a problem with the thousands of students having to be locked down in new universities in manchester edinburgh and glasgow amongst others and not to be wise after the event but it does seem predictable but you take tens of thousands of 18 year olds living away from home for the 1st time they're going to have little time for social distancing this could have been avoided couldn't it well certainly i think it's predictable whether it's avoidable or not is that it is a different issue and i think that the issue is whether or not you will you can balance the loss that they get cation that would come with closing our universities at this stage with the. the harm would be done to students from both from the virus and from not attending education so certainly it was predictable and i think many people were expecting there to be a fairly substantial number of cases the most universities we've seen that already both in america and elsewhere where in countries where universities went back for the u.k. . what is the alternative the alternative closed not open the universities against again this. damaging

when we went into lockdown in march, i was working in a hotel in edinburgh city centre. it had been quite a scary lead up to it. we were furloughed, every single one of us, a few carried on working and then we got the load also after doing security shifts for a few weeks. and the next thing we heard was that all members of staff were being made redundant or were at risk of redundancy, myself being a member of redundancy, myself being a member of thejunior of redundancy, myself being a member of the junior management team, i was not at risk. we went through that ground and got help from the union andi ground and got help from the union and i supported colleagues as i could and we very much came together. and then we thought that would be the end of it, we thought we would be opening up injuly and august, similar to other hotels, and all of a sudden we got notice to say the hotel would not be opening until next march at the earliest! we were all being made redundant. we have all being made redundant. we have alljust all being made redundant. we have all just lost our all b

the highest temperature in the land yesterday was in edinburgh at 17.3. today we are looking at 10 degrees today. london should squeeze out a 17 somewhere. as we head through the evening and overnight, there will be some clear skies, also watching this line of showers developing in the south—west, pushing across southern areas in the direction of east anglia. at the same time our next atla ntic anglia. at the same time our next atlantic front comes our way introducing this rain. temperature wise it will be colder than it has been for the past few nights. in london hanging on to milder conditions. during the course of tomorrow our weather fronts continue tomorrow our weather fronts continue to journey steadily towards the east, weakening all the time. this array of isobars behind them tell you we are looking at blustery conditions and also some blustery showers. we say goodbye to the dregs of the showers from overnight in the south—east. then we see this rain advance bringing in cloud. the rain turning patchy as it pushes towards the south east. behind

their infrastructure by 2027 ericsson says it will provide connectivity for bt as customers in london edinburgh belfast and cardiff dealing with roughly half of the company's 5 g. traffic now nokia eriksson's biggest rival signed a deal with bt in september which made the finnish company bts largest partner in the infrastructure build out carrier started to roll out 5 g. infrastructure in 2019 but coverage areas throughout the west are mostly in major metropolitan areas at this time the build out is expected to gain some steam with the release of apple's new 5 g. enabled i phone 12. the extradition hearing for a while weighs chief financial officer continued on wednesday the defense for men 10 is arguing against her arrest by canadian authorities meg was arrested at vancouver international airport in december of 28 teen while on a layover bound for mexico united states charged her with bank fraud for allegedly misleading h.s.b.c. . see about weiwei technologies business dealings in iran causing the bank to break u.s. sanctions so joining us now to discuss the latest is boom but coach and invest

2021st century matters and national hero people thought they could relate to him i mean he grew up in edinburgh tell. the navy he was a war he came up the hard way and you can play rough tough role brilliantly. connery lived the highs and lows of the bond character profiting from his popularity and later scrutinized for some of calling his character his 60 attitude towards women it wasn't helped when connery told american journalist barbara walters women sometimes deserve to be slapped and his attitude to women certainly and i think you are trail of james bond was a sense of. sudden istic dinosaur to quote judi dench as a mean one of the such films later in life he supported the scottish national party and publicly advocated for the scottish independence we have waited. nearly 300 years my hope is that it will evolve with dignity and integrity and that it will truly reflect. the new voice of scotland. is enduring contribution to scotland culture and film transformed him into a national hero connery had tried to distance himself from the role that made him famous but for millions of fans around

