been this is bbc news with the latest headlines. dlines. 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 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've seen that particularly in the labour market and with people's jobs. we know that 750,000 people have tragically already lost their jobs with forecasts of more to come. a usjudge has dismissed president trump's latest challenge to his election defeat

as a frankenstein's monster of a case. and worth the weight. the 12—hour operation to rescue a baby elephant after it fell down a well in india. a new plan to lift england's lockdown from the 2nd of december will be finalised by government ministers today. the national lockdown will be lifted, but a new tougher version of the three—tiered system of restrictions will replace it. even the lowest level will be much stricter than before as experts warn that it just wasn't working to control infection rates. 0ur political correspondent, leila nathoo, reports.

what will christmas look like this year? we'll soon find out. tomorrow, borisjohnson will confirm to parliament that england is coming out of national lockdown on the 2nd of december and going back into regional tiers of coronavirus restrictions. the system will be stricter this time round with more areas under tighter rules. leicester's had tough restrictions for months and infection rates are still high. it's what it is, we've got to keep on with it and it'll be all right in the end, as they say. i'm just finding it very frustrating and, maybe i'm wrong, but ijust think, if everybody kept to the rules, it might be better. she laughs. ministers will decide on thursday which areas will go into which tier but, across all tiers, there will be special arrangements to allow families to meet over christmas and a four—nation approach is still being discussed. we all want to see our loved ones again, but some are concerned about the consequences. the question is, do you want to expose elderly relatives or anybody else that might be

vulnerable to this virus, either in your home or being a guest in someone else‘s home? and if you are going to go ahead, what are the steps you can take to be more cautious? can you meet them outside? can you ventilate the rooms so you have enough air circulation? can you make sure you quarantine for two weeks so you are not incubating the virus? i think we have to come back to kind of core public health principles. the virus does not care that it's christmas and it will keep spreading regardless. it's happened in canada with canadian thanksgiving, and we will see the same to the states with american thanksgiving. so i think it's just telling people, we know how the virus transmits and, you know, how much risk are you willing to take at this point of time with your family and your loved ones? the cabinet will meet today to discuss the plans and mps will vote on whether to bring in the new system. labour said it would look closely at the proposals but said the new framework must bring certainty for businesses. ministers are stressing this festive period won't be normal but hope that vaccines and mass testing will offer a route towards relaxing restrictions further.

leila nathoo, bbc news. well, the chancellor, rishi sunak, has been saying more about what will replace the lockdown in england. 0ur political correspondent, helen catt, said it looks as if we'll be returning to a three tier system but beefed up with stronger restrictions. these national lockdown restrictions in england expire on the 2nd of december, so there is debate about what would come after those and borisjohnson has always said he wants to return to that regional system but earlier this week the director of public health england suggested the lower tiers have not worked to stem the spread of transmission so it would look like they would need to beef them up, make those restrictions stronger, that's the message we are getting this morning, so at the moment we don't know what the specific measures are likely to be, boris johnson will set them out in parliament tomorrow, the cabinet is meeting to discuss them and sign them off. we don't know exactly what those measures will be but the indication is it will be tougher, particularly if you were living in an area of england in a lower tier of restrictions. there is one particular measure, though, where it seems there might

be a loosening on the cards, and that is that controversial 10pm curfew for pubs, bars and restaurants, businesses don't like it and neither do tory mps, that is the understatement of the year, and we understand that borisjohnson is likely to amend it so that 10pm would become a last orders call and people would have an hour to finish eating up and drinking up. the chancellor appeared to add confirmation to the suggestion that that is being looked at. it is definitely something we are looking at and one of the things we have been able to do as we learn is get data, see what works and see where we can improve things. it's fair to say when we introduced the curfew that was something that was in common with many other countries and cities around the world but as we have learnt more there are opportunities for us to look and refine things and that is on our list. that was the chancellor talking to andrew marr, what about christmas?

there has been a lot of speculation — borisjohnson wants to give people a christmas present and relax the rules just for a few days. he does, and it is the question i am getting asked the most. and borisjohnson has said he will spell it out tomorrow. so far, downing street has been tight—lipped about what will be allowed. there is a suggestion that there will be some special arrangements, the thinking behind that, jake berry was explaining this morning that if they don't people willjust ignore the rules anyway and once people get into the habit of breaking the rules it's harder to then enforce them later, so there is definitely some sense of some special arrangements although ministers have been clear it will not be a free for all normal christmas, there will be restrictions in place. they said they also want to coordinate with northern ireland, scotland, wales and england so there are similar sets of rules in place, although we don't know if that has been achieved yet. and what about the politics of this? quite a lot of tory mps have said they are not happy with a return to tough tiered restrictions.

