tonight at ten, downing street tries to clear up the confusion about the use of the nhs covid app in england.

one minister says it's up to people to make an "informed decision" if they're pinged, but downing street says people need to isolate. business owners are complaining that the app is affecting far too many of their staff, and it's making them nervous. trepidation and panicking each week that those people who you've rotaed on are actually going to be able to come. we'll be talking to business owners and workers in greater manchester about the effects of the nhs covid app. also tonight... one of several small vessels carrying migrants across the english channel today following a record number yesterday. dominic cummings tells the bbc there was talk of replacing borisjohnson as prime minister, days after his election victory. and a day trip to space for the world's richest man, in the first flight of its kind forjeff bezos and friends. and coming up in the sport

on the bbc news channel: adil rashid picked up four wickets, but did england beat pakistan to wrap up the t20 series? good evening. downing street has been trying to clear up the confusion about the use of the nhs covid app in england. one minister suggested earlier today that individuals and employers could choose to ignore the instructions to self—isolate by making an "informed decision". but downing street stepped in with a different message, urging people to isolate if they were pinged. the app's guidance is not legally enforceable, unlike instructions from the nhs test and trace service, which are a legal requirement. pub chains, supermarkets, transport networks and other businesses have warned of the damage

being done by the effects of the app, as our business correspondent colletta smith reports from greater manchester. that will turn red, and it'll give you the number of days that you have to isolate. at the moment, every company is living in fear of the ping. we can then send it to you. jess runs a catering business across a handful of golf clubs, with m full—time staff serving snacks and lunches and another 1a or so casual staff to work at functions. our biggest risk at the moment is we won't have any staff to open at all. yesterday was an exciting time for everyone to be able to have those big parties and things. and for us, it's kind of a moment of trepidation and panic. each week that those people who you've rotaed on are actually going to be able to come into work. she needs her staff to stay safe, but says if they could get some exemptions, it'd make a huge difference. having those kind of back—up procedures in place that that means that you're not automatically saying that's it for seven, ten days would be, it

would be life saving for us. it's been hit and miss messaging from government today. this morning, one minister said only contact from test and trace is legally binding. if you get pinged by this nhs covid app, it'sjust advisory. they might need to make their informed decisions. the legal position hasn't changed. you're supposed to, you have to isolate if you are contacted by the nhs test and trace or if you're collecting isolation payments. but not everyone has the app, for example. and so it's not mandated. but downing street quickly contradicted that by saying they encourage people to use the app and the public should isolate when contacted. i mean, we're getting. into the realms of farce, dangerous farce, where we've had clear and consistent messaging i about the need to self isolate, - which has suddenly been completely undermined by the - minister this morning. rather than publishing a list of companies or sectors that could qualify for an exemption from the pinging system, the government now say each

individual business will have to apply themselves, and for lots of companies, right now that's simply one thing too many. we're part of that supply chain that feeds the nation every day. and the lifeblood to doing that is our drivers out there in the fleet and our workers within the cold store. tim employs 1,500 staff across the uk, and a quarter of front line workers at this main site near rochdale are off because they've been pinged. everybody who's off takes a little bit of capability away from what we can deliver on a daily basis. but the challenges that we face into are going to make it ever more difficult for for us to just to keep that supply. some exemptions have been granted today, but with very little clarity about the criteria for applications, most companies will have to work out how to keep the show on the road themselves. colletta smith, bbc news.

let's ta ke let's take a look at the latest government data. the figures show 46,558 new infections in the latest 24—hour period — — which means an average of 47,438 new cases per day in the last week. there are more than 4,500 people in hospital with coronavirus and 96 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours 35,670 people have received a first dose of a vaccine in the latest 24—hour period. over 46 million pople have now had theirfirstjab — that's 88% of the adult population. and over 36 million people are now fully vaccinated — 68.8% of all uk adults. staying on the story of the pandemic. more than a million children in england did not attend classes in school last week because of reasons to do with coronavirus. official figures show around one in seven state school pupils were absent. that's the highest number since children returned to classrooms in march this year.

