world leaders attending the virtual 620 summit have urged the heads of rich nations to make sure coronavirus vaccines are affordable and available for all. the meeting is being hosted by saudi arabia but is being held virtually because of the pandemic. the british government has announced a tougher three—tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in england when the current lockdown ends on the second of december. the prime minister boris johnson is expected to set out his plan on monday. the government has confirmed it will make major changes to the way it assesses the value of big spending projects — a move which would benefit northern england and other regions. the chancellor, rishi sunak — said the changes were part of the government's "levelling up" agenda. they'll be announced in the spending review next week, as our business correspondent katy austin reports. major public projects

like new transport links can provide a tangible, long lasting boost to the economy. historically, some areas feel they haven't had theirfair share. this business in hull says that better connections to other cities like york would really help. i feel that the north has often served second fiddle to the south. i appreciate it's where the capital is, and where a lot of businesses are, but the playing field is getting more and more lopsided. it needs to be levelled. the question looms of how to put the public finances back on a sustainable footing after the huge cost of coronavirus but the government still wants to be talking about investing, too, across the whole of the uk. next week, in the spending review, the chancellor, rishi sunak, is expected to announce tens of billions of pounds for infrastructure, including road improvements. the delayed national infrastructure strategy will be published, covering flagship programmes such as fibre

broadband and investment in green projects. the rules the treasury uses to assess the value for money of 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. to replace money previously allocated to poorer regions by the eu, a fund will be unveiled targeted at places including coastal communities and former industrial heartlands. an independent group representing business and civic leaders across the north of england welcomed the plans, saying that projects like transport were crucial to improving productivity and prosperity. we will not close the north—south divide if we don't build the full high—speed north network, that means hs2 on the east and west of the country and a new line across the pennines. labour said communities around the country wanted action, not more empty rhetoric. the government is hoping it can build a way towards brighter times. katy austin, bbc news.

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. we have seen nothing like it before. new yorkers on sunday were hardly shocked over the cities first confirmed case of coronavirus. a second person has died from the virus. we have an invisible enemy. we have a ferocious enemy. the number of people killed went up to 99. the new york mayor is holding its press conference and says new yorkers should be prepared for a shelter enforced order. bright orange body bags were allowed to temporary morgues. new york remains the epicentre of this outbreak. new york is now reporting more than a thousand deaths. with the death toll now

passing the 4000 mark the cities death toll has passed 10,000. each of those are a human being. and a family represented. new york suffered the worst covid—19 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, bay ridge brooklyn, home to about 80,000 new yorkers. those who live here like so many people around the globe are grappling with reality is 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. this man is trying to hold onto the good memories. so we have my parents wedding pictures. when the coronavirus hit new york in march sal closed his business and moved in with his parents to help them get through the pandemic. this is one of my favourite pictures. it's hard. i thought i was protecting them. i thought i was protecting them. i was doing everything i needed to do. what i was supposed to do but itjust didn't help. he lost his father to covid—i9 on april the 2nd.

he woke up shivering. i've never seen her like that. i called 911 and that was the last time i saw him. it happens often. two days later the virus claimed his mother. my mother was beautiful. it breaks my heart. it really does. my dad died on april two and my mum died in april the 4th. and my aunt died in april the 6th. that week was terrible. memories at this point is all you have left. i don't know where my father is buried. i don't think i'll ever have closure. he is still sleeping on the couch of his parents' home.

