nick bryant, bbc news, new york.turned the sky blood—red over san francisco. we have photos right now of the bay area, in a haze, sorry, thatis bay area, in a haze, sorry, that is the bay bridge. fires burning out of control across swathes of california along with other pacific coast states of washington and oregon, fuelled by strong winds and searing temperatures. 0ur correspondent david willis is in los angeles and a little earlier gave us this update on the fires. thousands of people here awoke to apocalyptic grey 01’ in some cases orange skies this morning, the horizon clouded by a thick layer of smoke. california, oregon and washington state, the worst affected states, and it is very rare for fires of this ferocity in oregon and washington state because of the cool and wet climate there. yet the oregon state governor kate brown is warning of the worst fire season in history in that state. both in terms of the number of buildings destroyed and the number of lives lost. she has not specified however how many peopl

nick bryant, bbc news, new york.tivists in hong kong who were detained in mainland china. he called on them to ensure the rights were being upheld. spain was among the european countries intially hardest hit by the covid pandemic. the country brought in strict lockdown measures, and for a while they seemed to be working. cases dropped and life began to return to normal. but, as in many other countries, recent weeks have seen a resurgence of new infections. guy hedgecoe reports from madrid on the measures being taken. for 7—year—old julia, this is a big day. a national lockdown followed by the long summer holiday have meant she is going to school for the first time in six months. 0ver eight million spanish children are going back to the classroom this month. they want to come back to school because they miss their friends, their teachers, so it's a nice moment for them. the return to school is being staggered according to age groups, as part of efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus. it's just one of many new me

nick bryant, bbc news, new york. i've been speaking to dr rishi desai — chief medical officer for the healthcare education platform 0smosis and a former epidemic intelligence officer with the us centers for disease control. i asked him what he makes of the president's strategy to try and avoid mass panic. yes, i wouldn't even call it a strategy. i think that it was basically a very dangerous thing he did and frankly i think it led to many, many more people dying and getting sick of covid. especially if you think about the fact that he knew about it, he knew it was very dangerous and deadly long before it was kind of widespread — that information was widespread. and then on the other hand, he was also advocating for less testing. so if you put those two things together, that you know it is dangerous and you're trying to get less testing for it, then yes, it is a really dangerous strategy and that is what he did. it's how we got here. let's work that through. if the president said publicly, what we now know he was sayi

nick bryant, bbc news, new york.ouse of representatives nancy pelosi has bluntly told london there will be "absolutely no chance" of a us/uk trade deal if boris johnson overrides the brexit deal with brussels. mrjohnson has tried to urge his mps to support a new deal which changes parts of the brexit deal that he negotiated with the eu and signed in january. 0ur chief political correspondent vicki young reports. do you still trust the british government, mr barnier? here to talk about a future trade deal, but the eu's chief negotiator arrived in london today with a huge row raging over an agreement that he thought was done and dusted. are you happy to break the law, prime minister? yesterday, the government shocked mps, admitting it was ready to break international law and override parts of the brexit treaty it signed with the eu injanuary. the prime minister denied that he was tearing it up. this uk internal market bill is about protecting jobs, protecting growth, ensuring the fluidity and safety of our uk internal

from new york, the bbc‘s nick bryant.oronavirus began claiming scores of american lives, the us president publicly talked down the threat. it will go away. you know it is going away and it will go away and we will have a great victory. but at the same time, donald trump was telling the legendary watergate journalist bob woodward that he had deliberately played down the pandemic, even though he understood the deadliness of the virus. well, ithink, bob, to be honest with you... sure, i want you to be. i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down, because i don't want to create a panic. this was impossible to dismiss as fake news and instead, the president tried to explain his comments. i am a cheerleader for this country. i love our country and i don't want people to be frightened. i don't want to create panic, as you say. and certainly, i'm not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy. his democratic rivaljoe biden is already leading in the polls and he immediately weaponised what the preside

nick bryant, bbc news, new york.e past few hours, mr trump has been putting his point across in the white house press briefing room. his main point was that the democrats were to blame for the violence in portland and other cities and he could solve the problem swiftly if they were willing to co—operate. they are, in all cases, democrat—run — but we're doing the best we can to help them without really much of a consent. we'd like to have the consent — as an example, in portland, we could solve that problem in approximately one hour. but the mayor refuses, perhaps for political reasons, i don't know if it's good for him to have a city that's falling apart. and it's under siege now for 94 days. but really, it's been under siege for years, if you know portland. so to the mayor, i say, whenever you're ready, let us know and we'll solve your problem of violence, we'll solve your problem of crime, we'll arrest those criminals very rapidly, and you'll be able to have some nice evenings in portland. here's our north america