he was born poor in edinburgh in 1930 and worked delivering milk from age 9 connery joined the navy at 16 he lasted 3 years before being discharged with an ulcer. his 1st acting roles came via bodybuilding and he was relatively unknown when he was cast in dr no and his phenomenal rise to success began. the i am but by $971.00 sean connery was looking to expand his range the $986.00 mystery the name of the rose was a hit in europe but u.s. audiences weren't keen on seeing connery as a 14th century monk. which you feel nauseous we really want to play just libraries in all just. finally in 1908 an oscar for best supporting actor in the untouchables what he would like to talk to you. isn't that just like a walk. and his role in steven spielberg's indiana jones and the last crusade was a huge success. connery played harrison ford's father although in real life he was only 12 years older than his on screen son. at the age of 69 came what he described as the proudest day of his life although a fervent scottish nationalist sean connery was awarded a knighthood by queen elizabeth the 2nd for se

screen presence about it recognizable but people thought they could relate to him i mean he grew up in edinburgh temperament he was in the navy he was a model he came up the hard way and you could play rough tough bro brilliantly. it is good to have you with a solo adrian figured here in doha the headlines and i was there a rescue is in turkey assessing for earthquake survivors in the city of izmir at least 28 people have died there turkey's president wrote a typo to one is due to arrive in the coming hours. greece's prime minister has traveled to the out of of some else where 2 people died in the earthquake he toured the damage and expressed his condolences to the victims' families there are reports of a shooting in france an orthodox priest is reported to have been seriously injured in the city of leone the attacker has reportedly fled the scene france's interior minister has confirmed that a serious incident is on the way that. police in france have reported the arrest of a 3rd suspect linked to thursday's knife attack in nice 3 people were killed in the attack at a church thousands of protes

screen presence of not unrecognizable but people thought they could relate to him i mean he grew up in edinburgh temperament he was in the navy. he came up the hard way and you could play rough tough bro brilliantly. it is good said he with a solo adrian figured here in doha the headlines announces they are a rescuers in turkey assessing for earthquake survivors in the city of izmir at least.

a problem with the thousands of students having to be locked down in new universities in manchester edinburgh and glasgow amongst others and not to be wise after the event but it does seem predictable that you take tens of thousands of 18 year olds living away from home for the 1st time they're going to have little time for social distancing this could have been avoided couldn't it well certainly i think it's predictable whether it's avoidable or not is that it is a different issue and i think that the issue is whether or not you will you can balance the loss that they get cation that would come with closing our universities at this stage with the. the harm would be done to students from both from the virus and from not attending education so certainly it was predictable and i think many people were expecting there to be a fairly substantial number of cases amongst universities we've seen that already both in america and elsewhere where in countries where universities went back for the u.k. . what is the alternative the alternative closed not open the universities against the game this. damag

manchester tonight feel that they have been abandoned by this government and that my constituents in edinburgh west and people up and down this country will be wondering if they will be abandoned next? let's head up to manchester with afzal khan. afzal khan. thank you mr speaker. it is impossible to describe today's events without using unparliamentary language. but, out of deference to you, i will settle for "a complete shambles". today, this government made a choice not to protect the poorest people in greater manchester through the punishing reality of the winter to come. the government has put forward the same proposals in greater manchester as was agreed in lancashire, as was agreed in liverpool and unfortunately, the mayor of greater manchester walked away from the table but the offer is there and i urge all of the local leaders including the honourable gentlemen to take forward the offer that's there to resolve this and for us all to work together for the benefit of the people of manchester. well, the mid—day deadline set by the government for local politicians in greater manchester t

a problem with the thousands of students having to be locked down in new universities in manchester edinburgh and glasgow amongst others and not to be wise after the event but it does seem predictable that you take tens of thousands of 18 year olds living away from home for the 1st time they're going to have little time for social distancing this could have been avoided couldn't it well certainly i think it's predictable whether it's avoidable or not is that it is a different issue and i think that the issue is whether or not you will you can balance the loss that they get cation that would come with closing our universities at this stage with the. the harm would be done to the students from both from the virus and from not attending education so certainly it was predictable and i think many people were expecting there to be a fairly substantial number of cases amongst universities we've seen that already both in america and elsewhere where in countries where universities went back for the u.k. . what is the alternative the alternative closed not open the universities event again this. damagi