the rows brewing over christmas dinners will be nothing compared to what we might see in the commons this week. tory mps have been very resistant to tighter restrictions, a group of 70 have written to the prime minister and said they cannot support more tiered restrictions unless he can show it will stop the spread of the virus, but also there has been some assessment made of the impact that will be had on people on their health, for reasons not covid, so that's a big number of conservative mps and we have seen it kicking off in the commons about this before. so, if these restrictions will get through, if they will not vote for them, which is not a given, then the prime minister would have to rely on labour's vote, so would labour back them, whatever? that was put to the shadow chancellor this morning.

will you vote for government proposals, whatever happens? no, because we need to see the detail of those proposals. we really expect government needs to have learned from what has happened previously, all the problems we have had previously, we did not have a clear system of restrictions, there was a huge amount of ambiguity, and the economic support trailed the announcement of those restrictions, meaning that there is a situation where we have seen record redundancies across our country over the last quarter, businesses have gone bust that didn't need to, because of those problems, so we expect the prime minister should provide provide something far more robust on wednesday. there will be a lot riding on what the specifics of these restrictions will be. we will find this out tomorrow when the prime minister addresses parliament, and i think we will have quite a lot of debate over them for the coming days. chancellor rishi sunak is set to announce an extra £3 billion of funding for the nhs next week but has warned of tough times

ahead for the economy. despite a boost to the health service, due to be pledged in the spending review on wednesday, today, the chancellor said the impact of coronavirus on the economy must eventually be paid for. as you can see from this graph, public sector debt currently stands at over £2 trillion. you can see a sharp rise in that debt in 2020 as the government borrowed money to deal with the current crisis. 0n the andrew marr show this morning, the director of the institute for fiscal studies, pauljohnson, said that the level of borrowing this year was, as a fraction of national income, the highest ever outside of the two world wars. have a huge reduction in economic output, the biggest recorded in history, it bounced back in the middle of the year. but it is at

least 10% smaller, the economy, then a year ago. and we have borrowed an eye watering amount of money to deal with a pandemic as well, haven't we? at least 350 billion this year, a fraction of national income. so we thought what we saw back in the financial crisis was huge but this is bigger. does that mean we have got to stop borrowing? we have to reduce borrowing at some point. at the moment government is right, we need to support the economy, particularly while we have locked

down, and that may well be more worrying this year. far more borrowing the next three or four yea rs borrowing the next three or four years then we were expecting a year ago, but if we continue with the levels of spending and tax at the moment, then not only will borrowing be high but the debt will be rising, and that becomes unsustainable at that point. the chancellor told the andrew marr show that the high level of spending was justified. now is the right time to focus on responding to the crisis, and that means, yes, we will be borrowing quite frankly an enormous sum this year to help us do that, but that is the right thing to do for the long—term health of the economy and public finances, and we are doing that to protect people's jobs, their livelihoods, support businesses, as we've talked about, but also provide the funds necessary to fight coronavirus, and that will be at the centre of the spending review next week. we'll be providing those funds, whether it's for testing, for vaccines, for the nhs, and that's the right thing to do now, and that is an approach that's been endorsed by the imf,

the obr, the bank of england and others. mr sunak is facing criticism following reports he might announce a pay freeze for millions of public sector workers at next week's spending review. shadow chancellor annelise dodds explained her opposition to the idea to andrew marr. what this measure would do is it would say to our firefighters, hospital porters, teaching assistants that they will have less spending power in the future. that means they won't be spending in our high streets, they won't be spending in our small businesses, and that's a very good way of knocking confidence out of our economy at a time when, as i said, the uk is an outlier. 0ur economic downturn has been deeper than that in the rest of the g7. what needs to be done now by government is to deal —— build economic confidence up, not shoot it down. the government is being urged

to change the rules over who is eligible for financial support if they have to self—isolate. people on low incomes in england can apply for a grant of £500 if they are contacted directly by track and trace staff, but those who only receive a message from the nhs app don't qualify. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. this is 0liver, who lives with his family of seven in dorset. and this is the message he got earlier this month telling him to self—isolate. but because it was through the nhs app, 0liver didn't qualify for support. after a lot of chasing around, it turns out that i'm not entitled to the financial support, and i want to follow their guidelines. but then they sort of leave me in the lurch a bit without the financial support. with a young family, and this time of year, let alone just christmas, it's a rough time of year for everybody and it's been a rough year for everybody. to have that financial burden put on top of us as well, ifeel a massive injustice with it. the government does offer a grant of £500 for many people on low

