stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing.on issued a warning saying: ‘we may be tired of covid i9 — but it is not tired of us‘. many countries are in their second wave of infections and are seeing the number of hospitalisations or new cases reaching figures not seen since the start of the pandemic. in some countries the outbreak appears to be worse than its ever been. the us has seen a record number of new cases in a single 2a hour period, with more than 142,000 people being diagnosed with the uk, there's been a record rise, with 3,470 new infections and the second day since may where deaths exceeded while cases are dropping in france, the number of people in hospital is now at an all time high of 32,638. the french prime minister outlined the severity of the crisis there. translation: last week, between 400 and 500 people died every day from covid. this means that today in france, one death out of four is because of covid. we have also seen the last few days, one hospitalisation every 30 seconds, and one admission into inten

stephen mcdonell, inner mongolia.n diagnosed with dementia. sir bobby spent 17 years at old trafford, winning three league titles. his wife norma said she hopes the diagnosis could help others. he's the fifth member of the 1966 world cup—winning side to be diagnosed with dementia. while we can't link his diagnosis to his football career, the question of whether heading footballs can damage the brain has been debated for years. dr dan daneshvar, is from the harvard medical school and has studied this issue. when we're talking about a mentor it is most imported make sure we have a good idea of what we are talking about. dementia is something that is a disease in the brain that is significant enough to impair your ability to take care of yourself, problems of memory, problems with thinking and when we look at the reasons for dementia, the most common cause is alzheimer's disease, and the best known risk factor is age, so the rate of alzheimer's disease is only a couple of present in your mid— 60s but with every five year

our china correspondent stephen mcdonell reports from beijing.me final acts of defiance on their last day inside hong kong's mini parliament. the entire pro—democracy block tendered their resignations in protest of the dismissal of four of their colleagues. the communist party leadership has now empowered the city government to dismiss any opposition politician and will if they're deemed to show insufficient loyalty. for many, the autonomy hong kong's promised for decades to come has now all but disappeared. power in hong kong is all rested. in the chief executive hands, the chief executive in hong kong, is taking orders coming from the central government. so today and today thereafter is the end of the one country system. internationally, the move has been condemned as a clear sign that freedoms in hong kong have been eroded at an alarming rate. britain's foreign secretary dominic raab said the new rules allowing hong kong's chief executive to sack her political opponents were a clear breach of the sino british joint declaration. however, beijin

stephen mcdonell, inner mongolia. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. hello.n, still some rain in the forecast courtesy of this frontal system continuing on itsjourney south and eastwards through the early hours of monday morning. ahead of this, still some very mild air — so temperatures not much lower than 15—16 celsius across south east england, and the cloud and rain will clear from here through the morning. behind that, we will all see some spells of sunshine, but also plenty of showers — these most frequent across southern scotland into northern ireland, northern england, north wales, and may well merge to give a longer spell of rain. nowhere is immune from a heavy, blustery shower. the winds are quite strong across the southern half of the uk, still exceeding 50 mph across southern and western coasts, a little bit lighter than they have been further north. but it will be a cooler—feeling day, 9—14 celsius after that mild start across the east anglia and south east england, the temperatures falling away through the day. we keep outbreaks of rain going as

stephen mcdonell, inner mongolia. you've heard of a bull in a china shop.era captured the moment when the tusked intruder crashed into a milk tea store in nanjing city. the waitress was alone in the shop when the 100 kilogram porker pushed its way in, forcing her to scramble over the counter. after the boar left she called the police. they shot it with a tranquilizer gun and took it to the local zoo. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @ samanthatvnews. hello. there is some drier, colder weather to come in the week ahead. but before then, still some rain in the forecast courtesy of this frontal system continuing on itsjourney south and eastwards through the early hours of monday morning. ahead of this, still some very mild air — so temperatures not much lower than 15—16 celsius across south east england, and the cloud and rain will clear from here through the morning. behind that, we will all see some spells of sunshine, but also plenty of showers — these most frequent across southern scotland into northern ireland, northern england, north wales, and may well

