the united nations has urged restraint after the assassination of a top iranian nuclear scientist. he died after gunmen fired on his car. western intelligence agencies accused him of being one of the founders of the country's nuclear weapons programme. iran has accused israel of being behind the killing. the united states has now recorded more than thirteen—million covid cases — just six days after the country reached 12 million infections. more than 264 thousand americans have been killed by covid—19 and experts are warning that the long thanksgiving weekend is likely to lead to a further rise in cases. three french police officers have been suspended after an online video showed them beating up a black music producer in paris. the incident has sparked

outrage across france. president macron described the images as bringing shame to france. the police officers are being held for questioning. in about ten minutes we'll have newswatch but first on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show. the gadgets take to get us back on the road. and kangaroo island bounces back. it has been awesome to see the resilience of the australian wildlife. welcome to the show coming to you from an eerily quiet london city airport hence why i am allowed to talk to you from the actual runway and take a look at this. normally this would be buzzing with planes but as we all know travel has pretty much stopped but never the last we will do our best to

keep you all inspired until travel resumes once again but until then stick with as and hopefully will be out on adventures very soon. let's face it. 2020 has not been a good yearfor face it. 2020 has not been a good year for travel. the aim of lock downs, border closures and bands. but don't worry. because behind the scenes the travel industry is buzzing for exciting gadgets and innovations to get us back on the road again. from protective seat design, took over destroying uv light swords. but the thing with the biggest impact in the short term is testing. and i've come to london city airport to find out how it will work. it will be a testing regime in place prior to christmas. testing will take place once you've arrived back

into the uk. you will go to a testing centre and get tested and if that test is negative then you will be able to be released from quarantine however, as the industry we really do want to see departures testing protocol and that will mean that passengers will be tested before they fly. it will mean a quarantine period when you arrive will no longer be required. what challenges do you foresee?‘ capacity we're requiring to actually test significant numbers of passengers on site before they fly we will need to find space to do that. they will need to be trained staff available and we think that will take some time that we are very confident that we can do that and we're hopeful that next summer we will be approaching some degree of normality. as testing and vaccinations become more common there is a whole load of new

questions like how do you trust that the person travelling next to you is covid save. common passes a health person that lets people securely and privately shared their covid status across international borders whether that is testing oi’ borders whether that is testing or eventually vaccination. the challenges the current system for ensuring that someone does not have so this might covid sitting next to me are crossing a border is a piece of paper that was got from a lab. there is no standard format and it could easily be falsified or counterfeit. with common pass we have a way to know that this is coming from a certified lab and when you are preparing to travel you will say, i am flying from london city airport to new york. he will pull out the app and it will tell you that you have to fulfil particular requirements and

when you have fulfil those criteria generates a qr code which then you can show at the entrance to the airport, the aircraft or at immigration in the united states. how do you keep peoples' health data safe? it isa keep peoples' health data safe? it is a nonprofit organisation and we don't have access to your data. you control who gets to see it and it is on your phone and at the sort of weather data is. nobody has any access to that. common pass is hoping to become available in the new year in some countries entry requirements don't end at the airport. take a look at this. it is a simple device. a wristband. and once put it on, and now it should transmit my location. these tracking devices have been trialled in several countries to stop people breaking lockdown laws. there has been an unprecedented

rise in all kinds of tracking technology. around 120 contact tracing apps are being used worldwide. you look like a cautious person to me so what are your main concerns? we need to make sure that they are transparent, held accountable last any longer than they are needed. there is a danger that we can scare people and overhyped this whole surveillance thing. do you think it is slightly over—the—top and we are worrying more than we should be? no. we need to really be careful that we don't sleepwalk into a surveillance state with tools that are not necessarily effective for fighting back in a public health crisis. it is like something out of a sci—fi movie. what should you be looking out for, then? some of the really important things to look out for is how long is the data being retained for. they

should be certain restrictions on how long a company or public health body can access your information. there are other things like permissions. if you look at certain apps they allow the app to look at your contacts, for example, as well as monitoring what you are doing online and there are simple steps that you can do to make sure the app you're downloading assay. this year has disrupted travel more than anything we've ever known but as big as the problems are, the solution is to can be brilliant as long as we stay careful i am we will soon be out there experiencing the world again. kangaroo island is about 70 miles off the coast of adelaide. people come here for a seclusion, its golden beaches

and its abundance of wildlife. at last summer it was one of the highest profile casualties in australia's worst wildfire season on record. the flames spread over 16 million acres, mostly in the south—west of the country new south wales and victoria. it's destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and claimed the lives of at least 33 people. according to the wwf, it also killed or displaced as millionaires 3 billion animals. —— make as many as 3 billion animals. here at the park the owners find themselves directly in the fire's path as they fought to save some of the country's most iconic creatures. grace came in from a road accident when her mother

was hit by a car and killed so she has been with us for nearly two months now. it is important that they have their teddy so she cuddles onto that and sees it as her mum. it gives her comfort. if he does not have one she looks for one. she gets stressed. we are in the koala orphanage that we have got here. it helps different animals. it was established during the bush fires. the park was a hub for the injured animals coming of the fire ground. at times the flames got within a couple of kilometres threatening the centre and eve ryo ne threatening the centre and everyone working there. conor andi everyone working there. conor and i evacuated twice. when i left the front case i did not

