we have found joe biden has unveiled the team a replacement for that that will shape us foreign policy under his presidency, saying "america is back, spirituality that we lost. ready to lead the world"." now it's going out all night and feeding the homeless. here you go, brother. this is what praying looks like. this is praying through action. he realised during this crisis the city's homeless were being forgotten. the biden team's global worldview differs shaply from president trump's america—first approach. mr trump still hasn't conceded the election, but the transition enjoy, man. is gathering pace. get some fruit punch. churches and places christmas has been given of worship that had soup kitchens, they're closed.. the go—ahead across the uk, with families being told they can celebrate together. ministers from england, scotland, wales and northern ireland have agreed on broad just look at the amount of people, even though it's raining. nationwide rules, which struck i made that kool—aid! that hurts! a balance between allowing my wife was like, "you are going to kill us and you are going to bring people to meet loved ones the virus home," but i'm like,

new rules allowing three households to celebrate christmas together have been welcomed by those desperate at one point, "uh—oh, to spend time with friends am i going to risk my family and family again. to help others? but for others, the chance what are my responsibilities?" to socialise more is throwing day 100 of the up all kinds of dilemmas. coronavirus crisis jon kay reports from plymouth. and it's the day that we started to liberate ourselves from this disease, all sam wants the day we move forward. for christmas is... ..christmas. a lifeline for people it's the only time of the year out of work and businesses that have that i get everybody together. been closed for months. it is very important, it is special. after three months of lockdown she is desperate for her children and grandchildren new york hs finally entered to see the tree inside phase one of reopening and it's and to celebrate like they do every year. it's not the presents, it's a huge landmark for the city having all my family around me. that is the important thing. 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 even if it is onlyjust for one day, just to let families get together to enjoy christmas. kerb—side and in—store pick—up. what about the risks to public health of people mixing? i think that's the problem. sal and damien are trying to adjust to the new realities of running their business. people can't go silly. you know, it's scary about... normally on a saturday they have to be sensible and sunday, we are crazy busy. if they want to do this,

otherwise we will have and as you can see, this is the new norm. a rotten january. and i'm not sure how we're little gatherings would be ok maybe? hopefully. going to survive an 80% it's a big decision for politicians and for families right across the uk. drop in sales when we're paying 100% on everything else. hi, how are you? how's it going? be safe. i have two mortgages some say it should be up to individuals, not governments. and the rent, i have three hi, dad! electric bills, three phone bills, three cable bills. i have three of everything. christine can take care of it, absolutely. we can't survive on masks, hi, how are you? it's impossible. i guess this is what christmas might be like. i have always paid my bills. if this is as good as it gets. i pay everybody naomi and roy are resigned before i pay myself. to an online christmas and have decided not to make their usual but when there is no trips between devon money coming in, there is nothing you can do. and south wales even if it is allowed. i would love to do it, but no, i will be advising them that

that's not a good idea, i don't think they are especially as there is so much understanding that and there hope with the vaccine is not much help. development. it seems like it is too high risk regardless of what we are allowed to do. and what the rules say. sal is worried his business may how do you react to that, roy? be the next thing to be taken the only thing that's missing is the physical contact away from him because and if that has to be, i would rather miss out in 2020 of the coronavirus. if it guaranteed we could do what we normally do in 2021. according to the partnership but he will miss having fun with his grandkids. looking a bit santa for new york city, claus with the beard. you are not the first one to call me that. it's all about family, family and making memories. one—third of all small tonight sam is hopeful, businesses in new york could go building a grotto in the garden bust because of the pandemic. — planning for the christmas she has been dreaming of. i am about to pass kimchi, jon kay, bbc news, plymouth. a korean restaurant now on bbc news, our in the neighbourhood north america correspondent, michelle fleury, chronicled the story of her neighbourhood in brooklyn, new york, as the coronavirus pandemic and it has been here for well first swept across the world. over a decade but it is one of we are all dealing with the great unknown. the casualties. we have seen nothing the company has announced it is going out of business. it's august and the infection like it before. rate in new york city has dropped below 1%. new yorkers sunday 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. we have a ferocious enemy. the number of people killed went up to 99. i hope you guys like painting. the new york mayor i hate painting. is holding its press conference and says new yorkers should be prepared for a we've got a professional shelter in place order. painter here! bright orange body bags are rolled out. new york remains the epicentre of for mohammed and muslims giving this outbreak. back the demand for help is new york is now reporting slowing. more than a thousand the less she sees the deaths. with the death toll now passing the 4000 mark the better of a surprise. city's death toll has passed 10,000. but there are still each of those are a human plenty need. being or a family represented. today he's doing a home makeover. look at the mattress, new york suffered the worst see what i told you. covid—19 outbreak look, it's horrible. in the united states. redoing the apartment of a single pregnant mother with two young girls who was abandoned by her husband. people like her are always praying to help. and for us to be the people chosen to answer the prayers, that's

