Hello, im ros atkins, this is outside source. In the last hour, the uk has raised its coronavirus alert level. The governments chief Scientists Say the virus is spreading at speed. Cases are increasing, hospitalizations are following, deaths unfortunately will follow that and there is that potential for this to move very fast. The advisors say the number of cases of virus is doubling every week new restrictions are expected tomorrow. Spain too is taking action. In madrid almost a Million People are now under a strict lockdown. Thats led to protests well explain why. And the furore around the Us Supreme Court grows all the time President Trump says hell choose his nominee this week. New revelations wbr id wbr560 on secret football deals, show chelsea owner Roman Abramovich b
had stakes in players outside his club in 2014. Had stakes in players important covid developments in a number of countries. First, the uk where the countrys covid alert level is being raised. It was at level 3 which as you can see here means the epidemic is in general circulation. Its now being upgraded to level 4 where transmission is high or rising exponentially. And weve had this stark message from governments top top scientistific advisors. If is, and quite a big if, but if that continues unabated and this grows, doubling every seven days, then what you see of course, lets say they were 5000 today and 10,000 next week, 20,000 a week after, 40,000 and after, you wbrid wbr1160 can see that by mid october if that continued,
it would end up with Something Like 50,000 cases in the middle of october per day. 50,000 cases per day would be expected to lead a month later, so the middle of november, to 200 plus deaths per day. Now they were clear thats not a prediction. Its a warning of what could happen if more isnt done to control the infection rate. This graph was used to illustrate the point case numbers have the potential to escalate rapidly. And particular reason for concern is that case numbers are increasing across the population. These are cases broken down into age groups. The sharpest rise is among young adults but all ages are seeing an increase. And then this is the geographical spead of the cases across england. The darker the areas, the higher the infection rate. Heres more from chief medical adviser chris whitty. We have in a bad sense literally
turned a corner. Although it only relatively recently. I think everybody will realise that at this point the seasons are against us. We are now going into the seasons, late autumn and winter, which benefit respiratory viruses and is very likely they will benefit covid as they do for example flu. Now these advisors are focused on england but of course all of the uk is affected by covid. Prime minister borisjohnson has spoken to the leaders of scotland, wales and Northern Ireland today in a moment the latest from our scotland editor sarah smith and our ireland correspondent emma vardy, but first heres our wales correspondent hywell griffith. Wales is relatively slow to come out of lockdown restrictions. Now new are coming thick and fast. Today four more areas added to the lockdown list. Tomorrow they will join caerphilly. All 850,000 people placed under tougher measures. What does it mean . While people arent
allowed to travel in and out of the local council area unless they have a valid reason my going to work or education. People arent allowed to meet indoors with anyone not from the household and in iipm curfew. Even now talk of bigger south whiles wide lockdown potentially being an astronaut. Here in scotland Nicola Sturgeon says she wants to take fast and urgent action so shes going to make an announcement tomorrow afternoon to in her words, try and bring the virus back under control in scotland. Because its up to the Scottish Government to set their own distinct rules. But the first minister does say it makes sense in these circumstances to try and have broadly similar rules across the whole of the uk even if they are not identical in every one of the uk nations. She spoke on the phone to borisjohnson this afternoon and im told the two leaders are broadly in the same place when it comes to what they are planning. We can baby expects chemical or if not identical announcements tomorrow. Last week localised restrictions were brought in here and post where cases of
infections or hires. Now those restrictions are being widened to cover the whole of Northern Ireland. It means from tomorrow evening people will not be able to visit other peoples homes indoors with a few exceptions for things like childcare. It will feel like a significant step back from where we were. Now everything about today points towards new regulations in england. And we know borisjohnson will chair a meeting of the governments Crisis Management committee on tuesday. Vicky young has more on that. I think we can expect there to be much further restrictions and chris whitty then suggesting that this transmission between households, the interactions between households, that could be one area theyre looking at. Theres been speculation the bbcs been told about a so called Circuit Breaker. You could do a short break with quite severe restrictions. The problem with that is that you suppress it for a couple weeks, and in this virus, as we seen, simply comes back again. Now you may have heard this phrase Circuit Breaker pop up a lot recently. Its this idea that you bring in much stricter regulations for a relatively short period of time say a fortnight to try and regain control of the virus. Not everyones convinced. This is a former chief scientific advisor. If you really stop transmission for two weeks, that reduces the number of cases dramatically. Again, they will grow, and unfortunately, this is a long haul. As they made clear, what we have to depend on is the science. So there are arguments over what restrictions should or shouldnt be used, and balancing the economic fall out it will cause. Heres helen catt with the latest from westminster. Tomorrow we can find out what Boris Johnson plans to do about it. The signs that he planned to do something to stop you heard vicki talking about things like a Circuit Breaker. Theres been a lot of
