vaccine shot on live tv, to encourage people to have the injection. it's confirmed that president—electjoe biden will receive his vaccination on monday. hundreds of schoolboys have been reunited with their families a week after they were abducted from their school in northern nigeria. government officials said all three—hundred—and—forty—four of those who were kidnapped were freed and that local bandits were responsible the spread of covid—19 is accelerating in the uk —— with the crucial r number now back above one. health leaders are warning of significant pressure on the health service in the lead up to christmas. as talks continue the eu's chief negotiator tells the european parliament time is running out to reach a brexit trade agreement. michel barnier says it is "the moment of truth" for both

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are michael booker, deputy editor at the daily express, and susie boniface, columnist for the daily mirror. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. fears of a third lockdown leads the i. that's after the pm refused to rule out stricter restictions after christmas. happier news leading the telegraph with reports that the oxford vaccine is just days away from being approved, with a roll—out looking likely forjanuary. the financial times focuses on brexit tomorrow and the news that french police are going to begin patrolling eurostar trains to monitor goods entering the eu — it also shows scenes of long queues of lorries at dover today.

the scottish daily mail leads on news that the scotland public health minister has been forced to resign just days after the country recorded its highest number of drug related deaths. and the daily express leads with the queen, and reports that buckingham palace is ordering secrecy over the monarch‘s christmas speech. her words are meant to be particularly ‘personal and poignant‘ this year. and finally the sun's front page says the duchess of cornwall will appear on bbc‘s strictly come dancing. they report that camilla is a huge fan of the show and will feature in two pre—recorded clips for the final show tomorrow. so, let's begin.

i've spotted the jumper, you flicked it around, susie. i've spotted the jumper, you flicked itaround, susie. michael, let's go back to serious things. on the weekend, we are talking about a third lockdown looming across the united kingdom. yes, if you look across the majority of the front pages, that is the major theme is the idea that once christmas is over, the truncated christmas, we are going to be celebrating, there is going to be stricter measures and even as we mentioned earlier, and the possibility of stricter measures in the southeast as early as tomorrow with this mutant strain that seems to be infecting people more regularly than previous strains and so, as they are saying, there is and so, as they are saying, there is a chance that there could be more than 4000 extra infections every day and 4000 extra people in the hospital extra days and instead, the

idea that schools are going to struggle injanuary idea that schools are going to struggle in january to get this testing in the system of the government would like to have in place give that extra week to put that in but again, the union is saying there was support any teachers that say they cannot do that and so it is a bit gloomy news but they have a lovely picture of 108—year—old who is in a care home and has been injected with the vaccine and why the first that is the holder of the government has, the holder of the government has, the vaccination programme to get up and running properly and it's not that it can be half million people vaccinated by the end of this weekend and so there are two sides to it. i think the stricter lockdown coming, whether the quality of four or national lockdown that appears to be the same thing and injanuary, there is a case of enjoyable christmas that were going to have,

be careful and looks like the up down is coming. i need to double ta ke down is coming. i need to double take when i find out how old she was. how old is she? she is 108. your thoughts on the front page. we have been constantly presented with whatever it is, brexit or coronavirus, something of crisis that appears to have come out of nowhere and surprised everybody and if you really rack your rain, it's not that hard, you can kind of recall mentioning not long ago and thatis recall mentioning not long ago and that is because i don't know how or why or whether or not the government is generally surprised by these things that keep happening whether they just not plan things that keep happening whether theyjust not plan forward of that pa rt theyjust not plan forward of that part of its messaging and somehow keeping us on side by pretending this all new and fresh we weren't expecting this all to happen. we knew there's going to be more infections, we knew they're going to

