Being able to hear more of the sounds of nature but it turns out our ears may have been deceiving us. Now the us election. Its a perhaps a measure of the point america has reached, that today Senior Republicans have been assuring everyone that President Trump will allow a smooth transition of power if he loses in november. Theyve had to do that because of this. What you commit here today for a peaceful transition, tra nsferral of power . We will have to see what happens. I have been complaining very strongly about the pallets and the ballots are a disaster stop by but people are rioting, do you commit to making sure theres a peaceful transferral of power stop delivery of a fair ballot, there would not be a transfer, frankly, there will be a continuation. Mr trumps talking about postal ballots. He often alleges they are open to widespread fraud when theres no evidence that thats true. Well, heres the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell tweeting the winner of the november 3rd election will be inaugurated on january 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792. He made no comment on the fact hes having to point this out. The White House Press secretary kayleigh mcena ny has just held her latest briefing where she was asked if the president would accept the election result. This was her response. The president looks at the results ofa the president looks at the results of a free and fair election, he will accept the will of the American People. So, if he loses it its free and fair, he will accept a . He will accept the results of free and fair election. And mr trumps president ial rivaljoe biden has also responded. The American People will decide this election. And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the white house. The peaceful transfer of power between political opponents is talked about as one of the hallmarks of american democracy, and its been a given for more than 200 years. Heres Leslie Vinjamuri from the Chatham House think tank. This really is as basic as it gets to any democracy certainly to us democracy that the one thing that must be guaranteed is respect for the arrangements that are put in place over the history of the United States to guarantee a peaceful transition of power. And the fact that the president would so clearly not support that when asked is very distressing. And i think the real question now is, first of all, does it come to that . And secondly, if it does, not only what the president would do, but what would his party do . What would the people do . All good questions. And there should be no surprise that were asking them. This was donald trump before the last election. Im not looking at anything now. Ill look at it at the time. What ive seen, what ive seen is so bad. She should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with the e mails and so many other things. Are you saying youre not prepared now to. What im saying is that i will tell you at the time. Ill keep you in suspense. After hed won the election, President Trump turned to voterfraud. Heres on tweet claiming that, in addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, i won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. The claim is that fraudulent ballots cast by undocumented immigrants cast gave Hillary Clinton more votes than him. Thats not true. Hillary clinton won by almost 3 million votes. A Voting Integrity Commission found no evidence to support the claims. That appears to have no impact on what the president says. He repeatedly make false claims about postal voting and that connects with the issue of respecting the result. Heres one example, from and interview with Chris Wallace from fox news injuly. Can you give a direct answer, you will accept the election . I have to see look, you i have to see. Im notjust going to say yes and i didnt last time, either. So, this is an american president refusing to say hell respect an election result based on concern about fraud that isnt happening. Now no doubt postal voting is a bigger feature of this election covid 19 has made sure of that. But it varies state to state. This map shows the different policies the states in purple will now automatically send all voters postal ballots. The states in orange allow voters to cast their ballot by mail on request. In the remaining states you need to have a valid reason, such as being away from the state where you are registered. Heres ellen wine trobb from the us. Federal election commission. There is nothing new about this, weve been voting like this since the civil war and many state administrators will secure the vote and make sure that it all happen smoothly. Other states are used to a system where there is a small percentage of vote by mail, but this year they have ramped up their effo rts year they have ramped up their efforts in light of covid i9, a lot of people do not feel safe going into the polling place. And there have been numerous nationwide and state level studies of postal voting over the years none have found widespread fraud in postal voting. Despite this the President Trump has got to the point where hes telling americans this. The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election. And were going to win this election. Theres no evidence its