ed thomas, bbc news, newcastle.o reveal details tomorrow about localised lockdowns in madrid — where more than 16—hundred new cases have been reported in the last 2a hours. and as our reporter freya cole explains, the poorest neighbourhoods in both the capital, and barcelona are suffering the most. it's the final hazy days of summer in spain, but for health workers they hardly caught a break from the pandemic which is flavouring up again. since restrictions were lifted in latejune, infections have risen in spain from a few hundred a day, to thousands. madrid's working—class neighbourhoods have the highest volume of new outbreaks. many people don't have the luxury of sick leave or a place to self—isolate. it's a problem, authorities say, that needs to be addressed. translation: i must tell the people of madrid that the situation in our region is not good to. in reality it is getting much worse, and we are going to need to make more effort. it's a similar picture in barcelona. people in working class areas line up for

ed thomas, bbc news, newcastle.e, the latest from downing street is that the government is now what's been described as a circuit break — a short period of restrictions across the country, to try to slow the second surge of coronavirus. restrictions and closures could be reintroduced on some public spaces nationwide, and parts of the hospitality sector could be forced to close for a period of a few weeks — but schools and workplaces would be kept open. the head of the fbi says russia has been very active in trying to influence the forthcoming us elections. christopher wray told the house of representatives' homeland security committee the russians had been using social media, as well as "proxies, state media and online journals" to spread misinformation. we certainly have seen very active, very active, efforts by the russians to influence our election in 2020 through what i will call more malign foreign influence side of things without social media, use of proxies, state media, online journals, etc. in an effort to

ed thomas, bbc news, newcastle.ing further national measures, including what‘s been described as a ‘circuit break‘ — a short period of restrictions across the country, to try to slow the second surge of coronavirus. under the so called ‘circuit break‘, restrictions and closures could be re—introduced on some public spaces nationwide, and parts of the hospitality sector could be foreced to close for a period — but schools and workplaces would be kept open. well on the global scale — the number of officially recorded coronavirus cases has now climbed above 30—million, according to figures from thejohns hopkins university. the worst affected countries remain the united states, india and brazil. with brazil seeing another surge in cases — registering more than 36,000 on thursday — bringing the countries total number of cases to more than four and a half million — as the government struggles to contain its outbreak. let s get some of the day s other news associates of the russian opposition leader alexei navalny say they

ed thomas, bbc news, bolton. to the devolved leaders of scotland, wales and northern ireland today and made it clear that rising infection rates are a cause for great concern. in a moment, the latest from our scotland editor sarah smith and our ireland correspondent emma vardy, but first, here's our wales correspondent hywel griffith. sophie, wales is relatively slow to come out of lockdown restriction, now new ones are coming thick an fast, four mother area, added to the list. they willjoin the other, 850,000 people placed under tougher measure, what does it mean? people aren't allowed to travel in and out of the local council areas unless they have a valid reason like going to work, people aren't allowed to meet indoors with anyone not from their households and a 11pm curfew, but talk of a bigger south wales wide lockdown. that could be over taken by anything decided at tomorrow's cobra meeting. in scotland nicola sturgeon says she wants to take fast and urgent action so wants to take fast and urgent action so

ed thomas, bbc news, newcastle.nowjoined by paul smith, a pub owner in gateshead who says he still doesn't understand how the measures will impact his pub — or what to expect from tomorrow. just explained to us your public effectively have to close now at ten p:m., is that right. yes, that is right. and how do you feel about that? disappointed because we have had business for couple hours past couple days. it will impact but we understand we have our part to play. what other researchers will directly impact the schooner pub and your clients? i think there is an awful lot confusion about what they can can't do. and we are not sure either. we will have to act as responsibly as we can in trying to make the best of it. when it comes to serving food for example, are you one of those pubs that serves food, can you do that any more, do you understand what is going to happen? yes, of course we serve food and we have been doing table service anyway so it is not really going to affect us so it is not really going to affect us

