This is bbc news. Im lukwesa burak. The latest headlines. Britain is on the edge of losing control of coronavirus a stark warning from one leading scientist following a sharp rise in cases in the united kingdom. This is still a very widely distributed infection, its across the whole of the uk and by every measure, the numbers are going up. Boris johnson defends his plans to override parts of the brexit Withdrawal Agreement, saying the eu is looking to carve up and divide the uk. The first direct talks between afghanistan and the taliban take place in qatar. The afghans say they want to end the war. Including men, women, minorities and victims then both sides will be
the peace heroes. Sir Terence Conran the british designer who revolutionised retail and decor has died aged 88. And the new premier League Season begins with the champions liverpool hosting leeds united, who are back after an absence of 16 years. Good afternoon. A leading scientist has warned that the uk is on the edge of losing control of coronavirus as infections rise. Professor sir mark walport, a member of the governments sage advisory committee, said people needed to limit their socialising to ensure children can remain
at school and students at university. This report from our health correspondent, lauren moss. Its the final weekend before new restrictions are introduced across the uk. From monday, the rule of six will limit the number of people that we can socialise with. Yesterday, there were 3,500 new confirmed covid cases, and scientists have warned the rate of infection is doubling every seven to ten days. I think one would have to say that we are on the edge of losing control, and youve only got to look across the channel to see whats happening in france and whats happening in spain. The french on thursday had 9,800 new infections, and one can see that their hospital admissions, and indeed, their intensive care admissions are going up. The rate of infection is much lower than it was at the peak of the pandemic, when its thought there were 100,000 new infections a day. But government advisers believe the r number the number of people an infected
person can pass the virus on to is between 1 and 1. 2, which means it is growing. The latest data from Public Health england shows the largest increase in positive cases is among 20 to 39 year olds. But there has also been a steep rise in the number of people over the age of 80 testing positive, which is beginning to lead to an increase in hospital admissions. While people will not be able to socialise in groups of more than six from monday, in parts of the midlands the restrictions are going further. From tuesday, in birmingham, and nearby sandwell and solihull, 1. 5 Million People will be banned from mixing with other households. The onus is on all of us to do everything that we can to make sure that we are abiding by those rules. And those rules, of course, ensure that we can, with close family members and friends, socialise in appropriate circumstances and those rules also stress the vital importance of making sure that children are at school, that students can study at university and that we can work in a covid safe environment. In scotland, restrictions on two households mixing were expanded into lanarkshire at midnight. And there are still reported issues with testing in england, after dozens of people told the bbc they were struggling to get one. The department of health says capacity is being targeted at the hardest hit areas. As coronavirus cases rise, the country will walk a tightrope between containing it and maintaining a way of life. Lauren moss, bbc news. Residents in the uk city of birmingham and the neighbouring boroughs of sandwell and solihull are the latest to face tougher restrictions after a rise in coronavirus cases. 0ur news correspondent, kathryn stanczyszyn, has spent the morning in the city. 1. 6 Million People affected by these new restrictions coming in from tuesday. Thats as well as the rule of six from monday as well. Peoples reaction is that obviously,
the rates rising and something needs to be done about it, but there are differing views on whether the right things are being done. Public Health Officials here in the city say that, actually, transmission rate spread seems to be across the board. Its across all age groups as well, because we do keep hearing about younger people being responsible, but there is an issue here across age groups. Also, that they are starting to see hospital admissions and intensive care admissions which they havent been seeing at all. Still small numbers at the moment, but theres often a two or three week lag between the amount of infections a place is seeing and then the hospital admissions. So theyre very worried about that. We heard from the mayor of the West Midlands andy street the datas showing that a lot of that transmission is occurring within houses, within households, and that is one of the big problems. That is why these new guidelines, new laws, in fact, are being brought in from tuesday. It means households cannot go into each others homes. So you cant host people in your home and you cant go and visit people unless, of course, youre in