our health editor hugh pym is here. as we know across the uk, different rules across the uk for people who are pinged, and we have ministers in london trying to clarify the pictures in england.- london trying to clarify the pictures in england. london trying to clarify the ictures in encland. , , , . pictures in england. yes, cases are increasin: pictures in england. yes, cases are increasing 4096 _ pictures in england. yes, cases are increasing 4096 week _ pictures in england. yes, cases are increasing 4096 week on _ pictures in england. yes, cases are increasing 4096 week on week - pictures in england. yes, cases are increasing 4096 week on week and | pictures in england. yes, cases are i increasing 4096 week on week and we increasing 40% week on week and we haven't yet seen the impact of the opening up yesterday, that will take a week or so more to feed through, so officials and scientific advisers are adamant that self isolation has to be taken seriously to try to curb the spread of the virus along with vaccination, and that is why downing street had to move quickly to clarify what was meant. it may not be a legal requirement, but if you are pinged, you do need to self—isolate. after confusing messages earlier in the day. and incidentally it is the same situation in terms of not being a legal requirement in wales and scotland, though it is if you are pinged in northern ireland.

confusion today is well over businesses trying to apply for exemptions for their staff. it appears that the word from central government is that actually it will be a very limited list ofjust critical workers in certain industries, and businesses should wait to hear whether they qualify. so i think many of them will remain frustrated for a little while while they wait to get a note to see whether some of their workers can get back. whether some of their workers can aet back. . ~' , ., whether some of their workers can aet back. ., ~ , ., , whether some of their workers can aet back. ., ~ i. , . get back. thank you very much, hugh . m, get back. thank you very much, hugh ' m, our get back. thank you very much, hugh pym. our health _ get back. thank you very much, hugh pym, our health editor. _ pym, our health editor. let's move on to the day's of main story. at least 430 migrants crossed the english channel to the uk yesterday according to the home office, a new record for a single day. some 50 people were seen landing on the beach at dungeness in kent. the group included women and young children. the government said it was taking substantial steps to tackle the unacceptable problem of illegal migration, as our correspondent jon donnison reports from the english channel. they have come a long way. some of them may have travelled thousands of miles,

but for these migrants, the journey�*s and comes near dungeness, south—west of dover. it's a giant step in their search for a better life, and scenes like this are now playing out on a daily basis. earlier, we took a boat out into the channel. spotted another small one which appears to be a migrant boat. it is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, but bobbing on the waves, a tiny dinghy. no motor, just paddles. where are you from, guys? sudan. from sudan? are you ok? help will be coming soon. they will come and pick you up. here are some fruit and biscuits, somejuice. having given them some food, we shadowed them and called the coastguard,

who organised their rescue. and not far away, we find another migrant boat. we are about eight miles off the coast of dover now, and we have come across this small dinghy, probably three orfour metres long. we think there are 12 or 13 on board, a couple of small children at the front, and a couple of women, and we have now called in the uk border force, the uk coastguard, who are going to pick them up. for some, these are desperate people fleeing some of the world's most desperate countries. for others, they are simply economic migrants. over the last few days, the border force has brought hundreds of migrants ashore. the government says people smugglers are its target, but it is also proposing that unauthorised migrants themselves could be jailed for up to four years. putting people injail who have come here because of the terrible things that have happened to them in their lives is really

draconian and punitive, and all it will do is fill up ourjails without resolving the issue. and though the number of people crossing the channel in boats has increased significantly, hitting a record of 2000 last month, overall, the number of people claiming asylum in the uk actually fell last year. behind the figures, though, there are human stories. the government is pushing back, but for those making these dangerous journeys, the pull of a better future is strong. jon donnison, bbc news, in the english channel. dominic cummings, the prime minister's former chief adviser, has told the bbc there was talk of trying to replace borisjohnson as prime minister within days of the conservative election victory in december 2019. mr cummings, who had been director of the vote leave campaign in 2016, also suggested that people who were completely sure that brexit was a good idea "had got a screw loose". he spoke to our political

