tougher in many parts of the country. lam i am fully reconciled to that. it is i'io i am fully reconciled to that. it is no good hinting that further restrictions are coming into place ina week restrictions are coming into place in a week or two, that delay has beena in a week or two, that delay has been a source of so many problems so i say, bring those restrictions in nova, national restrictions within 24 hours. president trump is recorded on tape asking an election official to find him extra votes in georgia. # walk on... gerry marsden, singer of you'll never walk alone, has died at the age of 78 after a short illness. hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and broadcaster caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist tony grew. tomorrow's front pages... "happy new tier" — that's the metro's headline as borisjohnson warns tougher coronavirus restrictions are on their way and refuses to rule out a new tier 5 level. the guardian leads with the continuing schools crisis, with parents and pupils facing more disruption and uncertainty as local authorities scramble to delay schools reopening. the telegraph reports discussions have already begun about the return of shielding, and that a further announcement on school closures could come as soon as this week. the financial times features calls from labour leader, sir keir starmer, for a national lockdown to be imposed within 2a hours in an attempt to bring the virus under control. the paper also reports on the group of us republican rebels who are pressing ahead with plans to vote against the certification

ofjoe biden's election victory. and "jabby monday" is the sun's lead, with the first of the oxford—astrazeneca vaccines to be administered tomorrow. so let's begin... caroline and tony are ready, we can kick off with the daily mirror. class chaos, tony, start us with this. this ongoing discussion, this i’ow this. this ongoing discussion, this row over whether schools are safe to reopen? there is some concern amongst parents and head teachers and teachers that primary schools, which are due to open tomorrow in some parts of the country, that there might be infections that kids may take home. the department for education response has been chaotic, the education secretary made a statement to the commons when it was re called statement to the commons when it was recalled on wednesday and it said

that some boroughs in london would close primary schools for a week or two but some would not, and if you live in london that makes little sense, live in london that makes little sense , you live in london that makes little sense, you had the u—turn on that. it is important to realise that when we talk about kids being kept out of school, it is the most disadvantaged that are hit hardest, they are least likely to have a computer they can use likely to have a computer they can use to do online learning but it is also the case that the government has been lax in the way it has rolled out computers to those children and schools have been given little time to prepare online lessons and it is a worrying situation but most of all, if you're a parent of a primary school kid it must be frustrating and confusing and worrying that in some cases you will have to arrange childcare for your kids 24 hours away from when your kids 24 hours away from when you thought the school would reopen. caroline, this story is the lead on the guardian, describing it as a crisis. what is your take on this? it isa crisis. what is your take on this? it is a mixed message because boris johnson was at pains to say this morning that he believes schools are

safe s pa ces morning that he believes schools are safe spaces and he urged everybody across the nation to send their primary school children to school, but of course liaising with local authorities. he was keeping his options open in those particularly head spots where it has become almost impossible and we have seen a catalogue of local authorities taking matters into their own hands so taking matters into their own hands so this evening we heard from essex, kent and so this evening we heard from essex, kentand birmingham, so this evening we heard from essex, kent and birmingham, an unseemly tussle with greenwich and gavin williamson last week. the numbers, whether this part number coming up all of this talk of tiers and lockdowns, it cannot be both. how can schools be safe when he warns that the nation as a whole is becoming more perilous? it does not add up so i fully expect to ep —— to hear of another u—turn and he says hear of another u—turn and he says he is following science and adapting to the situations but as keir starmer and others have said, why not do this now when the numbers are staring you in the face? but it is a completed process and there is a ripple effect for all of those

pa rents, ripple effect for all of those parents, teachers and children affected. it is a mess, i want to say it is like no other week we have seen but that is probably not true, u nfortu nately. seen but that is probably not true, unfortunately. the times, we are being warned by the prime minister to expect tougher restrictions and i wonder whether there is any hint about whether this means more areas moving into the already established top tiers of restrictions or whether restrictions in those top tiers could get even tougher themselves? have we any picture on that? know, and it is frustrating the prime minister talks about how difficult it is to make these decisions as if he is the most put upon person in the country and if he is going to introduce these measures he should say so when a national television, not doing a three days later. but a 78% of england is already under tier 4, which is pretty strict, you are not allowed to leave your house unless you have a specific reason to do so so i'm not entirely sure what tier5 do so so i'm not entirely sure what tier 5 would involve. one of the

