Hello and welcome. Israel is to become the first country in the world to impose a Second National lockdown. The tough new restrictions take effect on jewish new year on friday and will last at least three weeks. The countrys seen a rise in infections, with 4,000 new cases a day. Heres our News Reporter paul hawkins. Up until now, every country in the world has had to maintain that difficult balancing act of keeping the economy open on one hand and protecting public health. Israel is the first country to ditch that balancing act and in effect its saying, were going to bring in a National Lockdown because there are 4000 confirmed cases of coronavirus every day in israel at the moment. The Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, earlier at a press conference, explaining why they need to reimpose National Lockdown. Translation on thursday they waved a red flag. Health Ministry Executives and hospital managers have warned us that death rates are forcing the application of immediate measures. Some medical staff and hospitals are overwhelmed. And paul, the timing is pretty bad with a fewjewish National Holidays on the horizon . Definitely, in fact, the ultraorthadox housing minister Yaakov Litzman has resigned because he says this will severely impact jewish families trying to come together over the next couple of months, celebrating various jewish festivals, including of course yom kippur on september 27. However, the interior minister, aryeh deri who leads another ultraorthadox party within the coalition, he said he supports these measures, and in fact, anyone who breaks these measures is tantamount to murder. But the government very serious about bringing in this National Lockdown, its not something they would have wanted to do, the countrys currently in recession and the finance Ministry Says this National Lockdown is going to cost israel 1. 9 billion. Lets talk about covid i9 in a global sense because the latest figures from the who are pretty worrying. Yes, they dropped in the last two or three hours. A record one day increase in infections, 300,000 reported in a 24 hour period. Deaths rose by more than 5,500, bringing the global total to 900,000. Thats with the biggest increases in infections in india, the usa and brazil. In fact, more than half of the worlds 28 million confirmed cases are now in the americas so that is definitely the hot spot. Gavin yamey is professor of gobal health and Public Policy at Duke University in north carolina. Here he is explaining what factors led to the difficult decison to implement a blanket lockdown. It is true that no other country has had to reimpose a nationwide lockdown. Though of course weve seen targeted local lockdowns all over the world. Were going to see these on and off, i think, until we can get a vaccine and deploy it at scale, but what was going n in israel was a very, very rapid rise in the number of new daily cases. You heard just now from your reporter, 4,000 cases a day. Israel was at 2,000 a day by the end of august, so a very sudden rise. We have the High Holy Days coming up, friday will be the jewish new year, rosh hashanah, about ten days later yom kippur, the holiest day of the year and that is when people were intending to gather inside, which we know is a high risk, for extended periods of time. That is a risk of so called super spreading events. The last really important point is that israel had been contemplating a more targeted lockdown. Their coronavirus czar was trying to roll out something more targeted about a week ago, there was going to be a traffic light system, red and green. For cities that had bad outbreaks, they were going to have targeted lockdowns. For cities where there was less infection, the green cities, they could open up. They were also going to bring in the military to do more contact tracing, there was going to be a push on masks. That plan went nowhere. There was a lot of political opposition, particularly from the ultra orthodox who felt very stigmatised by it. When that plan failed, with cases rising, the High Holy Days coming, this very, very worrying trend of upward infections, there were few good options left on the table and other countries of course might face that risk if they see a similar sudden explosion. Hospital capacity is already nearfull, as you heard, what choices do you have left . What is it that pushes a country to move from targeted lockdown to National Lockdown . What is the line that countries need to cross to get there . Yes. So, in general, the questions around opening and closing your country are decided by a number of factors. Of course, the first is how much infection there is. Israel now has one of them highest infection rates in the world, that is in terms of new cases per million of the population. Thats a terrible sign. You always want to spare Hospital Capacity in case theres a surge of hospitalisations. You want to always be able to test widely, to isolate anyone who is infected, to do contact tracing, to find everyone exposed and make sure they are quarantined. You have to have excellent local data on where those outbreaks are. At least 30 people are confirmed to have died in wildfires that