rigged. Now the reporter asking the question at yesterdays press conference was brian karem. Hes the White House Correspondent for playboy. Heres tweeted this is the most frightening answer i have ever received to any question i have ever asked. Ive interviewed convicted killers with more empathy. Donald trump is advocating civil war. Thats one response heres another. Lawrence douglas is a law professor whos written a book about what happens if trump refuses to go. The danger is that trump could have a lead on november three and the reason i say that is because tens of millions of americans are going be voting by mail ballot and those mail in ballots a re voting by mail ballot and those mail in ballots are probably going to break heavily in bitings favourjoe biden is favour. And striking on the integrity of these ballots. And he will try to leverage whatever lead he has november three into a claim that he has been reelected and that he will subsequently insist that all of the mail in ballots that break forjoe biden need to be disqualified as a result, as a consequence of being contaminated by fraud. And if you want a measure of how tense things are getting look at this from outside the Supreme Court when President Trump went pay his respects to ruth bader ginsberg. Vote him out what you can hear there is the crowd that have gathered at the court chanting vote him out. Of course thats onlys one strand of opinion, the president has plenty of supporters out there too. Heres Julia Manchester from the hill in washington with her analysis. The president has been consistent, but the white house is essentially saying that President Trump would accept the results of a fair election, but not exactly what he said yesterday. But this morning, we heard a number of high ranking republicans on capitol hill say the majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, the chair of the house of gop caucus essentially saying that we need to accept the results of the election whatever they may be to ensure a peaceful transition of power. So, this is another incident during the Donald Trump Administration where he makes very controversial remark in the Republican Party and capitol hill the Republican Party and capitol h ill really the Republican Party and capitol hill really scrambles play clean up. Two things, whether he will accept the transfer of power, and immediate practical concern, but whether he does or not, the constant messaging that americas democracy is fraud and fraudulent, they can have an effect. Donald trump is push this narrative, especially that coronavirus is people are voting by mailand coronavirus is people are voting by mail and President Trump is pushed this mail in voting is fraudulent kind of allegation. He says its ok for vote rs kind of allegation. He says its ok for voters to vote by mail in states like florida and arizona, swing states that may have had a republican leaning in recent years, but he has been very tough on blue states, like new york states where theyre experimenting with more vote by mail. President trump definitely trying to see where this benefits them and he himself in this administration have voted by mail and this is something that hes going to push but only to his advantage. In the uk the number of cororanvirus cases is on the rise, and the government has announced further measures to manage covid i9 and its impact. First chancellor, rishi sunak, announced a new plan designed to protect millions ofjobs over the winter. The government will replace its furlough scheme, which will run out in october, with a newjob support scheme, that helps workers who have not been able to return to work full time. For employees working a minimum of 33 of their normal hours, the government will offer a subsidy so they get three quarters of their usual salary for six months but, and its a big but the government will only support workers in what are deemed viable jobs. The government will cover one third of lost pay, with employers paying the remainder. Support will be targeted at firms needing help the most. That is businesses facing lower demand overwinter due to covid i9. Mr sunak has announced a pay as you grow scheme to allow firms to repay bounce back loans over a period of up to 10 yea rs. And the chancellor said he would keep vat at 5 for hospitality and tourism until march 312021. Which jobs will be deemed viable is still not clear. Our Political EditorLaura Kuenssberg asked chancellor sunak how that assessment is being made. Can you outline which jobs you believe will no longer be viable because of the pandemic . Thank you. It is impossible to predict, given the uncertainty of the exact shape of the Labour Market and i cannot protect every business and when stirring the furlough scheme, it surprised everybody, economic commentators like, the scale of that. 9 Million People in otherjobs protected through the furlough scheme. But my expectation and hope is that this new scheme will be able to benefit a large number of people and help protect theirjobs through the difficult winter months, especially as commanders pressed on their companies. For viability, it is not for me to make a pronouncement on whatjob is viable or not, but for support with the acute phase the crisis and making sure that where we put that