know if i was going to be coming back to absolute devastation or coming back to having a business still here. her husband sam to the extraordinary decision to stay behind and fight the fire. fortu nately behind and fight the fire. fortunately the centre was spared, allowing the family's work to continue throughout the entire fire period time we ended up with lots of species. a lot had burns. a lot would bind down to it to the bone and the best thing was to be euthanised so we did lose a lot of them but a lot of them came very dehydrated. so, yes, quite a large range of injuries. it is really amazing to see how

well they cope with the fires and the ones in the wild have adapted to the changing conditions so the habitat was com pletely conditions so the habitat was completely destroyed and they have managed to pull through and eat the regrowth rather than the established trees like usual and they have been more what was expected so it has been awesome to see. the resilient to the australian wildlife. that is your lot for next week. coming up next week dot—macro stairs he had look back at some of our favourite trips to north america. from ice canoeing in canada. to paddling around the world's shipwreck capital. we are on top of this massive bank that has been there for over 100 yea rs. has been there for over 100 years. in the meantime you can catch up with more of our trips on social media. we are at all the usual places and you will

find some of our recent shows on the bbc iplayer. until then, from all our buyers, looking longingly at the check—in desks here at london city airport, it is goodbye.

to viewers really understand what they'll mean? 0ur economics editorfor bbc what they'll mean? 0ur economics editor for bbc news tells us how try to make sense of the numbers on behalf of the audience. before we hear your comments regular viewers will spot that today we are trying out new backdrop.

i'm still in a very small studio but through the magic of cgi we have replaced our recorded images of the newsroom with a different part of new broadcasting house, so see what you think and in the meantime the bbc are reshooting background footage of the newsroom to use behind some interviewees on bbc to replace those filmed before the epidemic so that we reflect the current socially distant way of working here. it was covid—19 again which provided the big news of the week from many of those in england with the unveiling of which tears of restrictions will apply where from next week on. some areas have been the highest areas of restrictions. pubs and restaurants will provide takeaway only and there will be no mixing of households except up to six people in outdoor spaces such as parks. this was objected to by some.

the impact of the pandemic was keenly felt on wednesday's announcement of the spending plans for the coming year. the statement was much anticipated and when carol kirkwood was telling viewers about what weather to expect this happened... some of the showers could be heavy and we'll see a few of those... pulling away from the weather because oh, you know what, wejust missed him. he has, the chancellor, that is. we were talking about him just a second ago. he just left number 11 and has disappeared into that car.

0ne viewer got straight onto the phone and left us this message. i was watching the weather forecast which i was interested in, and it was brutally interrupted, from the studio to share a piece of non—news. we were told, unfortunately, we have just missed the chancellor getting into his car. since when is somebody getting into a car been news and so newsworthy as to interrupt other essential services? the chancellor's car did deliver him to the house of commons and just after we spoke of their political correspondent jonathan blake reported from westminster about the sums of money we've been told had been spent so far as a result of covid. it is about five times the amount. the government spends each year on its most expensive departmental bill.

the department for work and pensions, welfare payments. it will spend another 50 billion next year. the chancellor said that level of spending and the government has to do is not sustainable. there noises gave rise to a complaint to be heard frequently last year when demonstrators were frequently heard off camera outside parliament. there are plenty more opportunities over the next couple of days to hear analysis of and reaction to the statement, particularly active on air, as you would expect was the bbc‘s economics editor. today's focus shows that the

economy will shrink by over 11% this year. a three century record. it will recover slowly next year which means an annual increase in borrowing only seen during world wars. £400 billion. 19% of the national economy. the interest bill to pay for it is also tumbling. not everyone finds it easy to get there had heads around those numbers notjust because they are so large a bit because in the case of the spending review are a budget there is simply so many of them. a report released by the office of national statistics found that people lack a basic understanding of economic statistics such as the deficit and mistrusts official data. that is one of the challenges faced. welcome to newswatch. even when we're not in the pandemic the spending review would be a huge task for you to process and explain. can you talk as to how you go about doing that?

in days running up to it, we tried to scope out exactly what the broader parameters are, and how much is going to be spent. we tend to get quite a lot of it preannounced by the treasury. a mixture of lea ks, unauthorised but also actually the announcements that are going to come on the following wednesday happening during the course of the previous few days. you have to analyse then and there is a particular challenge there because you don't get all the information so you might get a partial announcement and you have to be wary of exactly what is being communicated. you've already hinted at one of the concern that viewers have which is how far you should be reporting government leaks and rumours put out beforehand. it would take the example of a cutting foreign aid budget which was definitely wheat well in advance. do you ever feel that