options talked about over the last couple of weeks. We think for example, its likely perhaps that there will be some restrictions announced on the hospitality sector. Perhaps closing at ten oclock at night. That sort of thing is whats likely to happen tomorrow. I thinks whats clear is clear is there is no political will for another full, National Lockdown like we were back in march. Not from the government, labour, the official opposition here. They also believe it would be catastrophic for the economy. And certainly not from Northern Ireland, scotland, wales either. They dont wa nt to scotland, wales either. They dont want to go back there. Today what seen want to go back there. Today what seen as want to go back there. Today what seen as well as the public explanation of the data theres also been stuff happening behind the scenes. Borisjohnson has been on the phone for the first ministers, hes going to talk to them again tomorrow. Hes bringing in that corporate meeting thats the emergency meeting was up here in the uk he will then talk to his cabinet he will address parliament tomorrow, the house of commons to talk about what measures the government would want to bring in. And the fact
that the Prime Minister is going to announce whatever he chooses to announce whatever he chooses to announce is that a sign that perhaps the government is listening to the concern some mps have expressed about the role of parliament . The convention is that you should be announcing major Parliament Decisions in the house of commons. Actually there has been some sort of a irritation expressed by the speaker of the house in recent weeks that actually a lot of these big policy changes has been announced and press conferences and not parliament where they should be. Certainly there is an issue around a growing feeling on the conservative backbenchers that too much restriction would be a bad thing. There is certainly seems to be much more of a sense of if there are can be more restrictions a lot of conservative backbenchers would like to see them really, reallyjustified as being the only way forward. Because of the potential impact on the economy and the Health Impacts that come from that. So the situation is developing quickly. So the situation is developing quickly. Things are also moving very fast in spain. A new lockdown has begun in madrid. As of today, more than 800,000 people can only leave their homes to go to work, school or to seek medical care. This is why. Spains rate of infection has been rising steeply of the last two months. In the last two weeks, there have been over 126,000 thousand cases and madrid is the worst affected area. These new restrictions affect 37 Health Districts many of which are in these six areas of madrid. They are mostly districts with lower incomes and higher numbers of immigrant than the population as a whole. For that reason, some see this as discrimination. And there have been small protests calling for better support and better healthca re. This was the scene that greeted spains Prime MinisterPedro Sanchez when he arrived for a meeting with madrids regional leader. Thats Isabel Diaz Ayuso and she wants the army to assist the police with Law Enforcement and wants the government to rebuild makeshift hospitals that were decommissioned in the summer. Well the government is offering extra help. This is the Prime Minister
talking after the meeting. Translation this is not a game. We are facing a second wave with obviously different characteristics, its less lethal. And less fast but it continues to be very dangerous. For more on the situation in madrid, heres guy hedgcoe. Throughout much of the second the second region of madrid have been the big concern in terms of the number of infections. It hasnt come asa number of infections. It hasnt come as a huge surprise that these new restrictions have been introduced in areas of madrid now. The big concern however, is how successful they will be. If in a couple of weeks the number of infections has started to drop substantially, people here imagery can go back to Something Like normal. If that is not the case, there is a feeling that the local government here is going to have to introduce more drastic measures, possibly a blanket
lockdown across the whole region. Its something the Prime Minister has put on the table recently. Its been the possibility of regional governments introducing states of emergency in their local areas. That would allow local governments to introduce quite drastic measures in localised fashion without the need for eight National Lockdown. Inafew in a few minutes where going to find out about rescue efforts in australia to help hundreds of whales which are stranded in Shallow Water in tasmania. In south africa, 500 pupils from one school have been quarantined after a covid 19 outbreak. Almost 100 of them tested positive. Nomsa maseko has more. This is a shock to the country as you know, that they are now trying to ease the lockdown regulations was up and also the number