support, we are doing at work to make the most difference. There are concerns that the plan doesnt do enough to protectjobs. Heres alex forsyth. I think there will still be questions about how many jobs will still be lost as a consequence of this. Of course, we are in a Global Pandemic which has had economic consequences across the world, so there is a sense now that the government is pulling back some of the support it put in in the initial stages because the chancellor was saying that the virus is here to stay for some time and the government needs to find a way to live with it sustainably. It couldnt quite simply maintain the same level of support. But the question is, is what hes done is enough to keep the economy ticking over sufficiently and protect enough peoples jobs . And heres our economics correspondent, dharshini david, with her analysis. Well, as weve been hearing, this is a scheme its a very different one thats being replaced. Its a lot less generous, and that means there will be more job losses. And ultimately, thats not accidental because if you look at what the government is saying here, it comes back to this issue of viable jobs. And what is a viable job . A job that a company can and will report to spend the money on subsidizing over the coming months. It is simple and brutal, but frankly what the government is saying is they simply cant afford to carry on, theyve already spent over £200 billion, or thereabouts thats been pledged to hike the economy through the crisis. They cant spend the same rate endlessly. But ideologically a conservative government is thinking about, how do we incentivize people if the economy will change or industries will fall by the wayside . How do we nudge people in the direction of thinking about what their next move should be, rather than hanging on tojobs which wont be sustainable . After all, this is taxpayers money were talking about. So the chancellor said himself today, really tough choices. But this is a scheme thats placing if you just said this was the initial scheme, people would say this was a huge departure from what weve seen before. But they are disappointed companies out there tonight, and people who are worried that this doesnt solve the conundrum of over 3 Million People who are still on furlough, and many more whove already lost theirjob. Just as the Health Experts tried to predict what happens with a number of cases of this virus, rishi sunak and his colleagues will have projections about what they think will happen to the economy. Do they have any idea when the worst moment might be . Well, weve seen ourselves notjust in the uk, but around the globe that its a constant lee changing picture when it comes to the virus and the degree of the outbreak, and managing that, and the restrictions that must be put in place. So if youd asked that question a couple months ago, looking at the bank of england and others, they were saying that recovery was under way but it would take some time, may 1 2 years before we got back to fully recover the ground lost during the pandemic. But now, with further restriction and further threats ofjob losses, this is where weve had this emergency packet. Of this announcement was hastily pulled together. And what we do know as a result of this is perhaps that impact, that impact on the economy may take even longer. But the number crunchers are working on it, and the best the treasury can tell us as we will hear more in november. Stay with us on outside source still to come. Well find out whether birds really were singing louder during lockdown or were our ears deceiving us. South korea has accused north korea of a crime against humanity for allegedly shooting dead an official from the south who was trying to defect, and then burning his body. Seoul said the man, who worked for the fisheries department, disappeared from a patrol boat near the border. Heres laura bicker. It was a brutal killing where he was questioned by them, an order came from higher up and he was shot in the water, doused in oil and set on fire. There is something that needs to be explained because the north korean troops are said to of been wearing masks. This is all happened injuly were wearing masks. This is all happened in july were a wearing masks. This is all happened injuly were a number of officials read along the border of north korea had been carrying out what was known asa had been carrying out what was known as a shoot to kill policy and that, we believe, is to keep coronavirus out of the secretive state. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Our lead story is . Senior us republicans have offered reassurance that there will be a peaceful transition of power if donald trump loses novembers president ial election. Every week we make a report for the bbc news website that looks back at one of the issues weve covered all week on outside source. And this week we take our lead from comments at the uns general assembly. The search for a covid i9 vaccine is at full tilt. Around the world, 240 vaccines are in early development, a0 have reached the Clinical Trials stage 9 are now being put through final stage testing and none are ready yet, none are certain to work. And the search has created a new challenge. Vaccine nationalism will the pandemic coming out short. Vaccine nationalism puts lives at risk, only vaccine cooperation saves lives. But how great is the threat of vaccine nationalism . Put simply, vaccine nationalism is when a country prioritises its access to a vaccine above everyone else getting it. And the un has warned of the harm it can do. Such vaccine nationalism is not only unfair, it is self defeating. None of us are safe. The who adds an economic argument to this saying if some countries go without a vaccine, then the virus then wont be under control globally. And so the Global Economy cant properly open up. And central to efforts to counter vaccine nationalsm is something called covax. Its a global plan to allocate vaccines. 