this is bbc news, i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: california is beginning a night—time curfew, in an attempt to curb a surge in coronavirus cases — the number of confirmed cases in the us has now exceeded twelve million. 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. the so—called islamic state group says it was behind a rocket attack in the afghan capital, which killed eight people. 5-4-3-2-1, lift off of sentinel—6. blast off for a satellite that will track rising sea levels, improving our understanding of climate change. archaeologists in italy uncover the remains of two men who died

in the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient roman city of pompeii nearly 2000 years ago. hello and welcome to bbc news. california is to begin a night—time curfew in an attempt to curb a surge in coronavirus cases. its latest figures are now worse than the previous peak in august. the us now has more than 12 million confirmed infections. it's the worst affected country in the world and is experiencing a surge in the virus, setting records each day for the number of new infections. about 187,000 new cases were recorded in the latest figures — released on friday for the previous day. the daily death toll linked to covid—i9 has passed 2,000

people for the first time since may. over the past week, there has been an average of almost 170,000 cases per day. that's an increase of 67%. and according to covid tracking project, more than 80,000 people are currently hospitalized across the country. president trump has repeatedly played down the severity of the pandemic in the us. on saturday he skipped an event at the g20 summit on covid preparedness — instead deciding to play golf. earlier i wasjoined by our correspondent david willis for more on coronavirus in the us. we are seeing across the country a surge in coronavirus cases — almost 200,000 new cases of the virus every day. in california, they are getting to around 11,000 a day, which is very worrying — the biggest surge since the summertime. so the governor of california,

gary newsome, has introduced an overnight curfew, coming into effect tonight, saturday night local time from 10pm until five o'clock in the morning. the aim being to prevent people from gathering in bars and clubs and in public places. the aim as well to keep them at home, not mixing with other families but of course as you mentioned, the thanksgiving holiday is just around the corner and traditionally, that is a time when americans do get together. the tsa, the transport safety administration, the federal body which monitors these things, is saying that yesterday, friday, more than1 million americans used airports in the country. just bring us up to speed with the reaction to the fact that donald trump was playing golf when other world leaders were attending the summit? that is right.

the us media caught the president on the golf links at a time when a site meeting was going on, a virtual side meeting was going on to discuss coronavirus preparedness, and mr trump has subsequently issued a series of tweets, making the point that this is a global crisis, not one that is directly, specifically linked to the united states. also making the case that due to advanced therapeutics, as he puts it, and the skill of doctors, nurses and other health officials, fewer people are actually dying when they get the virus. that said, the death toll in the united states has already surpassed 250,000 people. 0ur our thanks to david willis there. for more details about what's going on in california, i'm joined now by lee riley, professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases at the berkely school of public health. thank you cemetery coming on

the program. thank you for inviting me. just quickly talk us inviting me. just quickly talk us through what is going on there in california. well, this is not really surprising. i think this was sort of expected. there is this kind of restriction fatigue, lockdown fatigue, pandemic fatigue that is taking place. and so many people are just not adhering to what the public health people are what the public health people a re really what the public health people are really recommending. and these new restrictions that will be coming in, what are they and will they work? this isa they and will they work? this is a curfew, it's going to start tonight actually in a few hours, from 10pm to five a.m.. something has to be done to really counter this surge. whether or not this is going to really have a major impact in mitigating the epidemic only not totally convinced. this is the title of the day that we are not many people are really

congregating at and going outside. the bars are already restricted. bars are not the only places where these transmissions occur. most of the transmissions probably occui’ the transmissions probably occur within households. this cu rfew occur within households. this curfew might do may actually force people to do things at home more. and that could, again, exacerbate the transmission. i'm not totally convinced this is going to have a major impact. given your pessimism about that, where does that leave the hospitals in the capacity of hospitals? capacities are already beginning to experience the pressure. the scarcity of intensive care units. personal protective equipment, et cetera. and they are beginning to get overwhelmed, just like new york city was back in the beginning of this epidemic in the country. to avoid that, the hospitals getting overrun, what