of infections are also lowered in the country to it has emerged that 98 School Pupils from high school in the eastern cape tested positive. This comes after two pupils tested positive and then failed to report that to the school. The authorities there say that the reason why there was such a huge outbreak was that people, they are not maintaining social distance and regulation and also have not been wearing mask. So now as a result, there has been a team of Health Experts along with Health Officials who are now been taken down to that province for contact tracing. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Our lead story is . The uk has raised sits coronavirus alert to level 4, meaning transmission is high
or rising exponentially. President trump says hell nominate a new Supreme Courtjustice by the end of the week. Democrats say they will do everything they can to stop that person taking a seat on the court. This bitter political battle begun after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on friday. Shes spent 27 years on the Supreme Court. Well today it was confirmed her body will lie in state inside the us Capitol Building on friday. According to her grand daughter, Justice Ginsburg made a dying wish. Heres the senior Democrat Chuck schumer on what it was. She said my most fervent wish is that i will not be replaced by, until a new president is installed. President trump has suggested that the democrats made that quote up though theres no evidence thats true. And we know that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been extremely critical of donald trump. She was also the leading liberal member on the Supreme Court. And the make up of the Supreme Court is of huge importance it often has the final say on matters of Huge National importance from abortion to election disputes. And because each justice is appointed for life, each choice impacts americans for years. Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, fivejustices had been appointed by republican president s and four under democratic administrations. If Donald Trumps nominee is successful it would give the court a strong conservative majority of 6 3. The stakes are very high. Heres the american law professor lawerence douglas. Also bear in mind that the Supreme Court right now is presently constituted untilJustice Ginsburgs death. It was already a very conservative Supreme Court and probably the most conservative Supreme Court the United States has seen since 1937, since the early days of the roosevelt administration. The debate over whether the senate should vote on a newjustice this close to novembers election immediately takes us back to 2016 and a similar battle towards the end
of president obamas second term. In february of that year Supreme Courtjustice Antonin Scalia died. President obama nominated this man, Merrick Garland, to succeed him. But republicans refused to hold confirmation hearings, saying the senate should not a vote on suprme Court Nominations in a president ial election year. This was the Republican Senate leader Mitch Mcconnell at the time. The American People are perfectly capable of having their say, their say on this issue. So lets give them a voice. Lets let the American People decide. Well, Mitch Mcconnell is still the Republican Senate leader, and it wont surprise you that his position has evolved. This is what he said a couple of days ago. Another republican whos changed his mind is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee Lindsey Graham. This weekend he said he was dead set on confirming
this was Lindsey Graham back in 2016. I want you to use my words against me. If there is a republican president in 2016, and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said lets let the next president whoever it might be make that nomination, you can use my words against me and you would be absolutely right. Chuck schumer has been making the counter argument over the weekend. If that sounds familiar, its deliberately so. Its a word for word copy of the tweet Mitch Mcconnell put out in 2016. But republicans say the democrats have also changed their mind. Heres senator ted cruz. We had this fight at the end of the barack obama term, and at the time, all the democrats were saying confirm the nominee and all the republicans were saying we will not confirm the nominee. Senator cruz went on to say why he believes this time is different. Heres some more. And there is a big difference in the senate with whether the senate is of the same party of the president or a Different Party of the president. When the senate has been of the same party of the president , the vacancy occurs in an election year, of the 29 times, in 19 of them, of those 19, the senate has confirmed those nominees 17 times. So if the parties are the same, the Senate Confirms the nominee. When the parties are different, that has happened ten times, Merrick Garland was one of them. Of those ten, the senate has confirmed that nominees only twice. Its true that this time around the president and a majority of the senate are from the same party. The republicans currently control the senate by 53 seats to a7. However two republican senators have already shifted on this issue. Susan collins says she wont vote on a newjustice before election day. Lisa murkowski has gone even further, saying she wont vote on a nominee
