if‘ai‘it story, of a whaling station that became a haven, was the motivation for one scottish artist's industrial scale design. i was kind of fortu nate scale design. i was kind of fortunate because i struck upon this idea quite early on, and i always think that is a lucky thing, and the idea seems to cascade. inspired by the rivets that held together the whaling ships and the barnacles that cling to the whales themselves, his idea is called the spirit tables of south georgia. like so many projects, this has been delayed by the pandemic, but the government of the pandemic, but the government of the island on the south georgia heritage trust will work with the artist on its development in 2021. it will be situated at great britain, the largest whaling station on the the tourists who visit the island on

cruise ships will come in here, and at the moment they see the remnants ofa at the moment they see the remnants of a railing station. -- whaling station. it's quite difficult for them to understand, so hopefully with michael's commission we can help them interpret the past but also reflect a present of the island, which is a resurgent ecosystem. once caught here in their thousands, humpbacks and even rare blue whales are now returning to south georgia's waters, so this site, the charity says, is an all too rare beacon of conservation. an ecosystem showing signs of real recovery. victoria gill, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's helen willetts. thank you. a blast of cold air heading our way for the day tomorrow. this afternoon though it remains witty turbulence, low pressure is the reason and the weather front is sweeping its way

east, and isoba rs weather front is sweeping its way east, and isobars indicating the blustery conditions but the picture to start with showed sunshine returning once the weather front came through, and some sunshine is ahead. but it is pretty wet for most of us if we are heading out today. not constantly. there will be some dry and bright weather in between, but despite it being mild, temperatures are starting to fall away in the north, a sign of things to come. it's behind the weather front that we change direction and by tomorrow, temperatures might be five or 10 degrees lower in some parts. through the evening the rain clears away from eastern areas and lots of heavy showers, and then this band of rain which will turn readily to snow across the scottish hills, so concerns to snow across the scottish hills, so concerns of temperatures dropping to freezing and the wind really picking up. there will be strong to gale force, those north—westerly is and will be with us tomorrow morning still, but it's just a brief cold snap because come the end of play tomorrow we are exchanging the arctic for the atlantic influence again. but it will feel much colder

tomorrow, notably in the gale force winds first things with lots of showers around of snow across the scottish mountains but gradually through the day the showers ease down and the sunshine becomes more prevalent and the winds ease down eventually as well. but that won't help the temperatures. we are looking at probably three or four in the north at best, perhaps double figures in southern areas, but tomorrow when you add on the effect of the wind, particularly through the morning on the first part of the afternoon it will feel significantly colder. but you notice the rain coming back into northern ireland or towards it by the end of the day and thatis towards it by the end of the day and that is the next weather front coming from the atlantic which through friday will sweep eastwards and the weather fronts will follow behind but we are back into the atla ntic behind but we are back into the atlantic and behind but we are back into the atla ntic a nd westerly behind but we are back into the atlantic and westerly flow and the low is quite far in the north but the weather fronts will introduce cloudier spells of rain, critically on friday and as it comes into the chilly air we could have snow over the scottish mountains but it looks like another damp and blustery day on friday, getting a bit milder but

underneath all that cloud and rain it won't feel that way if you are managing to get out and about. but as you can see, saturday and sunday, as you can see, saturday and sunday, a lot of cloud, but hopefully also some good spells of dry weather in between the weather fronts. a reminder of our top story. even more effective than first thought and ready for approval. more good news on the pfizer covid vaccine that's all from the bbc news at one. so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello, good afternoon. i'm holly hamilton. it's been 16 years since england's cricketers last ventured to pakistan, but today the ecb has announced they'll be playing two t20 internationals there this october. it will be part of their preparations for november's t20 world cup.

england last toured pakistan in 2005 but didn't return following an attack by gunmen on the sri lanka team in 2009. the teams last met in the summer when pakistan toured england, during the pandemic. the teams that came over last year we re the teams that came over last year were amazing to have gone through the whole bubble and obviously after the whole bubble and obviously after the coronavirus pandemic, cricket was obviously on the edge and they helped massively with that, so i think it was probably going to happen anyway, but i think it's right that we go back after such a long time to one for the game itself but also for pakistan, cricket and the country. lots to look forward to for at home for england too next year. india will tourfor a five test match series. sri lanka and pakistan will also play in limited overs matches.