be more mutations to the of coronavirus, we knew that the vaccine was hopefully going to be coming into the future but it was not going to be quick enough fix winterfor not going to be quick enough fix winter for us not going to be quick enough fix winterfor us and not going to be quick enough fix winter for us and instead not going to be quick enough fix winterfor us and instead of not going to be quick enough fix winter for us and instead of having a prime minister was going to have these things coming and this is of these things coming and this is of the government plans to deal with the government plans to deal with the long—term, we've had a prime minister who has said, let's get christmas back on again, i don't wa nt to christmas back on again, i don't want to cancel christmas, it is a british writer something. and consequently, now he has to act surprised by do not know if he is an act but i know it is damaging to our faith in the government and that is not a political point, that is an issue of messaging. if you do not act competent, you're treated like you're competent and the government ina you're competent and the government in a that lack of authority is fatal. it is literally fatal. it's killing people. we come back to the argument that yes, you damaging trust, it is damaging for the

government but there are having to balance the economy here, they cannot keep going into lockdowns. we have early in the wii, the chancellor extending from the once again by another month and it is clear that they are providing more lockdowns more disruptions to peoplesjobs and lockdowns more disruptions to peoples jobs and working life as a result of more action that is coming and they have to be prepared for that until the vaccinations take hold there's enough people with that and enough of the vulnerable who have been in the sights of the virus anymore. so, there is this balancing act that they have had to do. he staggered towards christmas and the nhs still has not been totally overwhelmed and they want to avoid that in the credit to them, after this balancing act, they have managed to do that so far and there's a lot more pressure building up there's a lot more pressure building up and clearly people in the nhs,

they deserve a christmas as well and unfortunately, they are going to have lot of restraint, but they are damned if they do and damned if they don't, trying to get a few days off ofa don't, trying to get a few days off of a christmas, he is not telling people to go wild but he'sjust trying to get people who have not seen each other for nine months and maybe a year, little bit of a chance to break bread and have a little bit of turkey. so, it's not that future referral they have been clear about this is that has risen. i think the change of the best they and yes, there have been more people dead than wished but it is very difficult job that they're having to do they think that a lot of people see that. let's turn to the front page of the telegraph that is talking about vaccines and the possible solutions. this is the one combination before the new year. it's taking longer to

get approved because initial data shown it's at different effects in different age groups depending on how long you get the distance between the two jabs. taking longer to go through it. i read the story once oi’ to go through it. i read the story once or twice before and i think it was the telegraph or a different newspaper, but it came through and there have been lots of talk about how they're going to be any day now. luckily, we have pfizer. this will be more simpler and there is an online calculator that will tell you online calculator that will tell you on the queue, i did it for my pa rents on the queue, i did it for my parents that are both in the 70s i did not have any underlying health conditions for the current vaccine probe programme. programme, i put my details and then i'm not going to get mine and into june or september, which is fine, i'm not the most at risk but if we get a second vaccination coming in,

depending on who may qualify for that because it may be more useful to some age groups and others, then that waiting list should be shortened in theory, you can after vaccination quicker and we get out of this pandemic sooner. the problem with that is just any people to administer the injections. you can let people doing to themselves. and we have enough people to do several vaccinations once? we will open up some football stadiums and conference centers, but how's that going to operate in very extreme rural areas where people just do not have access to that sort of mass testing facility and how are you going to supply the staff and volu nteers going to supply the staff and volunteers to run it? there's been lots of training going on i hope it all works but they may be vaccines put delivering it into your arm, it may not work. and if i get terribly excited about it, .

may not work. and if i get terribly excited about it,. in terms of accessibility, i know that initially the oxford astrazeneca vaccine will be coming from the netherlands and germany but manufacturing can take place anywhere in the uk? there will be one coming from abroad in belgium in particular and there are many ready to go and manufacturing and i will be easier to store the vaccine that we have got at the moment but, this story is written virtually hundred percent positively without any clauses that this can be anything negative about it and so it is written in this way. but they're great positives to be taken from this and they're talking about how there could be between 20 million people vaccinated by the end of march and that's with the government wants to hear and i don't know if that's going to be briefed by then. or they want the positivity out there in the want, they want people