kind of measures would you like to see and what measures would you like to see done now? what of the things we haven't talked about in detail in this country is lamenting a more effective contact investigation program. most of the emphasis here has been on testing and testing but not enough emphasis on contact investigation and really making sure people quara ntining themselves. this is something that china did very effectively but we not doing that in this country and when not doing very effectively in california. and what about the political leadership? so, that has been a huge issue. we didn't have the kind of leadership who really believed in taking this epidemic seriously and it's not just the government has but also bodies that governors who also bodies that governors who also don't share the same view as the president. this has really contributed to people not taking this seriously ——

who do share the same view. more than half of the people in this country voted for the person who didn't really believe in this pandemic. we must leave it there. thank you professor. thank you. other world leaders attending the virtual g20 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. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet has more from riyadh. a thoroughly modern moment. many families have to meet like this these days. even the powerful g20 family. the 84—year—old saudi king presiding. everyone at their own table this year. every country struggling with the impact of the deadly pandemic. it's this summit‘s top issue.

shall i take the mask off? the world's wealthiest under pressure to help the poorest. at the beginning there was a big race between different countries to secure ppe, equipment, medication etc. the g20 role is definitely to make sure that everybody‘s safe. we cannot be safe unless everybody‘s safe. and from 10 downing street, a ten—point plan for a green revolution. that future will only be possible if the world's leading economies and drive forward more ambitious action, more quickly to prevent further catastrophic climate change. a virtual summit robs leaders of those face—to—face moments which can make all the difference. it also steals the kingdom's chance to shine on a world stage, a stage also casting a harsh light on issues not on the g20 agenda.

so, a light was shone on the streets of paris, on three saudi women in saudi jails. human rights groups are calling for their release and many others. and here, another light show, on stones three centuries old. this is the town where the saudi kingdom was born. leaders brought together as they keep their distance. let's update you on some other coronavirus developments around the world. the coronavirus lockdown in england is to be replaced with a strengthened tier system. more areas will be subject to the strictest controls but rules on family gatherings are to be eased over christmas. the cabinet will meet later on sunday to approve the plans, which will take effect when the national shutdown ends on the second of december. a massive coronavirus testing operation is under way in spain's autonomous community

of castile and leon. 25% of the residents of the provincial capital burgos are being tested, as the infection rate in the city doubles the regional average. it comes as the country reported highest weekly death toll during the second wave. turkey has gone into a nationwide partial lockdown this weekend, as part of new measures announced by president erdogan earlier in the week. people are banned from going out from five in the evening to seven in the morning. the portuguese government has announced new restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus shortly after parliament approved a 2—week extension of the country's state of emergency. prime minister antonio costa has outlined new tiered restrictions, including extending the current nightly curfew to weekend afternoons and a travel ban during national holidays in areas deemed at extremely high risk. and you can keep up to date with the global impact of the pandemic on the bbc

website — including analysis of the measures california is taking as america's daily death toll passes two thousand, for the first time since may. that's all at bbc.com/news — or download the bbc news app. just hours before scheduled peace talks in qatar between the us secretary of state and the taliban, a barrage of rockets has hit residential areas of the afghan capital, kabul, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 30. the islamic state group said it was behind the attack and had targeted government buildings and foreign embassies. it comes just days after the trump administration announced plans to withdraw 2,000 troops from afghanistan. secunder kermani reports. it should have been an ordinary day at school. instead, panic and fear as these children run for safety. cctv cameras captured the moment the rockets landed outside this popular bakery. translation: i was having breakfast when the

rockets landed. 0ne hit a van belonging to a bakery. at least three people were wounded. they have been taken to hospital. a local resident filmed the rockets being fired from the street. this was the pick—up truck the attackers used. how they managed to get it inside the city is a major cause for concern. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility, but fighting between the government and taliban has been flaring across the country in recent weeks despite ongoing but slow—moving peace talks in doha. us secretary of state mike pompeo arrived there today to meet both afghan and taliban officials. some progress on initial issues seems to have been made, but they haven't even begun discussing a ceasefire or power—sharing arrangement. is is not part of the negotiations.

