welcome to bbc news. i'm james reynolds. our top stories: america's leading infectious disease expert warns of a surge of covid cases between thanksgiving christmas. when you have the kind of inflection that we have, it does not turn around just like that. perhaps even two of three weeks down the line we will have the same thing. donald trump claims the fbi and the department ofjustice are working against him, and again repeats un—substatianted claims the election was "rigged". the united nations says 110 civilians have been killed in an attack by suspected islamist militants in nigeria. a miraculous escape at the bahrain grand prix — romain grosjean's car hits a crash barrier and bursts into flames.

star wars music plays and the man who became darth vader, the actor, david prowse, has died at the age of 85 the us‘s top infectious disease expert is warning there could be a surge upon a surge in covid—19 cases, as millions travel home after thanksgiving. anthony fauci says the outbreak is likely to get even worse and has urged people to wear masks. the us has recorded more than 13 million coronavirus cases since january this year. as of sunday, the number of covid—19 cases recorded in november have passed four million, double the figure recorded in october. health experts

had called for people to spend thanksgiving at home, but, anywhere from 800,000 to more than one million travellers passed through us airport checkpoints on any day during the past week — marking the busiest period since march. we may see a surge upon a search. we don't want to frighten people but that is just the reality. we said that these things would happen as we got into the cold weather and as we began travelling and that they happened. it is going to happen again so i cannot see all of a sudden the relaxation of the kinds of recommendations oi’ of the kinds of recommendations or restrictions because getting into colder weather and an even larger holiday season as people travelled to come back and forth. dr dean blumberg is an infectious diseases specialist at the university of california. if it up to you, would you ask people to stay put until this is over? absolutely. people

need to social distance, stay put, not interact with people as much as possible outside their house on and when they are out doing essential business then they have to be wa ry business then they have to be wary masks. america has this calendar, a major national festival at the end of november, thanksgivings, and christmas a few weeks later and that complicates it more for america than other countries. it is lining up in the worst way possible we thanksgiving. thanksgiving is a traditional holiday where extended family and friends together. we expected it to be an increase in cases in an incubation period of 2— four weeks and after that christmas will see an additional increase in cases. we are eight months into this, is fatigue playing apart? they just want to see their families and not pay attention

to instruction? pandemic fatigue place a large role and there is also a mass fatigue, —— masks fatigue. and they missed theirfamily —— masks fatigue. and they missed their family and friends. how quickly will america be able to distribute a vaccine once america be able to distribute a vaccine once one america be able to distribute a vaccine once one is approved?” think there will be able to do well with vaccine distribution. for example in 2009, we had an oval vaccine and it can be done. it does depend on vaccine availability and also on public confidence in the vaccine. thank you so much forjoining us. mexico's health ministry has confirmed 196 new coronavirus deaths and more than 6388 new infections on sunday. more than 105,000 people have now died from the virus in the country. the health authorities say

the real number is likely to be much higher, because there isn't enough testing going on. president trump has lashed out at both the fbi and us department ofjustice, saying they were working against him in his efforts to overturn the result of the election. in his first interview since his defeat, donald trump repeated unsubstantiated claims the election was, in his, words, "rigged". this is total fraud and how the fbi and department ofjustice, i don't know, maybe they're involved. but how people are allowed to get away with this stuff is unbelievable. this election was rigged. this election was a totalfraud. my mind will not change in six months. there was tremendous cheating here. the un says nigeria's most deadly islamist attack this year could have left up to 100 people dead. dozens of farm workers were brutally killed although the exact number isn't known, with some people still missing. paul hawkins reports.

another grim milestone in nigeria's longwall with islamist militants. dozens of farm labourers rounded up and they throats lead. rice fields which became killing fields. a number of women were also reportedly kidnapped. translation: there were six of us in the bush, we went back into the village, we were shot. we changed our route and went through a nearby village. we met so many people fleeing without knowing where they were going to. some were even unconscious. rice was sent on fire. the main attack happened here. they have been fighting the government. over the ten year conflict 30,000 people have died and over 2 million have died and over 2 million have been made homeless. this

latest attack is one of the worse in recent months. neither group have claimed responsibility. president muhammadu buhari's spokesperson wrote... translation: boko haram killed many of our people. we need assistance, weapons and armed men because weapons and armed men because we have used to guide our farm while working. please, please, god sake. because for more military assistance are growing. it is not the first time farmers have been attacked by islamist militants who are saying they passed on information. local media quoting an mp said this recent attack was because farmers had arrested a boko haram government on friday. it is audacious and a rather horrific reminder of past attacks, such

