phil mackie in birmingham. phil mackie in birmingham.ecretary dominic raab says the eu "must now move" on key issues if there is to be a trade deal before the brexit transition ends in december. the next round of formal talks take place this week, but negotiators in brussels have said they are disappointed by a lack of concessions from the uk. mr raab accused brussels of "double standards" in demanding more from britain than it had in past free—trade deals. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. january to 31st, when the uk officially left the european union. since then, little has changed because of a one—year transition. but our long—term trading relationship is still worked out. talks on that have been taking place, but for weeks they have been stuck with significant disagreement about rules on government grants for businesses and access to british waters forfishing. this morning in a rare interview, the uk's chief negotiator, lord frost, told the mail on sunday he was prepared to walk away. we are not going to be a client

phil mackie, bbc news, birmingham.he death of the former sunday times editor and fleet street legend sir harold evans. he died in new york aged 92. he was best known for championing investigative journalism, but his 70—year career also saw him work as a magazine founder, book publisher, author and at the time of his death, as reuters' editor—at—large. 0ur media editor, amol rajan, looks back at his life. they don't make them like harry evans any more. as the most celebrated british editor of his generation, he personified the noblest possibilities of both journalism and social mobility in the 20th century. the son of a railwayman and grocery store owner, he came up through local papers, first on the manchester evening news, then as editor of the northern echo in darlington, aged just 32. harry evans fell out with rupert murdoch, but not before in 13 years at the sunday times, he redefined journalism itself. a master craftsman, he pioneered a form of brave, investigative, campaigning journalism, famously winning compens

phil mackie, bbc news, worcester.report warns that nature is being destroyed by humans at a rate never seen before — and that what it calls a catastrophic decline shows no sign of slowing. our environment and rural affairs correspondent claire marshall reports. wildlife is dying out at a rate that has never been seen before in human history, according to today‘s report. from the arctic, to the warm seas of the caribbean, to the gardens of britain, it‘s happening faster than all the predictions and it‘s global. the living planet report, carried out every two years, assesses more than 20,000 creatures all around the world. species in all groups of animals, on every continent, are being lost. what we‘ve seen is a wholesale destruction of some of our most important natural assets in the space of one human lifetime — in 50 years — and this is a trend that is only increasing and accelerating. that‘s why we have to stop now and actually start to address it. intensive agriculture is one of the key drivers. these are huge bana

phil mackie, thank you.s been hearing evidence about why the fire and rescue service did not arrive at the scene until two hours after the explosion. a fire service expert told the hearing that the response to the bombing had been "nadequate and ineffective", and that a decision to muster three miles away had been a systemic failure. 22 people were killed and hundreds injured in the attack in may, 2017. fiona trott is at the inquiry. for the families to date the hearing has been detailed and distressing. we've been told about the injuries the victims received and how they we re the victims received and how they were treated and crucially weather experts believed that those injuries we re experts believed that those injuries were survivable. also today we learned more about the victims themselves, putting —year—old nell jones who just before the explosion told her friend that she loved her. courtney boyle who was standing four metres away from the bomber salman abedi ledger her family learned that she had ear

phil mackie reports.the emergency services answered countless 999 calls from birmingham city centre. during little more than an hour and they have one person was killed, seven were injured. west midlands police have said they believed there had been a lone attacker and released this footage of the man they wanted to speak to. the first report came through at half past midnight from constitution hill where a man suffered superficial injuries. 20 minutes later in livery street a man and woman were attacked. he was critically injured, she was less seriously hurt. around ten to do a man was killed and another man seriously injured in irving street. the final attack was in her street just irving street. the final attack was in her streetjust after irving street. the final attack was in her street just after 2am. irving street. the final attack was in her streetjust after 2am. a man was arrested in connection with all of the attacks a few miles away in selly oak. the investigations have been contending across t

but first to phil mackie in wolverhampton. 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, there will be more next week. interestingly, i was ona more next week. interestingly, i was on a call early on with the leader of wolverhampton city council who said the number of people who have had a test in wolverhampton d

