Is just cloud, an area of low pressure, that isjust spinning close cloud, an area of low pressure, that is just spinning close to spain and portugal, and it looks as if this might throw a wetter front northwards to provide showers in the south through the weekend. High pressure in charge for mostings but the squeeze between the high and the low giving a brisk easterly wind, particularly across central and southern parts of england and wales, those are the average wind speeds but we cost have gusts to 30 a0mph down across the Channel Islands, temperatures 22 degrees in the south. Cooler further temperatures 22 degrees in the south. Coolerfurther north temperatures 22 degrees in the south. Cooler further north and we keep a lot of cloud and the odd spot of rain in scot and tonight that cloud could work south ward and it could turn misty, a few showers starting to show their hands in the channel island, rumbles of thunder mixed in, in between clear spells and it will be a bit milder than last night. Tomorrow, fine and dry for the most part, with lots of sunshine, that sunshine turning hazy at times, with areas of high cloud floating round. Down towards the south, this is where we could see one 24 hour showers moving from the Channel Islands to the south west of england, perhaps other southern counties and possibly even south wales could catch a shower, most places will stay dry with sunshine, rather cool for these north sea coast, 14 or 15, on the cool side for Northern Ireland as well, but with sunshine, and i think this low cloud will tend to retreat northwards across scotland although it will stay murky round the coast, the winds here will be light e as we go through saturday night, we will see some of this cloud and some mist and murk rolling in land, through the central belt and into parts of north east ng lap. A grey and murky start to sunday, should brighten up for most, maybe one or two showers to the south but its a fine sunny day, not as windy by this stage in the south so we could get to 2a degrees. It will be cooler in the north half of the uk. Next week is a settled start but it wont stay that way, low pressure likely to develop develop, potentially a deep low so that could bring wet and windy weather and by the end of next week it will feel much cooler. Thank you. A reminder of our top story. The r number for coronavirus the r numberfor coronavirus cases is now ati. I, the r numberfor coronavirus cases is now at 1. 1, to 1. 4. The r numberfor coronavirus cases is now ati. I, to 1. 4. The news comes as the government considers further nationwide measures for england, a so called circuit break of short term restrictions. England, a so called circuit break of shortterm restrictions. The hope that we have as a nation, of avoiding a full blown National Lockdown is that everybody comes together, and follows the rules that are in place now. That is all from the bbc news at one, so it is goodbye from me and on bbc one we join the bbcs news teams where you are. Bye. Were waiting for news of gareth bales return to tottenham. Hes set to complete his loan move from real madrid today and if hes registered in time, he could play on sunday, at southampton, which is the club where he began his playing career, at the age of 16. Despite winning four Champions League titles with real, hes become increasingly isolated in spain, and now seven years after he left north london hes going to be back at tottenham. He is not a Centre Forward and to score that amount of goals, you could not ask for much more. Champions league finals, he really has done it on the big stage. I think he will come back, itll be interesting to see howjose mourinho plays him, he has harry kane through the middle and also son, that really is an exciting forward line and that would take some stopping, that would send fear through any defence in the country. Iam hearing country. I am hearing gareth bale is arrived at tottenhams Training Ground and if fa ns at tottenhams Training Ground and if fans are getting pretty excited. Weve been speaking to some of them. It will make the team better and bring lots of joy it will make the team better and bring lots ofjoy because what he brought to the club, the memories, and the goals. I cant wait. Really exciting, it honestly is. I remember seven years ago when he left, i was gutted. But you cant blame him for going to real madrid. But now he is coming back. Its brilliant. He will walk in and eve ryo ne its brilliant. He will walk in and everyone will look at him, hes a superstar, you cant deny that hes a winner. You will lift us. G will lift from one transfer to another Thiago Alcantaras move to liverpool may not have been officially announced yet, but hes said an emotional goodbye to Bayern Munich fans in a video on social media. He describes the german club as marvellous and says leaving was the most difficult decision of his career. The spain midfielder won the Champions League with bayern last season, as well as seven consecutive bundesliga titles, four german cups and the club world cup. Hes due to have his medical at liverpool today, after agreeing a four year deal. Manchester united manager ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he asked england not to pick Mason Greenwood for the recent Nations League games in iceland and denmark a trip that led to greenwood being dropped from the england