a support bubble with them if youre a single adult living alone and needing that practical and emotional support. What you can do, however, is go and see those people in a pub or a restaurant or a park. That was causing quite a bit of confusion yesterday. Its similar to places like in the north west they had a similar system. The reasoning behind that is not just the idea of people transmitting it in the home more prevalently, but also that pubs and restaurants are covid secure, that they have social distancing measures in place that people dont have in their own homes. Thats caused a few raised eyebrows, with some people saying it doesnt go far enough, others saying, actually, lets concentrate on smaller hotspots. In places like birmingham, its too broad an area to have a blanket restriction like this. But the Public Health advice is very clear that this needs to start coming down. Actually, it will be reviewed regularly. We could see even further restrictions if those numbers dont start going in the right direction. Some breaking news that we have received. You will remember the university of oxford trial. They are working in conjunction with astrazeneca, and the trial was paused earlier this week. The decision was made on sunday. We now understand that that phase three trial will resume. At the time, the pause was put in place because one of the participants had fallen ill. But we understand now following a statement that the phase three trial which is being conducted at the university of oxford for a covid 19 vaccination is going to be resuming. The Cabinet Office minister, michael gove, has insisted ministers had properly thought through the Withdrawal Agreement, despite plans to introduce legislation to override part of it. Brussels has threatened to take legal action if downing street presses ahead with its proposals. With me is our
political correspondent, helen catt. Michael gove did admit that things are quite complicated. So lets simplify things. What legislation is the government trying to push through . We were try to provide but we have to move back a couple of steps before that to explain. This relates to the Withdrawal Agreement that was signed and agreed between the eu and the uk last year, around this time last year, october. And in that, one of the key parts was coming up with a special arrangement for Northern Ireland, called the Northern Ireland protocol. And that was to make sure that there wasnt a ha rd was to make sure that there wasnt a hard border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland. It set out the sort of high level way that would work in terms of whose customs territory Northern Ireland would be in etc. That left a lot of details and decisions that still needed to be made, and they are being thrashed out by a joint committee of the uk and the eu that has been meeting for
most of this year. They have hit a Sticking Point on some of these issues. What borisjohnson has said todayis issues. What borisjohnson has said today is that he believes there is a serious misunderstanding between the two sides about what they thought they had signed up to. He is saying they had signed up to. He is saying the eu interpretation of it is extreme. He says that if they couldnt find another agreement, then what could end up happening is that you could see the eu putting ta riffs that you could see the eu putting tariffs on goods going between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which would effectively create a border down the irish sea. He is saying thatis down the irish sea. He is saying that is not acceptable, so he wants to create what he called a safety net by passing a uk law that would change the treaty that was already signed last year. It is very complicated. And the reason that is causing problems, or issues with conservative mps, is because if you do that and you use domestic law to change the international already agreed deal, they have admitted that
that will breach international law, and that has made some conservative mps worried about this. Tobias ellwood, the chair of the defence select committee, explained why. Its not changed my attitude in wanting to support the Prime Minister and get brexit over the line. Its been a battering journey since that referendum, since the nation committed itself to leave the European Union and we need to do that. The date of the 15th of october has been set, the next european summit. But in getting there, i dont want us to lose our way, to lose our reputation as a force for good, as an exemplar of upholding International Rule of law. And im afraid thats where i find myself not wishing to support this particular bill, because it does mean that we will be challenging, unilaterally, a treaty. And that goes against the principles of everything we stand for. And there are other senior conservatives who are worried about that too. One, bob neill, has come
