also increases the

likelihood... the president wanted to ensure there was no fraud. jimmy carter did a study on this ten years ago, he was a democrat president in the 19705 and a global expert on elections and he has been a great selection oversee around the world, he has even said that the increase in male in voting is absolutely going to increase the probability of fraud. i don‘t think that is too speculative. the election was only two days ago. without seeing hard evidence, it still make sure to ensure that any sort of voter integrity is ensured —— mail—in voting. it is still too close to call at the moment, but how do you think this is going to pan out, just in terms of the way people are interacting from the different camps? because it has been so

fractious. i don‘t know how your experience has been in the uk following this? we're feeling pretty confident about where we are. we think we're on track to win this election. we always knew that the results were going to take time to because of the unprecedented mail—in ballot counting. i am pleased to hear your republican guess to be patient and asked that the vote will be counted because unfortunately that's not the rhetoric that has been coming out of the white house and there have been some lawsuits that have tried to stop the counting, which i find very discouraging. i think it's important to remember that one of the very toxic legacies of the trump years is going to be the division that he has been stalking. already america is a very diverse country and there are a lot of divisions, but everything that trump has been doing in these past four years has been to stoke that. so i think biden, when he is president, one of his greatest task

is going to be to bring people together and heal the nation. the counting will take some time. i tried to warn some people about this, but that is what we're seeing being played out tonight. joe biden on call the other night said keep the faith, we are going to win this, andl the faith, we are going to win this, and i think that is pretty much where we stand. the numbers i am seeing look very good. what lessons need to be learnt? there was at one point a feeling that the democrats could run away with this, but certain areas seem could run away with this, but certain areas seem to have been neglected byjoe certain areas seem to have been neglected by joe biden‘s certain areas seem to have been neglected byjoe biden‘s campaign trail. do you think there will still have to be a moment of reflection? absolutely. i think we are all going to think about where we are as a nation, where we are going, all the fears that have been stalked, how we can be in isolated bubbles, how we have to come together and actually understand each other's perspective.

that will be job number one when biden gets in. and then start taking control over so many of the serious issues out there, not least this covid pandemic which has left 250,000 of my fellow americans dead and many suffering the virus as well. can ijust ask and many suffering the virus as well. can i just ask you and many suffering the virus as well. can ijust ask you a last thought, greg? as a republican, what will be the moment that either you personally or those you represent will accept or would accept that there is to be another president?” think it could be any day now. i hope it is not like 2000 where it took 37 days to get to a verdict. the numbers don‘t lie. i would rather be up 200000 and down 200,000. isaid rather be up 200000 and down 200,000. i said this two weeks ago. ididn‘t 200,000. i said this two weeks ago. i didn‘t think the polls would be

accurate. i would rather be up five points then down five points. this isa points then down five points. this is a position that you don‘t envy but i think that both candidates will be patient and will get through this and in a few days, whether it is two days or two weeks, as soon as the numbers are fully counted and it has been clear there wasn‘t any voterfraud, then has been clear there wasn‘t any voter fraud, then everything will proceed as planned. thank you both very much. one of the images we have seen very much. one of the images we have seen this morning is that those cou nts seen this morning is that those counts are still going on at aam or 5am. you can see these images from georgia. counting centres under enormous scrutiny now. but the work carries on. we will see what transpires overnight and into tomorrow us time. now mike has the sport. disappointing football for at least one side?

yes, if you‘re a manchester united fan, you might want to look away now. . . the manchester united manager ole gunnar solskaer has had to defend himself again under increasing pressure, after his team forgot how to defend in istanbul. they left their opponents striker, demba bar, all alone, with the freedom of the pitch, and the former newcastle man, was able to run on to score. it ended 2—1 to the turkish champions istanbul bashak—sehir. and with united struggling in the premier league, it‘s increased the pressure on the manager. it is early on. and you know opinions are out there all the time. you need to stay strong. i am employed by the club to do a job and ido employed by the club to do a job and i do that to the best of my ability, with our staff. the controversy of penalties being awarded for un—intentional handballs was the talking point at chelsea. the french side rennes will feel hard done by. the referee looked at the var monitor and awarded chelsea a penalty here for handball. he also showed the rennes

