this is bbc news with the latest headlines. borisjohnson and the president of the european commission will speak in the next few hours to try and break the brexit trade talks deadlock. we keep calm as always and if there is still a way, we will see. the uk vaccine regulator says the covid—19 vaccine will ‘definitely‘ be ready to go into care homes in the next two weeks. a large—scale vaccine roll—out begins in russia. the makers of the ‘sputnik‘ jab claim it's up to 95% effective, but it's still undergoing trials. the lifeline which keeps breaking down — residents on the isle of wight call for a multi—million pound floating bridge to be scrapped.

and coming up — click explores the latest developments around accessibility and inclusion in tech for international day of persons with disabilities. that's in half an hour. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. leaders are hoping to break the deadlock today over a post—brexit trade deal — with time running out to get an agreement through before the uk leaves eu trading rules on december 31st. boris johnson and european commission president, ursula von der leyen, are due to speak on the phone, in the next couple of hours, to try and end the stalemate. but negotiators said "significant divergences" remained, following a week of intensive talks.

most of the deal has been completed, but key sticking points remain. these include fishing rights, the rules governing state subsidies for business — and how the agreement is policed. our political correspondent, jonathan blake has the story. checking out for now, the eu's chief negotiator, michel barnier, left his london hotel this morning after talks on a future trade deal were put on hold last night. what does that mean for the chances of a deal? any hope for a deal? good morning. we keep calm, as always, and if there is a way, still a way, we will see. "we will see," he said. his parting words as he returned to brussels gave nothing away. but a statement from both sides last night made clear there are still big differences to overcome,

significant divergences remain between the two sides, lord frost, the uk's chief negotiator, and michel barnier said. so, it is over to these two, the political masters on both sides of these talks. the prime minister and the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, are due to speak on the phone this afternoon to determine whether a deal can be done. it will be decided politically, not in the negotiating chambers. there will be compromises, i suspect, on both sides. what the prime minister will have to protect, the key issues of control, not giving control away to the european union in pursuit of economic outcomes. but there will be, in my view, it is in everybody‘s interest to come a deal. fishing — how much, if any, is allowed by eu countries in uk waters is one of the big remaining sticking points. along with competition rules, often called the level playing field, and thirdly how any

deal is enforced. meanwhile, businesses say they are left in limbo. if we have a deal, at least there is some certainty. even if we have a deal, we have to adjust. the government have sent out a letter to every business in the country saying "check, change, go. " well, check what? change what? go where? there will be big changes to the uk's relationship with the eu when the current transition period ends. exactly what depends on the progress of talks from here on. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent, jonathan blake, who said there is real urgency around these negotiations now. the deadline, as it stands, is december the 31st, when the transition period we're in comes to an end. the rules by which we have been trading and doing dealings with the eu for the entirety of this year will cease to apply. so there will be change either way,

regardless of whether a free trade agreement is agreed between the uk and the eu between now and then. as you point out, it is notjust a case of reaching that agreement, it is the need for it to be signed off, approved, ratified by all the member states of the eu, the eu parliament, parliament here in the uk, as well. there has been some slightly shifting ground in the last week or so about how much of that process would actually need to happen before a deal was signed off by both sides. david davis, the former brexit secretary, who you saw in the report, suggesting this morning that come december the 31st there could be a freeze in those arrangements before a deal, if agreed by that point, could be approved. borisjohnson, i do not think, would want that to happen, would not want anything like an extension to the transition period to happen because he has insisted time and time again that

come that deadline, we will either have a free trade agreement or we will trade on world trade organization rules. what he calls australia style terms. and i suppose borisjohnson has something of a balancing act in order to please those within his own party as well, hasn't he? a lot of pressure there. there is pressure because boris johnson's premiership, his authority and integrity as prime minister rests on delivering that central promise that was his during the election campaign — to get brexit done. he has to decide now exactly how he plans to deliver on that promise. in the hours ahead this afternoon before he speaks to ursula von der leyen, the president of the european commission, he will be weighing up how much political will he has behind him from his party to do a deal. if a deal is to be done at this point, it is clear both sides have gone as far as they can with the negotiating mandates that they have, and compromise is needed from either, or more

