this is bbc news. the headlines... a tougher three—tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in england when the lockdown ends in ten days‘ time, but there'll be a relaxation over christmas. the nhs in the uk is to get an extra three billion pounds, but there are warnings of tough economic times ahead, as the country deals with pandemic. the economy is experiencing significant stress. we have seen that particularly in the labour market and with people's jobs. we know that three quarters of a million people have tragically already lost theirjobs, with forecasts of more to come. the uk government is being urged to change the rules over who is eligible for financial support if they have to self—isolate.

a usjudge has dismissed president trump's latest challenge to his election defeat as a "frankenstein's monster" of a case. a covid curfew kicks in in california as the us passes more than twelve million confirmed cases. latex gloves have been, quite literally, a life—saver during this pandemic. but they also pose a serious environmental problem. standard latex takes around 100 years to decompose. now, a team of scientists believe they have come up with a solution, as our science correspondent richard westcott reports. the world pulls on 150 billion pairs of protective latex gloves every year. most are synthetic and end up in landfill for decades. it's a huge environmental problem and covid's making it worse, which is why scientists

at cra nfield university in bedfordshire are developing a new type of natural latex that's better for the planet. this is synthetic latex, made from petroleum, it biodegrades in about 100 years. this is natural latex from rubber trees, still hangs around for a couple of years. this is the new kind of rubber latex they're developing in this lab and they say it could biodegrade in a matter of weeks. it's a version of natural latex but without the allergens so people won't be allergic to them. they'll also be much quicker to make, but the biggest benefit could be to our carbon footprint. there is a fantastic opportunity, richard. if we go into natural latex which is produced by rubber trees, from carbon dioxide, water and sun energy, we will be able to have a real impact on the environment.

approximately 50% of the excessive carbon, atmospheric carbon, could be turned into rubber gloves. that is staggering, that's a staggering figure. half of the excess carbon, potentially taken out of the atmosphere if we just swapped over to these gloves? yes, but we would have to turn it into natural rubber gloves and that means quite a lot of latex to produce and deliver from the plantations. the project is funded by a big medical company about to start producing the new gloves in malaysia. it had hoped to open a uk factory next year. 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 enemy, 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. each of those are human beings and a family represented. new york suffered the worst, 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 in 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 closed his business and moved in with his parents to help them get through pandemic. this one is my favourite pitchers of them. it is hard. i thought i was protecting them. i guess i haven't. i was doing everything i needed to that i was supposed to do and was told to do. he lost his father to covid—19 on april two. he woke up just shivering, i'd never seen him like that. i called 9/11 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, though, it is a lot more diverse with growing arab, chinese and latino populations. it still retains that small—town feeling though. 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. 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 couple of 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 is 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 spirituality, 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 for 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 we give out? we have gyro chicken in a beautiful salad with chickpeas, cucumbers. many muslim families rely on the three 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 gofundme 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's only clothes and material things, but if i pick up a shirt that i knew my mum would wear or a jacket my dad would wear,

it was just very... it really affected me. it is hard. so, i try to keep it together at work. muslims giving back meet up to pray before heading into manhattan. the volunteers had 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.

so, 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. the amount of people, even though it's raining. you know how to make it, man! my wife was like, you are going to kill us, these homeless people have the viris. at one point, i was like, uh—oh, am i going to risk my family now to help others? what is my respomsibility?

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 for the city as it continues to recover from the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. it means that retailers can finally open their doors, even if it is just for curb—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 norm.

i am not sure how we are going to survive an 80% drop in sales when we are paying when 100% on everything else. i have two mortgages and a rent. i have three electric bills, three phone bills, three cable bills, i have three of everything. we cannot survive on just masks alone, we cannot. 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 but when there's no money coming in, it is 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 is august and the infection rate in new york city has dropped below 1%.

i hope you guys like painting. i hate it. this is our master painter right here. for mohammed and his group, the demand for help is slowing. but there is still plenty in need. today, he is doing a home makeover. 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 people chosen to answer their prayers, that is like a priceless feeling.

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 the hardestjob, where to put on these decorations? has drop in cases given you a chance to catch your breath because you were 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, the 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 ongoing economic crisis, not the health crisis, he fears the most. 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 at 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 your room? yes. that must have been tough? yes.

i slept downstairs and ijust moved up here a 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. the two he owned and the 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 probably 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 struggling to adapt. for mohammed, the work of helping his community is only getting started. has your faith changed at all throughout 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 west side, 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 see, to be honest, that one of the most diverse cities in the world could really unite and come together during this time of need. that's humanity right there. that's humanity.

hello there. we have got a few showers to come today across the north of the uk, but for the vast majority of the uk,

it is going to be a brighter kind of day with more in the way of sunshine. the early morning sunrise holding promise in northamptonshire. compared with yesterday, although it is sunnier, it is going to be quite a bit cooler. temperatures in hawarden, in north—east wales, reached 1a degrees yesterday, the warmest place in the country. today, it will be about 10 celsius, and that three or four celsius drop in temperatures is going to be pretty widespread. but still, it is cheery weather for most of us, with spells of sunshine quite widespread. showers around. well, particularly for northern ireland and scotland, and with the winds blowing in a westerly direction, those showers are able to push through the central belt, so you might see one or two arriving in edinburgh, for example. temperatures, for most of us this afternoon, eight to 10 celsius. looking at the weather charts overnight, the winds change direction. the showers mainly become confined to the scottish highlands and islands, but elsewhere, the skies are going to stay largely clear. we will have some light winds and low temperatures with some frost patches developing in the countryside, particularly for east scotland, east england, and may be parts of eastern wales

and county down in northern ireland as well. further changes, then, for monday. this area of low pressure is going to ultimately bring rain back into the north west of the uk, but it should be a bright start for many of us, with some morning sunshine, but quite cold with a little bit of morning frost around. as the milder air works in, it turns cloudier from the west. maybe a bit of mist and hillfog over the higher ground in wales and the pennines. more general rain setting in for scotland and northern ireland. still quite chilly in the east, but milder air pushing into the south west, with highs lifting to 12 celsius, and that milder air will continue to push in as we head through tuesday. but at the same time, we are going to have this slow—moving weather front with us, and that is going to be bringing quite a lot of rain for most of the day on tuesday across northern ireland, parts of western scotland and maybe cumbria, too. in fact, there will be some areas that could see some fairly heavy prolonged outbreaks of rain, particularly west scotland, maybe dumfries and galloway, perhaps into cumbria. and the rain is enough to cause some localised surface water flooding. so, that needs watching on tuesday. away from that, bright or sunny

spells, highs of 13 degrees celsius, so a milder kind of day. as we head into the middle part of the week, though, higher pressure builds in. some morning mist and fog patches, some frost patches around as well, but a fair amount of dry weather too.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a tougher three—tiered system of local restrictions will come into force in england when the lockdown ends in ten days' time, but there'll be a relaxation over christmas. pubs and restaurants in england could be allowed to stay open longer with an easing of the 10pm curfew. the nhs in england is to get an extra £3 billion, but the chancellor warns of tough times ahead for the economy as the country deals with the consequences of the pandemic. the economy is experiencing significant stress. we have seen that in the labour market and in people'sjobs.