this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines: more positive news about a coronavirus vaccine — the oxford team says its research is showing good results and has had a promising immune response in people over 60. duff up what we've demonstrated is that in the lab we can measure good immune responses in adults of all ages, including those over the age of 70. what we need to do next is see whether this translates into actual protection from infection, so protection from getting the disease in the first place. the high street fashion chains peacocks and jaeger enter administration, putting almost 5,000 jobs at risk. a boost to the defence budget — the prime minister says a new four—yearfunding deal will protect "hundreds of thousands"

ofjobs and create 40,000 new roles. a controversial day of firsts for mike pompeo — he becomes the first us secretary of state to visit an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank, and the golan heights. prince william says the bbc investigation into how panorama secured its interview with his mother is a step in the right direction. a scientist advising the government warns household mixing at christmas could pose ‘substantial risks‘, particularly for older people more vulnerable to coronavirus. and a £300 million rescue package for 11 sports, struggling without spectators because of coronavirus.

there's more encouraging news today about coronavirus vaccines. researchers from oxford university say the vaccine they're working on shows a promising immune response so far in people in their 60s and 70s. crucial further tests still need to be carried out — and the vaccine isn't yet at the same stage as similar jabs being developed by pfizer and moderna. the uk has ordered 100 million doses of the oxford vaccine if it eventually receives regulatory approval. our health correspondent naomi grimley has the details. more encouraging news, after months of upsetting headlines. oxford university says its vaccine is well—tolerated in older adults, and, crucially, that it induces a robust immune response, similar to that found in younger people. it's always been a nagging worry that covid vaccines wouldn't work so well in older age groups.

our results show that adults over the age of 70 have as good antibody responses as adults aged 18 to 55, and that's really important, because the older age group are the people who are the most vulnerable to severe covid disease. there are three stages to vaccine trials. these results come from its middle stage, phase two. researchers were studying 560 uk volunteers. 240 of whom were over the age of 70. but we are still waiting for 0xford's phase three results. that's the most comprehensive stage, which involves some 30,000 participants in the us, uk, brazil and south africa. it's only when that data arrives that we'll really know whether this vaccine actually works. then, things could move fast. the production's already begun, so i think that most people believe

that the oxford vaccine will be ready to receive much quicker than the others. it could be as early as the end of winter. it really depends on the logistics and everything, but it is looking very promising indeed for swifter access to this particular vaccine. two other vaccine candidates, pfizer and moderna, are already on the verge of submitting their results to regulators. the uk has invested to differing degrees in all three of these leading vaccines, but, as this breakdown shows, hopes are pinned especially on the oxford one. overall, the uk has placed orders for vaccine doses totalling 355 million, but two shots will be required in most of them. globally, too, there's a sense of expectation. the oxford team has done multiple deals with overseas vaccine makers, like this one, india's sa rum institute,

in a bid to make sure the world's poorest get access too. naomi grimley, bbc news. let's hear more now from dr maheshi ramasamy, an investigator at the oxford vaccine group, whom you saw in that report. she's been describing the difference between phase two and three trials. so, at the moment, what we have demonstrated is that we can measure good immune responses and blood tests, that we can look at in the lab, so we can measure good antibody responses and t cell responses. what we don't know yet is whether this translates into actual protection from the disease itself. and that is going to take a much bigger group of population, so, the 10,000 people we have in the uk, along with the thousands of participants in brazil, south africa and now kenya, so we have well over

20,000 participants and now kenya, so we have well over 20 , 000 participants recruited worldwide, and numbers continuing to increase. what we will need to do is to look at the rates of covid infection in our vaccinated participants, so our trial involves edit using the oxford covid vaccine, which have to participants get, or the other half of the participants get a mid—engine cockle vaccine, which will obviously not prevent covid disease. —— a meningococcal vaccine. neither the participants nor we know which vaccine they have got. part of determining the efficacy is seeing whether we get fewer cases in groups of people who have had the covid vaccine as opposed to people who have had the placebo vaccine. the government has published the daily coronavirus cases and death figures. the uk has recorded 22,915 new cases of covid—19 in the past day, up by more than 3,000 on yesterday. and 501 deaths within 28

days of a positive test have also been reported. fashion chains peacocks and jaeger have fallen into administration, putting more than 11,700 jobs and almost 500 shops at risk. our business correspondent emma simpson has more. peacocks and jaeger were in a race to find a buyer. the court had given the businesses breathing space to get protection from creditors, because of a huge slump in sales because of a huge slump in sales because of a huge slump in sales because of the pandemic, and this deadline was looming tomorrow to try to come up with a solution, to try to come up with a solution, to try to find a solvent solution for these businesses, and that has now come to a halt, and as you say, now

