The two men are about to go head to head for 90 minutes in cleveland ohio. Millions are watching. President trump and former vice the two men about to lock horns President Joe Biden are now in front of a small studio less than an hour away audience and tens of millions from their first debate of this years us president ial election and the stakes of people watching at home. Couldnt be higher. With a distinct lack of Campaign Events due to the pandemic, the political clash is seen President Trump is as the best chance expected to come under for both sides to make their case attack for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the recent disclosures about his tax affairs. Joe biden hasjust released his tax returns but he will face challenges to the country. About how he would tackle law and order issues and his relationship but this contest wont be quite like anything weve seen before while as many as 100 million americans will tune in to watch the two men go head to head, only 70 will be in the room to see donald trump and joe bidens verbal joust. Lets head over to cleveland, ohio and my colleague laura trevelyan. You can feel the atmosphere building. 0nly you can feel the atmosphere building. Only an hour to go until showtime. Both donald trump andjoe until showtime. Both donald trump and joe biden have been here. They have done their walk throughs. We are told they wont shake hands in an hours time. They will be on stage in a socially distance manner without masks. As you say, only 7080 without masks. As you say, only 70 80 people are only inside that hole behind me. Instead of the usual 900. The audience really is the 84 million plus who are estimated to be watching. That is how many watched in 2016. When Hillary Clinton and donald trump first debated will be could be up to 100 million foot of each candidate to have 20 supporters of their own inside the hawk andi of their own inside the hawk and i have been talking to congressman tim ryan from here in ohio. Yeah inside the hall. I asked him what we can expect from joe biden tonight. Luna i think it looks like. From joe biden tonight. Luna i think it looks like. I think you will see somebody who looks like a president. It will be contrast to donald trump who has a lack of knowledge was up i think donald trump will be very aggressive and i think he will look very pretty president ial, which i think his is. Donald trump has released his tax returns. I think is trying to put pressure on the president . Joe biden trying to put pressure on the president . Joe biden has released his tax returns. Donald trump needs to release his tax returns will stop if there is Something Different to there is Something Different to the what the New York Times is saying. Joe biden will shoot straight with the American People and tell the truth even if it is hard to stop like covid where the president chose the easy road and it led to 200,000 deaths in the United States and destroyed our economy because of his irresponsible nature. The Trump Campaign is claiming thatjoe biden has problems with his mental acuity. Luna it has been a Smear Campaign from the very beginning, no question and they tried to play at that seed. It has been a Smear Campaign. Joe biden will be very open with these issues will top people are doubtful of politicians today, i dont you if you noticed that today but once he crosses that threshold, i think once he crosses that threshold, ithinka once he crosses that threshold, i think a lot of american vote rs i think a lot of American Voters will move into his camp. That will happen tonight, in my opinion, and a lot of states are going to move towards biden ina big are going to move towards biden in a big way. We are here in 0hio in a big way. We are here in ohio which donald mike trump got in 2016. What is your opinion . It is going to be blue. It had, the fox news poll had biden up. They are appalled by trump s conduct over the states. A lot of people who voted against Hillary Clinton are moving tojoe biden as well. I think after tonight, like i said, once he proves to the American People he is ready for the job, a lot of those vote rs for the job, a lot of those voters are going to move into out voters are going to move into our camp voters are going to move into ourcamp and ohio voters are going to move into our camp and ohio will turn blue. You can take that to the bank. How high are the stakes tonight . I think they are pretty high. There is so much noise out there and this is one of the few moments in a president ial race where the country is watching. Who knows how many, 80 90, 100,000 people. If you can prove you can do the job tonight, it will benefit us for the next four weeks and the rest of the campaign. Congressman tim ryan of ohio there. The debate will be 90 minutes long, no ad breaks. There are six topics which were chosen by chris wallace, the moderator. He has chosen the records of donald trump and joe biden, he has chosen coronavirus, the economy, the supreme court, race and election integrity. And i think we can see the live shot of the debate and you there. As you say, only 70 people in the room. Perhaps 100 million americans tuning in to watch. There is a feeling from outside that this is all a bit of a sideshow, a bit of fun, but this time it really doesnt seem this time it really doesnt seem to matter a great deal more. Absolutely because this is President Trumps chance to reset the race. Joe biden has a lead of about 8 in national polls, more narrow in the battleground states and he has done that by running quite a low key done that by running quite a low key Virtual Campaign with one week where the spotlight of america was on the democrats during his nominating convention in august but otherwise it has been the trump show. So this is the president s chance to take on joe biden and show, really attack him, and what we are expecting is thatjoe biden will have to field attacks about how the democrats are moving to the left and he is just a puppet for socialists, he will feel the tax on hunter biden, his son and whether he has dodgy links to businesses all over the world and whether he has traded on his fathers name. Forjoe biden, it is a chance to show he can rise above this and he has a message for the American People that he will be able to lead them out of this pandemic better than donald trump. I was senate chatting to senator chris goons from delaware and asked what it will be like tonight and he said it will be knocked, rock m, socket them robots. It is a game where robots try and knock each other out so that is what you can expect. 