as the mass adoption of the schoolgirls and the mass abductions that occurred in 2018. it reminds us how bad the crisis is. a crisis that seems without end. the government repeatedly claims the militants have been defeated by the attacks coming, people keep dying and the grief and insecurity keeps rising. paul hawkins, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news: jagger's madonna doctor is being looked into. dr leopoldo luque. the footballer died aged 60 last week. aid workers have urged the ethiopian government

to allow humanitarian supplies into the tigray region after the authorities asserted that more than three weeks of fighting was over. the international committee of the red cross has warned that a major hospital in the main city, mekele, is dangerously low on basics, including antibiotics, painkillers and even food. communications have been cut, so there are still no details of the numbers killed or injured. trade negotiations between the uk and the european union are continuing after talks stretched over the weekend. there's only a month to go until the end of the transition period. the british government says a deal could soon be concluded, although substantial differences remain over eu fishing rights in uk waters. human rights activists in belarus say more than three hundred opposition supporters have been detained by the security forces this weekend. it's the 16th straight weekend of protests against president alexander lu kashenko. tens of thousands of people across the country took part, with as many as sixty separate demonstrations in the capital minsk. the formula one driver romain g rosjea n the formula one driver romain grosjean has escaped serious

injury after a crash at the lorraine grand prix. the car split in half when it hit a barrier and the first part burst into flames. the driver was taken to hospital with minor burns. a titanium bar protecting the cockpit and romain grosjean. fla mes insta ntly cockpit and romain grosjean. flames instantly surrounded the driver. that should not happen and will be part of the investigation but with medics attending, romain grosjean hands burning on the metal was able to escape. an escape which seemed miraculous. he was later reflecting in hospital about how the car's improvements had saved his life. i just how the car's improvements had saved his life. ijust want saved his life. i just want to say i am ok, well, sort of ok. thank you very much for the messages. i think without the

security i would not be here today. lewis hamilton tweeted the crash was a reminder of the risks, the extreme danger that is still there. as soon as a grand prix resume, and other collision. a car upturned. the driver pulled out unharmed. a safety car finally led the races home after another incident. lewis hamilton one but 20 drivers came to bahrain and 20 lived to drive again. let's speak to affirm what driver also involved in crashes. when you saw those pictures of romain grosjean escaping from a burning cockpit, that is miraculous. that is for sure. the one thing that we really fear in also

racing is a fire and it was amazing that he was able to get himself out of the car and get across as well. i guess in fairly good shape. it would have been a different situation so thank god for the improvements. you were injured ina improvements. you were injured in a crash. it is frightening to watch 20 years later let alone to be in it. how did you manage to get through it? alone to be in it. how did you manage to get through mm was a spectacular crash. about crashes when you did not survive. so it was a good crash, just very spectacular. nascar safety systems work really well. they kept me from going into the grandstand, thank god, killing people. people were injured from debris but no—one was hurt seriously.

the cap was torn off, and so i am very blessed to be alive, lord. he definitely saved me that day. i was gone but there was no question that the lord save me. of course we had all the safety equipment. a modern—day seat that i developed kept me in place stop the seatbelt, the helmets. if you see videos, without that fullfa ce you see videos, without that fullface helmet, i would have been injured much more than i was. i did not knowl could call it a spectacular crash, i now will with you permission. just like the crash you had and the one romain grosjean had, does it make you scared to go behind the wheel? no, it makes me scared to stay home. we climb in all those cars and we know the risks we are taking. we feel comfortable in the car.

we feel comfortable in the car. we are so say. we make sure the safety equipment is that an nascar has done a greatjob, just like formula one to know if you climb in a car, you feel safe but you know that something can happen and if you race long enough, itjust might. formula one has made a number of safety improvements over the years. it used to lose drivers all the time back in the 70s. have they got the right measure now between risk and right measure now between risk a nd safety ? right measure now between risk and safety? i think so. the halo is a lifesaver sure stop nascar did away with the guard rails. they put in a soft while that if the car heads the well, it compresses a little bit and ta kes it compresses a little bit and takes the initial energy out of the crash and that really helps. nascar cars are really heavy and when i was involved in my crash into thousand, i was going 190 miles an hour

when that started it was quite a hard hit and maybe that is why it was hard. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the mystery of the metal monolith discovered last week, in a us desert — it's vanished as unexpectedly as it arrived. it's quite clear that the worst victims of this disaster are the poor people living in the slums which have sprung up around the factory. i am feeling so helpless that the children are dying in front of me and i can't do anything. charles manson is the mystical leader of the hippie cult suspected of killing sharon tate and at least six other people