street questions about it recognizable people thought they could relate to him i mean he grew up in edinburgh tell me. in the navy he was above all he came up the hard way and you can play rough tough role brilliantly. my. this is al jazeera these are the headlines rescuers in turkey are searching for earth quake survivors in the city of is mere magnitude 7 quake on the aegean sea brought down buildings and trickled tied.

who lost her brother to police brutality into 1012 in any delhi research fellow at the university of edinburgh center for african studies back in and there to nigeria researcher for human rights watch war welcome to all of you. or be as you do you trust the government what it says that it is going to or that it has indeed scrapped sauce no i don't this is the flights or the feet time that the government is crap incest i said earlier this year last year not disappear the vice president himself man says and yes it is do or i do not trust the government to see their scripts that's only trust them when the source of the shelves or now the rooms on our streets leave the streets and a community to use them for now on is just talks and no actions i do not need to go the night so much in this time is different in the sense that the momentum is building up against police brutality do you think that this is something that could be conducive to a dramatic change in nigeria yes do you think so i think come. seem different this time around because they are different too once we see the youth of russia to d

this was the scene for a weather watcher in edinburgh. contrast that with the blue skies and sunshine in eastbourne in east sussex. and as we go through the rest of the afternoon, while we keep that mix, serve dry weather, some sunshine, but also some outbreaks of rain drifting across east anglia and the southeast. this pulse of wet weather sliding through southern scotland, northern england, perhaps getting down into wales and the odd shower elsewhere, quite windy, particularly across the northern half of the uk. and these are the temperatures as we head into the evening, seven o‘clock — nine, ten, 11, 12 degrees. now, as we head through the evening and into the night, we continue to see these different areas of wet weather rotating around an area of low pressure. so some rain through southern scotland, northern england, some showers moving across the midlands, southern england and wales. temperatures generally between five and seven degrees, although sheltered glens in northern scotland could get very close to freezing. so for tomor

i was meant to be at edinburgh fringe festival. i was meant to produce a show. we kind of had, like, a bit of hope just at the start of lockdown, "oh, that's august. that's ages away." but, you know. the shops in her home town of stockton. it's an hour and a half from the house she's renting with her old university friends. after her travel expenses have been deducted, she's left with £600 a month to cover the rent and other living costs. of her four flatmates, all of them recent graduates, none have found work in the field they wanted and only two have found full—timejobs. in terms ofjobs and surviving, how are you guys coping? i've just... i've just been applying for everything, like 20 or more jobs every day, but you don't really hear back from any of them and you hear that, like, 1,000 other people are applying as well. yeah. and you just think, how am i supposed to compete with all of these people that have got more experience than me? yeah, yeah. it's definitely not what any of us expected to be after we graduated, is it? rachel also graduated with a fi

i'm alsojoined by linda bauld, who is professor of public health at the university of edinburgh. two na m es two names that are becoming very familiar with viewers on bbc news. thank you both for being here to a nswer thank you both for being here to answer these questions. sian, thank you both for being here to answerthese questions. sian, peter e—mailed to say what is the reasoning behind now allowing tier two areas to mix in private gardens, which was not allowed before, yet to ban household mixing in restaurants? peter says there is far less policing and private gardens and banning people mixing in restaurants has a much higher economic impact. yes, mixing in restaurants has a higher economic impact that mixing in gardens, the risk is not as great as mixing inside. i think with this tiered structure, this is a framework within which local government will be working and we may see moderation and some change but the general guidance is it is quite safe in tier two level is based on levels of infection in the community and population to be in the gardens. i think probably we a

