Policy on Face Coverings in schools under review. In future Face Coverings, there may be, if prevalence of the value of the virus increases, management teams may encourage a further strengthening of use of Face Coverings in the event of local outbreaks. We expect my staff and young people will have their own Face Coverings, but where anybody is struggling to access a Face Covering, or they are unable to use theirFace Covering, or they are unable to use their Face Covering because they have forgotten it of because it has become unsafe, schools should take steps to have a contingency supply available to meet such needs. I am working with partners to monitor the supply and demand for Face Coverings in schools and local authorities on a daily basis. It will be important for schools to support young people to ensure Face Coverings i used hygienically and safely. A revised policy on Face Coverings does not change the need for the other key mitigations in the School Reopening guidance such as regular hand washing, to continue to be applied rigorously in a school settings. I am pleased we have worked with young scot to publish a version of this advice for young people which has been shared widely on social media. Many children and young people will have seen vax talked about on the news or social media, the young scot material explains what it means for you and how you should apply facts at school. The second issue relates to the clinical advice on testing in relation to the distinction between common colds and the covid virus. Following the return of schools after a prolonged break, it is common for colds and similar viral infections to circulate. In many cases, children will be well enough to attend school and continue their learning with little or no interruption to their education. In other cases, for instance where they have quite a heavy cold with a runny nose, they may need to take a day or two off to recover. That is not the case for children or young people with potential covid symptoms, they are required to self isolate and get tested. To ensure your child does not miss out on their education, it is important to be clear about how covid i9 symptoms differ from those of other infections we would normally see circulating at this time of year. The main symptoms of covid i9, a new continuous cough, a fever or high temperature, loss of or change in the sense of smile or taste. If a young person or a child in yourcare taste. If a young person or a child in your care develops any of these three symptoms, they should self isolate and you should book them a test as soon as possible. It is essential people who have covid symptoms or who share a household with someone who has symptoms do not attend school, nursery or child care settings and must self isolate along with all members of the household. If the test is negative, self isolation can end for everyone. If the test is positive, test and protect will give you further advice. In summary, we recommend testing only for those with a continuous cough, fever or loss of or change in the sense of taste or smile. The uk senior clinicians continued to keep the symptoms for Case Definition under review and will continue to use evidence to adjust these if necessary. I am writing today to local Authority Directors of education and schools on this issue in the scottish Governments National clinical director, professorjason reach, has written an open letter to parents to reinforce this advice. We are working with the National Parent forum for scotland to share these important messages as widely as possible. I would like to take this opportunity to thank children and young people, parents and carers and school staff for making a return to school staff for making a return to school so successful and for implementing the changes we set out in ourguide and implementing the changes we set out in our guide and so carefully. This ensures all the benefits of face to face education are being experienced once again by children and young people, safely. Thanks, john, Glen Campbell from bbc scotland. Glen campbell. He is not there. I will go to Kay Nicholson from stv and i will return to glen if he gets connected. Good afternoon, thank you, first minister, you mentioned the largest increases in cases in the glasgow area, can you give more detail of where these castes cases are coming from and you can send they may be linked to indoor gatherings, as you mentioned in the cases in ayrshire and arran. For the chief nursing officer, what are the challenges of tackling these smaller clusters in comparison with some of the larger clusters we have already seen . Thanks, i am not able to give too much more detail in these cases yet. Other than the detail i have already given. We will see more detail and analysis over today and we will consider whether further action is required. What we do think, based on the information we have so far, is that the cases in glasgow in particular are all related to one or two big clusters, but a number of smaller clusters are not related to one or two. But we have to wait for further analysis of smaller indoor gatherings being the risky area in terms of transmission. I have no information at the moment to suggest connections between the glasgow cases and ayrshire and arran, within ayrshire and arran cases are related to indoor gatherings that took place a week past. So last weekend. Not the