value for money uses to assess the value for money off big investments will change in an effort to remove a long—standing bias towards london and the south—east and focus on the possible regional benefits of schemes. and to replace money previously allocated to poorer regions by the eu a fund will be unveiled targeted at in areas including coastal communities and former industrial heartlands. an independent group are presenting business and civic leaders across the north of england welcomed the plans saying that projects like transport were crucial to improve productivity and prosperity. we will not close the north—south divide if we don't build the full high—speed north network, meaning hs2 on the east and west of the country and a new across the pennines. labour's shadow chancellor anneliese dodds called for the spending review to set the country on the right path saying that communities didn't want more empty rhetoric. katie austin, bbc news.

in other news today. a deal has been reached between the uk and canada allowing both nations to carry on trading under the same terms as the current european union arrangement. the agreement covers annual trade between the two countries worth around £20 billion — equal to about 1.5% of total uk trade. talks are expected to begin next year which the government hopes will lead to an enhanced deal. (00v)the government says mortgage lenders have agreed not to ask the government says mortgage lenders have agreed not to ask for an expensive fire risk survey when homeowners are putting their flats on the market — as long as the building doesn't have cladding. thousands of property sales have been held up by the requirement to obtain a survey, following the grenfell tower fire. the government's also making available £700,000 to train more surveyors. rugby, and it's been a bumper day of autumn internationals at twickenham with both the women's and men's england teams in action. joe lynskey was watching. every year, test match rugby

lights up the autumn. but with twickenham silent, england's players say now it's down to them to make a spectacle. so here wasjonny may. before today, he'd gone five england games without a try. for him, that's a long wait, so, having just scored the opener, he then set off by himself. from deep in his own half, may kicked and weaved his way to the ireland line. this 31st try for england means only rory underwood has more. an extraordinary score, an exhausted player. two tries was all england needed. they squeezed ireland out of it with last—ditch tackles. a consolation try came too late. for english rugby in november, it was all about may. and while england men's win was dominant, for england's women it was thrilling. emily scarratt had this kick to turn defeat to france into victory. twickenham may be empty, but test match rugby still produces great moments. joe lynskey, bbc news. that's it from us. we're back with

the late news at ten. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. now on bbc news, our north america correspondent michelle fleury chronicled the story of her neighbourhood in brooklyn, new york, as the coronavirus pandemic first swept across the world. we are all dealing with the great unknown, a disease that we don't understand and we have seen nothing like this before. new yorkers were hardly shocked over the city's first confirmed case of coronavirus. a second person has died from the virus. we have an invisible memory, a ferocious enemy. the new york mayor holding his news conference right now, he says new yorkers should be prepared for a shelter in place order. new york remains the epicentre of this outbreak. new york is now reporting

more than 1,000 deaths. with a death toll now passing the 4,000 mark... 10,000. each of those are human beings and a family represented. new york suffered the worst covid—i9 outbreak in the united states. in the city that never sleeps, neighbourhoods fell silent. the sense of fear, isolation and the threat of financial ruin grew as the virus spread. no neighbourhood was spared including the one where i live, brooklyn, home to about 80,000 new yorkers. those who live here, like so many around the globe, are grappling with realities brought on by the pandemic that were unimaginable just a few months ago.

i haven't seen these in years. look at that, i like that one. salvador is trying to hold onto the good memories. this is my parents' wedding pictures. when coronavirus hit new york in march, he killed his business and moved in with his parents to help them get through pandemic. this is one of my favourite pictures of them. it is hard. it is hard. i thought i was protecting them i guess i have it. i was doing everything i needed to that i was supposed

to do and was told to do. i didn't know. he lost his father to covid—i9 on april 2nd. he woke up just shivering, i'd never seen him like that. i called 911 and that was the last time i saw him. sorry. it's ok. it happens often. two days later, the virus claimed his mother. my mother was beautiful, she really, really was. it breaks my heart, it really does. my dad died april 2nd, my mum died april 4th. my aunt terry died april 6th. so that week was terrible. you know, memories, at this point, it's all you had left. i don't know if my father is buried, i don't have a clue. i don't think i will

ever have closure. he is still sleeping on the couch of his parents four—storey home. i haven't gone into the bedrooms. tomorrow is four weeks since they have been gone. i haven't gone into their bedrooms. i can't. i just can't. his parents are some of the more than 7,000 coronavirus victims in brooklyn. this is like a small town in a big city. for decades it has had a large italian and irish community. today it is a lot more diverse with growing arab, chinese and latino populations. it still retains that small—town feeling that neighbours know each other, families have lived

here for generations, but the coronavirus pandemic is making the future a lot more uncertain. with many in the neighbourhood in desperate need, charities have stepped up. he is picking up one for his friend. mohammed runs the volunteer group, muslims giving back. we will see you next friday, have a good day. he turned his mosque into a food bank. times are very rough and a lot of these families are undocumented so they don't get the stimulus payments that many of us enjoy, they don't get unemployment that many of us take for granted. even before the crisis, he saw the need to help working—class immigrant families