thousands of jobs a halt, and as you say, now thousands ofjobs at risk. we have a statement from the edinburgh woollen mill group. that is the overall group which has a number of other brands and administration, including edinburgh wouldn mil. that happened a fortnight ago. we heard from them this afternoon that in recent weeks, we have had constructive discussions with a number of buyers for peacocks and jaeger, but the continuing deterioration of the retail sector due to the impact of the pandemic, and of course, this second lockdown, have made this process longer and more complex than we would have hoped. while those talks are ongoing, we no longer had an option to extend the standstill agreement, and therefore, as directors, we have taken the desperately difficult decision to place peacocks and jaeger into administration. and then, just a breakdown on those numbers. peacocks, 423 stores, 4069 staff. jaeger, 76 stores, mainly

concessions, and it employs 347 staff. we have got no redundancies 01’ staff. we have got no redundancies or store closures, but the majority of the stores have not reopened since lockdown, around 80% of staff are still on furlough, so a lot of uncertainty there. emma simpson, our business correspondent. a new four year funding deal for the armed forces will protectjobs and keep the british people safe according to the prime minister. by 2024—25, annual defence spending will have increased by around £7 billion over previous manifesto commitments. speaking to the commons via video link, borisjohnson claimed ‘the era of cutting our defence budget‘ would end. the extra money will help fund space and cyber projects. 0ur defence correspondent jonathan beale has the details. britain's armed forces say they're about to undergo their biggest transformation since the end of the cold war. it'll inevitably mean less of the old, like tanks and heavy armour,

and more of the new to defend in the domains of cyber and space. british troops here are already countering threats such as disinformation. they'll also now be part of a new national cyber force, able to conduct offensive cyber operations. and there'll be a new space command, with plans to fire the first british rocket, like this us one, to launch their own military satellites, with concerns that russia and china are already developing anti—satellite weapons. announcing the biggest increase in defence spending in decades, the prime minister said it would bolster britain's influence and end an era of retreat. i've done this in the teeth of the pandemic, amidst every other demand on our resources, because the defence of the realm, and the safety of the british people, must come first. defence spending has fallen by over £8 billion in real terms over the last ten years.

over the same period, uk regular forces have decreased by a quarter, and on top of that, the national audit office estimate there's a black hole of up to £13 billion in the mod equipment plan. the mod‘s annual budget is currently £41 billion a year. the government is now promising that'll rise by 4% a year above inflation, which would mean an overall increase in the mod budget to nearly 52 billion by 2025. the government says the extra investment will also boost the economy, creating, it says, up to 10,000 extra jobs a year. at bae systems in lancashire, they have already started work on what they call their factory of the future, where they are developing the next generation of fighter jet. tempest has been designed to fly with or without a pilot in the cockpit, but a former military chief worries about the cuts that will still have to be made to fund these new technologies.

obviously, there are some programmes, some historic programmes, that could be cut, and i'm sure the defence chief will think very carefully about that, but the vast majority of our maritime, land and air capabilities that we currently have need to be fully funded before we spend too much of the additional cash in new and novel areas. the mod doesn't have a strong track record of staying within budget. it's still working out how to pay for the equipment it already wants, including more jets for the two new aircraft carriers, and good news for the mod might mean less money for other government departments. jonathan beale, bbc news. the chief of the defence staff, general sir nick carter says the new funding will provide certainty over the next decade and boost morale. myself and all of the armed forces are absolutely delighted at what has been announced today. it's an extraordinary announcement

for us and it will be really, really good for morale. i think the important thing from us, particularly, though, is that it gives us a chance to add some planning certainty over the course of the next decade. it gives us a chance to have a firm budget around which we can make some sensible judgments about how we move from an industrial age of platforms to an information age of systems. and, of course, about six weeks ago we launched something called our integrated operating concept, which describes how we, the military, will operate in the context of the integrated review. and, of course, that was the ways, this now gives us the means to achieve those ends, so we are obviously delighted to be able to do that. borisjohnson made, you know, made mention of the fact that he is doing this in the teeth of a pandemic, when we know that public finances are already under huge strain. do you think this kind of money is justified 7 i think we are living in an extraordinarily complex and dynamic global strategic context at the moment.

this threat is very evident as far as i'm concerned. but, more to the point, i mean, we absolutely understand in the armed forces that the nation's fiscal circumstances have not been as bad as this for many, many generations and we're obviously very conscious of that, but, of course, we're also conscious that living through this covid crisis, the armed forces have stepped up to the plate to provide some of the resilience that the nation has needed. and, indeed, what, of course, bothers us as we do that is the way the nation feels, and of course our hearts go out to those who will be suffering at the moment in the way that so many people have suffered. and you made mention of increasing threats. so you know, just to spell it out, why is this massive increase justified at this particular time? well, i think the world is very complex at the moment. i think it's very anxious. there are a lot of regional conflicts the moment and, as i said the other day over remembrance, the plain fact is that the greatest risk at the moment is unwarranted escalation which leads

