victoria gill, bbc news.england left it to the last hour of the final day to gain victory in the second test against west indies at old trafford. 0ur sports correspondent andy swiss was watching the play. it took them until gone six o'clock but it was worth waiting for. a victory completed by the bowlers but earlier created by the bat of who else but ben stokes? where's that gone? with england needing quick runs, stokes went into overdrive. with no crowd, the west indies had to fetch the ball themselves and they ended up fetching it rather a lot. stokes‘s blistering 78 pushing england's lead beyond 300 before they declared. to win, england now needed all ten west indies wickets. he finds that length! no problem, it seemed. stuart broad — left out of the last match — bowling like a man with a point to prove. the west indies, 37—a. surely game over. well, not quite. as jermaine blackwood and shamarh brooks led a spirited fightback. was victory slipping from england's grasp? well, in stokes they have a man with

victoria gill has more. keeping the experiments going, single—handedly.tist has been working 24 hours a day, all alone. just occasionally, its designers are able to check in on their intelligent machine. doesn't get bored, doesn't get tired, it works around the clock. it doesn't need holidays. it frees up my time to focus on innovation and new solutions, rather than doing the same action over and over again. because it would easily go through thousands of samples, which would take me a very long time to do by hand. in the age of social distancing, this £100,000 robot has taken on a whole new role. so many of us are going to have to get used to keeping our distance from each other and just not coming in to workspaces that we used to share with other people. and this robot scientist can keep experimenting 24 hours a day, so that the human scientists can work from home. in manufacturing, robots are often used, programmed to repeat one task. but this new generation of robotic researcher actually learns as it works. it can record its results and use them to fi

victoria gill has more. keeping the experiments going, single—handedly.wn, this robotic scientist has been working 2a hours a day, all alone. just occasionally, its designers are able to check in on their intelligent machine. doesn't get bored, doesn't get tired, it works around the clock. doesn't need holidays. it frees up my time to focus on innovation and new solutions, rather than doing the same action over and over again. because it would easily go to thousands of samples, which would take me a very long time to do by hand. in the age of social distancing, this £100,000 robot has taken on a whole new role. so many of us are going to have to get used to keeping our distance from each other and just not coming in to workspaces that we used to share with other people. and this robot scientist can keep experimenting 2a hours a day, so that the human scientists can work from home. in manufacturing, robots a re often used, programmed to repeat one task. but this new generation of robotic researcher actually learns as it works. it can record its results and

victoria gill, bbc news. winnie lau, from the ocean plastics project at the pew charitable trust. we are addicted to plastic, aren't we? why can't we seem to get enough of it? you ask a very timely question. we just released a report today trying to understand this really complex problem, and trying to understand what the solutions are that are needed to solve this really plastic pollution crisis. so what we found was that, if we don't do anything and we continue as we are, the amount of plastic in the ocean will be unmanageable. but we have the knowledge and the approaches and the technologies today to dramatically cut the amount of pollution that could end up polluting our oceans and oui’ end up polluting our oceans and our land by nearly 80%. and so oui’ our land by nearly 80%. and so our story is one of hope, that we have the tools today to start acting. well, i wanted to talk to you a bit more about solutions, and what we as individuals can do to stop this problem. so we looked at four categories of solu

victoria gill, bbc news. baby hippo, now 8 days old. tamba, who's 22 years old, gave birth on july 13th and the pair have been inseparable since, enjoying long soaks in the water at zacango zoo. keepers are confident the calf is healthy but with the baby bonding so close to its mother, they have been unable to confirm its gender. a reminder of our top story. scientists at oxford university say more tests are needed for a covid—19 vaccine they're working on before they can be confident it will work. initial trials suggest it is safe and produces an immune response. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter, i'm @bbcmikeembley. hello. this week started off on a fairly dry settled note for most places, but we will see weather fronts approaching from the atlantic, bringing some outbreaks of rain in through this week. now, tuesday will start on quite a chilly note. we will see the cloud building through the day and that will bring some rain later on to parts of northern ireland and scotland