there could be another test series against another team too, if the calander allows. england's women team will also face new zealand and south africa while the visually impaired team take on australia. clubs in the english football league will be able to use five substitutes a match for the rest of the season. the new rule comes into place from friday, ahead of this weekend's matches, following discussions with all 72 clubs. there had been fears of player burn out this season. championship sides can now name 9 subs in matchday squads, with those in league one and two allowed to name seven. the welsh rugby union have named their first ever black national coach. former england sevens coach warren abrahams takes up the role with the wales womens team. while former captain rachel taylor willjoin him as the wru's first professional national female coach. ross byrne returns to the ireland team

for their trip to twickenham in the autumn nations cup this weekend. byrne takes the place of injured captain johnny sexton, who injured his hamstring in last week's win over wales. he gets the nod over billy burns who's on the bench alongsidejacob stockdale, who has recovered from a calf strain. there are doubts around the australian open and whether it can be staged as planned in melbourne injanuary. with victoria's government reportedly not allowing players to arrive in mid—december. tennis australia had hoped they'd be able to practise during the 14—day quarantine, before two weeks of action leading into the tournament. the government there has said arrivals at the end of december could be a possibility. another option is delaying the event altogether. british number one johanna konta says the ability to train during quarantine is vital. for my understanding and everything that we have been told so far,

tennis australia have done everything to make sure that our quarantine setup is so that we are able to train properly, otherwise it would make it very difficult, i think, for players to be able to compete at the highest level without risking their bodies in the process. meanwhile in brisbane there were 52 thousand fans in the stands for a rugby league match — a post covid record. the rather partisan crowd at the suncorp stadium produced an intimidating atmosphere to help queensland win the state of origin match over new south wales. the maroons first series win since 2017. that's all the sport for now. all the home nations are in action this evening in the nations league, all the details are on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. and i'll have the latest for you in the next hour. holly, thank you very much. nicola sturgeon says work is being done across the uk to allow

people to meet for christmas. at today's coronavirus briefing in edinburgh, the first minister explained that the scottish government is in discussion with the rest of the uk in the hope of reaching a nationwide consensus. we are all desperate for some normality at christmas and i absolutely include myself in that. the scottish government right now is working very closely and well with other uk nations to try and agree a way for that to happen. we want to have the same position across the uk, given family patterns that exist. but we know that people coming together, when a virus is circulating, will increase the risks of it spreading. and that means we need to be careful. but this is the key point, it also means that one of the most important thing is we need to do between now and then, in order to minimise that risk, is reduce the number of people in the population who have covid and who will have covid when we get to christmas. because if we do that, we reduce the number of people who might then be at risk of passing

it on to their loved ones if they are getting together for christmas. so that is what these restrictions are, in part, trying to do. even so, they were not taken lightly and i know that they are really hard for people, but i hope they will help us to achieve all of those aims and of course, take us closer to the end of all of this, which we are now seeing over the horizon, as safely as possible. more than two million people in scotland be placed under the nation's toughest lockdown rules from friday. pubs, restaurants and non—essential shops will have to close but schools will remain open. the move affects 11 council areas across western and central scotland, including glasgow. 0ur correspondent james cook reports. here we go again. lockdown, take two. from friday, more than 2 million people in scotland will be living in level four. in this restaurant, they're not angry, they're not surprised, but they are concerned.

it's the busiest time of the year. you know, this is when we take, we probably make a lot of profit and then that sees us through the quieter months, kind of keeps the business afloat and not having it is going to be really difficult. are you worried about the survivability of the business? yeah, of course. every time this happens, it's going to be harder and harder to reopen because, yeah, no money is coming in, cash flow, it'sjust, it's awful. it's very stressful. but is eating out really to blame for the rise in covid cases? for some business leaders, scepticism simmers. they want to see the science behind the decision. and the staff in the kitchen, well, they're worried about theirjobs. when you see other businesses closing, i guess you must be worried? it's worrying, yeah. just hoping it's not you, but you don't want it to be anyone else either. i've got a lot of friends that work