172 countries are signed up. And it guarantees all of them access to a range of vaccines if and when theyre ready. For the who, covax supports its ambition to vaccinate some people in all countries, rather than all people in some countries. And with germany, japan, the uk, norway and the eu among those to sign up this is a Significant Initiative the very opposite of vaccine nationalism. But there are some major absentees. Most notably america, which is going it alone. We will distribute a vaccine, we will defeat the virus. We will end the pandemic. No surprise there. Donald trumps presidency is proudly america first. Back in march, Angela Merkel confirmed this die welt report that the us has tried and failed to buy all options on a german vaccine. And if thats the us, others are going their own way too. Russia has cleared a vaccine for use despite who concerns its not been adequately trialled. The uk hasjoined covax but has also signed deals direct with vaccine producers australia has done the same. Then theres chinas vaccine work and this promise. These vaccines will be made of Global Public good and will be provided to other developing countries on our priority basis. Ok but look at this report in the state owned global times. It tells us china is likely to join covax but that china is probably still negotiating a thorough plan to ensure a balanced vaccine supply for chinese citizens and chinas neighbors. now most of the worlds wealthiest countries would deny they are vaccine nationalists. But whether, in reality, you can at once protect your own Vaccine Supplies and support a Fair Distribution to all countries looks, well, difficult. And what were seeing here are the limits of multilateralism. Donald trump may say it loudest but all leaders put their country first. And any Global Response is shaped by an inevitable tension between International Bodies which, by their nature, promote greater co operation and National Leaders with an array of domestic concerns. We see this tension with climate change, with migrants in europe and were seeing it with covidi9. The case against vaccine nationalism is that the consequences will wont just be bad for the world, theyll be bad for the countries which pursue it. To lesser or greater extents, some of them still need persuading. Cities across the world became very different places during lockdowns particularly in the early days of the pandemic. This was San Francisco under a stay at home cities across the world became very different places during lockdowns particularly in the early days of the pandemic. This was San Francisco under a stay at home order back in the spring. Much quieter than usual, notjust fewer people but fewer cars too. And that meant other noises could make themselves heard more clearly. This was a white crowned sparrow singing at the foot of an otherwise very quiet golden gate bridge. And during Lockdown People in built up areas all over the world experienced hearing birdsong much louder than before. It turns out our ears were deceiving us. That phenomenon has now been studied and it turns out our ears were deceiving us. This was an audio recording made in the same area of San Francisco four years earlier before lockdown. Theres much more traffic noise. And the birds are having to make themselves heard over that. Guess what, they were actually singing more loudly, back then. Elizabeth derryberry is an ecologist at the university of tennessee and did the research. I asked her if they did actually sing more quietly. Is pretty surprising. I think all of us is pretty surprising. I think all of us have been out of these quiet areas and it sounds like everything is much louder. Its as much louder to us, but if you go them and compare them to the songs recorded before the lockdown, theyre actually seeing more softly. Its like a party, at the height of the party, it is really loud and when shouting and as people start to go home and he gets quieter, you dont keep shouting. The same thing with these birds, they been able to stop shouting, so theyre actually seeing much more softly. And for the fact that everybody else thinks that they got louder . Its because it got so much quieter that their songs can actually go twice the distance. You can imagine if you can hear birds or maybe just hear it above five metres from you before covid i9, during the shutdown, there are ten metres away and if you think about that, the radius and this imaginary circle around you and you can hear effectively four times as many birds. Such as hearing that many more birds and having to be so much quieter