incomes who can't work because they've been told to stay at home by test & trace. but many people are falling through the gaps, like parents who are forced to stay at home while their children self—isolate and those using the app. we know that generally people want to do the right thing and that's why they come to us, to see what they are eligible for. but ultimately people are facing an impossible choice often. they're taking a big hit in their incomes if they can't work from home and if they do need to self—isolate, but they still have their bills to pay, they still have food shopping to do, they still have children they need to care for, and that's putting them in an incredibly difficult position. we would like the government to look again and see what else they can do to make sure people can do the right thing. ijust want to reach out to everybody... the prime minister is self—isolating just now himself. i know how frustrating it can be... here he is in a message released by number 10 yesterday. labour are calling for him to fix what they call a broken system and offer more support. 0ther charities have raised concerns, too,

saying loopholes are making it harderfor people to do the right thing. good afternoon and welcome to today's downing street coronavirus briefing. on friday, the health secretary was asked about support for parents who had to stay at home to look after their children. and we have put in place a system of support so that if you have to isolate and you are eligible for benefits and universal credit then you can access a £500 support payment for the period that you have to isolate for. the government has now told us it is looking at ways to expand the scheme to cover the app, but others want the support to go further. the headlines on bbc news... 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. good afternoon. let's start in the premier league with what has been an exciting opening game in the first of the day's matches — everton comfortably on top against fulham at craven cottage where they lead 3—i following an action packed first half, everton taking the lead after only 42 seconds from england striker dominic calvert—lewin. the equaliser coming 15 minutes later from bobby decordova—reid with this neat low finish.

it was everton who then retook the lead as calvert—lewin finished off this well—worked move to make it 2—1. and that wasn't the end of the scoring in the first half, with abdoulaye doucoure heading home to put the away side firmly in control. following that game at craven cottage, sheffield united play west ham, while at liz30pm mikel arteta's arsenal take on leeds — the first of 10 matches his side play between now and christmas to play the amount of games we have to play at the calibre of games is something new. we know the consequences of that, the only side from my side is let us consider the players and protect them as much as possible, they are the protagonists. and whatever you can do we have to modify the rules and make it more flexible for them, to give them a better opportunity, and it's just

not physically but mentally as well. and then this evening, liverpool take on leicester, with the latter able to move to the top of the table with a win. liverpool counting the cost of a growing injury list, managerjurgen klopp aware of the challenge leicester will pose. leicester are very good. and this year again. they changed their style slightly may be because of the injuries they had. a good example of how we can deal with an injury crisis, whatever. they did really well and a good moment to have a clear idea of how they want to play. so of course they are contenders for everything, they were last year for a long period. rangers can go 11 points clear at the top of the scottish premiership with a win over third placed aberdeen in the game currently

taking place at ibrox. and it's looking very good for steven gerrard's side. they're currently 4—0 up. ryan kent — who scored the winner against aberdeen earlier in the season — putting rangers in front, with kemar roofe scoring the second. scott arfield has added a third, and james tavernier with the latest goal from the penalty spot scotland full—back stuart hogg says they're looking for a repeat of their performance which saw them end france's six nations grand slam hopes in march when the two sides meet again today in the autumn nations cup. scotland are looking to follow up victories for england and wales yesterday. england beat ireland while wales ended a run of six consecutive defeats with an 18—0 victory over georgia. louis rees—zammit here with one of their two tries. the men's tennis season ends today with the final of the atp tour finals in london. but if you thought it would be nadal against djokovic, think again. dannil medvedev is into his first final at the event after beating rafael nadal last night in three sets at the o2 arena.

he now faces dominic thiem this evening with the reigning us open champion having knocked out world number one novak djokovic. my my mind is saying dominic and daniel will be in the final, and my heart goes out to raphael and novak. it is great that manage not to beat the two biggest players in the history of sport. except roger also there. i think it is super for tennis. we have started to take our marks, dominic won his first slam, playing unbelievable tennis, so it will not be easy. you'll be able to watch medvedev v thiem live on bbc two tonight from 6pm, but that's all the sport for now.