issuesis tier 5 would involve. one of the issues is that to be fair to the prime minister, he is not entirely responsible for the spread of the disease, people not following rules asa disease, people not following rules as a reason we are seeing disease, people not following rules as a reason we are seeing this rise in cases as much as anything else. it is easy to criticise a prime minister but each of us has an individual responsibility as well. caroline, the wording on the front of the daily telegraph, picking up on the story, is telling, describing it as on the story, is telling, describing itasa on the story, is telling, describing it as a threat of a national lockdown, affecting the fact that despite the high numbers of cases and the constantly high numbers of deaths each day, there is no universal docking for stricter lockdown? i think so, universal docking for stricter lockdown? ithink so, ithink universal docking for stricter lockdown? i think so, i think boris johnson is playing to the particular gallery and he is aware of not only has backbenchers but a very loud and strongly opinionated group of not only anti—lockdown people but anti—vaxxers and protests going on and he is trying to keep as many people happy as possible but what we have seen throughout the past year asa have seen throughout the past year

as a pattern whereby certain ideas and policies get licked and thrown up and policies get licked and thrown up the flagpole and people, somehow, if there isn't much protest and people generally become acclimatised so people generally become acclimatised so by the time he ruffled his hair and has a sad face podium moment at the press conference, none of us are shocked and it becomes almost a relief that at least it has been formalised and we know what is going on. that has been his air move for the last year and i don't expect that to change this week. the telegraph has a story about the vaccine roll—out, the oxford astrazeneca vaccine, which we were told was easier to administer, doesn't have to be stored at cold temperatures and must be transported easier but even that aim of 2 million every week, they don't think the nhs can necessarily deliver that. we heard the prime minister promising tens of millions of vaccine doses than a couple of months but when pressed and that he has no idea seems to have no idea because he cannot tell us how he is going to deliver this and i think

expectation management is important and this is part of the problem with schools. if we were able to vaccinate every teacher, there would be significantly less concern about their welfare in the classroom and i think that it is great the vaccine is here and the uk has done well, we have had close to a million people but we need to scale up significantly and that might require help from the army but also hundreds of thousands of volunteers and one of thousands of volunteers and one of the areas where the government can be said to have failed as we have known this vaccine is coming down the track and we have hundreds of thousands who want to help the nhs but no one seems to have connected the dots and got those people in to train them. hopefully, four or five weeks from now, we will have significantly larger numbers of people who can administer vaccines and we will see the roll—out at a more local level but it is the same problem as with schools, a civil servant in whitehall trying to dictate to schools in manchester and newcastle and birmingham about how

they are supposed to open and we will see a civil servant in whitehall trying to roll out a national programme instead of involving local authorities at an earlier stage. caroline, staying with that story but the daily express, the headline is that the jab gives hope to tens of millions and we must not lose sight of how extraordinary it is the vaccine has been developed in such a short space of time but gives us even a glimmer of time but gives us even a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel of all this. yes, this is the magic number. boris johnson has all this. yes, this is the magic number. borisjohnson has used the phrase world beating all too often this year but for once he got it right. a clock is right twice a day! tribute to science at its best work, under extreme conditions, but in a way you could say they have had many people to test these on, huge numbers of volunteers that we should also doff our caps two, and it is interesting idea of managing expectations with the roll—out

because the nhs spokesman said this is about supply and we have challenges and supply and you have the insiders licking ideas that it is not necessarily supply, it is also administration and getting that army of volunteers in and getting trained and already people are saying, why isn't this a 24/7 operation? if this is the key and will be the only miracle that does drive us out of this mess, all of this chaos of schools and shops, why not just throw all of your chips onto that part of the board? perhaps that will come in the next couple of weeks and certainly this is great news, the only bit of good news we have had all year and we should celebrate that. i hesitate to move away from any sense of good news but i want to get to the next story and not have to squeeze it, the front page of the daily mail, the situation that so many millions of people find themselves in in tower blocks, with the value has plummeted, they cannot afford to pay for their share of the repairs for

the replacement of cladding and cannot remortgage or sell, and it is no fault of their own. tony, there have been petitions to parliament about this? absolutely and it has been discussed at length in parliament and there is a real sense that an injustice is being played out here. it is three and a half years since the grenfell tower fire, that horrifying tragedy. and again, it is one of these issues were what you would like government is to step in and say we will pay for this and ta ke in and say we will pay for this and take care of it but the numbers involved are eye watering. it is a real tragedy for people who have come up with the best will in the world, got themselves a mortgage and a property and find themselves stuck. it is not an issue that will go away and that will continue to be raised in parliament, although the focus is on the inquiry, which is obviously important but the focus needs to remain on those individuals

