The freeman foundation. By judy and pe blum kovler foundation; pursuing soluts ns for americglected needs. And by cons ibutions to this ation from viewers like you. Thank you. Washgton. This is bbc world news america. The second wave scare in europe too. Rising c iidection spread alarm and new restrictions across the continent. The u. S. Economy is in dire straits. The latest numbers show the began in 1947 but dont look to congress for help. They are locked in a political stalemate. Moments after the Economic Data is published, President Trump salute suggests delaying the november election. He doesnt have the authority to it, so is it just a distraction . Katty at the funeral of a civil rights icon, there are fond memories, moving tributes,nd al politicaappeal from a former president who says hes worrie d about americocracy. The are those in power who are doing the darndest to discourageeople from voting. Katty wcome to world news america on pbs and around the world. The terminology over the anvid pandemice tricky. The term a second wave conjures up images of new lockdowns and a return to e dark days of early spring. Some say we have not finished with the first wave. Whatever you call it, it is clear it is not ju america but is in a situation that is precarious. There is a lot of concern about europe too. This graph shows the average number of confirmed cases per Million People and you can see spains figure there, shooting upward which is why the u. K. Government decided to force people arriving from spain to quarantine for 14 days. Here is belgium, where the government says there may have to be a second lockdown to damp down a surge of new cases. Theosrecent data show 673 new cases recorded in a day. And france and luxembourg are also seeing a marked rise in the number of new infections as are several nations in the balkan regions. Against the backdrop, officials on the u. K. Says anyone who show symptoms must selfisolate at home for 10 days, it used to the continent was doing so well. So what is behind the rises . Here is our science editor david shipman. David is a time of growing concern about resurgence of the coronavirus end of all of the ways to fight it, keeping away fro most effective. F the so if you think youve got the disease, you should nowla i, not just for seven days, but for 10. Government advisers say th extra time could make a difference. We were seeing a very nice decline. Now it is looking like it might be taking off again. We need to look at every measure we can which will mitigate that affect. Th is a contributor, we think, to limitindathe spread. D there still a lot we dont know about the virus. Extending the piod of selfisolation is about trying to stay on the safe side. From the moment you might tch the virus, you could become infectious three or four days later, and then develop symptoms a couple of days after that. And it is at that point you need to begin your selfisolation. Scientists think it could be infectious in that time for up to nine days. Having a 10 day period o isolation is about trying to minimize the risks. This comes amid a series of e outbreaks acroope. Testing for the virus is now offered at the german border. Masks are mandatory in Public Places in spain, an effort to avoid another disaster like earlier this year. The office forational statistics looked at the average numbers dying over the past five sye to work out what are called excess deaths. W many more people than normal died at the height of the pandemic . France had a slight increase in deaths above average, bute all. K. Nation saw many more die. England by thisng recko lost most of anywhere in europe. Paula green half wasmong them. A Fitness Instructor who died from cid19 at the age of 55. Her identical twin sister, karen, says thetoovernment was slow to act. We should have gone into lockdown immediately. As soon as ouren gover and Boris Johnson was aware of the situation, we should have been thousands of people, including sister, are dea these people would still be alive today if the government would have acted on this immediately. David on a day meant to highlight thousands of new police recruits, numbers of a kind are dominating instead. The virus still has the potential to claim more lives. David shukman, bbc news. Katty ls get more on what is happening in the u. K. And across europe. Im joined b professor carol sikora. Chief medical officer at rutherford health. Thank you for joining me. Just a couple of days ago, Boris Johnson thought there was a second wave happening in europe. But just this evening in the u. K. , we are hearing about more restrictions on the north of the untry. What is the situation in the u. K. At the moment . Indeed, we have restrictions to the north in manchester and other northern cies. It is not really a second wave as such. When you look at the series, you fe the waves come in. They are perfectmed. Big waves, small waves, rolling. This is not like that. What it is is it is really the first wave with aot a lot of broken waves where localized waves, if you like, due to the fact that the reproduction factor for the virus in those localities has gone above one. So it is spreading. The rules are quite clear in public health. You have got to gethe r factor below one and therefore stop people meeting in a social context and break thal patent reduces the chance of infection. And that is what is gn there now. Katty it is intesting because in a few weeks, it looked lroe at least looking at it from this side of the atlantic, it looks like europe got it right. They were managing to open again much earlier than we did and they seemed to do so without a spike. Od yet in the last coup days, several countries reporting that they e looking a bit more anxiously at outbreaks. Have people got complacent . Did they dit wrong . What happened . The numbers are still very im fairly hopeful we will get over this. Even in countries like belgium and spain, look at the numbers, first of all, they are localized. If you look atai the map of the cannelloni in northeastin of spain around barcelona. And up in the hills up there. They are not in madrid and