the prime minister's statement and reaction. from all hello. another frosty and the places i night tonight across many parts of the uk. look at the uk. we'll continue to see wintry showers so feeling easterly wind,. high pressures to the north of us, low pressures to the south and east, and that means we are getting more it will still dominate quite when the at victory for england and england and wales and well it stays cold for the frost and ice will be more in the way of rain and that sleet and hail snow for some of you particularly towards the southeast corner, especially wet across parts of kent, sussex, surrey, down towards the channel islands. as much as 50 mm of rain could cause minor flooding. but even here could teach things toward wintry. also across the surry hills. could be a slight

dusting of snow. but nowhere dusting of snow and the so the northlands of scotland. with that i suggested across many western areas and cold start to the tuesday morning. that run of rain a little bit of hills the and snow for the channel islands, wintry showers northern england, southern eastern scotland. a lot of dry and bright weather for many as will be of the next few days. wins latest in north and west quite a stiff breeze blowing and it's here where the wind show will make it feel substantially colder with three to five celsius as recorded tuesday evening so those lines of showers across scotland going northern england and that one towards the southeast corner and the channel islands. that will persist through tuesday night into wednesday. clear skies away from it means there will be another widespread frost and ice around. as we go into wednesday the isobars align in the charts and note the further apart they are the light of

the winds will be. so less busy day for many and notable one right down the eastern coast but shifting direction and that means the rate will gradually start to ease away from east anglia, kent and the channel islands, still shower through central parts with many a dry and bright and cold day. a widespread frost will follow to take us widespread frost will follow to take us there wednesday night into thursday morning. as there was —5 in some parts of the west. temperatures not as cold in scotland and northern ireland is because we will have the weather front tier with a cloud, rain, sleet and he'll snow for a time. sunshine developing for many as we head towards friday. as we've been hearing, the prime minister has said that england will enter a third national lockdown — in an attempt to control the spread of the coronavirus. in a televised address, borisjohnson told people to stay indoors, other than for limited exceptions. he said all schools would close immeditaely,

except for the children of key workers and the most vulnerable. and he added that people who had been asked to shield before — those most at risk from the virus — should start shielding again. let's speak now to dr gabriel scally — professor of public health at the university of bristol and member of the independent sage committee. thank you very much, what did you make up with the prime minister had to say? i was pleased. we are going to say? i was pleased. we are going to have some really strong restrictions put in place and we have been needed for quite some time. professionals, public health people like myself and independent sage have been wanting this for some time. but it's very disappointing, i think, that the government is in this reactive mode. it seemed to wait until the very last moment and until a crisis is breaking on us before they take the necessary action to bring things under control. so it is welcome but

there's more that could be done. such as what? for example we still don't have a proper test, trace, isolate and support system. we have contact racing that is not locally based, that does not work it does not conform to the international guidance and i think it's one of the major reasons that failure of that system for the situation we are in. i would love to hear the premise is that we have to a rigorous two metre social distancing. you will remember that was dropped in favour of one metre or one metre plus, i would like to see that back particularly given the increased transmissibility of the virus. i look to see more work in schools. schools are not safe for their communities or the families of the children. and probably not stay for the staff either. and more work to make sure taking other other community facilities so that they can put into community halls, or commercial

premises or whatever is available to my classes so that kids can be socially distanced. it also doing something about ventilation. we know this is an airborne disease, we know it's highly transmissible. and we need better ventilation, so funds to do those sorts of things, those of the sort of things that would make oui’ the sort of things that would make our schools safe and enable them to reopen safely. the premise is that the weeks ahead will be the hardest yet, but he seemed to suggest that we will be on the home stretch with the vaccine. is that how you see it because it was a vaccine is great news, and i do feel at this time for all of the people who are back out of work again, oars whose businesses have been shut down. they must, like me, regard the vaccine is the big hope but it's going to take a long time. we need to have a really good system for putting the vaccine into place. the whole programme is complex and difficult to do. it's

