retailers and consumers are hoping to put the strain of 2020 behind them, but they've yet to see which way the wind will be blowing. dharshini david, bbc news. buckingham palace says the queen and the duke of edinburgh will be spending a quiet christmas this year at windsor castle. by tradition they usually spend time with other members of the royal family at sandringham. it is thought it will the first time in more than 30 years that the queen hasn't travelled to norfolk for christmas. in the champions league tonight, liverpool reached the knockout stages by beating ajax 1—0 at anfield to top their group. meanwhile manchester city, who have already progressed, were held to a goalless draw in porto, as andy swiss reports. for liverpool, the equation was simple. just a draw against ajax would take them through to the knockout stage, but if the maths were straightforward, the match was a little trickier. curtisjones so nearly fired liverpool ahead, as ajax looked rattled. but gradually, they found their feet. only a fine save from stand—in

keeper caoimhin kelleher ensuring it was goalless at the break. and after it, ajax came even closer. now it was their turn to be denied by the post. liverpool were wobbling, butjust when they needed it, a goalkeeping gaffe. commentator: williams with a teasing cross... ona na lost it! jones the scorer. and he could barely believe his luck. quite what ajax keeper andre onana was doing, only he will know. but liverpool weren't complaining. ajax kept pressing, though, and in the closing minutes, only kelleher‘s brilliance kept them out. liverpool's 1—0 win was enough to take them through — and you could see the relief. manchester city, meanwhile, had already safely qualified before their game against porto. and playing in black, they were soon on the attack. ferran torres with an early chance, but he couldn't take it — to his all too obvious frustration. and there was plenty more to come, as after the break, the porto goal seemed to lead a charmed life. city doing everything, it seemed,

apart from actually score. commentator: how did that stay out? and even when gabrieljesus did find the net, it was offside. a goalless draw for city, but the fact they'll now qualify as group winners should be ample consolation. andy swiss, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. good evening. i'm riz lateef. as we've been hearing, mps have voted through the government's hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are olivia utley, deputy leader writer for the sun, and broadcaster and author john kampfner. welcome to you both. it's been a busy past few hours, hasn't it? let's kick off with everything

that's been coming in. let's start with the financial times. it leads on the news that debenhams stores are set to close, after the failure of last—ditch efforts to rescue the ailing store chain. the guardian focuses on the vote in the past few hours. the prime minister suffered a rebellion in the house of commons, after 55 of his own mps voted against his plan for a new tougher tier system for england. the same story makes the front page of the i. it says the scale of the rebellion could leave borisjohnson on shaky grounds in any future lockdown votes. according to the daily telegraph, the nhs is to begin providing a coronavirus vaccine as early as this weekend. the daily mail welcomes the news that care home residents in england will be able to hug their relatives once again, thanks to a national

roll—out of rapid covid tests. and the metro reports that the queen will spend christmas at windsor castle and not sandringham, as is her usual tradition. right, let's kick off, olivia. let's look at the front on the telegraph, and injustice are providing vaccine within days. pretty bad day for the prime minister politically, but this rather caught me by surprise, vaccines could be given as early as next monday, within just a few hours of the nhra — that is the governing body — signing off. of the nhra — that is the governing body - signing off. this sounds absolutely brilliant. as you say, it has not been signed off, but it looks like they will be given the green light over the weekend, and then the vaccine will be started to roll out in a few hours. that will give us quite a big head start over the rest of europe, which does not look like it will make a decision one way or another until after

christmas, and it is amazing. some of the details they have got in this telegraph article, one hospital in london is planning a three day intensive vaccination programme number working 13 hours a day to get all of its health care staff vaccinated immediately, which is just incredible, literally hours after the vaccine has been approved, so after the vaccine has been approved, so that is brilliant. it is also... there are a few quite interesting details there. when the storage requirements for the pfizer vaccine are quite difficult, it's got to be stored at a certain temperature and cannot be moved more than four times, which means that it looks like the first vaccine is going to be rolled out in hospitals to health care staff, when actually first on the priority list we re ca re actually first on the priority list were care home residents and staff, so were care home residents and staff, so that is interesting. it might not

be rolled out in the order we wanted to be rolled out because of the storage requirements, but basically this could be a very positive story. they have got the armed forces involved, we all trust the armed with these sort of thing, so this could be good news. world beating — finally, we might get something right! john kampfner, that would please number 10, wouldn't it? but it could be the uk will be the first uk —— the first eu country... -- the first eu country... you say eu country? i'mjust being technical. it is great news. this government has a masterful track re cord government has a masterful track record over the last eight months of promising great success on covid, always to fall flat on its face about two days later, so pardon my

caution by saying i will believe it when i see it, but if it does happen, it will be great. this drug was developed in germany. it is not the astrazeneca oxford one, and you can bet your bottom pound that if the brits had been first to get the vaccine, as the government was trying to get the union flag on the packaging and all that kind of thing, they would be a lot more hullabaloo thing, they would be a lot more hulla baloo about the thing, they would be a lot more hullabaloo about the origins of this vaccine, be that as it may, this is great. it is cumbersome to deliver, as olivia has pointed out, but, yes, if we show some very non—johnsonian competence in the coming weeks and do manage to vaccinate people, particularly health care workers, who i think should be the first in line, without them, things are incredibly difficult, then the next will be care homes and the very

