Today at six. Greater manchester is placed under tier three covid restrictions and thats without a deal with local leaders. After ten days of arguing there was no agreement over a Financial Support package borisjohnson said he couldnt wait any longer. Not to act would put manchesters nhs, and the lives of many of manchesters residents, at risk. The pub workers and taxi drivers, bookies and freelancers local leaders say its the poorest who will suffer most. Is this a government committed to levelling up this country . That is what they told people in this city, the people who drive those taxis, who work in the pubs. Many of them who may have voted for them. They said to them
they would level up. What weve seen today is a deliberate act of levelling down. Well be in bolton, hearing what people have to say about the rules and the row. The young people volunteering to be given the covid virus part of the research that could speed up a vaccine. A father who saw the Manchester Arena bomber while waiting to pick up his daughters says he was fobbed off by a security guard. The nasa spacecraft landing on an asteroid two hundred million miles away it could give us a clue to how life on earth began. And coming up on bbc news. Discussions over a new european superleague emerge, with fifa said to be backing the multi billion pound tournament. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. After ten days of tough and sometimes acrimonious negotiations Greater Manchester is to be moved to the top tier of coronavirus restrictions without the explicit agreement of local leaders. In the end the argument was about the amount of money the government was willing to offer in additional Financial Support. Speaking in the last hour borisjohnsion said to wait any longer would put lives at risk. But the mayor of Greater Manchester accused the government of grinding down communities, saying the governments Financial Support package would increase poverty and homelessness. With Greater Manchester moving into the highest alert level on thursday at midnight pubs and bars that do not serve substa ntail meals will have to close. Greater restrictions will also be placed on household mixing across the region. The city will receive 22 Million Pounds in support at this stage and both sides the government and the local leaders have said they will continue negotiations for an Additional Support package. Our deputy political editor, vicki young, has been following events as they unfolded today. For more than a week the politicians have argued and for businesses that has meant uncertainty and anxiety. Today the west fears became reality for chris as his pub in wigan has got to close. We saw it coming, it is bad news for the business and we will struggle but good news to finally know 0k, will struggle but good news to finally know ok, now we can start planning, making plans for the start and business and start figuring out what to do. Weve been waiting in limbo forten what to do. Weve been waiting in limbo for ten days, feels like a month. Leaders have been asking for money in money to
help workers whose income is wilful due to the closures they had until midday today to accept a final offerfrom they had until midday today to accept a final offer from government but there was no agreement and ministers in london said they would impose tougher restrictions. We met a generous and extensive offer to support manchester businesses and this offer was proportionate to the support we have given merseyside and lancashire. The marriage did not accept this unfortunately and given the Public Health situation, i must now proceed with moving Greater Manchester as i say to the very high alert level. And here is the mayor andy burnham find out from a colleague important details about the new measures. At one minute past midnight on friday. He said the plans would increase poverty and hardship. At no point today will be offered enough to protect the poorest people in our communities through the punishing reality of the
winter to come. His team calculated that £90 million was needed until the end of march, eventually he said he would accept 65 million. The government offered 60. This is a game of poker, their pain poker with peoples lives through a pandemic. The people who drive those taxis, work in the pubs, many of them may have voted for them. They said to them they would level up but we have seen today a deliberate act of levelling down. So what help is that for areas in the very high alert level tier 3 . The government offers Financial Support amounting to £8 per head of the local population. For Greater Manchester that would mean £22 million. This isjust to fund contact tracing, enforcement and helping the clinically vulnerable. Unlike lancashire and Liverpool City Region they could not reach a deal over an extra economic passage to help businesses. Are was
doing what she called the extra generous offer it now and what to say to the mayor of Greater Manchester who accused you of grinding down communities through these negotiations . grinding down communities through these negotiations . I bitterly regret any restrictions that lead to damage to businesses and lives, of course i do. The funds are there, their massive. And what we could not do, i hope people understand, was to deal with Greater Manchester that would have been out of kilter with the agreements we had already reached with merseyside and with lancashire. The talks today have endedin lancashire. The talks today have ended in failure, other areas including teesside and South Yorkshire are locked in their own battle with the government of money. It is an urgent situation but progress is slow. And tonight downing street sources are saying that £60 million, but offer is still on the table. They say they will not let the businesses of manchester
