this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. americans could start receiving vaccinations before christmas as drug giant moderna seeks emergency use approval. this is bbc world news, the headlines. the us health secretary the american biotech company moderna is filing with regulators in the eu strikes an optimistic note. and america to approve the use we'll ship within 2a hours of fda authorisation, of its coronavirus vaccine. the us health secretary says so we could be seeing both of these the first doses could be vaccines out and getting administered before christmas. into people's arms before christmas. england's tough lockdown measures joe biden is to receive his first appear to be paying off detailed briefing on national security issues, as the transition as new covid cases drop by a third from president trump takes another step. since the beginning of the month. the president's daily 13,000 jobs at risk as the british brief is a tradition retail group arcadia, that goes back decades. which owns topshop, goes 13 thousand jobs are at risk into administration. in britain as the retail group and he's been called arcadia — which owns topshop goes into administration. the world's loneliest elephant, it's hired administrators after the pandemic but at last, an uplifting "severely impacted" sales.

experience as he's transported to a new life among friends. the french government says it's dropping a draft law that would ban filming of police officers, and plans to rewrite the bill. tens of thousands of people across france marched against the proposed law on saturday. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the first two vaccines against coronavirus could be given to americans before christmas, that's according to the us health secretary alex ayzar. it comes as a second us company, moderna, applied for emergency use approval for its coronavirus vaccine in the united states and eu. mr ayzar said that the latest vaccine breakthroughs offered cause for optimism. pfizer submitted their application for emergency authorisation and then moderna today is going to be submitting with pfizer. we at the fda announced

an advisory committee for december the 10th, and if everything is on track, everything proves out what it appears to be, we could be looking at approval within days after that. moderna is basically one week behind that, and general perna has said from operation warp speed that we'll ship within 2a hours of fda authorisation. so, we could be seeing both these vaccines out and getting into people's arms before christmas. meanwhile, the most populous county in the united states, los angeles county, which has over 10 million people living there, has now entered what's being called a ‘safer at home‘ lockdown which will last for three weeks. earlier, the tv personality sharon 0sborne told bbc world news what the city of los angeles is like now. you know, la is... you wouldn't recognise it if you came here. all the shops are boarded up, there's more homeless than ever. it's not very fun here at all.

it's quite depressing to see what has happened to the city. honestly, you wouldn't recognise it. let's head to la now and speak with our north america correspondent peter bowes. the governor was saying the productions... it carried on as it was, it would exceed the icu bed capacity. so, where's that capacity at the moment? well, it's approaching full capacity. he's talking about in just a couple of weeks' time, california's hospitals, not just weeks' time, california's hospitals, notjust in weeks' time, california's hospitals, not just in los weeks' time, california's hospitals, notjust in los angeles county, where the lockdown has been in force, this is state—wide. there are fears the entire hospital system will be overwhelmed with cases, and just to give you a picture of how bad it is, the description we just heard is very accurate. the number of boarded up buildings, people you

see roaming the streets, there is a terrible homeless problem here anyway, but it is clearly much worse now. the number of new infections has quadrupled. the number of people being admitted to hospital and dying ona being admitted to hospital and dying on a daily basis has tripled, one in every 145 people in los angeles cou nty every 145 people in los angeles county have the coronavirus, and at the moment, there is no sign of that slowing down which is why these restrictions have been brought in. although i have to say, they aren't as restricting as what we had earlier in the year at the beginning of the outbreak. i think that's because officials here have learned what works and what doesn't work, so some parts are staying open, the beaches are staying open, although not many people going this time of year. public swimming pools with lap swimming are staying open, and that's been a lifeline with a bunch of people who can get their exercise of. i suppose we still don't know what the fallout from thanksgiving is going to be. that is the big

worry, and a lot of people still late on monday now returning from that very long weekend having been advised at a national level not to travel over this traditional holiday. a lot of people went to did it anyway. far fewer than holiday. a lot of people went to did it anyway. farfewer than most yea rs. it anyway. farfewer than most years. those people coming home. it's being suggested to those people who travelled that they self quarantine no matter what their circumstances, almost to assume they come into contact with coronavirus during their travels. peter bowes, thank you very much indeed. let's get more on that vaccine development now. we can speak to paul duprex, virologist and director for the center for vaccine research at university of pittsburgh. the centre is also working on its own vaccine. we spoke a week or so ago, thank you for joining we spoke a week or so ago, thank you forjoining us again. good news that these three vaccines are close to getting approval, but should we be looking at the efficacy rate with