likely, both sites. many people will say, what is it that mrjohnson and ursula von der leyen realistically can achieve in a phone call that their chief negotiators could not? what do they have that they could push it forward or over the line? what are we expecting? it is a good question, and i think what will come of that conversation is a sense between the two of them of whether the goalposts can shift slightly. how much, if at all, either is willing to compromise and where that compromise might come. if they can speak to each other and agree that there is more work to do, or that each other could give ground in certain areas, then that is where we will see the talks continuing. the negotiations running up to this point and being put on hold as an indication that there are significant differences, divergences as both sides put it in theirjoint statement last night, that cannot be overcome unless the political boundaries on both sides are to shift.

jill rutter is from the independent research group, ‘the uk in a changing europe', and has been following the talks. speaking to me earlier, she said the final stages of these talks were always going to go back and forth. i think it was never going to be the case that we would get a deal of this sort of moment, if you like, done between michel barnier and david frost in some sort of grim conference centre belonging to the business department. i think everybody accepted that at some point they would have to go back to the political leadership. that is what we are seeing this afternoon. what we do not know is quite what they do, whether they have been presented with an option that the negotiators do not quite think they have got the authority to sign off, that they can bless, in which case, we might actually see things move extraordinarily fast. whether theyjust declare that it is all hopeless, that is also possible. the gaps are unbridgeable. 0r whether they need to do some more consultation,

particularly on the eu side. while boris johnson can, with one look behind him at his back benches, decide for the uk. ursula von der leyen is president of the european commission, she ultimately needs to get all her member states on board. that is what we have heard in recent days, some of those are getting concerned that the eu is compromising too much. one of the things the uk has always assumed is that member states will be more pro—deal than the commission, but in some ways it is the other way round, michel barnier is actually more flexible than some, at least, of those member states. that's interesting. so, in the words of michel barnier, is there still away? how much give can either side allow? we do not actually, sitting here, know whether the are quite close. whether it is a question of 5% on fish or what, because we do not know what either side's bottom line is.

we do not know if they have come up with some new formula on this level playing field or whether it is really stuck and has not moved that much from their earlier positions and they are digging in. we also do not know, really, politically whether boris johnson really wants a deal. he says he wants a deal, a lot of people regard it as a big political failure not to deliver a deal. he has assured us all along he could do. but a lot of backbenchers are chomping at the bit for no deal. he is going to have to have regard to them. france is interesting. we are hearing a lot about them. a bit of a brexit bad cop. emmanuel macron seems to like that title. they are already threatening using their veto, keeping a particularly close eye on fishing rights. how much does that access to british waters mean to them? there are industries in the uk that

are worth far more, aren't there? fish is a slightly, i am not going to say absurd, but it is a really interesting topic. it has been a big issue of contention all along through these talks. it is economically very insignificant in the uk. it is also economically very insignificant even in france. but clearly it matters a lot. if you are a historic fishing community, the uk's historic fishing communities felt that they have suffered from 40 plus years of membership of the common fisheries policy, denying them access to uk waters. that is what they hope to regain through brexit, at least some of them. the french, northern french fishermen, there are some communities that take a lot of fish out of uk waters, and basically see their livelihoods going to ruin if something like this, the existing access does not continue. that is why it is politically so difficult for both sides to give way on this.

there are very high expectations. the french have started to roll the pitch a bit, that things have to change. the eu's starting point was that absolutely nothing should change on fish, basically the uk might have gone through brexit but fish would be status quo. they have moved a bit on that, but every time michel barnier has come back to the eu fishing ministers, just eight member states have really cared about access to uk fishing waters. when michel barnier's had those calls with fishing ministers to seek a bit more flexibility, they have always said we told you what we want, go back and get that for us. that was jill rutter speaking to that wasjill rutter speaking to me earlier. this protest is very similar to the scene we saw last week in paris. it is in relation to a new security law which is being decried in france.