editor laura kuenssberg. what really happened? this man used to be one of the most powerful figures in the government, but his friendship of political convenience with the prime ministerfell to bits. borisjohnson and dominic cummings became foes. their strategy had produced a massive win at the election. well, we did it, we did it. once they were all safely installed in number ten, he ended up on the outside. he was fed up with the media portrayal of him being a kind of puppet for the vote leave team. it was driving him round the bend. he was upset about the fact, connected to that, that essentially i was spending my time on what i thought was important, not on politics, not on media and communication and campaigning stuff. he was the elected prime minister. you were an unelected adviser. yeah, we basically disagreed on what was happening on covid.

i thought his girlfriend was interfering with appointments, people who were being... she wanted to have people fired and have people promoted in ways that i thought were unethical and unprofessional. and that also led to a big argument between us. accusing somebody of having undue influence, which is what you are doing, is a big claim. the prime minister doesn't have a plan and he doesn't know how whitehall works. someone is going to set the agenda. it is going to be the civil service, or the vote leave team, or carrie. as soon as the election was one night, her view was, why should it be dominic and the leave team, why shouldn't it be me that is pulling the strings? in response to mr cummings' claims, downing street told us political appointments are entirely made by the prime minister. in the end, you lose the argument,

you lose that influence. that's what happened, isn't it? yeah, in fact, literally immediately after the election, it was already clear that this was a problem. before mid january, we were having meetings in numberten, saying it is clear that carrie wants rid of all of us. at that point, we were already saying by the summer he would be gone from here or we would be in the process of trying to get rid of him and get someone else in as prime minister. within months of the prime minister winning the biggest conservative majority in decades, you and a few others from the vote leave campaign were discussing the possibility of getting rid of him. days, not months. within days of the election you were discussing getting rid of him? yes. because of all we have been discussing. he doesn't have a plan, doesn't know how to be prime minister,

and we only got him in there to solve a certain problem, not because we thought it was right to run the country. what kind of con did you pull off on the british public if that is what you think? we don't think it is a con. we were trying to solve very hot problems in the order we can solve them in. before the relationship at the heart of government broke, borisjohnson and dominic cummings did achieve their top priority — brexit. so how does the architect of the vote leave campaign look—back? questions like, is brexit a good idea? no one on earth knows what the answer to that is. even you are still not sure if brexit was a good idea? i think anyone who says they are sure about questions like that has got a screw loose, whether you are on the remain on the remain side or our side. one of the reasons we won was precisely because we didn't think we were definitely right and remainser, remainers... do you think you have done more good than damage?

i think brexit was a good thing. i think that the way in which the world has worked out since 2016 vindicates the arguments that vote leave made in all sorts of ways. i think it's good that brexit happened. he won't be the one to settle that question. nor will he write his entry in the books of our recent history, but there will be a page, for sure. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. the building safety bill, the government's response to the fire at grenfell tower, is to be debated at westminster tomorrow. ministers say it will deliver the biggest reform of building safety in 40 years. but hundreds of thousands of people living in flats with flammable cladding and other fire safety issues say there is nothing in the legislation to protect them, despite the official promises made. ministers have set aside £5 billion to help those in the tallest unsafe buildings,

which campaigners say is totally inadequate, and the new bill is set to provide more time for developers to be sued for cladding defects. our correspondent sarah corker has been to ipswich to ask if the legislation will work. the calls from flat owners stuck in unsellable, unsafe homes are growing louder. what started as a crisis with cladding after grenfell has become a much bigger safety scandal. the government plans to give homeowners up to 15 years to sue developers for substandard work, but here in ipswich that carries little weight with claire. her block has dangerous cladding and a range of other safety faults. it will be of absolutely zero help to me. the developer has gone bust so there is nobody to sue, and even if there were somebody to sue, how am i going to get the money to be able to sue a property developer?