you are being played? whenever you get information on officially you do process the motive for getting that piece of information. make sure that it is not just been given to you in a partial way so that it is reported in a slightly, with a lack of nuance. you have to be aware of the bases on which information is turning up in your inbox or on your whatsapp in your messages or occasionally by carrier pigeon. you have to be aware of why you're getting that information to how you reported but i tend to find that actually, it is worth just waiting a bit of it until the official information comes out and you can fully assess the context of that government announcement but i think it would be naive to assume that you would never report these things in advance. these discussion and debates are happening in private, good journalist would want to be on that but i think you are right to say that we should put a certain health warning on the quality of some of that information that comes through

before it is official. the office for national statistics this week reported that most people don't really understand very much about economic data, and its terms, and i wonder if you should be doing even more to explain and spell at the difference between, say, debt and deficit. some of these concepts for viewers. it depends on the outlet as well but you're absolutely right. i would say that they're twin deficits but this would run up against the problem either in my answers. twin challenges of complexity and controversy. and we need to be able to guide viewers, listeners, readers do all of that. 0n complexity, it is true that we have to bear in mind some basic concepts for an economic audience or political audience such as the deficit needs to be unpacked but i also think there is a challenge as well with brevity. if you tried to explain

with the sentence or couple of sentences every single thing of it time you said would never say anything. the numbers we are now talking about are so huge, the scaler borrowing can be hard for many of us to grasp it equally, i am wondering, as an economist yourself, when you report that, the biggest debt situation for 300 years, is it a bit scary even for you? yes. you have to bear in mind, it is not ourjob to scare anybody, it is ourjob to inform people and one way to communicate batting in context of that is historical comparisons. you mentioned the borrowing. as a proportion of national income. the largest since world war ii. perhaps a better way, and one i tried to use to explain it as we've only

seen this level of borrowing in world wars so that gives you a better understanding of the scale of the crisis says that the government has dealt with. it is a world war. we need to come up with ways of explaining things that bring alive the decimal point percentage and it is a challenge, and it is not surprising that some would feel that this is daunting. it is daunting but there are ways through it. thank you so much. wednesday was a busy day on the news channel. as well as that spending review there was a sad and distressing breaking news story to report. welcome to bbc news and we begin this morning with the news which has just emerged in the last few minutes which we brought you in the headlines that the duchess of sussex has revealed

she has had a miscarriage. she revealed the news in an article she has written for the new york times. christine e—mailed us to say this morning we had three videosand, while of the comments in the new york times, followed closely with the story being read word for word. newsjust coming in in the last few moments that the argentinian football legend maradona has died. jan riddle was less than impressed with the coverage that followed thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear an bbc news e—mail

or you can find us on twitter. you can call us. hello there. friday was a decidedly chilly day, particularly in those places where fog lingered. the weekend promises something just a little bit milder, but it will often be quite cloudy, that cloud at times will produce the odd spot of rain and some quite murky conditions as well. low pressure to the southwest, high pressure to the east of us, that is driving a fairly gentle southerly flow across the british isles.

you can see a few different weather fronts moving through bringing some patchy rain, but with that southerly flow we are importing some slightly milder air. we've still got some pretty chilly conditions, though, across the northern half of the uk, and a frost to start off across the far north of england. parts of northern ireland and scotland, a bit of fog through the central belt. any rain in scotland becoming increasingly confined to the far north, but at the same time this big lump of cloud pushing up from the south across much of england and wales producing the odd spot of rain through the day. and some quite misty, murky conditions in places as well. perhaps something brighter into the far southeast, certainly some sunshine for the channel islands. highest temperatures in the south at 13—14 celsius. now, as we head through saturday night, this big lump of cloud with some mist and murk, and some spots of rain will all continue to drift its way slowly northwards. clear skies in northeast scotland, we could see a touch of frost here, but elsewhere temperatures on sunday morning will be above freezing. sunday, though, does look like a pretty cloudy affair. there will be the odd spot of rain or drizzle here and there. best chance of any sunshine through the channel islands, far southwest of england, maybe west wales, and also

northeast scotland. the cloud breaking up here as the winds begin to pick up a little bit. top temperatures 8—10 celsius. maybe 12 in the far southwest of england. a bit of a change into the start of the new working week, because we will see a frontal system pushing in from the north. that will bring outbreaks of rain quite erratically week, because we will see a frontal system pushing in from the north. that will bring outbreaks of rain quite erratically southwards across the british isles through the day on monday. that rain likely to be quite light and patchy, certainly as it gets down towards the south. some brighter skies following on from the north, but with the winds coming down from the north, it'll start to feel quite chilly once again. temperatures in most places 8—10 celsius. tuesday should be a dry day for most, and then later in the week, temperatures will take a tumble. we'll see some rain at times and perhaps something wintry over high ground.

good morning, welcome to breakfast with rachel burden and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today: a warning that hospitals in england could become overwhelmed with coronavirus cases if mps don't back new restrictions. a worrying weekend for 13,000 workers at some of retail‘s biggest names — the group that owns topshop, dorothy perkins, and miss selfridge is on the brink of collapse. iran blames israel for the assassination of its most senior nuclear scientist. in one of the most dramatic finshes in grand final history, st helens beat wigan warriors in the last move of the game, to once again be crowned rugby league's super league champions.