stephen mcdonell reports. the pro—democracy camp is leaving hong kong's legislature en masse. a couple of potentially dissenting voices left in its mini parliament. my mission as a legislator to fight for democracy, freedom in the chamber cannot be continued. but i would certainly promise that i would go along before the people in hong kong, continue to fight for the core values of hong kong, freedom, democracy. and we should never give up. the mass resignation was triggered by the hong kong government's dismissal of four legislators judged to have been disloyal to the motherland. they were removed using new powers granted by beijing. only half the members of the legislative council were ever directly elected. the other half selected by a stacked pro—beijing committee. this has led to tensions with pro—democracy politicians struggling to find ways to oppose ever more draconian laws. hong kong's leader says the new powers given to her by beijing to remove opposition politicians deemed to be unsuitable will pave the way for a political system dominated by patriots. translation:

stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. england is making more young people vulnerable to being groomed and recruited by extremist groups. the north east counter terrorism unit says extremists have used the pandemic to spread hate, disinformation and encourage violence online. emma glasbey reports from bradford on the efforts there to stop young people being radicalised. lockdown part two. again, we‘re told to stay at home. again, some will be isolated. as the pandemic continues, people have so many more questions, more concerns. 0nline activity is soaring. but there‘s now a warning of a growing risk online — that vulnerable people could be targeted by extremists and radicalised. i am concerned. the first lockdown shows us that there was an increase. and i‘ve got no doubt that that will repeat this time. counterterrorism police say they‘re seeing more extremist groups online exploiting the pandemic. misinformation from a raft of groups with different backgrounds. so extreme right wing groups talking about accelerationism —

stephen mcdonell, inner mongolia. that is it from me for the moment.nd us online. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. hello. there is some drier, colder weather to come in the week ahead. but before then, still some rain in the forecast courtesy of this frontal system continuing on itsjourney south and eastwards through the early hours of monday morning. ahead of this, still some very mild air — so temperatures not much lower than 15—16 celsius across south east england, and the cloud and rain will clear from here through the morning. behind that, we will all see some spells of sunshine, but also plenty of showers — these most frequent across southern scotland into northern ireland, northern england, north wales, and may well merge to give a longer spell of rain. nowhere is immune from a heavy, blustery shower. the winds are quite strong across the southern half of the uk, still exceeding 50 mph across southern and western coasts, a little bit lighter than they have been further north. but it will be a cooler—feeling day, 9—11; celsius af

stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing.air of the democratic party and a former member of the hong kong legislative council. emily, telus, was there a better way for these people rather than resign. is there anything else they could have done? as we heard and stephen's report, it is now without any effective opposition, which is arguably detrimental to what they are trying to achieve. well, of course there is another way. it's engagement, dialogue. in my whole political life, i advocated engagement. but unfortunately, she jim payne and carrie lam refused to have any dialogue —— xi jinping, jim payne and carrie lam refused to have any dialogue —— xijinping, so what can they do? so, what can they do? the hong kong people have been disenfranchised. but the struggle will go on and of course the uk government, the former colonial power, and must do more to help hong kong and to call on its allies to help hong kong. we are not fighting for independence or a revolution. we arejust asking xi for independence or a revolution. we are

well, the bbc‘s stephen mcdonell is based in beijing, and he was at the foreign ministry press co nfeal affairs and so therefore you should not be getting involved in our internal affairs. now obviously this does not have anything to do with china. it's australia and afghanistan. and so i asked maybe if this represents a change in beijing's approach. well, the spokeswoman was actually sort of, in a way, quite upset almost by this line of questioning, suggesting that it was not worthy of the bbc to be asking this and wondering whether it was because i was an australian citizen or perhaps i was seeking to divert people's attention from the issues at hand. and i reassured herthat, no, in fact it was a genuine question because it does seem to represent a shift in beijing's thinking. if it's going to start making statements about all these events all over the world which don't involve china. let's get more on australia's view of china's behaviour here. alexander downer is a former foreign minister. aggression is not worthy of a major power during the 21st century. it is childish, it's abus

stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing.xpel the lawmakers. our diplomatic correspondent james landale has more on the uk government's reactetion. we have seen a very strong statement from the foreign secretary saying what has happened is a further assault on hong kong's degree of autonomy and freedom. the continued campaign to harass, stifle democratic opposition. the former governor said it is another example of the chinese communist party trampling on what is left of democracy in hong kong. the british government could summon the chinese ambassador and that has been requested by the shadow foreign secretary, lisa nandy. they could think about more sanctions against certain officials, and the foreign office are thinking about this on actions taken in breach of human rights in other parts of china. but the interesting question is what liberal democracies around the world can do more to contain china. in their telephone call yesterday, the prime minister and president—elect biden talked about the importance of strengthening