defender dalbert a red card. timo werner scored the spot kick, on the way to a 3—0 win for chelsea, which keeps them top of group e. however, midfielder kai havertz missed the game after testing positive for coronavirus before kick off. and it is on to the europa league tonight. you will have a nice evening! thank you. here‘s carol with a look at this morning‘s weather. it is foggy this morning. good morning everyone. dense fog patches across parts of southern england, east anglia and the midlands and staffordshire. you can see the extent of the fog in redhill in surrey this morning. but it‘s not just in surrey, some of it will be very slow to clear and it could lift

into low cloud. if that happens where you are it will suppress the temperature. high pressure is in charge and you can see no isobars so there is no wind to move the fog along. rain across scotland over night, producing drizzle and cloud across southern scotland, northern ireland and northern england and that will slip into north wales later. quite breezy, especially so across the far north of scotland into the northern isles. that breeze and the wind is bringing in a fair bit of cloud. as it clashes with the grampians, we see some sunshine across aberdeenshire with temperatures getting up to about 15 degrees. where the fog lingers it will suppress temperatures, but where it lifts and brightens up, we will see highs of 11 or 12 degrees across parts of the south. through this evening and overnight it is going to be a cold night under clear skies in southern areas, mist and fog patches develop. still a lot of cloud across scotland, northern

england and northern ireland. we will still see some clear skies in and amongst this cloud, but generally speaking it will be milder in the north and it is in the south. don‘t forget these temperatures represent towns and cities so in rural areas it will be lower than this. one thing about tomorrow morning, it will be breezy across southern areas, so that should help disperse the fog and it will brighten up nicely across much of england and wales and although it will be cloudy at times across northern ireland, scotland on the far north of england, you should see some brightness coming through. temperatures 11 to about 13 degrees. into the weekend it will turn milder. you can see the blue being usurped by the yellow and amber and that will get into the far north of scotland. weather—wise this weekend, we could see stubborn fog lingering across the vale of york on saturday morning and across south—east scotla nd morning and across south—east scotland but they will be a lot of dry weather around. later in the day the clyde will thicken in the south—west and we will see some

rain. that will move northwards during the course of sunday but not all of us will see it. the temperatures will be a little bit higher. thanks, carol. during the difficult days of the last lockdown back in spring, captain sir tom moore lifted spirits and raised money for nhs charities. now the captain has launched a new campaign to help get people through this lockdown, and it involves walking to help support those who feel lonely and frightened. breakfast‘s john maguire has been tojoin him for a stroll in his garden. the first thing you think about is the first step because that‘s the hardest. but once you‘ve got going, then you can start thinking about all sorts of things. i am on a walk and talk with a national treasure.

during the dark yet thankfully sunnier days of the first lockdown, he was a ray hope, a shining light that raised almost £a0 million for nhs charities and smashed records with every step. and now, as many of us again withdraw from the everyday, captain sir tom moore has been planning how to help once more. i can walk with people or people will walk with me. fit and able or people who find it rather slow, like me, if we can all do a little walk together and show that we have all got the right idea in mind, we are all looking to the future for things to get better. there are plans to use online technology and an app to enable us all to clock up the miles and virtually walk with captain tom. the sky, maybe even the moon and back, there is no limit, and money raised will go to his charitable foundation. one of its aims is to

tackle loneliness. it is going to be difficult and some people are going to find it mentally a great stress. they are going to be not only lonely, they are going to feel lost, i think. they are there on their own with not a soul to help them. you have to go on and go on and go on, so that is what i say to people. remember, you have to go on, but it will get better in the end. so, with the walk done, it is time to talk to three people who have experienced isolation and loneliness. 8pm or 9pm in the evening when suddenly you feel totally isolated from the rest of the world, there is nobody to chat to online, they have all got their families, they are all busy doing other things. and then it really, really hits you. if i got a message from someone out of the blue just saying, how are things? how are you getting on?