in the industry as well. some of them aren't going back to work, so it's quite scary. for staff in the hospitality industry, we've seen how greatly it's really affected us. with a lot of places that are closing or currently not opening, it's kind of waiting to see, it feels like what will happen, what won't happen, and it'sjust keeping our own morale up to say, we are now in lockdown, 0k, we must do this or deciding as a business what's the best route for everyone to go down. life for the diners is about to change as well. from friday night, it will be illegal for them to leave glasgow without good reason. i guess on the run—up to christmas it's important so families can hopefully see each other at christmas. it's a shame for businesses and social interactions, but i guess it's quite necessary. travel hasn't caused a massive rise in infections, so it seems to be people are sacrificing a lot, for not much benefit. it's quite difficult to swallow in that sense. gyms are being hit hard as well.

they must close, again, a blow for owner and clients. i don't think we can put a price on what sport, leisure, the arts does for people's mental health. it's huge. when we returned after lockdown, two of our people got to the top of the stairs and burst into tears, they were overcome with being back. small shops like this one already struggle against online giants. and shutting now could be catastrophic. the next six weeks are usually our busiest. we've got queues of people outside wanting to do their christmas shopping because we do have restricted numbers in here. so already, we are impacted by not having the normal numbers in. so, for having the shop closed, it'sjust going to have a disastrous effect. and the idea of the state banning haircuts again has put this barber on edge. rubbish, total rubbish. i mean, ijust don't understand this. i mean, why lock us down?

it's not been proven that any hairdressers or any barbershops have caused a problem. and theyjust seem to be picking on us all the time. so scotland heads into a tough winter. this shutdown is supposed to save lives, but that doesn't make it easy. james cook, bbc news, glasgow. wales is to begin its first mass coronavirus testing pilot from saturday. military personnel will help roll out the scheme in merthyr tydfil. andrew goodall, the chief executive of nhs wales, led the government's press briefing today, where he gave more details. we would be looking to start, for the first set of patients, sorry, members of the community, the saturday, so there will be arrangements put in place to start those mechanisms and that will allow it to grow the individual sites that are in use. i think it is going to be really important that we have some flexibility around our approaches. so that what we are able to do was use some of the mobile unit in particular and make sure that as well as having dedicated sites available, to move around to some of the communities,

particularly where we think prevalence is higher. of course, we will need to consider about how we move into some of our settings, so one of the areas for consideration will be about how we approach areas such as education or even workplace settings as well. but we are hoping that the local population will feel supported to want to make sure they are able to go through this mass testing approach. so those numbers will increase. we will need to think about the success of that and evaluate it and it may well be that we have other areas of wales that still have a high prevalence, that there may be some opportunity to revisit that. the us aviation regulator is to lift the ban on the boeing 737 max saying it believes the aircraft to be 100 % safe to take passengers again. the 737 max was was grounded worldwide in march 2019 following two crashes that killed 346 people. boeing has welcomed the move saying it was committed to learning from its mistakes. our business correpondent theo leggett reports. two devastating air crashes, one of the coast of indonesia

and another in ethiopia, just four months apart. 346 people were killed. both involved boeing's newest aircraft, the 737 max. the plane has been grounded worldwide for the past 20 months. but now regulators in the united states say it can fly again. i lost my wife carol. my three children, ryan, kelly and ruby. i also lost my mother in law. paul lost his entire family when ethiopian airlines flight et 302 crashed minutes after taking off from addis ababa. he has been lobbying hard to prevent the 737 max from getting back in the air. we still have our lawyers fighting with boeing in court. and the fa are supporting boeing, they can't even produce the documents they have been asked to produce. so what are they hiding? so, they can come and stand before

cameras and tell the world, these planes are safe. who's going to believe them? not me. paul's family died because the plane travelling on, identical to these, had catastrophic design flaws. a single sensor failure triggered a response from the plane's computers that ultimately put it into a dive the pilots could not prevent. later, american congressmen demanded answers from covid. boeing. boeing came to my office shortly after these crashes and said they were the result of pilot error. those pilots never had a chance. these loved ones never had a chance. they were in flying coffins. in a scathing report, us lawmakers concluded boeing had placed profits and production speed over safety and regulators had simply fails to do theirjob. the company insists it has learned hard lessons from the disasters

