this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the us attorney general, appointed by president trump, says he's found no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election. president electjoe biden unveils his economic team — urging members of congress to unite and pass an economic aid programme. the ice make to the right, 291. noes to the left, 78. the ayes have it. unlock! despite the biggest backbench rebellion of this parliament, borisjohnson has secured enough

support to introduce a new set of tiered covid restrictions in england. and — a chinese spacecraft lands on the moon to collect the first rock samples in more than a0 years. let's start in the united states, where the us attorney general william barr says no evidence has emerged of widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the presidential election. this comes despite repeated claims made by president trump that the election was stolen. last month mr barr issued a directive to us attorneys across the country to pursue any "substantial allegations". he is one of the president's most ardent supporters, but his patience appears to be wearing thin.

lets head to los angeles now and speak with our north america correspondent peter bowes. he was a staunch ally of the president. how significant is this do you think? i think it is very significant. he has been very close with president trump during his term in office. but he is saying now really just seems to fly in the face of everything the president trump has been saying about the election and allegations of substantiated allegations he has been making ever since the polling day. saying that there is no evidence for this systemic fraud. that's unsubstantiated. and when he comes from somebody who is essentially the top law enforcement officer in the country, somebody who has been close to the president, it certainly must

make life extremely difficult for the president if he is to continue with this argument that he won the election. he has his personal lawyer still working on it. not sure what with the response has been from the trump camp but it will as you say effect the trajectory of these official challenges for the remaining counts. yes. i don't think it will stop the trump legal team and they have issued a fairly short statement saying that as far as they are concerned mr barr is not aware of all of the details of any investigations into these allegations of fraud whether or not that it allegations of fraud whether or not thatitis allegations of fraud whether or not that it is true, i think i remains to be saying and he may have a different view on that, but as far as pursuing legal cases, the president even this week filing more cases and disputing the result in the state of wisconsin where he asked for a recount in the recount came up with the same result that mr joe biden had one that particular state. it may take some of the heat

out of the argument as far as some of the president's supporters are concerned, perhaps senior republicans around the country, some of whom have still been relatively quiet about what they think of the president's attitude and when they see a staunch ally of the president, god is speaking in these very clear terms that has seen no evidence, i think i may calm things down and perhaps result in a few more republicans coming out and redistributing with the president has been saying. stay with just a moment. president electjoe biden has formally introduced key measures 01’ has formally introduced key measures or keep members of his economic team. he said their priority in the first 100 days would be to drive the economic recovery — and he urged congress to approve a coronavirus stimulus package right now, the full congress should come together and pass a robust package for relief. to address these urgent needs. but any package passed

ina urgent needs. but any package passed in a lame—duck session is likely to be at bestjust a start. my transition team has already worked on what i will put forward in the next congress to address the crisis we are facing, especially our economic and covid—19 crisis. a lot of women in diversity in this team. what is shaping up to be the economic policy for president—elect joe biden? you are right. a lot of women and adversity, and certainly a liberal stance to this team and many of his team members go back to the obama administration, some as far as bill clinton and i think the common thing is they are going to be supportive of strong, government spending, government stimulus spending, government stimulus spending to get america out of the economic hole that it is now and and there is a track record as far as these individuals are concerned of supporting that kind of approach, especiallyjenny yellen, who is

likely to be the treasury chief if confirmed by the senate and the confirmation seems fairly likely. she is getting support across the board in congress. she has spoken many times in the past about the american worker. —— janet yellen. and how americans are often collateral damage when the economy ta kes a collateral damage when the economy takes a nosedive. and it seems the emphasis is going to be on providing those kind of stimulus measures that will help individuals and help workers get on their feet as well as american businesses and that stimulus bill are that a bipartisan support, and i hundred an innate billions of dollars it may or may not get through congress before mr biden becomes the present. —— $908 billion. but he says that would just be the start and we can expect more government stimulus moving forward next year. —— becomes the president. thank you, peter for the latest. the us centers for disease control says health care workers and nursing home residents should get the first coronavirus vaccines in the us. an advisory panel voted 13—1

in favour of the non—binding recommendations, that will be made to states and other local jurisdictions if the food and drug administration grants emergency approval to vaccines, which is expected later this month. here in the uk the house of commons has voted in favour of the government's plan, to introduce a tiered system of restrictions in england, when the lockdown ends at midnight. dozens of conservative mps had questioned the new measures, with 55 voting against, the biggest rebellion for the government so far — arguing the restrictions should be targeted at smaller areas. with the details our deputy political editor, vicki young has the latest. tomorrow, lancaster will wake up under the strictest covid measures. we cannot afford to relax, especially during the cold months of winter. in westminster, the prime