phil mackie, bbc news, birmingham. our top story this lunchtime... months from november. he says it will save valuable jobs. mr speaker, these are radical interventions in the uk labour market, policies we have never tried in this country before. coming up in the sport in the next 15 minutes on bbc news — the hamilton commission. the formula 1 world champion will lead the newly formed group pushing for greater diversity in motorsport. as talks to secure a brexit trade deal with the european union remain on a knife edge, businesses on both sides of the channel face major uncertainties, with the prospect of cross—border tariffs which would make their products more expensive. one of the countries set to be hit hardest if there's no deal on trade is belgium, where leading economists say that thousands ofjobs will be lost. and that could affect one of its most celebrated exports, as our brussels correspondent nick beake has been finding out. from farm. . .to factory. . .to frite. belgium claims its chips are the best in the world. these potato growers fee

phil mackie, bbc news, birmingham.loyers after the 52—billion pound furlough scheme ends next month. it's initial purpose was to support people's wages, and allow them to keep theirjobs, while expressly staying at home. without further support, economists are predicting mass redundancies. the new scheme is likely to take inspiration from the likes of france and germany by allowing employers to reduce workers' hours — rather than making them redundant — and helping top up their pay. with me is kenneth wright, co—owner of phoenix arts club, in the capital. john o'connell is the chief executive of the tax payers‘ alliance. and marsha vaknine is currently on furlough. thank you so much forjoining us today and i will begin by looking at this from the employee and employer perspective, so marcia, tell us about the furlough experience for you as an employee and how important that has been. it's been absolutely important. without the furlough scheme, personally we would not have survived. i have friends that have or will be ma

our correspondent phil mackie is in birmingham.pretty convinced they know what it wasn't about, so what was the motivation for these attacks? i really don't know, i don't think they will know until they get the man they are looking for in custody. they say it's not a hate type crime, it's not terrorist related, but until they speak to him, until they arrest him, it's going to be hard to know what sparked this sort of a random series of attacks across birmingham last night. this was one of the locations. we think this is one of the last locations. you can see the big blue tent up there. a lot of activity up and down the street. you can see officers lined all the way appear. earlier on, there was don margaret that has been removed. but this is a half hour, ten minute walk from hurst street. another ten minute walk to the other locations. so this man was walking through the city centre last night, apparently able to carry out a number of stabbings across a period of an hour and a half. and still get away from each incident and not be

our correspondent phil mackie is in birmingham.what the police are saying happened last night, if you could. the headlines are that the person died last night over a stab wound. two more people are still critically ill in hospital and five other people were injured with less serious injuries. this appears to have happened as a random attack by a single male suspect, he is still at large. it began just to the north of the city centre at constitution hill at around 12:30am. over the next hour and a half, two hours, that single suspect has travelled through the city centre and add four or five different locations stabbed other people. as i say, that man is still at large. there is a heavy uniformed police presence in the city today. that is merely for reassurance, but they are obviously still trying to get this particular suspect into custody as soon as possible. they have asked people coming into the city centre to still be alert. we also heard from the west midlands ambulance, who talked about what was happening from their point of

phil mackie reports.he emergency services answered countless 999 calls from birmingham city centre. during little more than an hour and a half, one person was killed and seven more were injured. west midlands police said they believed there had been a lone attacker and released this footage of the man they wanted to speak to. the first report came through at half past midnight from constitution hill, where a man suffered superficial injuries. 20 minutes later in livery street a man and a woman were attacked. he was critically injured, she was less seriously hurt. at around ten to two a man was killed and another man was seriously injured in irving street. the final attack was in hurst street just after 2am. a man was arrested in connection with all of the attacks, a few miles away in selly oak. investigations are continuing across the city. this is irving street today. as you can see, there is still a lot of police activity here today. the cordon stretches along the road and that blue tent marks the spot