are engulfing the west coast of america. Millions of acres of land have been destroyed across the states of washington, california and oregon, from where our correspondent, Aleem Maqbool now reports. Nightmarish scenes have been facing those in oregon for days now. Weve met people whove one day fled from one fire only to be faced by another the next. Theyve sought refuge in trailer parks or temporary camps the pandemic complicating the effort to help them. If we have to rebuild, we have to rebuild. If we dont have to rebuild, we still have so much clean up to do because of the ash. Because when we left, like i said, the last time we pulled out, there was almost two inches. There have been around 100 fires burning along huge stretches of the west coast. The smoke caught on nasa images. They include some of the biggest wildfires ever recorded in california. San francisco, one of many cities thats disappeared under a shroud of smoke. Im trying to keep a positive attitude, but its scary. Its scary. One of those things, you just have to take into consideration that you have to be careful when youre breathing because you can be inhaling the smoke. Unprecedented fires have led to Desperate Measures to tackle them scrambling, even, to fly in fire engines. Oregons governor has called this a once in a generation event. Thousands of homes have been lost. Many dozens of people are reported missing. Those who survived have been left to salvage what they can of their belongings. Others guard their homes for fear of looting. Its been a rough couple of days, but its. I just didnt feel right, leaving home. Officials here say its the impact of Climate Change. The white house says its poorforest management. But some of these fires have now been burning for a full week. And the main concern for so many here is still how to safeguard their lives. Aleem maqbool, bbc news, near salem in oregon. A little earlier i spoke to rob mayeda, whos a meteorologist at kntv in san jose, california. I asked him to explain the types of weather conditions that are influencing the fires. As we have been watching in this fire season of 2020, nearly three million acres burned, by the way, which is more than one million acres more than the previous record in 2018, we have seen expanding drought and these hot, dry conditions and heat spells. And we have had an hour almost an entire month in the San Francisco bay area with unhealthy air for 27 straight days. Weve never seen anything like that before in recent times. And youll notice in this year alone, three of the top four largest fires in california history, which still burning even today, have happened just this year, and when you look at 2020, if it is just an asterisk and a more active fire season . When you go back over the last 20 years or so, back to 2000, you realise this list of top 20 fires, 85 have occurred in the last 20 years and we have also been seeing warmer temperatures and increasing droughts in that time frame. What does that tell us . What it tells us is when were looking at the changes to californias climate, what we have been seeing is some of the last five years or so since 2014, have included some of the warmest years. In the same time frame, since 2000, we have not only seen more drought, but at times, more intense drought, in 2014 2017. So its notjust were seeing more fires, its also the fire behaviour. Like were seeing now in the creek fire and the north complex fire in california and also the car fire in 2018, these larger pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus type wildfires that have the ability to create their own weather, again, gather up a lot more acreage in a short amount of time and produce these foreign tornadoes, which we have been seeing a lot more of in some of these larger fires. This is something, by the way, the Fourth Annual Climate Assessment for california predicted could happen within the next 50 years. These are some of the things we would expect to see happen as temperatures continue to 100 continues to get more extensive. And, rob, looking at the Weather Forecast in the coming days, i know you are going to be looking at that very closely. What are we expecting . Are we expecting some rainfall at least . Yeah, in the Pacific North west theres a chance we might see a little bit of rain, but unfortunately what typically happens in september is we get is months where we get short chances of rain followed by a more offshore wind events. And as bad as the statistics look right there, the top three and four california wildfires, the peak fire season doesnt happen until october, so really, its the next four to six weeks in a typical year, as we see fires an increase with those dry offshore winds picking up. Alexander lu kashenko is Alexander Lukashenko is due in russia today for talks with putin. It will be their first face to face meeting since mass protests broke out in belarus. More than 400 people were detained in belarus during demonstrations in minsk. From there, jonah fisher reports. Chanting. With each passing week, belarus protesters add something new to their long list of grievances. What began as a response to a disputed election now encompasses