weekend that has just passed. But all of this underlines how risky it is if we have large numbers of people from significant numbers of households meeting up indoors, there isa households meeting up indoors, there is a really good reason that we put limits or advised limits on indoor gatherings, so that if the virus is present, and it starts to spread, then there is some in built firewall to stop it spreading further. So i would appeal to people to keep these limits firmly in mind and abide by them because, as we go into the autumn and winter, we know that people will be more likely to gather indoors and if we dont make sure that the restrictions are being adhered to, we do see greater risk of transmission getting out of control again. What is important to remember is our Health Detection teams are very used to dealing with outbreaks and Infectious Diseases and making contacts and giving people advice. The smaller outbreaks, you are correct, sometimes more complex. Where it is a big outbreak associated with a pub ora a big outbreak associated with a pub or a food factory, then the containment is quite straightforward. Where the smaller outbreaks are flowing up, then the reason that is happening is most likely people are not following a following guidance, social distancing, cleaning hands and surfaces. And therefore, they are almost sleepwalking into catching the virus and then transmitting it. We know one somebody in the household becomes infected, it is very likely that the rest of the members of the household will also become infected. So that is why what we call macro chasing is incredibly important, so that the biggest aim is to contain the virus tracing. Get the contacts, advice contacts to self isolate or to book a test if they have symptoms, but also so that we can take an overview of what is happening and make the connections and then the contact cases also look at what we call macro chasing. Where have people been, in the past 24 hours or 48 hours before the symptoms started question about who did they meet with, did they social distance, and take that forward so we can get a sense of precisely where the infections came from, if at all possible. As the first minister has talked about, often, it is smaller informal gatherings at home, sometimes people who have returned from travel or other areas, where it is not immediately obvious, but with a bit of digging, we can find that out. Yes, a bit more complex and a bit more challenging, but our Health Protection teams are very experienced in this and they are doing an incredibly good job. Back to Glen Campbell from the bbc. Hopefully better luck this time. I wanted to ask about the programme for government. I know you are announcing tomorrow and it will have much to say about economic recovery. I wonder if you can say today if find any merit in any of the proposals the scottish conservatives have put forward, in particular, the idea of having a Hardship Fund equivalent to furlough where businesses are forced into local lockdown . I will set out the programme for government tomorrow and you know the reasons why it is not possible for me to do that right now. I dont mean this to be disrespectful in any way, but i have been pretty consumed this morning in the analysis of the covid figures and preparing for this briefing and i have not had the opportunity to look in any detail at the ideas put forward by the leader of the scottish conservatives. I am always happy to look at ideas wherever they come from and if they are good ideas, we will consider what we can do to take them forward. So we will operate on that basis. In terms of further support for example to carry on the furlough scheme, i am firmly of the view that it is essential for the furlough scheme to continue in ending and ending that at the end of october is almost guaranteeing a wave of voidable redundancies and i think it would be unconscionable to allow that to happen. So i think the furlough should be extended following the lead of countries like france and germany for a period of a further 12 months. That is critically important for sectors ha rd est critically important for sectors hardest hit which have the longest path to recovery. It is also important we see the continuation of support for areas that may require to have restrictions imposed again to have restrictions imposed again to try to keep breaks under control. So we will continue to talk to the uk government. We are in the position where our funding is finite because we dont have the borrowing powers the uk holds so we need to look to them to deliver schemes that will result in consequential funding or give us additional borrowing powers so we can do more of that ourselves, and we will continue to ta ke forward ourselves, and we will continue to take forward those discussions and i hope they will be constructive and positive discussions. Allan smith. Thank you, first minister, in relation to the cases we are seeing in Greater Glasgow and clyde, that is now over 100 positive cases in the past 48 hours. The fact that these seem to be linked to smaller clusters, does that mean it is unlikely we will see a lockdown in glasgow that we have seen elsewhere . And one for the deputy first minister, the Scottish Secondary Teachers Association has said pupils who fail to wear Face Coverings should be sent home, do you agree with them . I will hand over to john ina with them . I will hand over to john in a second. In response to your first part of the question, we have to be increasingly careful about using lockdown as some kind of blanket term and a one size fits all approach, we have to take steps if necessary to deal with outbreaks and those steps have to be tailored to the specific causes and circumstances of outbreaks, over the last few weeks, in aberdeen, we had an outbreak that very definitely appeared to have started in and spread amongst night time economy, in pubs for example. Therefore, part of what we had to do there was a strict hospitality. In cupar angus, we had an outbreak with a large number of cases similar to the number of cases similar to the number of cases in aberdeen, but a different outbreak in nature that started in a workplace, a factory. So the measure appropriate there was to advise isolation, notjust of the workers in that factory, but also their household contacts. And so far, it looks as if those measures have had an effect as the measures in aberdeen had an effect. So looking at other areas, whether and what measures we take will depend on the nature of the transmission and whether or not we think it is under control or potentially running out of control again. Then we will try to tailor our response. So we wont see necessarily the same approach is being taken in every area. Taking the example of ayrshire and arran, from what we know right now, it appears these are small clusters that have not started in hospitality, but in indoor household gatherings. So that will obviously shape any response that we are trying to fashion to this. And that will be the nature of the weeks and months that lie ahead. We will have to tailor our action as far as possible to meet the circumstances. So all of that no doubt is encapsulated in a catchall term lockdown. Lockdown increasingly means Different Things in different circumstances. And we want to avoid any restrictions if we can and the best way to avoid restrictions is for us all to act in a way that limits that and a voice transmission in the first place. As i keep saying, test and protect, imposing restrictions, if you think of test and protect is the second line of defence if an outbreak starts, if that cannot on its own completely contain it, we have to think of further restrictions and that becomes the vent line of defence. The first line of defence is all of us doing all the things that are encapsulated in our advice and that is why i feel as if sometimes, i wa nt to is why i feel as if sometimes, i want to scream it from the rooftops that we all have to follow all of this advice or we are going to see this advice or we are going to see this virus spread again. Because it doesnt go away. It spreads if we give it a chance and we have got to avoid giving it that chance. A one Face Coverings in schools, one of the objectives of the decision on Face Coverings has been to increase the safety of our schools for young people, so that they can continue their full time face to face education in as safe a fashion as we possibly can do. Weve got to make sure the wearing of Face Coverings in schools becomes a habitual part of school life where it is appropriate for that to be undertaken. In our guidance, we make it clear that young people should be encouraged and motivated and required to do that, but it should not result in exclusion from school if they dont. On the sharp point of the question, i dont agree with the ssta that young people should be excluded from school if they are not wearing Face Coverings, but i do think schools need to build up the cultural understanding and awareness of the importance of wearing Face Coverings as something that is done to protect all of the school population, staff and pupils alike. In that respect, encourage compliance with the policy approach because of the recognition amongst young people that this is the good and right thing to do. Jack foster from global. We are leaving that daily news briefing from the first minister Nicola Sturgeon and if you are in scotla nd Nicola Sturgeon and if you are in scotland and want to carry on watching, it is on bbc scotland. Almost 900,000 migrants arrived in greece back in 2015. Today, the open armed welcome and sympathy from many greeks to help has evaporated. Although numbers remain well below the exceptional levels seen five years ago people coming from turkey into greece over land and then through the balkans towards western europe has picked up once more. The eu 5 border force, frontex, says the balbaks route is now the most active migratory route, with more than 9000 people making the journey in 2020 up 70 per cent since this time last year. Many migrants start theirjourney in northern greece, before attempting take the difficult route into north macedonia, then serbia and on to bosnia, before reaching western europe. As part of our series the week that changed europe, our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet has been investigating and begins herjourney in the northern greek city of thessaloniki. The first of the day, the first airings beneath the burnt out carriages in this rail yard in greece and then they are rough, these young men are mostly from afghanistan, waiting to jump these young men are mostly from afghanistan, waiting tojump on a train andjump at afghanistan, waiting tojump on a train and jump at the chance to move further north into