i haven't gone to the bedrooms. tomorrow will be four weeks since they've been gone. i haven't gone into the bedrooms. i can't. i just can't. his parents are some of more than the 7000 corona virus victims in brooklyn. bay ridge is like a small town in a big city. for decades it had a large italian and irish community. today though, it's more diverse with growing arab, chinese and latina populations. it still retains that small town feeling. neighbours know each other, families have lived here for generations. but the coronavirus pandemic is making the future a lot

more uncertain. ola! with many in the neighbourhood in desperate need, charities have stepped up. he is picking up one more box for his friend. this man runs a volunteer group, muslims giving back. there you go brother. see you next friday, 0k. see you next friday, 0k. he turned his mosque into a food bank. times are rough and a lot of these families have not had the stem of this payments many of us enjoy. they don't get unemployment that many of us take for granted. do you want me to take it, do you want me to help? let me help. let me help. 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 overnight to combat the virus. once the lockdown was announced there was a spike with numerous families coming out saying we are going to need your help in the next few weeks because it's going to get bad for us. families across the neighbourhood are struggling and is food pantry is feeding 125 families a week, that's nearly triple the number before the pandemic. clearly, this coronavirus has caused a lot of pain. you've heard a lot of stories. what is the most heartbreaking thing you've heard. the worst ones with widows that all of a sudden exist. the breadwinner, the father has passed away because of coronavirus leaving

behind children. nine out of 10, 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—i9. 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 feed your spirituality, regain that strength and increase your faith so it's a very important month. we make about 300 meals every day. to help, muhammad and his

crew are handing out free food. the meal used to break the fast during ramadan. i am going to 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. do you want to see a plate of the food? we have chicken and a beautiful salad with chickpeas and cucumbers. many muslim families rely on the free meals they receive at the mosque but with mosques closed due to the virus that help has gone. it became very difficult in our community. 0ur mosque is closed and for a lot of the recent immigrants and refugees the mosque is the refuge.

for sal who is grieving the loss of both his parents, his refuges work. he owns this cafe with his partner and it's been a staple on the bay ridge high street for 19 years. but when the pandemic hit the pay were forced to close up shop. in may they decided it was time to reopen. me being here,. me being here, it's keeping me busy so it's keeping me focused which helps me with my pain with my family. i try to keep it

together when inside i'm really hurting. sometimes you've gotta let it out. but the decision was bittersweet. the shop reopened on mother's day in america. somebody told me that particular day that my parents want me to do what i'm doing and it brought a smile to my face because they do. i have to push through. the support of the community has been a real help. neighbours even set out to go fund me page to assist with the mounting bills. bay ridge is a very tight—knit community. we will support each other. the reopening isn't the only change for him. the couple have decided to move out of the bay ridge apartment back into sal's parents house.

welcome. come in. how are you? it's been ages. it's been a while. ijust started cleaning out my parents' bedroom and it's only clothes and material things but if i would pick up a shirt i knew my mum would wear or a jacket my dad would where it was just, it really affected me. it's hard. i try to keep it together at work. muslims 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 have found a replacement for that spirituality that we lost. now it's going out and feeding the homeless. i got igota i got a guy in igota guyina i got a guy in a wheelchair i'm going to give him one. 0k? 0k? this is what praying looks like. this is praying through action. he realise during this crisis the cities homeless were being forgotten. enjoy, man. churches and places of worship. just look at the amount of people, even though it's raining.

i made that kool—aid, that hurts, that hurts. i made that kool—aid, that hurts, that hurts. my wife was like you are going to kill us and you are going to bring the virus you but am i going to risk my family to help others? what are my responsibility? day 100 of the coronavirus crisis and it's the day that we started 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. after three months of lockdown new york is finally entered phase one reopening and it's a huge landmark for the city as it continues to recover from the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. it means that retailers can finally open the doors, even if it is just the kerb—side and in—store pick—up.

sal and damien are trying to adjust to the new realities of running their business. it's scary. normally on a saturday and sunday we are crazy busy. and as you can see, this is the new norm. and i'm not sure how we are going to survive an 80% drop in sales when we are paying 100% on everything else. how's it going guys? be safe. be safe. i have two mortgages and the rent, i have three electric bills, three phone bills, three cable bills. i have three of everything. i have always paid my bills.