and that safety is its top priority. the design flaws have now been rectified and pilots will be given extra training. rectified and analysed and tested and checked in simulators like no other function in the world on an aircraft. it is the most thoroughly vetted flight function and computer software in the world. the plane will be allowed back in the air. the question is whether passengers will ever be happy get aboard. let's get more on the news that diesel and petrol cars won't be sold from 2030 — part of what borisjohnson says will be a ""'green industrial revolution‘ to tackle climate change and create jobs. let's talk to dr andy palmer, who is former ceo of aston martin and chief operating officer of nissan. do you welcome this and are you

ready for this? yes, i do. i think it's a bold and ambitious plan and i think we should applaud the fact that it goes further than either the japanese or the incoming us administration is. so i think we should applaud it. however, we have to also acknowledge that with some caveats. the most obvious caveat to me is that if we act as the uk alone, then there will be unintended consequences which will disadvantage british companies in a global market. so i think what we have to do is we have to demonstrate leadership and convince the rest of the world that what we're everybody should follow and i think the up—and—coming cop 26 is the opportunity for the uk to both demonstrate what it's doing but also try to persuade other countries to follow. going alone is dangerous.

you, no more about electric cars in any way i will speak to for many yea rs, any way i will speak to for many years, i suspect. where are we in terms of the technology and the batteries for these cars? look, the technology has moved on in the 15 yea rs technology has moved on in the 15 years that i've been working on electric cars and battery technology in particular is moving very quickly. regrettably, is visited today, the uk is behind, there's been massive investments in asia and we now start to see investment going into europe. in fact, accompany the time vice chairman of is basically benefiting from some of that investment. but we in the uk are slow in terms of our battery development, which is a little ironic when you think about the lithium iron battery was invented here in the uk. that company are involved it is looking at intelligent batteries, just explain how they work. well, we use

artificial intelligence to look through the various chemistry types and resolve the chemistry which is suitable for the mission. so for example, if you have a bus which, where the battery is discharged deeply during the day and then recharged during the night, that is a different mission too, for example, a car, where it might be slightly discharged and recharged, so you need different chemicals and the ai technology allows for very fast experimentation around those chemistries. that brings onto the charging of this. how are we in terms of the infrastructure? we have to improve. i'm glad to see there is an acknowledgement of that in the prime minister's announcement today. but we have to have a much wider charging infrastructure. i know that when i left japan, charging infrastructure. i know that when i leftjapan, i lived injapan for 13 years, but when i leftjapan, there was a fast charger at least

every ten kilometres and we need to get that. if you look at the statistics, you can see that the north of england is getting left behind from the south of england and we have to make sure that there is charging infrastructure throughout great britain. it's all very well to say that they are going to stop selling petrol and diesel from 2030, but what about the cost of electric cars, will that come down? it has to. when you are building powers in such low quantities, then inevitably, they're such low quantities, then inevitably, they‘ re expensive. such low quantities, then inevitably, they're expensive. when using new technology, they are inevitably expensive. the holy grail of the battery maker is to get the cost per kilowatt hour down to around about $100. over that 15 yea rs around about $100. over that 15 years that i've been working in this space, it is been progressively coming down and that is now within sight. so i think we can get to affordable cars. but let's not forget that we can get to affordable buses much more quickly and actually the uk is a leader in electric buses

today and if you want to democratise zero emissions and net zero carbon, then the fastest way to do that is actually to replace the fleet of diesel buses with electric buses tomorrow. let mejust diesel buses with electric buses tomorrow. let me just go off beam a bit because i know you are a licensed race car driver yourself. does this sign the death knell of formula 1? 0r does this sign the death knell of formula 1? or i hope not because one of the things that i'm saying very strongly to government is don't be myopic on the technology. politicians to identify the problem and engineers should identify the solution. battery electric cars work really well for your average bus or your average passenger car, but when your average passenger car, but when you get to heavier vehicles, battery electric doesn't work very well and you might need to look at solutions like fuel cell. 0r, synthetic fuels. if you look towards sports cars or perhaps formula 1, synthetic fuels

would be a great solution. so what i would be a great solution. so what i would really like to see as formula 1 doing what it used to do really well, which is push for with the science in different areas, so for me, a v2 engine with a hybrid and synthetic fuel, which would be net zero carbon emissions, would be a great showcase for formula 1. let's hope we can get there. andy, i could talk to all day but sadly were out of time. andy palmer, great agility. thailand's parliament is voting on whether to accept changes to the constitution demanded by pro—democracy protesters. demonstrators — who want reform of the monarchy and the resignation of the prime minister — have returned to the streets of bangkok today. more than a0 were injured yesterday, after violent clashes with police as they tried to reach the parliament building. 0ur bangkok correspondent jonathan head sent this update. this is quite a contrast to the chaotic scenes that we saw outside parliament in the last 2a hours.