who find themselves stuck in this terrible situation. it is a horrible situation for the people affected but i suppose the counterpoint would be that taxpayers who may not own properties themselves and cannot afford to buy, why should they subsidise the costs for those who have bought places? you could say that about all strata of society. we owe a debt to people who are doing their best and paying their taxes and their share of society's responsibilities and we have seen what happens when those people are not protected and are in fact neglected, that horrific memory of what happened in june neglected, that horrific memory of what happened injune 2017, 72 people lost their lives on the inquiry has been one of the beneficiaries of so much other incredibly important national global news happening this year. in any other era, a whole lot of more attention, some of it very unwelcome by these huge corporate machines that have provided that. there are all sorts of articles but you have

to dig deep at the moment because they are buried in all of this other horrible stuff. but i do not think that as a way to look at it, we all people are debt for at least safety and some form of a security going forward. let's move onto the final story and it is on the daily mirror, they call this a showbiz exclusive but it is also on the front page of the daily express! exclusive shared! jodie whittaker calling time on her time as the time lord. are you a doctor who fan, tony? not particularly, but i think it is interesting the way that this revival started off with a serious actors, christopheraugustine revival started off with a serious actors, christopher augustine and david tenna nt actors, christopher augustine and david tennant and they went for some new talent with the man who played prince philip and jodie whittaker so it will be interesting to see who they choose to act in this programme next, whether it is dame judi dench or some ingenue who will make their name with it. who is your money on?

well, i think what we have seen with the likes of strictly come dancing is the bbc are at pains to draw in a younger, fresher audience. whether thatis younger, fresher audience. whether that is properly aimed or not, i don't know. but out of those names that tony has proffered, it will be somebody young, fresh and possibly eight youtuber or somebody who will bring a fresh fan base, him or her. i feel sorry for bring a fresh fan base, him or her. ifeel sorry forjodie bring a fresh fan base, him or her. i feel sorry forjodie whittaker, i feel this tenure, it looks as though her departure has been quite abrupt and premature but she is only doing three series, the same as others, the rule of thumb is three series and you're out. it feels she has not had the run she deserved after making history as a first female resident of the tardis. you might be the time lord but those are the rules! thank you both very much indeed. time is up. we appreciate you going through the papers with us. you going through the papers with us. and thank you. that is it for

the papers, we have clicked coming up the papers, we have clicked coming up next. goodbye. -- click. we've been live in the uk, in india and around the world. and this year, we went live in your living room, joined by click fans from across the globe and masterminded by a director... and his assistant. laughter. woman: keep the cat! i thought i prepared for everything but not... ..not for the cat! ..not for the cat. hello! real people?

you're the first people i've seen in nine months! oh, my goodness! people! cheering and applause. it's lara lewington! hello! so normally at this time of year, we like to look back at our best bits from the last 12 months but around this summer, it became obvious that no—one's gonna want to look back at 2020 ever. so we're not going to look back at 2020 because, fortunately, this is the year that click turned 20, so we thought we would look back at some of our fave moments ever. lara, of all of the places that you've got to go, is there — can you just say one place that really sticks out? is there — is it possible to have one place? yes! it's difficult but it has to be my trip to norway. we did a sustainability special and i think this shoot is something that will really stick with me forever. we went out on the fjords with an underwater drone and you're there on a boat on the fjords with the most stunning surroundings, then you see what is going on under the water. it was really quite something. if you want to see what goes on beneath the surface, where everything was completely

immaculate above it, this is a real eye—opener because this underwater drone could see plastic all over the surface, there are apparently cars under there as well — we did not actually see any on our trip but the people i was out with had seen them before — where cars had just been dumped on the ice and the ice had broken and the cars had fallen into the fjords. really an incredible sight. we asked each member of the click team to pick their most memorable click moments and first up, a man with a reputation for breaking everything that he touches. case in point, the ‘unbreakable phone' in 2010. it's dan simmons! cheering and applause. so, dan, you broke the unbreakable phone. then in 2016, you were given something even more spectacular to try and break? yeah. yeah, we travelled to central china to a place called zhangjiajie, where they were busy making a glass bridge.