in los angeles. at 11am this morning, just half a metre of rock separated britain from continental europe. it took the drills just a few moments to cut through the final obstacle. then philippe cozette, a minerfrom calais, was shaking hands and exchanging flags with robert fagg, his opposite number from dover. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: america's leading infectious disease expert warns of covid cases between thanksgiving and christmas. donald trump claims the fbi and the department ofjustice are working against him, and again repeats unsubstatianted claims the election was rigged. let's get more on president trump's first interview since the election. i'm joined by professor

justin levitt, a nationally recognised scholar of constitutional law and the law of democracy at loyola law school. i wonder, if there is a larger plan behind the president's a p pa re ntly plan behind the president's apparently scattershot series of allegations to turn his loss into a kind of legend that he can then avenge in four years time at the next election.” don't know if there is a plan so much as a series of instincts, and i don't know if those instincts will guide him to any successful resolution. i think seeing desperation, some of his personal psychology, some fundraising, the longer that these allegations go on the longer the lawsuits go on the longer the lawsuits go on the more he could keep raising money, and i think we are seeing some vengeance. believes he has always believed, that the american people were set against him from the start of his presidential term and i think he is endeavouring to set the american people againstjoe

biden for the start ofjoe biden‘s term, whether that leads to anything in four years tojo for leads to anything in four years tojo foertrump leads to anything in four years tojo for mr trump is going to be up to the voters. previously losing candidates conceded quickly even if it was better for them, i'm thinking about richard nixon, but mrtrump said a very different president. is this damaging? yes, ina president. is this damaging? yes, in a word. we don't necessarily need to rely on the concession from the mechanics to work themselves out. there is no doubt in my mind that i january 20, as is given under our law thatjoe biden will be inaugurated and will become the 46 president, but in the meantime, this continuing to rage against the process, deprecating how the elections we re deprecating how the elections were run, the fact that they do they were fair, taking down with him election officials of all parties, both democrats and republicans and neither, and castigating their work is selling a lot of damage that

future presidents, the future leaders will have to contend with, trying to teach millions of americans to believe in an alternative reality that an election was stolen, that was actually perfectly fairly run ca nt actually perfectly fairly run cant help but limit the willingness of americans to participate in the next election. one term presidents don't define the legacy. will he? i think you will redefine the office, not always for the better, he has tested a lot of what we formally understood to be pretty unbreakable norms, and know now that they are very breakable if the person in charge wants to break them. he has also tested the party system in america, and we have had a formal paper separation of powers between the executive and the legislature, and the judiciary, and now, it seems that congress under republican

rule has entirely acquiesced in what was a very unconventional and occasionally unlawful presidency. they have redefined the branches in relationship to each other and that is also not necessarily something to be celebrated. as always, thank you so much forjoining us. switzerland has voted narrowly against making companies with headquarters there legally liable for environmental or human rights violations that they cause anywhere in the world. a slim majority of people voted in favour of the proposal thanks to strong support in cities in the west of the country. most of the ca nto ns of the country. most of the cantons voted against it, and they did not make it to the required double majority. senior sources have told the bbc that they do not expect any last—minute rescue of the clothing company set up by

philip green. administrators could be appointed as early as monday. he was the man behind the mask, playing darth vader in the original star wars films, and co—stars and fans have been remembering the actor david prowse, who's died at the age of 85. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at his journey from bristol to one of hollywood's most successful franchises. at 66", with a towering figure, dave prowse was physically perfect for the part of darth vader in the original star wars trilogy in the 1970s and 1980s. looks like you two need a lesson in crossing the road. at the same time, he was also the face of road safety, presenting videos and visiting hundreds of schools as the green cross code man. we won't be there when you cross the road, so always use.. the green cross code. when i became darth vader, or at least when the star wars film came out, i almost got the sack from the government, because they thought that my image as darth vader would have a detrimental effect

on my image as the green cross code man. a champion body—builder, he eventually tried acting. as darth vader, he had the bulk, he had the build, but he also had a bristol accent. bristol accent: you are part of the rebel alliance and a traitor. take her away. went when the first film came out, he found his voice had been replaced by the now familiar booming tones of james earljones. prowse: start tearing the ship apart... jones: ..untilyou've found those plans, and bring me the passengers. i want them alive. mark hamill, who played luke skywalker, led the tributes, calling him much more than darth vader, describing him as "actor, husband, father, "member of the order of the british empire "weightlifting champion, safety icon, "a man who loved his fans as much as they loved him." ..i am your father. he may never have been the voice behind the villain, but the man behind the mask