35 days to the election and many people voting already. We will be back, of course. The killing of Breonna Taylor a black woman shot dead by police at her home in march, has become a focal point for ongoing protests in the us. Last week, a grand jury decided no officers should be charged over her actual death. Normally, the tapes ofjury deliberations are kept secret. 0ur north america correspondent, larry madowo, is following developments. There has been a lot of pressure from Breonna Taylors family, her lawyers and activists and protesters on the streets of louisville and across the nation to reveal exactly what happened. This is because there is a lot of disaffection and disappointment that none of the officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor are directly charged with her killing was not instead, one officer was charged for endangerment of the neighbours that live close to donna taylor was up he shot blindly through the house into the neighbours apartment where there was a small child that is why he is being charged. That is why there is this pressure that has yielded the release of the tapes tomorrow. The number of people worldwide who have died with covid 19 has passed 1 million, the un secretary general called it a mind numbing figure. It is very likely to be quite an underestimate. In the uk daily deaths from the virus have reached their highest level in three months and germany is now warning that cases are likely to rise during the winter. Every grave marks a life cut short, a mother, father, brother, sister lost to covid 19. This is indonesia, but the impact of coronavirus since it emerged in china late last year has been truly global. These are the five countries which have recorded the most deaths with covid 19. The United States is top with more than 200,000, followed by brazil, india, mexico and the united kingdom. Many of those deaths, especially among the frail elderly, will have been at least partly due to other Underlying Health problems. 33 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded, and we know the pandemic is accelerating, with two million new cases every week. But that is a gross underestimate because so many cases are simply never registered, in part because so many people have no symptoms. And that makes it really difficult to work out an accurate mortality rate for this disease. Coronavirus can also leave people with Chronic Health problems, whats been dubbed long covid, affecting regions like the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain and nervous system. Humanitys actually going into quite a dark zone right now. I mean, wejust have to look around the world. The virus is coming back with a vengeance into europe. Its still very active in the americas. Its also very active in the indian subcontinent. Its picking up again in russia, in indonesia. This is a global, serious situation. Every year, around 57 Million People die globally from all causes. If we look at three other infectious diseases, tuberculosis, tb, a bacterial infection, its largely a disease of poverty and is curable with antibiotics, and yet it kills around 1. 5 Million People a year. Many of those are co infected with hiv. Flu, seasonal influenza, kills up to 650,000 people in a bad year, despite there being a vaccine. And measles, a highly contagious viral infection. It causes 140,000 deaths a year, most of them young children, yet it is entirely preventable by a vaccine. Scientists are working flat out on coronavirus vaccines, but the world health 0rganisation has warned that the covid death toll could hit two million before one is widely available. Fergus walsh, bbc news. Disney will cut 28,000 jobs at its theme parks and resorts in the United States. About two thirds of the laid off employees will be part time workers. In a statement, the company said its resorts have struggled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Lets cross to our Asia Business hub in singapore, where sharanjit leyljoins us. I know disney has been keeping a lot of people on furlough in case things got better. These are huge numbers. Really, the Magic Kingdom losing that magic, a very large number of workers are finding themselves without a job there. As you said, six months, you had thousands of employees and kept on furlough. They had a full Health Benefits as well. On the hopes that the pandemic would go away. But we know that the covid 19 pandemic has meant that it has now lost some of those initial hopes. It is interesting because disney is 110w interesting because disney is now much more than its theme parks. It is a large media group with a large chunk of its business in its quite successful movies like the star wa rs successful movies like the star wars films and its new streaming service as well, disney . It will also affect workers at its retail stores, too. This all over the world, including asia, a significant pa rt including asia, a significant part of its business was up many, as we know, were forced to close due to lockdowns and strict social distancing rules putting put in place by many across the world. Most have now reopened. Here in asia, disney has reopened its hong kong, shanghai and tokyo theme parks and also parks in florida and paris but the company was forced to limit the number of visitors, really to allow for physical distancing. And crucially, the original disneyland in anaheim, california remains closed because of the states strict rules. The chairman of the theme parks business was blaming californias unwillingness to lift restrictions that would have allowed disneyland to reopen there. It is also a limited capacity, continued uncertainty about the duration of the pandemic which it said was exacerbated in california. 