forward and said he will try to amend that legislation when it goes before parliament. The eu are also cioss before parliament. The eu are also cross about this. They have said it would be gravely damaging of trust and could impact on the free trade deal that is to be negotiated. And could impact on the free trade dealthat is to be negotiated. Helen catt, thank you. The speed limit is being cut on four sections of motorway in england as part of a trial to reduce pollution levels. Speeds will be reduced from 70 Miles Per Hour to 60 in areas which have seen higher than recommended levels of nitrogen dioxide. The limit will be imposed twenty four hours a day and its impact will be reviewed in a years time. The m6, m1, m5 and the m602 will all be affected. Sir Terence Conran, the designer and retailer best known for creating habitat, has died at the age of 88. The design museum, which he founded in 1989, said he was a visionary who promoted the best of british design, culture and the arts around the world. 0ur arts correspondent, david
sillito looks back at his life. I believe in what i call easy living. Duvets, flatpack furniture, the wok. It wasnt just a shop. Sir Terence Conran introduced britain to a new way of living a design philosophy that had its roots in the festival of britain. Bank holiday, and the festival spirit pulls the crowd to the southbank exhibition. As a young industrial designer, he worked on the exhibits at this vision of the future. It had a powerful impact. I just saw the faces of people coming in in their long macintoshes with their sandwiches and their smiles. They hadnt seen anything cheerfulfor so long. Habitat. 13 years later, he opened habitat. Light, bright, modern, continental furniture for the swinging 60s. It was the beginning of an empire. Bhs, richard shops, mothercare, heals. He helped turn dowdy old hepworths into the high street titan next. He also had a chain of restaurants, and while the businesses had their ups and downs food, clothes, furniture he touched the lives of millions. And all of it came together with this his last major project, the design museum. A shrine to the ideas that had been his lifes work. This is a great day of my life, to see the place actually finished. The life and style of modern britain
owes much to sir Terence Conran. Its just over a week since schools in england reopened for the new term, but thereve been a number of instances where pupils have been sent home to prevent possible covid infection. Schools are required to isolate suspected cases and as a last resort close a school. 0ur education correspondent, elaine dunkley, has been to a school in darlington which had to send home a teacher and 20 pupils as a precaution. Who has got a new skill from being in lockdown . Its Distance Learning for primary schoolchildren. Today, mrs craggill is teaching year three by video link. She is currently self isolating, but lessons continue at heathfield primary school. Well, obviously it wasnt the way i wanted to start the year with the children. We wanted to be in school but circumstances happen, so its been really beneficial for myself and the children to be able to have some connection each day and just to connect with maths and english and see their faces and for them to see me. Children here are having recovery classes and lessons in mindfulness. Helping them to adjust after missing months of schooling is vital. So, i liked being back at school to be with my friends and have education. Like, really good education, like face to face. I like being back at school because i can see my friends and because if im struggling, the teacher can help me. I couldnt do that at home. The risks to children are low, but there are concerns about the virus spreading. Social distancing and hygiene is now an important part of the school day, but it puts pressure on budgets and time. 0bviously, paying out for more cleaning materials, but also theres some staffing costs as well. On a personal level, health and safety has just taken over my life as a head teacher at the moment, which is nobodys fault, thats the way with the situation that were in, but its frustrating because we want to be getting on with our usual dayjob of making sure that we do teaching and learning really well. If there is a suspected or confirmed case of coronavirus, schools have to get in touch with their local Public Health teams. Claire has two children at the school. Her son is still attending, but her daughters class has been sent home to self isolate. Shes asymptomatic, which is great. You know, im very happy about that, but should she get symptoms, my concern is that, because my older son is still in school, obviously, if my daughter gets symptoms and does get covid 19, then my son will get it and he will have moved it to year six. Can you write it for me there . The vast majority of children across the uk are now back in lessons, but learning to deal with disruption is the reality of being back at school in these times. Elaine dunkley, bbc
news in darlington. The headlines on bbc news. Britain is on the edge of losing control of coronavirus. A stark warning from one leading scientist following a sharp rise in cases. Boris johnson defends his plans to override parts of the brexit Withdrawal Agreement saying the eu is looking to carve up and divide the uk. The first direct talks between afghanistan and the taliban take place in qatar. The afghans say they want to end the war. The university of oxford have revealed they have restarted