of darth vader is how he'll always be remembered. for so many, he played the most iconic cinema villain ever seen. a mysterious metal object which was discovered in the utah desert last week, has now vanished. the discovery of the 12 foot tall object sparked a national guessing game as to what it was and how it got there. well, we may never get the answers as utah officials say the structure is no longer there. standing at more than 12 feet tall and shimmering in contrast to the red desert science, a strange object discovered in utah last week is shrouded in mystery. and that mystery has only deepened as now, it has disappeared. known as the utah monolith, this was the moment it was found. the intrepid

explorers go down to investigate the alien life form. evidence of light beyond this planet? or simply an intriguing work of art? the curious structure sparked a national guessing game with people desperate to work out what it was and how it got there. or does this kind of stuff? before long people were setting out to see it for themselves, some travelling more than nine hours to see it in the desert. now, hardly two weeks later and the object has vanished. there were several people working out of the wash that leads to the location and before we were there somebody had mentioned by the way, it's not there anymore, and we were heartbroken, we went know! but it was still called to see the small piece that was left and to see the actual location, and just the beauty of everything around it. it's unclear how the

structure first got there and it's equally unclear where it has gone. the utah bureau of land management denies removing the object and released a statement saying... now, with just now, withjust a now, with just a small piece of the original structure left, and a pile of rocks in the sand,it and a pile of rocks in the sand, it seems like the mystery of the utah monolith may never be solved. here is a mystery solved, palaeontologists have identified a fossil discovered in morocco is a previously unknown dinosaur. the creature which they have named was the size of a pony and a member of the duckbill dinosaur species which emerged in north america, dating back to the end of the

cretaceous area around 66 million years ago. some mysteries are solved. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @james bbc news. hello there. there was some sunshine around on sunday across south wales, south—west england. some areas saw temperatures of 15 degrees. for many, though, it was another one those dull and gloomy sort of days. but the weather is changing and that's happening now. these weather fronts coming down from the north—west, bringing patchy rain southwards on monday, the breeze picking up and blowing away that area of high pressure that's brought all the gloom during recent days. so, a frost—free start, but still quite gloomy in the south. the mist and fog are lifting as that patchy rain heads its way southwards. the rain affecting the hills in the west, little rain or no rain across southern parts of england. and in the afternoon, we get some sunshine after the rain in scotland and one or two showers. here, those temperatures start to drop away, mind you, but elsewhere, we stay in the mild air. temperatures 9, 10 or 11 degrees.

that patchy rain continues to work its way southwards during monday evening, clearing away for most areas, but still a hangback of cloud out towards the west. but with clearer skies across central and eastern parts of the uk, we're going to find a frost across eastern scotland and the north—east of england. that colder air has come down in a northerly breeze, behind the weather front bringing the patchy rain. but out to the west, the air is very different. this is much milder air, and it comes with a lot of cloud. and that milder cloudy air will topple its way steadily in from the atlantic into the uk and it will bring a little light rain or drizzle. but through the midlands, across lincolnshire, east anglia and the south east, we're going to hang onto the sunshine — some welcome sunshine. not a bad day here, temperatures of 8 or 9 degrees. quite a cold day across eastern scotland and the north—east of england. further west, temperatures may make double figures. it's a fairly quiet day on tuesday, but there's another weather front heading our way on wednesday. this one again won't bring very much rain at all.

it's more a broad area of cloud that's moving down across england and wales. and then behind that, towards the north—west, we get some sunshine, the wind picks up and we get some showers. gales in the north—west of scotland, and over the highlands, there may be some sleet or snow as it turns colder. 5 degrees here. further south and east, highs of 8 or 9. the weather is set to change later on in the week. low pressure is returning, stronger winds, some rain at times. not only that, but it will be feeling a lot cooler.

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the headlines: america's leading infectious disease expert, anthony fauci, has issued a warning about a surge of coronavirus cases. dr fauci says the severe outbreak is likely to get worse in the next few weeks due to millions travelling home after the thanksgiving holiday and the run—up to christmas. president trump has attacked the fbi and the us department of justice, accusing them of working against him in his efforts to overturn the result of the presidential election. he was speaking in his first interview since joe biden was declared the winner more than three weeks ago. the united nations says a deadly attack on farmers in the borno state of nigeria was the most violent assault on civilians this year. the humanitarian agency estimates at least 110 civilians were killed by suspected islamist militants. many of the victims were tending to crops when it happened.