of the lighthouse labs that can test for this particular variant. 11% of those came back positive for the new variant. and i am afraid that of that, 600—odd cases that tested positive for the new variant, 22% of them were in north wales. we will review the measures after three weeks. i wouldn't anticipate the whole of wales would be coming out of level four after three weeks, but we will have to look at the data. we'll have to see what happens with the patterns of infection, how we are able to hopefully not just drive down but to keep on a sustained basis a lower level of infection rates. we also need to take account of the pressure our nhs is under, because we now have over 1500 confirmed covid cases in our beds here in wales. that is actually where the reasonable worst—case scenario was saying we could get by christmas day, so we have reached that point 6 days early,

and that really does show the pressure we are under. our normal critical care capacity is over one third of what it would normally be. and that means we have to close other parts of our nhs to be able to redeploy staff to deal with that very real demand. we are seeing our death rates going the wrong way as well. so this is a very real point of crisis that requires action. not just from the government and our national health service, but each of us has a role to play in helping to turn back the tide of coronavirus. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello, there. well, today it has been another day of sunshine and showers. the showers have been pretty widespread. you can see the speckled shower clouds here on the satellite picture. but just to our west, we have got a rather bigger area of cloud. this is the next area of low pressure. that's going to be bringing some very strong winds and cloud and rain as well. overnight tonight, showers for northern ireland and scotland. it will turn quite blustery here for a time. the winds pick up later in the night

further south as cloud and rain spreads in. the rain associated with increasingly mild air. so by the end of the night, plymouth seeing a temperature of about 11 degrees, and nine in cardiff. tomorrow, well, rain to start the day for england and wales. the rain pushes eastwards with time. could bring some localised surface water flooding, gradually turning a bit brighter later on. showers could merge together to give some lengthier outbreaks of rain for the north, particularly in western scotland. very mild stay for parts of england and wales. temperatures reaching as high as 15 degrees towards london and south—east england. but turning colder across the north. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... millions of people in england and wales are told to stay at home — on the first day of tough, new coronavirus restrictions. the health secretary labels crowded scenes at london stations last night as "irresponsible" — the transport secretary says extra police officers will be deployed

to enforce the rules. the republic of ireland is to restrict air and sea travel with britain from midnight — and the netherlands, italy and belgium ban flights between the uk — as concern gi’ows over the new coronavirus variant. germany has said it will also restrict flights. queues form at supermarkets in england, as shoppers adapt their plans for the festive period. now on bbc news, for thousands of years the inuit people lived off the land. nomadic hunters, chasing targets season dependant. now those weather patterns have utterly and irreversibly shifted. vocalizing

climate change came along and changed everything. translation: due to the ice melting, we have seen all of these changes. it's affecting us up here in the arctic circle. i am worried about the future. we don't have any room to give. we don't know what's going to happen. we have been here for thousands of years but now my children really have no idea what's ahead of them and it's scary.

kotzebue‘s population is about 3,000 people. it's a nice place, very isolated, no roads. the only way we go to the village is by commuter planes. summertime, we go by boat. wintertime, we go by snow machine. we originated to kotzebue

about 35 years ago. four sons and two daughters, i have 14 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. we like to be called inupiaq, not eskimo. inupiaq means real people. eskimo is a non—native description of us. we know our land, it is like a heartbeat. we know how to survive, how the moon controls the high waters, the low waters. we are oui’ own almanac. but then climate change came along and it changed everything. suddenly, we get a tropic warm—up, everything starts to melt. but we dealt with this for the last ten or 15 years. we learned to keep the frustration at bay. we know we are in danger today. we know it's there. we just have to learn how to deal with it.

you are listening to kotz, with a news update. summer temperatures were three degrees warmer on average this year, on top of a record spring that was 6 degrees warmer than the previous record. those high temperatures mean warmer waters in the kotzebue sound, which could mean changes. in the winter... i have always loved being outside with my dad, just hunting and trapping and fishing. once you're out there, you kind of feel super insignificant, which maybe a lot of people wouldn't like to feel. you're kind of at the lands mercy, the mercy of the weather and the animals.

my dad, he was blessed with three girls at first! and typically it's the guys who go out hunting. he had to kind of work with what he had. when i was younger, i didn't want to be, like, native, you know? i have some lighter skin friends and i kind of wanted to be lighter skinned. but now it's so celebrated. hunting and fishing and living a subsistence lifestyle, i feel it's a huge part of my identity, part of who i am. are you ready to pull up the traps? see if there's any beavers in there. when my family is out on the ice, anything can happen. we live in a place where nature rules. things can turn quickly. the weather can turn quickly.