be crucial in the police investigation to identify and track down this killer. 0ur correspondent phil mackiethe scene of one of the stabbings. i'll tell you where i am, this is irving street. we think this is where the last attack took place and we know now that that blue tent up then marks the spot where the man died at around 2am. i spoke to somebody who was staying here in an air b&b flat last night who says that his wife thought she heard someone that his wife thought she heard someone crying "help me" at around two other people in the flat say they heard sirens around that time. that sort of fits in with the sequence that sort of fits in with the sequence of events, where the first attack took place in that direction across the city centre at about 12:30am, then there were a number of other incidents near cromwell road and ben hurst street, where you just had that eyewitness describing what happened. then the attacker must have come up this way and that was the last victim of the night and the one person who has died. of the seven other victims, two are in a critical condition and are s

anyone with information should contact west midlands police.‘ 0ur correspondent phil mackie is in birminghamhat appeal for information really crucial to the police. they were telling us in the news conference, because a lot of people were in the city centre they must have seen what happened, and they are appealing for people who took photographs or videos to come forward. and actually, at that time, the first stabbing took place at around half past midnight, and the next hour and a half, a half, a lot of people would have been making their way home, so people might have been walking past some of these incidents and may have grabbed some footage, taken some pictures that would be of real use to west midlands police and their ongoing enquiry, so it is a developing situation as you know, because the man who is suspected of carrying out these random attacks still at large. so, the police have said they have loads of cctv cameras across the city centre. it is going to ta ke across the city centre. it is going to take some time to go through all of that, but anybody who was out last night i may ha

but first, let's hear from a woman who works in the area our correspondent phil mackie is in birmingham have any more details? we have just heard that one person died and that violence last night, which seems to have taken place in a number of different locations, beginning and a place called arcadian centre, which is near the 93v arcadian centre, which is near the gay quarter, the chinese quarter of birmingham, but also spreading into different locations across the city centre. i visited some of those locations, and there are police cordons up, and also police tents, presumably forensic officers are carrying out further investigation. we note that besides the one person who died, there were multiple stabbings, but we are waiting for more details from west midlands police and ambulance service and the next 20 minutes or so. is it any indication yet as to why there is a flare—up of violence happen? indication yet as to why there is a flare-up of violence happen? not yet. according to eyewitnesses, there was an unpleasant atmosphere around midnight last night and the arcadian centre, lots

anna collinson, bbc news. 0ur correspondent, phil mackie, is in birmingham.as been for some concern for some time. we saw figures rising in the beginning of august and there was a creep to a level of about 20—30 cases per 100,000 back in the last ten days that has rocketed to 80 cases per 100000 and we have been told by all the local authorities that there will be an announcement today of greater restrictions. i understand that will be around households meeting so going further than the rule of six, which is going to be introduced nationwide on monday. perhaps stopping different households meeting at all, indoors. the problem in birmingham is, although there are pockets where there is a slightly larger outbreak it is basically everywhere across the city has had an increase in cases and they think that is largely because people are meeting indoors, large numbers of people having parties orfamily large numbers of people having parties or family gatherings, and thatis parties or family gatherings, and that is how the disease is being spread. it is worrying and s

our reporter phil mackie has been in birmingham this afternoon... 100,000 people is currently around 80 in birmingham, 60 in solihull, and a0 in sandwell. those cases have really gone up in the last week. they have been going up since august, but they have really gone up in the last week. it is not that meetings and social events and parties around the bank holiday weekend may be responsible for that increase that is happening at the moment. ian ward, the leader of birmingham city council, said that he asked for help from the military to help, get more feet on the streets carrying out the door to door testing so they can get on top of this particular outbreak. the positivity rate for birmingham‘s really high at 6.8%, so of the people being tested 6.8% are testing positive at the moment, particularly around the country that is below 3%. so that is of some concern. it‘s high in solihull, it‘s coming down in sandwell at the moment as well. it's in sandwell at the moment as well. it‘s a big measure, although obviously elsewhere in the country, as will b

our correspondent phil mackie has the latest.ad news. we have had confirmation of the identity of the 22—year—old man killed in birmingham in the earlier as of yesterday morning. jacob billington. they say he was visiting the city, visiting a friend studying here, and with a group of people was here in saturday night and sunday morning. still quite a heavy police presence around. that is really for reassurance today and that man who was arrested this morning is still in police custody, so we are nearly 48 hours on, really, from that dramatic date of events that unfolded here in the city centre. it's 36 hours since the emergency services answered countless 999 calls from birmingham city centre. during little more than an hour and a half, one person was killed and seven more were injured. west midlands police said they believed there had been a lone attacker and released this footage of the man they wanted to speak to. the first report came through at half past midnight from constitution hill, where a man suffered superficial injur