not off to a great start. we have known for a long time that vaccines we re known for a long time that vaccines were coming, we've known for a long time there were requiring two doses and yet we are just changing the regime as we go along, it appears. we should not be in this situation. and given, i think, the inaction and the slow pace and some of the wrong decisions that have been made i really, really hope that we get the vaccine right. but we will need all of the other things as well. and the big worry will be that once vaccination goes people will drop their guard at the console overcommit we should not forget the 10% of the 10% of people who get covid—i9 who have longed covid symptoms. we are running a 50,000 cases a day that's an extra 5000 people who will be carrying the effects of this virus with them for some considerable time. do you think the new variant might rate the resista nt the new variant might rate the resistant even to these toughest

measures? i think the measures will bring it down, i don't think there's any doubt about that. if they are serious, if it really is that people must stay at home and also if it is reinforced, and if it's not undermined by prominent individuals not doing what we all are expecting to commit if the government is clear and consistent it will bring it down. but to keep it down with his level of an infectious virus circulating at the moment will require really some action beyond this. we know at the end of the first lockdown in the northwest, and the greater manchester area, at least for health authorities even at the end of that lockdown the virus was circulating freely in the communities. i would just cannot afford to go on like this, so the government needs to take some of those other actions that i and others have been commending on them for quite some time. for quite some time and any a broader pallets to be

able to paint us a picture for the future. thank you so much for joining us. in his statement, the prime minister said all schools will close immediately and move to online learning for all pupils except children of key workers and the most vulnerable. dr patrick roach is general secretary of the teaching union nasuwt. are you happy with what the prime minister announced? are you happy with what the prime minister announced ?|j are you happy with what the prime minister announced? i don't think anyone could be happy with the situation we find ourselves in now asa situation we find ourselves in now as a country. we've seen a bad situation getting worse by the day, the position today is as bad as, if not worse than it was back in march oi’ not worse than it was back in march or april of last year. a national lockdown, frankly is the only credible response that could have been made to what is a highly transmissible variance of the coronavirus, and it's right that the prime minister is listening to us by

moving immediately to remote learning for the vast majority of children and young people. can all kids learn remotely? the reality is that children and young people cannot learn if their education is being disrupted. we seen children public education being disrupted for the best part of 20/20, and that disruption is continuing. but without tougher measures to actually combat the virus transmission and the wider community, then that disruption was going to continue. what we really need to be looking at is how we can ensure we got effective remote education in the premise or spoke a little bit, but no detail about how he's going to invest more in supporting it for connectivity and for children and young people, but also we need investment in other areas as well. to ensure that children public education is is not as disrupted as otherwise would be because we are

having to enter into these national restrictions. in march and april went poorer students of the ones without tablets internet connections at home the ones that suffered the most. you will have had several months to try to put into contingency plans for second wave, what guarantee is can you give to their parents that their learning will be satisfactory as it can be under lockdown. the reality is that backin under lockdown. the reality is that back in march the government announced that schools were going to be closed, and teachers had to pick up be closed, and teachers had to pick up the pieces. they had to invent systems from scratch. teachers have been working hard to come they done everything that's been asked of them during this pandemic, and with the of the work extremely hard to ensure they deliver the best possible education for children and young people whether on—site or remotely. but it's important that every child has that access to high—quality remote education, and that starts

with connectivity. it's important that teachers are also provided with the equipment that they need. but it's important that we get to a position as soon as possible and clearly that's going to be some time towards the latter half of february where schools can reopen again without further disruption. and there's more the government need to do there. can ijust ask there's more the government need to do there. can i just ask again to those parents of children and those families that cannot afford tablets of their own what would you say tonight? clearly if children are lacking access to connectivity, without a tablet or a computer, many schools are developing systems approaches, to ensure that those children can continue to access their learning. not everything revolves around the use of technology. and teachers have been doing that work, they were doing that work throughout 2020, and it

will continue to do that work now. really we need to get back to the position because the best place for children and young people to be his backin children and young people to be his back in school. we don't want to see those with disrupted. i was disappointed that the prime minister did not indicate that teachers and education staff are going to be a priority in relation to the roll—out of the vaccine. that's absolutely essential. if we don't want to see education disrupted again as we move through february into march then it's vitally important that we can keep temperatures, keep support staff in schools, and keep children and young people in schools safely. thank you so much. five teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, after a 13—year—old boy, 0lly stephens, was stabbed to death in reading in berkshire. police were called to fields in the emmer green area yesterday afternoon, following reports of the attack. the four boys and one girl arrested are all aged 13 or 14. the family of a london