once christmas is over, they want people to have something to look forward to be very hard to keep locking down and putting people plus plus livelihoods at risk and so, the idea again, once the christmases of the way, the vaccine carried that there would have to convince people that lockdown is a good idea because it doesn't seem to be any other option at the moment in the lateral flow tests and the problems they're having with getting that approved by the regulators and so, they better get on the vaccine and they hoping that's going to the 28th of the 29th of december when the regulator approves this and that is the date thatis approves this and that is the date that is given in the story and as little bit more flesh to it than earlier than being regulated in the hope that it is true and we do hope it's going to go into some peoples arms and put more on the ground in january because that's the only way out of the moment. let's turn the page to the scottish daily mail and by getting rid or changing the person in charge, is likely to get

to make the problem go away. if voice of the problem with drugs, haven't they in scotland? drug history? no. and —— throughout history. throughout scotland, they're trying to crack down on it and there is that they're going to try to cling onto hisjob and there is that they're going to try to cling onto his job and the first minister called them and to have a chat with him and you know, left him alone with the silver hand to do left him alone with the silver hand todoa left him alone with the silver hand to do a decent thing and so she has resigned and it's been very difficult and i'm going to move on to someone else difficult and i'm going to move on to someone else can difficult and i'm going to move on to someone else can sort it out and yes, you are right, that may not actually change anything much practically on the ground but it makes the government look authoritative and makes nicholas sturgeon look like she's in charge and there is an image in an impression and a message that failure will not be tolerated and compare that to borisjohnson and

his government and even as mayor of london as well. when something goes wrong, he protects the person who is linked to it. whether it is their fault or not, it's irrelevant to your native country if to make it look like you're in charge when something has gone wrong and you fix it. so in dominic cummings goes in, and after six months, they going to downing street again, priti patel has been bullying inadvertently and should be fired and within a few motion to be rehabilitated. that is how this works. and to keep them imposed, spends political capital and expense public goodwill and even if you've got majority, you see and are ready polling and surveys about support for boris johnson, that sta rts support for boris johnson, that starts of an impact and it has an impact with tory back benches were splitting more ways than strictly come dancing voters are at the moment and who are desperate to develop a start and think about possible leadership challenges in

the new year and for one that when a massive landslide a few months ago, thatis massive landslide a few months ago, that is unprecedented in its because he has held onto the spritz of his administration that have done something wrong. nicholas sturgeon has shown him how to do it for the mac repeatedly during this pandemic and has always followed her example eventually. i think susie has twisted the history will be there. the last six year, drug deaths have been growing in scotland and they have doubled under nicholas sturgeon being in charge. when this was announced on thursday, she said she was going to work with the health minister to change things around. the daily record in scotland, the splash the headline that talk is cheap the big picture of nicholas sturgeon. she then reacted, funnily

enough, they decided after a meeting with her that it may be time for himself to go and so i don't think it will matter particularly and she has decided to appoint a drugs minister, but this is been known as scotland shame for the past six years, the worst drug death rate in europe and i don't think it should nicholas sturgeon and a good light at all. she is still has them by the borisjohnson. at all. she is still has them by the boris johnson. on a different issue. it's about authority. it does not work for a joint discussion, does it. let's move onto a new subject. it could've been really interesting as well as we started that but they're looking at a proposal to solve or tackle the chaos. having said, the prince having said increased officers in the french saying that they would

expect them to be patrolling the euro store and depending on what is or is not decided in this possible trade deal with bricks at the end of this year, who knows, frankly at this year, who knows, frankly at this stage would either side is staying is going to happen, i think we re staying is going to happen, i think were going to have a deal at some point because if we do not have one before the end of this year, will happen fairly soon afterwards because they're going to go back in the talks in the new year and i think the failure of not getting a deal at this stage would be so great that both sides are going to compromise in ways that they want but they absolutely will have to get that deal. it's good if you're in the customs game because each side needs to appoint more and more customs officers of the next week or so customs officers of the next week or so and so if we do have another go, but he just men with rubber gloves and the new suitcases. at the moment, i do agree with susie and we will have to get to a deal at some point but the rhetoric of both sides