phil mackie, bbc news.ca. the teenager was shot by police officers on the 26th of august. but police brutality is not a new problem in south africa, where more than one person dies every day because of the actions of the police. 0ur southern africa reporter, pumza fihlani has been following the story. anger spills on to the streets of eldorado park, one of their own has been killed. the teenager who had down's syndrome had gone to buy biscuits when he was shot. we want justice. this is where nathanieljulies was shot, just a few metres from his home. his death is the latest in a series of high—profile cases that have shocked south africans since the coronavirus lockdown. the cops went in looking for other suspects though and when they came out, that's when they found nathanial sitting by the truck. theyjust called him over. as he walked over, the guyjust shot him. when they shot him, he fell under the track. life won't be the same without him. for someone who couldn't speak, he would walk into a room and cha

phil mackie, bbc news, worcester.public toilet block has been erected in a park in tokyo. the glass cubicles are almost completely see—through — but thankfully, the walls turn opaque as soon as you lock the door. which isjust as which is just as well, isn't it? you're watching bbc news. martin will take you through to one o'clock injusta will take you through to one o'clock injust a few will take you through to one o'clock in just a few minutes' time but first, here is the weather forecast with matt taylor. hello. another burst of summer warmth on the horizon for many of you but for the time being, we are into slightly fresher spells of weather. a cool start to today but for most a dry day and it stays that day. for the rest of the day, as well. isolated showers in the west, but it's the north and west of scotland where the main showers will be. some of them becoming heavy in the afternoon as the breeze picks up. once you get breaks in the sunshine, feeling quite pleasant. not as humid as the south. 17-19. 11—13 in th

let's get more from our correspondent phil mackie, who's in wolverhampton for us now.i don't think anybody is entirely surprised. the case numbers for wolverhampton a week ago was as high as some of the areas that had restrictions already put in place. they went up a bit during the week and then went down a bit and that is positive because of the tests that have been taken and the results are not coming back so quickly. so the number of people who are now testing positive and wolverhampton is higher thanit positive and wolverhampton is higher than it was a week ago and that means that they have to stop people meeting. 90% of all cases that have tested positive in wolverhampton have come from this household meeting, people going to parties, barbecues, that kind of thing. that is what is causing the problem in wolverhampton and that is what they are introducing this restriction and in fact you will be aware that there are similar restrictions in effect in sandwell which is next door to birmingham and solihull is well. and what they are saying is if people are going to ha

and it was sold off and now it is back in the uk and being restored to its original condition, as phil mackieirst ever hyper car, a word used to discover —— describe the most high—performance vehicles the planet. you press the button and you are released into the outer world. it was launched in a blaze of publicity but only one aston martin bulldog was ever made, the planned production run was cancelled and the car sold to a bye in the middle east. now it is back in the uk, they are six months into a restoration project that could last another year. its painstaking work, spare parts aren't exactly easy to find so they are having to make some from scratch. well, if you are wondering where everything from inside the car is, it is in these five cases. all kinds of bits and pieces that have been packed up and put into storage. this is the original promotional license plate for the bulldog and how about this? 19805 state—of—the—art dashboard displays and controls, all of which is being restored and will end up back in the bulldog. when finished, it will look like they said the man overseeing it al

phil mackie is in the centre of birmingham.time economy, which has already suffered during the pandemic, but this should ordinarily be quite busy at lunchtime it but they are not many people about today. we have seen some office workers but not many. those in at the moment might be working from home again next week. this is one of the big new developments, paradise circus, and this was designed for days like this, for people to be out in large numbers enjoying the sunshine, but it is quiet. lawrence here runs a three night clubs in the south side of birmingham, the entertainment district, really, you also represent the south side business improvement group, what about the announcement? it is the worst possible news, our businesses we re worst possible news, our businesses were decimated prior to the lockdown where we saw a significant fall in trade and we have been closed now over months, and just as we started to see some kind of momentum at a fraction of what we were doing before the lockdown, and now this announcement. it co