ed thomas, bbc news, bolton.to the first ministers of scotland, wales and northern ireland this afternoon, telling them that the rising number of cases was a cause of great concern. in a moment we'll have the latest from our scotland editor sarah smith, and our ireland correspondent emma vardy, but first here's the latest from wales and our correspondent hywell griffith. here in wales, it's starting to feel a significant change is coming. already, four new lockdown areas announced. blaenau gwent, bridgend, merthyr tydfil and newport. new measures coming in there tomorrow at 6pm, joined with caerphilly and rhondda cynon taff, it means 850,000 people will be put under tougher lockdown rules. it means that people aren't allowed to travel in or out of their local council area without a good reason, going to work or to education. people aren't allowed to meet indoors with anyone from another household, and there is an 11pm curfew for pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants. but even now, already, there is talk of a much wid

ed thomas, bbc news, newcastle.england correspondent fiona trott joins us from newcastle. fiona, no doubt this is going to be tough for a lot of people, but, as i understand it, the local authorities wa nted understand it, the local authorities wanted these restrictions? they were really pressing for this because they are concerned about the rapid rise in infections, and also a rise in the average age of people getting infected too. they said it was a real warning sign. they actually asked for more, they wanted more help with the media testing. 40,000 stu d e nts help with the media testing. 40,000 students are expected here in the next few weeks. we understand that hasn't been forthcoming. also reports today of over 100 people queueing outside a testing centre in sunderland, but no tests were available. the local authorities also asked for less. they didn't wa nt also asked for less. they didn't want friends or family involved in childcare arrangements to be included in that household rule, but they are. the local

ed thomas, bbc news, liverpool.ernment figures show the highest daily number of new infections, since the current surge in cases began, with 4,322 new infections in the latest 2a period. that means the average number of new cases reported per day in the last week is 3,466. and as new cases have climbed, so have daily hospital admissions, with the weekly average at 221. data from scotland on this is only published up until september seventh. 27 deaths were reported of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—i9 test, and that means on average in the last week, 17 deaths were announced every day, taking the total number, across the uk to 41,732. there are now more than a thousand people in hospital with coronavirus across the uk, and this, along with continuing reports of serious problems, in the testing system. here's our health editor, hugh pym. there are yet more stories of delays and frustration at virus testing sites. traffic came to a standstill in south london, as people who'd booked tests waited to g

ed thomas, bbc news, liverpool.e prospect of these new restrictions going down in some of the other places that will be affected? in a moment, we'll be speaking to tanya arnold. in west yorkshire. but first to phil mackie in wolverhampton. i don't think anybody in wolverhampton is surprised about the announcement today, the numbers have been quite high for a while and they will simplyjoin been quite high for a while and they will simply join neighbouring boroughs of sandwell, birmingham city and solihull and having that restriction that means you can't go to other people because my households and they say 90% of the new cases in wolverhampton in the past couple of weeks have come from social gatherings, people going to family get—togethers, barbecues and garden parties, that kind of thing. not from people going out socially in pubs and restaurants, which is why there are no restrictions brought into place here because of that. they have opened a lot of new walk—in testing centres and a new one came online today, the

ed thomas, bbc news, liverpool.staurants could be shut for a few weeks as part of stricter measures across england to slow the surge of coronavirus cases. the government is said to be considering a short period of tighter rules which could be announced in the next week. the move, which would see lockdown return for a period of weeks, has been desribed as a "circuit—brea ker", meaning schools and most workplaces would be kept open. joining us to discuss how this would work is virologist dr naomi forrester—soto from keele university. welcome to bbc news. thank you for your time. this idea of this circuit breaker. talk us through that and if you think it is a good one. so the idea of having a short lockdown is the incubation period for this virus is approximately two weeks although the majority of people get sick in the majority of people get sick in the first 2—5 days after exposure, there is this long tail of people getting sick all the way out today number 1a. if we had the circuit breaker, it would basically isolat

our special correspondent ed thomas reports. hello? to you about the new lockdown rules and see what you think about it. lives are about to change once again. horrible, i'd onlyjust started going out a little bit. coronavirus cases had been rising since late august and today 2 million people we re august and today 2 million people were told today they will now be living by new rules. the health secretary applies the brakes. data says we must act now so we can control the virus and keep people safe. this means a ban on people mixing and pubs closing at ten o'clock. why has it come down to hospitality? why have we got to pay for people not following the rules? to bring cases down. but will it do that? because people can't come out with their friends, only households, pubs won't survive, pubs willjust not survive. isolating people in and outside the home isjust crazy. sean has just reopened his outside the home isjust crazy. sean hasjust reopened his barber outside the home isjust crazy. sean has just reopened his barber is outside the ho