to miscalculation. what are you going to spend all this money on? well, the key thing is to modernise the armed forces, and the integrated operating concept talks about the sort of information age capabilities that we need. first and foremost, it's about establishing what we would call a digital backbone. think about what your iphone can do for you. we need to do is to have the iphone in military terms, that enables all of our platforms and our systems to connect into a macro system, because in doing that there's a sporting chance that we will get the maximum benefit from all of our capability and achieve a real synergistic effect. general sir nick carter. i can discuss this further with dr dan prince who's a senior lecturer in cyber security at lancaster university. we heard there about the new threats to this country, particularly the cyber threat. where do you see these threats is coming from especially? there is a broad range of threat

actors that are really targeting the uk. so, anything from criminal gangs, and we are also seeing a number of reports around nation state attacks, and earlier this year, we have seen the ncs e come out and identify a number of those nation states. so there is a real interest in targeting and influencing people within nations, and even now, when you look at the current times, in terms of covid, where everyone has necessarily moved on to being digital, working from home, we have seen a significant increase in cyber attacks on individuals and organisations, trying to take advantage of a potential lack of understanding and people working from home and using these new digital technologies. people working from home and using these new digitaltechnologies. so because of the increased use of new digital technology, so many people working from home, this kind of security is more important than ever. when you talk about nation states, we know about russia. who else? well, we have seen types of

attacks coming from places like north korea, and a lot of other intelligence gathering activity, and certainly one of the things we have in the uk is world class capability in terms of gchq, the ncse, and our intelligence services more broadly, and the military. and the work they are doing, reaching out to the academic community and industry to bring all that capability to defend against nation states or criminal attacks is brilliant, and you have just got to look at things like the academic centre of excellence scheme from the ncse that lancaster is one of. in order to look at how they are bringing together that capability to respond to these type of threats. and i suppose you have got to respond every month, every year, because this country's opponents are gathering sophistication, increasing their sophistication, so we must

match that? yes, it is a daily arms race. the innovation shown by the attackers has to be matched by innovation from our side, which is why i am delighted to see the creation of this new national cyber force, because bringing together all this capability under one kind of unified command will really allow us to ta ke unified command will really allow us to take steps forward in terms of defence and where necessary, an offensive capability, certainly, those who would wish to do our country harm and our interests harm are not holding back. they are developing capability as fast as we can defend against it, but we have got all the right pieces, and it looks like we are going to be able to put them together in the right way to really enhance what we already have. when you say develop an offensive capability, are you saying that we should be thinking about cyber attacks on other people? well, if you look at the message from the prime minister, they vowed

the actions against daesh in terms of being able to degrade their information capability, and you also see in nation states complementary offensive cyber activities sitting alongside more traditional kinetic activity, and so it has got to be a capability as we move into the next generation of grey zone or disruptive warfare in those kind of areas, that we also have a suitable capability that sits alongside what we can already do with our traditional armed forces. good to talk to you. very interesting analysis, dr dan price, senior lecturer in cyber security at lancashire university. our latest headlines:... more positive news about a coronavirus vaccine — the oxford team says its research

is showing good results and has had a promising immune response in people over 60. the high street fashion chains peacocks and jaeger enter administration — putting almost 5,000 jobs at risk. and a boost to the defence budget — the prime minister says a new four—yearfunding deal will protect "hundreds of thousands" ofjobs and create 40,000 new roles. post—brexit trade talks between the uk and the eu have been temporarily suspended after a member of the eu's negotiating team tested positive for coronavirus, with michel barnier self isolating. nick beake is our correspondent in brussels and he explained why the timing is less than ideal. this comes at a really critical time for these brexit trade talks. everyone agreed that, if there is to bea everyone agreed that, if there is to be a deal sealed and ratified by the end of the year, it needs to be done extremely soon, and this was being billed as a crucial week. now we see

that the talks will be suspended, and it has been confirmed to me that the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier will now be quarantining. he will be away from the fray, but it stressed to me that he will be in permanent contact, which is the phrase i was given, with his british counterpart lauder frost, because they are in a really critical moment. i guess it is worth stressing that all of these talks for the past nine months or so have had to take place during the pandemic, so they have been used to doing some discussions over zoom with smaller teams, so this sort of news is really unwelcome, but i don't think you are completely derailed —— i don't think it will com pletely derailed —— i don't think it will completely derail the talks. in terms of lord frost, the british chief negotiator, and what he will do, the team say they will follow all negotiations and health advice —— or regulations and health advice given to people who come into contact with people who may have tested positive here in brussels. in terms of the time frame, we know michel barnier is to give an update

