kids back to school safely but without government advice, i see thatis without government advice, i see that is tough to do. equally the government has to act on what is the current best science and advice at the time. the reality might be that schools have to remain fairly flexible even after term starts and they need to be able to react to things as they develop. martin, we don't have the full story but it says these teachers have demanded a plan b for local covid—i9 spikes, thatis plan b for local covid—i9 spikes, that is the concern. there are still concerns even though there are many people who obviously want their kids backin people who obviously want their kids back in school. i suppose so. the message in general is positive because it does seem there have been a lot of obstacles that teachers have tried to place in some cases, despite many of them working hard and trying to get kids educated. but there do seem to be quite a lot of obstacles being placed. head teachers have senior positions, they are well paid, some of them perhaps wa nt to are well paid, some of them perhaps want to try to make sure that it happens and it's good to see in this case they are saying it will be the case. of course things might change, there might be severe outbreaks in particular areas, but they can only deal with that when it comes. you had to wait and see but in broad terms, going back to what you have been talking about and younger children, it does seem that broadly for children it is a safe thing to do to go back to school, teachers slightly different, some may have underlying health conditions that needs to be protected. broadly speaking it should be safe for children to go back to school and it's good to see the headline that teachers are ready to deliver that. bring us onto the next, one thing that will make life easier for eve ryo ne that will make life easier for everyone is when we finally get a vaccine. the front page of the new york times in the race for vaccines first might not be best. dozens of candidates to defeat coronavirus may form a second way. seven months into the pandemic, more than 30 vaccines advancing. a lot of groups are not placing bets on what the vaccine might be. tell us more about this story and what it means in terms of finding a vaccine, barbara. as you say, the approach was the idea that there would be a vaccine and once that was found the pandemic was over. but as any scientist could have told us, that will not be the case because vaccines take a long time to develop. we have seen amazing breakthroughs, lots of those vaccines will be further down the road than say a year ago, but equally the first rounds of vaccines, they are likely to be not fully effective, they are likely to be less effective in older people than younger people which is particularly unhelpful in this disease. there might be problems with uptake as well. obviously if there is some lack of confidence in certain vaccines, it is all a claudia picture that we might have liked to have a few months ago. barbara, had to stop you there but we will be back with another edition of the papers later. that's it for the papers. we will be back injust over half an hour to look at more of the stories covered by the papers. good evening. the manchester united and england defender harry maguire has spoken for the first time about being found guilty of assaulting police and bribery — on the greek island of mykonos. in an exclusive interview with the bbc, he says he didn't believe the men involved were police and feared for his life. the officers were in plain clothes and he says he thought he was being kidnapped. maguire also denies offering money to get himself out ofjail and says he has nothing to apologise for, though he regrets putting his club and fans through this. he's been talking to our sports editor, dan roan: since he left a greek court house on saturday, harry maguire's not been seen or heard. two days ago, in his absence, he was found guilty of assaulting police and handed a suspended sentence after a night out on mykonos went wrong. but finally, the united and england star has broken his silence, telling me what it was like to spend two nights in custody. it was horrible. it's not something i ever want to do again. i don't wish it on anybody. it's the first time i've ever been inside a prison. who do you owe an apology to? i don't feel like i owe an apology to anybody. an apology‘s something when you've done something wrong. do i regret...i regret being in the situation. obviously, the situation has made it difficult, i play for one of the biggest clubs in the world, so i regret putting the fans and the club through this. do you accept that you were, in a way, asking for trouble, being in that place that night? no. i think it could have happened anywhere. i love greece. maguire says trouble began when he suspected his sister, daisy, had been attacked by two strangers. these two men approached my little sister. they said... asked her where she was from, she responded, and then my fiance, fern, saw my little sister's eyes like go into the back of her head. and... she ran over, and she was fainting, she was in and out of consciousness. and... sorry. maguire says he and his friends tried to get to hospital but were instead taken to a police station, where, they claim, outside they were attacked by plainclothed officers. my initial thought was, i thought we were getting kidnapped. we got down on our knees, we put our hands in the air. and then theyjust started hitting us. they were hitting my legs, saying my career‘s over, "no more "football, you won't play again." and at this point, i thought there's no chance these are police or i don't know who they are, so i tried to run away. i was in that much of a