squad. He made his International Debut in the victory over iceland, as did manchester citys phil foden, but video footage emerged of the pair breaching the squads bio secure bubble and they were both sent home. Solskjaer says he warned england that greenwood needed a break before the start of the premier league season. Have to be honests tried i have to be honest enough to say i tried my best to give him a rest over the summer, the club specifically asked, and we pointed out he should have had a rest, he needsit out he should have had a rest, he needs it mentally and physically, after the season that he had. First thing that happens, he has called up, right there in the press, weve done whatever we can to protect him, andi done whatever we can to protect him, and i will keep on helping him. Tennis legend billyjean king has been speaking of her excitement at having the international, womens team competition, the fed cup, renamed after her. Its the first time such an honour has gone to a woman. The Billiejean King cup finals, are scheduled for april in budapest. On the court we have equal prize money, so on the court we have equal prize money, so that is taken care of but when you take a harder look we dont have enough women coaches, enough women linejudges, not have enough women coaches, enough women line judges, not enough administrators, not enough executive positions for girls and women and we need to do that because i fight for eve ryo ne need to do that because i fight for everyone and when i woman fights for equality, that means she is fighting for everybody. Thats all your sport for now. The early starters are on the course for the second round of the us open golf at winged foot in new york. Lee westwood has made a poor start, he found a bunker at the first and two putted from 50 feet for a bogey slipping down the leaderboard. You can follow the latest now on the bbc sport website. Asi as i said, gareth bale has arrived at tottenhams Training Ground. Well keep you updated on that throughout the afternoon, but back to rita now. Nicola sturgeon has said scotland is facing the risk of exponetial growth in covid. Speaking at todays press conference, the first minister said although cases were rising there was still time to prevent the virus becoming out of control. The bottom line here is this virus is on the rise again. Case numbers are not yet rising as fast as they we re are not yet rising as fast as they were in march, but they are rising again and they are rising quite rapidly. The percentage of tests coming back positive is also not anywhere near as high as march but again it is rising. As i reported yesterday, the are number we believe is now above one. Across the uk, this is particularly in england, hospital admissions are rising, i see you admissions are also rising and while this is particularly the case in england right now they should sound a warning signal for us here in scotland as well. While for the past few weeks people might have taken the past few weeks people might have ta ken comfort the past few weeks people might have taken comfort from the low levels of old and more Vulnerable People contracting the virus, that picture is also beginning to change. Our most is also beginning to change. Our m ost rece nt is also beginning to change. Our most recent data shows the percentage of cases in the older population is now beginning to rise as well. And looking more widely, we can observe that in broad terms, we might now be on, at an earlier stage ona similar might now be on, at an earlier stage on a similar path to that which has been taken in recent weeks by france. About four weeks ago france stood broadly where we do today, but now they have around 10,000 new cases each day, hundreds of people in i and deaths in france are already rising as well hundreds of people in icu. I work task is to drop that and we do not end up where they are now. What lies behind that ourtask is they are now. What lies behind that our task is to interrupt that. We are facing the risk of exponential growth in covid and we all know from oui growth in covid and we all know from our experience earlier this year what that looks like and why it is so what that looks like and why it is so important to avoid it. I want to speak briefly about what we need to do. We need to interrupt the exponential growth. No one wants to see another full scale lockdown. Above all, we want to keep schools and childcare open because we know how important that is to both the education and broader well being of children and young people. Right now, today, this weekend, and into the next week, that means following all of the rules and advice currently in place. The first minister of wales has accused borisjohnson of a lack of engagement with other uk nations over coronavirus restrictions. Mark drakeford said hed had just one phone call with the Prime Minister since the end of may and in a daming conclusion, said there was a vacancy at the heart of the united kingdom. He was speaking at todays press conference in cardiff. Many people will have turned on their radios this morning to have heard the news there are a new restrictions being imposed on the north west of england right along oui north west of england right along our border. And have heard speculation that the Prime Minister is considering a national two week lockdown in england. As