innings, without jofra archer, without james anderson, with a very satisfied captain. brilliant, clinical performance. i couldn't be more proud of the group, four and a bit days we've been excellent. right from the start. england are 2—1 up with one match to come and one of these sides can't wait forjohannesburg. joe wilson, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. what a wonderful weekend. finally, finally we got some sunshine across the country but pretty cold with it. this was the story this morning in stafford, take a look at this, where do you think this is? i can tell you it's probably not where you think, it's probably not where you think, it's in spain. quite a stormy weekend across parts of the balearics in south—east spain, snow falling to high ground, strong and gale force winds and heavy rain so if you've got friends and family who

jetted off in search of winter sunshine across parts of portugal and spain, it's been pretty disappointing and that frontal system is not moving very far very fast. in actual fact, system is not moving very far very fast. in actualfact, the high pressure, settled weather sits across the uk and it's going to stay with us for most of us throughout the week. you can see plenty of isobars further north and west, this week whether front introducing more cloud, it may be the odd spot or two of drizzle today, further south there is a difference here. lots of sunshine and it's in the chilly side but not too bad. early morning mist and fog lifting away, staying dry, settled and sunny for many, stronger winds into the far north—west, it may be gusting in excess of a0 miles an abbott but here it stays relatively mild. north—south divide in the feel of the weather over the next couple of days, highs of ten or 11 degrees, 7 degrees across england and wales. just down on where they should be for the time of year. we keep clear skies for a time across england and wales over night. that means the potential for more mist

and fog forming, potentially frost as well, anywhere from powys across the midlands to east anglia and the south starting chilly, by contrast further north where the weather front still sits, quite a lot of cloud. again, we could still see some rain from the weather front across scotland, elsewhere fog could be an issue first thing. certainly worth bearing in mind if you are up and about early, tune into bbc local radio for travel and traffic updates. slowly lifting away, tomorrow could be a messy start across england and wales. there could be low cloud, mist and fog. at the same time there could be frost and clear skies and some sunshine. that should start to lift into a decent afternoon. the rain keeps pushing into western scotland, not very heavy and that difference with the feel of the weather yet again. as we push through the middle part of the week high pressure drifting its way south—west and the week whether front, although easing, just introducing more moisture. what does that mean? unfortunately it means more cloud so wednesday could be a

bit of a gloomy day, again still a dryfail bit of a gloomy day, again still a dry fail but quite a lot of cloud around. 0n dry fail but quite a lot of cloud around. on an up note, a little bit milder than it has been. 9—iid. but for most of us, dry week ahead, this is the week to get out and enjoy it because it changes into next week. louise, thank you. a reminder of our top story... prince harry speaks about standing back from royal duties — he described the move as a leap of faith — and made clear that he and meghan had hoped to continue serving the queen — but it wasn't possible. that's all from the bbc news at one — good afternoon. i'm katie shanahan. here is your latest sports news.

england captain joe root here is your latest sports news. england captainjoe root says having young players are stepping up is an exciting place to be after england went to— one up against south africa in their test series. england completed an innings victory in port elizabeth, grabbing the four wickets they needed on the fourth morning of they needed on the fourth morning of the third test. there were centuries from ben stokes and ollie pope in the first innings and five wickets from dom bess. route was understandably happy. right from the start of the opening partnerships out of the game up. challenging conditions. different conditions. still challenging in many ways. it was quite hard to score. at no point did they let them backin score. at no point did they let them back in the game. there were times where i didn't quite happen as fluently where i didn't quite happen as flu e ntly as where i didn't quite happen as fluently as we would have liked. the partnership between ben and ali were something else. really pleasing for ben to continue the form he has been in. he is outstanding. fora ben to continue the form he has been in. he is outstanding. for a young lad like 0llie to play in that manner, are different gears in different stages and to show

everyone, i know he has shown glimpses of it already, but to show eve ryo ne glimpses of it already, but to show everyone that he belongs in this arena and on this stage. the first grand slam of the tennis season the first grand slam of the tennis seasonis the first grand slam of the tennis season is under way in melbourne. british number one dan evans is the first british player into the second round. he beat american mackenzie mcdonald in five sets. with new of that and the highlights of the rest of the day's action he wasjohn watson. it is the first time in his career he has lost the opening two sets to come back and win outright. he is into the second round. he is seeded here for the first time at a grand slam. a lot of pressure will hinge on his shoulders now in the absence of andy murray. kyle edmund was up in his match before rain curtailed his opening round. johanna konta, the third british player due to be out in court today, but again rain forced the cancellation of those matches on the outside courts. they should return tomorrow. they will be backin should return tomorrow. they will be back in action alongside five other british players who will be hoping the rain subsides tomorrow and they

