40,000 for the first time. there were 41,385 new cases — with 357 more deaths — increasing pressure on hospitals still further. a chinese journalist, zhang zhan, who reported on the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in the city of wuhan has been sentenced to four years in jail over reports that criticised the authorities‘ response to the pandemic. the british government warns travellers and business people to expect bumpy moments in the months ahead, as they get to grips with the uk's new relationship with the eu. president trump has signed a coronavirus relief and spending package. he'd previously threatened to block the bill — saying parts of it were ‘wasteful‘. democrats have urged the president to follow up the bill with more help for struggling workers.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster, daisy mcandrew and claire cohen — women's editor at the telegraph. tomorrow's front pages. starting with. .. swamped — is how the daily mirror puts it — the paper reports on how uk hospitals are struggling to cope with the highest number of covid—19 admissions since the start of the crisis — which have surpassed the peak of the first wave. the daily telegraph leads on comments from the government's scientific advisers, who say 2 million vaccine jabs have to be delivered each week in order to avoid a devastating third wave. the sun reports comments by the nhs chief executive who says he expects 22 million people to be vaccinated by the spring the daily mail leads

22 million people to be vaccinated by the spring. the daily mail leads on the ongoing discussions among ministers and unions about whether it is safe to re—open schools — next term is already being postponed by a week for most secondary pupils — to allow for coronavirus testing. the times says the prime minister is under pressure to delay schools re—opening — as the number of daily coronavirus cases in the uk reached over 40,000 for the first time. the guardian reports that the education secretary gavin williamson is concerned about the effect on the summer exams schedule — if more learning hours are lost by school closures. the financial times leads on news that the european union is nearing a business investment deal with china — which could cause friction with us president—elect biden. and the daily express offers some positivity for the uk over brexit — as ministers claim there are potentially 62 global trade deals worth nearly £900 billion on the horizon.

so let's begin. taking a look at so many aspects i have to say of coronavirus and covid—i9. i should also what are you are so many numbers as covid—i9. i should also what are you are so many numbers as well. let's start with the times. and schools. —— i should also warn the viewers. as we hear about the 40,000 infection number. claire, this is a difficult line for the prime minister to walk. tell her our viewers a little bit more about what is been said so far. it is. nobody is been said so far. it is. nobody is denying it a step. we all know the impact of the schools closing and lockdown, and i don't envy the government's position and the decision to have to make on this.

but it does send a shiver down your spine when michael gove says keeping the schools open is under review, doesn't it? clearly safety is a priority here. nobody is denying that. especially with the new strain, suggesting that that might have a little bit more propensity to spread among have a little bit more propensity to spread among some have a little bit more propensity to spread among some people and that is still being worked out. but on the flip side, we know the damage that is done to young people and has already been done to a year of young people who miss months of school. and were home—schooled. but the long—term impact that can have on the light but also the short term and terms of their social skills. and that mental health. we have seen many of these problems come into the four already. it is a extremely difficult decision but rick really shocks me about this cool story is here we are again at the 11th hour and the decision has not been made on this. —— the school store. i heard on the radio earlier and had a headmaster talking emotionally about

a week to go until the years 11, 13 a week to go until the years 11, 13 a primary school are supposed to go back. and he did that know yet weather it will be safe to reopen schools to he will have to put the online learning framework in place again. and he also has to put in place this last—minute testing programme for pupils and train staff or on their christmas holidays at the moment. so really we are again in this reactive rather than proactive situation when it comes to schools. that is really what i find most shocking about it.” schools. that is really what i find most shocking about it. i want to bring also the front of the daily mail come on the same topic. daisy, picking up on what claire said. don't betray our children. very bold print there. i wonder, maybe this is a discussion that it's different if we are talking about primary school pupils or secondary school. what do you think?” primary school pupils or secondary school. what do you think? i think there is a big difference as far as there is a big difference as far as the pressure that is put on parents come if you're having to home—school

and the pressure put on children and of course as claire said, there is a very big impact on children the learning what academic and other specialisations but equally there is a huge pressure on teachers and have some sympathy with what claire was saying, the last minute of everything that gavin williamson seems to do. he has not had a good crisis i think that is an understatement. yet again, schools are being put in this position and this is something that will affect millions and millions of families. you are waiting that up against the families that will be affected by the threat of covid—19 and the people who will get very sick and the people who will die, that if a small proportion of people but a much more serious situation so you have these two things that politicians are having to wait up. just looking up, 9 million children at school and also we are talking about universities, the independent sage as opposed to the official sage advisory group, they are advising