many people will have noted there have been numerous examples of problems over at this week with the uk wide Lighthouse Lab testing system with people experiencing problems booking tests a nd people experiencing problems booking tests and sent many many hundreds of miles for tests and delays in getting results. All of these issues need to be discussed at a uk level. By need to be discussed at a uk level. By the four governments working together. But as far too often in this crisis, that opportunity has not been there. Today once again, i repeat my call is to be Prime Minister for repeat my call is to be Prime Ministerfor proper repeat my call is to be Prime Minister for proper engagement with the devolved governments of the united kingdom. In this most difficult week, there has been no meeting offered to first ministers of any sort. Since the 28th of may, months ago now, they has beenjust one brief telephone call from the Prime Minister. Now, i think that thatis Prime Minister. Now, i think that that is simply unacceptable, to anyone who believes that we should be facing the coronovirus crisis together. I say again as i said many months ago, we need a regular, reliable rhythm of engagement, even a single meeting once a week would bea a single meeting once a week would be a start. And i make this argument not because i think we should all do the same things, but because, by being around the same table together, each one of us is able to make the best decisions for the nations that we represent. There is a vacancy nations that we represent. There is a vacancy at the heart of the united kingdom. And it needs urgently to be filled. So that we can talk together, share information, pool ideas and demonstrate a determination that the whole of the country can face these challenges together at this difficult time. Strong words from the welsh first minister mark drakeford. Further measures across england to try to slow the surge of Coronavirus Infections are being considered by the Prime Minister, just days after the rule of six was introduced to limit gatherings. The so called circuit break measures follows warnings that there will be a significant number of deaths by the end of october, if no further interventions are put in place. Earlier my colleague geeta guru murphy spoke to devi sridhar, professor of Global Public health at the university of edinburgh, about the rising number of cases. The numbers are what income we are seeing both the number of people testing positive increasing the test positivity is going up, as well as hospitalisation. We dont want to be in the position of france or spain or israel where you start having hospital issues and is hospitalisation is rising significantly. Right now we need clear that messaging, that you can enjoy things outside court we can all play our part and we cannot largely have a sense of normality but what right now is numbers are going up and so restrictions will become inevitable. Art the numbers are fully reliable given the test and trace process is not working fully . Well, no, that is an issue, if people are not able to get tested who are symptomatic of not having regular testing of care home workers then we are not picking up all the cases in the community so then you have to model based off of hospital admissions, calls to the nhs and try to put together an estimate of the number of daily cases, a project that out for the next couple of weeks. When we look at the possibility of further lockdown is in england in the north west, restrictions coming into day in the north east, is this policy, is the strategy a wise one . Is it the right one . They dont really have much choice because numbers are going up, test can trace and isolate system is not functioning. You need to have test results 2a hours. But lockdown does not really change the fundamental problem. You can press the pause with a lockdown to give you time to catch up with testing and tracing. Other countries have used that time to carry out extensive testing and try to crush the curve. That is when people are largely at home and can be identified. Im slightly worried we might say it is a two week lockdown but who is to say it wont be several months into the future and then be a National Lockdown. There has to be a strategy of how to use testing and tracing to drive numbers down. We heard from dido harding giving mps that it might evidence to mps yesterday, saying she was surprised at the need for a number of tests at the moment. What does that tell us about the scientific advice because many people, then you put all these children back in the classrooms together, they always get coughs and colds, the number of test results is going to go up. And that is, what she suggested it was completely false, that is not the scientific advice. If you look back at the Royal Society support on test entries and looking at the anticipated demand, the academy of medical sciences report about the winter surge, or even look at scotland, scotland open schools five and a half weeks ago, we were ahead of england and what you saw in the first two weeks with a tenfold increase in the number of young people been tested in the testing system having to expand to get all those tests processed. You just had to look at scotland in august or read either of those reports to know that testing would be your bottleneck. Testing have always been