that makes a big difference to my day. they don't realise, it might mean nothing to them, but that could be the first person i talk to outside of my family for weeks. it's an honour and a privilege to be on here with you, captain tom. indeed it is, yeah. it really is a great pleasure for me to be speaking to you. it really is magic, isn‘t it? out of the blue, the four of us can speak together, from miles and miles and miles apart. during the first lockdown because obviously i was shielding i didn't have any face—to—face contact for 93 days and that felt like a lifetime. absolute lifetime. yes, i know it, i understand what you are saying. things can be very difficult and you can‘t always get the immediate answer.

but things certainly will get better and if we can all give our help and send out messages of hope and kindness. so many people are desperately in need of it at the moment. problems shared are not halved, but quartered as the faces light up thanks to human contact. but i think you are as shining star amongst the people, which we need at the moment. goodbye. bye. nice to talk to you. and afterwards, another walk and talk, this time with ann—marie how had chatting with captain tom and the others made her feel, i wondered? he is so lovely. ijust wish i could give him a big hug. the situation we are in, the only thing we've got is hope. literally, when you take it

down to the bare bones, all that's left is hope. not that fella again! laughter. we are being deprived of many of the simple pleasures that make us human, but if we are able, may be walking, talking, smiling, even behind masks will help us to get through? john maguire, bbc news. he is great, isn‘t he. in a way, it is the simplest of things. simple things to hold onto and be able to do to make you feel calmer, works. captain tom has inspired so many people. inspired by young girl... so charlie — how many "keepie—uppies" do you reckon you can do? i think ithinki i think i can do about five in a row. maybe more if i am on a good

run. iam row. maybe more if i am on a good run. i am so surprised. more or less than you thought? more. well 11—year—old imogen papworth—heidel has done just that, and when she roped in the help of 2000 other people — they hit a combined total of seven million keepie—uppies — all to say thank you to our key workers. let‘s take a look at her incredible challenge. thank you, imogen. here is your 500 keepie—ups. the fact that you are managing to do 2000 keepie—ups a day, that's amazing. i wouldn't be able to do that.

it's really amazing of support, messages of support and how much money all of the keepie—up people have been donating, it is absolutely amazing. i am absolutely mind blowing. well done, well done! fantastic! imogen and her dad karl now join us now from their home in cambridgeshire good morning to you both. what an achievement. imogen, alex scott was saying she couldn‘t do as many as he did. tell me, how many were you doing a day? you ain‘t for 200 at first? yes, i aimed at 200 a day, it worked out 97 years to do that 200. but then i realised i could do 2000. just before school starts i managed

to do 8000. but now with school i am doing about 3000 a day. how long does it take to do 8000 keepy—ups in a day? it is around two hours? yes. that is very impressive. let‘s talk to your dad, does she get all of her talent from you, i am wondering?” would love to say yes, but unfortunately i think my record is about ten. the family, we have been counting them, that has been our job, she has been out there doing all of that and she got up to about 8000 in the day. it is a phenomenal piece of work. she has been out there in all weathers, thunder as well and she has been fantastic and

done a fantastic job. imogen, what is your inspiration? i saw captain tom at the start of lockdown walking up tom at the start of lockdown walking up and down his guard raising so much money for the nhs and being so amazing. ijust much money for the nhs and being so amazing. i just wanted much money for the nhs and being so amazing. ijust wanted to do something to help as well. i really like football, i thought i could do some keepy—ups. i couldn‘t do it in my garden it is really quite small. soi my garden it is really quite small. so i decided to do one keep up for every key worker in the country. are you going to go out and do some more now, is that the plan? yes. yes, the whole time. she loves football. doing keepy—ups was an extension of that very much. you have done very well, imaging, it is amazing what

you have done. good to talk to you this morning, you should be very proud. image and trains with cambridge united youth academy so she is very impressive. you‘re watching bbc breakfast.

this is bbc news. i‘m annita mcveigh. the latest headlines at 9am: still no final result in the us presidential election as counting continues injust seven key battle ground states. but democratjoe biden is inching closer to the white house after winning michigan. i‘m not here to declare that we‘ve won, but i am here to report, when the count is finished, we believe we will be the winners. meanwhile, the trump campaign launches multiple legal challenges to try to stop the counting in four states and wants