to the eu ambassadors tomorrow morning, which is said to be crucial. that will still go ahead, but in terms of the face—to—face talks between the two key players, for now, they are suspended. nick peak there in brussels. mike pompeo has become the first us secretary of state to visit a jewish settlement in the occupied west bank. the trip comes a year after mr pompeo said the settlements did not contradict international law, reversing a long—held us position. the declaration outraged palestinians, who oppose settlements on land they claim for a future independent state. our middle east correspondent tom bateman reports. down but not out yet, mike pompeo flew into the west bank to declare support for the settlements. it marked the first trip, a highly

contentious one. he toured a settle m e nt contentious one. he toured a settlement winery. here, they serve up settlement winery. here, they serve up vintage pompeo. some vines grow on palestinian owned land, but the us now disputes international law, which rejects settlement building. for a long time, the state department took the wrong view of settlements. it took a view that we did not recognise the history of this special place, and instead now today, the united states department of defence stand strongly in a way that settlements can be done lawfully and appropriate them properly. these are our babies here. a hilltop away, there is an embrace of deep roots. the land here is loved. but in this man's case, lost. he isa loved. but in this man's case, lost. he is a palestinian cut off from where hundreds more of his olive trees grow, after israeli settlers built nearby. he says the trump yea rs built nearby. he says the trump years favoured israel even further,

so now, what change? we are hoping, because as i said, joe biden is on the side of the poor people and on the side of the poor people and on the side of the poor people and on the side of, hopefully, justice, so we believe, or we the side of, hopefully, justice, so we believe, orwe hope, the side of, hopefully, justice, so we believe, or we hope, that he is going to do a little better than donald trump. do you think you will be able to access your land? donald trump. do you think you will be able to access your land ?|j donald trump. do you think you will be able to access your land? i don't think he is going to let me access my land, because we live under a very hardship occupation here. when palestinians protested against an unwelcome visitor. some reflect on dim prospects, their leadership left yet more isolated after president tom's time. some palestinians are now burning tires, about as close as they are going to get to the israeli settlement at the top of the hill here. what all of this demonstrates is, whatever happens in washington, it always has the power to dramatically affect the mood on the ground here.

but at another israeli settlement and winery in the west bank... the pompeo trip got a warm welcome. this is the land of thejewish people. jeremiah, the profit, said he promised thejewish people that one day they should come back to the land, and began planting here and produce wine, and that is exactly what we're doing today, years after. mr pompeo ended the day visiting the occupied golan heights, land president trump has also recognised as part of israel. you can't stand here and stare out at what is across the border and denied —— deny the central thing that president trump recognise that previous presidents have refused to do, that this is a pa rt have refused to do, that this is a part of israel, a central part of israel. it felt like a farewell from washington, whose embrace of the israeli right—wing looks set to

loosen next year. prince william has tentatively welcomed the bbc‘s decision to launch an independent investigation into how an interview was secured with his mother, princess diana, in 1995. lord dyson, a former seniorjudge, will carry out the inquiry into martin bashir‘s panorama programme. in a statement released last night, the duke of cambridge said: our royal correspondent jonny dymond explained how unusual the statement is. members of the royal family, senior members of the royal family don't really commentate on media coverage and they certainly don't involve themselves in something as controversial and, for the bbc, embarrassing as this investigation. and look at the phrasing that was used — his office said that he "tentatively," cautiously that is, welcomed the investigation,

that it's "a step in the right direction". prince william isn't giving a round of applause to the bbc. he is effectively saying, "look, i am looking at what you are doing, "i am watching this investigation, i am pleased it is happening "but i am also waiting for the conclusion." this was a very important moment in his mother's life, the 1995 interview she gave to panorama. it had very serious implications for the rest of her life, brief period of her life. the circumstances around it are very, very controversial. the bbc has pledged an investigation. prince william has said, extraordinarily, he is watching and waiting. the legal battle between coleen rooney and rebekah vardy over stories allegedly being leaked to the sun officially began today at the high court. coleen rooney and rebekah vardy, who are both married to england footballers, are in a dispute over a social media post in which coleen rooney pointed the finger at mrs vardy after a series of fake stories about her appeared in the press.

now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. hello, we have seen a change in the weather. after milder days, colder air has been moving on from the north and we have had wintry showers across the high ground of scotland. cold wind and most of the showers easing away and things mostly dry as we head into the evening hours. overnight we keep clear skies in the east the cloud will increase from the west, next weather front bringing rain to northern ireland, western fringes of england and wales. but under the clear skies in east, cold start to friday. touch of frost and perhaps the odd icy stretch. from tomorrow it will be a different feeling, milder with rain spreading west to east through the day, patchy showers returning from the west later on. temperatures back into double figures for many, but surely round the east coast.

into the weekend it is changeable, windy on saturday with showers around. fewer showers and a little bit brighter by sunday. goodbye for now.