suffer or not surprisingly putting the blame squarely on the mayor andy burnham. But the government does not wa nt to burnham. But the government does not want to do is encourage other people to up their demands, all those other areas of england in discussion, they do not want to get into this bidding war. But i think beyond this row of the money it is important to remember that millions more people in england will be living under very tough restrictions by friday and i think that they will expect politicians of all parties to Work Together to give them certainty and of course to work in the best interests. Figures suggest bolton has the fastest rising number of coronavirus cases in Greater Manchester. It has been under some of the toughest covid restrictions and now it goes into tier 3. Our north of england correspondent, danny savage is in bolton and has been talking to people there. Putting the political row aside the aim of these tiers we restrictions of course is to bring down the
infection rate, to have fewer cases of coronavirus going round in the community. Theres been a Public Campaign here in bolton, you can see this illuminated sign behind me and hear it on the speakers in the high street, sometimes adverts coming on telling people what they should be doing and how to get a test if they need one. But will these restrictions achieve what they are aiming for . People here seem to be doubtful about that. Bolton has been under some sort of coronavirus restrictions for months longer than most places, but the infection rate is still high. Testing stations are busy there were 1,300 confirmed cases last week. People here think something more is needed. People have become blase. So now, what youve got is they are saying, n0, it wont affect me. While they had the fear factor, people stuck with it. Some people are just carrying on as normal. The rest of us are trying our best to abide by the rules, and thats not
helping anybody. Tier 3 restrictions will not turn places like bolton into ghost towns, many businesses will remain open, schools will continue to operate, and advice to make fewer journeys is just that, advice, not the law. And as a result, many people weve spoken to, dont believe the tier 3 restrictions will have the desired effect here. Do you think people will follow the rules this time . I dont think people will follow the rules as strictly as they did in march and april. The thought of christmas being canceled, if its going to be that you can, i think people will break the rules to see their family. Weve done this stint of the full lockdown thinking that this would wear off, and nothings changed, and now it seems like its getting worse. Vicki is self employed. She supported Andy Burnhams efforts to get the best deal, but cant see how many people will now make ends meet. Your bills arent going to stop being paid, are they . You know, if we could live
on 80 , then we would work 80 , but we cant. And its going lower now. So thats another worry, isnt it . Being able to afford everything. Because nothings going to change, the companys still open, isnt it . Weve still some things to pay, so. Yeah, its just a worry. Its taken a long time to get to the point of restrictions being imposed. Theres a weariness, though. You dont feel that the measures so far this year have worked at all . Well, obviously not, no. Were not getting any closer to an end result, so far, have we . It seems to be getting, like, further and further away from an end result at the moment. Once more, into under tougher restrictions goes Greater Manchester, to the relief of some and the annoyance of others. Danny savage, bbc news, bolton. The latest government figures show there were 21,331 new Coronavirus Infections recorded in the latest 24 hour period. The average number of new cases reported per day in the last week, is now 18, 235. 877 people have been admitted
to hospital on average each day over the week to last friday. 241 deaths were reported thats people who died within 28 days of a positive covid 19 test. That means on average in the past week, 136 deaths were announced every day. It takes the total number of deaths so far across the uk to 43,967. Lets speak to our health editor, hugh pym, now. As we have heard plenty of argument over financial packages and so on but cannot be any argument over how this disease is advancing . but cannot be any argument over how this disease is advancing . I suppose that National Figure this disease is advancing . I suppose that nationalfigure for this disease is advancing . I suppose that National Figure for daily reported deaths will come as a pretty big surprise to many people up pretty big surprise to many people up from 80 the previous day and it was stressed at the Media Conference that the tuesday you often got a bit ofajump in that the tuesday you often got a bit of a jump in the figures because of delays reporting deaths from the