basically, one of the key aspects of it is that it would limit the filming of police officers. this follows after four french police officers were charged last week over the beating and racial abuse of a black music producer who weighs not charged with any crime. prescience and french people have been taking to the streets to voice their concern over this new security law. it has put a lot of pressure on the government to scrap it or revise it. particularly, like i said, in relation to restricting the filming of police. live scenes they are in paris. we have seen cars on fire, people dressed with masks on in black, and police as well. the labour party has revealed that sir keir starmer is self—isolating. a member of his private office staff tested positive for coronavirus, but the labour leader says he's not showing symptoms. in line with the government's guidelines, he'll be out of self—isolation on the 16th

december. so, before vaccines are fully rolled out, scientists say it's even more important to try and keep covid—i9 under control, as lockdown restrictions continue to be are relaxed. to do that, they believe it's crucial to break the chain of transmission. for instance, ‘backwards contact tracing' — where the source of an infection is found — can result in 2 to 3 times as many cases being traced and isolated. it's because 20% of people create clusters of infections accounting for 80% of the cases. our science correspondent rebecca morelle explains. we need to break the chains of transmission, but coronavirus does not spread evenly from person to person. this event at the white house is a prime example. while most people won't pass the virus onto anyone,

scientists estimate thatjust 20% of infected people are causing 80% of covid cases. it is known as super spreading and in the rose garden, one person is thought to have infected at least 11 others, including donald trump. with respect to super spreading events and that seems to relate both to the activities that people are doing, how many people are in the room, how close they are, but also there seem to be some people that do just excrete more virus. stopping super spreading could be the key to fighting covid—i9, but you need to discover the source of an outbreak. and that means tracking and tracing in a different way. contact tracing is all about detective work. for forward contact tracing, if i test positive, it means finding all the people that i could have given the virus to and asking them to self—isolate. but for backward contact tracing,

it means finding the person who gave the virus to me. because if they passed it to me, they are more likely to have infected other people also, so then their contacts are identified and asked to self—isolate as well. if we just go forward then because a lot of cases weren't spreading infection to others, potentially, you could miss that large part of transmission where super spreading is happening, so going backwards has the advantage that you can identify those clusters, identify who else was there and potentially prevent any onward transmission. we estimated that looking backwards as well as forwards could prevent two or three times more infections and hence transmission than byjust looking forwards alone. in the uk, the spread of coronavirus seems to be slowing and if numbers fall more, backwards tracing could be a way to get ahead of the pandemic. rebecca morelle, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... as we've been hearing —

the prime minister borisjohnson and the president of the european commission will speak later today to try and break the brexit trade talks deadlock. the uk vaccine regulator says the covid—i9 vaccine will ‘definitely‘ be ready to go into care homes in the next two weeks. a large—scale vaccine roll—out begins in russia. the makers of the ‘sputnik‘ jab claim it's up to 95% effective, but it's still undergoing trials. sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's katherine downes. good afternoon. hello, we'll start in the premier league where everton were held to a 1—1 draw at burnley after dominic calvert—lewin cancelled out robbie brady's opening goal for the clarets. burnley took the lead in the third minute when everton midfielder allan gave the ball away — robbie brady going on to score in the bottom corner.

calvert—lewin brought everton level though on the stroke of half—time — burnley remain in the bottom three with six points from ten games. there is a lot of players giving a lot to the cause. we are still going right to the end. i am really pleased with that. we are just slowly but surely getting back to what we are. we know it can be effective, or effective enough in the premier league. we do obviously have to turn draws into wins, etc. there have been some good signs over the last five or six games. elsewhere in the premier league today manchester city have just kicked off against fulham where its currently 1—0, raheem sterling with the early goal. chelsea face leeds at eight o'clock. and before that there'll be fans back in the ground as west ham take on manchester united. it has been really strange not to have fans. i do not know is if is going to be even stranger only having 2000 and a 60,000 plus