on top of all of this we have had the news today from edinburgh woollen mills of potentially tens of thousands of jobs that might go. absolutely, very depressing news, more depressing news from the high street. we know before the pandemic the high street was going through a very difficult time, the pandemic happened and asked exacerbated the situation there. as you said, we have heard today the ewm on stores like peacocks and jaggers, they have 1100 stores and potentially are now putting 211,000 jobs at risk. an application has been made to the high court to appoint administrators, it doesn't mean they're in administration yet, but they're in administration yet, but the process has been put under way. so more depressing news and i am sure, iam so more depressing news and i am sure, i am afraid to say, we will get many more job losses in the days to come. thank you very much. two major new coronavirus infections studies published today show significant increases in cases. the 0ns study says that the highest rates were seen in north east and north west england, and yorkshire and the hu

oh delighted to be joined from his home in pelican near edinburgh by professors of geoffrey palmer geoff welcome back to the alex salmon show oh i'm delighted to be back and if you think the key audience for black history month is that for young white kids to understand some of the great figures who for hadn't received acknowledgement that should have been the past on or is it for the white population to come to terms with the fact that black people have made such an important contribution to history i think you know. british history or scottish history or welsh history or even irish history cannot be discussed without black. involvement and it's just because i think our history and. for whatever reason i think you know i've been very strong about this i think for self-serving reasons if they had some mythical idea that the scots do not want to hear about their history especially if it's not nice and us they've spent a long time these historians manipulating its kodesh astri to sort of moderate the black bit and i think this is wrong and i spoken as you know all over the country and when

sturgeon announced that all licenced premises across scotland's central belt, including glasgow and edinburgh, would be closed for 16 days. pubs and restaurants will be able to open in other parts of scotland until 6pm but can only serve alcohol outdoors. the restrictions will be in place until the 25th of october. she's earmarked £40 million to help those affected. none of this is easy. i am acutely aware that in every decision we take, lives and jobs are at stake and i want to assure notjust the chamber but the country that none of these decisions are ta ken lightly. she said she wasn't announcing a lockdown but a far more targeted approach. the reason we are not closing indoor hospitality completely is that we know the benefits in terms of reducing loneliness and isolation of giving people, particularly those who live alone, somewhere they can meet a friend for a coffee and a chat. these new restrictions are intended to last for 16 days. they are intended to be short, sharp action to arrest a worrying increase in infection. although they are temporary, though, they are immediate. without

coronavirus restrictions in scotland, including the closure of pubs and restaurants across glasgow and edinburgh, are to be extended until the second of november. the first minister, nicola sturgeon, said it would "not be safe" to ease any measures in the short term. lorna gordon is in glasgow for us. current measures to be extended, but scotla nd current measures to be extended, but scotland will also be getting its own tier system. yes, nicola sturgeon confirmed she is looking at five tier system of restrictions and alerts for scotland. the middle three tiers broadly aligned to the system and england, a lower set of controls where things would continue as much as possible, as normal, and then a higher level of alert which would be much nearer to the full lockdown we saw back in march. we will get more details of how exactly it will work on friday stop it is still to be debated in the scottish parliament and i suppose keep many people is there still to find out what the different parts of scotland, where they will pull in this new set of restrictions. but for now, the current restrictions, whic

and that my constituents in edinburgh west and people up and down this country will be wondering if they will be abandoned next. thank you. it is impossible to describe today's events without using un—parliamentary language. but out of deference to you, i will settle for "a complete shambles". the definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing overand overagain in the hope that it will turn good. we have had three months of interventions from greater manchester. which have yielded very little results indeed. i cannot help but fear that the medicine is worse than the disease. at prime minister's questions, the labour leader called on the prime minister to stop bargaining with people's lives and provide the support greater manchester needed. this is a prime minister that can pay £7,000 a day for consultants on track and trace, which is not working, can find £43 million for a garden bridge that was never built, but he can't find £5 million for the people of greater manchester. i really think the prime minister has crossed a rubicon here. not just with the miserly way that h