the safety rate? talk us through how these things arejudged. the safety rate? talk us through how these things are judged. yeah, it's good to talk to you again, tim. let's think about how these things arejudged and let's think about how these things are judged and what's really important is to separate the word advocacy from safety. —— efficacy from safety. before, and the phase three trials that have been taking place, before we ask does it work, and earlier studies, we asked firstly, is it safe? then we go on ask is it safe and does it create a response when the person's vaccinating? the third, does it create a response and all that were? these are the analyses we are getting at the moment. —— and does it work. that's why you're hearing 94.1% and 95% in all these different

percentages based on efficacy. let separate advocacy from safety. safety is different. safety is checked at every single stage during the process and the two things are different. and if these vaccines, as we heard, some could be ready to be put in use before christmas. that is something that the public, the world can trust, obviously? yes, even though this has happened fast, and has gone through the same types of safety checks and efficacy checks that a standard vaccine would undergo. remember that the fda are reviewing thousands of pages of documents, and that's notjust in america. there is other regulatory agencies in the united kingdom, canada, switzerland, throughout the rest of the world. they are also trawling through these data to absolutely be certain that the trials are vigorous, careful and the data says this is safe, immunogenic

and effective. pfizer and roger and iare using and effective. pfizer and roger and i are using new technology. the action agenda is not —— pfizer and moderna. does that offer hope for other diseases we don't know about in the future with yellow absolutely. these developments are really brand—new. we haven't got an mrna vaccine licence as of yet. so, what does this teach us? we really have a renaissance in vaccine development, and what we're learning at the moment because of all of these creative ways to develop the vaccines will be useful in the future because what you must remember is infectious diseases are a lwa ys remember is infectious diseases are always our adversary. there was sars in the past, mers and the middle east, what we know in the future is

these viruses will continue to come and we will continue to need to be ready to defeat them with good vaccines of. good to speak to you. thank you very much indeed for joining us on bbc news. here in the uk, a major study has found the number of cases in england has fallen by about a third during the current national lockdown. some of the worst—affected areas, such as the north—west, have seen the biggest improvements, but cases remain relatively high. the government's former chief medical officer, dame sally davies, said poor public health and obesity have led to a "much increased" covid death rate in the uk. 0ur health editor hugh pym has more details. swab the back of your throat, your tonsil region, about three times. a massive programme of rapid result testing for students is under way at many uk universities, part of the plan to get them safely home for the festive break. two negative results and they're urged to head straight home. if positive, there's still time to self—isolate for ten days and then get back for the holiday period.

i think it was a really important thing for a lot of students in uni to kind of lobby for the fact that students need a breakaway from university overwinter break, and i'm really glad that they're getting it. i think the take—up shows that students are such active parts of our communities. testing for students is voluntary and is not available to every student at every university, so how effective can that programme be? i think it will make a good difference, a good positive difference, but as i say, we haven't made it mandatory because that brings in all sorts of other considerations and we think that it is therefore best done on a voluntary basis. with more than a million students in england likely to be on the move, there have been concerns about the potential spread of the virus, though there was news today that infections were receding. the latest survey of virus case rates in england by imperial college london suggests there has been a decline of 30% since the end of october,

just before the lockdown. the biggest falls were seen in the north—east of england, down 62%, and the north—west, down 57%. there was a fall of 35% in the yorkshire and humber region and other parts of england also saw a decline, apart from the east and west midlands, where there was little change. everyone wants to know what further progress can be made, but questions are also being asked about how we got to where we are in this pandemic. we need to put health at the top of our agenda. the uk's covid death rate remains higher than many others, and dame sally davies, former government chief medical adviser, told me that underlying health problems left people here more vulnerable to the virus. i think our poor public health, whether it's deprivation, overweight or other chronic illnesses, alongside crowding in urban areas,

have led to a much increased death rate over what we could have had if we had a healthier basic population and less deprivation. ministers say community testing with rapid results offers a way forward, but there are continuing questions about how realistic this might be given the resources and staffing required to deliver it. hugh pym, bbc news. some call it the newspaper with the smallest circulation in the world. the us president—electjoe biden will be receiving his first presidential daily brief today, a highly classified, detailed look at national security issues, carefully selected across the us intelligence community. the outgoing president donald trump approved the briefings for mr biden last week as part of the formal transition process. the president's daily brief is a tradition that goes back decades. let's speak now to javed ali. he's a former senior director

for counter—terrorism at the us national security council, including two years under the trump administration. he has produced presidential daily briefs and knows well how they work. hejoins us now from michigan. thanks very much forjoining us here. this is the start of the journey, the path of the white house. what sort of access will he get? will it be exactly what the president himself gets? thanks for having me on the show tonight. good question. in theory, the intelligence briefings that president—elect biden and his team will be receiving should be the same as the ones that president trump and his team gets. hopefully there will be that symmetry. the one thing you wouldn't want to disadvantage the president—elect coming in is sort of not being as wholesome or