nick bryant, bbc news, new york. that's all for me. stay with us on bbc news. hello.g of a north, south split. across much of england and wales we've got a fairly decent weekend ahead. it's looking largely dry, pretty warm as well with some sunshine on offer. but for scotland and northern ireland, a different story. here, things will be turning increasingly windy particularly through saturday and there'll be some rain at times. heaviest northwest of scotland on sunday. but here we've got this week weather front that's been slipping its way slowly south of the past 25 hours or so. a more active weather front waiting out in the atlantic. that is what will bring the rain to the northwest. 2a hours. saturday morning, we just got a band of cloud on this weak weather front pushing south could be the odd spot of drizzle for southern england first thing. much of the uk looking bright with some long spells of sunshine but there will be more of those blustery showers for scotland and northern ireland. more rain arriving by the weekend. temperatures on saturday will move to abou

nick bryant, bbc news, new york.eachment proceedings against president martin vizcarra — who's accused of misusing public funds. 0pposition leaders have accused the president of paying a large sum of money to a singer, richard swing, to deliver pro— government motivational talks while peruvians faced economic hardship from the coronavirus crisis. mr vizcarra has denied any wrongdoing. britain's coronavirus epidemic is once more on the rise. for the first time since march — the r numberfor coronavirus infections has risen above the crucial level of one, meaning the virus is now spreading again. that appears to be backed up by the latest daily figures for the last 24 hours which show the highest number of new infections in almost 4 months. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh reports on the rising coronavirus levels. how do you ensure people have the freedom to socialise and spend money — as in london tonight — while keeping coronavirus in check? more and more evidence is showing the virus is on the rise, including a massiv

nick bryant, bbc news, new york.h has died in delhi. the 80—year—old was best known for his decades—long campaign against bonded labour, where people are forced to work in virtual slavery to pay off debts. he campaigned for religious harmony in india and also worked against corruption, and for the rights of women and girls. feminist icon shere hite has died at the age of 77. best known for her book, the hite report: a nationwide study of female sexuality, hite is credited with starting a sexual revolution for women. the book, which was based on the experiences of more than 3,000 women, challenged societal and freudian assumptions about sex and has sold 48 million copies since it was published in 1976. we spoke to professorjane kamensky, who's director of the schlesinger library on the history of women in america at harvard university, about her legacy. shere hite is someone you would have heard of if you were watching news in 1976. the hite report, published that year, was a publishing sensation. she claimed to have

nick bryant, bbc news, new york.d much of europe's largest refugee camp on the island of lesbos, leaving 13,000 migrants without shelter. the former army camp had been placed under lockdown because of the spread of coronavirus. greece has declared a state of emergency, as our correspondent mark lowen reports. a camp often called a ticking time bomb has exploded. moria, four times over its capacity, has been almost completely destroyed, an inferno in a place where life was already hell. the 13,000 migrants here, mostly afghans, fleeing again, this time in europe. my house is finished. many... all finished. at first light, it seemed the sun itself was on fire as a desperate attempt to douse the flames continued. inside, homes now a wasteland. pictures from the charity medecins sans frontieres show the gutted remains of europe's largest migrant camp. the government said the fire was started deliberately, a protest after 35 migrants who had tested positive for coronavirus were isolated. strong winds fanned it. the prime

here's nick bryant with more.ffering from the long—haul effects of this viral onslaught. the change of the seasons has brought an uptick of activity, but the signs of continued suffering are everywhere, from boarded—up shops to more homeless people on the streets. there's a new covid cafe culture, but it's created a misleading sense of revival. almost 3000 small businesses have closed since march, and a third of those are restaurants. bar owner chris page says the outdoor dining business model just isn't sustainable. new york city's dying. it'll die if restaurants don't reopen. i mean, it'll truly just. .. i think the economy will just collapse. this is hudson yards, a skyline changing development that opened to great fanfare last year, but its flagship department store has filed for bankruptcy. its shopping mall is largely empty. the ecosystem of manhattan relies on office buildings that are full. but september has not yet brought a large—scale return to work, and some have left town for good. so here, for instan

nick bryant, bbc news, new york. katty: you're watching bbc "world news america." to come on this program, a harrowing video appears to show a naked woman being stalked and killed in northern mozambique. an investiga looked into who is responsible for the atrocity. ♪ katty: a former chinese real to 18 years in ja been sentenced corruption charges. he disappeared from the public eye after critizing president xi's response to the coronavirus. here is bbc's china analyst carrie allen. carrie: if you asked me who he was in 2014, he was a really powerful figure online. he had a lot of influence and tens of millions of followers, and he really challenged t status quo.he was very outspoke. he sometimes made of barbed comments about the communist party, and they struggled to rein him in. in relation to corruption, it is hard to tell in china because hm was alionaire. he was a huge business tycoon. we are not entirely sure. what we do know is that for a long period of time, thent govern was unsettled with the growing voice he had online, and the fact he had this dissent beh