means that they found louder. Interesting to see that the male birds of really kicked on and their performance stop you love they have and so, when youre not really talking philosophy, and they can put more information into the signal and they have a wider bandwidth to their song and they sound sexier. There are more competitive with other males and they can attract more females. Because it was a lot quieter than human beings are a lot less conspicuous, there were more confident to express themselves and all of the environments in which they live. But its on the environments in which they live. But Something Else completely wrong. That is a good idea and we thought the same thing and we took into account, how far we were standing and we found how loud they were was approximately the same as from before covid i9. We know what they should do at a certain distance, but they should do and they were doing they should do and they were doing the same thing. It seems like it was and that there are more confident, its just that it was much more quieter and they didnt have to sing so loudly. There are sometimes in 2020 and you wonder if youre releasing this new story out loud. Senior repubicans in the United States have insisted there will be a smooth transition of power after novembers president ial election. The republican leader in the senate, Mitch Mcconnell, said there would be an orderly transition injanuary as there had been every four years since 1792. Another senior republican, liz cheney, said the peaceful transfer of power was fundamental to the survival of the republic. Meanwhile, mr trump has been both booed and cheered at as he paid respects at the coffin of the late Supreme Courtjustice, ruth bader ginsburg. Some in the crowd chanted vote him out. Well, you can really feel the autumn in the air now. First thing this morning in northern scotland, it was 5 celsius. We had a few hailstorms during the day and other parts of the country, and the autumn chill is with us at least for the next 2 3 days. And on top of that, itll turn very windy tomorrow across eastern and southeastern areas. If you look at the north atlantic, theres a cloud out there, weather systems lining up. The whole atmosphere across the atlantic is becoming alive and an autumnal picture. So, lets see whats happening then through the course of this evening and overnight. Showers scattered across england and wales not too many of them around scotland and northern ireland. In fact, here, the winds will also be light with clear skies, meaning temperatures in glasgow and edinburgh will be close to freezing early on friday morning, and no doubt below freezing in the countryside. So heres the weather map for friday, then, and theres a low pressure in the southern portion of the north sea. So that means that these areas here will get the worst of the weather. Gale force winds are expected from the northeast of england, along the north sea coast, down into east anglia and the southeast, as well. Gusts around coasts possibly up to 60 mph, a0 orso inland, and on top of that, weve got showers, temperatures only 12 celsius its going to feel cold. Further towards the west, still windy, but not quite so windy. So were thinking in belfast, liverpool and cardiff, it shouldnt feel too bad at all. Now heres saturday, and were in sort of a window of opportunity a weak High Pressure is building across the uk, from the north this time. So this is where the best of the weather will be, certainly a fair bit of sunshine around, but notice still that strong wind blowing off the north sea, so hull and norwich are in for showers and another cold day on saturday itll feel warmer in places like cardiff and also plymouth. Saturday evening, you can see that wind continuing, and those showers in east anglia. Now the temperatures during the course of the weekend will be nippy. Were talking about a frost in scotland, because the winds will be lightest here. But where weve got those winds blowing off the north sea, temperatures will probably hover around nine celsius. Now over the weekend isnt looking too bad. The winds are light, therell be some sunshine around, but the indications are that clouds, wind and rain will increase next week eventually. Bye bye. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. The chancellor, rishi sunak, announces a newjob support scheme lasting 6 months from november, but admits that he cant promise that everyone can go back to the job that they used to have. A planned rise in vat has also been cancelled and businesses will now have longer to pay back government loans. Labour believes rishi sunak should have acted sooner. Unions say the measure will save hundreds of thousands ofjobs. The nhs new Contact Tracing app is launched in england and wales, as new daily Coronavirus Infections rise again. A big coronavirus outbreak at glasgow university. Students in scotland are told theyll be breaking the law if they leave their accomodation and go home. The latest test and trace results show the numbers testing positive is almost 3 times higher than at the end of august. The chancellor has set out new measures to protect millions ofjobs and the economy over the winter. Rishi sunak described the measures as radical interventions never before attempted in the uk