writing on twitter, she said the government in edinburgh would contine to consider data on the spread of the virus in the coming days — and take account of any developments in england. live to glasgow and our correspondent alexandra mackenzie. give us the details of this. not usually surprising, but nonetheless important. yes, and nicola sturgeon sent out a lengthy message on twitter this morning in reaction to the discussion ongoing in london today. one of the things she did say on twitter is people should not be travelling to and from england at this stage, except for essential purposes. by essential purposes, the scottish government usually means things like dental appointments, if you are caring for someone, if you are having to travel or work. apart from these things, nicola sturgeon has said, don't travel between scotla nd has said, don't travel between scotland and england. the first minister also on twitter said, in her words, in regards to speculation about lockdown in england, the scottish government will also always ta ke scottish government will also always take account

and los angeles and paris and and manchester and edinburgh here in the u.k. and many more around the world to sign support statements that they want to get their governments to bring to sign and to bring into force of the treaty probe it prohibiting nuclear weapons now these are powerful important cities why they signed because cities a target in nuclear war and it would cause a massive humanitarian catastrophe if any nuclear weapon by accident or by intention were used in in any of our towns and cities around the world. still ahead on al-jazeera. birdbrain women would you please like to be. a supporter of donald trump in a 2015 election we'll look at why women in the u.s. suburbs may not back him this time and find out how british strive and lewis hamilton made formula one history once again. the weather is lousy set fare across a good part of northern and eastern asia at the moment 60 clear skies for many a very active weather systems moved away from japan one or 2 showers little legacy of showers coming back in behind across the northern half of japan but

questions about a new record lives of all people but they could relate to him i mean he grew up in edinburgh tell me he was on the navy. he came up the hard way and you can play rough tough role brilliantly. this is al jazeera these are the headlines rescuers in turkey are searching for the quake survivors in the city of is mere magnitude 7 quake and the jeans see brought down buildings and trickled tide triggered tidal waves in turkey and greece at least 28 people died and hundreds have been injured armenia's accusing us of by john of using the weapon of white phosphorous in the conflict over nagorno-karabakh its districts it's under international law and so by john has tonight's the allegation police in france have reportedly arrested a 3rd suspect went to thursday's knife attack a nice 3 people were killed in the attack at church. thousands of protesters have turned out in pakistan to condemn the french president's been ongoing protests in several muslim countries after emanuel micron's offended the right some religion in fact crack down on what he calls radical islam the president michel

it's not by chance that the work of an american film—maker is being displayed in edinburgh. his wife was the great—granddaughter of famed scottish explorer david livingstone, and his daughter, vanessa harryhausen, has made scotland her home. he's notjust a film producer, he was an artist in himself. and he always wanted youngsters and young film—makers and artists to be able to get access to this, and get enthused. so i think the galleries here have done a superb job. the new titan of cinema exhibit runs until september 2021, allowing visitors to see over 400 items, including his childhood models, teenage animation tests, and showing where all of that hard work would lead — there's one of these too. christopher bobyn, bbc news. no special fs with the weather forecast. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller. hello, some sunshine around today, but heavy showers as well,

with me is professor debby bogaert — an expert in infectious diseases at the university of edinburgh and also i'm joined by dr chris smith, a virologist at the university of cambridge. welcome to you both. i suppose we can welcome to you both. i suppose we ca n start welcome to you both. i suppose we can start generally, why do you both think we are seeing these spikes regionally? debbie, perhapsi think we are seeing these spikes regionally? debbie, perhaps i can start with you. i think in scotland we have seen the from several weeks ago when the universities were opening up and a lot of students coming to our university towns that that was sort of, exaggerating the increase throughout the country. i think that has been the initial spike that we saw. meanwhile we see a general trickling through of cases towards the more older age groups. that's something to worry about as well is the number of cases throughout the country are starting to rise. that's exactly why there is currently being evaluating more it measures are needed. just on a wider context, and birmingham have said that the