hello this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines. more positive news about a coronavirus vaccine — the oxford team says its research is showing good results and has had a promising immune response in people over 60. what we've demonstrated is that in the lab we can measure good immune responses in adults of all ages, including those over the age of 70. what we need to do next is see whether this translates into actual protection from infection, so protection from getting the disease in the first place. the high street fashion chains peacocks and jaeger enter administration — putting almost 5,000 jobs at risk.

a boost to the defence budget — the prime minister says a new four—yearfunding deal will protect "hundreds of thousands" ofjobs and create 40,000 new roles. a controversial day of firsts for mike pompeo — he becomes the first us secretary of state to visit an israeli settlement in the occupied west bank, and the golan heights. prince william says the bbc investigation into how panorama secured its interview with his mother is a step in the right direction. a scientist advising the government warns household mixing at christmas could pose ‘substantial risks', particularly for older people more vulnerable to coronavirus. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. news of government help for the sports that have been really struggling without spectators.

first news on the government's £300 million emergency package that's been announced for sports affected by the absence of crowds significantly smaller than the bailout given to the arts industry. for those that have been seriously affected. rugbyunion is the biggest beneficiary receiving 135 million of which 44 million will go to the rfu. a further 40 million pounds goes to horse racing. while the premier league and english football league clubs miss out, with both parties still to agree on a separate deal between them. 28 million goes to those in the national league and women's football. rugby league will get 12 million as a top up to the existing loan they have owners of major motorsport circuits such as silverstone and goodwood get six million the lta get five million netball, basketball and ice hockey will benefit with four million half that figure goes to badminton england and greyhound racing

will get one million.. it's worth remembering that we have provided well over £1 billion with the support for sports already through everything like the job retention scheme, various loan facilities, and what we said is this isa very facilities, and what we said is this is a very specific thing. it's about, mainly winter sports, we are expecting to have fans and stadiums and did not have a come up with that we would help them out through this. as for the smaller window first to the end of the year and it's evidence—based. this is our assessment working with the sports to see what they need to compensate for that. did they get as much the asked for or a proportion of what the s-4? always a debate with these things, as with the entire economy we never said we will make good all the losses what we have said is we will give them what they need to

survive, and so if you take something like rugby union they are not going to have the matches like at twickenham and they could sell those out several times over. this work will be in disarray without that support it if you look at racing and so on. that is the basic principle there. described as a per allocation, does that mean you will expect to have to be more in the future for elective cricket to for example if the spanning on spectators continues to do the spring? we always said this was see us spring? we always said this was see us through to the end of march that primarily covers the winter sports. i very much hope and indeed expect that as we go spring into summer will have a lot more fans back in stadiums. the manchester city manager pep guardiola has ended speculation around his future after signing a two—year contract extension that will keep him at the club until the summer of 2023. his current deal was set to expire at the end of this season.

guardiola has won six major trophies sincejoining the club four years ago, including two premier league titles, leading the club to an unprecedented clean sweep of all domestic titles in 2019. chelsea boss frank lampard has called for the saturday lunchtime kick—off slot to be scrapped. his side travel to newcastle for a 12.30pm clash this weekend, despite a number of his players only returning from international duty this afternoon. lampard's comments echo those of manchester united manager ole gunnar solskjaer, whose side faced the same kick—off time a fortnight ago having only returned from a champions league defeat in turkey in the early hours of thursday morning. that 12:30pm slot, how much does it need to be there, if you are looking over the course of the season, i don't know how many times we returned from international duty, i don't know, is it five through the season? with clubs that have got going over there, it is absolutely not the optimum way to have players preparing for a premier league game, which is an incredible brand, all around the world.

the grandson of former england cricketer ian botham will make his debut for wales this weekend. cardiff blues flanker james botham will start in saturday's autumn nations cup game against georgia. he was only called up to the squad on monday as head coach wayne pivac makes thirteen changes to the side that lost last weekend, their sixth straight defeat. fly—half george ford will start on the bench for england's match with ireland, as he returns from injury. head coach eddiejones keeps captain owen farrell at ten while maro itoje, tom curry, sam underhill, mako vuinpola and kyle sinckler return to the starting 15. ollie lawrence will make his second england start in an unchanged back line from the win over georgia. after making history last weekend by equalling michael schumacher‘s record of seven world titles, lewis hamilton's been reflecting on his achievments. in an interview with the bbc, he says he plans to stay with mercedes and will endeavour to make the sport more diverse. he's been speaking to my

colleague sally nugent. i still feel young energizer still feel hungry. it's crazy that of one to seven title but we have another big thing, fighting to win. and that's for racial equality. and diversity within my sport which i thought we would have helps just by being here but i realise that's not the case. andrey rublev has beaten dominic thiem in their last round robin match at the o2 in london. the contest was a dead rubber as us open champion thiem had already qualified for the semi—finals, with rublev eliminated. rublev won the first set 6—2 and sewed up the match, winning the second set 7—5. big match to come later with rafa nadal up against stefanos tsitsipas with the winner securing a spot in the semi finals.