weekend. But even so professor Jonathan Bunton at the briefing, the deputy chief medical officer, made clear he expected the death number to rise from there in the days and weeks to come. There was a lot of focus on the north west of england. Charts were shown demonstrating the number of patients in hospital with covid has been rising, the number of new admissions rising and is the highest in england. But an interesting story with the number of new cases in the north west, lets ta ke new cases in the north west, lets take a look at a chart which was shown and these are different age groups. You can see the younger age groups. You can see the younger age groups there, the green and blue lines at the top, the number of new cases per 100,000 in the north west falling partly because of high numbers of tests before and rather less so now but it carries on rising in the older age groups but it appears to be flattening a little bit after quite steep increases. And of course cases are people newly diagnosed, all the hospital and the figures relate back to cases which
would have merged to as weeks ago so the planning may point to something a tiny bit more encouraging in the north west. The uk is set to become the first country in the world to conduct so called human challenge trials thats where volunteers are deliberately infected with the coronavirus. The aim is to speed up the race to get a covid 19 vaccine. Healthy volunteers will be monitored for side effects for up to a year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Estefania wants to be deliberately infected with coronavirus. Good girl . All in the name of science. Shes part of 1day sooner, a group which is campaigning for so called challenge trials. For a young, healthy person, the probabilities of me dying or anything is very, very low. So when i think about what society gains by getting a vaccine sooner, im not that worried about the risks. Thousands of people, like edward, are part of Covid Vaccine trials
but it could be months before we know whether the jab protects them against coronavirus. In a challenge trial, volunteers are immunised and then infected with the virus, so its clear straight away if the vaccine works. Scientists need to know how much coronavirus is required to ensure that the volunteers get infected. So the first people on the trials wont get a vaccine, theyll simply get a predetermined dose of coronavirus. Now, amazingly, there are thousands of people ready to sign up for this sort of thing. So, up to two weeks theyll spend in here, so theyll be closely monitored. Those taking part will need to be aged between 18 30 and are likely to receive around £11000. But what about the potential dangers of getting covid 19 . So were only going to be innoculating people who have the very lowest potential risk for a severe outcome. The trial has been designed that they will have very minimal disease, potentially not even any symptoms. Gary is a challenge trial veteran. Hes had malaria as part of one study and this is him drinking a solution laced with typhoid bacteria. The experimental typhoid vaccine he was trailing worked and is now saving lives. Really, the confirmation that you really were part of something which really made a huge difference to lives around the world, you know, were talking thousands of people that can now benefit from a typhoid vaccine, yeah, that was pretty fantastic. The world owes a debt of gratitude to all the medical volunteers but especially those ready to get a disease. Challenge studies dont replace conventional trials but they might just speed up the process of finding out which coronavirus vaccines work best. Fergus walsh, bbc news. Throughout this second wave of the pandemic ministers have been keen to ensure that unlike the spring Lockdown School children do not miss out on time in the classroom. Almost half of secondary schools in england sent home one or more pupils because of covid incidents last week. Our education correspondent, elaine dunkley, reports. This is chesterfield high in crosby. Head teacher kevin sexton is faced with the daily pressure of educating children who are absent from school. Ok, we are going to go into year ten now to see some of the kids that have come back from being isolated, just to see if they are ok. Bonjour this week he has had to send him 400 children to self isolate. Almost a third of pupils at the school. Weve got some of our year 11s on the second round of two weeks
now, theyve missed. Theyre going to miss four weeks out of seven. Ive got a member of the english team who has only seen his class for five hours out of 28 in the last seven weeks. We have had students and staff in the last six saturday mornings doing catch up work. Crosby is in a tier 3 area, which means it is under the toughest restrictions because of the high number of coronavirus cases. The worry here is that there is an unfairness, an inequality. Children here are missing out on more classroom time compared to those in other parts of the country, which leaves them at a disadvantage when it comes to exams. Macey is in year 12 and is worried about the constant disruption. Wed come back for five days and then got sent home for two weeks. Whats been the hardest thing for you . Its just like impacted the whole of learning, because we cant really settle in and get used to school because you dont know if youre going to get sent back home. Once youve completed those, please do anything you can online. Mr byrne is in his first
year of teaching. Lessons delivered to an empty classroom. This is very different, obviously, to the training that we got. This is if you like, everyone is at the first step, really. So even experienced teachers are experiencing this for the first time. Remote learning has put pressure on resources. So this is our last laptop. Weve had about 200 of them. But we could do was probably about another 300, 400 of these. And there are also fears about the strain on teachers. Ive been on the phone to teachers at nine oclock asking them whether they have been in contact with the child who tested positive yesterday. For head teachers like mr sexton, at times it feels like there is no end in sight. I feel like it is about 75 of my time is now focused just on covid. It is a difficult balancing act of dealing with a pandemic and the demands of educating pupils. Elaine dunkley, bbc news, in crosby. The time is 6 18. Our top story this evening