Clinical Trials of the Coronavirus Vaccine its developing in partnership with Pharmaceutical Company astra zeneca. Here to tell us more is our correspondent greg mckenzie. Whats the latest . Yes, these Clinical Trials are being held at 0xford Clinical Trials are being held at oxford and many other sites across the uk and they were put on hold earlier in the week on wednesday because one of the participants of the trial became unwell. The university have said they wont confirm what the condition was, but have said it wasnt related to the specific trials into trying to find a vaccine for the coronavirus. So the trials will continue. They started shortly after the pandemic began, which was back in march. So it is the race to find a vaccine. It was halted as a precaution, just to check that everything was above
board and safety was being carried out, but they have said they are now continuing. They are happy and they say more than 18,000 people have already had the test samples of this potential vaccine and research will be ongoing to find a vaccine for the coronavirus. This is hugely significant because this is a global trial that is taking place, one of many vaccinations which are being developed. Thats right. There are many sites across the world. Brazil is one, where studies are taking place, and also the uk and other countries. It was all halted, so brazil, the uk and the us are all waiting to find a vaccine for this pandemic. The illness has brought most of the world to its knees in terms of the numbers of people contracting and dying around the world. So its a race to find the
vaccine, but safety is paramount. Thank you. Lets return to the rate of coronavirus transmission in the uk. As you saw in our report, professor sir mark walport, a member of the governments sage advisory committee, has warned the uk is in a dangerous position. He spoke to my colleague, shaun ley earlier. The numbers speak for themselves, so as your reporterjust said, the numbers are going up consistently in the uk at the moment. The imperial study suggested a doubling about every seven days and the numbers of patients on the 5th of september was just over 1,800, yesterday it was 3,500. If you look across the channel, then we can see the numbers in spain, we can see the numbers in france and france had, earlier in the week, just over 9,800 infections
and because they are a few weeks ahead, their numbers of patients going into intensive care is increasing, its increased by 93 people on wednesday. So, this is the time to act. And again, if you look at belgium, where they are managing to hold the numbers down, and they had a very severe initial phase, they are limiting numbers of social gatherings to about five people. But the bottom line is that this is still a very widely distributed infection, it has crossed the whole of the uk and by every measure, the numbers are going up at the moment. Thats a question you have raised, quite an important one, about the numbers now and why that could lead to significant increases in hospital admissions. There is an issue about the development of the disease, the virus in individuals. They dont immediately need hospital treatment, but they may need it. No, well, i mean there are two things to say. Firstly, as you say, the severe aspect of the infection developed in some people, in vulnerable people, in the second
week at least of the infection. So there is a lag. And the other thing of course is that the infection is mainly in younger populations at the moment, but the reality is that young people are in contact with old people and it is only a matter of time before it spreads into much more vulnerable populations and we know that there are social determinants of the disease as well, and so bame minority ethnic groups are also more vulnerable to this infection. Its very striking when you look at some of the figures for particular areas. We know that birmingham is now going to be subject to more severe restrictions than had been the case. In the seven days before that. In the seven days before, so the seven days of the previous week up till september the 1st, there had been 35. 9 per 100,000. That went up in the week
to september the 8th to the equivalent of 90. 3 per100,000. That is a dramatic rate of increase, isnt it . Well, thats right. This r number, the so called reproduction number, which is on average how many people a single individual infects, is going up and the imperial estimate, which is slightly higher than other estimates, is 1. 