we'll have more for you in sportsday at half past six. ollie foster will be here. mixing between households at christmas could pose as for the very latest on that from a political correspondent ian watson whojoined me now. what you have for us on whojoined me now. what you have for us on this? in your development tonight that the pressure has been rested up on starmer because i've been told thatjeremy corbyn's solicitors have written to the liberal party effect of the calling from his suspension from the parliamentary party to be lifted immediately and that is solicitors also calling into question whether proper procedures are followed in suspending jeremy corbyn from the parliamentary liberal party having been sitting over there now is independent and p.

been sitting over there now is independentand p. in been sitting over there now is independent and p. in addition to that left—wing members of labour‘s national executive are going to issue a statement or possibly right to starmer saying he's been undermining the party's disciplinary procedures, if you remember it following a disciplinary hearing jeremy corbyn was welcomed back into rank and file membership of the light liberal party. but he would not take him back into the party because he said, is thatjeremy corbyn had made that anti—semitism had been dramatically overstated by political opponents, that that had set back the process of restoring trust with the jewish community. set back the process of restoring trust with thejewish community. and tonight it's been confirmed that labour have received that letter. i also told by supporters ofjeremy corbyn that this does not begin legal proceedings nonetheless they think that unless starmer were to give way and shows the side of doing so that legal action is imminent.

those were one attempts to defuse the route and it suggested that jeremy corbyn just apologise for his comments, but i can tell you he shows no signs of doing so. thank you very much indeed. mixing between households at christmas could pose "substa ntial risks", particularly for older people more vulnerable to coronavirus, a scientist advising the government has warned. it comes as no 10 said proposals to ease restrictions over christmas will be set out next week. professor andrew hayward is the director of ucl institute of epidemiology and health care is one of those advising the government on the sage advisory committee, hejoins me now. thank you very much for being with us. a lot of people obviously very concerned about whether they can have a christmas or not. what are your concerns about this?” have a christmas or not. what are your concerns about this? i think my main concerns would be coming out of lockdown early in december,

following that it's likely that cases will start to increase again towards the winter break. interest only take the brakes off even more in december will lead to an acceleration of that increase, and to more deaths in december. in january rather. and i think this is particularly one of the nature of christmas, really, is it's about getting families together from different generations. and i think we need to remember how exquisitely sensitive to micro order people can be, particularly those over 70. maybe one in 20 of the younger age group, it willdie maybe one in 20 of the younger age group, it will die from that many more will get very ill. and itjust seems to be a risk you can live without. especially as we have on the horizon were looks like being

very effective vaccines that can prevent that. see your message really is not that we cancel christmas but that we have a very limited christmas. would you like to see the current lockdown in england? would you like to see her continue over the christmas period ? would you like to see her continue over the christmas period? i'm not saying that. i think the lockdown has had a purpose which is to bring the levels of infection down to a much more manageable level. you have to balance that with the economy, and we know the run up to christmas is extremely important time for many businesses. and so were recanted supported to be able to let this happen, and to build to do that is really socially distance. what we need is consistent messaging that the best way of avoiding spreading this virus and leading to lots of extra deaths is to keep socially

distance as much as possible to people outside our households. we need to keep doing that right through the christmas and the spirit so we can achieve higher levels of vaccination. if you were telling us what your advice is to the government right now, would you be saying no mixing of households over the christmas period, is that the message? would be sticking to, for example, the rule of six, certainly would not be encouraging multiple households to be getting together for christmas events. but i think, to be honest, that the political decision. what i'm keen to get across more is listeners and viewers is making their own decisions. for people who sort of saying that we love ourfamily, people who sort of saying that we love our family, want to see them

and we can fully recognise that can make sense to hold out for a few more months for the sake of being safe and being able to see them any more christmas is in the future. safe and being able to see them any more christmas is in the futurelj hear that message. i suppose some people might say it's on a horrendous year for everybody, we deserve just a very short christmas break were we can have some semblance of normality and being with her loved ones. i think the thing is about christmas breaks though is you're talking about quite prolonged levels of contact between families, it's not like popping and very for five minutes and not well ventilated space —— in a well ventilated space —— in a well ventilated space. it's sitting down in with meals and for television and all of this. the likelihood for transmission is quite high. on the vaccines can be talked about being on the horizon. what is your best

guess at what we might have a functioning vaccines that are going to get us out of this pandemic crisis? i think they are looking extraordinarily positive, much better than anybody imagined would better than anybody imagined would be the case. and i was particularly pleased to hear the news from the oxford vaccine that it produced a good strong immune response in the elderly. i was one of the big unknowns. i don't really see that many more barriers and would imagine we would start to be able to vaccinate the most vulnerable during the first quarter of next year. the virus will come if you like, died down during the summer and that will be an opportunity to vaccinate even more people. so i'm very optimistic that this technology will allow us to get back to normal and it's too early to give up on the social distancing measures. interested to

talk to you, thank you for that. a high courtjudge has granted judicial review of government decisions relating to care homes during the coronavirus pandemic. the case was brought by dr cathy gardner whose father, michael gibson, died in an oxfordshire home in april. she says certain key policies led to a shocking death toll among care home residents. the transport secretary grant shapps has added some countries to the travel corridors list. a short while ago he tweeted that israel, namibia, rwanda, sri lanka, uruguay, bonaire, st eustatius & saba, the northern mariana islands and the us virgin islands have been added to the list — so if you arrive from those countries after 4am this saturday 21st nov you will not need to self—isolate. there is now said to be