the bottleneck since february. To say we did not know testing would be a problem does not reflect the scientific advice. Professor devi sridhar there. Joe biden has condemned Donald Trumps handling of the pandemic as close to criminal, during one of his biggest televised events since becoming the democrats candidate for us president. Speaking at a drive in Campaign Event in pennsylvania, he accused mr trump of deliberately playing down the impact of the virus, leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths. He does not want to see anything happen, it is all about his real action. It should be about the american people, and they are in trouble, and caught by the way, his own cdc director contradicted him recently and said if you just wore this mask you would save between now and january another 100,000 lives. And so we have to be honest with the american people, they are tough, as a Franklin Roosevelt said, things get worse and worse before they get better and better, what youve got to level with the american people, there has never been a time when they have not been able to step up. This president should step down. More than 40,000 people have died from coronavirus in the uk since the start of the pandemic. Now a group of 1600 bereaved families is calling for an urgent Public Inquiry into the governments handling of the crisis. Our reporter alex forsyth has been speaking to two of the families involved. She had a really infectious laugh, everyone thats how everyone knew her. Brilliant grandmother. She would do anything for anyone. Kerrys mum went into hospital in january for an operation to try and treat cancer. But there were complications. Her mum, caroline, ended up in intensive care for months, then kerry got a phone call, in april. The doctor called me and said, there was no easy way of saying it, that my mother tested positive for covid, and that were going to have to withdraw her treatment. She sobs. Oh, sorry. You can see how tough that was. Erm, and i think its because we couldnt go and say goodbye, you know, its thinking of her being alone. Kerry has nowjoined a group campaigning for an immediate independent enquiry into what happened at the start of this pandemic. Fearful that cases are climbing up again, they want to meet the Prime Minister to set out their experience of what happened in hospitals, care homes, with ppe and testing, to make sure the right systems are now in place. I would like him to meet up with us. To listen. Everyone has got a different . Theres different story to each relative. They re not just numbers, these people that have died, theyve all got families that are heartbroken. Theyve all died in different ways. And theres lessons to be learned. They can be forgiven for making mistakes the first time around, but they cant forgiven for making the same mistakes again. The Prime Minister initially said he would meet anyone whod been bereaved by covid 19, but later said he couldnt meet this group now because they are in litigation with the government. But the group say that isnt the case. They have sent a letter saying there might be Court Proceedings if there is no immediate public enquiry, but theyre not under way yet. Downing street said the Prime Minister is acutely aware of the suffering of those whove lost someone, and will meet the group after any legal proceedings. Number 10 has also said there will be an enquiry, but during the pandemic isnt the right time. For campaigners like jane, though, learning what has happened cant come soon enough. If it had already happened, we would have learned lessons for now, because at the minute, its not looking good, again. And to me, im hoping its not going to go down the same route as it did in march. Because i wouldnt want thousands and thousands of people to go through what me and my family have gone through. Janes dad and her sister both died in the same week. Her dad, vince, had been in a care home. He was taken into hospital after developing a temperature in march. A week later, he died. It was just such a shock because hed been in hospital many times and always bounced back. I stayed with my dad, obviously, until he died. It was really upsetting. I couldnt believe it. I was in shock, i was angry. He passed away on a saturday morning. Later that same day, janes sister was taken unwell. Jocelyn was just 53, with Underlying Health conditions she died in hospital, five days after her dad. Jane says her loss has been hard to comprehend, but shes pushing for any lessons to be learnt for the sake of her dad and her sister. How will you remember them . Happy, funny, jelly people who everybody loved. And as much as we cry, we laugh just as much because weve got so many happy memories got so many happy memories of both of them. That was jane roche ending the report by alex forsyth. Buckingham palace has said that any decision made by barbados to remove the queen as its head of state, is for the island s government and people. The barbadian Prime Minister has said she wants the country to become a republic by november next year, when it will celebrate the 55th anniversary of its independence from britain. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell has this report. When prince harry visited barbados nearly four years ago, he brought a message from his grandmother. He said the people of the caribbean island had occupied a special place in the queens heart since her visit at the time of its independence from britain in 1966. Yet now, it appears, barbados is set to remove the queen as its head of state. After years of debate, the islands Prime Minister is determined to press ahead. We want to be able to control our own affairs by ensuring that a barbadian child can aspire to be head of state. We believe the only reason it hasnt happened is because this is a vestige our colonial past. Without rancour, without divisiveness, we are going to remove that. But we continue to accept that our relationship with the royal family, our relationship with the united kingdom, matters. In the same way that we are family to persons who come out of ghana, we are family to persons who come out of the united kingdom. And family still matters. And an island which has produced its share of notable figures is confident, according to its Prime Minister, of maintaining and enhancing its status as a republic with its own head of state. Barbados has produced people who have been accomplished globally. We have had garfield sobers, who i think you know well. We have had everton weekes, he still holds records in cricket today that no other person has beaten. We have rihanna. We have dame nita barrow, who is head of the eminent persons group, the dismantling of apartheid and the release of Nelson Mandela back in the early 1990s. We have had founding leaders like sir Grantley Adams and errol barrow, who were regarded in their time as among the best of emerging leaders from developing countries. So, i dont think that this is an issue that ought to concern anyone. Within buckingham palace, officials are being diplomatic. This is a matterfor the government and people of barbados, they say. But, in a changing world, and with the inevitable transition at some point to a new monarch, they will be watching to see whether an island in the caribbean is a harbinger of wider changes among the nations which share the head of state with britain. Nicholas witchell, bbc news. Now its time for a look at the weather with ben rich. Good afternoon. A relatively quiet and settled we kind of weather is on the way. It will be breezy for parts of england and wales, mostly dry with sunny spells. Just the chance ofa with sunny spells. Just the chance of a shower towards the south because of an area of low pressure that has been spinning close to iberia. This could draw one or two showers in and on the northern flank weve got some brisk winds across england and wales in particular, southern areas costs as afternoon of 30 or a0 mph. Southern areas costs as afternoon of 30 or40 mph. Not southern areas costs as afternoon of 30 or a0 mph. Not as when the further north. He is a sunshine for most, thicker cloud for northern scotla nd most, thicker cloud for northern scotland with some patchy rain. Through this evening and tonight we will see low cloud working its way through north east scotland, perhaps the odd patch of low cloud for north east england. Further south is fine with clear spells although for the Channel Islands we could see one or two of the showers creep in and they will push further northwards tomorrow. For most, tomorrow is a fine looking day. Cloud over part of scotla nd fine looking day. Cloud over part of scotland tomorrow but that rose north eastwards and it brightens up. Showers start to move northwards, some across the south west of england, perhaps further east along the coast as well. There could be the coast as well. There could be the odd rumble of thunder. The spells of sunshine further north. Rather cool next to the north sea coast with a brisk breeze. Largely sunny for Northern Ireland and much of scotla nd sunny for Northern Ireland and much of scotland but some areas of low cloud for northern and eastern coasts and certainly across parts of shetland. Through saturday night, we will see more of the low cloud feeding into the central belt of scotla nd feeding into the central belt of scotland and into parts of northern england. That will slowly clear as we go through sunday. Elsewhere its largely dry with sunny spells and still the potential for one or two showers across the Channel Islands. A warm day in the south, not as breezy by this stage, further north you are it will be cooler. Next week sta rts you are it will be cooler. Next week starts off with High Pressure in charge. But it will not last. Things are set to change. There is a frontal system expected to spin into quite a deep area of low pressure. At times next week there will be some very at times next week there will be some very wet and very windy weather, and eventually it will turn much cooler. This is bbc news. The headlines. New restrictions announced for parts of the north west, the midlands, and West Yorkshire from tuesday. Around 12. 5 Million People around the uk will be under stricter measures. It comes as the government considers further nationwide measures for england, a so called circuit break of short term restrictions. The hope that we have as a nation, of avoiding a full blown National Lockdown, is that everybody comes together and follows the rules that are in place now. New figures suggest that on average infections are rising by 6,000 per day in england. Care homes in england are to get more free protective equipment, as part of new plans for social care to deal with infections