stadium. ican having 2000 and a 60,000 plus stadium. i can tell you exactly, but overall it is great to have football supporters. i am sure there will be some people out there disappointed they cannot get a ticketjust now, but there will be others out there who are really excited to get back to coming to a game. in the championship, 2,000 fans were at the madejski stadium to see reading beat nottingham forest 2—0. it was a dreadful start for forest, they went down to ten men after ryan yates handled the ball on the line. lucasjoao scored from the resulting penalty. reading made it two in the second half through michael morrison's header. they are now second on the same points as leaders bournemouth but can be overtaken later this afternoon. to rugby union now — and the autumn nations cup reaches its climax this weekend. ireland are in action against scotland at the moment in the third placed play—off. ireland lead by 11 points to nine at half time. keith earls with the try for ireland. jaco van der walt kicking three penalities for scotland. while wales take on italy later.

they've made nine changes from the side that lost to england. we wa nt we want to keep giving us opportunities. i think we have had probably eight guys have starts now., eight probably eight guys have starts now. , eight debutants probably eight guys have starts now., eight debutants who have had a opportunity across the competition. it isa opportunity across the competition. it is a tournament we have seen from the outset we want to build some depth. we will continue to do so, and also we think that we can get a result. that was part of what i laid down to the other coaches when we selected the site. a site we believe can geta selected the site. a site we believe can get a result and also still build depth. elfyn evans‘ hopes of ending britain's 19—year wait for a world rally champion have suffered a huge setback. after he crashed out on stage ii of rally monza in italy. the welshman lost control of his toyota in the slippery conditions on the mountain stage and ended up off the road.

his team mate sebastien 0gier will overtake him to win the title if he can finish at least third after tomorrow's final stage. max verstappen will be hoping he can claim pole for tomorrow's sakhir grand prix after topping the time sheets in final practice in bahrain. the red bull driver had to play second fiddle to mercedes stand in driver george russell yesterday. but he found his form today claiming the top spot by two tenths of a second from valtteri bottas. russell could only manage seventh, more than half a second off the pace. that's all the sport for now. a busy afternoon ahead, so i will be back with more later on. the mayor of liverpool, joe anderson, has been released on bailfollowing his arrest, as part of a fraud inquiry. he and four other people were detained as part of a year—long investigation into bribery allegations —

linked to the awarding of building contracts in the city. in a statement this afternoon, joe anderson says he "will be talking with cabinet colleagues to ensure the challenges our city faces with the covid pandemic continue to receive the focus they deserve." he went on to say, he supported the labour party's decision to suspend him while the investigaion continues. three people have been taken to hospital following an explosion at a house in west yorkshire. the extent of their injuries isn't known. the blast happened at a property in illingworth, near halifax, at around 7.30am this morning. an investigation is underway. russia's coronavirus vaccination programme is under way — despite the sputnik vaccine still going through safety and efficacy trials. the firstjabs have been given in clinics in moscow. it comes as russia is reporting record high numbers of confirmed covid—i9 cases.

0ur moscow correspondent sarah rainsford reports. this is one of the moscow clinics that is now rolling out russia's sputnik vaccine to the population. first of all, doctors, medics generally, health workers, teachers and social workers have been invited to receive the vaccine. now, sputnik v is still in an experimental form, more trials for its safety and its efficacy are still under way. but the chief doctor at this clinic has said she is confident it is fine to roll it out now. translation: this vaccine has been officially registered. we have enough research to know that it is 92% effective. and if there is a choice to get sick or have the vaccine, then this is a dangerous disease, the answer is obvious. this is a leaflet that patients are given before they get the jab and it talks about some of the possible side effects, although it sets out that they should be pretty minimal and last maybe one to three days, perhaps some weakness, perhaps some sickness or a fever.