it feels at the moment that boris just doesn't care about us lease holders. there's hundreds of thousands of us trapped in this situation. it is estimated there are 19 blocks in ipswich with safety defects. 14 of those have developers who have gone bust, or are in administration, so there is no—one to see. so there is no—one to sue. the government's building safety bill will also create a new regulator, to ensure safety in tower blocks. it will oversee the safe design, construction and occupation of buildings. developers face tougher regulations, and will have to join the new homes ombudsman scheme. after years of deregulation, this is a once in a generation opportunity to create a regime that will help to produce safer buildings. it is great for new build going forward, but it is not great at the moment for residents trapped in unsafe buildings, with unsustainable financial implications. among them are helena and igor. their problem isn't cladding, but the insulation

and timber beneath it. they are facing a large bill. igor has multiple sclerosis and can only work part—time. at the moment our property, it is worth zero pounds. it is worth nothing? nothing. one day wake up and i have ms, and primary progressive, and i understand i am going to feel worse and worse and worse, and i'm worried if i lost myjob it is going to be all on my wife's shoulders. house builders have set aside around £500 million to fix the blocks they own, but it's not enough. mps have estimated this is at least a £15 billion problem, and that's just to fix cladding issues. the government says going forward building owners will have to prove they have pursued all other options to cover the cost of fixing buildings, and making people like helena and igor pay should be the last resort. sarah corker, bbc news in ipswich.

the foreign secretary dominic raab has accused the european commission of seeking to undermine the uk's sovereignty over gibraltar. he said tonight that the commission's proposals for a post—brexit deal, between the uk and the eu over gibraltar, were disappointing. our diplomatic correspondent james landale is here. what is going on here? gibraltar was understanding _ what is going on here? gibraltar was understanding fyshe _ what is going on here? gibraltar was understanding fyshe finished - understanding fyshe finished business, it was put aside for another day we that day is approaching and the european commission has published its draft negotiating proposal and the uk is unimpressed. dominic raab said he was disappointed. he said they undermined the sovereign of britain's overseas territory which spain disputes but crucially he said directly conflicted with the political deal that the uk gibraltar and sarah payne did last december. they said —— spain. they said under

the new border arrangement eu border guards will do the checking. the commission have said we think the spanish guards should do that, they insist their proposals will have a positive impact. there a long way to go on this the commission has to get the support of the member states but it does now leave the uk facing two disputes involving land borders with the eu, there is gibraltar now, but also the continuing row over the northern ireland protocol and trade controls over the irish sea, about which the british government will be saying a lot more tomorrow. qm. which the british government will be saying a lot more tomorrow. 0k, many thanks again- — saying a lot more tomorrow. 0k, many thanks again. james _ saying a lot more tomorrow. 0k, many thanks again. james landale _ saying a lot more tomorrow. 0k, many thanks again. james landale our- thanks again. james landale our diplomatic correspondent. james landale our diplomatic correspondent. the met office issued a new—style extreme heat weather warning and told people to watch out for sunburn and heat exhaustion. the amber warning — in place until thursday — covers large parts of wales, all of south—west england and parts of southern and central england. jeff bezos, the founder of amazon and the world's richest man, has been to space and back, in his own rocket ship, called new shepard.

on the flight with him was the oldest person who has been to space, 82—year—old wally funk, and the youngest, 18—year—old oliver daemen. our correspondent sophie long reports from texas. preparing to board his 60 foot sub—orbital rocket. this was notjust about realising a lifelong dream, but expanding his ever—growing empire beyond the grip of gravty. with him on this first fully autonomous passenger flight his brother mark bezos, 82—year—old trail blazing aviator wally funk and 18—year—old dutch student oliver daemen. six, five, four, command engines start, two, one. as you can hear, blue origin's reuseable rocket, carrying its first human passengers and first paying customer, is now on its way to space.