the Police Crackdown that followed, and the targeting of opposition politicians. This week, one of them, maria kolesnikova, was being celebrated, after she tore up her passport to stop herself being sent into exile. Maria kolesnikova is a hero. I think we need to build a monument after we win this. Do you think this will end with president lukashenko leaving . I think yes. I dont know. Its not sprint, its marathon. President lukashenko was no doubt hoping that, by detaining key opposition leaders, that these protests would run out of steam. If that was the case, he was wrong. Car horns toot. This is the fifth sunday in a row that the centre of minsk has seen a huge display of people power. On the fringes of the march, the violence continued. President lukashenkos Security Forces detained at least 400 people today, hunting down those in smaller groups. Women, once considered off limits, are now being manhandled and dragged away, too. Yevgeniya, a mother of two, was briefly detained on saturday. All the men are very frightened, but women, they werent treated like this until yesterday. Now were trying to, i dont know, to regain our power. I dont know what to do now. Having upped the violence but failed to stop the protests, president lukashenko heads to russia tomorrow. The key question, what moscow will demand in return for continuing to back belarus unpopular leader. Jonah fisher, bbc news, minsk. Microsoft says its offer to buy the us arm of the video sharing platform, tiktok, has been rejected. It was turned down by tiktoks chinese parent company, byte da nce. President trump had urged tiktok to sell its american operations or risk being banned for National Security reasons. Tiktok denies that user data from the app could end up in the hands of the chinese government, and has mounted a legal challenge. A new era has begun in mens tennis. Dominic team has etched his name on the us open trophy, securing his place in the history books with his first grand slam title. Dominic thiem he mounted a pic come back against Alexander Zverev after a five set blockbuster. Heres our News Reporter Tanya Dendrinos to talk us through that match. Tanya, an absolutely amazing match. It was a tennis lovers dream, the opening two sets, zverevjust came out firing, the 23 year old looking like he was gonna do it all and three and just when we began to question whether Dominic Thiem had it in him, was he injured, he started this comeback in the third and then gained that swing of momentum in the fourth, taking it all the way to a fifth and then it went down to a tie break which is exceptional because in the us open, theres never been a fifth set final decided by tie break, so really remarkable, and also Dominic Thiem coming back after two sets down and that is the first time a man has won the us open title in the open area after being two sets down. And its funny, isnt it, because he has won this us grand slam open, but we didnt get the big names we normally get, we didnt have djokovic or federer or nadal or murray, no one was there, really, the historic old guys who used to win all the grand slams. Thats exactly right, its a strange year, coronavirus, theres not been a crowd, everything has looked different but we were missing two of those big three, nadal and federer from the outset, obviously, djokovic making that shock exit early on and it really opened the door for this next generation of players. Now, thiem and zverev were already knocking at the door, thiem being world number three, zverev, world number seven, but this reallyjust opens up that new era and you just wonder whether this is the changing of the tide and certainly i think names well continue to see as those big three start to make their moves towards retirement. And Dominic Thiem, remind me where hes from . Hes from austria and hes the second only austrian to have won a grand slam title, so no doubt big celebrations there, and it was lovely to hear them both speak at the end, theyre so fond of each other and so friendly. So, a really beautiful match and world class tennis. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come well get the latest on brexit Withdrawal Agreement. Stay with us. George w bush freedom itself was attacked this morning, and freedom will be defended. The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible. Bishop tutu now becomes spiritual leader of 100,000 anglicans here, of the blacks in soweto township, as well as the whites in their rich suburbs. We say to you today in a loud and a clear voice, enough of blood and tears. Enough translation the difficult decision we reached together was one that required great and exceptional courage. Its an exodus of up to 60,000 people, caused by the uneven pace of political change in eastern europe. Iam free this is bbc world news. And these are the latest headlines the who has reported a record one day increase in global coronavirus cases, as israel becomes the first country to reimpose a nationwide lockdown. More than 20,000 firefighters are now tackling wildfires that have killed at least 30 people on the west coast of america. Well, a little earlier i spoke to scott stephens, professor of fire science at the university of berkeley. I asked him what he made of the severity of the current wild fires sweeping throughthe west coast. They have been terrible. Here in california we had that Lightning Storm early last month, and it is unprecedented you have that many ignitions. 