Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. The of a government imposed restrictions on manchester after a rally with leaders over Financial Support. We made an offer to support manchesters business. This offer was proportionate. This is no way to run the country in a national crisis. It is not. This is not right. They should not be doing this, grinding people down. Manchester moves into the highest alert level since friday, meaning many restaurants and pubs will close and households cannot mix. We are looking at the world what implications on where the u. S. Election result goes. Mr. In pakistan, where violence is threatening peace talks we start in pakistan, where violence is threatening peace talks with the taliban. A tech company says the action against it is deeply flawed. The submarine builder who murdered a swedish journalist briefly escaped risen in denmark before being caught. We will have the full story from copenhagen. We begin here in the u k, because the government has imposed stricter restrictions on Greater Manchester after talks with local authorities over the level of Financial Support collapsed. Heres the prime minister, Boris Johnson, explaining his decision. Over the last 10 days, we have get an approach with local leaders in Greater Manchester, a joint approach. Unfortunately, agreement was not reached. I do regret this. As i said last week, it would have been better, we would have a better chance of defeating the virus, if we Work Together. Have seen a backlash from a number of cities across europe over virus straties, but this is the major example of the u k. Manchester has wrappe reached of the highest infection rates of covenanting at the moment. Earlier data, the government was willing to offer Greater Manchester 60 Million Pounds to support businesses under tier 3 restrictions, but manchester was pushing for cystic five Million Pounds 65 Million Pounds. During aews conference, they were given the news restrictions would be going ahead anyway with 22 Million Pounds of support. One minute past midnight friday, this is what has been said, 22 Million Pounds only. [protesters booing] it is brutal, to be honest. This is no way to run the country in a national crisis. It is not. This is not right. They should not be doing this, grinding people down, trying to accept the least they can get away with, 22 Million Pounds is disgraceful. The Health Secretary of the uk has been giving this update on covid19 in manchester. Mr. Speaker, in Greater Manchester, there have been more Coronavirus Infection is already in october than in july, august, and september combined. The average daily hospital admissions in Greater Manchester are now higher than they were in the 26 of march. There are more covid19 patients in Greater Manchester hospital been in the whole of the southwest and southeast combined. As a result, we need to take further action to protect lives and livelihoods in Greater Manchester. Informed by this data, we made the difficult decision to place Greater Manchester into the very high local covid alert,oming into force one minute past midnight on friday. Imposition the imposition of restriction and the amount of money being offered, below the 60 Million Pounds talked about, has caused considerable anger in manchester. The finance minister was in parliament earlier. How does hink belo how does he think manchester will cope with minimum wage . Just 22 Million Pounds for a city of 2. 8 million people. Less than the 25 Million Pounds of his own town center. Why does this government hate Greater Manchester . Mr. Speaker, it is disappointing to hear the gentlemans tone. It is a difficult time for many people in this country, as we evolve our response to this virus. When it people acting in a constructive spirit. That is what the secretary is offering to do. I hope these conversations are happening as we speak. This is the analysis of bbcs rob watson of the followup between westminst and the leaders in manchester. What we have seen in front of our very eyes is a breakdown of the political consensus over how you deal with covid, which is an immensely serious. In addition, critics might say the governments policy of trying to get a local, regional approach is in some disarray, and there is political danger to Boris Johnson. He is unashamedly proudl a prouy populist in populist politician. People in the manchester area are more likely to side with their local politicians, asking for more money to help with businesses. Lets be clear, Boris Johnson has e power to impose these restrictions, he has the power to set the financial compensation. 50 young wanted to ask him earlier in a press conference whether his decision today is his final decision. Are you withdrawing the extra . What you called generals the generous offer . Are you accused of grinding down communities during the solutions . Are bitterly regret any restrictions that lead to damage to businesses and peoples lives. Of course i do. The funds are there. They are massive. What we could not do, i hope people understand, was t we deal with Greater Manchester that really would have been out of culture with the agreements we have reached with lancaster. That is talks have ended in failure over areas including south yorkshire, and locked in their own battle with the government over money. Progress is slow. Sources are saying 16 Million Poundss still on the table, saying they will not let businesses of manchester suffer. Putting the blimp, squarely on the mayor. The government does not want to encourage other people to up their demands. Of those areas of england, and discussion. They dont want to get in this bidding war. It is an point