this crowd of virtually ordinary folk have come to join a peaceful rally and are listening to speeches that are talking about what is going on in parliament. everyone is sitting very quietly here and you get the sense that this protest movement is slightly lacking in direction right now. all of them had been backing one of seven proposals that have been discussed in parliament. this one they wanted was for sweeping reform of everything in the constitution, even including the status of the monarchy, something very sensitive which is a core demand of this movement. we now know that parliament, the mps and the appointed senators have completely rejected that notion. they have approved two other proposals to start the process of constitutional amendment. these are very modest steps. thailand has had lots of constitutions, that have not necessarily lead to better governance and under the current system being talked about in parliament, it could take years for a new constitution to come forward. very disappointing for everyone here but the reality is, for all the way in which they have

expanded the debate in thailand about what happen, ultimately change can only take place within thailand's institutions. that means within a parliament that all of these people say is compromised by being under a military draft a constitution where you have these appointed senators and a military backed party that has unfair advantages and yet it is that parliament which must now decide what happens next to thailand and its chosen baby steps, not the dramatic step forward that everybody here was hoping for. that was jonathan head. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willets. hello there, despite having had some sunshine on the east and then a bit of sunshine following the showers in the west, on the whole, an unsettled afternoon will continue with strong winds, tightly packed isobars, this cold weather front sweeping some heavy rain eastwards and another where the front waiting in the wings

giving the northern isles are pretty wet afternoon as well. it's relatively mild steel, but we are already seeing temperatures drop in the north and changes on the way. that's because of a change in wind direction, so if you're out and about today, blustery and quite wet at times. 0vernight, we give way to that south—westerly for a northerly wind instead, so yes, this rain will turn to snow over the hills and mountains of scotland allowing things to become a little bit icy with temperatures dropping to freezing here. elsewhere, clear skies but still a lot of showers in north and western areas on that strong northerly wind which is still with us to start thursday. mild air being swept away and were into a brief cold snap but not for long. already, the atlantic weather is starting to come in by the end of the day. but it will feel different first thing, a blast of cold air, wintry showers, gale force winds in the east, but as the day wears on, you can see the wind air is starting to ease down. the winds will, the

showers will, so lengthy a dry period since the afternoon, lengthy spells of sunshine into the afternoon but already by the end of play, there will be cloudy skies rolling in across northern ireland. temperatures will be significantly down on those of today. particularly so across scotland, northern ireland and northern england where, when you add on the effect of the wind, it will feel significantly colder, —1 never aberdeen, even in the south will be noticeable. as we go towards the weekend, the next weather front coming in through friday and friday night, our next cold weather front slipping southwards introducing something a little chillier later in the weekend and we're stilljust driven by low pressure, so still saying unsettled, more rain, temporary a bit of wintry nurse on the hills of scotland before we get into milder air, so why other than and am failing day, cloud around during the day on friday and as for the weekend, generally unsettled, with the atlantic influence, i wouldn't like to rule out some

drizzly rain but still some dry weather to come as well.

this is bbc news. the headlines. even more effective than first thought — pfizer says its vaccine works equally well in people 0nce pfizer says its vaccine works equally well in people of all races and ethnicities — and is 94% effective in adults over 65. stick to the rules now and you could still celebrate christmas. government scientists tell us all to do our bit. we are very keen that we have christmas as close to normal as possible. that requires all of us to make every effort over this national restriction period and even in early december to get the cases as low as possible. what's your reaction to the whip not being restored? thank you very much for coming this morning. thank you very much. former labour leader jeremy corbyn will not be reinstated as a labour mp over remarks he made