320 in 24 hours. And california, such an overwhelming number of fires and retainers levels that you can never really catch them, so you have been cut up the whole time. No doubt Climate Change isa time. No doubt Climate Change is a piece of this as well, we are getting higher damages, more variability in weather, we also have a problem in the ecosystem, particularly artists. What you think the next step is now . Obviously this is an issue and people are talking about this possibly being an issue for years to come. What steps need to be taken to be able to avoid this level of destruction . Thats a good one, because you know, i think it is two fundamental issues the first is getting people more prepared forfire in their communities. We just have to do better at getting people ready for their own homes, clearance of vegetation, plans to basically help one another, plans to do Vegetation Management around their communities, a real wholesale connection to that. Because it continues to haunt us. People are somewhat connected but we need to do more. A second piece is fundamentally difficult problem. If youre talking about forests, are talking about forests, are talking about restoration, prescribed burnings, oak woodlands, but really, the vegetation and preparedness of the people for the fire. What do you think the west coast of america could learn from what has happened in australia, and the way they have dealt with their huge recent fires . Australia also has had so much impact from Climate Change on fire, but one thing they do much better than here in america is they really get people prepared for fire here in america is they really get people prepared forfire in their communities better. They have Community Fire brigades, they have the ability to have neighbours come together and facilitate workshops, get people working together for fuel management, better construction materials, so they do it much more systematically versus meaty volunteer groups 01 versus meaty volunteer groups or other ideas. We have got to do that in the west coast. We have to get people more prepared for the fire seasons. The greek Prime Minister says hell build a permanent Migrant Reception Centre on the island of lesbos to replace the overcrowded refugee camp. Bethany bell has this report. Another night sleeping on the streets. Migrants and refugees from the burnt out camp at moria lie among their few possessions. Crowded together in squalid conditions. With little or no running water, its a struggle to keep clean. Their fears about the spread of coronavirus. The authorities are putting up new tents to house at least some of the migrants. Weve seen small groups of people entering the new camp. There have been women with little babies, children and the vulnerable. For them, it may be a relief after several nights of sleeping rough. But many migrants and refugees say they dont want a new camp. They want to leave lesbos altogether. Now you can see there are some new camps there. For this man, its a question of freedom. But i think there is no good for this second moria. And in moria, here is better than there, because there is like a prison, that people cant go out from there. And i think here is more better. And, as you can see, all the disabled people and Vulnerable People are in the street. Pregnant women. Greeces migration minister says they want to make sure everyone has food, water and shelter. Translation we think that within next few days, everyone will enter the new camp. Some people have the impression that if they stay outside the camp they leave and consequently will go to mainland greece or other eu countries. Whatever transfers happen, when they happen, and in whatever way they have to happen, they will be done in an organised and smooth manner, particularly for those who are seeking asylum. The locals want them to leave, too. They say the greek government and europe have abandoned them. But without eu wide agreement on these migrants, solutions remain elusive. Bethany bell, bbc news, lesbos. The ukjustice secretary has defended British Government plans to potentially override elements of the brexit Withdrawal Agreement signed with the european union. Heres vicki young. A lots changed since brexit day. Crowds can no longer gather, but the arguments have reignited since the government announced it would pass a law overriding parts of the legally binding treaty which laid out the terms of our departure. In a sign of how tense things have become, the eus chief negotiator took to twitter. Michel barnier said Boris Johnson had agreed a delicate compromise to protect peace and stability on the island of ireland. It means Northern Ireland will follow some eu rules. His british counterpart, lord frost, hit back, complaining that the eus position meant it would be automatically illegal for Northern Ireland to import Food Products from other parts of the uk. Government ministers