this is bbc news. the headlines at four. the entertainer des o'connor, known for his prime—time tv shows, has died at the age of 88. big hopes for the new coronavirus vaccine from the company behind it — but warnings of a hard winter ahead. we will not have a big impact on the infection numbers with our vaccine in this winter. labour calls for the government to force social media companies to remove anti—vaccine content from their platforms. the uk's chief brexit negotiator insists he won't be changing course ahead of a crucial week in trade talks with the eu. the former liverpool and england goalkeeper ray clemence has died at the age of 72.

good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. one of britain's best known entertainers, des o'connor, has died at the age of 88. the comedian, singer and television star died yesterday in hospital, following a fall at his home in buckinghamshire. he found fame as the host of smash hit prime time shows, in a career spanning nearly seven decades. he'll be remembered for his warmth and versatility as a performer, along with his readiness to laugh at himself. our arts correspondent david sillito looks back at his life. i've kept a list of the insults against des o'connor. des o'connor was, in the ‘70s,

famous, a star — and, on morecambe and wise, the butt of hundreds of gags. but the singer and comedian took it all with good grace. number one. eric — i'vejust heard some good news. ernie — what good news? eric — des o'connor has got a sore throat. nothing seemed to dent that clean—cut, deep—tanned optimism. number two. ernie — des o'connor is a self—made man. eric — i think it's very nice of him to take the blame. # be sure it's true when you say i love you, love you, love you.# his interest in show business had started in the raf and he had been a butlin‘s red coat and learned his craft struggling to get laughs in theatres such as the windmill with an audience that had come for the naked flesh more than the comedy. this fella was always in every day in the front row and on about the third house of the fourth day iforgot, i dried, just couldn't remember what was next. this fella said, "you tell the one

about the parrot next. "oh, thank you very much!" # loneliness # alone you'll always find me.# by the ‘60s he had star billing. he made more than 1,000 appearances at the palladium and recorded 36 albums. the son of a dustman from the east end of london he had gone from a childhood blighted by rickets to tv stardom but he was never going to be one of the cool gang. a little old lady came up to me one day to the stage door and said, "mr o'connor, i have enjoyed your show. "here's £5. could you send me your new lp?" i said, "you can get it for £3 in the shop, "you don't have to give me five." she said, "no, the last time i went into the shop "and asked for a des o'connor lp the guy said, "you're kidding." laughter. as the decades rolled by he remained an almost ageless fixture in the schedules. he married four times.

he was never really fashionable and so never fell out of fashion. it was a career of 60 yea rs of professional, unflappable, good—natu red charm. you have my word. well, that's good enough for me. and when the joke was on him, he was always the first to laugh. laughter and applause. des o'connor who's died, aged 88. the founder of biontech, which has developed a coronavirus vaccine, says its impact will not be felt significantly until the summer. professor ugur sahin stressed that this winter would still be tough, but with a high vaccination rate — life could be back to normal in a year's time.

this winter will be hard. so, we will not have a big impact on the infection numbers with our vaccine in the winter. the bigger impact will happen until summer. summer will help us anyway, because the infection rate will go down in summer, and what is absolutely essential is that we get a high vaccination rate before autumn, winter next year. our health correspondent richard galpin has been giving us more details on what the scientists are saying. some very big claims. basically, the one we have just been talking about, the fact they believe life could get back to normal for everybody next winter, and i think that's probably a lot quicker than many people had ever imagined, and there is a lot of questioning about that. they are saying that it's going to be, they'll have this vaccine rolled out, the vaccine which they have developed, he and his wife in recent weeks, it's obviously a huge development in that,