europe, a chance, they hope, of a better life. But, so, too, are the police. A game of cat and mouse at this stop. This morning, the police win. They often do. This 17 year old is from pakistan. How many times have you tried to jump on pakistan. How many times have you tried tojump on a train . Pakistan. How many times have you tried to jump on a train . Six, seven times. Every one of them, they try to hang on them, because the problem here of police and immigration. That is why the people leave this area. Their next destination, the Greece Border with north macedonia. Five yea rs border with north macedonia. Five years ago, thousands took the route through a tiny border village, a gateway to western europe through the balkans. Look at these fields now. This border is shut. But migrants are now showing up again in smaller but growing numbers. These men werejust pushed smaller but growing numbers. These men were just pushed back by Border Guards in north macedonia. We came across an afghan family waiting in the sunflowers, trying for a six time to sneak through. We try to go because the greece government say to go from greece. We cannot go back. This is our problem. So we try to go to other countries. The welcome has gone cold in this little village. In southern greece, on scenic islands like this, the mood is much the same. A camp built five years ago to house hundreds of migrants now sprawls across the hills. Thousands living in squalor, losing hope their cases will ever be settled. We were not allowed to enter. Residents filled for us. This person shows us their food. Bread gone mouldy. He fled syria with his family. There are fewer arrivals on greek shores now. Look at how close turkey is. It is in touching distance of greece, and they share a land border. This year when tensions rose between turkey and europe, turkey sent more migrants towards greece. It could do it again, but right now, it is the actions of greece also causing concern. These videos appear to show migrants being pulled out of greek waters by the greek coastguard, back towards turkey in breach of international law. We obtain this material from groups monitoring traffic in the aegean sea. The un said it had documented multiple cases. We are sending a signal that greece has borders and illegal crossings are not being tolerated and we do so in compliance with international law. Life for migrants gets tougher under the conservative government of greece. They insist greece will not bea greece. They insist greece will not be a gateway to europe again. We can ta ke be a gateway to europe again. We can take you to the United Arab Emirates. The first commercial flight emirates. The first commercial flight from israel to the uae has landed in abu dhabi. You can see it painted on the side of the aircraft, the word piece written in arabic, english and hebrew. It is a significant moment, a major step in normalising relations between israel and the uae after the announcement of the peace deal, announced two weeks ago. This flight has carried a delegation of israeli and us officials on board. Including among them, delegates including donald trump s son in law and Israels National Security adviser. A significant moment in the normalising of relations between United Arab Emirates and israel. British police say theyll do everything within their power to prosecute people who organise illegal raves. More than 3,000 people attended an unlicensed music event on the edge of the Brecon Beacons in wales this weekend, and two organisers have since been fined ten thousand pounds each. In norfolk, police were hit with bottles and cans as they shut down a rave in thetford forest. Shepherd James Rebanks has become something of a social media sensation by posting pictures of life on his Lake District farm. Hes now written a new book which is part love letter to the countryside, part manifesto to save traditional farming. Rory cellanjones has been to meet him. Come on whistles. Hes the lakeland sheep farmer who became something of a twitter sensation, posting pictures of his beloved herdwick flock in fair weather and foul. Im first and foremost a shepherd, and i take my sheep rearing really seriously. But, these days, James Rebanks is a man with a mission. His new book, english pastoral, is part love letter to his farm, part manifesto for a greener, less intensive approach to agriculture, with more emphasis on local produce. I think its good to have food produced locally to us because we can see it. We can see it, we canjudge it, we can comment on it and we can have more influence over the way things are done. It would be cheaper to get it from new zealand, though, wouldnt it . Theres more to life than cheaper, rory. You should know that. Theres cheaper ways to do radio than the bbc thats me told. And around the farm, he showed me what he was doing to practise what he preaches. Hey come on first, diversifying. The cows are a recent addition to the farm after years ofjust focusing on sheep. It was sort of regarded by everybody as progress, that you were stripping down to something, specialising in one thing. And now we know that wasnt particularly good for nature, and it hasnt been particularly good for our Bank Accounts in many ways, so were going back to a mix of animals. A couple of free range pigs have alsojoined the farm. On our farm, were just trying to get back to the old model, where theres a