‘credible evidence‘ that australian elite soldiers unlawfully killed 39 people during the war in afghanistan. a long awaited report has uncovered what the head of australia‘s armed forces says is a ‘shameful record‘ of a ‘warrior culture‘ among some soldiers. he‘s apologised to the afghan people. from sydney, shaimaa khalil reports. these are australia‘s elite troops, risking their lives in afghanistan, supposedly to help the people in their battle against unrelenting violence. but now it‘s been revealed that some of them could be responsible for alleged war crimes. a moment of shame for the special forces. australians had been warned that this report would reveal very difficult realities, but few thought it would be this bad, including the country‘s top military commander. these findings allege the most

serious breaches of military conduct and professional values. the inquiry found credible evidence that 39 afghan men and teenagers had been unlawfully killed. allegations include junior soldiers being coerced into executing unarmed civilians to get their first kill in a practice known as blooding, and that weapons were planted on victims to make it look like the killings were legitimate. in all, the report said that 25 soldiers had carried out alleged crimes or had been accessories to them, and it is recommended that 19 people be referred to the australian federal police. the defence chief‘s language left us no doubt about how grave the alleged violations in afghanistan were. general campbell used words like shameful and appalling. he also described the toxic culture of deceit and secrecy which allowed this kind of behaviour to go unchecked for years. as he announced the damning

findings, general campbell also apologised to the afghan people. such alleged behaviour profoundly disrespected the trust placed in us by the afghan people, who had asked us to their country to help them. a special investigator will now be appointed to look at the findings, gather evidence and then present it to the public prosecutor. it is a process that could take years. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, sydney. a lorry driver accused over the deaths of 39 migrants has told a court he was watching netflix as people were allegedly loaded into his trailer. last october, eamonn harrison dropped off a trailer containing vietnamese migrants at a belgian port and they were found dead the next day in essex, jurors heard. mr harrison told the court he did not know there

repeat of the trust report for shop workers facemask. abuse against retail staff is escalating. this is what happened in surrey when a customer was asked to follow the shop‘s one—way system. shelves of wind destroyed, staff threatened. the co—op says one in four of their front line staff have faced anti—social behaviour or have been attacked this year. in manchester store manager matthew says it‘s happening on a daily basis. there is a judgement causing trouble because he was refusing to follow the social distancing measures, is approached bya distancing measures, is approached by a member of staff and asked politely to leave the store. it puts that fear into you and you don‘t wa nt to that fear into you and you don‘t want to approach them. rich osha spent time and store secure. shop

staff say they are growing increasingly frustrated with the rules, incidents of verbal and physical abuse arising. this level of violence is absently not acceptable. some leading retailers in are calling for stronger penalties for those that abuse shop workers stop to the sentencing of legislation since they‘re really pretty recent matches that this is not except behaviour. people coming to work to support their families, it deserved to be true in the same respect that we want to be treated with ourselves. reminding customers to wear a facemask or observe social distancing can be triggers for abuse. julian oates to give stores and set tensions are rising. people are becoming educated about it, cannot see an end to it, frustrated and for mars perspective we look at our staff they've now been working

tirelessly to the best part of nine months in difficult circumstances. backin months in difficult circumstances. back in northampton sure this man was charged, and and find. in surrey this woman was given a caution for criminal damage. a bbc news investigation has uncovered failures in the diagnosis of serious medical issues during private baby scans. more than 200 studios across the uk now sell ultrasound scans, with hundreds of thousands being carried out each year. but the bbc has uncovered evidence of women not being told about serious conditions and abnormalities. the care quality commission says there is good quality care in the industry but it has a "growing concern". rianna croxford reports on our high streets, one business is booming. early in the pandemic, the nhs asked women not to bring partners to scans, leading some to turn elsewhere.