they are not in the south. They are certainly not in e urists hotspots of spain, new york, and others where many british holidaymakers go to. And yet they have been inn quarantine whethey have come home and the airlines are in chaos going to spain. The same applies to other countries. Belgium, it looks as though antwerps is the seed of the problem. Why should it behere . We dont understand. It probably reflects local outbreaks because of probably a failure to test, a failure to control, and failure of social distancing in a variety of forms. Katty professor, do you think it is possible for open its borders to otherin countriehe European Union . And have summe holiday and people moving backwards and forwards, im going to restaurants a big more and going to bars, aeep it localized, as you are saying . Are you optimisticco that the inent can carry on with this fairly positive trajectory . I hope so. I really hope so. But testing is such a key. If you look at heathrow, there is no testing. Londons major airport, britains major airport, absolutely nothing going on. The quarantine is not properly enforced. It is very difficult. Othere countries are much positive abo it. Heat pcr tests w a lot abouthat have tested for the virus, it has its faults because it does not discriminate between living infectious virus and dead and genetic information. Eventually, within the next month, we will convert it to a saliva test on that is what everyone wants. Because that is so easy to do, with an airplane a full of people or a train full o people. If you can get the result within 15 minutes, you just hold the train at the border and take out the people that are positive and tell them they cant travel. Even better still, do it before get on the train or pla to do the same thing. All of that is coming. And we havei been a bit slow guess, to move. It is the same in the united states. It has been too slow to get onto the testing bandwagon, really. Katty ok. Professor sikora, thank you for joining us. We will be watching thos outbreaks across the continent. A few weeks ago, we reported australia had tut 5 Million People back into a strict six lockdown. No one allowed in or out of the city. It does not seem to be working. The area reportehat it just had its worse covid death toll and a sharp rise in the new cases. The Prime Minister says he will take wtever actions are necessary to bring this outbreak under control. Here is our sydni correspondent. Reporter sdiers driving ambulances. A sign of how serious victorias covid19 crisis has become. As hrslth wor raced to contain the spread of the virus. T the were hopes t outbreak may have peaked on monday with over 500 infections recorded. But the latest spike in coronavirus numbers has surpassed that bite nearly 200 cases. We have now been in this lockdown for some weeks. Twe are not getti results we would hope for. As a result, the further measures that are taken are certainly necessy. The economy. Me at an impact to it is important we continue to Work Together to get on top of this. Reporter this Meat Processing plant have been identified as two of the many covid19 clusters in victoria. Authorities say they are concerned about people who turned u to work despite showing symptoms or waiting for test results. If you if you are a positive case, you need to be at home. Is an Important Message reporter the state is struggling to co80ain more than utbreaks and care homes, which have claimed dozens of lives in the past few weeks. Including 10 in the latest figures. They are getting neglected. It is sad that they have been locked up three weeks in o room. Heget them out of room. Get them into another safe place. Ge please help. Hospital. Reporter from midnight on sunday, every person in the whole of the state will be required to wear a mask or face vering when leaving thei house. As ccerns grow about rising cases across victoria. Australias second most popular week of lockdown. Nto its sixth but it is unclear whether this will be enough time to contain an outbreak not only seems te. Be getting wo bbc news, sydney. Katty interesting. Australia, europe here, in the united states, the message is the same. Masks, social disncing, and the testing in contact tracing. For anyone checking the news this morning in america, you would have seen two headlines back to back. T,fi the u. S. Economy shrank at a shocking rate in the latest quarter, contracting nearly 33 on an annual basis. That news was followed ba tweet from President Trump who claimed that because of mailin voting, the 2020 election will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election ine istory. Andoated the idea of delaying the vote. Which, to be clear, he does not have t authority to d that Political Drama played out in washingtosaac turned it to atlanta, georgia where a hero of American Movement was laid to rest. Here is our editor. Reporter at the Ebenezer Baptist church and atlanta, georgia, three bay three former president s gaed to bid farewell to johnewis, a hero of the Civil Rights Movement and the man who came to be known as the conscience of congress over his fight for voting rights. The current occupant in the white house chose not to pay his respects, but his predecessor delivered the eulogy. President obama but even as we sit here, there a those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting. Even under undermining the Postal Service in the runup to that is going to be dependent on mailin ballots, so that people dont get sick. It is why john crossed about bridge. It is why he spilled his blood. Reporter here at the white d housald trump has been speaking about voting, but not in a way that john lewis would have approved of. The president in an unprecedented and in century novembers election. Ing but even during the civil war in 1864 when the Confederate Forces were closing in on the capital, the election went ahead. The president s contention is an increase in postal votes because of coronavirus would lead to fraud. Pres. Trump i, nald john strump, do solemnlyar. Reporter the constitution that the president promised to uphold when he was sworn in states his