absolutely a very big, big moment, a brilliant moment in many respects, and they are saying that the vaccine does stop symptoms in infected people and potentially could cut the spread of the virus by 50%. now, i think that claim is one of those which you think, well, that's a really big thing to say, particularly as they don't have all the data at the moment, so maybe he has kind ofjumped ahead of himself a bit too much in that sense. so, the next few months, we will learn more, they will learn more about how this vaccine is working. in terms of long—term immunisation, do we have any idea about that? no, but going back to this, what the caveats are, there are many to what they have been saying about this, in particular, things, basic things like obviously the vaccine needs safety approval first, we don't didn't know how long that's going to happen,

and we don't know if the vaccine will work in elderly patients, and obviously that is very significant given the numbers of people who have been affected by coronavirus in the elderly populations around the world, and we don't know if it actually stops infected people spreading it, which is this idea of transmission, which again is a really, really big issue, and that needs to be dealt with. so, there are huge things. he's put this out there, but there are huge questions about it which need to be answered. having said that, i think there is some hope, for example, if there is mass immunisation in the coming months and into the summer, then possibly it is just possible that by next winter things could be a lot, lot better. labour has called on the government to bring forward legislation that would impose financial and criminal penalties for social media companies that fail to remove anti—vaccination content.

under the plan, social media platforms would have to create filters to prevent disinformation from being published, and to remove anti—vaccine messages if they do appear. katherine da costa has more. with hopes rising of an effective coronavirus vaccine being rolled out by the end of the year, labour is calling for the government to fast—track emergency legislation to stamp out what it calls "dangerous anti—vax content online". the party claims dedicated groups with hundreds of thousands of online followers are still spreading disinformation, which it says poses a real threat to the take—up of the vaccine. labour says it would back legislation which includes financial and criminal penalties for social media giants that failed to act. it's urgent because we have the vaccine on the horizon, thank goodness. and we cannot have anything that is going to prevent or undermine the roll—out of the vaccine programme and create dangers for public health which is what this

anti—vaccination content does. the government insists it takes the issue extremely seriously. in a statement it said it had: but labour has warned the measures do not go far enough and has questioned why anti—vaccine groups are not being closed down. katherine da costa, bbc news. the former england goalkeeper, ray clemence, has died at the age of 72. he was one of the best goalkeepers of his generation, playing for liverpool and spurs before retiring in 1988. our sports correspondent, joe wilson looks back on his life. with liverpool, ray clemence was the goalkeeper who won it all. that was a supreme save. he was a crucial part of a side that dominated english football. 0n five occasions,

he was a league champion. three times he was a european cup winner, in 1977, 78 and 81. in an outstanding side, he was the consistent, reliable presence, virtually ever present. his 665 appearances for liverpool made him one of the most respected players in the club's history, and the liverpool fans maintained their admiration even after clemence had moved on. fantastic reception from the club. he joined tottenham in 1982, and returning to anfield as a spurs player, he was greeted as warmly as ever by liverpool supporters. clemence's spell at tottenham was a success in its own right. he made 300 appearances for them, including an fa cup victory. clemence, who was a tremendous influence. as an international player, ray clemence's golden years coincided with a gloomy time for england, as they failed to qualify for the world cup in 1974 and 1978. clemence also had to share the goalkeeper‘s position

with peter shilton, as england were unable to decide who was first choice, but he still won over 60 caps for his country. 0nce his playing days were done, clemence enjoyed many years as a member of the england coaching staff under various managers. he successfully battled prostate cancer in 2005 to return to his role with the national team. ray clemence was awarded the mbe for his services to football. he was a goalkeeper whose excellence denied opponents for over two decades, a footballer who commanded the very highest respect. oh, what a save! let's speak now to bob wilson, the former arsenal goalkeeper & broadcaster. what a career, but it must be a very sad day for you personally, as well. it is incredibly sad. he is one of the nicest people that you could