and i worked for little thomas ed mur row on all those farms up there in new york. it was amazing. those farms were so large and so big, they had to raise crops of corn and we bailed hay and it was amazing. it's amazing that i was listening to this program and couldn't believe it, that i'm sitting here, i'm 68 years old and i worked on his farm bailing hay and farming. >> thanks, august. let's talk about the farm. your father ran in 1930 for governor. he loses and then buys the farm, the caller was talking about. he made a name for himself at this point. decides to run for governor. why, richard norton? >> i could always expect attribute that to his youth. he had come from a farming environment. in fact, during world war i he was too young to enlist an he worked on a farm in the owasso area. my sense is and you thought much better that he was very happy being a dairy farmer. it was a side of him that probably would surprise the public. i'm not sure that your mother was wild about it. i'm not sure you were wild about living there. >> what was it like? >> well, we were given a choice

in pennsylvania ahead of the president's arrival, quibi content executive shauna thomas, former pennsylvania governor eddell, and charlie sykes, founder and editor in chief of

in pennsylvania ahead of the president's arrival, quibi content executive shauna thomas, former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, and charlie sykes, founder and editor in chief of the bulwark. welcome, all. mike memoli, joe biden told you what his goals are today as he heads to wisconsin, the same week that, of course, president trump was there two days earlier. >> yeah, that's right, andrea. he said he wants to provide a good example that there were actually calls from local officials for him to come. and andrea, these are tense moments in the campaign, these are difficult moments to really pull off. but this really speaks to why joe biden, why his core advisers have always felt why he was the best democrat to go up against donald trump, a unique figure in recent political history, to be sure. sometimes it requires a very direct and forceful message like we saw joe biden deliver in pittsburgh on monday. also talking about the president as toxic, as somebody who is poisoning this country. yesterday we even heard joe biden mocking the president at times, telling him to get off twitter, saying if he's suc

and how many americans would want to get a shot former white house chief economistist thomas philipson writing an op-ed vaccination rates. he says pessimism is "misguided." he joins us now from chicago tom, good to see you you argue in this op-ed that there will be enough vaccines available for the most vulnerable including seniors and important to prioritize giving it to them rather than others. i want to show you what some of the seniors are saying cnbc has been polling likely voters in battleground states. i specifically broke out the respondents over the age of 65 in the last two months, their likelihood of getting this vaccine has fallen by 20%. so even for seniors, how do you shore up confidence for these vulnerable groups to actually get the vaccine? >> let me explain why i think the seniors are so important 85% of mortality of covid-19 in the u.s. sits in the senior population so a vaccination rate that focused on them and high risk individuals would be dramatically reducing mortality. and i think, i wrote also that the demand for the vaccine will basically push in that direction. people are tr

always love to see woman at the top of her game, but i have to say that sergeant major thomas patrick payne, who was award edng over 70 isis hostages in northern iraq in 2015, i have to say a that he won the week. he was on his 17th deployment, which shows the ongoing nature of these wars that the country has just completely turned our attention from as we deal with our domestic chaos, but someone like sergeant major payne is a true who row and is doing good in the name of america around the world and i salute his well received honor and his heroism, saving lives that would have perished to isis. >> that's an excellent choice and i'm not going to say you're wrong like i did for naomi and for michelle roberts, but i think you have not picked the right choice. the person who, oh, good, i thought i was going to have to go old school and play it in the mic microphone. minot, north dakota, city council member evans. >> if you're not aware, and i think a lot of people in this room are not and have come here because this is a gay issue, i am proudly the first openly elected lesbian in north dakota. so that is why i