minister makes his case for a regional tier system, but many here say it's unfair, the city has fewer cases than much of the rest of lancashire. phil is putting up decorations at the sun pub, but is worried no—one will be coming through the door to see them. we've moved into zombie mode, we're losing money every single week. it's an area that should be tier 2, potentially pushing for tier 1, and yet due to the fact that they won't split the county of lancashire, which is a massive county, we are being put in tier 3, so, it just seems unnecessary, its economic harm for the sake of it. it's painful and it's been hugely frustrating for everybody in lancaster. because it serves food, this bar won't benefit from a new one—off payment of £1,000. borisjohnson says he understands the burden on the hospitality industry and his message to mps — the end is in sight. this is not a return to normality. i wish it was so.

but it is a bit closer to normality than the present restrictions, and what we can't do is to lift all the restrictions at once, or move too quickly in such a way that the virus would begin to spread rapidly again. labour won't vote for or against the restrictions, a decision downing street said showed a lack of leadership, but sir keir starmer wants more financial help for businesses. i accept the case for restrictions, we will not stand in the way of these regulations, we do not want the restrictions to come off, but i am not going to stand here and pretend, as the prime minister does, that this is the plan that is going to solve it all, vote for this and it will all be fine through to easter. that is not going to happen and nobody should vote on that basis today. thank you, mr speaker. and dozens of conservative mps are refusing to endorse a tougher tier system, which will last until at least february. if government is to take away fundamental liberties of the people whom we represent, they must demonstrate beyond question that they are acting in a way that is both proportionate

and absolutely necessary. today, madam deputy speaker, i believe the government has failed to make that compelling case. and when it came to the vote, 55 conservative mps voted against the government, the largest rebellion boris johnson has faced. so, the ayes have it, the ayes have it. borisjohnson‘s plans have passed, but dozens of his own mps don't back them. many are hoping that a review in two weeks' time will move areas into lower tiers, but their real fear is that come january, the prime minister will be back here again asking for the measures to be extended for several more weeks. ministers insist they're trying to protect the nhs. back in lancaster, the local hospital is coping but under pressure. today we've got 85 patients in the hospital behind me who are inpatients with covid currently and we have to be sure that they are isolated from everybody else and the members of staff looking after them.

we're actually busier than usual this year because you have to take all of that into account, you have to take the distancing into account and you have to take absences of staff into account as well. for people in lancaster and beyond, life in a pandemic will be even more of a struggle through the winter months. vicki young, bbc news, westminster. a chinese spacecraft has landed on the moon, the changee five, touched down in a volcanic area. it'll spend three days scooping up samples to send back to earth. it's the first mission to take samples from the moon in over a0 years. china's had two successful landings — but this will be the first to come back with moon rocks. let's talk to someone who's been following this very carefully, australia's official astronomer—at—large, fred watson. fred, let's start with the technical feat here. this is pretty impressive for a country like china which

hasn't been in this race too long. you are absolutely right, tim. it is staggeringly impressive actually. the complexity of the mission, we look at it, as to what are aiming to achieve, it really speaks of a very high level of space technology. we have already seen that to some extent with the formation which was the first mission to land on the far side of the moon and that is still active. —— chang'e four. but what is planned for this mission, so far it is going very well. it is staggering. have they've done the most difficult part or is it even trickier getting it back? yes, coming back is always the tricky bit. what has happened so far, they have landed there, their landing craft on the moon, it is a two—part spacecraft, rather like the old lunar modules of the apollo era, the bottom half stays on the moon. the top half is where the samples of

rock and soil from the moon surface will be located, they will be drilled down from the lunar surface and put into a container that will go back up to lunar orbit and it will rendezvous automatically with an orbiter that is already circling around the moon. and then there will be another separation into two parts and the samples will come again another spacecraft towards the earth about the middle of december, and to make what is really the icing on the ca ke make what is really the icing on the cake is there is a very spectacular technique for getting them back and they bounce off the earth atmosphere once before plunging into the atmosphere where heat shields and stopping everything from burning up and hopefully landing and in mongolia sometime in mid december. that sound very exciting. looking at what the real underlie race here is, to get to mars? and i suppose dominance of space? it is more i

think, dominance is something that we don't talk about that much in space. but it is certainly true that china is emerging as a very capable space power. in their ambitions are quite clear, they have said for many yea rs quite clear, they have said for many years that the change programme is all about sending tycho not to the lunar surface to exploit the moon. you might look at this in the global context you might look at this in the global co ntext a nd you might look at this in the global context and perhaps suggest that this is one of the reasons that has accelerated nasa's artemis programme which is also designed to send asher not to the moon with perhaps 2024 at the target. —— astro knots. it is more likely in the 20 30s by the chinese tycho knotts can walk on the moon but you can see what is happening. followed by demonstrating space which is a very important thing. -- astronauts. thank you, fred.

stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: a 70—year—old woman in sweden is arrested on suspicion of holding her son captive for up to 30 years. 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 drills just a few

moments to cut through. this is bbc news, the latest headlines. the us attorney general, appointed by president trump, says he's found no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the outcome of the presidential election. in germany — at least four people — including a young girl — have been killed and several others injured after a car drove through a pedestrian area in the city of trier. the driver, a 51—year—old man, has been arrested and police say the circumstances of the incident are still not clear. nick beake reports. the carnage inflicted at the heart of the city of trier.

the driver had ploughed through shoppers in one of its busiest pedestrianised streets. the nine—month—old baby among the five who were killed. more than a dozen were injured, some critically. translation: we always see these images on tv in other countries and we always think this can't happen in trier, and now it has. and i am here as mayor and i have no words and i wonder how can such a man have this idea? 0n the right, the vehicle used as a weapon. police managed to ram and stop it as the attacker tried to escape. some eye witnesses described screaming as the car sped along this pedestrianised area. they said some victims were hit with such force, they were thrown in the air. but the driver didn't stop, he continued his deadlyjourney. the suspect is a 51—year—old man. police said he had been drinking heavily and was thought to have mental health problems, but there was no evidence

he had been motivated by extremist ideology. translation: all thoughts are with the victims' next of kin, who have to mourn the death of a loved one, people whose lives were extinguished from one second to the next by such a heinous crime. among them is a baby, a truly horrific thought that parents would have to mourn the death of their child. it's just terrible. at the roman gate, tributes for those killed. this city, claimed as germany's oldest, is tonight the latest in europe to be morning after a deadly vehicle attack. nick beake, bbc news, trier. police in sweden say they have arrested a seventy—year—old woman on suspicion of holding her son captive at home for up to 30 years. local media said the man — now in his 40's — had been taken out of school when he was 12. his mother has denied charges of false imprisonment and grievous bodily harm. maddy savage has more from stockholm. details are still emerging, and police haven't officially

released much information about the man's injuries. but they told me that he's so badly hurt that he remains in hospital some 48 hours after he was taken in on sunday here in sweden. they've confirmed that he is able to communicate, but there are reports in the swedish media here that he has almost no teeth and struggles to speak. other reports in the media speculate that this man may have been locked up for almost three decades but that has not been confirmed by police either. they are simply saying it was they believe a very long time and they hope to find out more as they continue their investigation. the swedish broadcaster svt, the public service television here, they say they had information which suggests that the mother of this man pulled him out of school when he was 12 years old and we understand that he is 41 years old now.

so a lot of questions being asked about what happened in between those two points in time. what we know about where he was found and where his mother was living, it's a pretty regular apartment block, like thousands of others here in sweden, in a suburb about 25 km, 15 miles outside the centre of stockholm, a grey and yellow building. we understand he was found there on a blanket although that detail has not been confirmed by police. neighbours in the area say they are incredibly shocked about what has happened and here is what one neighbour told the swedish media. translation: shock, first and foremost. one has read about these things happening in other countries with people who have locked up children and so on. shock is the first thing. when you start to examine yourself like she and we have heard or seen something or thought something? swedish police say it is incredibly rare for this kind of suspected crime to take place in sweden.

imprisonment potentially over a number of decades, so they say they are very keen to get to the bottom of what happened as soon as possible. the prosecution authority are understood to be meeting on wednesday. they, we understand, want to keep the mother in custody while investigations continue. she denies falsely imprisoning her son, but if she's found guilty, she could face a maximum sentence of ten years in jail. bec or business email compromise hacking is one of the most common types of cyber—attack, which the fbi says costs nearly nine billion dollars a year — and experts say nigeria is its epicentre. it involves tricking businesses into making payments into fraudulant accounts. cyber reporterjoe tidy has been speaking with one bec hacker in nigeria to find out how they work, and how he feels about his victims. raymond abass was known by his 2.4 million followers as the ultrarich and extravagant hushpuppy. but injuly, they were shocked

when the nigerian was arrested. dubai police posted this dramatic video to confirm it. they accuse him and his associates of amassing their riches through a very specific type of hacking known as bec, or business e—mail compromise. hushpuppy claims he earned his money legitimately as an influencer. he is now in the us awaiting trial in the spring. last week, interpol arrested three more nigerians suspected of running another prolific bec operation. the cases have reignited a concern that nigeria is the epicentre of this form of cyber crime that cost businesses almost £7 billion a year. in fact, the latest research suggests that 50% of global bec attacks come from nigeria, with businesses in western countries often the target. at the crux of business e—mail compromise is a scammer impersonating either an executive or a business and then tricking a person into sending the money.