short—changing the full spectrum of issues that they need to get up to speed on. the hope is that if those briefings are indeed occurring for the president—elect and his team, thenit the president—elect and his team, then it will be the exact same as president trump. you know about this, you've done many of them. are you talking about the role intelligence which has led to lots of problems and misunderstandings? 0rare we of problems and misunderstandings? or are we talking about intelligence being processed and presented in a tight written format? definitely much more the latter. these intelligence products go into the daily brief. they are basically stories that contain different parts, different pieces of intelligence. it's very rare for a story to land at the desk of the president and his team to be based

onjust one single president and his team to be based on just one single piece of intelligence. that would be good analytic tradecraft, as a term from the business. so, usually with the stories, they are cultivated over some period of time. they can be turned relatively quickly, but usually they take days, if not weeks. there are many levels of management review that go into them, so it's not even from the desk of a former analyst of myself —— like my myself. the timing of when these stories get printed awe presented, that's also something the production tea m that's also something the production team that is responsible has to think through. what you try to do is put these stories in front of the president and his team when they are the most relevant, as opposed to

just randomly putting them forward. just briefly, as vice president, he will be used to this but as this moment, can he raise questions which you might have about some of these briefings? absolutely. that's part of the process too. it has different layers but there's also a top—down driven approach where at any days when these briefings occur, whether it's the president or the president—elect, questions can be delivered to the referrers in the referrers will then come back and then put the questions back into the process so analysts can also work on responses “— process so analysts can also work on responses —— delivered to the briefers. then get briefed back up. so it's a continuous process of back and forth, top—down and bottom—up. thank you very much indeed for joining us here on bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come...

has lockdown changed the dating scene for good? we'll be speaking to a relationship expert about the boom in online dating. 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. the children are dying in front of me and i can't do anything. charles manson is suspected of killing six other people in los angeles. at 11 o'clock this morning, just half a metre a block separated

britain from continental europe. it took the drillsjust britain from continental europe. it took the drills just a few moments took the drills just a few moments to cut through. this is bbc news. the latest headlines... the us health secretary has said americans could start receiving vaccinations before christmas as drug giant moderna seeks emergency use approval. england's tough lockdown measures appear to be paying off as new covid cases drop by a third since the beginning of the month. more than 13,000 jobs are at risk after the british retail group arcadia went into administration. the group includes high street names like topshop, burton and dorothy perkins. it had been seeking a new injection of cash following lost sales because of the pandemic. our business editor

simonjack has the latest. in his pomp, a fashion emperor who dominated the high street and didn't mind flaunting the vast wealth it brought him, lavish parties attended by the rich, powerful and famous, a description he felt comfortable with himself. the empire was full of household names that customers of all ages would recognise. tonight, that empire has collapsed into administration. there's going to be huge unemployment... the woman credited with building the topshop brand explains where it all went wrong. philip's overriding concern was to buy something as cheaply as he could possibly buy it and then sell it for as much as he could get for it. the online players such asos and boohoo don't have the cost base of the stores, they don't have to pay for staffing in their stores. all they have is their online presence. they are much better at it, they've invested a huge amount of money in it and they have a much better connection with their customers. the list of retail failures is a long one, but arcadia

is the biggest for years. there are 444 stories and hundreds more concessions within other stores. there are 13,000 workers whose jobs are at risk and an estimated £350 million hole in the pension scheme. this is, or was, thejewel in the ground that in truth slipped many years ago. once a powerhouse of fashion retail led by the king of the high street, now a business in ruins, led by a man considered the unacceptable face of capitalism. but this is not about one person. this, tonight, is about the 13,000 people who are facing a very uncertain christmas and thousands more in a very troubled high street retail sector. simon here, thanks so much for talking to us today. i spoke to one arcadia worker who didn't want to be identified who said the uncertainty had come at the worst possible time. a lot of us are feeling a bit anxious because we don't know the full extent about what's happening ourselves. for us, it's about money around christmas time, bills have to go out,

we don't know if we can afford stuff for christmas. we're worried about what will happen to our pension schemes. will we still get paid if we're in administration? tonight, sir philip is here on his £100 million yacht in monaco where his wife is resident and who received a £1.2 billion tax—free dividend from the business in 2005. there is another twist, debenhams makes money from renting store space to arcadia brands. arcadia's collapse could scupper a rescue of the department store byjd sports, another 12,000 jobs at risk. the pandemic has been brutal to businesses with underlying health issues. suddenly you've had covid which has left you a perfect storm in retail, and those retailers who didn't move on during that perfect storm are the ones who are going to suffer and die, and that's what's happening to arcadia. but they're not alone, there are other retailers in a perilous position as we stand today. stores are open in scotland and will open in england on wednesday, as administrators try to sell off christmas stock and maybe some bits of the business.