ever wish to meet, an absolute gent, and in our recent times together, he has just been an amazing supporter for the charity that my wife and i set up, but as a goalkeeper i can go back to probably his first season and liverpool goal when they face an arsenal side in the 1971 final, and although he managed to get away, managed to get the win, the final whistle, when i went to shake hands, as goalies always do with each other, there was definitely a tear in his eye, and i said to him, ray, i'm 30 years of age now, you'rejust 2122, you've got a chance of coming back again. i'm at the end of my career. i never again played at wembley. he always used to remind me of this. ray went back about 30 or 40 of this. ray went back about 30 or a0 times in that extraordinary career of his. he would have won more than his 61 caps had it not been for the great peter shilton

there, and england being blessed with great goalkeepers, but an absolutely wonderful human being. key member of the squad back in the 70s and 80s, as we all remember, but what made him so special? you're a fellow goalkeeper, what did he have, what did you have, that made you stand out? well, i think, always, there has to be a diamond in your game. in my case, i used to be a little, i always say goalkeepers have to be crazy, but for me it was diving at everyone's feet. in ray's case, it was an incredible agility. he had the most perfect build. so slim, so light feet, so fast on his feet, and he was capable, you know, the goal —— ball would be heading to

your corner and he would bring back a save just from the extraordinary agility, gymnastic agility that obviously you had to have as a goalkeeper, but we all have a diamond in ourgame, goalkeeper, but we all have a diamond in our game, but rages set examples, and he set example is not just on the field of play but in his fight with his cancer, because we have known, even though he kept seeing each other at golf events over the years, he has been heightening all sorts of cancer all over the years, he hasjust heightening all sorts of cancer all over the years, he has just been an amazing example of people facing serious illness, and he has this lovely fa m ily serious illness, and he has this lovely family with his wife, and this is the saddest of days, and we all send our love. and he was a superstar. people remember the saves he did. i'm looking at the transfer

fees, because even though they are very small now by comparison, there still quite large, i thought, for the era. was he the first goalkeeping superstar of that time, do you think? the figures were reasonably high, were they? yeah, i mean, we are talking about the time when i played in that cup final against ray, my salary at the time is about £100 a week, so it has changed a little bit over the years. ray did fall into the, just as it started to blossom, as regards wages almost spiralling out of control, but he was one of the first ones who is earning what he deserved because the game is as popular as it was, and he set examples right across the goalkeeping family. it's the only thing i can say about ray, because he always had time for people, he a lwa ys he always had time for people, he always would, you know, if you stopped him, if you rang him, if you

bumped into him on holiday or whatever it might be, he would a lwa ys whatever it might be, he would always give you time, and that is a precious thing. he would always recognise how lucky he had been to become a famous goalkeeper as he was, and we all, as keepers, have massive highs and desperate lows, and throughout all of that, whether it bea and throughout all of that, whether it be a high or a low, you always got the same ray clemence smile, and it is such a sad, sad day for all of us, for anybody who loves football, and particularly, obviously, the fa ns and particularly, obviously, the fans of liverpool and tottenham hotspur. bob wilson, thank you for coming on and talking about ray clemence, thank you. donald trump has appeared to acknowledge for the first time that his democratic rivaljoe biden won the us presidential election — but he's also reiterated unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.

writing on twitter in the past couple of hours, president trump said biden won "because the election was rigged." despite losing the election earlier this month, mr trump has so far refused to concede — and his legal efforts have so far been unsucessful. we can speak now to our north america correspondent will grant who's in washington. what we read into this? acknowledgement that the election is lost, but still no concession. yeah, it's hard to know whether this was a sort of slip of the fingers, almost, 01’ sort of slip of the fingers, almost, ora sort of slip of the fingers, almost, or a deliberate point. i think what happened, really, is he was saying he had one because, and then repeated the slew of unsubstantiated allegation cook, and that got picked on very quickly by biden's supporters who are looking for any chances might actually be the concession they were waiting for, and then he was quite quick,