for months, cybersecurity company agare he has tracked down bec criminals to find out how and why they do it. they paid a small amount to each hacker to take part, only one agreed to a recorded interview and i was invited. x says he was lured into bec hacking at university. previously, nigerian hackers were associated with the infamous nigerian prince scam e—mails. it is thought the shift to the more lucrative bec scams happened in about the last five years or so. do you feel guilty about what you are doing? you're stealing money, aren't you?

the people in your hacking group, do they feel guilty? police say they are working hard to clamp down on criminals. we carry out targeted raids at hotspots and after the raid, we have the court proceedings and send a lot of them to prison. police also hope that high—profile arrests like hushpuppy‘s are making a difference. but despite recent action, bec hacking remains one of the most costly cybersecurity problems in the world. a leading hungarian politician has admitted that his resignation as a member of the european parliament came after he was caught by belgian police at what media have described

as a gay sex party in brussels last friday. yoseff sayer has issued a statement admitting that he was at the party, which was held despite a coronavirus lockdown. 0ur central europe correspondent nick thorpe told us what the belgian media are saying. this is obviously extremely embarrassing forjozsef szajer. he is a key figure in the party, one of the founder members, a close friend of the prime minister viktor aubin, and he has been a member of the european parliament for 16 years. he was caught, according to belgian media reports, at a party. the media say it was a gay sex party, the prosecution in brussels simply said they were raiding the party which appeared to be breaking coronavirus lockdown restrictions. there are also reports in the bulgarian media that he was trying to run away from the party by climbing down a drain pipe, and he was caught

by the police in the street, and the police also said that drugs were found. that is it for now. more on the website. we are into the start of december and it will feel very wintry for the rest of this week. we will see good change behind this whole front and some showers which will turn increasingly wintry over northern hills through the course of today. windy for much of scotland and northern ireland with scales in the far northwest and a lot of showers, western scotland particularly what it will be heavy with hail and thunder mixed and increasing snow to the hills. the cold front seeking southeast courts will confined to the southeast, the cloudy without bricks or rain but the skies will brighten up later on in a cold air and temperatures in the single

digits. heading to wednesday night commenced a salary for the snow on the hills in the north and we start to see it with the front being more organised rain of the parts of england and wales to the night so here because of the rain, claddagh rain, not as cold as it was further north and snow showers and clear spells. i said thursday, complex area of low pressure is up across the country, northern half of the country will see sunshine and showers, these will be snow in the hills down to lower levels at times. across southern englishness of the well here it will be really cloudy, what they are pretty heavy rain at times, gales to the channel and even a little bit of wintry nests over the high ground across england and wales. it will feel cold wherever you are in temperatures of three to 7 degrees. heading into friday, area of low pressure sticks around and we will see two centers to wood, one could bring some rain and hail snow from accumulating snow across parts of scotland. and we will see this friend pushing into central and

eastern england to bring some heavy rain but you can see snow on the hills here in the pennines and went he snow down to lower levels. the best of any dry and bright weather will be across northern ireland, wales in the southwest of england but it will be another week cold day wherever you are. our but it will be another week cold day wherever you are. our area but it will be another week cold day wherever you are. our area of low pressure sticks around heading into the weekend. notice as we moved to saturday and a sunday starts to wea ken saturday and a sunday starts to weaken a little bit. part two of the week it looks a little bit quieter. you can see both saturday and sunday will remain cold and further wintry showers on saturday and something a little bit drier and quieter on sunday.

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headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the us attorney general, appointed by president trump, says he's found no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election. president trump's campaign says there hasn't been any investigation. he said they will work in the coronavirus relief package to roll out after he takes office. a homeless man in a car had been living in an pedestrian zonein car had been living in an pedestrian zone in the southwestern city for that one victim was a nine—month—old and police in sweden have arrested a woman seemed held her son captive for yea rs woman seemed held her son captive for years son found covered in sores and