that all schools remain close much longer than that extra week at the government has already said in the universities stick to online learning instead of in the real world of learning until possibly february. and as a mother of teenagers come i know how difficult this will be but equally i would think thatjust knowing this will be but equally i would think that just knowing that you will have them at home in the schools are much better place to do online schooling now than they were first time around of course, plus they will have to do the daily testing and had to get posttest up and running, properly, i can see it making it more difficult for children in schools and teachers to function the less difficult. what this group is advising is much smaller classes, so if somebody within a class does get coronavirus, then or close contact with somebody, then or close contact with somebody, then perhaps only five or six children will have to isolate. both my kids had two weeks off in the la st my kids had two weeks off in the last term, having to isolate because somebody got coronavirus. when you

think of that happening over hundreds of schools and thousands of children, millions of children, you see how damaging that is and i think thatis see how damaging that is and i think that is more damaging than online schooling for a short period of time. and of course with these aspects come it flows over into the workplace of people having to take time off work and the economy, but i'll want to on to another aspect. we were talking there about schools that this could trigger perhaps a split over the school restart plan, but just very briefly, split over the school restart plan, butjust very briefly, what do you think of the best way for the prime minister to play a closer look a whole, that is a very big question. that if we knew the answer to it come he might be playing it. it is all about preparation. it is a schools to prepare and allow parents to prepare because you are right it has a huge knock on effect on the economy in the workforce we know it is disproportionately impacted women in their careers. it is all about planning. you would think that

something like this might have been anticipated and we wouldn't be down to the wire making a last—minute decision again but let teachers and pa rent decision again but let teachers and parent and children but the plan in place and that is truly the most important thing at this point. make the call. let's see if they make the call. already on tomorrow's papers, so maybe by tomorrow some call will be made. less stable of your paper, claire. the daily telegraph. talking about the igniting a hospital. —— let's stay with your paper. dealing with the surge. —— the nightingale hospitals. at the headline says, the hospitals. at the headline says, the hospitals are being dismantled. tell our viewers more about this story and perhaps some of the blowback there may be from it. this is really an extraordinary story. we all remember the pictures of the nightingale hospitals, particularly the one set up in the xl centre in london. just a few months ago, the rows and rows and makeshift beds in the ventilators and the prime

minister visiting, very impactful imagery. they cost £220 million, seven of them come a huge operation come now the telegraph reporting that they are being quietly dismantled. it is really a surprising and shocking story. i say surprising, it probably isn't that surprising, it probably isn't that surprising to people working in the nhs are following this closely. because the simple fact is, there aren't enough nhs workers to support those hospitals. and we've known that this is a problem for years and yea rs. that this is a problem for years and years. because the nhs historically and even before the pandemic there we re and even before the pandemic there were at least 80,000 to few staff really to run the nhs. —— it cuts to the nhs. this could have been anticipated. but really it is amazing to think that these centers that were set up to supposedly help make sure the nhs wasn't overwhelmed our now we are suddenly faced with this new strain, this new wave,

quietly being taken apart behind—the—scenes. quietly being taken apart behind-the-scenes. i want to turn, daisy, let's jump to the sun which comes down to nhs staff as well. the nhs by saying things may look bleak but 22 million will be vaccinated by april. using spring get on. it is kind of a tale of two sides are suppose of this pandemic. kind of a tale of two sides are suppose of this pandemicm kind of a tale of two sides are suppose of this pandemic. it is. and wass, plotting the optimism they are managing to put on the front page, it doesn't sit well with the rest of the news if you read all of the news today. it feels to be like the nhs is as near as it's ever been. to creaking under the pressure of covid—19. we know the beginning of the press conferences was protect lives and protect the nhs. in protecting the nhs probably is the numberone protecting the nhs probably is the number one priority. yes of course the vaccine is the ultimate tool in

that armoury to protect the nhs but it is not going to be, we will not be ina it is not going to be, we will not be in a position when we have heard immunity or anything like it before the summer. of course you don't need herd immunity to protect the most vulnerable. you need to vaccinate the most vulnerable. there are differing opinions about what the 6% of the population will mean the death toll will come down hugely. some people are saying you only need to vaccinate may be the most vulnerable 10% to get to bring the death rate down by 90%. that is another very optimistic way of looking at it but meanwhile as claire said, the nhs is in a huge train injusta claire said, the nhs is in a huge train injust a few minutes ago i was looking at walter, tweaks that i see you doctor has been putting out just this evening saying that the public does not get it. —— looking at twitter. we are at breaking point font that we are running out of oxyge n font that we are running out of oxygen and beds. the embolus can get into the car park we have 45 patients that some hospitals who can get into the hospital because there are no beds and no i see you places

or specialist nurses. staff shortages. huge problem for the air bring this back to the school issue. a lot of nhs that have children at school. in that place a huge pressure both on them bringing coronavirus into those households and potentially giving it to their staff or than having to isolate, or getting get the coronavirus but the flip side of those nurses and doctors having to state out and look after their children to home school. we know of course the key workers and should still be able to go to school but the rest of them passing coronavirus on is huge. so so many different facets to the problem are coming toa different facets to the problem are coming to a crescendo at the moment andl coming to a crescendo at the moment and i don't think most of us realise how bad it is looking tonight. so covid one of the b conversations we have been having for months and months. another one is brexit. —— one of the big conversations. let's look at the daily express.