28,000 employees losing their jobs, about two thirds of those are part time workers so something that is really impacting this company a great deal. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come an interview with bob woodward his book about donald trump sold more than 600,000 copies in the first week. In all russias turmoil, it has never quite come to this. President yeltsin said the day would decide the nations destiny. The nightmare that so many people have feared for so long is playing out its final act here. Russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. It was his humility which produced affection from catholics throughout the world, but his departure is a tragedy for the catholic church. This man, israels right winger ariel sharon, visited the religious compound, and that started the trouble. He wants israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites, an idea that is unthinkable to palestinians. What after 45 years of division, germany is one. In berlin, a million germans celebrate the rebirth of europes biggest and richest nation. Welcome back. Very glad to have you with us on at bbc news. The latest headlines donald trump and joe biden are preparing for the First Television debate of the us president ial campaign. It gets under way at the top of the hour. The World Health Organization says it will investigate allegations of Sexual Exploitation by aid workers in the republic of congo. The alleged abuse is detailed in a new report by the Thomson Reuters foundation. It is claimed to have happened during efforts to combat the ebola outbreak. Lets speak to our correspondent paul hawkins. What does this report say exactly . Paul, give us more details, if you would. The timing of this is terrible for the who. Yes, it is. They will come to that. Visible this report covers the period from 2018 until march this year when the country was fighting ebola. In the report, the newsagency spoke to 50 local women, they say that they we re local women, they say that they were played with drinks, ambushed in hospitals, forced to have sex forjobs or promotions. Two of them became pregnant and most of these allegations are against men working for the world health 0rganization. They include doctors. There are also some allegations against the country . Health ministry. The World Health Organization have issued a statement, they say the allegations will be robustly investigated. Anyone involved will be held to account and face serious consequences, including immediate dismissal. As you say, the timing of this, terrible for the world health 0rganization, they are in the middle of fighting this pandemic. These kind of allegations can undermined confidence in the organisation. The us have heavily criticised the organisation for being too close to china. Many people have sprung to the whos defence. So these allegations again undermining that defence. And two years ago you had 0xfam workers in haiti, Medecins Sans Frontieres workers in africa, allegations against sexual abuse there, the whole Agency Sector got together and said we cant have this happen, they said they would introduce an effective reporting system for victims, also more rigourous training for staff. Clearly in the case of the world health 0rganisation something has gone wrong. Obviously if true terrible for those involved. Paul, thank you very much indeed. From nixon to trump, every president has sat for interviews with bob woodward nine president s in a row, offering themselves up to the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for what ultimately becomes a lasting literary self portrait of their time in office. During the process of writing rage, his latest book on the current president , donald trump spoke with woodward 18 separate times. Their conversations totalled nine hours and 41 minutes thats a big chunk of time in a busy mans agenda. During theirfinal talk, mr woodward warned mr trump what kind of book he could expect. Imean, i mean, there are parts of the book you are not going to like. What wont i like . You know, there is, it is tough times, there is, it is tough times, the virus, as you repeatedly told me and as you said publicly, it has derailed things and its a big reality in peoples lives, as you know. So they will get it to you. You know the market has me but very strong. You do know that . Did you cover that in the book is matt yes, sure. Well, a little earlier, bob woodward joined my colleagues katty kay and christian fraser. Katty began by asking him what was going through his mind during that clip. Well, i needed to tell him the truth that the book was done and that there were going to be some very tough things i said about him and make some judgements and then he went, the market is doing well and how sad, how outrageous that a president who oversees, at that point, almost 180,000 deaths in this country and is talking about the stock market. Yes, the stock markets part of the story but the grave and historic miscalculations he made in dealing with this virus is going to go down in the books that are written decades from now. Which i guess, bob, is why at the end of the book, you make a judgement about this president in your opinion in a way that you havent about previous president s. Is that why . Yes, and the overwhelming evidence and when you do a book like this, you are so immersed in donald trump world and the administration and i got lots of new information and its a book about the truth and i have to face the truth. I cannotjoin the ranks of republican senators in the United States who know that donald trump, who say privately that he is unfit for office or not the man for thejob, but will not say it publicly. I was not going to hide in silence. I cant do that as a journalist. Bob, why did you call it rage . Because those are the words that donald trump used back in 2016 to say in this very confessional way, oh, i bring out rage in people. I asked him again about it this year and he repeated, he said, amazingly enough, he doesnt