to remember millions more people will be living under very tough restrictions come friday. They will expect politicians of all parties to Work Together to give them certainty in their best interest. Further context on this is the uk has recded 200 41 virus deaths in the last way for hours, up from 80 on monday. The number of weekly register deaths across the uk has gone up by more than 1 3 in a week. Richard galpas been looking at the numbers. The number of deaths is increasing. Up by 38 . This is weekly. They are saying of 474 deaths which involved covid, that was up by 131. Essentially, that number has doubled and quadrupled over the past month. What we have to say is that if you put this in context, which is at the peak back in april, there were almost 9500 deaths. Within a week. It is still far less than the peak back in april. With Coronavirus Infections rising all over europe, more countries are bringing in socalled Circuit Breakers to slow the infection rate down. Germany is now one of them. Impose its first lockdown since april. This is the town located in west bavaria where gyms, hotels, etc. Are closed for 14 days. Next is slovenia, banning weddings and imposing in a temper few. And a semi private events must be put on hold until transmission rates come down. One in five people tested are returning positive currently. Now, there are two weeks precisely until the u. S. Election day. The outcome matters to americans and to the rest of us. This week on bbc news and on outside source, we are looking at the president s America First policy and the rest of the world. America is edging closer to extricate itself from its longest war with afghanistan, putting a timeline of 1214 months for u. S. Withdrawal as long as the taliban met certain conditions. Than President Trump tweeted in october, we shouldave a small remaining number of brave men and women in afghanistan home by christmas. That was then played down by officials. Who knows . The National Security advisor has said the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan will be reduced by almost half by early next year, which is not getting everyone home by christmas. We have been in afghanistan and spoken exclusively with scott miller, the commander of nato forces in. Anytime the violence goes up, it creates a cycle that only escalates. We are looking and specifically asking the taliban, reduce the violence. That reduces violence all the way around. Lets give this historic opportunity to take place. It sounds the taliban are giving [indiscernible] you are seeing that in every province you visit. The violence is too much. Thats what we have said all along. All sides need to bring the violence down. It cant be onesided. All sides need to bring it down. You need to get into a place that is workable. We know it is possible. Heres how the impact of violence is being felt in the Southern Province in afghanistan. Afghan forces supported by american airstrikes are defending the capital from the taliban assault. As a consequence, an estimated 35,000 people have so far had to leave their homes. Afghanistans National Security advisor assesses the likelihood of a fullscale civil war. It is very likely, but we are doing what we can to mitigate it. The taliban could play smart politics and negotiate in goodwill. I dont know if they have, with them, the pragmatism to see that, and see that they are going into an area where they will have an even harder time in terms of war. They may be good at the kind of war that instills fear into people and threatens them. It is a different ballgame once they get into the more conventional warfare. Heres the bbc with an assessmen assessment of presids policy on afghanistan. He oversaw a surge in u. S. Forces over the advice from the pentagon. He also wanted to get out of what they call these endless wars. It was President Trump, since even before he came to power, he talked about bringinthe last of the american troops home. Its been during his first presidency that talks were started. Months and months of negotiations. While there has been criticism of that process, certainly here in particular by the afghan government, it did pave the way for the first historic peace talks, now taking place in the gulf state of qatar. Their stalled for the moment, but at least theyve started. Lets turn to a potentially really significant moment in the role of big tex. The u. S. Government has filed an antitrust lawsuit against google. It accuses google of abusing its dominance to preserve a monopoly of internet searches and online advertising. This lawsuit is the biggest challenge to a Major Tech Company by u. S. Regulators and years. Google has already responded, saying the action is deeply flawed, going on to say, people use google because they choose to, not because he are forced to or cannot find they are forced to or cannot find alternatives. They argue it is the default option on certain browsers and devices. Officials say those deals help secure googles place as the gatekeeper to the internet and also controls the channels for around 80 of search queries in the u. S. The lawsuit says general Search Engine competitors are denied vital distribution, scale, and product recognition, with no real chance to challenge google. Some of these accusations will be familiar to google, facing similar claims from the european union. Here is our north america tech correspondent based in san francisco. This lawsuit says, if you buy an android phone, like google says, you download safari, google has a deal with apple that says the google site should come up. Did google get to this dominant position fairly . The lawsuit says quite clearly, it did