that is at odds with what some of the other papers might be saying. but i think it is trying to perhaps inject optimism into what has gone down over the past week. it is. and a cynic might say this is a helpful headline ahead of the report being called to vote on the bill on wednesday, i'm should the government will be pleased to see it indeed and it is under andrea leadsom writing in the express that sparked his front page and she is referring to i believe the sunlit auckland, a shyly send any future where we will create all our new trade deals with this as all our new trade deals with this as a traded with turkey, the latest one that the focuses on. which is good news. essentially a continuation of the existing framework that we have with turkey. terror free trading,

there are seven biggest trading partner, worth 19, 20 billion. —— terra for free. it is an absolutely deal worth having and it is good we been able to squeeze it in. —— tariff free trading. a lot of good response from our industry. it will save a lot ofjob. an optimistic story. it will be really interesting as we begin to pick apart the 2000 pages come a hundred of those that i believe are kind of footnotes that need to be pulled apart and to try and understand exactly what is in it. i want to thank both of you. that's it for the papers. until next time, goodbye.

ah, there you are! come on in! welcome to clickmas 2020! i hope you're doing 0k. it's all a bit different this year, isn't it? normally we'd be getting together around the table, having a laugh, cheering, having a good time. well, pretending to have a good time. filming a clickmas party is the most stressful thing in the world. butjust because we can't all be together doesn't mean we can't all be together! hello, everyone! hello! there you are! look at you all! it's the fam! chris, loving the jumper! candles are a go atjen's place. lj, that must be a musical rainbow, i'm guessing. 0mar, christmas furby, i see. and paul with his christmas duck, of course the well—known symbol of the festive season. oh, the duck is brilliant

and spencer, your house looks so festive! you have totally outdone me with your decorations once again. thank you. not to mention the outfit — amazing. how is your clickmas going so far? costly on the electricity front, i have to say. but guys, i'm really missing you. i really just want to get in the same room with you again. i just wanna do that. oh, it's been a tough old year but we are so grateful that we have stayed on your screens and today, at least we can have a get—together — albeit 2020 style — for the last show of this year. yeah, that's right, and for this show, we've been able to go out and about filming just a little bit, and if santa had asked me what would i like to do for christmas, if i could do anything at all, what would i say? i'd say "i want to be like you, big guy, and fly". well, it's pretty early in the morning. i've been told to meet my driving instructor richard here, and he's told me i need to wear these. don't know why.

loud whirring. dramatic music. music reaches crescendo. yeah, so it turns out richard's not in a fiat panda then. he's arriving at goodwood speed week in style as the chief test pilot of gravity industries — a start—up that believes they've finally nailed the jet pack. i hatched this idea in 2016 of could you reinvent flight byjust adding a minimalist amount of equipment and using your brain and your body to fly in a very unusual way? no logical reason — that was just an interesting idea, i thought. chuckles. so, i'm going to have a go in this. mm—hmm. any tips? actually, it's like watching a child learn to ride a bike because if you described a bicycle to somebody who'd never seen one, it sounds very clever and complicated and difficult to learn. but our experience is when you let

the inner balance brain take over, then it's remarkable how well that collaboration between machine and human works, and this is the same. right, so what we're going to do is put the harness on. that will do a good job of kind of connecting you to the suit as best as possible. if you stress and overthink it, it's really hard. walking and standing up is much more complicated than learning to fly this, so just relax into it and enjoy it. the jet suit is pretty daunting and although it is also pretty heavy, there's not that much to it — two turbines on each arm and one at the back and well, that's it. right, so if you look in the end, see the trigger? just get used to the pull of it. that's the throttle. so when you're up there, when you squeeze it and you can feel the engines gradually ramp up. this finger will actually nudge the power up, and that will nudge the power down. a couple of nudges — each nudge gives you a couple of kilos more thrust. so the idea is that you're learning about lateral stability and rotation, but it will still shove you around a bit, but once you get your weight over the top

of it, you'll notice that it's really not very much. right. i mean, it's really scary cos i can feel the power and i can feel the heat all around me. the diesel fuel lasts for up to ten minutes. all of which, for me, will be spent at most a few centimetres off the ground. what the helljust happened?! that was honestly really good. that was incredible! that's — that's — i don't know whether that's adrenaline orjust sheer terror or excitement or what. but, um... phew! the main application, richard thinks, is in entertainment — imagine seeing jet pack races across lakes, for example. but in september 2020,

richard joined the great north air ambulance service to show how paramedics might quickly get to casualties in the rough terrain of the lake district. the great north air ambulance reached out and said that there appears, according to their analysis, to be a large cluster of cases where if they could move very quickly out of a vehicle with this, that would work. and so, we went up and tested it. the headline result was i got to the casualty in 90 seconds when it took 25 minutes to walk there. hardly surprising, since richard broke the guinness world record for fastest speed in a body—controlled jet engine power suit — twice. they're noisy, impractical, and expensive butjet packs are now real, which is a good enough christmas present for this little fan boy. who is up?