Greater Manchester will be placed under tier 3 covid restrictions without a deal with local leaders. Still to come are you one of the covid Rule Breakers . We speak to an Online Focus Group about the restrictions and sticking to them. Coming up on sportsday on bbc news a race in saudi arabia will be added to next seasons formula 1 calendar, as the gulf state, with its chequered human rights record, adds more sports to its portfolio. People living in flats with grenfell style flamable cladding and other fire safety problems have reacted with anger to a government minister suggesting they will have to pay towards the cost of replacing it themselves. The housing safety minister, lord greenhalgh, says costs will be kept affordable and the government has set up a £1. 6 billion fund to pay for repairing taller tower blocks. But flat leaseholders say the money is nowhere near enough and theyll now face huge bills for a problem
they didnt create. Sarah corker reports now. Just despair. Just let down. Exhausted, both financially and emotionally. Trapped living in unsafe flats with dangerous cladding. Across britain, this is the reality for hundreds of thousands of people. In leeds, abi and her husband face crippling costs to remove the cladding from their building a bill that could run into tens of thousands of pounds. It literally is just pulling and ripping our lives apart. Grenfell happened over three years ago and nothing has changed. Its so unsafe that flat leaseholders have to pay £400 a month each for 24 hour fire wardens. Abi says her life is on hold. If we want to have a family, we have to start now, and we cant financially because we might have to declare bankruptcy due to this. We couldnt bring up a child in an unsafe home. The Grenfell Tower fire exposed
serious issues with building regulations and the government is providing £1. 6 billion to remove dangerous cladding. But analysis suggests that money will coverjust one third of the highest risk blocks. Leaseholders in flats across the uk with cladding and fire safety issues are facing huge repair bills. And already, nearly 3000 buildings have applied for government help to cover the costs, including the albion works here in manchester. And in a significant change in position, the minister for building safety admitted to a committee of mps that leaseholders would now have to cover some of the costs. Affordability means it has to be something they can afford and they wont go bankrupt, so thats the whole point. Right, but the cost could still be significant even if theyre affordable, couldnt they, for instance . Our aim is to make sure that they are affordable. Thats angered campaigners. I feel very let down. Alexander and anastasia say they shouldnt be liable for safety problems with cladding on this manchester block. I think its really unfair because, one, we dont own the building, were not freeholders. We didnt build it. We struggle to get to sleep and wake up all the time wondering if that noise that ijust heard is the fire alarm. The couple sleep with a fire extinguisher by their bed. Some flats arent just unsafe, but now effectively worthless. People cant move, people cant buy, people cant sell. People cant remortgage. So it is definitely slowing the housing market. This is a crisis that has left many people feeling broken. We feel completely ignored. Itjust leaves me completely helpless. Sarah corker, bbc news, in leeds. A man who raised suspicions
about the Manchester Arena bomber salman abedi before the attack says a security steward seemed dismissive. Christopher wild, who was picking up his teenage daughter from the Ariana Grande concert, told the inquiry into the bombings that he had confronted abedi. Our north of england correspondent, judith moritz, reports. Salman abedi bent under the weight of his rucksack as he walked into Manchester Arena. He was keen to stay out of sight, and he went straight up a flight of steps to an area not covered by cctv. Trying to hide, he laid down here, with his large bag by his side, but he was seen by a man waiting for his daughter who spotted the rucksack. I started to think about things that happened in the world, and ijust thought he could be very dangerous. What did you say to him . I asked him what he was doing there, and did he know how bad it looked
him sitting there out of sight of everybody . What did the man reply, if anything . First he said he was waiting for somebody, then he just kept asking, after everything i said, hejust kept asking what the time was. Christopher wild was so worried, he went downstairs to tell a police officer, but they were nowhere to be seen, so he found a steward. Mr wild told the court that the steward, Mohammed Agha, didnt seem interested, and fogged him off, fobbed him off. Telling him he already knew about the man with the rucksack. Mr agha will give evidence himself later on in the inquiry. The court heard that when the bomb exploded chris wild and his girlfriend were there. She was injured in the blast. Like your partner, chris, you are keen that people do not blame Mohammed Agha for what happened that night . Yeah, i realise that were suffering, but ive