schoolgirl found dead during a holiday in a malaysian jungle resort say they are "utterly disappointed" in a coroner's verdict of death through misadventure. nora korin, who was 15, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from the resort in august 2019. her parents say their daughter had a mental age of 5 or 6, needed help to walk and they don't believe she would have wandered off alone. some of today's other news... a judge at the old bailey has ruled that the wikileaks founder, julian assange, cannot be extradited to the united states, to face trial for the release of tens of thousands of confidential military and diplomatic documents ten years ago. she said his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. free julian assange! julian assange has long attracted loyal supporters, and this was their reaction outside the old bailey as they heard the news. no extradition. yeah! for more than a decade, the wikileaks founder has resisted extradition,

spending seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london before being removed almost two years ago and detained in belmarsh prison. the us authorities want him to face 18 charges, mostly of espionage, relating to his allengthed role in the leaking of thousands of secret military documents. many focussed on the wars in afghanistan and iraq, including this video appearing to show a us helicopter firing on civilians in baghdad. to some, mr assange is a champion of free speech who revealed war crimes. to others, a law breaker who endangered the lives of us agents. and today, after years of legal battles, he was driven into court to hear his fate. from the dock he listened as districtjudge vanessa baraitser dismissed his defence that the us charged were political and a threat to media freedom. but, when it came to his mental

health and depression, she ruled that in a us high security prison "the risk that mr assange will commit suicide is a substantial one and as such it would be oppressive to extradite him to the united states." 0n hearing the ruling mr assange simply wiped his brow. his partner and mother of his two sons stella morris burst into tears. we are pleased that the court has recognised the seriousness and inhumanity of what he has endured and what he faces. but let's not forget the indictment in the us has not been dropped. the us department ofjustice said it was extremely disappointed and would appeal against the ruling. mr assange was remanded in custody ahead of a bail application later this week. james landale, bbc news. back to our main story now — the imposition of a new

lockdown in england. one of the main reasons boris johnson gave for the move was the increasing pressure on the nhs and the possibility that the health service could find itself overwhelmed by tcovid—i9 patients needing to be treated. that situation has become increasingly acute in london in recent weeks — where the numbers being admitted with the virus has now exceeded that of the spring peak. 0ur correspondent karl mercer was given exclusive access to the intensive care unit at st georges hospital in south london, to hearfirst hand the pressures that hospital staff are facing. this is a new acute dependency unit at st georges. 15 beds, part of the redesign of this hospital to cope with ever increasing numbers of covid patients. for weeks the numbers have been rising quickly. even more so this last weekend. i'm jane evans, a consultant in acute medicine. we've had several whole families admitted. some of whom have gone to intensive care and some of whom are here with us. and i think quite a lot of those people have not been older people, they have no pay people with lots of medical problems, they have been young and

for people who have been themselves shocked at how unwell they have gotten and how quickly his infant unwell. growing numbers been growing pressures on staff step it up many stats that i can never do this again and now here we are facing what seems of the member to be a worse surge of patients with covid. we see people are very tired and stressed. at the real worry to us because we just do have to keep going because we had to be here for the patient‘s. seek and reinforce and help out with the situation. hi, my name is chloe and i'm a senior staff nurse at st georges hospital. at the right first monday after christmas and new year's in it for one of the worst shifts of my entire life. intense, i'm looking after many more sick patients than normally. just overwhelming, the whole situation. i'm hannah, and the junior overwhelming, the whole situation. i'm hannah, and thejunior sister of

the acute dependency unit. stay on the acute dependency unit. stay on the nurse in charge. 0ur colours are more like family. you can rant and rave and cry and i would hold that against you. and do you chris green i personally cried when i get home quite a lot, actually at the moment. sleep problems. i thinki quite a lot, actually at the moment. sleep problems. i think i left suffering with sleep problems as well. you have to relax your days off as best as you can and prepping yourself to come back again. we see the videos of the anti—covid people and you think to myself when my even doing? it demoralises me completely, never felt so demoralise in my life. we've all got family come a lot of us we've all got family come a lot of us have actually had covid. you see the other side of what it could have been for you because this is to be no trend in who gets a sticker and who isn't. so you see the other side chemically your mom, your data your grandparent laying in the bed and just try to do your best for them. more than half the patients are now