the ice breaks up earlier than usual. they can fall through. and they have, you know, before. it can be pretty nerve—racking for a mum at home waiting for her crew. you never know what you're going to get. nothing in that one, either. we are going to have to put new bait on. it is important to store food for the winter. and make sure you can get as much

as you can of a certain meat, berry, when it's in season. we only a few hours of daylight per day. over the past few years, we have seen all of these changes. there will be a little less of an animal, maybe they won't come at all. caribou is one of our main food sources. this year, we didn't get any caribou. usually they come pretty close in the fall. we usually go out there by boat and shoot some caribou, and stock our freezers full. but we weren't able to do that this year. due to the ice melting, there are a lot of new waterways opening up. this will be used for a lot of shipping vessels to make their routes easier. the problem with this is that there is a lot of noise the ships make. this can have a big effect

on our animals, our marine wildlife. it's, like, we're trying to have a conversation and there is construction happening outside. we're going to want to move to a different room to have a conversation. that's what the animals are doing. a lot of them are relocating. in a few years, i'm afraid that we won't have this subsistence lifestyle, we won't have a connection to the land like we used to. and my children in the future won't be able to feel this connection. in terms of climate change, earlier today when we left, it was all solid ice. in just a couple of hours, a storm surge happens and it broke up all these pieces of ice and it is moving them back in. the danger that we live in nowadays, you know, it can change just like that.

if you can't predict the weather, you can't predict your safety. remember, mum doesn't want you guys to get all seal—y. we notice all of these changes because we are part of it, we see it. it's almost like having thousands and thousands of scientists out here every day watching things and making observations. it's a fact, it's right before you, you can't deny it, you know? it's important to use every part of the animal because it gave itself up for you to eat and for your family to eat, and for your community to eat. 0k, remember how to do this?

yes, take the flippers off first. in our culture, we are very communal, we make sure that we give a good portion of our catch especially to elders, who taught us how to do all of this. we want to make sure they are eating well. singing i talk to my daughters a lot, and i have 16 grandkids. when i'm around them, i try to share what i've learned, my life stories, and how we were brought up.

we call it how we live as inuit people. if you want to live a good life, grasp some of that. anything domestic, i never really learned as a kid. i'm taking the time to learn it now because you need to know all of these skills to survive, and i want to be able to pass down those domestic skills to my kids. do it from this way? when you hold the fur. make sure this fur is under. back in the day, they strive for perfection, because a lot of times the stitching was important. they have to go out in 40 below. and make sure that everything was just right. when i was growing up, the environment was very different. cold. it was extremely cold,

lots of snow in the wintertime. some of the snow would cover as far as the roof of some homes. so it was very different. you would be hard pressed to find anyone who lives in this area that doesn't believe in climate change, global warming or anything, because we live it every day. we see the effects on the ice, from year to year. we see the difference in the migration of the animals. the ice underneath the tundra — the permafrost — it's supposed to be frozen 365 days a year. we have to even have our houses on stilts because the heat from your house will melt the permafrost underneath.

the temperature is rising in our area, with the glaciers melting, water is more than it used to be, the the storms are different than they used to be. the erosion is happening. some other villages are in danger of losing the entire village. kotzebue is projected to disappear at some point because of global warming, and the water is rising. we are right on the ocean, at sea level. there is a fear that at some point, our life is going to be moved, drastically changed or nonexistent. my children really have no idea what's ahead of them, and it's scary. you're listening

to this news update. as climate change hits coastal communities in alaska, many tribes are being forced to consider moving from their ancestral lands... the house that we live in now, my family, is the house my parents built, and my dad built this entire house. so it's the house that i grew up in. chickens! i like how they look at you with one eyeball. we're here, you know, we are at the back side in our house. it's shallow all the way over... it's like four feet deep out here. even when we go to camp, we have to go around the sand bar. it's only four feet.

i am worried about the future of kotzebue because we are on a small spit. we have lagoon on one side and the sound on the other. we don't have any room to give... if the water was to come up i don't know how many feet, it would come over the road. my house is close to the lagoon. but it looks cool. show daddy first. let me see! it's not easy living here. but the sense of community and the closeness that we have with people in our community is how i feel i want my children to be raised. this is my mum and me when i was a baby. she made everything that i'm wearing.

the front sea wall was put up to preserve that front street. from the time that i was a kid until the time it got put up, it narrowed a lot. there were spaces where it was only a one—way street. i don't know much about permafrost, you know. i'm not a scientist, but i can tell you what i have seen with my eyes. when i was in high school, we would take trips down the coast, we could go all the way down. but now, even this summer, whole sides of the tundra were falling, and you could see the melting. there was, like, a stream of melting permafrost, you know, going out to the ocean. so i know it's melting. i know it is.

people make, like, knife handles and stuff. we don't leave anything, we take the whole head and use it. this is the old puppy pen that my dad built. john took this and made a drying rack. right now we have deboned moose. in the summer we do strips, because it is a four—day process. it is like extreme free range. 0ur food comes from out there, it's roaming all those thousands and thousands of untouched acres of tundra and mountains. i believe that eskimos, or inupiaq people, need to eat the food that their ancestors ate. get out of the kitchen

while i'm cooking! we don't have anything that connects us to a road system. so the only way to get groceries and every item that you can physically see, it got here by air. that inflates the cost of your item, because you're having to pay for the freight to get here. it's crazy how expensive things are. milk is, like, $11 a gallon. money makes the world go around, i guess. spicy? no. 0k. 0ur predictable winters, where we could say by october or whatever, 15, it's going to be frozen, i can do this, it's not happening any more. it's so different every year. it's like a weird sliding scale. we don't know what's going to happen. what if i don't get fish, what if i don't get something i was counting on getting?