phil mackie, bbc news, shropshire. that is quite a wagon. excellent.ly winds and these are the temperatures to expect to see the week out, some are struggling to get into double figures, way down on where we should be for the time of year. it is a few days away. at the moment we have had mist and fog this morning, some of it lifting up and clearing across parts of hampshire, and it will do across other parts of central, southern england and where, and also across the central belt of scotland. long sunny spells developing for most into the afternoon with blue skies overhead. we will see a tiny bit more cloud drift into the west of wales later, through northern ireland, bit more cloud at times, some sunny spells through the isle of man, the west of cumbria and west of scotland. the thickest cloud across the hebrides, north and mainland scotland, stiffening breeze, 12—14 the high, 24, 25 in the south—east of england. it leads us into a fine evening, many parts of the evening. tonight the rain gets heavier and more persistent across the far north of scotla

phil mackie, bbc news, birmingham.he government and employers would top up workers‘ wages covering up to two—thirds of their hours for the next six months. let‘s talk to michelle 0vens, director at the organisation small business britain which supports millions of small businesses across the uk. good afternoon to you, michelle. what did you make of what rishi sunak had to say? so, i would say first it was really encouraging how much he stressed the focus on small businesses. the new jobs much he stressed the focus on small businesses. the newjobs support scheme is open to all small businesses, which i think it‘s really welcome, and also a lot of the other things he was talking about, the extension to the self employment scheme, the real understanding of the pressure on vat payments in march and bounce back loa n payments in march and bounce back loan payments come may, is really putting a lot of stress on small businesses at the moment, so it was really encouraging to hear a small business first approach in what is goi

phil mackie, bbc news. i could do with a good stretch this morning!r an awfully long time! it is awfully exciting! time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. see you in a moment. good morning. i'm asad ahmad. public health england are warning of a spike in coronavirus cases among young people in london. it comes following a similar warning at the weekend from dame anne johnson, epidemiologist at university college london. there's concern about a return to colleges and universities, while public health london's director told us the rise in cases in young people could be linked to ignoring guidelines. young people are not remembering to do some of the basics that we all need to do to prevent the transmission of infection. wearing masks, washing your hands, keeping your distance. and that is really important to be reinforced as we see this increasing cases occur. —— increase in cases. one of london's largest historical cemeteries is to reopen to the public from today. willesden jewish cemetery was closed to everyone during the pandemic,

phil mackie reports. using a turbo—charged v8 engine, the bulldog can reach over 170 mph...s, and incredible design where the bonnet drops down when everyone was doing pop—up headlights, dramatic noise when the doors open, and real—world performance, that is the thing to understand, that the real world performance was far above any other car available to use on the road at the time. the workshop in shropshire specialises in classic car restorations. five centrally mounted lights... but they've never seen anything like this, nor had the motoring public 40 years ago. seen anything like this, nor had the motoring public 40 years agom seen anything like this, nor had the motoring public 40 years ago. it was massively ahead of its time. when you think about what was on the road backin you think about what was on the road back in 1979, 1980, so, you know, the average joe driving around in an austin allegro or something, compared to a 700 horsepower mid—engined gull—wing doors at hyper car, which is exactly what bulldog is. once fully restored, they hope to test it at the speed it

our correspondent phil mackie is in birmingham.g out much information, but you have a sense that they have a good idea of who they are looking for? yeah, i think they are looking for? yeah, i think they must have a sense of who they are looking for at the moment, simply because in the normal run of events, if they are looking for a particular suspect, and they say they have a cctv images, they might have released that to the media so we can share that, and also on social media, to try and track that person down. just to tell you where lam. this person down. just to tell you where i am. this is irving street. we think this is where the last attack took place. that blue tent up there it marks the spot where the man died around 2am this morning. i was speaking to someone who stayed at in air b8b flat. he thought someone shouted, help me, in the street this morning. that's fits in with the sequence morning. that's fits in with the sequence of events, where they first attack took place across the city ce ntre attack took place across th