in spite of the violence, us troops are being withdrawn from here. the new american president might look for another way forward, but the fear is the bloodshed is only going to get worse. secunder kermani, bbc news. you are watching bbc news, the headlines: california is beginning a night—time curfew in an attempt to curb a surge in coronavirus cases — the number of confirmed cases in the us has now exceeded 12 million. 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. republican officials in michigan have requested an an audit of the presidential vote in the largest county, home to detroit, after it was contested by donald trump. but the president's efforts to challenge the election result continue to fall short in the courts. in pennsylvania, a judge has rejected the trump campaign's attempt to throw out

millions of mail—in votes, describing the lawsuit as "without merit". and now a new counter—suit alleges the president's attempt to overturn the outcome in michigan disenfranchises black voters. samuel spital, one of the lawyers leading the suit, explained more about what it contains. 0ur court case is based on the voting rights act of 1965, which is one of our nation's most important civil rights laws, and one of the provisions of the voting rights act is that there can be no intimidation, no coercion, nothing like that, against anyone who is attempting to vote. and the voting rights act defines voting quite broadly, to include not only the act of casting the ballot but also any step that is necessary to make the ballot count. so our suit is about the fact that we have seen a co—ordinated effort by the president of

the united states, working with his campaign, to put pressure on state and local officials in michigan, not to count, literally to disenfranchise the votes of people from detroit and the surrounding county — wayne county, as you identified. and that kind of pressure and coercion is the kind of conduct that is prohibited by the voting rights act. well, they will just argue that they are pursuing their legal right through the courts to contest the election result? i think actually if you see what's happening, that is not what is happening. the suits that have been failed by mr trump, by his campaign, have been consistently rejected and denied because there is a lack of evidence... if that's true, sorry to jump in, they've been rejected, they're without merit, why bother suing donald trump? if there's no evidence, these cases are just going to fail in the courts anyway. well, i think two reasons. one is that there is a new strategy we are seeing, and this strategy is actually

not about court cases, it is about seeking to pressure state and local officials not to count, not to certify votes and that's actually a different strategy and quite a troubling strategy. the other reason why this is so important is that, this is literally an attempt to disenfranchise black people in this country. when you heard mr giuliani say at the press conference that he held just earlier this week, "well, if you don't count wayne county, if you don't count detroit, the result changes." and the idea that the president of the united states and his campaign would be, in 2020, seeking not to count the votes of people in detroit, a predominantly black city, and falsely, over and over, alleging voter fraud targeted at black people, is not acceptable and it is something that we all need to stand up for in our democracy and say enough.

ethiopia says its troops have advanced further into the northern tigray region, seizing the town of adigrat from soldiers loyal to the local government. the tigrayan authorities said civilians had been killed in the fighting, but gave no details. earlier the government in addis ababa rebuffed an offer from the african union to mediate the conflict between it and tigray forces, as the humanitarian costs of the violence continues to mount. will ross has more. the exodus from ethiopia into sudan goes on, thousands are fleeing the fighting every day. it has been two and a half weeks since the first shots in this conflict were fired stopping no—one here knows how long they will be forced to live like this. the conditions are tough. translation: we came here because there is no peace back home. so far we haven't received any aid. we have been living in hunger and fia.

received any aid. we have been living in hungerand fia. —— theorist. their new home is hardly ideal. sudan itself is facing immense challenges so lots of help is required from outside to ensure the refugees are looked after. our serious concern is that if we do not act quickly, with the resources needed, sudan will be facing dramatic economic crisis. this could not only unravel ethiopian but also sudan. that he plf party is also talking tough and speaks of success on the battlefield, but it is impossible to know the true picture as all communication in the region has been cut off. the african union is worried, the instability could threaten the instability could threaten the region. there was what sounded like a breakthrough from the a.u. chair, south africa's resident. news that

three former heads of state would be travelling to ethiopia to help mediate between the two sides. both have plenty of first—hand knowledge of how much devastation can be caused by war. but the government in the ethiopian capital addis ababa has the ethiopian capital addis aba ba has been the ethiopian capital addis ababa has been quick to play down the mediation. and a statement it said yes, the prime minister will be meeting the au on voice, but it dismissed news that they would be mediating between the government and the two grey and authorities as fake. the prime minister seems determined to fight on, to overthrow and arrest the tplf leaders. the un is preparing for many more refugees in sudan. for now it seems unlikely that the mediation efforts will bring about peace between the two sides, and if this shifts into gorilla style warfare in the