elderly and rolling it back, so it could well be that the first quarter next year will begin to see an easing of restrictions. that's still a long way off. 0k, just one less point on this, olivia. eight hours after being signed off by the nhra, they could start. it does seem as if they could start. it does seem as if they have got everything in place here, just even with this weekend and then the various science and centers that have been allocated for this —— centers that have been allocated for this -- mhra. yes. the telegraph article mentions a few big centers being secondary —— singled out. all of these mass cities, being able to inoculate thousands a day, they do seem to have worked at the logistics of this. i will agree, have worked at the logistics of this. iwillagree, i believe have worked at the logistics of this. iwill agree, i believe it when i see it, but as i mentioned, the fact that the armed forces seem

to be heavily involved is a very good sign. we remember when the nightingale hospitals needed to be erected in, what was it, ten days? and the armed forces came up trumps and actually delivered. that was one area where we did succeed. if the armed forces are helping out again, i have got high hopes. from a high to, well, a low. the i — major tory rebellion hits chance of future lockdowns. i cannot remember a lobby fleeing... this is a moment where i feel a rare noticeably for the government and for boris johnson, because you can dice it and slice it in different ways around him or should it have been counties, and city boundaries? should they have gone for smaller delineations of

where the problems are at their greatest? but we are completely in sync with other countries and trying to clamp down. a lot of countries are not coming out of lockdown or their own versions of lockdown until only two or three days before christmas, so we are coming out of this like, let's see what happens in these next weeks, let's see if these five days of christmas will come as some people fear, create 25 days of difficulty straight afterwards. and in no way, those predominately tory — there are only a few labour — rebels... they knew labour having declared it would abstain, the government would not lose on this, so government would not lose on this, so it was a fairly easy rebellion to undertake. what do you think, olivia? how damaged is borisjohnson by it? |

olivia? how damaged is borisjohnson by it? i actually disagree with that. i think it is not particularly easy for new conservatives... boris johnson won this stocking majority last december. they want promotions as much as the next person, but they stood up to this, and i do not think they did this cynically knowing they would win. they believe these are a mess. yes, iagree would win. they believe these are a mess. yes, i agree there is a point in keeping some lockdown assertions in place, but when you're debating the macro it is ridiculous it matters whether a scotch egg means a main meal... these researches have gone so far. pubs in this tier can open, that would next sense, but it just feels like a serious infringement. and just sort of a half—baked infringement. and just sort of a half—ba ked idea infringement. and just sort of a half—baked idea generally. i and, well, i fully support the rebels, andi well, i fully support the rebels, and i do not think they were doing is cynically at all and etiquette is

a big problem for borisjohnson. it looks like a prime minister who has lost control, standing there at the no lobby, and i thing it is a sign of things to come because as i think the i has said, if they're not going to agree on what happens next time? john, in ten seconds, politically opportunistic by labour?|j john, in ten seconds, politically opportunistic by labour? i am cold oi'i opportunistic by labour? i am cold on the wreck of the moment for him there sitting on the fence on some of these crucial issues, as olivia has pointed out, and that sort of trying delay, a very blairite approach, does not win support with voters. onto the mail. care home hugs for christmas, but with quite a lot of caveats in terms of ppe and every thing else, but the first

visits could start tomorrow. just talk us through it. yeah, so this is a mail campaign that care home residents should be allowed to have two visitors per week, no matter what tear either they or their visitors are written, as long as they have been cleared for covid by a test beforehand, and this is really brilliant news, because it is easy to say that care homes of the most dangerous places, therefore we should just have a felt and braces approach, no one should be visiting at all, but honestly the effect that we have seen, the sun, we have been reporting on this for months, really old people living by themselves, theirfamilies are old people living by themselves, their families are usually the one remaining hold on life and they not seeing theirfamilies remaining hold on life and they not seeing their families anymore and it is... there is a clear case that it is... there is a clear case that it is increasing dementia, making dementia much worse, and the loneliness epidemic. we were

reporting this mad stat in the sun and not having one person to call your friend is and not having one person to call yourfriend is bad for your and not having one person to call your friend is bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, so we cannot just ignore as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, so we cannotjust ignore the health impacts of lockdown, so i think this is great it has come through even with the caveats. and for some people, the first time they will of seen anyone people, the first time they will of seen anyone since people, the first time they will of seen anyone since march. john, can i move you onto the ft? debenhams failure, terrible news for another 12,000 retail workersjust failure, terrible news for another 12,000 retail workers just before christmas. the splash is debenhams failure since mortars connect tremors through brick and mortars retail. what fascinates me, debenhams, private equities role in what has gone wrong over the last 20 yea rs. what has gone wrong over the last 20 years. private equity as part of all kinds of retail, title make

at one point —— boots,. this euphemism of getting rid of staff, dave entered into some ill—advised lung rents that have tied companies in and made them less likeable, i mean, this is with debenhams and the news of the last couple of days of philip green's empire, that is 25,000 jobs —— less flexible. either definitely going to go, some might stay if some of the shops are maintained and repurposed and bought by other retail empires. this goes, the demise of the high street, or put it this way, the demise of a certain version of the high street, was happening long before covid. this is fast forwarded and there is a lot of this future obligee around

life after covid that