victoria gill, bbc news.omeback. formula 1 is back on track, and many countries have seen the return of football. but in argentina, restrictions remain, so people have had to improvise, as the bbc‘s tim allman explains. the beautiful game probably seems even more beautiful after such a long absence. across parts of europe and asia, matches have been played, goals have been scored, championships have been won. but not here. not in argentina. a recent spike in cases means lockdown measures have been reinforced. so they have come up with a suitable alternative. translation: this is for two teams of five players, for recreational activity that practices distancing with no contact. there are fixed positions, just like a goalkeeper with the defence and the forwards. known locally as ‘metegol humano', it works like this — the pitch is separated into rectangular segments and each player has to stay in their own zone. there is no tackling, no dribbling. it has been described as a life—sized version of table football.

victoria gill, bbc news. that's it for now, thank you for watching. hello.s, but we will see weather fronts approaching from the atlantic, bringing some outbreaks of rain in through this week. now, tuesday will start on quite a chilly note. will bring some rain later on to parts of northern ireland and scotland courtesy of this weather front approaching here. further south, high pressure holding onto things so it's a dry picture of it to sit across the book of england and wales. under clear skies, quite a chilly start. temperatures in the mid—single figures for many of us first thing tuesday morning, a few early mist patches. in fact temperatures could be as low as around 3—4 degrees in the coldest rural spots. after that fresh start, there will be some long spells of sunshine through the morning. later in the afternoon, cloud will tend to build so that sunshine at times a bit hazy, cloudier skies later on in the afternoon. some rain working into the northern parts of northern ireland, the western isles as well. 1—2 showers around for the north—east of scotl

victoria gill, bbc news.us coronavirus have passed 4 million, causing president trump to cancel the republican convention. the jobless trump to cancel the republican convention. thejobless rate has also spiked. 0ne convention. thejobless rate has also spiked. one point 1.4 billion workers filed claims for unemployment last week. that is the first rise for three months. it means 30 million people are now collecting jobless benefits across the united states, figures that could reflect businesses shutting down once again after the surgeon cases. —— surge in cases. for more, gregory daco, chief us economist at 0xford economics, joins me now from new york. those figures are a sort of snapshot, aren't they? what do they tell us about the wider economy and the prospect of recovery? they are not good news overall because what they point to is the fact that the recovery has essentially stalled in the us as of the past few weeks. 0ur 0xford economics recovery tracker actually points to the recovery going into reverse o

victoria gill, bbc news.continuing debate over some of britain's public statues, have shone a light on the country's imperial past and its continuing reverberations. our latest report looking at britain's colonial legacies comes from kenya. 0ur senior africa correspondent, anne soy considers the issue of land distribution and what, if anything changed, after kenya gained independence, more than 50 years ago. the highlands of the rift valley, where i was born and raised. it's here that the colonial administration faced one of the fiercest resistance movements to their settlement in east africa. at the turn of the 20th century, british settlers arrived here and found conditions perfect for agriculture. rich volcanic soil, constant rainfall and high altitudes suitable for growing tea. these fields have supplied britain's breakfast staple for over a century. but it came at a huge cost. 15 years of resistance by the kalenjin ethnic group, then led by the talai clan. translation: the settlers used divide and rule t

victoria gill, bbc news.erings in shops in england will become compulsory from midnight, and failing to do so, could result in a £100 fine. but it's notjust shops, you'll have to cover your mouth and nose in other enclosed public spaces, including banks, post offices and public transport hubs. in some areas though, it's up to you to decide, including pubs, gyms and cinemas. in scotland, face coverings are already compulsory in shops, though not in wales, and northern ireland is still deciding whether to make face coverings mandatory. our business correspondent, sarah corker, reports going to the shops in the era of coronavirus comes with a whole new set of rules. in wakefield, at trinity walk shopping centre, retailers and customers are preparing for the latest change. come on in! you can sanitise your hands if you want to. inside this candle shop, owner tanya is taking a no—nonsense approach to compulsory face coverings. if someone refuses to wear a mask, what would you do? if they're just really not going t