will get the chance to book their place in the second round alongside dan evans. some impressive victories again today. not least from coco gauff, who knocked out venus williams, as he did at wimbledon last summer. serena williams and so —— roger federer made it business as usual. john watson. england head coach eddiejones has john watson. england head coach eddie jones has named john watson. england head coach eddiejones has named eight uncapped players in his 3a man squad for the six nations. 0ne players in his 3a man squad for the six nations. one player likely to miss out is billy vunipola. he broke his arm during saracens win over racing 92 yesterday. it is the fourth time in two years he has broken his arm. england have finished second last year. they open this year's tournament against france on the 2nd of february. the kansas city chiefs will play their first super bowl in 50 years after beating tennessee titans 35—2a to clinch the afc championship. patrick

mahon is running a touchdown as well as throwing this 60 yard pass to set up as throwing this 60 yard pass to set up the victory. it is the second week ina up the victory. it is the second week in a row they have fought back to win. they will play the san francisco a9ers in the super bowl in two weeks. that is all the sport for now. you can find more on all these stories on the bbc sport website, plus live coverage of the short track speed skating at the winter youth 0lympics. many thanks. in the last half hour, the home secretary has reacted to the triple stabbing in essex last night in which three men died. two men, aged 29 and 39, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. priti patel said she was working with scotland yard. this is absolutely appalling. and our sympathies are with everybody involved, the families that have been affected. and clearly, what we see is absolutely dreadful in terms

of the violent nature of the ground that has been reported. at this stage though it is far too early to really give any comment or insight into the actual incident itself. as you would expect i am working with the metropolitan police and the commissioner directly, as we hear more information and we get more intelligence as well with regards to this specific incident. home secretary priti patel. let's hear more now about the uk africa summit which boris johnson hear more now about the uk africa summit which borisjohnson addressed this morning. the prime minister set out his hopes for post—brexit trade to african heads of state, and suggested that britain would become more open to migrants from their continent. he said he looked forward to working together closely with african nations. the uk has a vitaljob in continuing to convince people across the continent we are notjust to convince people across the continent we are not just a to convince people across the continent we are notjust a great friend and ally, a reliable ally, but also the people you should be doing business with. we have no divine right to that business. this

isa divine right to that business. this is a competitive world. you have many suitors. some of you may be off shortly to sample the delights of davos. but look today at what we have to offer. look around the world today and you will swiftly see that of the uk is not only the obvious partner of choice, we are also very much the partner of tomorrow and decades to come. the truth is that in 2020 the uk is the ultimate one—stop shop for the ambitious, growing international economy. if you want investment in a new project or enterprise, just hop on the tube, one stop from here, and you will be in the heart of canary wharf, where, along with its older sibling in the city of london, trillions of pounds of capital are being raised for every venture you can think of, from french construction to african telecoms, to american cancer curing

drugs. in every currency that you have heard of and some that have only recently been invented. it may give you some idea of the scale of the financial services in london when i say that canary wharf is a bigger banking centre than the whole of frankfurt. we have the text, fintech, biotech, green tech, nano tech, tech of all kinds. we have by far the guest tech centre anywhere in this hemisphere. two or three times bigger than any rivals. that works in synergy with our amazing higher education sector. we have all the world's top universities than any other country outside the united states. every year thanks to our commonwealth scholarships, the doors are open to the best and brightest stu d e nts are open to the best and brightest students from every part of africa. and i am proud to say that today one in seven of the world's kings, queen

todd queens, prime ministers, presidents are educated in this country. including the japanese emperor. we have a total global monopoly on the higher education of emperors. thank you. it's true. and if you want to come here to study in our universities, if you want to play a part in the high—tech revolution, if you want to work with the titans of our financial world, then you will be pleased to hear, my friends, that one thing is changing. 0ur immigration system. i know it's an issue that people have raised with me in the past but change is coming and our system is becoming fairerand coming and our system is becoming fairer and more equal, treating people the same wherever they come from by putting people before passports we will be able to attract the best talent from around the world wherever they may be.