term will end after four years. Even if the elections delayed, and congress is not going to vote for that, he woulonhave to leavanuary 20 next year. But today, his secretary o state es equivocal on election date when he appeared before congress. Can a president delay the november president ial election, mr. Secretary . Mr. Senator, im not going to enter a legal judgment on that onthefly. Can a president del president ial election . Ithe end the department of justice and others will make that legal determination. I dont tnk it is that hard a question, or one that should lead to any equivocation. Reporter this afternoon, the presiden tweet visited at headquarters in washington. Coronavirus deaths passed 150,000 yesterday. Today, the u. S economy on lifesupport with the most disastrous gdp figures in erican history as a result of the pandemic. The president hoped this would c be his winnid in november. It is possible that there is call to delay the election is an attempt to change the subject. Opjon, bbc news, whington. Katty and ofourse, the fate the u. S. Economy intimately tied to the fate of the coronavirus in the country. A quick look at other luke other news. Herman cain, the former u. S. President ial candidate and business executive, died today at the age of 74. Mr. Kaine wasgn ded with covid19 late last month after traveling around the cntry and attending a rally hosted by President Trump in oklahoma. In 2012, he sought the republican partys nomination for the presidency but droed out amid allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denied. Italys senate has voted to allow the prosecution of the nations former interior ministerin for blocka migrant ship of italy off of italys coast. More than 100 migrants were stuck on the rescue ship for 19 days. Prosecutors in sicily accuse him of illegal detention, which could bring a jail term of up to 15 years. Nsts he was simply enforcing government policy at the time. Belarus says it has arrested 30 people it claims are russian mercenaries, accusing thct of plottingof terrorism. Russia has denied thato t is trying tdestabilize the country just 10 days before the president ial election. Belaruss president s facing serious opposion in his campaign for a sixth term in office. Although most of his rivals are in prison for an exile. You areatching bbc world news america. 1, 0, lift off. He tty blastinoff for mars. Nasaes robot perseveranins its long mission to the surface of the red planet. Tt taiwans first popular elected president has died, age 97. He ser from 19882000. We have more on his legacy. When he was president from 19882000, he carried out a number of political reforms tt enabled taiwan to become the democracy it is today, including oreforming the parliament allow lawmakers. Also getting rid of laws that hampered the development. And one of his most fams events of his presidency, he met with student protesters in 1990 who had gathered by tens of thousands, seeking democratic ryform. He promised to cut reform. Did he fulfill that problem a few years later by allowing legislative elections. In 1996, the first president ial elections by universal suffrage. There are many people who mourn his death today and feel that he has barely left a Lasting Legacy on the island. Katty nashas a new robot spacecraft, it is called perseverance which is a fitting the craft took off today for a seven month journey to explore the surface of the red planet. The aim is to not only search for signs of life but bring back rock samples to examine on earth. Rebecca morel has mo us. 2, 1, 0. And lift off. Rebecca the start of a mission. That could finally answer the big question. Was there ever life on mars . The rover is called perseverance, and it is going to a region that was once covered by a lake. We now know mars had an enormous amount of wat in its past. If ancient life was on mars,oo e have a abet that we might be able to find it in the sedime so this is really a life deteion mission. Rebecca this is the most advanced mars rover that nasa has ever built. It is about the same size and weight as a small car and it is jampacked with instruments. This is its robotic arm,eq pped with a drill, and it could contain signs of life. There is also an instrument that willry to make oxygen from the Carbon Dioxide rich atmosphere, a Vital Technology for future astronauts on mars. For the first time, nasa will test a mini Mars Helicopter that will try to fly in the extremely thin martianir. It is another pair of eyes from a totally different vantage point. Just being ae to get t places that we simply cant get to today. Very steep craters, places like that that a rover cannot rove into. We are going to need to fly. Rebecca another first for this mission is that theock samples collected will be stored and eventually brought back to earth. And to the u. K. Hopefully in 10 or 15 years, we will get those rocks back from mars. More missions will be sent to bring them back. And we will be able to study those pieces of mars in laboratories on earth. Rebecca nasa spacecraft is the last of a trio heading to the red planet. China and the United Arab Emirates are already on their way. If they al succeed, it will mean a giant leap in our understanding of mars. Rebecca morel, bbc. Katty we will get those rocks back in 10 or 15 years which by the time i promise coronavirus will be ancient history. I hope. We were hearing in the program about the fural for john lewis, the civil rights leader and congressman who died this month. T w son of a poor farmer who campaigned foric racial juand then went on to represent the state of georgia in congress for more than three decades. Reporter they came together to honor a man whose activism helped bring about some of the biggest strides forward in american democracy in generations. Reporter to pay their respects to john lewis, three former president s traveled to his final farewell. He has been called an american saint. They believe are willing to give even life itself to bear witness to the truth that drove him all his life. That we could build a world of peace and justice, harmony and dignity and love. Rep