blast off for the new shepard, lift off for space tourism. on the edge of space, they floated, weightless, enjoying what those who have seen it say is a life—changing view of earth... ..before the capsule fell back to its surface, carrying in it the oldest and youngest astronauts ever. oh, my god! my expectations were high, and they were dramatically exceeded. everybody who has been up into space, they say this, that it changes them and they look at it and they are kind of amazed and awestruck. i want to thank you, sweetheart, because you made it possible for me. i've been waiting a long time to finally get it up there. critics say this is the wrong time for billionaires to be joyriding in rockets, while the planet faces climate—driven disasters. advocates say space will provide solutions not problems, and are celebrating what was an historic step

in the richest man on earth's mission to move industry into orbit. sophie long, bbc news, in the west texas desert. lauren price is set to realise her childhood dream as she becomes wales' first female boxer to compete at the olympics this summer. she is currently ranked world number one, and is the reigning european and commonwealth games champion. she's been talking to our sports correspondent nesta macgregor about her olympic challenge. there is just a 1% chance of somebody becoming a professional athlete. by that logic, the chances of someone making it to the top of four different sports — well, that's just ridiculous. from the minute i started kickboxing and playing football, i was sport mad. on lauren price's cv, a job history including international footballer, 52 caps for wales, kickboxer, a four—time world champion,

tae kwon do, british silver medallist and the 27—year—old's current role is boxer. her responsibilities include being the european, commonwealth and world middleweight champion. but lauren is seeking a promotion to be olympic gold medallist when she goes to work from the tokyo office. in previous years, team gb, when it comes to boxers, there's been some great stories like audley harrison, anthonyjoshua, nicola adams, you said was a big inspiration. have you allowed yourself to dream? oh, yes, definitely. it's been a dream of mine to go to the olympics from the age of eight. hopefully i will be on the wall in the english institute of sport in gb boxing like anthonyjoshua and nicola adams. the boxing ring can be a lonely place but the team gb fighter says she can always feel the spirit of her grandad. abandoned as a baby atjust three days old, she was raised in south wales by her grandparents.

when we went up for parents' evening and the teacher showed us that lauren said she wanted to be a world championship kickboxer, play football for wales and she wants to go to the olympics. i've always told all of my children, reach for the moon and if you fall short, you land on the stars. sadly my grandpa passed away in november, but i know when i go into that ring he is always looking down on me. i want to go and win gold and it would be nice to bring that medal back to say thank you, and win it for them. her birthday was injune, and she spent the day as a guest of the duke of cambridge at kensington palace. hopefully we chose the right sport. we could have gone for kickboxing or football, but we thought that was the better one? and did the duke and duchess make that, or was it shop bought? oh, i don't know. lauren price proving you can have your cake and eat it. nestor mcgregor, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

hello. today was the warmest day of the year so far and he continues over the next few days, at the met office amber one for extreme heat in force until the end if thursday across the south west, a combination of high daytime and finite have an impact on health, infrastructure and travel and temperatures heading to mid tight still storms around east anglia and the south—east, a stormy afternoon in the east that will fade into the night but the heat will slowly add the way in the mid and high teens is to start wednesday morning. low mist and cloud towards northeast scotland and england and the northern half of scotland, a lot of that will. .. blue skies the northern half of scotland, a lot of that will... blue skies and isolated showers and thunderstorms around on wednesday. mainly towards the west but most will stay dry and getting hotter in northern ireland, south—west scotland and it is in

northern ireland where wednesday through friday, amber extreme heat warning from the met office comes into force.

this is bbc news, the headlines. jeff bezos has made a 10—minute 18 second trip to space. the founder of amazon was accompanied by his brother, mark, and the youngest ever astronaut — oliver daemen — and the oldest pioneering female aviator wally funk. the us climate envoy said we can't wait for the end of the pandemic before facing up to the climate crisis. john kerry warned that the suffering cause by not tackling global warming would be much worse than coronavirus. the uk prime minister's former adviser, dominic cummings tells the bbc he held discussions about trying to oust borisjohnson in downing street within days of the conservatives winning the last election. the uk government says it is crucial for people to isolate if they are alerted by the covid app but earlier a minister said people could make an informed decision. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be