the prime minister speaking this morning. the health authorities in china are scrambling to stop the spread of a new pneumonia—like virus, as millions of people prepare to travel for chinese new year. the wuhan health commission has confirmed a third person has died after contracting coronavirus, and china has just confirmed 2i7 cases in total of the virus. now south korea has also confirmed it's first case of the disease. a 35—year—old chinese woman has been isolated by the authorities after she had travelled from wuhan to incheon airport on sunday. and, there are fears the virus might spread to hong kong too. you go to train stations now there are these kind of pop—up screening centres. we have seen officials boarding a planes when they arrive from wuhan in full medical kit, checking everybody‘s temperature before they lead them into the terminal. even though it doesn't seem like that many people, they are

not taking any chances. what they are worried about is this memory of sars. there was an initial cover—up in 2002 when that outbreak happened, leading to more than 700 deaths, 8000 infected. 0fficials leading to more than 700 deaths, 8000 infected. officials in china don't want to see that happening again. they seem to be quite transparent at the moment. the trouble is scientists think there could be many more infected people that the authorities have not yet picked up. stephen mcdonell. the world health 0rganization explained the levels of concern. this is a new virus that has been identified only two weeks ago. so we still don't know much of its features. we are not having enough information to determine how exactly it is being transmitted, what is the source of the virus, how severe it is. so there is still a lot to

learn. however, the good thing is that it has been identified very quickly that china has shared genetic sequence of the virus, so it helped other countries to start testing people. and we had exported cases in thailand, japan and korea. so it is obviously something that everyone needs to monitor. we need to understand really how many people will get severely ill. we have had a couple of casualties, as you mentioned in your report. really we are trying to work with countries to help them monitor this virus and treat those who get sick. time for a look at the headlines. the duke of sussex says there was "really no other option" to stepping down as a senior royal. it was prince harry's first speech since the announcement that he and the duchess of sussex intended to embark on a new life. two men are arrested on suspicion of murder after three men were killed in north—east london.

a leak of a government — commissioned review suggests — the hs2 high speed rail link could end up costing £106 billion. today the bbc has announced a new in—depth online bbc briefing policy got on the issue of immigration, what we have also been asking for your specific questions. plenty of your specific questions. plenty of you have been in touch. area joanna gosling spoke to experts to try to find some answers to those questions in our latest edition of your questions answered. with me to a nswer questions answered. with me to answer your questions, the director of migration 0bservatory, madeleine sumption, and our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani. welcome. question for you dominic. tarquin from northampton asks, you stated 1800 immigrants crossed the channel last year. where are they now? we can't say for sure because

the home office ratherfamously doesn't give a running commentary on individual cases. it's probably worth explaining how the system works. it depends what type of migrants these people are. it is worth bearing in mind it is a very small proportion. if they came in and claimed asylum, say they had a case for protection under international refugee law, the uk has an obligation to look at that as it would do with any other refugee. the company getting factor in this is whether or not that individual has stopped elsewhere in the eu first and effectively been fingerprinted and data based. first and effectively been fingerprinted and databased. let's say they came in via easier, the mediterranean route, may be stopped in greece or italy and got before moving on to calais to cross the channel, the uk has a legal right to effectively ask the eu country that first received that person to take them back in any one year hundreds

of people are sent back. the complicating factor is people aren't actually found because of people being shifted across the continents illegally. they could try to remove those people to another country. in practice that can be very hard. some nations will take people back. critically if you try to put all those people back on the boat to france, the french authorities will say, not our problem. you end up with people in bureaucratic limbo. that is quite complicated. separate rules too for children. if children can show they have a claim on being in the uk as an asylum seeker as a refugee, because let's say an older relative has fled to the war zone previously has made it to uk is under a legal obligation, a very clear legal obligation, to obligation, to try to reunite that family in the best interests of the child. there is a debate in parliament about this at the moment because of a proposal by the committee to effectively sidestep what a lot of parliamentarians say