a priceless feeling. this is the disinfectant spray. in the city that never sleeps neighbourhoods fell silent. the sense of fear, isolation and the threat of financial get that corona out of here. ruin grew as the virus spread. it's one of the best safety nets you can give to families. no neighbourhood was spared, it gives them that hope including the one where i live, that we are here and we bay ridge brooklyn, home will do as much as we can do. to about 80,000 new yorkers. those who live here, now for the hardestjob. like so many people around the globe, are grappling with realities brought on by the pandemic that were unimaginable just a few months ago. putting up all these decorations. the fact the cases have come down, does that mean you can catch your breath? last time we saw you, you were flat out. the infection rate i haven't seen these in years. has gone down this one's pretty. and people are less sick but look at that. theirjobs are still closed, i like that. i still have it, i kept it. their bank accounts are still dry so the problem really didn't go away. salvatore is trying to hold onto the good memories. it brings peace. mohammed is bracing himself so we have my parent's for a second wave of the virus. wedding pictures. when the coronavirus still, it's the ongoing hit new york in economic crisis not the march, he closed his business health crisis he fears most. and moved in with his parents to help them get

through the pandemic. this is one of my favourite pictures of my parents. the evictions are going it's hard. i thought i was to start to roll back in. for me, that's protecting them. the true second wave that's coming in. i'm not really worried i was doing everything i needed to do. about the covid—19 second wave, i think the what i was supposed to do, evictions will be the deadliest what i was told to do, second wave we will have but itjust didn't help. in our communities. ijust miss my mom, i miss my mommy. waves of grief continue to wash over salfour months after his parents arthur he lost his father arthur to covid—i9 on april the 2nd. he woke up shivering. i've never seen him like that. and helen died of covid—19. i called 911 and that was the last time i saw him. two days later, the virus claimed his mother helen. i still cry myself to sleep at night, i do. my mother was beautiful. i cry myself to sleep at night. she really was. it's hard, it's hard. it breaks my heart. it really does. he now feels a strong enough to move into his parents‘ bedroom. my dad died on april and so this is your room now?

2nd and my mum died in april the 4th. yeah, yeah. and my aunt terri died that must have been tough. in april the 6th. so that week was terrible. yeah. i lived downstairs, i slept downstairs. i just moved up memories, at this point, is all you have left. here a month ago. i don't know where my so four, five months, father is buried. i slept on the couch. i don't think i'll i needed a bed. i needed some sense of normalcy. i love you. ever have closure. he is still sleeping on the couch of his parents‘ four—story home. i haven't gone to the bedrooms. sal now has four dogs, tomorrow will be four weeks the two he owned and since they've been gone. and the two he inherited i haven't gone into the bedrooms. from his parents. i can't. four as little much but it's ok. i just can't. i'm getting to it, kind of. heavy. his parents are some of more than the 7000 coronavirus victims in brooklyn. this is the dress she wore bay ridge is like a small town in a big to my brother's wedding. city. if i probably had the opportunity, i might have buried her in it.

i might have done that. for decades it has had a large italian and irish community. my mommy. today though it's more that's my mommy. diverse, with growing arab, chinese and latino populations. it still retains that small town feeling. neighbours know each other, families have lived the start of the outbreak feels here for generations. like a lifetime ago but the coronavirus pandemic is making and yet bay ridge, the future a lot like much of america, and indeed much of the globe, is still lost in this pandemic. more uncertain. 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 with many in the neighbourhood struggling to adapt. in desperate need, charities have stepped up. for mohammed, the work of helping his community is only getting started. he is picking up one more box for his friend. mohammad runs a volunteer group, muslims giving back. shepherd's pie, yes... he turned his mosque into a food bank. has your faith changed times are very rough and a lot of these families throughout this pandemic?

are undocumented, so don't get the stimulus payments many of us enjoy. i think it definitely they don't get unemployment benefits that many of us take for granted. strengthened my faith even before the crisis he saw the need to help working—class immigrant but as as well as my humanity because it kind of forced families in his community. me to translate my faith to action. doesn't matter what class you are in, it doesn't matter if you are poor or rich, have a good day. but he wasn't prepared you live in the west side or for what happened when things closed overnight the east side, the north of the south, you are vulnerable like anybody else. i think a lot of people to combat the virus. kind of bonded and came once the lockdown was announced, there together and i saw that, was a surge, a spike especially the support for social workers. you just see strangers putting signs outside their window, "thank with numerous families coming you for saving lives." it was just really a beautiful out saying hey, we are going to need your help in the next thing to see, to be honest, that one of the most diverse few weeks because it's cities in the world really going to get bad for us. unite and came together families across the during this time of need. neighbourhood are struggling and his food pantry is feeding i mean, that's humanity right there, man. 125 families a week, that's humanity.