but more than 200 businesses now offer a solution. reassurance scans. hope thought she had struggled to have children because of previous ill health. hey, how are you doing? hey! she says it made her especially anxious when she became pregnant. ijust couldn‘t believe it, it was like such a big gift and then i thought, what if this doesn‘t last? she is now six months pregnant and has had five private scans, costing between £60 and £100 each. it has been the most relieving experience ever. i‘d had the most sleepless night before just with pure worry, so when you come out of that and know everything is ok, you‘re like, "phew!" you feel pretty relieved for maybe a good couple of days up to a week and then the cycle starts again. scans are carried out by sonographers. it is not a regulated profession like being a midwife. but the growing popularity of gender reveal parties is a big draw for many couples. we have spoken to one woman who attended a scan with window

to the womb in salford to record her baby‘s genderfor a party and check its well—being. we have learned the company identified a serious abnormality incompatible with life. but rather than refer her to hospital immediately and provide a medical report, the woman was told the baby‘s head couldn‘t be fully seen and recommended to book an nhs anomaly scan. it was absolutely immoral, it was disgusting. they let this poor girl leave and go to a gender reveal party, name the baby, open gifts and that baby couldn‘t live. the woman only found out when she showed the scan images to a family friend who is an experienced sonographer. i had to break the news that that baby couldn‘t live and i had to do that over the telephone, and. . .they were hysterical. the company apologised at the time. it says the sonographer left shortly afterwards and the incident led to best practice being reinforced.

but these leaked internal documents show that three spina bifida cases were also missed in a single week in may. the company‘s directors described the cases as a pattern of similar and serious errors. the company says it conducts more than 100,000 scans a year and human error can occur. some companies say they are not medical and do not diagnose problems. meet your miracle advertises reassurance scans, which it says visualise well—being. we have been passed these messages from the company‘s whatsapp group, which show sonographers and management sharing and discussing customer scans, sometimes during appointments. any ideas at all? i have asked her outside. one sonographer told the group she had to let a woman leave without informing her of a possible abnormality. i feel terrible at saying nothing. the company says its scans are largely recreational

and under its registration it can‘t discuss any concerns unless they are relevant to the baby‘s heartbeat. it says it advises women bleeding or in pain to attend the nhs. the government says it is committed to appropriate regulation and the care quality commission inspects studios. but experts in interpreting imagery say regulation of sonographers is also needed. staff working as radiographers and midwives will be regulated, so why does any of this matter? it matters now because of the massive increase in these companies. if you said to most members of the public, "do you realise some "of the people scanning you actually don't have an easy way "of demonstrating that expertise?" i think the mums would be surprised. problems in pregnancy are rare, but women who have experienced them say it‘s vital private scans don‘t lead to false reassurance. rianna croxford, bbc news.

the very mound november but the cold weather won‘t be lasting too long. this is how we ended the day in lakefield, for the this is how we ended the day in la kefield, for the clear skies around there but the crowd was already building from the rest are much milder air will spill its way eastwards overnight. it will stay dry and clear though across the far east so there‘s likely to be a bit of frost in the forecast tonight. original five pressure has of frost in the forecast tonight. originalfive pressure has been with us originalfive pressure has been with us today, that‘s getting squeezed away towards the east. this warm front is moving in for the atlantic and introducing that milder air. also some outbreaks of rain. the wind also is going to be picking up from the northwest later in the night. this room will push across parts of northern ireland, through the early hours of friday eventually heading into western fridges of england, wales and southwest scotland. further east you are going to be sick with this clear skies all night. that‘s which overtures will fall. kris and frost year and obviously the icy stretch where the services are still quite damp out

there and temperatures will dip below freezing. mount everest rates wait for the east of the course of friday bringing with cloud and outbreaks of rain. there will be fairly light and patchy through central and eastern parts of england, have you early on in the day towards the northwest. temperatures in belfast to a reasonably mild 13 degrees are only 9 degrees in norwich after that cold and frosty start. heading on towards the weekend we have low—pressure sitting to the north of the uk, quite a lot of isobars indicating the strength of the wind and this trend in cold front here, working its way slowly south through saturday and into sunday. a bit of rainfor saturday and into sunday. a bit of rain for northern ireland, southern this calendar that‘s going to purchase rates across england and wales bring a brakes of rain and quite a bit of cloud. from north of that sun your skies blowing it on this brisk south—westerly window. temperatures reasonably mild for most areas on saturday, nine to 14 degrees. knuckle for introduce that

cooler air and whimsical front, just the odd light shower across the far south of england. the rest of the uk more sunset on sunday compared to what we are likely to see on saturday. blustar showers the northwest, colder only about seven to 12 degrees. bye—bye.

tonight at six. high hopes for the covid vaccine that britain is pinning its hopes on. researchers in oxford working with astrazeneca say the latest data suggests theirjab works well on older people as their trials reach their final stages. our results are really, really encouraging because this means we might be able to offer protection to the vulnerable age groups, the elderly, who are particularly susceptible to severe disease. the government has ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine — enough to cover most of the population. also tonight. a d raft a draft report into claims that the home secretary priti patel had bullied staff concluded the summer, that she had broken rules on ministerial behaviour. a woman who had to say goodbye

to her dying father