isa what a lot of parliamentarians say is a wider legal obligation. if they are not asylum seekers, people who basically are coming to work in perhaps clandestinely as illegal migrants, those people won't have a visa. the uk has every legal power to basically say we are going to remove you to the country you came from. again you have the practical issue of actually how fast you can do that. in practice it can be difficult to remove some people. i'm not saying it doesn't happen. lots of people to get removed from the uk. michael from of people to get removed from the uk. michaelfrom edinburgh wants of people to get removed from the uk. michael from edinburgh wants to know at the current rate of immigration what year will white britons become a minority in great britain? this is a tricky one. the straightforward answer is quite possibly never. it's very difficult actually to project. the government doesn't do official projections of the ethnic minority population going forward. there have been some academics attempts to do it looking forward as far as 2050 which suggests non—white people would remain ina suggests non—white people would remain in a substantial minority.

it's really complicated because on the one hand and that of the migrant to come to the uk are white. ethnically they don't get classified as white british. they get are classified as white other. but then in many cases they are children who we re in many cases they are children who were born here will see themselves as white british and they will no longer be part of the ethnic minority population. 0n the non—eu side there are a lot of people who don't see themselves as belonging to an ethnic minority. they may be classified in certain statistics as being part of the non—white population. it's difficult to tell. it was very a lot depending where you are in the uk. if you are in the middle of london the situation looked different compared to somewhere in the countryside where the ethnic minority population tends to be pretty low. morris asks, does the government know how many people are living here illegally? no, it does not. there have been some non—government attempts to estimate

the illegal resident population. that will be people living here without a visa. sometimes those estimates include people who maybe do have a visa to be here but are set working and they are not allowed to. in general, the estimates have beenin to. in general, the estimates have been in the high hundreds of thousands. but you've really got to ta ke thousands. but you've really got to take them with a pinch of salt. the government simply doesn't now. we know how many people roughly have come from other countries and are living in the uk. the government doesn't have records of how ready people have been granted legal status, which is the main thing you would need to know to work out how many are here or otherwise. that is a big gap will stop dominic, after brexit my polish family need a visa to visit me, will my polish family need a visa to visit me for a few days? i have got a dual policy and british passport. she shouldn't worry. as things stand, if you are

an eu citizen, there are no plans to make visitors have visas just to come to the uk on holidays because by definition if we impose that on eu nations they would impose that on us. there is no plan for that. what will happen maybe ten years from now, who knows? we may end up with registering in advance that you are travelling to a country, so the country knows you are going there. new zealand and america operates that. it is nothing —— there is nothing like that in the pipeline. some of those people want to come in a visa and work temporarily, it is highly likely we are going to be in a visa situation for those workers. they will have to apply for some short—term work. they will have to apply for some short-term work. edward from mansfield asks, where does all the refundable money paid as visa and naturalisation fees go to and what does the home office do with the money? this is another controversial

one. the uk has one of the most expensive visa systems in the world. for someone to get indefinite leave to remain, for example, permanent settlement in the uk, it costs more than £2000 for that application. those people will already have paid a few thousand pounds in initial applications along the way. in terms of where it goes, most of that processing money goes to the home office. now the cost of the application is a lot more than it actually costs of the home office to just look at that person's paperwork. but the money gets re cycled paperwork. but the money gets re cycle d to paperwork. but the money gets recycled to other parts of the immigration system, so things like enforcement. there are additional costs that go outside the home office, the famous nhs surcharge, for example, which has been controversial because it is essentially an additional tax on migrants to pay for the nhs in addition to what they pay through income tax. that goes directly to the nhs. what is the total number of

homes built versus total immigration? that is from the seth neil. how long have we got?! keep it snappy. this is really complicated. there is no doubt the population has risen because of migration and that has created additional pressures. but the reason for those pressures is also more come there was a government analysis which said that increased migration is probably put prices of houses up 25%. there are other more important factors affecting house prices and stock. 0ne affecting house prices and stock. one of those is the rise in single households. 8 million people live by themselves now in the uk. a rise in themselves now in the uk. a rise in the divorce rate. 1970, when migration was low, a0,000 people a year got divorced. now it is about 100,000. historically low levels of social housing being built. also, big structural problems as to have fast houses get built. also, the type of houses that get built in the uk. if you compare our housing stock