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, the numerous widows that all of a sudden exist in our communities. the breadwinner of the family has passed away because of coronavirus, leaving behind children. 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—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. hello again. we had some big weather contrasts across the uk this is the month where on tuesday, england and wales, you are supposed to feed your a lot of dry weather spirituality, regain that with some sunny spells strength and increase your breaking through the cloud, faith, so it's a very some fine sunsets to end the day particularly for eastern areas, important month. but it was north wales that was the real mildest spot in the country, 15 celsius, mild weather if we could we would start packing, every day. we make about 300 across most areas. contrast that with the rain meals every day. that just wouldn't stop across scotland and northern ireland, to help, muhammad and his thanks to this weather crew are handing out free food. front, this cold front, and as this pushes east over the next couple of days, colder air will be arriving the meal used to break across all parts of the country. the fast during ramadan. back to what we have at the moment, that weather its one for the memories. front is still bringing some splashes of rain across wales i am going to remember this ramadan for the rest of my and western england. life. this neighbourhood is the most populous arab area in new york city. it will very gradually move eastwards, bringing rain into parts of the midlands and central and southern england before long. a few showers for northern if the community cannot ireland and scotland, come to us we will go to otherwise with clear spells, cold, might see 1—2 areas them. do you want to see with a touch of frost. a plate of the food? our weather front continues we have giro, chicken to push eastwards, but it gets and a beautiful salad stretched out between these two with chickpeas and cucumbers. areas of low pressure —

one in scandinavia and one in spain and portugal. so the front will weaken very quickly as it slowly many muslim families rely edges its way eastwards on the free nightly meals through wednesday, the rain they receive becoming increasingly at the mosque, but with mosques light and patchy as it closed due to the virus, dribbles its way across that help has gone. the midlands into east anglia it became very difficult and southeast england. in our community. 0ur mosque is closed, and for a lot of the recent immigrants and refugees in our community, there's no great rainfall the undocumented, amounts for these areas. the mosque is the the mild airjust hanging refuge. on across the east. 14—15 celsius in the very warmest spots but further north and west, it's much colder. temperatures down into single figures. following that, wednesday night, we will see patches of frost developing and maybe a few areas of fog to start the day on thursday. thursday looks like being a pretty decent day. yes, it will be cooler for sal, who is grieving than it has been of late, but most areas will be dry and we should see the loss of both his parents fairly lengthy spells of sunshine developing. it will be cool for the time to covid—i9, of the year, temperatures his refuge is work. generally into single figures, he owns hom with his just 5 celsius in glasgow, partner damien, and it's maybe 7 in belfast. then it looks like we will see been a staple on the bay ridge some more mist and fog patches high street for 19 years. developing as we head but when the pandemic into friday morning along with some frost. hit the pair so for some of us, friday were forced to close up shop. in may they decided promises to be quite a slow start to the day and quite murky, some of those

mist and fog patches may linger all day. it was time to reopen. where that happens, temperatures will be in the low single figures, but even in the brighter spots on friday, it looks like being a particularly me being here, it's keeping me chilly day for this stage of november. the weekend, mostly dry, but we will continue with the cool weather busy, so it's keeping me conditions, with frost and some morning mist and fog. 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. 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, 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.

we will be here till six. neighbours even set out to go fund me page to assist with the mounting bills. bay ridge is a very tight—knit community. we all support each other. the reopening isn't the only change for sal and damien. the couple have decided to move out of their bay ridge apartment back into sal's parents house. welcome. come in. how are you? it's been ages. hello, this is bbc news — it's been a while. my name's mike embley. our top stories: i just started cleaning out my parents‘ bedroom, and it's only clothes and material things but if i would pick up a shirt ready to lead the world — joe biden unveils the team that i knew my mum would wear will shape us foreign policy or a jacket my dad would wear under his presidency. it's a team that reflects it was just, it really the fact that america is back, affected me. ready to lead the world, not retreat it's hard. from it, and once again sit i try to keep it at the head of the table. together at work.

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