victoria gill has the story. they are the poster species for climate change.tic sea ice. and this study has shown that polar bears' survival is tied to that ice. the scientists used models based on satellite data to forecast sea ice decline in the arctic over the coming decades. that enabled them to predict a future tipping point, to create a timeline for when the frozen hunting season will be too short for the bears to fatten up before the summer. at the current rate of warming, the researchers say all but a few polar bear populations will collapse before 2100. with less fat, they're entering a fasting season that's longer than it used to be. so, is that now unavoidable? are we already on that trajectory, to just lose polar bears? the trajectory that we're on now is not a good one. but if society gets its act together, globally, we can halt global warming in time to save polar bears. and if we do, it will benefit the rest of life on earth, including ourselves. the consequences of climate change are already playing out in the arctic landscape. and this new tim

victoria gill, bbc news. joining is george leonard, the chief scientist at 0cean conservancy. time. i'm just thinking about the coronavirus, and the huge increase in the amount of plastic, ppe, gloves, masks, that the world is consuming right now, and how that could potentially make this problem even worse. not potentially- it will make this problem even worse. i mean, the numbers that have come out today are quite staggering. we're looking at that threefold increase in the next 20 years or so just on the household waste, and that doesn't include what's happening with ppe right now. a new study also predicted that we be using as many as 200 billion masks and gloves every month right now, and the projection in the growth rate of that is something like 25% over the next couple of years. so this is just going to make the challenges identified today in this new study even harder. so, for people watching around the world, going about their daily lives, how can we as individuals reduce our use of single—use plastics? individuals reduce our use of single-use plastics? well, we've hea

victoria gill, bbc news.with an announcement expected this afternoon. the city went into extended lockdown a month ago, but the number of cases there is still high. ministers have announced additional support for businesses in the area, as phil mackie reports. so whilst you might have been redeployed or some of you have volunteered... in a sports hall near the city centre, leicester's director of public health, ivan browne, is thanking some of the 500 volunteers who go door to door every day carrying out covid tests. thank you very much. applause. the number of cases in the city is still high, and that might be because the mass testing is finding many asymptomatic cases that might otherwise go undetected. we are going into communities, we are knocking on doors to try and find those, and whilst that makes it difficult because we are finding cases, in the long run that is for the best, because obviously if we find it and people can take action, we break that chain of transmission. it feels like a very different

that's the warninudfrom a new st victoria gill reports. ctoria: they are the poster species for climate change, predators that depend on fragile, transient hunti ground, the arctic sea ice. this study has shown that polar bears' survival is tied to that ice. scientists use models based on dsatellitea to forecast sea .ce decline in the arctic over the coming decad that enabled them to predict a future tipping point to create a timeline forhen the frozen hunting season will be too short before the summer.n up at the current rate of warming, researchers say all but a few polar bear populations will collapse before 2100. >> with less fat, they are entering a fasting season longer than it used t be. >> are we already on that trajectory to lose polar bears? >> the trajectory we are on now is not a good one. but if society gets its act tother glolly, we can halt global warming in time to save polar bears. and if we do, we will benefit the rest of life on earthse including oes. victoria: the consequences of climate change are already playing out in

victoria gill, bbc news. this month it has been an underwhelming july weather wise. it has been cooler than normal, certainly cooler than recent yea rs. than normal, certainly cooler than recent years. it is a bit wet over north—east england and wales and not as much sunshine. that will change temporarily for tomorrow. all are linked to heat building across france today. temperatures above a0 degrees towards the southend west. that he'd brought it the sun are developing so that he brought towards the sun are developing southerly wind for friday. a bit of a north— south split today. a wet start in northern england. brightening up this afternoon. another set of rain pushing through northern ireland into mainland scotland. driest of all in the far north—east. temperatures across scotla nd north—east. temperatures across scotland and northern ireland sitting in the teens. from the m62 southwards, temperatures in the mid to high 20s. the warmth will eventually work its way northwards tonight. the rain eventually c