panic, fear, scared for my life. you feared for your life, did you? yeah, for sure, all the way through it. you said, "do you know who i am? "i play for man united, i'm very rich, i can pay you, let us go." they were the quotes attributed to you. did you try and bribe the police? no, for sure. as soon as i seen that statement, it's just ridiculous. despite everything you've said, the fact remains, sadly, that he were found guilty. how can you remain captain of one of the biggest clubs in the world? it's a massive privilege to play for the club, never mind to be the captain. obviously, it's not my decision to make. i have great faith in the greek law. the retrial will give us more time to prepare, gather the evidence, allow witnesses into the court, and i'm really confident that the truth will be told and come out. next to the us where the nba says its hopeful to resume games either on friday or saturday following wednesday's walkout by players in protest at the shooting of jacob blake, an unarmed black man who was shot in the back by police in wisconsin on sunday. for a second consecutive night, all playoff games are off, which means denver at utah and the clippers at dallas will have to be re—arranged. and also game i of the eastern conference semi—final series between boston celtics and the reigning champions toronto raptors. standing in solidarity.... there've also been postponements in the women's nba, major league baseball and major league soccer whilst organisers of the us open warm up event at flushing meadows cancelled all tennis on thursday to take what they call a collective stance against racial inequality and social injustice. that came after two time grand slam champion naomi osaka said she was going to protest by not playing her semifinal in new york. but she's now thanked the organisers for their support in postponing all matches until friday and says she will take her place in the last four against belgium's elise mertens. they're playing that western and southern 0pen tournament in preparation for the us open which starts on monday. earlier the draw was made for the opening round. novak djokovic will face bosnia's damir dzumhur, whilst the women's top seed — karolina pliskova — plays anhelina kalinina from ukraine. but adding their names to the list of players who are not going to be there are the bryan brothers. the most successful men's doubles team of all time have announced their retirement with immediate effect. they were going to bow out after the tournament — but say they're doing it now because there won't be any fans at flushing meadows and it won't be the same. full details of the draw on the bbc sport website. and that's all the sport for now. good evening. torrential rain has caused some localised flooding across some parts of the uk. an impressive picture from this weather watcher in bournemouth, a storm cloud approaching, we saw some torrential rain drifting its way eastwards and there is some more heavy rain in the forecast for tomorrow, turning windy for a time as well over the next couple of days but the weekend should be drier for most with some rather cool days and some decidedly chilly nights for the end of august. so, still some outbreaks of pretty heavy rain continuing as we head through this evening into tonight, this rain just pivoting around an area of low pressure. the winds starting to pick up across north—western areas as temperatures overnight generally between 10—13 degrees. so, into tomorrow, three slices of weather really. we've got this band of rain here across northern england that will sink down into midlands and parts of wales. to the south of that, yes, we see some sunny spells but a scattering of heavy thundery showers breaking out into the afternoon. again, these could give some localised flooding. further north not many showers, particularly across scotland and northern ireland. a fair amount of dry weather into the afternoon with some sunny spells but the winds picking up all the while particularly strong and gusty for some eastern coastal counties and with the strength of the wind, it is not going to feel too impressive, 14—19 degrees. now, as we head through friday night, the area of low pressure responsible for all that wet weather will start to slide away eastwards. high pressure trying to build in from the west but the squeeze between the two will bring us brisk northerly winds tapping into some unusually cold air for the time of year, and talking of the wind it'll still be very windy in eastern areas particularly on saturday morning, gusts of 50 mph or so. the wind slowly easing through the day and things drying up from the west as well with some spells of sunshine but it won't help the temperatures very much, 13—18 degrees at best. as we head through saturday night, if you're camping this weekend or out and about for any other reason, look at your overnight temperatures — two, three, four degrees — very unusual for this time of year. so, a cold start to sunday morning but it's looking like a dry day for most of us. monday should be fine for most as well. it's a bank holiday for many places, of course. although across western parts of the uk, particularly northern ireland, we could see a little bit of rain arriving later in the day. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. cutting its way across america's states — hurricane laura slams into the louisiana coast, the biggest such storm to hit the state in over 100 years. us sport takes a stand over race and police brutality — with players boycotting basketball, baseball, soccer and tennis in protest at the shooting of jacob blake. getting ready for the grand finale. president trump is to take the stage at the white house,

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