unlike me, they hope the thousands of visitors that will come here won't be too scared to look down — 300 metres through the world's highest glass walkway. each panel of the walkway has three layers of toughened glass, held together by glue. chuckles. well, the president has given me a hammer and said that even if i can get through all three layers of glass, i won't fall through. here goes. ooh! it was absolutely incredible. it was stunning. i mean, those pictures look stunning. it's a stunning part of the world. but yeah, it didn't break, it was — it was fine. i did insist that the president of the bridge stand on the same bit of glass that i was standing on, just in case! back in 2007, dan and i went to san francisco looking for start—ups that were going to change the world, didn't we, dan?

yeah, we did, and we took a few quid with us to find a start—up that we could invest in, because that's the way that it was done back in 2007. who did we see and who did we not give the money to? well, we saw twitter. we did not give the money to twitter, did we? nope! because we thought nah. laughter. yeah, you found a start—up that was making electric cars — and remember, this is a time when electric motors really did just mean milk floats and golf buggies. what was the name of the start—up that you found? it's a small start—up. it was called tesla and they — they invited us along for me to try literally the third car that they made. and we took it for a spin. the roadster has a good pedigree - its ultralight carbon fibre body is designed by lotus, based on the elise — and thanks to new battery technology, it can go three times as far as the car wally built. the first hundred of these electric superca rs roll silently off

the production line in october. but what a success! did you have any idea back then of the success that tesla may have? i — do you know what? i did have an inkling, and i tell you why i did — because of the performance. tesla always went out right from the get go to say this — you know, we're not talking milk floats or golf carts. we are talking serious performance cars, and they captured the imagination of the public. dan, thank you so much forjoining us. it has been wonderful to see you. cheering and applause. after dan, lj rich, who has done a tonne of stuff for us over the years. her fave moment — the time she went on a vr roller—coaster while on a real roller—coaster. seriously, don't ask. but she's been spending lockdown, well, as only lj could. hello, lara, hello, spen, hello click team and hello, audience! i've been immersed in al music creation, among other things. i got really into style transfer, where you mix two songs together.

see, i can do it without computers, so how would an aldo? i programmed ai queen to sing let it go from frozen and ai beatles to sing call me maybe. # here's my number. # so call me maybe. # it's hard to look right at you baby. so — so hang on. this is the beatles doing carly rae jepsen, yeah? the algorithm works by sampling tiny slices of audio from everything the beatles ever made and then picks out things it thinks fits, and that's based on training models, and it takes nine hours to make just one minute of music. so i was heavily supervising the model every four seconds into the early hours of the morning... oh, my god. ..so it is also an exercise in endurance. 0h, lj, that's brilliant! and also, it is just so you. ai and music — how much more you could that be? cheering and applause.

it has been said that once you join click, you never really leave. and that means that a couple of the newest members of our team have actually been with us for quite a while. let's cross to them now. please welcome 0mar mehtab and paul carter. hello, how are you? hey. hello! how's it going, everyone? paul, you've picked something from all the way back in 2018? that's right, yeah. me and 0mar went to switzerland to check out some new tech around firefighting. we went to check out a device to help firefighters detect heat in a burning building and also something i was very pleased about — a firefighting train. now, switzerland may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of fire. but it's surprisingly advanced when it comes to firefighting tech. for example, it's the only country in europe to have a firefighting train. this cabin is actually pressurised,

so in the event of a fire, this can be operated as a safe breathing environment. dramatic music. i was over there with him. i was there, working my socks off, and then i turned around and ijust see him grinning from ear to ear, just loving it, being on that train. it was, like, the most wholesome thing ever. brilliant! let's turn to omar. cheering and applause. so, sam battle is a musician and youtuber who loves tinkering with old tech, so he's got a whole lot of speakers, you know, game boys, he also had, like, a furby organ. he got, like, 30 of them and he was playing music with it. it was really...weird. that sounds demonic! oh, it is demonic. this is basically 48 game boys and it basically sounds like an orchestra. for instance... machines play a droning

sound that crescendos. but after a quick modification, the keyboard doesn'tjust play game boys any more. ah! i was very close to that! omar squeals. look out! did you squeal there, omar? i was going to say 0mar, that was some — some squealing going on. i mean, yeah, i did squeal. the reason i squealed is because just before we turned the cameras on, we were testing out the flame—thrower and it went so big that it singed his hair, and so i was genuinely fearful. like, 0k! let's calm down a little bit, you know? chuckles. so it's amazing to think, really, isn't it, 15 years ago, youtube was already a thing but the concept that that people could carve out huge careers online just didn't seem real at the time, did it? no, it didn't and, you know, i mean, we've gone from people making online videos and showing them, you know, around the world to now, you know, people's careers getting so big — i mean, we've got floyd mayweather junior fighting a youtuber soon and that's it's based off the back of his fame that he's put up online.