is what we're going to do in a negotiation and the toughest possible and hope you're doing gives in. michel barnier taught us how there was only a few hours left we can measure any length of time in hours i suppose, so there could be 72 hours at 365,000 hours, but there's only hours before the deal is done and i agree, it will be done but it may go right down to the wire. and with the safety very quickly in the front page of your paper and the queen speech being really tightly kept under wraps. it has been kept under wraps because they wanted to be fresh three o'clock on christmas day and we want everyone o'clock on christmas day and we want everyone watching it because it is believed that she does have a particularly heartfelt message for the nation this year and she has done that all year mentioned earlier that she has given speeches at key times during the pandemic and she has seen the government ask her initially to do the first speech

because they wanted her to be this focal point and keep spirits up in the pandemic was at its first height as things went along, they got a speech on the day which millions of people tuned in for and also this speech to keep it under wraps, they watch it on friday. you brought up strictly earlier, so you have got the sun, take it away. i have got the sun, take it away. i have a four—year—old girl have got the sun, take it away. i have a four-year-old girl was terribly afraid of this and this blew her mind that princess camilla as she causes going to be on television. we cannot wait in this house. we are spangle it up for it. i think we should see a photo of that. any ideas as to what she's going to be saying? well, she's

going to be saying? well, she's going to be talking about how she has been voting because people sing press the button, like mine does. and she said that she knows she's been a fan for years and she has been a fan for years and she has been charity work with some of the dancers and she has had socially distance recording with a few of them and will be interesting to see, i'm sure. and will you be striking a pose was blue i hope she will be like herbie instead and this is not been i, she did not get a good showing on that, so hopefully everyone showing on that, so hopefully everyone will be watching strictly instead. michael booker, susie, thank you very much. i'd better sign off. that is of the papers. have a weekend. goodbye.

good evening. some of britain's most successful olympic sports are set to lose millions of pounds in support in a major shake—up of how they are funded by the government. swimming and rowing are among those taking a hit, whilst sports new to the olympics, such as skateboarding and climbing, willall gainfunding. here's our sports editor dan roan. for two decades, team gb has established themselves as olympic and paralympic power houses. but amid mounting concerns that metals were all that mattered, there was a shift with a wide range of sports funded and an emphasis on winning in the right way. there's a chance that some of the medals will be affected, but we still believe in the efficiency made that will still be able to deliver great results because this system is still about winning as of a great success.

of that success is delivered is important. more sports and every sport doing it better. the funding plan was basketball, giving more than £1 million of the previous cuts despite its popularity. knowing the big additions like climbing and surfing among 43 sports also given support. skateboarding will also feature for the first time in tokyo and is another rewarded for its potential to increase participation and reach broader audiences. creating the world talented performers and other thing that it does is it enables us does is it enables us tojust give the gift to skateboarding to more people which is phenomenal. some of britain's most successful sports handle cuts to budget for paris 2024 with canoeing facing a £4 million drop to 12 million, rowing where the best funding list 2.4 million in swimming also down more than 2 million. another traditional sports and was disappointed by the 20% cut. it is a massive cut trying to invest and

help those future athletes is going to be that much more difficult and it's going to be really challenging to support everyone for the next cycle. today marks a departure from uk sports' no from uk sports' no compromise approach in great medal success but it is also been blamed for recent athlete welfare scandals. the hope by investing in sports like this, a team to be created is more reflective among britain. amid financial uncertainty, olympic and paralympic athletes saw that there funding was securable to seven months to go into tokyo, the focus seems to be on more than just medals. scarlets' champions cup clash with toulon was called off with just two hours notice after the french club decided not to play because of concerns over a scarlets player whos'd tested positive for covid—i9 before being withdrawn from the game. it comes as exeter, bath and glasgow were handed 28—0 "defeats"

after they were unable to fulfil their european fixtures because of the virus. tonight wasps beat montpellier 33 points to 14. fly half charlie atkinson with the last of their five tries, to make it two wins from two. wasps helped by a seventh minute red card from their opponents to secure the bonus point win.. in the european challenge cup, newcastle falcons finished strongly to beat castres by 26 points to 17, to record their first home victory. england's 2014 world cup winning captain — katy daley—mclean — has announced her retirement the 34—year—old played in four world cups — leading the team to victory in paris six years ago. she also won nine 6—nations titles. mclean will continue in her player/coach role at sale sharks, she said the decision will let her spend more time with her family, including her i6—month—old daughter.