we can't survive on masks alone. we can't survive on masks alone. i pay everybody before i pay myself. but when there is no money coming in there is nothing you can do. and i don't think there's understanding that. and there is not much help. and there is not much help. sal is worried his business may 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 i%. i hope you guys like painting. i hate painting. we've got a professional painter here! for mohammed and muslims giving back the demand for help is slowing. the less she sees the bet of a surprise. but there is still plenty need. today he's doing a home makeover. look at the mattress, you see what i told you? look at the mattress, you see what i told you? look, it's 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. and for us to be the people chosen to answer the prayers, that's a priceless feeling. this is disinfectant spray. it's one of the best safety nets you can give to families. it gives them that hope that we are here and we will do as much as we can do. now for the hardestjob. putting up these decorations. the fact the cases have come down means you can catch your breath? last time we saw you you were flattered. 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 didn't go away.

mohammed is bracing himself for a second wave of the virus. still, it's the ongoing economic crisis not the health crisis he fears most. the evictions are going to start to come back in. for me, that's the true second wave that's coming in. i'm not even worried about the covid—i9 second wave, i think the evictions will be the deadliest second wave we will have in our communities. ijust miss my mummy. waves of grief continue to wash over salfour months after his parents died of covid—i9. i still cry myself to sleep at night. i do.

i cry myself to sleep at night. it's hard. he now feels a strong enough to move into his parents' bedroom. and so this is your room now? yes. that must have been tough. yes. i slept downstairs. i just moved up here a month ago. so for months i slept on the couch. i needed a bed. i needed a sense of normality. sal now has four dogs, the two he owned and the two he inherited from his parents. four as little much but it's ok. i'm getting used to it. this is the dress she wore

to my brothers wedding. if i had the opportunity i might have buried her in it. i might have done that. my mummy. that's my mummy. the start of the outbreak feels like a lifetime ago and yet bay ridge 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 would make and left us all struggling to adapt. for mohammed,

the work of helping its community is only getting started. has your faith changed throughout this pandemic? i think it definitely strengthened my faith but are as well as my humanity. because it 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 west side or the east side of the north of the south, you are vulnerable like anybody else. i think a lot of people bonded and came together and i saw that, especially the support for social workers. you saw strangers putting signs outside their window saying thank you for saving lives. it was a beautiful thing to see to be honest. one of the most diverse cities in the world really

united and come together during this time of need. that humanity right there. that's humanity.

hello there. on saturday the southern half of the uk had mild, cloudy weather. further north things were quite different. it certainly felt colder in the wind. showers as well. in between those different sorts of weather we've got this weather from here. it's not producing much rain but it's going to stall towards the south coast of england. it is heading a little further south. it's allowing that colder air to move further south across more of the country. as we head into early sunday morning, these are the sort of temperatures we're looking at. they could be down to one or 2 degrees across eastern much milder in southern england where we still got a lot of cloud. it will brighten up a time

but the thicker cloud and pop of rain and drizzle not too far away. could return to south wales as well. elsewhere decent sunshine. showers mainly northern ireland frequent coming into northern winds will ease of the day, won't be as windy as it was on saturday. but typically around seven to ten celsius was up those temperatures will fall quickly. across more sheltered eastern areas with those clear skies was up still a few showers continuing towards the west. we need to look to the west to see where our weather is coming from early next week. because atlantic winds south—westerly winds are heading our way in these weather fronts will bring some rain as well. a bright enough start for many eastern parts of the uk but chilly early on monday. some sunshine too. cloud amounts will tend to increase with patchy rain here and there. most rain setting in over the hills of western scotland, some rain for northern ireland. those temperatures gradually creeping up at around nine to ii celsius, getting milder. move things on into tuesday and rain is still stuck mainly across scotland and northern

ireland. generally dry fro england and wales and always brighter with more sunshine as you head further east across england and wales where it's going to be drive up with a southerly wind temperatures continuing to rise back up to 12 or 13. things will change later in the week, not least because that weather front will take rain into england and wales on wednesday. then we start to see high pressure building and later on in the week. for the early part of the week rain around most of it around scotland and northern ireland was up it will be turning milder for the second half of the week with high pressure, lighter winds, it will be cold with some frost and some fog.

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