you can read all about this from our science correspondent, victoria gill. search is being led in the u.k. and could enter trial in months. victoria is with us now. how they even think to look in llamas to find something that might helps? guest: the template for this whole making aibodies in the lab comes from llamas and alpacas, any kind of camel species. it comes from a discovery that happened in the 1980's, looking at theirod ants. they work in the same way as ours but are structurally quite different. they are much simpler, essentially. so these researchers started looking at whether these llama-derived antibodies could be made to be potent against covid-19. the trick to that it's because they are much simplerolecules -- molecules, they can be produced in the lab so it isma ng those antodies you are talking about to treat people with this. basically you give people the antibodies so their body es nohave to ma them. making them out of the llama antibodies means they can be made quily and simply. what they have published in this latest resrch is that they c

you can read bbc science correspondent victoria gill writing about this on the bbc website. the uk — and could enter clinical trials within months. victoria gilljoins us from manchester. the first question would just be how do they even think to look there to find something that could help us? actually the template for this kind of making antibodies and the fact it comes from alpaca or llama, any camel species, it comes from a discovery in the 1980s looking at these animals and their blood and antibodies. they work in the same way as us antibodies. they work in the same way as us but structurally there are quite different, they're much simpler essentially. so these researchers started to look at whether llama derived antibodies could be made to be potent against the coronavirus. because the trick with that is because they're much simpler molecules that can be engineered and produced in the lab so basically this is making a antibodies that you were talking about to treat people with this, they call it passive immunisation and basically you give people the antibody so the body

victoria gill, bbc news.ona mathews, the chair of the mammal society, which compiled the list of endagered mammals. of endangered mammals. thank you forjoining us. over the course of this pandemic so far, we have all been out in nature more, whether in our towns and cities come in ourgardens, in whether in our towns and cities come in our gardens, in the countryside. we have been appreciating what nature can bring to us. what do we need to do to try to reverse the fate of some of these endangered animals? i think that is right, i think the pandemic has really brought home to people how important nature is to them. we all love to see animals in their natural environment, and they are also good for us, they are providing lots of services we actually need to keep our world healthy. ithink services we actually need to keep our world healthy. i think what we all need to start doing is just creating space for wildlife. whether thatis creating space for wildlife. whether that is in your own back garden, whether you

victoria gill, bbc news.of finding life on mars. the rover named perseverance is part of a multi—billion—pound, decade—long effort to bring rock samples from the red planet back to earth. it will arrive in february, landing on an ancient lake bed that scientists believe could hold traces of past microbial life. so, that is around lunchtime today. we will probably see images tomorrow morning. let's take a look at today's papers. the telegraph leads with the reported changes to the self—isolation rules for people with coronavirus symptoms in england. the paper says the move to increase the period from seven days to ten will be announced later today by the deputy chief medical officer. the daily mirror's front page focuses on the investigation into the disappearance of madeleine mccann. it leads on reports that a secret cellar has been found by police on an allotment, where the main suspect lived in hanover. the daily mail leads on a survey showing that only one in ten people are having face—to—face gp appointme

victoria gill, bbc news. although theatres in england will be able to open again from saturday, there are fears that new restrictions mean many productions will be able to go ahead. colin paterson has been investigating. # we were victims of the night... all around the uk, pantomimes are on pause, and time is running out. we do a show and it's a quiet audience, we hate it, don't we? yeah. rita simons was roxy mitchell in eastenders. she should be taking part in her sixth panto and loves playing baddies. however, she believes the only booing this time will be when it's cancelled. panto can often be the thing that, not just for theatres, but for actors, for crew, for everyone, that builds up the little nest egg for the year and then they go on and do the other gigs or auditions or whatever. bob golding has been stalwart of panto in st albans for a decade but says planning for this year's mother goose has been impossible due to confusion over what restrictions might be enforced. there's talk of possibly a gauze