in his community. have a good day. but he wasn't prepared for what happened when new york closed virtually overnight to combat the virus. once the lockdown was announced, there was a surge, a spike injust numerous families coming out and saying, we are going to need your help in the next few weeks because it is going to get bad for us. families across the neighbourhood are struggling. mohammed's food pantry is now feeding 125 families a week, nearly triple the number before the pandemic. clearly this coronavirus has caused a lot of pain. you've had a lot of stories, what is the most heartbreaking thing you have heard? the worst ones are the numerous widows that all of a sudden exist in our communities where the breadwinners

and the fathers passed away because of coronavirus. leaving behind children and nine out of ten, these families were not financially secure to begin with. it's may and the virus is still raging in the city. nearly 20,000 new yorkers have died due to covid—19 and lockdown measures still remain in place. it's also the holy month of ramadan but social distancing has made it different from past years. this is the month where you are supposed to just feed your spirituality, regain strength, increase your faith, so it's a very important month. free food! we have made over 300 meals.

to help, mohammed and his crew are handing out free meals. the meal used to break the fast during ramadan. it is one of the memories, i will remember this ramadan for the rest of my life. this neighbourhood is the most populous arab area in new york city. if the community cannot come to us, we will go to them. you want to see a plate of the food we give out? we had chicken and a beautiful salad with chickpeas, cucumbers. many muslim families rely on the free nightly meals they receive at the mosque but with mosques closed due to the virus, that help is gone. it became a very difficult, to be honest, in our community. 0ur mosque is closed and for a lot of the recent immigrants and refugees in our community, undocumented, the mosque is their refuge.

for sal, who is grieving the loss of both his parents to covid—19, his refuge is work. he owns hom with his partner, a cafe and home goods store, it has been a staple on the high street for 19 years but when the pandemic hit, the pair were forced to close up shop. in may, they decided it was time to reopen. me being here, it is keeping me busy so it is keeping me focused, which helps me with my pain with my family.

i try to keep it together but inside i am really hurting. sometimes you just gotta let it out. it's tough. but the decision was bittersweet. hom reopened on mother's day in america. somebody told me that particular day that my parents want me to do what i'm doing. i have to push through. the support of the community has been a real help. we will be here until 6pm. neighbours even set up a go fund me page to assist with the mounting bills. this is a very tight—knit community, we all support each other. the reopening isn't the only change for him and damien.

the couple have decided to move out of their apartment and back into sal's parents house. welcome, how are you? it has been a while. i just started cleaning out my parents' bedroom and it is only clothes and material things but if i were pick up a shirt that i knew my mum or a jacket my dad would wear, it was just very... it really affected me. it is hard. it is hard. i try to keep it together at work.

muslims giving back meet up to pray before heading into manhattan. the volunteers have been feeding the homeless since the charity started six years ago. they recently scaled up their operation. we found a replacement for that spirituality or that worship that we lost. it used to be praying here all night, shoulder to shoulder but now it is going out every night and feeding the homeless. this is what praying looks like. this is praying through action. he realised during this crisis the city's homeless were being forgotten. churches and places of worship that had soup kitchens are closed.

look at the amount of people, even though it is raining. you know how to make it, man! my wife was like, you are going to kill us, these homeless people have that viris. at one point, i was like, i'm going to risk my family now to help others? what is my response? day 100 of the coronavirus crisis and it is the day that we start to liberate ourselves from this disease, the day we move forward. a lifeline for people out of work and businesses that have been closed for months now. after three months of lockdown, new yorkers finally phased into phase one and it is a huge landmark that the city as it continues to recover the pick of the coronavirus pandemic. it means that retailers can finally open their doors,

even if it is just for kerb—side and in—store pick—up. sal and damien are trying to adjust to the new realities of running their business. it is scary, knowing on a saturday and sunday, we are crazy busy and as you can see, this is the new normal. i am not sure how we are going to survive an 80% drop in sales when we are paying 100% on everything else. i have two mortgages and rent. i have three electric bills, three phone bills, three cable bills, i have three of everything?