until after inauguration day. And the democrats are trying to get more republicans to switch sides. Heres Chuck Schumer again. And we only need two more senators to say that they will abide by rbgs wish. Two have already said it. We need two more. So americans, if you care about these rights, if you dont want big powerful wealthy special interests to turn the clock back 100 years even, please, our fervent plea and wish, is that you call your senator and say abide by the wishes of this saintly, brilliant, caring woman. And so this political battle plays out. And so this political battle plays out. Our washington correspondent Gary Odonoghue has been down by the Supreme Court all day. Here he is on what happens next. The that there will be hearings in thejudicial committee. The that there will be hearings in the judicial committee. Thats by
Lindsey Graham who is on those clips they hold me to it. If there is a va ca ncy they hold me to it. If there is a vacancy in this year we should not do it. And he is planning to hold those hearings. So they get to choose. There could be all sorts of delaying tactics the democrats could indulge in. They frighten some of those indeed. But essentially threatened. Donald trump hold all the cards here and they get this inside when it happens. And if they do decide they want to go ahead before the election and weve seen previous nomination processes on capitol hill become reasonably long winded as well. Is there a time . Is actually days to get this done . Yeah, i think there is. Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself was nominated in around six weeks or so. Its about that to go until election day. Effectively, all that really has to happen is that there has to be a
vote in the senatejudiciary come he which has a republican majority. Any vote on the floor of the house. The process ca n vote on the floor of the house. The process can be as quick or as long as you wanted to be. Senators across the spectrum will want a chance to quiz the nominee. And indeed, most senators will want to do that not just on the committee itself. That is the tradition. Of course tradition gets torn up in these sorts of circumstances. I think that can happen. The calculation really for Mitch Mcconnell is not really what the democrats are thinking its what the democrats are thinking its what his own side is thinking. And youve heard two republican senators already say they dont think there should be a vote before the election. The question is will there be more. Will mitt romney from utah say the same . Will cory gardner in colorado say the same . If you have four or against it then the majority in the senate flips 51 49 in favour of democrats to stop bent Mitch Mcconnell has a real problem. President trump has already pledged to nominate a woman. Here are some of the frontrunners. Amy Coney Barrett is a judge on the Circuit Court of appeals. Shes 48 and previously served as a clerk for the conservative justice Antonin Scalia. Barbara lagoa also serves on the Circuit Court of appeals. Shes a 52 year old cuban american. And while shes considered a staunch conservative, she received strong bipartisan support at her confirmation hearing. Another name in the mix is appeals courtjudge allison rushing. Shed be particularly controversial because shes only 38 years old. Leaked Bank Documents seen by bbc panorama show Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich secretly owned stakes in players at other clubs. One of the footballers played against chelsea in two 2014 Champions League games, which meant mr abramovich had a stake in twelve players on the pitch. Mr abramovichs Spokesman Says the deals were lawful and did not Richard Bilton from bbcs panorama reports. This is the story
of a football match. Chelsea again sporting lisbon in 2014. Secret files show chelsea owner Roman Abramovich had a steak and not 11, but 12 players on the pitch. In 2016, a bank identified more than 1 billion of suspicious payments involving offshore Shell Companies owned by Roman Abramovich. This includes for payments made by Roman Abramovich companies in cyprus. Whats important is where mr abramovichs cash ends up. The virgin british islands got 156 million, that is a controversial company. The company was accused of being involved in the now band practice of third Party Ownership. That is when someone other than the players own the club buys a financial stake in them. That doesnt really make sense because that has nothing to do in football, and their interests are purely financial. From an integrity of sport point of view, when you sign for a club, your loyalty should be that club 100 . This is the winger andre. He played for lisbon that night, creating a goal, but he was half owned by Roman Abramovichs company. Also owns stakes into other lisbon players. They did not play against chelsea, but Roman Abramovichs company was owed two point six million euros. Third Party Ownership was banned up by the fa in 2008, but wasnt banned by fifa until about 2015. I dont think it can possibly be possible for the owner of a Football Club to own players and other Football Clubs. That is precisely why third party