they are not bad i suppose some are allowed to stop to play delivering milk in front and bridge in edinburgh someone who came from humble beginnings and went a long way in life and he's touched the hearts of many many people round the court will be in mourning today was sean connery greatest modern scholars he's got plenty of competition well i think he was they always say i was his friend the. bias the knight direction but you have so many great qualities because apart from his fame and his outstanding career it was also a. steady and loyal friend he was a wonderfully funny humanists and steadfast individual he was a great human being and oversell misson is that as well as the public persona you have a terrific sense of humor them unless you'd sample sean connery's touch of irony then you hadn't heard of the humor well deployed and he was a dying to have monotheism on the strong convictions and he was on the stand brief so a great actor certainly but also a fantastic human being when the ironic strict help was seen in many of the james bond movies wasn't and of course many people associate

the edinburgh side were trailing 1—0 at half—time away to cove rangers but two second half goals saw them clinch victory to go to the top of group b. you've heard about marcus rashford's mbe, in the delayed birthday honours. a number of other sports people are also recognised. among them former wales and lions coach warren gatland gets a cbe. and brendan foster becomes a knight. as an athlete he won gold in the 5,000 metres at the european championships in 1974 and after retiring, he founded the great north run, one of the world's most famous half—marathons. we've had 40 years of an event growing in stature and in size, growing in stature and in size, growing in stature and in size, growing in people loving it more and more, raising millions of pounds for charity, putting the north—east on the map and becoming the flagship event of the north east, and i think when the queen decided i should receive a knighthood for doing that, i would have done it, anyway. british rider simon yates has tested positive for coronavirus and as a result is out of the giro d'italia. his mitchellin sco

an extra—time penalty sent hearts into the final as they saw off edinburgh rivals hibernian in a hampden thriller. liam boyce made it 2—1. a bit of a sore one for hibs — they missed a spot—kick of their own just minutes earlier. hearts reach the final for a second consecutive year. celtic and aberdeen play tomorrow. just two matches in the scottish premiership today. nicky clark's double moved dundee united up to fifth, they beat ross county 2—1 and motherwell jump above livingston, to 7th, with a comfortable 2—0 win. callum lang and tony watt with the goals. and valtteri bottas will start on pole at the emilia romagna grand prix at imola tomorrow. the finn was just less than a second quicker than mercedes team—mate lewis hamilton, with red bull's max verstappen third fastest. mercedes could win a seventh consecutive constructors' title tomorrow at imola — which is hosting its first race since the 2006 san marino grand prix. lewis hamilton still with a huge advantage in the drivers championship. that's all the sport for now. the prime minister has announced a new four—wee

the central belt, including glasgow and edinburgh, in addition to dundee, will be placed under the second highest level, level 3, meaning household mixing is banned in homes and no alcohol can be sold in pubs and restaurants. aberdeenshire, fife, the borders and dumfries and galloway are in level 2. meanwhile, shetland, the highlands, 0rkney and the western isles are in level1. the housing secretary robertjenrick says the government won‘t budge from its target of building 300,000 new homes a year in england — but will listen to concerns about where they are built. senior conservative mps have raised concerns that a new system to determine local housing need will mean more homes in rural parts of the south of england — rather than the north — where they say investment should be targeted. today‘s the deadline for people to share their views on government reforms — as our political correspondent alex forsyth reports from kent. providing enough homes is a problem that‘s plagued politicians for years. failing to get enough built in the right place at the right price has pushed so

politics, whether it be the tensions we have seen and the differences we have seen as far as cardiff and edinburgh and belfast are concerned compared with england, and now within the english regional models of mayors and big local authority leaders who are big figures in their local areas, well known in their local areas, but now have something of a national stage as well. yeah, that's right, and at the beginning of the week when number ten wanted to use them to help the restrictions along and, you know, someone in government said to me, "actually, this is partlyjust being pragmatic. if andy burnham is popular in his area, let's get him on board in order to help with the message. we've got to get people's consent to do this stuff." if, on the other hand, they got a well— known local leader saying the opposite and slagging off the government, then that makes things much, much trickier. couldn't rishi sunak solve all of this at a stroke byjust increasing the job support scheme from paying two thirds of people's wages if their business has to shut to just restoring it back to the old furlough schem