nick bryant, bbc news, new york. sells everything from salt to software. nikhil inamdarjoins us with more. nikhil, what can you tell us? what is this that all about? —— this start. the largest minority shareholder of the tata group is basically decided that it will exit its 18.7% investment into the group but the two sides of you know have been engaged in a very bitter dispute for the past many years since one of the heirs to the fortu nes since one of the heirs to the fortunes was ousted as tata, and the sites have been engaged in battles recently when one group essentially said that they wanted to pledge some of their shares in the tata group in order to pay off debt obligations. but in court yesterday, tata ethically said instead of doing that they would rather buy out the stake of one of the groups and much to everyone's surprise, the latter quickly agreed. in a terse press statement, sally, the group said this relationship was untenable, tata had basically gone ahead and significantly valued destroyed businesses

here's our north america correspondent nick bryant.was the doorstep of the white house last night — canisters of tear gas fired almost within sniffing distance of the president. and in this fog of ongoing protest, donald trump sees a clear political opening, a comeback in the polls fuelled by scenes of civil unrest. "law and order," he tweeted today, in what's fast becoming his re—election slogan. and he also attacked what he called the radical left mayors and governors of cities where this "crazy violence" is taking place who've "lost control of their movement". his tweets followed a weekend of violence in portland, oregon, where a white man was shot dead amid clashes between supporters of donald trump and anti—racist protesters. it also came in response to an attack on the president from portland's democratic mayor. do you seriously wonder, mr president, why this is the first time in decades that america has seen this level of violence? it's you who have created the hate and the division. at the start of the summer, in the aftermath

nick bryant from our washington bureau writes... america did to its international reputation in the early 21st century, the florida debacle will be on the list, guantanamo, abu ghraib and that first presidential debate. watched the world over. incalculable soft power damage. " donald trump's former national security adviser, general hr mcmaster, spoke to bbc world news earlier, and said the deep divisions on show were harming america. we're acting like we're oui’ own worst enemies. and so, as you allude to, russia in particular is trying to drag us down, trying to polarise all of our societies, pit us against each other, and really amplify these narrow identities in a way that reduces our confidence in who we are as a people and in our democratic principles and institutions, and processes. so all of our leaders, especially those on stage last night, they have to be a heck of a lot more responsible. because i don't think they recognise the damage they're doing and how easy they are making it for our determined adversaries. moving awa

nick bryant from our washington bureau writes... in particular, it is trying to drag us down. trying to polarise all of our societies, pit us against each other, really amplify these narrow identities in a way that it reduces our confidence in who we are asa reduces our confidence in who we are as a people and in our democratic principles and institutions and processes . principles and institutions and processes. so all of our leaders especially those who onstage last night, they have to be a heck of a lot more responsible because i don‘t even need to recognise the damage they are doing and how easy they are making it for our determined adversaries. next to the quality of the information we were given. both men said things that weren‘t right — though donald trump did so far, far more thanjoe biden. here‘s chris morris from the bbc‘s reality check. it was really rather hard to fact check what often became a disjointed shouting match, but there were plenty of questionable claims and false statements littered throughout this debate and

nick bryant is based there — and has this report.aught. the change of the seasons has brought an uptick of activity, but the signs of continued suffering are everywhere. from boarded up shops to more homeless people on the streets. there is a new covid cafe culture, but it has created a misleading sense of revival. almost 3000 small businesses have closed since march, and a third of those are restaurants. bar owner chris page says the outdoor dining business model just isn't sustainable. new york city is dying. it will die if restaurants don't reopen. it will truly just. .. i think the economy would just collapse. this is hudson yards, a skyline changing development that opened to great fanfare last year. but its flagship department store has filed for bankruptcy, the shopping mall is largely empty. the ecosystem of manhattan relies on office buildings that are full. but september has not yet brought a large scale return to work. and some have left town for good. here for instance, what do you think the occupancy is there? i think ab

nick bryant talks us through two celebrated occasions.is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under foreign administration. —— undera —— under a board administration. i'm sorry, could ijust quote, did i understand you to say, sir, that the russians are not using eastern europe as their own sphere of influence and occupying most of the countries there? —— ford administration. it is notjust mistakes that make an impression. in 1984, ronald reagan showed how humour could be deployed as well as blows. i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. after walter mondale heard reagan's famous zinger, he said he knew he had lost the election. i wonder how many zingers will be on tonight on—site debate. i've been speaking to randi reed, former republican congressional candidate for nevada and laura schwartz, who served as an advisor the president in the clinton administration. i began by asking laura whether because of the current polli