do you sell masks? we cannot survive on just masks alone, we cannot am it is just impossible. i have always paid my bills, i pay everybody before i pay myself, that's the way i was brought up but when there's no money coming in, it's pretty much nothing we can do and i don't think they understand that and there's not much help. sal is worried his business might be the next thing to be taken away from him because of the coronavirus. according to the partnership for new york city, one third of all small businesses in new york could go bust because of the pandemic. i am about to pass a korean restaurant in the neighbourhood and it has been here for well over a decade but it is one

of the casualties. the company has announced it is going out of business. it's august and the infection rate in new york city has dropped below 1%. i hope you guys like painting. this is our master painter here. for mohammed and his group, the demand for help is slowing. but there are still plenty in need. today he is doing a home makeover. look at the mattress,

see what i told you? look, it is horrible. redoing the apartment of a single pregnant mother with two young girls who was abandoned by her husband. people like her are always praying for help. always praying for help. and for us to be the people chosen to answer their prayers, that is like a priceless feeling. disinfectant spray. this is one of the best safety nets you could give to families. that gives them a little hope that we are here and we are going to do as much as humanly possible now now he hardestjob, where to put on these decorations? has drop in cases given you a chance to catch your breath because you are working flat out? maybe the rates have gone down by the infection rate has gone down and people are less sick

but theirjobs are still closed, their bank accounts are still dry so the problem really didn't go away. mohammed is bracing himself for a second wave of the virus. still, it is the long economic crisis, not the health crisis, he fears the most. the evictions are going to start. i think for me, that is the true second wave that is coming in. i am not worried about the covid—19 second wave, i think the evictions will be the deadliest second wave we are going to have. ijust miss my mom. waves of grief continue to wash over salfour months after his parents died of covid—19.

i still cry myself to sleep at night, i do. i cry myself to sleep at night. it is hard, it is hard. he now feels strong enough to move into his parents' bedroom. so now this is yours? yes. that must have been tough? yes. i slept downstairs and ijust moved up here month ago, so five months, four months, i slept on the couch. ijust needed to sleep on a bed, i needed some sense of normalcy. i love you. sal now has four dogs. two he owned and two he inherited from his parents. four is a little much but it's ok,

i'm getting used to it, kind of. 0h, heavy. this is the dress she wore to my brother's wedding. if i'd had the opportunity, i might have buried her in it. i might have done that. my mommy, that's my mommy. the start of the outbreak feels like a lifetime ago and yet this area, like much of america and indeed much of the globe, is still lost in this pandemic. from the immeasurable heartache to the goodbyes that were never said, to the economic devastation, the coronavirus has taken memories we thought we make

and left us all to adapt. for mohammed, the work of helping his community is only getting started. has your faith changed at all through this pandemic? i think it has definitely strengthened my faith but as well as my humanity, because it kind of forced me to translate my faith into action. no matter what class you are in, it doesn't matter if you are poor or rich, you live in the westside, the eastside, north or south, you are vulnerable like anybody else. i think a lot of people kind of bonded or came together and i saw that, especially support for social workers, we would see strangers putting signs outside their window like, thank you for saving lives. it was a really beautiful thing to say, to be honest, that one of the most cities

in the world could really unite and come together during this time of need. that's humanity right there. that is humanity.

hello there. whether france has clearer skies moving after it: plenty of cloud for england and wales, lots of seeing glances of sunshine which has been the extent of it. along the way fronts, outbreaks of rain continued to edge very slowly further south through the rest of the day and into tonight. strong winds across the far north of scotland, quite chilly in that wind because colder air is following this weather front. getting some gusts around the northern is of 60 to 70 mph and

these slowly easing as we continue. showers into northern western scotla nd showers into northern western scotland wintry on the high hills, hailand scotland wintry on the high hills, hail and thunder chances, may be in northern ireland towards the north and western towards the end of the night, cloud and patchy rain from the weather front is sitting across southern england. a chillier night, may have a touch of frost in scotland, northern ireland, these inside of northern ireland, 20th sunny spells on the way tomorrow but still that lingering weather front close to southern england and south wales with a chance of seeing some patchy rain. may catch a shower in north—west england, northern ireland, more into the northern west of but that wind will be a bit lighter tomorrow. a chillier day for many of us tomorrow, particularly so into england and wales, but again, there will be some sunny spells for many of us. it is and they evening, the cloud and patchy rain may start to feed further north again into parting with and wales, xiao was going to western scotland but for many of us, a patchy and drier day as mandy begins as the high—pressure building and again have clear spells

and the chance of seeing a touch of frost. the next set of weather fronts not too far away. still some cloud for southern england and wales with some spots of rain early on on monday, but then our attention is drawn to the next weather front coming in making things wetter in the north of scotland, at times northern ireland, patchy rain in wales and parts of england. when speed picking up again, these are average speed and illegal for the day, the western isles could have gusts of up to 60 mph. mulder on monday especially into parts of england, scotland and northern ireland despite the rain around. the rain pushes further south into england and wales into wednesday and around of the week, it looks drier but also bit cooler.

this is bbc news — the headlines at six: a call for coronavirus vaccines to be available for all — as leaders from the world's biggest economies meet for an online summit hosted by saudi arabia. in the uk, an alternative to a covid vaccine for people with weakened immune systems is entering its final stage of trials. borisjohnson is facing questions about whether he tried to tone down an independent report which said home secretary priti patel broke the ministerial code by bullying staff. none of us want to see bullying or poor practices within the workplace, and the home secretary has been clear that she would never want to do that intentionally. the government is to change how it invests in big spending projects,