they say the search for love is never easy but meeting up with someone has become even more of a challenge during the pandemic. 0nline dating apps have reported a boom in activity as millions of people look for romance in lockdown. let's talk to samantha jayne, a relationship expert and dating coach who joins us from sydney. welcome to bbc news. this all came a bit late for me, and i think for a lot of people my age as well, but have you got all age groups now involved in online dating because of the lockdowns? absolutely. it's really push people out of their comfort zones. people have never tried online dating are out there meeting new people, and it's been a huge success. it's been a big boom for online dating. so, has that changed the attitude of people as well that perhaps that they're looking for more of a genuine relationship than may be a pick—up just for going out for a night or

couple of nights? absolutely. so, particularly with millennials, they we re particularly with millennials, they were struggling with the hookup culture. it was very trendy. where's coronavirus has been making people realise what's really important, and it's all about that genuine emotional connection. what i'm hearing most is, ijust want to meet... how do you know it's genuine when people come to you and they say to give advice? what your feedback been? it's all about checking to see, a lot of people would justjump on straightaway. to see if they're in mind —— aligned with their goals. rather than going straight to the pick—up. rather than going straight to the pick-up. and ghosting? ghosting

u nfortu nately pick-up. and ghosting? ghosting unfortunately is still around. however, it has actually happened last because i think with the coronavirus, people arejust last because i think with the coronavirus, people are just waking up coronavirus, people are just waking up and realising what's really important is actually having integrity and thinking about how it feels to be on the receiving end. you will still have those people who goes, but most people are actually... basically, face-to-face dating is better? well, yes, it is better but you have to start online. then you have the opportunity to actually date. expert dating coach, thank you very much indeed. the singer, rita 0ra, has apologised for holding a 30th birthday party at the weekend.

police confirmed they were called to a london restaurant to investigate a potential breach of covid regulations. 0n instagram, the singer admitted having a "small gathering", and said it was an inexcusable error ofjudgement. i think she said it was an impromptu. she has offered to pay a fine of £10,000. it's not clear whether she is doing that or whether the restaurant has to do that. a lot of questions being asked about how that number of people managed to actually get into that restaurant on actually get into that restaurant on a saturday night. he's known as the world's loneliest elephant, but he's lonely no more. 36—year—old kavaan has been airlifted from his small enclosure in a pakistan zoo to a new life in cambodia. after kavaan's partner passed away eight years ago, he became the only asian elephant in the whole of pakistan.

but now, after a seven—hour flight he's arrived at his new home, and he is happy. that's good news. for me and the team, see you soon. hello there. we've started this week on a relatively quiet note. quite a lot of grey, gloomy weather around. although scotland didn't fare too badly with some sunshine. for the rest of this week, things are set to turn much colder and a lot more unsettled. as low pressure takes over will see some rain, sleet and snow in some places. we've got this ridge of high pressure building in early on tuesday. fairly strong winds down the east coast. a cold front which spreads southward across the country during the overnight. a chilly start but bright with some very welcome sunshine across many parts of central southern, eastern parts of england. a cloud will be thickening up again. this time against northern and western areas into the afternoon. it's going to be a chilly day pretty much wherever you are.

in the warmest spots out west and also in the sunny spot in the east could make nine or 10 degrees. as we head through tuesday night it looks like another front will start to push into northern and western areas. this is a cold front, on it there will be outbreaks of rain. quite a lot of cloud and other clear, chilly night in the southeast. the northwest will turn cooler with some as we head through wednesday, this cold front will slowly migrate southwards and introduce much colder air or north and west of the uk. very windy as well with gales in the northwest of scotland. it will be bright here it was sunshine, blustery showers, heavy across scotland the increasing wintry over the hills. but for england and wales, will see quite a bout of cloud with outbreaks of rain. confined to the southeast skies behind it will bright up here. behind it will brighten up here. that cold front clears through as we head on into thursday. low—pressure takes over. it's going to be windy, outbreaks of rain some of which could be quite

heavy through thursday, especially through parts of england and wales. southern england and wales will see the heavy strength of the day for that, could see some gales through the channel as well. further north a bit brighter spells of sunshine, a few showers there will be wintry. even down to lower levels across scotland friday, big area of low pressure spirals across the country. bringing further spells of strong winds and heavy rain. we could see the threat of some sleet and snow across the northern hills without perhaps even down to lower levels at times. there will be a bit of sunshine here and there too. 00:28:29,607 --> 2147483051:50:59,519 another cold day 2147483051:50:59,519 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 on the cards for all.