president trump, just turn around and say, i can see nothing. so, that is where we still are, he refuses to concede, and really that looks like this is about as far as he will go. he will always, i think, claim that he somehow won this election that he was only denied victory by a kind of conspiracy involving the left and the media and so on and so forth. of course, this can't go on forever, andi course, this can't go on forever, and i think we have got the cut—off point of december to 12, is it, where legally this has got to be resolved. how many legal actions, legal suits are still being played? well, its variety, but they seem to be falling, a lot of them, at the very first hurdle. just over the past a8 hours, he has had difficulties in some of the key battlegrounds. there was arizona, where they dropped a lawsuit in maricopa county because the number of ballots they were talking about are far fewer of ballots they were talking about are farfewer than of ballots they were talking about are far fewer than would overturn

the result in the state forjoe biden. also results in mexican, and decisions against them in pennsylvania. —— results in michigan. even the questions are talking about, let alone the entire election, so it looks like the legal avenues are narrowing, and you're right, there is a cut—off point. i think you will take it as far as you can, and continue to say that he does not see that the election went against him, i will simply keep taking further. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's gavin. miss hamilton has won a record equalling title. he shares the title

now with schumacher. when formula 1 meets a slippery track, suddenly it's like ice. like that. one of the early spinners, the black mercedes of valtteri bottas, theoretically lewis hamilton's rival for the world title. all hamilton really had to do was keep going, and trust his car. but, for hamilton, everything was working. he didn't need to win this race. lewis hamilton takes the lead. but he always needs to win. hamilton's 9ath grand prix victory was its own triumph. lewis hamilton wins the turkish grand prix. he's won more races than anyone. now a seven time world champion, same as michael schumacher. that's the journey. that's for all the kids out there who dream the impossible.

statistically, put simply, number one. joe wilson, bbc news. dustinjohnson is the man to catch at the us masters, with the final day at augusta under way. he was four shots ahead of the field — on 16 under as he searches for a first green jacket. rory mcilroy is gaining today, he's on 10 under now. the pack are closing in a bit on dj, sunjae im just two shots behind. scotland have lost their first game since qualifying for the european championship. slovakia — who qualifed for next years tournament themselves after beating northern ireland on thursday night — scored the only goal of the game throuthan gregus in the first half. scotland lose their 9 match unbeaten run. but still top the group.

all the home nations are involved in nations league action today — later england are away at group leaders belgium. northern ireland are away to austria. and are wales looking to move a step closer to winning their group, when they take on republic of ireland. there's been more history for britain's adam peaty today. the olympic champion has broken the 100 meters breastroke world record, for the first time in his career. peaty — who's in the black cap near the top of the screen — set a time of 55.a9 in the semi—finals of the international swimming league. he does hold the longcourse world record in both the 50m and 100m breastroke, but hasn't held a short course record until now. the atp finals are under way — the end of season tournament featuring the world's best eight players is being played at the o2 arena for the final time before moving to turin. dominic thiem and stefanos tsitsipas are playing now in the first match in what is a repeat of last year's final.

as we've been hearing, ray clemence, the former liverpool, tottenham and england goalkeeper — has died at the age of 72. clemence was regarded as one of the greats of goalkeeping and won three european cups, five league titles, an fa cup and a league cup as a player. clemence played 61 times for england and later went onto become a coach in the national team set up before retiring in 2013. the club where he spent the majority of his career, liverpool, paid tribute today — saying they are ‘deeply saddened' by his passing. clemence had been living with advanced prostate cancer since 2005. think we can go to alan kennedy now, former left back from liverpool from 1978 to 86. thank you forjoining us

what's your reaction. i personally am devastated at the news. i only heard in the last five 01’ news. i only heard in the last five or ten minutes about the passing of ray. we knew how bad it was a few weeks ago when we unveiled a memorialfor him at weeks ago when we unveiled a memorial for him at liverpool football club, but it's very, very sad when you hear this news, and he was just such an influence, certainly on me as a youngster coming into the liverpool team, he was very reassuring, he told me where to go and how to do things, andi where to go and how to do things, and i learnt a lot from him. it was just fantastic. everybody very much saying similar stuff to you today, so, in terms of how he will be regarded as a goalkeeper, one of the