know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. Did you come to an opinion in these 18 interviews what four more years of donald trump would look like, where the world would be in 2024 if he gets a second term . Well, i cant do the future, obviously, but if youll bear with me about the past, because i was looking through some notes and transcripts and witness testimonies about what happened ten days after the president was told by his National Security advisor and deputy that a pandemic was coming to the United States. Like the 1918 spanish flu pandemic that killed 75,000. Ten days later, President Trump decided that he better call the chinese president , and it is astonishing as he is ringing, donald trump is wringing his hands saying that i embarrass him with this. And they finally make the call on february 6, 9pm, donald trump is in the white house and he says to xi, we want to send some of our experts on viruses like this from the United States to help you eradicate it. Then, just donald trump saying that they will need visas, as if he is the visa guy in the state department and xi says to him, oh, we are making great progress on the virus, says to him, 0h, we are making great progress on the virus, im personally in charge. Donald trump calls him a second time and xi lies the second time seeing that oh, we are safeguarding the world. We do not want to create panic and xi says, it is like the 2003 sars epidemic. Just the exact opposite that Donald TrumpsNational Security advisor had told him ten days earlier. Donald trump was played by president xi in a way that, i have been doing this for 50 years, i have never seen an american president kowtow so shamelessly to a communist dictator. Of course, donald trump is saying that it is xis fault and its the chinese virus. You are tough on trump, you told the president that you were going to be tough on him and i guess you started off with watergate and exposing richard nixon. It begs the question, why did donald trump do this . Why did he sit down with you for over nine hours in late night phone calls . What was he trying to do . Well, i wrote a book in 2018, fear, about his first two years in the white house and he denounced it as fiction, a couple of people close to him said by the way, mr president , its true, and donald trump agreed to talk to me and made it very clear, i went into the oval office, took my little 0lympus tape recorder, put it down and said this is all on the record for a book that will come out before the election and so i was able to take all the issues of the day, like the virus, his handling of the virus, it is a medical and moral catastrophe for this country and it is on his head because he knew it was coming, he was warned in the kind of details that you do not see that often and he saw this and he heard this. Bob woodward talking to katty kay and christian just now. Whats more to come in the next few hours. The debate kicking off in half an hour. This is the shot in cleveland, ohio. Summer like 100 million americans expected to tune in to watch. 0nly americans expected to tune in to watch. Only 70 in the actual room because of covid something like. Five weeks until the election on november three. Many americans voting already. Polls are suggesting only about 40 of voters undecided. The election will probably be decided by the 11 states that swing between the republicans and the democrats are 14 . And you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter im bbcmikeembley. We will be back in a moment. Hello there. Most parts of the country enjoyed some sunshine on tuesday temperatures reached 21 celsius in kent. Today, though, we are going to find cooler and wetter weather arriving across the uk, and sunshine will be in short supply. And thats because all this cloud has been massing out in the atlantic and is now starting to stream in, and these weather fronts are bringing with it some outbreaks of rain that will push their way eastwards steadily through the day. Now, ahead of that rain, its a milder start to the morning. Temperatures in double figures in most areas. But the winds could be quite strong and gusty through the irish sea first thing, and we have got a wet start to the day across many Western Areas. Some early brightness perhaps across eastern england, but the rain will push steadily eastward through the day. Some heavier rain over some of the western hills. And while some Western Areas may well turn a bit brighter in the afternoon. There will still be some heavy showers around as well so not a straightforward clea ra nce. Temperatures will be lower 14 degrees in scotland, Northern Ireland, highest temperatures in the southeast before that rain sets in from mid afternoon onwards. That rain does then move away overnight. That weather front takes the rain into the north sea. Then behind the outcome of the air gets cooler. So, temperatures will be lower still, i think, on thursday. May be still quite damp in the northeast of scotland for a while, there will be some sunny spells elsewhere, some showers likely to break out, particularly across more southern and western parts of england and into wales, perhaps into Northern Ireland as well. The winds will be lighter, there will be some sunshine at times, but the air is still on the cold side with temperatures only 12 15 degrees on thursday despite the sunshine. As we move things into friday, where we have got the threat of some heavier rain coming into southern parts of the uk, together with some strengthening winds, gales, possibly even severe gales as well. Looks a bit drier and less windy as you head northwards into scotland and Northern Ireland, but its still on the chilly side. Some uncertainty as we head into friday and into the weekend as well, because weve got a potentially rather nasty area of low pressure, and essentially over the weekend, we are going to find low pressure dominating right the way across the uk. So the weekend forecast doesnt look particularly appealing. Its going to remain on the chilly side, there will be a lot of cloud around, some strong winds 00 28 15,196 4294966103 13 29,430 and some rain at times