i wanted to go fishing today. i actually called my aunt and she said, "let's go fishing," and then she called me, maybe 7:00, last night and said, "i don't know if we can go fishing, it's supposed to be high water." we had one of the roads blocked because the water was going up on it at six this morning. look, when it's like this, it means the water is high, it's all the way up here. you can see the water. i don't feel safe going out here because i can't see where the dark spots are because it snowed, it stormed over the ice and then we had the high water that came all the way up here,

so i don't know if there is water in between the ice that was already established, and the snow that snowed on top of it. you could lose your feet to frostbite if you step through this right here, it's dangerous. you have to have multiple ways of deciding what you're going to do. you can'tjust go, "oh, it's cold, i'm going to go on the ice." was there high water, was it warm, did it freeze? did it snow? you can't see, there could be dark spots. it's kind of dangerous. i was born and raised here in the middle of winter. i can't imagine not knowing

what snow and ice is. mother nature is our mother. she cares for us, she supplies for us. why is there climate change? caused by human people, the very people that mother is nurturing. humans are abusive. man can be the culprit behind greed to ruin the first peoples, people that know and thrive with the heartbeat of mother earth. why? why can't they ask us?

it's a hard pill to swallow. we don't just want to survive, we want to thrive on this land. i can't imagine having to relocate your whole home just because the water is coming up over it. it's devastating as a community. my ancestors have been living off this land for a long time. they passed down their knowledge about the land. the inupiaq are connected as a community, so i think if we really stick together, we'll be able to adapt to the changes. i think the rest of the world needs to learn from indigenous people because they learn throughout

their lifespan to know how to survive. people have hearts. doesn't matter if you are a billionaire or if you live in a pitiful home, the logic is we are connected to the land. —— the magic is that we are connected to the land. so there is time to rejuvenate hearts. this new generation, they can use their energy to fix mother earth. hello, there. it's been another day of sunshine and showers, some of those downpours pretty intense. this weather watchers

picture shows a looming thundercloud over the skies of hanley in stoke—on—trent. here, on the underside of the cloud. always a tell—tale sign of a hefty downpour imminently arriving. now, to the south—west of the uk, we've got our next area of cloud that's waiting in the wings. another area of low pressure that will be bringing rain our way. now, for this evening and overnight, there will be showers for northern ireland and scotland. the winter staying pretty gusty year. the winds will strengthen later in the night as our next area of low pressure spreads cloud and rain in across wales, the midlands, east anglia and southern england. it will turn increasingly mild through the night across the south—west. temperatures about i! by the end of the night in plymouth and nine in cardiff. here is that area of low pressure, then. it is going to be a wet start to the new working week on monday. with that rain, we've also got south—westerly winds. the air coming from a long way south—west, bringing very mild conditions across parts of england, and parts of wales, too. it might be mild but it is also going to be pretty wet. with that rain slowly pushing

eastwards, brighter skies gradually arriving from the west later in the day. we'll also see some rain at times moving into scotland. now, england and wales mild, temperatures reaching a high of 15 celsius towards london, but is actually going to be a slightly colder day for the far north of england, for northern ireland and for scotland. temperatures around 6—7 degrees through the afternoon. now, tuesday and wednesday sees the next area of low pressure slide across particularly england and wales, bringing rain. this is the last low pressure before christmas. now, for tuesday, the rain is going to be mostly focused to the south of wales, southern areas of england, turning heavier in the south—west. sunshine for many, but there will be some showers across northern areas of scotland. it is not out of the question that we could see a little bit of wintriness across the higher ground, the mild air still hanging on across the far south. rain more extensive on wednesday. probably quite murky for a time over the hills, with hill fog patches, wales, midlands, northern england, too. sunshine for scotland and northern ireland, but we will probably see some snow

showers pushing in to northern areas of scotland as we go through wednesday, particularly over the higher ground. that colder air is going to be pushing southwards. through christmas evena and day, we will see some pretty widespread frost. a lot of dry weather with sunshine, but there will be some showers working down the north sea coast. that's your weather.

this is bbc news. the headlines at five: millions of people in england and wales are told to stay at home on the first day of tough, new coronavirus restrictions. the new coronavirus restrictions. new variant is out of n and the new variant is out of control, and we need to bring it under control. this news about the new variant has been an incredibly difficult end to frankly an awful year. the health secretary labels crowded scenes at london stations last night as ‘irresponsible‘ — the transport secretary says extra police officers will be deployed to enforce the rules. the republic of ireland is to restrict air and sea travel with britain from midnight — and the netherlands, italy and belgium ban flights between the uk as concern grows over the new coronavirus variant. queues form at supermarkets in england as shoppers adapt