when you see it in black and white, the amount of time away really was the first thing that struck me. but also i thought about what a world cup looks like and what it requires and i have done for cycles and a kind of know done four cycles and i kind of know thejudge to be in it and i looked at it and i'm like i do not want to be away from her this long and i don't want to do this anymore. preston beat bristol city in the championship this evening. a penalty in the first half from danieljohnson was the difference between the two sides moving preston up to thirteenth. that's four defeats in five for city who sit ninth. portsmouth took top spot in league one from hull city as they beat them 2—0. the home side conceded two own goals from jacob greaves and josh magennis as they missed the chance to stay at the head of the table. callum smith towered over saul canelo alvarez as the two fighters came head to head at the weigh in for their world title bout in texas this weekend. the liverpudlian is seven inches taller than the mexican but is a big

underdog when they meet in the early hours of sunday morning. both weighed in on the 168 pound limit as they put their respective super middlewight world titles on the line. sixty six—year—old paul lim came from two sets down to reach the second round of the pdc world darts championship. the singaporean, who made his debut at the original world championship in 1982, beat luke humphreys at alexandra palace in london. the slinger‘s greatest moment came in 1990 when he had the first nine dart finish in such an event. and that's all the sport for now. hello. friday brought us another wet and windy day. the rainfall was particularly heavy and persistent in the west. river levels have been rising across parts of wales, south west england, scotland, too. this was the picture in ceredigion. we've had plenty of flood warnings

around, and there could still be a bit of disruption with flooding as we head into the weekend because there's a bit more rain in the forecast. it won't be persistent. there will be scattered showers and some sunshine in between as well. so, friday's rainfall was courtesy of this cold front, which is going to be clearing away towards the east. low pressure to the north—west of the uk, so showers rotating around that area of low pressure. and the winds coming in from a slightly cooler direction, so the bluer colours returning to the map. still mild for the time of year, but not as mild as it has been. so we start saturday, then, the early hours, some rain across eastern england which slowly pushes out of the way, and then a return to sunnier skies and plenty of scattered, blustery showers blowing in. always most frequent in the west and along the south coast as well. gusts of wind around about 30—40 mph for some of us, perhaps touching 50 mph around those exposed coasts in the south west. a blustery sort of day. again, mild but not as mild as it

has been, with temperatures about 10—11 degrees for most of us, could see 12 celsius there down towards the south east. there could be some hail and some thunder mixed in with some of the scattered, blustery showers as they rattle through on that brisk breeze. they're going to continue overnight, so clear spells and scattered showers moving through into sunday. it is going to be a slightly cooler night than we've seen recently, still frost—free, really, across the board with temperatures getting down to around about 5—7 degrees first thing sunday morning. through the day on sunday, pretty similar to what we'll see on saturday. again, some sunshine, some scattered showers, perhaps fewer showers compared to saturday and it looks like they will tend to fade away later on in the afternoon. a touch cooler as well, temperatures around about 8—11 degrees on sunday. the next patch of rain waiting there in the wings. moving on into monday, looks like this area of rain, a low pressure system, will move its way in from the west. some uncertainty about exactly how far north that gets as we head into the middle part of the coming week, but it is looking unsettled to start this coming week, certainly some rain, some blustery conditions to come around about wednesday. headed towards christmas eve and christmas day, things turn a little bit drier and a little bit cooler, too. there could be a bit more

flooding for the first part of this coming week, and then cooler and drier conditions by the time we get to christmas. bye— bye.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm lukwesa barak. us vice president, mike pence gets a coronavirus vaccine live on—air, at the white house. he calls it "the beginning of the end", but almost 3000 americans are still dying every day from covid—19. with cases raising across the country, with hospitalisations rising across the country, we have a ways to go. senate investigators conclude that boeing "inappropriately coached" pilots for a simulator test that should have helped ensure the 737 max could fly safely again after two deadly crashes. the spread of covid—19 is accelerating in the uk, with the crucial r number now back above one. doctors and medical leaders

warn of significant pressure