and it suggestsjust taking paracetamol. now, some 5000 people have supposedly signed up already to get this vaccination in the mass roll—out, although we have only seen a handful or so he actually getting the jab. translation: we see how sick people get, so we have no doubts at all about getting vaccinated. we use protective clothing, of course, and now we are getting the vaccine as early as possible. from the very start, russia's treated this quest for a covid vaccine as something of a race. certainly it declared itself the first country to register a vaccine, sputnik v, back in august, even before the mass trials had begun. now it is moving very quickly to roll the vaccine out for use by the population at large. there are still questions about how much it can actually produce of sputnik v, though. manufacturers unable to quickly scale up their production. president putin has said 2 million doses should be available

for people this year. and then next year, russia plans to roll this out much faster, much wider as the number of covid cases in the country continues to grow. it was meant to make people's lives easier, but residents on the isle of wight, are calling for a multi—million pound floating bridge, to be scrapped because it keeps breaking down. when it does work, it saves drivers a io—mile detour around the river. but it's been out of action almost 60 times in the last three years. duncan kennedy has the story. it all started so well the day floating bridge number six arrived in cowes, but the euphoria didn't last long. the problems began with loading and off—loading — again and again.

then there were problems with the docking. this one took nearly 15 minutes to come ashore. what would you do with this existing floating bridge? cut the chains and let it drift off! the ferry does carry around 350,000 cars per year, by pulling itself across the river medina using underwater chains. but its size and weight sometimes means that it can't quite make it, which is when a trip becomes a dip. if you had your way, what would you do with this one? take it out into the solent and drill a hole in the bottom! no redeeming features? no, not compared to the old one, what they've spent on it. the vessel's woes have even generated protests, with locals calling it to floating fiasco. but are all the difficulties — well, just teething problems? teething problems? laughter.

sorry — teething problems! this really is way beyond any teething problems. and it's time to actually give up and build a new replacement. the current vessel even needs a barge to help it cross when tides are strong. injust three years, mechanical problems have seen it completely out of action nearly 60 times, including this week. the latest problem is all about the hydraulics on the vessel, which control the ramps going up and down. as it's out of action, it means once again, no passengers and no cars. so vehicles have to take a detour of around ten miles, instead of the 150m the chain ferry takes. in a statement, the isle of wight county council which runs it says it is looking at the viability of options to resolve the issues experienced by the floating bridge, so for now, this ferry

across the medina remains... ..a troubled bridge over water. duncan kennedy, bbc news, in cowes. they just kept theyjust kept coming, didn't they? all hens, turkeys and other captive birds will have to be housed indoors from the 14th of december, to prevent the spread of bird flu. the chief vets for england, scotland and wales made the decision after a number of cases were detected. the government say the risk to humans is "very low" and should "not affect the consumption of poultry products". if you've ever wondered what it feels like to be surrounded by tumbleweed. .. then these pictures might answer your question! they were filmed in a suburb of melbourne in australia, where winds gusting at more than 100 kilometres an hour picked up loose grass, and blew it towards the houses. it covered swimming pools, blocked doorways, and made roads tricky to drive down.

residents say they'd have to wait for the winds to calm before they could start clearing up. they have special weather, don't they, in australia? now it's time for a look at the weather with stave denaeos. hello there. it looks like it's going to be drier as we head on into sunday as our area of low pressure continues to slip southwards into the near continent, taking the rain and hill snow with it, also the strong winds. we have got this feature moving across the north sea overnight. that will bring showery bursts of rain to the east of scotland and north—east england. again, there could be some snow on higher ground. meanwhile, we have got a little return of rain to the far south—east, but apart from that, it will be a dry night with clear skies. and where the sky is clear, it is going to be called. frost, risk of ice and mist and fog across the south east to start sunday. it starts as well with some showery bursts of rain across the north—east of the uk. a little bit in the south—east. that should mostly clear away and into the afternoon,

it looks drier for many with few clouds and sunshine around. still on the cold side, though, particularly where any low cloud orfog lingers through central areas. temperatures range from around three it stays cold throughout next week. it starts to turn unsettled from tuesday onwards across the north and then all areas by the end of the week.