7. But that means that on average, every one person infects nearly two people and at a doubling rate of every seven days, you can see how the numbers double and you could go 3,000, 6,000, 12,000, 211,000 and so on. So, the numbers go up very quickly indeed. Thats why its important to nip it in the bud as quickly as one possibly can and that means that basically, we have to keep people apart from each other because the fewer close contacts, the fewer infections are transmitted. So if sage has found that 20 of people who have symptoms dont self isolate fully. Sorry, forgive me, 80 dont. So, i have that the wrong way round. So really, its much more severe and worrying. And this is not only people with symptoms, but their households and contacts as well. Right. So, if people are not observing those, what seemed a relatively simple thing to understand, that if you have symptoms, you have to self isolate, people arent doing that, if they are struggling to get tests, if theyre showing resistance to some of these rules like the rule of six thats going to be introduced next week, we are in serious trouble. Well, the answer is that it does depend on social solidarity and the study that were talking about, which was done a little while ago, asked people why it was they werent complying and there were a number of fairly clear messages that came out, so firstly, there is the issue of the lack of support to self isolate. So, people need food and so if they havent got someone
to help them get their food, thats a problem. There are financial issues, some people really need to work in order to survive financially. There are, i think, less satisfactory explanations like the perception that people arent worried about catching coronavirus and perceiving a smaller risk than it actually is. But then i think theres the whole question of absolute clarity of messaging. So, there are a number of factors and there are a number of things of the messaging, i think, that is why the rule of six is pretty straightforward and clear, i think. That was sir mark waugh port. Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Thats the grim statistic behind a special documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough. The loss in biodiversity has catastrophic consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, and reducing our ability to control the climate. 0ur chief environment correspondent, Justin Rowlatt reports. During his long career, Sir David Attenborough has seen first hand some of the most extraordinary natural phenomena. Theres more meaning and Mutual Understanding in exchanging a glance with the gorilla than any other animal i know. But he has also lived through the most profound changes in the Natural World in human history. His latest film contains the stunning images youd expect from an attenborough production, but this is not a celebration of the incredible diversity of life on earth. This is a warning. The Natural World is being destroyed more rapidly than ever before. Whats different is that it is happening simultaneously in the amazon,
in africa, in the arctic. Its happening not at one place and not with one group of organisms, but with all biodiversity, everywhere on the planet. For some animals, zoos like this, london zoo, are the last refuge. Many, like these asiatic lions, are at risk of extinction in the wild. The programme says of the eight million species on earth, 1 million are now at risk of dying out completely. Species have always come and gone its a key part of evolution. But scientists estimate extinction is now happening at 100 times the natural rate, and it is accelerating. The programme features the last two members of one iconic species. I am caretaker of the northern white rhinos. We only have two left on the planet. They are mother and daughter. We should not allow any other species to walk this tragic road of extinction. You dont have to go far to understand what is driving this crisis. We are all responsible. The rise in human population and our insatiable appetite for new things stamps an ever bigger footprint on the Natural World. But, says sir david, all is not lost. His aim is not to try to drag people down into the depths of despair, but to take people on a journey that makes them realise that if we understand what is driving these issues, we can also solve them. The coronavirus pandemic is a result of our encroachment into the Natural World. It originated in bats, and was first spread in a Chinese Market that sold wild animals forfood. But maybe the pandemic provides an opportunity for a rethink, the programme suggests. If we can reduce pollution, if we can stop wasting 40 of the food we produce, if we can cut the impact of the things we consume, then nature can begin to be restored. The programme revisits the gorilla sanctuary in rwanda. The government has increased protection and worked with local communities. The Programme Team finds some of the children and grandchildren of those gorillas David Attenborough met back in the 1970s. This is the daughter of poppy. The population is now thriving. I do truly believe that together, we can create a better future. I might not be here to see it, but if we make the right decisions at this critical moment, we can safeguard our planets ecosystems, its extraordinary biodiversity, and all its inhabitants. What happens next is up to every one of us. We will start off with the figures for wales, hundred and 64 cases recorded in the past 24 hour is. The total number of confirmed cases in wales is 19,000, 228. But no further deaths have been reported and the figures for scotland for the past 24 hour stand at 21 new confirmed cases. There have been cases registered in all of the areas of scotland. The comparison is 275 the
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