not. The report come google had a harmful effect on competition and consumers. Google says, how could we have had an anticompetitive influence on consurs . Given that googles free. Most of the antitrust lawsuits up until no have been around competition and driving up prices for consumers. That is not happening here. It will be quite difficult for these legislators and the doj itself to actually kind of bring google to justice. Google is incredibly wealthy. It has over 100 billion just in cash. It has quite a lot of money to fight this. Im sure it does. Take me through the process. What happens from no on . A lot of people are saying this is a bit of theater. The doj is connected to the republicans. We have an election in two weeks time there is bipartisan support for this. The democrats also agree these Big Tech Companies should be looked at in more detail. That is when you should be really worried, as a tech company. If you have bipartisan support, something could happen going forward. Google share price, its going to since this was its gone up since this was announced. There will be twists and turns in that story. In a few minutes, we will turn to nigeria. Authorities are deploying police nationwide, as they try to contain violent protests about police brutality. A group of volunteers in london will be infected with covid19. This is the first covid19 human challenge in the world. Here is michelle roberts. The whole point is to try and test that vaccines that alternately might protect people against this disease. Volunteers are looking for them to be young and healthy. They dont want to put anyone at undue risk. The need approval they have not got yet and for regulators to sign off. They would start around january. They have around 90 people who would take part in these trials. Once theyve got those 90 volunteers, they would give them coronavirus by introducing it into their nose. People wilhopefully become infected, and obviously, not sick with it. The smallest dose you can get somebody to cause an infection. They will be able to Start Testing vaccines and see how well they work. Today, our lead story concerns the uk. The government is putting Greater Manchester under the toughest coronavirus regime from friday after a 10 day round with local leaders over Financial Support. Lets turn once again to nigeria. There are reports of a shooting, as police trying to enforce a curfew in the city of lagos. A number of people are reported to have been killed and injured. The curfew has been moved back to later in the evening to allow commuters tend to return home. The curfew has not deterred the protesters, gathered in a main road in life goes, as the curfew came into in lagos, as the curfew came into effect. Schools across the state have also been told to close. The nigerians were focused on a police unit called the antirober squad, or sars. The president disbanded sars, of the but the demonstrations continued. As a sign of political pressure being exerted, the speaker of nigeas lower house of Parliament Said he will not sign off the governments next budget unless it includes plans to compensate victims of police brutality. We have our correspondent live from lagos on how the authorities have been handling the process. Yeah, and it seems already they have decided to crack down and end the protests once and for all. We have got reports of shootings that one of the ptest sites in lagos, which up until now has remained relatively peaceful. We are waiting on confirmation we are still waiting for confirmation on many casualties. The government has definitely hardened. In terms of trying to appease the protesters, is the government in any way interested in offering them more . The government line is that they have already disbanded sars and there are other demands by the protesters, namely that the police be compensated more to reduce instances of corruption and that the families of victims be compensated the government has not yet addressed some of these issues. The Vice President apologized to nigerians saturday evening, telling them steps will be taken to address their issues. But as people continue to come out on the street and weee mylan snowball we see violence snowball across the cotry, the government has decided enough is enough. It set a curfew in lagos and other parts of the country. How does what we are seeing on the street connect with nigerias traditional political structure . Are any of the main parties aligning themselves with this movement . The movement has been striking. In that it was largely apolitical. It did not even have a clear leader, so to speak. Many of the young people organizing did so on social media, they raised funds traditionally. When their accounts were frozen, they moved to bitcoin. They always faught against having a corrupt leader. They are not affiliated with a political party. Its been said on social media the protesters should galvanize this energy to set up a party for the next president ial elections in 2023. But at the moment, they are dealing with a situation that has spiraled out of control, widespread unrest across the country. We will keep a close eye on that in the coming hours and days. Frances banning a muslim group accused on the accused of the horrific attack on a teacher on tuesday, beheaded after showing characters of the prophet, mohammed, in glass. April,s group april hamas group a pro hamas group will be indicted for the implication the murder. He was the murderer of the teacher, a very good teacher, he worked a lot and was faithful to the republican values. Because he was doing his job in a good way, he was killed. Of course, dying during the Public Service and payi