mountains of tigray, the conflict could be long and the impact on civilians, devastating. a satellite that's considered critical for understanding the effects of climate change has been launched into space. sentinel—6 took off on board a space x rocket from a launch pad in california. it will measure oceans and lakes and become the primary means of tracking global sea level rises. data from the satellite will also reveal how huge masses of water are moving around the globe. sentinel—6 was developed jointly by the european and us space agencies. rolf densing is director of operations for the european space agency. he explained the importance of the satellite. there is increasing sea levels, this has consequences for coastal areas, and these consequences will be better, more precisely mapped with sentinel—6 than ever before. obviously the height of dykes will have to be re—evaluated,

major cities like amsterdam, new york, tokyo are concerned by the increase of sea levels and we need to protect millions of people from these effects. europe is set to lift its flight ban on the boeing 737 max passengerjetliner injanuary — after us regulators last week ended a 20—month grounding triggered by two fatal crashes. the european union aviation safety agency says that the 737 max is now safe to fly, after changes to the design of the jet that crashed twice in five months in 2018 and 2019 — killing 346 people. french police have clashed with demonstrators protesting against a bill that could criminalise filming or taking photos of the security forces. some protesters threw bottles at police and set fire to bins. some so—called yellow vest

activists held up placards saying they would only put down their smartphones when the police put away the weapons that have caused serious injuries during two years of weekly demonstrations. 400 people on board a passenger ferry that ran aground off the finnish aw—land islands in the baltic sea, have been told they'll have to stay there overnight. the viking grace got into difficulties in high winds close to the port of mariehamn. it's so close to the shore that people nearby say they can almost touch the ferry. the ferry‘s owner, viking line, says there've been no injuries and the mood onboard remains calm. divers have confirmed there were no leaks in the hull. the ship had been heading from the swedish capital, stockholm, to turku in finland. archaeologists in italy have uncovered the remains of two men who died in the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient roman city of pompeii nearly two thousand years ago.

they believe the pair may have been a master and his slave seeking refuge in a large villa. nina nanji reports two victims of the mighty vesuvius found frozen in time. 0ne believed to be a man of high status. the other his slave. the remains were found during an excavation of the large villa on the outskirts of pompeii. the ancient city was engulfed in a volcanic eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, burying it and its residents in ash. translation: the two victims found in the last days are an incredible and extraordinary testimony of the morning of 25th october when the eruption took place. these two victims were perhaps seeking refuge when they were swept away by the pyroclastic current at nine o'clock in the morning, when the plume gets to pompeii, destroying the higher part of the city completely,

killing everybody in its path. officials say the wealthy man was aged between 30 and a0. the other aged between 18 and 23. evidence shows that before the disaster he suffered from crushed vertebrae, which indicate he was a slave who did manual labour. after the remains were uncovered, casts were created using impressions the bodies had made in the hardened ash. the ruined city remains a rich source for archaeologists. it is also one of italy's most visited tourist attractions, although for now tourism has stopped due to the coronavirus measures. nina nanji, bbc news. a reminder of our top story: the united states has now exceeded 12 million cases of the coronavirus since the pandemic began. california has imposed from saturday an overnight curfew to try to control the rate of infection. you can reach me on twitter —

i'm @lvaughanjones. i'm lewis vaughan jones i'm lewis vaughanjones and this is bbc news. goodbye. 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 front 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 scotland, northeast england and northern ireland for that 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 and westerner scotland winds release 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 heading ourway 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 11 celsius, getting milder. move things on into tuesday and rain is still stuck mainly across scotland and northern ireland. generally dry england and wales and always brighter with more sunshine as you head further east across england

and wales where it's going to be dry and with a southerly wind temperatures continuing to rise back up to 12 or 13. quite widely, 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 in later on in the week. for the early part of the week rain around, most of it around scotland and northern ireland. it will be turning milderfor the second half of the week with high pressure, lighter winds, it will be cold with some frost and some fog.

this is bbc news, the headlines: california is beginning a night—time curfew, in an attempt to curb a surge in coronavirus cases. the number of confirmed cases

in the us has now exceeded 12 million, making it one of the world's worst affected countries. thanksgiving dinners are being distributed to people affected by the pandemic. world leaders attending the virtual g20 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. now on bbc news — dateline london.