so you can actually build a real, proper career out of this, and it's only going up and up. seems like there's no end. totally. 0mar, paul, thank you so much! cheering and applause. thank you. next up isjen copestake! jen, welcome! jen, good to see you. jen joined click back in 2013 and has been super busy over the last year especially, covering health tech pieces during the pandemic. she's been all over the world for the show as well — to israel, las vegas, china. how has it all been for you, jen? it's been absolutely amazing and it's so lovely to see everybody today. my favourite times i think on the show, though, have been in china. there's been some incredible technology that i've seen there, and one of the most amazing things was actually getting to play sport with robots. whoa! laughs. the robot is designed to be as much like a human player as possible. its eyes are the hd cameras at the back of the court.

these computers send prediction data on where the shuttlecock will fall back to the robot via bluetooth. is there any more news on that badminton robot? yeah, they're still — they're all taking part in competitions and there's different companies and universities across china who are developing these robots and they're winning competitions. it'sjen copestake, everybody! cheering and applause. nice to see you. this has been a blast! we have made it well past our 20th birthday and through the toughest time, i think, any of us have ever seen. lara, thank you. you're, like, the best co—host i could've wished for. lara lewington, everybody. lara lewington. thanks, everyone, for coming! cheering and applause. this is just a very short taste of the live show. you can get a full show on iplayer. i hope that you have a restful and peaceful time off, if you can. here's to 2021. thanks for watching and we will see you soon. bye! cheering and applause.

good evening. 2021 started on a cold and wintry note. through the weekend we have seen note. through the weekend we have seen sleet and snow from many places, not everywhere, this was near sheffield on sunday afternoon. there is also been heavy rain showers around. over the coming few days the story stays the same, staying cold with a mix of rain, sleet and snow, mainly over hills, the snow. some sunshine but often windy conditions, particularly through monday and tuesday. we have high pressure setting to the north of the uk, low pressure towards the south, south—west and in between your drawing in that cold wind coming in from the north—east of the north sea so that brings showers on monday, rain for east anglia and the south—east and the channel isles and further north, one or two wintry

showers over the pennines, southern uplands and one or two over the higher ground of wales. a good deal of sunshine for many areas, it is a windy day with gusts over 40 mph along the coast of east anglia and through the english channel. temperatures up to around 4—6 , below average for the time of year and feeling colder when you add that wind—chill. moving through monday evening, overnight into tuesday, more showers feeding in from the north sea on the north easterly wind and it could be ice and snow around for parts of eastern scotland and north—east england as well with temperatures overnight not quite as cold as recent nights but still getting down to freezing or below, the coldest across the north west. heading into tuesday, a similar data monday, watch out for ice and snow once again, particularly for eastern scotland, northern england and further rain showers to come for east anglia and the south—east of england and the channel isles, this stubborn area of cloud and rain persisting and another cold day with

some sunshine and around three or 6 degrees and still are wind—chill on tuesday. moving through into wednesday, high pressure moves towards the west so we are in between weather systems heading into wednesday, a quieter day and the breeze turns to a northerly direction for the middle to the end of the week. probably quite a bit of sunshine and a few showers for eastern england, one or two for the south—east and channel isles as well. and staying cold for the time of year with temperatures only about one to around 4 degrees on wednesday. bye for now.

this is bbc news — i'm ben bland with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. president trump is recorded on tape asking an election official to ‘find' him extra votes in the state of georgia. it's comes as some republicans vow to challenge the results of the us election. we hear from former republican senator jeff flake about the civil war in his party. borisjohnson warns that covid restrictions in england are "probably about to get tougher" — as the uk records another 50,000 new cases. could julian assange finally be heading to the us to face charges of espionage? ajudge in london is set to rule on his case on monday morning. and tributes to gerry marsden, the singer of ‘you'll