covid ones. pressure is growing on the intensive care units as well. my name is paul randall, this is to be out name is paul randall, this is to be our cardiothoracic intensive care unit. it's 21 beds and for probably since the beginning of december this has been a covid intensive care unit. normally this would have 67 intensive care beds. and now has 115. they may have to try to open even more. in the clinical director at adult clinical care. until you perhaps to the words in the patients that it hits home. and then you see the nurses that are crying after their 12 hour shifts and going home exhausted and drained. that having to pick themselves up to come back and again the next morning. that's when it hits home. like other hospitals that have lots of staff here off with covid or self isolating. 0thers looking up the growing tide of patients. working here, not the only stressed many are

facing. on the senior sister on cardiac intensive care. not only stressed at work what people are concerned with their own families. staff have had family over to of lost jobs staff have had family over to of lostjobs as well, staff have had family over to of lost jobs as well, children with all of the anxieties about schooling so people are coming to work with a lot of other stresses that they would not normally have and then coming to this environment where is the high mortality. that's a lot of death now. love end—of—life care that we are trying to provide. that's really ha rd are trying to provide. that's really hard for are trying to provide. that's really ha rd for staff are trying to provide. that's really hard for staff as well. hard is also images of openly breaking raquel —— lockdown rules. you may not see the effects of it but we see the effects of it. we have people in their 40s from their 30s give their 20s on our unit dying of covid. we are having to think about whether we do cancer surgery, having to possible cancer surgery, having to possible cancer surgery because of the number of covid patients. if you don't think you're doing any harm by bending the rules a little and you are. as a

knock on effect. and we are seeing the knock on effect here. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. another frosty and in anotherfrosty and in places icy night out tonight across many parts of the uk. we'll continue to see what your showers with each of the winds. high—pressure growth of the verse, low east headsets which easily wins compares what we saw last week and for the next few days that will still dominate, quite windy at times strictly for england and wales. was it says: with the frost and frost and ice will be more in the way of rain and sleet and hail snow for some particularly for the southeast corner, especially wet across parts of kent, sussex, surrey dug towards the channel islands. as much as 50 million l of rain with minor flooding, that's monday to wednesday totals and even here we could see things turn wintry at the tops. also across the three hills, it could be a slight dusting of snow. more in the way of dusting of snow. more in the way of dusting of snow ina snow. more in the way of dusting of snow in a be snowed on you, and especially his up until scotland. we

from that icing additions across many western areas commit to purchase as low as —8 again and parts of the highlands. nicole started tuesday morning, so that run ofa started tuesday morning, so that run of a little bit of hail sleet and snow towards the southeast corner and the channel islands, mortgage or showers northern england, southern eastern scotland, love dry and bright weather for many. when slightest store that western quite a stiff breeze blowing for england and wales and it's here where the wind chill will make it feel substantially colder than three to five celsius would suggest. as are going to choose the evening so that those lines of showers across scotland, northern england, and that went towards the southeast corner of the channel islands that will persist in fact through tuesday night into wednesday. clear skies for government miso been a widespread frost ice around. nurses we re widespread frost ice around. nurses were going to wednesday the isobars, align chart opening out. for their pa rt align chart opening out. for their part they are the light of the winds will be. so let's precede it for many england and wales, still in noticeable ones but shifting direction and that means there he

will gradually start to ease away from some in east anglia. the channel islands, showers across central parts. for many a dry, bright but cold day. widespread frost will follow to take us there night into thursday morning, about -5 in night into thursday morning, about —5 in some parts of the west. temperature is not as cold in scotla nd temperature is not as cold in scotland and northern ireland is because we have the weather front here but lots of sunshine developing for many as we head towards friday.

this is bbc news. it is a new year, but try telling that to the ghosts of 2020. england is returning to full lockdown as hospitalizations surge. and in america, it's election season — again. and president trump is creating chaos over his fraud claims — again. in the last hour, borisjohnson has raised the uk's coronavirus alert level from 4 to 5 — the highest level — for the first time. the weeks ahead he said will be the hardest yet. in england, we must therefore go into a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant. that means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home. the restrictions come as vaccine roll—outs takes place on both sides of the atlantic.