to germany or the netherlands, less ofa to germany or the netherlands, less of a debate there in some respects about migration in those countries but much denser housing stock. dominic casciani of the bbc ending that debate on immigration. the bodies of 11 ukrainians who died when a ukrainian international airlines flight was shot down over iran earlier this month have been returned home. the ukrainian presidentjoined friends and relatives of the victims at a repatriation ceremony in the capital kyiv. a ukrainian military plane brought the victims of flight ps752 home. nine of the 11 ukrainians who lost their lives were the plane's crew. their coffins draped in the blue and yellow of ukraine's flag. their colleagues turned out to pay their respects. president volodymyr zelensky and prime minister 0leksiy honcharuk were amongst them. relatives and friends gathered

in the airport's main terminal to remember those lost. all 176 people on board the flight were killed. many of them were from canada. canadian investigators have visited iran but say they don't know of any plans as to when and where information on the flights so—called black box will be downloaded. iran said it has no plans to send the flight recorder abroad for a separate analysis. canadian investigators are due to travel to ukraine for talks this week, and canada has called on iran not to delay any investigation. i wrote this morning, to my iranian counterpart, to stress again the wish of canada, the wish of the co—ordination group and i would think the wish of the international community, that the black box be sent to where it should be sent, whether it is ukraine — and i know france has offered its expertise — to make sure we have proper technical expertise when the black box would be opened and that be done

in a very transparent manner. the repatriation of the ukrainian victims follows iran's admission it mistakenly shot down the passenger jet amid increased tension with the us. ukraine has called on iran to compensate families and punish those responsible. rich preston, bbc news. if you're scared of heights, or confined spaces, this is not a story for you. vernon kruger has been sitting in a barrel suspended 25 metres above ground for more than two months. why? to break a guinness world record of sitting "on pole" for 6a days, set by a much younger man — himself, back in 1997. and here is the long pole, and right at the top, the barrel with vernon inside, that overlooks the south african town of dullstroom. the 52—year old has been washing in a small basin and surviving

on food hoisted up by his team in a basket. he's due to come down today after 67 days inside. but his friends are convinced he'll stay put, despite some very bad cramps. isn't the world a strange place? now the weather. hello. for those of you who wanted to dry, settled and so need to start the new year, we have had to be patient. finally we get an area of high pressure across the uk and that will release a good deal of dry weather this week. some subtle differences. a few more isomers further north and west. more cloud. you can see from the morning satellite picture may be picking up the odd spot of drizzle. for the south clearer skies, early morning mist and fog has lifted. for much of england and wales, along with eastern scotland, a good deal of dry and settled sunshine for the

afternoon. more of a strengthening wind into the far north—west costing in excess of a0 to 50 mph in places. with the cloud around it is milder here. eight to 10 degrees under those clear skies. 0n the chilly side. hopefully sometime compensating. with the clearer skies, but to get ready south, temperatures likely to fall away through the night. we could have some mist and fog. which is below freezing here. some of that fog could be done in places. further north and west a milder start. there isa north and west a milder start. there is a weak weather front toppling across the high which could introduce more in the way of rain as we go through tuesday. still that area of high pressure influencing the story. it is worth bearing in mind if you are out early across england and wales, there could be some dense fog in places. we need to keep an eye on that. that will hopefully lift away and we will continue to see a dry story. some sunshine coming through. the weather

front introducing more cloud across perhaps the north—west and into the northern isles. here it stays on the milder side. ten to 11 degrees. for the south, six to 7 degrees. the high pressure is starting to ease down to the south—west. we might just start to see a little bit more moisture being introduced into the story on wednesday. that basically tra nslates story on wednesday. that basically translates as a lot more in the way of cloud. it could be a dull and disappointing day. but still predominantly dry. bits and pieces of nuisance rain into the far north—west. the cloud means it won't be quite as cold. this week mainly dry, unfortunately becoming cloudy with mist and fog.

hello, you're watching afternoon live — i'm simon mccoy. today at 2pm. hs2 costs head further north, as a leaked report suggests spending on hs2 could hit £106 billion — questions are raised over the project's future prince harry speaks out for the first time since deciding to stand back from royal duties — telling of his "great sadness" i want you to hear the truth from me. as much as i can share, not as a prince or a duke but harry. the same person that many of you have watched grow up person that many of you have watched grow up over person that many of you have watched grow up over the past 35 years. end of an episode... the bbc director—general lord hall announces he is to step down in the summer after 7 years in the job