say they need an insurance policy to make sure that doesnt happen. We hope very much never to have to use this. Its a break the glass in emergency provision, if we need it. But theyre not denying that giving uk ministers the power to change the Withdrawal Agreement breaks International Law. How could anyjustice secretary stand by and let that happen . Is that the moment that Robert Buckland resigns from the government, if we break International Law itself . If i see the rule of law being broken in a way that i find unacceptable. Ah. Then of course i will go. We are not at that stage. Four years ago, these two former Prime Ministers campaigned against brexit. Today, sirjohn major and tony blairjoined forces again, writing in the sunday times that the governments action was irresponsible and questioned the very integrity of our nation. Irelands foreign minister agrees. The British Government, in my view, is behaving in an extraordinary way, and british people need to know that, because, outside of britain, where this issue is being discussed now, the reputation of the uk and britain as a trusted negotiating partner on important issues like this is being damaged in a very serious way. Tomorrow, the action returns to parliament. Several conservative mps have said they cant support a bill that breaks the law. That is it from me. Thanks for watching. Bye bye. Hello there. The weather is set to get quite a bit hotter across england and wales for the next day or two, but taking centre stage more recently has been this weather front stretching thousands of miles out into the atlantic. And thats been bringing some very heavy rain, some large rainfall totals building in across the highlands. Weve had over 140mm of rain recorded, bringing reports of some localised flooding. And weve had this landslide effect at the a83, at the rest and be thankful. Looks like that route is going to be out of action for a little while. Now, looking at the weather picture at the moment, weve still got some of the rain coming down in the highlands. The rain eventually is going to turn a little bit lighter and patchier, but nevertheless some spots of rain still around for the highlands, the hebrides, Orkney Islands and shetland as we start the day on monday. Further south, a lot of drier weather. Could be a few mist and fog patches in some of our deeper River Valleys in england and wales to start the day. Now looking at the first couple of days of the week, as i say, things are set to get quite a bit warmer, and the reason for that is this area of High Pressure is going to be pushing a little bit further eastwards. As it does that, we start to get southerly winds. Now, temperatures over the last few days reached the mid 30s in parts of central france, and essentially its that warm air wafting across england and wales. It really is england and wales that will see the highest temperatures. Scotland and Northern Ireland, a fair bit of cloud around, maybe a few patches of rain in the far north west later in the day. Temperatures about 19 20 degrees. The heat across eastern england, particularly south east england and around the Greater London area, temperatures will probably reach 30 degrees somewhere as we head through the afternoon. Now it looks like being another very warm day. The heats on again for england and wales on tuesday. Further north and west, again, the cloud could thicken to give an odd patch of rain, maybe an odd shower for wales and western england. For most here, it should stay dry. And again those temperatures up to 29, maybe 30 degrees in the hottest areas. There will, though, be a significant change in the weather as we head from tuesday into wednesday, and the reason for that change, with much cooler weather on the way, is down to this area of High Pressure that develops to our north. What thats going to do is its going to send much cooler north to northeasterly winds down the north sea, and that will really hammer the temperatures. Now, on wednesday, there will still be a lot of drier weather around, still with some sunshine, maybe a few isolated light showers here and there. But look at the change in temperatures, down to about six, maybe seven degrees for some in the north east, and eventually those cooler conditions will reach the far south west, too. This is bbc news, the headlines the World Health Organization has reported a record one day increase in global coronavirus cases. It comes as israel has become the first country to re impose a nationwide lockdown, as it battles a surge in cases of 4,000 a day. The three week lockdown begins on friday. More than 20,000 firefighters are now tackling wildfires on the west coast of america. Millions of acres of land has been destroyed across three states washington, california and oregon. At least thirty people have been killed in the blazes and dozens more are reported as missing. Dominic thiem has etched his name on the us open trophy, securing his place in the history books with his first grand slam title. The austrian denied world number 7, Alexander Zverev of germany, mounting a stunning comeback after an epic, five set blockbuster
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