colleagues on the other side of the aisle do very well and it is a quote by president of thomas former chief of staff ed said never let a crisis go to waste that affords you the opportunity to do things you haven't been able to accomplish before. and i think that is what we are seeing take place here today in effect we are even having this hearing. i won't opine on some of the things my othere colleagues have your talking about this issue that i think we should be talking about what is working in america other states can follow is how to deal with this. one of the direction i've taken is to learn to live with the coronavirus. it is a dangerous virus but it is here and it'ss probably going to be here for some time. we can't put all of ou all the d baskets of all of our eggs in a basket of the vaccine. i think we need h to work very hard for a vaccine but they also need effective treatment. but we have to learn and continue to operate this country and our state with this virus around. george has done very well. congress already provided a trillion dollars of direct and indirect support for the state and l

ed together. your wife was clerking for clarence thomas and she was clerking for scalia.eve, she was widely reputed be one of the smartest law clerks in the building my friend professor noah feldman up at harvard has said as much repeatedly but i've really had the privilege my wife and i have of being friends with amy and jessie barrett for a long time neighbors and colleagues with faculty of the notre dame law school. she's a beloved teacher, she always wins the teacher award so none of the rest of us always have a chance to win it. ainsley: she's the godmother to one of your daughters right? >> she is a godmother to my middle daughter and our children are friends they've kind of grown up together. just the other day when the barrettes got back from the rose garden ceremony i looked out the window and my youngest son and her young boys were having some kind of a jedi war in the backyard and it was a nice picture. ainsley: that's cute we're showing the pictures of your kids playing together and real quickly she has seven children and that's just amazing and she's adopted

. >> let's bring in shawna thomas and editor at the financial times ed luce.th you. the list is long of damning evidence against this president under mining the american people and destroying the economy while allowing this pandemic to spread instead of taking steps to mitigate it. what stands out to you as the most damning, if possible? >> that's -- it's such a rich choice. i'd be reluctant to pick out one aspect of this. overall, i see president trump as a bit like king canoot, he sits next to the waves, they won't touch me because i'm king. and his aides are too scared to tell him he's going to get flooded. and he's beginning to get flooded. on your show i said a few months ago, i know a dying administration when i see one. i have no reason in spite of what the obama people would call bed-wetting, fears about the biden campaign. no reason to change that assessment now. trump's self-belief is his own greatest weakness. and there's a rich choice of weaknesses to select from there as well. the fact that he would disclose potentially acute national security det

and have inspired him in the same way henry ford and thomas edison were people that inspired him in business. >> taylorsville, illinois. this is ed. hello. ed, are you there? >> yes. from taylorville, illinois. >> yes, sir. >> i voted for perot in 1992. and i believe that's how clinton got elected and bush didn't seem like he cared whether he got elected or not. >> thanks very much. do you think that ross perot was responsible for the election of bill clinton, carolyn? >> i do. and i think there were two impacts. one is he -- similar to teddy roosevelt, he split the republican vote. and in that way, roosevelt denied taft a second term. perot split the conservative vote. and denied bush a second term. but he did another thing, i think, by getting in the race, and beating up on bush all along the way, kind of softened him up for clinton to come in and make the kill. so i think it was sort of a two tiered effect there. and i do -- i'm not sure how the campaign would have played out without him. but i certainly think that part of the impact of his being in the race was clinton being elected. >> hey, rick, you're on the air. >> glad t

in a new op-ed our next guest says never forget that kamala harris's cruel lies in the kavanaugh confirmation. former clerk to supreme court justice clarence thomasd myself increasingly depressed at due process is declining of importance in this country. viral videos or moments from kamala harris. the truth that was not about due process anyway, was it, carrie? >> it was to raise her profile. she she put out 3600 different ads, people were shocked. she announced run for presidency shortly thereafter. she was doing leading questions, gotcha questions, would never pass muster in a courtroom. someone who likes to style herself as great attorney, she looks like she is trying to play perry mason on tv. in the kavanaugh confirmation it was really shameful she tried to use that for her own political ends. will: not only time either, is it, carrie? didn't she, kamala harris accept originally the accusations of joe biden made by tara reid? it was not a process of due process then either, was it, it was something else, something political? >> absolutely. when tara reid, about a dozen other women at the time that kamala harris was running for president, whe