the daily mail says a major new study by edinburgh university suggests that strict lockdowns are unlikely to cut deaths in the long run and may even increase them. the paper says scientists concluded that the focus should be on shielding the elderly and vulnerable. the mirror asks simply, "why aren't local lockdowns working?" and the express carries a message from the health secretary, matt hancock, who is urging us all to "stick with it" to curb the second wave of coronavirus. so, let's begin. as always, i thank you so much for sharing your wednesday evening with us. we are going to start with the scottish daily mail following nicholas sturgeon‘s, what the daily mail is describing as last orders. and these are pretty strict orders that in theory are going to last for i6 that in theory are going to last for 16 days. across that central bell of scotland. indeed, yes. nicholas sturgeon has announced these new strict measures today which will lead to pods closing in the central bell of scotland which as you said covers about 3.5 million people. this is due to the fact that coronavirus does

edinburgh, glasgow, stirling, and falkirk will be joined by dundee and ayrshire in level 3 of a new five—tier system from monday. cafes, pubs and restaurants are only allowed to open until 6:00pm and alcohol sales are banned. in wales, the 17—day "firebreak" lockdown, with people only able to leave their homes for limited reasons, continues. it is currently set to finish on november 9th. northern ireland first minister arlene foster has said that the current tightened restrictions there will end — as planned — on the 13th of novermber. pubs and restaurants have been closed, and schools, which will reopen on monday, were closed for two weeks. and you can keep up with the latest developments about the coronavirus outbreak on the bbc news app and on our website. within the last hour, it's been announced that sir sean connery has died aged 90. the first actor to play 007 in the james bond films, it was a role that brought him global stardom, and it was followed by decades as one of hollywood's leading actors. 0ur entertainment correspondent, david sillito, looks back at his life. bond, jame

less than one infour university of edinburgh. less than one in four people in person covid—19 tests were provided with the result in 2a hours. 23% of in—person tests provided result within 2a hours in the week to 21 october, an improvement on the previous week but well below the peak seen at the end ofjune. those are tests that drive through our walk—in centres or by mobile units. last week, the figure reached its lowest point since the programme started, with just 1a% receiving results within a day. a look at our latest headlines on bbc news. the labour party has suspended jeremy corbyn, after a long awaited report on anti—semitism said the party committed unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination. three people have been killed in the french city of nice after a nice attack —— knife attack near a church. the mayor has called it an act of terrorism. nearly 100,000 people are catching coronavirus in england every day, according to a new report. more now on those horrific events in nice after three people died afte

we'rejoined now by linda bauld, professor of public health at the university of edinburgh. good morning, do you think it is right it does not appear like a full lockdown will be likely in scotland? i think that would have been unpalatable, i do not think people would have accepted that, because the longer restrictions go on, generally the more fed up people get. it was useful yesterday, we heard the first minister rule out what is not on the table and that included no strict lockdown. schools will remain open, no national travel ban. we wait to hear what the new restrictions are today. there has been discussion about the circuit breaker idea. about potentially around to break in the school term using it to have stricter restrictions for a short period. that's right, i think the new measures that will be introduced will be temporary. a challenge around the school holidays as in england and wales, not all schools break up at the same time so you look at when exactly you would do it, but what is likely is we will be looking at areas where households mix. we already cannot meet

they show that the university of edinburgh, subsequently, in the may of this year the cdc published their guidance on nonpharmacological measures for influenza-like measures. they quoted 14 randomized, controlled studies, all of which show that masks do nothing to limit that transition. they sound like they know the literature as well as you and i do, and they are rather snarky about it, unfortunately. >> laura: of course, joe biden threw that out there come a thing because a 100,000 lives of everyone just masked up and socially distanced between now and forever. but last night, biden also blamed trump for all of the country's covid deaths. >> the 20 -- the 200,000 people that have died on his watch. 200,000 dead. over 7 million infected in the united states. he waited and waited and waited. he still doesn't have a plan. i laid out back in march exactly what we should be doing and i laid out again in july what we should be doing. >> laura: he laid it all out and what's the difference between 200,020,000? after all. >> the experts told us in march and april that we would have 2 million dea