paul: i have a present, except my present is a gift for all of you, notjust one. thanks paul! sweet! what is it? i will be the ghost of christmas past and take us all back to the 1950s, specifically, to a jazz club in vancouver called the palomar. it was demolished in 1955. but thanks to the magic of live motion capture, and an incredible singer called jill barber and her band, she's recreated it for one christmas only, so grab a drink, sit back and let's go back in time. # oh, the weather outside is frightful # but the fire is so delightful # since we've no place to go # let it snow, let

it snow, let it snow # it doesn't show signs of stopping # and i've brought some corn for popping # the lights are turned way down low # let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...#. that was jill barber and the phantom jazz band. and after the performance, i managed to catch up with her at the bar. so, jill, just to start with, can you tell us about where we both are? sure, you and i are sitting at the palomar supper club which is a club that was demolished in 1955. how are we doing that? i am actually sitting in front of a green screen in a film studio

in vancouver, british columbia, canada, and you are 7600 kilometres away at a studio at the bbc in london. but through the magic of cross reality technology, we can be here together at the palomar. showcap, the company behind the performance, created this virtual venue using the unreal engine, a platform created for gaming. with the performers in motion capture suits shot against a green screen, they could be transported to the ‘50s while maintaining their intricate human movements. # i quit pretending...# historically, motion capture and virtual production techniques have been used in the creation of blockbuster films, in big budget video games,

but with cinematic quality computer graphics that can be rendered in real time, we're starting to really sort of explore the use of these things in live performance. jill's first palomar concert was broadcast online in november, but unlike many other performances we've all watched over the last year, for me, something about this really stands out. it's more than just you performing in a space. you've created a back story and a feeling around it. tell me about how that came about, and for example, why the palomar? the palomar also has this incredible history of hosting the likes of ella fitzgerald and louis armstrong and the mills brothers, billie holiday, and i thought how cool to continue that legacy and perform on the same stage that those artists graced back in the day. oh, that is so brilliant.

that is just so brilliant, but i'm afraid that is it for the short cut of our special clickmas special. the full—length cut is waiting for you right now on iplayer and hopefully, we'll we'll be back to normal next year. now, normally, the show that follows clickmas is a look back at our last 12 months, but who here really wants to look back to 2020? thought so. so, instead we will bring you a special live show where we look back at the past 20 years of click. that's right! until then though you can find us on social media, youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter... spencer, are you 0k? yeah i am, i'm just taking it all in really... i mean, this truly has been a special day. we didn't think that we'd be able to do it, but we posted the gifts to each other, we got everyone together, and when i say everyone, i mean everyone! it's been a challenging year for us

all, but we have done our best to bring you your weekly dose of click. and everyone on the team just wanted to be here to say thank you. thank you for watching us, thank you for being part of our click family, so until next time, it's goodbye and merry clickmas! merry clickmas! # hurry down the chimney tonight #. frosty night out there, certainly cold enough for it to snow and some of us could be waking up to a fresh covering

of snow in the morning. now, through the early hours, certainly a chance of it in parts of northern scotland, but also northern england through the pennines. south of that, it's just hit—and—miss wintry showers. now, these are the city temperatures in rural spots. early in the morning, it's going to be a good deal colder than that. so, we're watching this area of snow from the pennines moving through the northwest of england. there will be some rain mixed in there as well. possibly the midlands, and then ending up in southern wales and maybe the southwest, so that strip there. and also, those snow showers continuing and northern northern parts of scotland. elsewhere, we're talking about bright or sunny spells during the course of the day. now, the next spell of snow, and this is wednesday, will come in from the northwest, probably reaching wales and then spreading a little bit further east during the course of the day.

this is bbc news. i'm nuala mcgovern with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk reports a record 40,000 new infections in the past 24 hours. doctors say some services are stretched to the limit. we see patients who are coming in who have covid symptoms, but we also see other patients coming in with other problems who turn out to be covid—positive. and between that, there is a great deal of difficulty getting those patients through into the wards. after president trump finally signs a coronavirus relief bill, democrats in the house of representatives are trying to increase the pay—outs to americans. also in the programme, a major study of the atlantic ocean has discovered species previously unknown to science. and how new yorkers are banishing the bad memories