still got a daughter, so i realize how lucky i am. My heart goes out to everybody. How 22 people were murdered in the bombing. Today, their families sent messages of thanks to the couple who tried to raise the alarm. Judith moritz, bbc news. Later this evening, an american spacecraft will touchdown on an asteroid the size of the empire state building, some 200 million miles from earth. The audacious nasa led expedition aims to collect dust and grit from the surface. Why, you might ask . Well, researchers believe the rocks could offer clues to the origins of life on earth. Heres our science correspondent, victoria gill. And lift off of osiris rex. Its seven year mission to boldly go to the asteroid bennu and back. The beginning of a 1. 25 billion milejourney. And today, four years after it
launched, nasas osiris rex probe will make a flyby grasp for samples of rock from the surface of an asteroid called bennu. This is a bold mission. The probe will lower itself onto the 500 metre wide asteroid for just a few seconds, enough time for its sampling arm to vacuum up some precious dust and grit. It sounds like extraordinary lengths to go to to grab rocks from an asteroid and then get them back to earth. So why go to all this trouble . Asteroids like bennu formed in the very earliest times farcan of the solar system. And they are basically the Building Blocks of the planet. So basically this time capsule that will tell us about what was going on in the early solar system and how i solar system, how the sun and the planets formed and evolved. The eagle has landed its half a century since the apollo astronauts brought kilos of moon rock back home. And if this sampling mission works, it will give scientists the biggest cache of space rock since those famous lunar excursions. But researchers will have to wait
before they can drill into the secrets of this 4. 5 billion year old asteroid. Osiris rex is due to return to earth with samples in september 2023. Victoria gill, bbc news. The arguments about what restrictions to impose around the country continue but, once agreed, are people actually adherering to them . According to a new opinion poll, a quarter of those surveyed said they were not following the rules. Our home editor mark easton has been speaking to people around the uk in an Online Focus Group. Winter is coming, the clocks are about to go back, d covid graphs are all heading in the wrong direction. Britains mood is said to be disappointed, frustrated but most of all worried. With the help of a nalysts we all worried. With the help of analysts we have assembled a focus group from across the uk. How do people feel about the months ahead . Things are quite bleak coming up to christmas with the dark evenings
coming in, there is much light at the end of the tunnel. Im just a bit sad its come to this. Worried about not being able to see my mother who lives on her own over christmas. I willjust go with it, you know . You can only go with it, you know . You can only go with it, you cant change anything, just make the best of what youve got. |j you cant change anything, just make the best of what youve got. I think christmas will be a right of and also january and february. New polling published today found 73 of people say they have complied with the coronavirus rules all or most of the coronavirus rules all or most of the time. An increase since last month. Among the one in four people who admitted breaching the restrictions, 19 said they had seen friends and family knowing they were not supposed to. The only away i think if everyone would listen as if there is one rule for all. Everyone thinks if their area hasnt got the same restrictions, they think is unfairand it same restrictions, they think is unfair and it completely. same restrictions, they think is unfair and it completely. I think we should just have a National Kind of
lockdown, whether it is for a couple of weeks or a month. Do you think in belfast that there should be a National Lockdown at this point . think so, because we are getting mixed messages. You get yourself in a model where you dont know the restrictions. It needs to be all one voice. Michael in peterborough, what do you think of going into a National Lockdown again . Well, i dont think we should have a National Lockdown. Itjust doesnt make sense to close peoples business. The government people, the politicians, it doesnt affect them, it only affects people like us. Recent polling found 73 of people agree it is one rule for them and another for us when it comes to the pandemic, withjust12 another for us when it comes to the pandemic, with just 12 saying another for us when it comes to the pandemic, withjust12 saying uk politicians understand people like them. What are your feelings about them. What are your feelings about the disagreements we have seen among politicians . Its unreasonable to expect, for example, the opposition
to go along with decisions when they seem to be totally chaotic. How much longer are they going to keep us apart from our family and friends . Human nature i think well go against the rules. Just to try and get it under control, we need to kind of Work Together, with the government and do what they say. Finally, a quick show of hands. If you are broadly optimistic about the next few months, raise your hand now. Just two of our ten were upbeat. If you are broadly pessimistic about the next few months, raise your hand now. The other eight generally gloomy. Pessimism has it, im afraid. Thank you all very much indeed and good luck. That report was from our home editor mark easton. Time for a look at the weather heres stav daneos. Thank you and good evening. A lovely day across much of the country today, especially england and wales. Lots of sunshine, breezy but very mild indeed. We have had some
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