ownership is banned. It casts suspicion and a shadow right across football. From the documents ive seen, i would have wanted as chairman of the fa to investigate. Mr abramovichs spokesman said the activity reports do not contain allegations of wrongdoing, and no action was taken against the chelsea owner. But no one knew until now that Roman Abramovich had a steak and more players thanjust the ones in blue. Richard bilson, bbc news. In the next few hours a rescue effort will begin to help hundreds of stranded whales in australia. More than 250 of them are stuck in macquarie head which is a remote bay on the west coast of the island of tasmania Officials Say at least 25 whales have already died. And that two large pods are stuck on sandbars a few hundred metres apart. They are believed to be pilot whales though thats not confirmed. Heres marine bioligist dr Vanessa Pirotta how the whales are doing and how the rescue may play out. They have been on the sand bar for quite a period of time. Their stress levels are really high, their cortisol levels are really high. These animals in some cases will unfortunately succumb to that. But one of the ways authorities will be trying to tackle this is to look for individuals who might be doing quite well so there might be individuals that might be in a bit more water compared to others and better body condition. Weve also got an update on another whale story from australia last week a humpback whale that took a wrong turn into a crocodile infested river has safely returned to sea. It was first seen in the East Alligator River in the northern territory. Which, despite the name, is full of crocodiles wildlife experts were concerned they might attack the whale if it became stranded. Well, wildlife australia tweeted these photos saying that the humpback had made it back out to sea after a seventeen day journey inland. Hello. Many of us have had sparkling sunshine through the course of the day. True across england and wales and also across parts of some eastern areas as scotland. Skies like these have been pretty widespread. Across Northern Ireland it stayed rather cloudy. They could cloud still in the northwest of scotland, indeed some rain affecting the very far northwest. Through this week we are going to see a change too much cooler weather conditions. Temperatures of 21 in parts of aberdeenshire, parts of east anglia, much Colder Weather is going to move in as we head across the autumn equinox which is tuesday into the middle part of the week. By the end of the weed northerly winds will
really drop those temperatures down significantly. Overnight tonight weve got rain across the northwest of scotland. Thats going to turn increasingly heavy and persistent here. Clear skies initially for england and wales but the mist and fog patches will develop later in the night. In particular in the midlands with Poor Visibility billeted here and Poor Visibility to parts of england and wales. That could take quite time to tuesday before it thins and breaks. Will see some sunshine coming out. Northwest coming in. My head and on this weather front we are going to get fairly gusty winds. A windy day for Northern Ireland and scotland and across the ferry far north of england to the east of the pen ines pretty gusty. Todays highest apertures again across east anglia highs reaching about 26 c. That really is the last of the warm days. As we go through tuesday night and into wednesday this cold front will increasingly spread its way southwards. As it does so, those temperatures will certainly be dropping away. It will turn quite
cool tuesday night across scotland into Northern Ireland for the england and wales for the most part in this stage relatively mild at 12 to 15 degrees. That colder air will continue to work southwards as this cold front continues to push east and southwards during wednesday. Brea ks and southwards during wednesday. Breaks of rain the rain turns increasingly persistent and eastern areas and becoming windy. Around some of our coast later in the day for top scotland in Northern Ireland seen for top scotland in Northern Ireland seen the best of the dry weather and sunshine but it will feel cooler. I was just 11 to 13 degrees. That cooler more salary weather will spread across the whole of the uk by thursday. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. The government weighs up new restrictions and the vast majority of the population remain susceptible and swift action is needed to bring the numbers down might. Cases are increasing, hospitalisations are following and deaths unfortunately will follow that and there is the potential for this to move very fast. The uk coronavirus alert warning is raised to level four meaning the viruses rising exponentially. The manchester victims family paid tribute to the victims. The government agrees new emergency deals with trade companies and an end to the rail franchise system. Time now for your questions
answered, where well be attempting to tackle all your questions as the uk experiences a rise in coronavirus infections. With me is dr chris smith hes a virologist at the university of cambridge. Also im joined by dr rosemary leonard, a gp in dulwich in south london. Welcome to you both, thank you for joining me. Let us try and rattle through these questions. Chris, a question from mike hall,. Today we were told that the fight against covid 19 had turned a corner and not in a good way. But my question is, why is the uk now experiencing a spike in cases of covid 19 . This is a transmittable infection and it relies on contact between people. It is simple that the more contact there is, the more cases you will get because there are more virus opportunities for it to spread. In recent weeks we have seen
people