let's get more reaction now to the reports of the government's plans to replace england's national lockdown from 2nd national lockdown from 2nd december. the lockdown will be lifted but a new tougher version of the "three—tiered" system of restrictions — will replace it. and it's understood there'll be special arrangements for the festive period. dr richard vautrey is chair of the british medical association's gp committee in england. he says there are concerns about relaxing restrictions over christmas. sadly, the virus will not go away over christmas, so we need to work very ha rd over over christmas, so we need to work very hard over these next few weeks to post on the prevalence of infection, to try to minimise the risk of infection transmitting from one person to another, but then when we do potentially mix together in oui’ we do potentially mix together in ourfamily we do potentially mix together in our family groupings over the christmas period we need to be very mindful that we have done a lot of ha rd mindful that we have done a lot of hard work of the last few months, particularly in trying to protect oui’ particularly in trying to protect our loved ones and those who are

most vulnerable, and we cannot let oui’ most vulnerable, and we cannot let our guard down during those christmas days when potentially we introduce infection into people's houses, people who have been trying to limit that infection over the last few months. we are getting into quite an important time now, we have the hope of a vaccine coming in the next 2—3 months for most people, that will provide a degree of protection, but we need to keep up oui’ protection, but we need to keep up our guard over the rest of the winter. the government has confirmed it's considering getting rid of the 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants. kate nicholls, chief executive for ukhospitality has welcomed the move, but says more help for the sector is needed. it's something we have been talking about with the government since they introduced the idea of a curfew, allowing a last orders approach with a dispersal brings us into line with most of the curfews

across the world and certainly across europe, and it allows for a gradual dispersal without making matters worse, so you have avoided some of the health harms that came with the curfews itself but on its own and coupled with a tightening of restrictions it is not a material enough change to give businesses greater scope to make money during december and to switch the dial from being unviable to viable, so we will need to look at those tiered systems carefully to see if there is any more that can be done. the biggest impact economically on our businesses is the ban on mixed household socialising, so a reintroduction of the rule of six in the same way we have had in wales will be absolutely critical to making sure that more businesses can survive over the new year period otherwise we fear that a large number of them will simply close their doors for good. coronavirus cases in the united states continue to soar. there are more than 12 million

confirmed infections — up byi million in less than a week. california has introduced a state—wide overnight curfew to try to curb the surge there. officials in los angeles warn they are close to reaching the number of daily cases that means residents have to stay at home all the time. the us is setting new records each day for the number of new infections. 195,500 new cases were recorded on friday. 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 more than 170,000 cases per day — that's an increase of 67% — and the covid tracking project reports more than 83,000 people are hospitalized across the country. here's our north america correspondent, david willis. california, america's most populous state, is reeling from a resurgence of the coronavirus and its health workers are struggling to cope.

the number of new infections here has more than doubled in the last two weeks, prompting an overnight curfew. this is not really surprising. i think this was sort of expected. i think there's this kind of restriction fatigue or lockdown fatigue, a pandemic fatigue that is taking place, so many of the people are not adhering to what the public health people are really recommending. a total of around 37 million people are subject to california's new stay at home order which prohibits nonessential activity outside the home during the hours of darkness. lawmakers hope the move will curb the sudden surge in positive test results. the coronavirus turned the g20 summit in riyadh into a sort of vip webinar, one in which president trump briefly participated, but he missed a sideline event at the conference devoted to pandemic preparedness in favour of heading for the golf course,

pursuing what has become a weekend routine since the election of golfing and tweeting, making this claim about how joe biden would deal with developing a vaccine. yet last week's coronavirus press briefing was the first in months and the head of the task force, vice president mike pence, left without taking questions. president—elect biden, seen here attending church near his home, says tackling the coronavirus will be his number one priority but the longer the transition process is delayed the longer it will take him and his team to obtain the briefings they need. until the general services administration ascertains

the results of the election, which would allow the transition from the trump administration to the biden administration to proceed, until that happens, our hands are really tied, we're handcuffed. with discussions over another economic stimulus plan stalled and congress in recess, the forthcoming holiday season promises to be a bleak one for many. long lines have formed at food banks here and around the country and the coronavirus is promising to make this year's thanksgiving celebration unlike any other. the trump campaign has lost one of its last remaining legal avenues in its slew of challenges to the election result, this time in the crucial battleground state of pennsylvania. judge matthew brann — a conservative republican — has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to invalidate 7 million mail—in votes. judge brann said...

donald trump has tweeted that he will appeal this latest setback. in a succession of court cases, mr trump's lawyers have failed to show they have legal grounds to overturn his loss in the presidential election. counties in pennsylvania are due to certinyoe biden‘s win on monday. he leads by more than 80,000 votes. the archbishop of canterbury will take a sabbatical next year, for reflection, prayer, and spiritual renewal. justin welby will begin his break in may 2021 and isn't expected back

at work before september. lambeth palace said it was normal practice for archbishops to take time off from their official duties. south wales police has said that there was a large scale "violent disturbance" in the centre of cardiff last night. police were called to queen street just before ten o'clock. four people have been arrested. six people are in hospital, some of them in a serious condition. 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.