few pigs, theres a few cattle, theres the sheep and then, yeah, have a good diversified business model. Theyre a hit with his son isaac, but he knows where they are heading. Can i ask you a difficult question, isaac . Do you like bacon . Yes and you know that these pigs will end up as bacon. Yes. This isntjust sort of nostalgia or a bit of a lifestyle choice, fun. This is actually about putting back a farm to what it really can be, to drive as much nature, as much biodiversity as we can. James rebanks has been consulting environmentalists about planting trees and setting aside grazing pasture for wild flowers as he tries to make his land healthier. Its an amazing time to be a farmer. We can just take these measures from the environmentalists on the chin, we can listen very carefully to the things they know that we dont and we can rise to a lot of these challenges. Ijust think we need the British Public to believe in us and back us and support us. Natures telling us that if we give it a chance, it comes back really quickly. He argues much of the damage to the landscape is the result of farmers imitating american intensive methods, and he has one great fear a trade deal with the us that gives free access to their farm produce. If we sign on the dotted line of this American Free trade deal which is being proposed, were going to put all of these damaging systems into hyperdrives. Were going to do the greatest act of vandalism against the british countryside that theres been for many, many decades. But, for the most part, James Rebanks is an optimist. He believes family farms like his are showing us there is a better way of feeding ourselves without damaging the landscape. Rory cellan jones, bbc news, matterdale in cumbria. Now its time for a look at the weather with nick miller. We are seeing out the month with a cool day in august. I will show a view from North Yorkshire that was home to the coldest spot in england to start the day today where the temperature fell down 20. 6 celsius. High pressure keeping the uk dry, but weather systems gather in the atlantic, so we will see rain before the week done. The month is ending with high pressure, so it is dry across the uk. Making for a decent day if it is a bank holiday where you are. Not the warmest bank holiday with temperatures mainly around 15 17. And a reminder of how it looked last year. This was a view on the Late August Bank Holiday in yorkshire and these were the temperatures on the 26th of august. The hottest on record. London getting up to 33. And warmth in wales in the mid 20s. It is a cooler end to august and another colder one for the time of year over night tonight. Where there are clear spells. These are town and City Temperatures and rural areas will be colder. There will be rain through Northern Ireland that clears tomorrow morning. It will brighten up. Then mostly light and patchy rain feeding across scotland as the day goes on whereas england and wales will stay dry. Cloud around. The temperature a little bit higher. Now a southerly breeze. That wind gets stronger on wednesday with a deeper area of low pressure and these weather fronts and from those we will see wetter weather. Heavier bursts of rain through Northern Ireland, scotland, northern england, western england and wales and some through the east and south east that stay dry. Average wind speeds and gusts around the north and isles could be close to 50 mph at times. Temperatures mostly rooted into the teens. Thursday, the weatherfront taking rain south. A front clearing through and ahead of it may be some warmth to be had as temperatures creep into the low 20s, but most have a breezy day with sunny spells and showers. I keep talking about all of us is the first line of defence, like any line of defence, youre only as strong as your weakest link. Anytime one of us is weak link because we do something that allows the virus to spread, then we weaken our overall defences. I hope the message gets out there. Given todays figures and your new modelling that estimates levels of the virus in the scotland are higherthan levels of the virus in the scotland are higher than previously thought, is the effect of elimination strategy you have spoken of now unrealistic without a vaccine . And related to this, could the increased testing we have now be showing us that there is much more virus about than previously thought . Know, the elimination strategy remains important. The more you try to eliminate, and remember, it is not eradication. That is when it stops being a threat altogether, and u nfortu nately being a threat altogether, and unfortunately that will probably depend on an effective vaccine. But elimination is about trying to this is bbc news. The headlines at i. As schools prepare to return in england, labour call for for next years a level and gcse exams to be delayed to help pupils the government says its too soon to decide. Travel company tui launches an investigation into claims that some passengers were ignoring coronavirus guidance on a flight from a greek island linked to 16 covid i9 cases we realise many of the passengers hadnt really been educated about the wearing face masks. Many of them would wear them around their chins and underneath the noses. They were taking them off to talk to fellow passengers. After 64 million half price meals served in august the eat out to help out scheme ends today with many businesses