greats of all time. what is your opinion on that? at the time, england had one or two that were pretty decent at the time, but i think ray topped the list, and... i'm really sorry, we appear to have lost alan's signal, there, talking about the sad death of ray clemence at the age of 72. that's all the sport, we will have more later. we we re sport, we will have more later. we were just talking to bob wilson, the same stories about his compassion, and the great technique. let me just bring you some uk figures on coronavirus. uk reporting 2a,962 new cases on sunday, that is down from 26,800 on saturday, but normally these figures are lower at the

weekend. the daily numbers of new deaths reported after the new test, the way of measuring the figures now, fell to 168. that is down from a62 on saturday, the cumulative total now, 501000, a62 on saturday, the cumulative total now, 50 1000, 900 and —— 51,90a. the environment secretary, george eustice, says he believes a trade agreement with the eu is still possible, as talks resume in brussels this week. mr eustice insisted the departure of borisjohnson's senior adviser, dominic cummings, would have no impact on the negotiations. ireland's foreign minister, simon coveney, has warned there will be no deal if the british government presses ahead with legislation that would breach international law. 0ur political correspondent, jonathan blake, reports. day after day this week the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier has arrived for talks on a trade deal with the uk, but at this late

stage there has been little sign of progress. both sides maintained they want to do a deal in time for the deadline of december the 31st, and as far as the uk is concerned, it should be straightforward. the prime minister last week said that we needed to reenergise and the eu really needed to focus and refresh their mandate in these final weeks, because, yes, on many areas, progress has been made and agreements exist, and a lot of text has been drafted. there are these sticking points around, for instance, fisheries, around state aid rules. they can be resolved. we are not asking for anything miraculous. we are really asking for what other countries like norway and canada already have. arriving in brussels today for more talks in the coming week, the uk's chief negotiator, lord frost, said there had been some progress in a positive direction in recent days, but added the two sides might not reach agreement, and that either way, people and businesses must prepare

for the change that is coming on the 31st of december. the departure of dominic cummings as the prime minister's senior adviser makes no difference to the government's position, it claims. 0ne eu country is clear, a breakthrough is needed for a deal to be done. this is very difficult, but it is also very doable, and i think the consequences of not getting a trade deal and a future relationship deal, of course, which goes beyond trade, because there is a whole range of other things that the eu and the uk need to facilitate each other on, as well. the consequences of not getting a future relationship agreement in place before the end of the year, i think, is very, very significant for britain and ireland in particular, but also for a number of other eu countries, as well. time is running out. the government is trying to ram home the point that deal or no deal, change is coming. exactly what rests on the outcome of negotiations. jonathan blake, bbc news.

jk rowling delighted fans during lockdown with the surprise announcement that she was releasing a brand new book. when she gave children across the world the chance to help illustrate it, the author received more than 18,000 competition entries. joanna prior has been to meet one of the lucky winners. lockdown in spring. rainbows and clapping for carers. thousands of children swapped school for home learning, and to help lift spirits in uncertain times, jk rowling began releasing instalments online of her new mythical story the ickabog, for families at home to enjoy. it was really happy because in lockdown it was a really hard time because we couldn't really see our grandparents. when the chapters came out, it was a really good book and it made me feel better. rowling wanted her young audience to be involved in the adventure and invited them to enter

a competition to illustrate the book. evelyn's drawing of the title character is one of 3a selected for inclusion. aged eight years old at the time, she's among the youngest successful artists involved. there were more than 18,000 entries from around the world. my mind went boom! and then i was so excited, i really wanted to see the book. i really wanted to see the book when it arrived, and i really wanted to just see my picture in the book. it's right there! rowling originally wrote the book a decade ago as a bedtime story for her own children. her manuscript came out of the attic to entertain a generation in lockdown. and as we return to more restrictions on how we live, jk rowling says that she's donating all the royalties of the book to groups who've been particularly affected by the covid pandemic.