the measures, including a closure of schools affecting almost all pupils, come as britain raises its coronavirus alert to the highest possible level. south africa is facing a new variant of the coronavirus that is more of a risk than the mutation found in the uk. scientists are testing it to see if it could limit the efficacy of vaccines. two democrat congressmen have called on the fbi to investigate donald trump's phone call to the top election official in georgia. they say the president's request to find more votes to overturn joe biden's victory in the state broke election law. the usjustice department has said it is extremely disappointed, and will appeal, after a court in london refused to extradite the wikileaks founder, julian assange. thejudge said there was a real risk of suicide. on the part of mrjulian assigned.

—— assange. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are caroline wheeler, deputy political editor of the sunday times, and broadcaster and authorjohn kampfner. tomorrow's front pages, let's start with the times. the paper reflects that people in england will be required to stay at home for all but a handful of reasons until at least february the 15th — with laws coming into effect from the early hours of wednesday with parliament being recalled the same day. the guardian reports that england will enter its toughest nationwide lockdown since march, with schools closed until mid—february, as borisjohnson warned the weeks ahead "will be "the hardest yet". the daily mail says the measures will be reviewed in six weeks but last a minimum of seven, with the prime minister hinting they could remain in place until at least march. the metro says borisjohnson has put england back into a third total

coronavirus lockdown in a huge u—turn that includes shutting all schools — hours after he reopened them, assuring families they were safe. the daily mirror also accuses borisjohnson of performing a u—turn over schools in england — as he announced a new lockdown. the daily telegraph highlights the prime minister's promise that 13 million vaccinations will ensure it is "the last phase of the struggle" against covid. and according to the i borisjohnson has bowed to scientific advisers and it adds he believes that by mid—february "if things go well" all care home residents, carers, over—705, front line medics, social care workers and clinically vulnerable people should be vaccinated. so, let's begin. when i look at these papers caroline and john, when i look at these papers caroline andjohn, i when i look at these papers caroline and john, i kind of want to think that we really want to look at tomorrow's papers? but we have to. we are going to start with the daily mirror whose headline is lockdown three, a similar one to the metro newspaper. sequels in cinema, john, andi newspaper. sequels in cinema, john, and i am elite talking about cinema,

but roughed up ideas, they have the same characters, rehashing the previous dialogue, people come out ofa previous dialogue, people come out of a little bit unsatisfied facade thatis of a little bit unsatisfied facade that is just cinema, what about pandemic lockdowns? yeah, well, this is as bad as any bad sol can be. one of the reliefs tonight for you james presenting the papers is this is a sort of wide ranging set of discussions about all kinds of things around the world about which we only have about 30 seconds to discuss each item. this is the seam relentless dirge in terms of the lock down, and it is going to get as caroline and i were talking about an hour ago, caroline and i were talking about an hourago, a caroline and i were talking about an hour ago, a whole what worse before it gets better. and when you were referring to the mirror, it is really in my view the only paper thatis really in my view the only paper that is strongly critical of the prime minister. maybe it is an issue

of taste injudging the public mood, that that will come after not that it has ever really gone away. i think people are just tonight simply digesting the gravity of the situation, the gravity in the hospitals, the gravity of the situation that led the prime minister intoa situation that led the prime minister into a u—turn at the depth of which he did not need to make because he should not have made these hubristic false promises all these hubristic false promises all the way through particular during the way through particular during the autumn. the second lockdown wasn't really a proper lockdown. then it was all whitened up with this whole "i'm saving christmas for you" only to sort of semi—get rid of christmas if that is the right term ata spurof christmas if that is the right term at a spur of the moment. that saturday just before at a spur of the moment. that saturdayjust before christmas ruining all kind of people's plans. and now once again a last—minute rush bungled decision even if the actual decision itself was the right

one, he had many days before this and which he should've made the right choice. caroline wheeler, looking at the mirror, does boris johnson get the mood right or does the miracle at the mood right?|j think there will be a lot of people looking at the papers today and i can see are but in my facebook groups where people are just saying, "0h, groups where people are just saying, "oh, no, not again!" and i think john is right for someone of the issues with this is that was always a discussion about the need for another lockdown in january a discussion about the need for another lockdown injanuary on the basis that we know that is a particularly difficult time for the nhs. january going into february is what we call the normal nhs winter crisis and of course you adding to that the covid crisis and you end up with a bit of a perfect storm. there was always a kind of real risk that we would end up in some kind of lockdown in january we would end up in some kind of lockdown injanuary but i think when that comes on top of what for many was a very difficult christmas and i think having to spend with a lot of

friends and relatives, we had to change plans at the last moment and i spent christmas alone with my three children, people found that very tough. but people were hoping that things would get better making the sacrifices even though the figures and the nhs and data coming out were pretty dire. people were hoping they were making that one last sacrifice in the hope things would get better and of course i thinkjohn is right again, that kind of language of hubris, that language of language of hubris, that language ofjam tomorrow of language of hubris, that language of jam tomorrow was of language of hubris, that language ofjam tomorrow was very comforting to families in a particular moment in time but it has not come to pass and we have ended up very quickly and we have ended up very quickly and much tighter restrictions than even we had over the christmas period. let's look at the sun newspaper which pa raphrases period. let's look at the sun newspaper which paraphrases boris johnson there on its front page. one last push. jon i don't know if the sun really intended this but when i read one last push, it often makes you think of a general saying it to his troops, and if you look backin it to his troops, and if you look back in history, the generals find

through no fault of their own sometimes that another push was needed after that last push. not borisjohnson, the needed after that last push. not boris johnson, the man needed after that last push. not borisjohnson, the man who needed after that last push. not boris johnson, the man who would needed after that last push. not borisjohnson, the man who would be winston churchill, james, the one who wrote a book about churchill which actually reviewed a few years back. johnson will see some sort of comfort in the sun headline because it's absolutely reflecting back this kind of language, this kind of choreography for which johnson is famous or north tory us. i suppose the one thing about this whole question about this one last push, one last heave be particularly grim injanuary and going into february, the worst period of the year for the vast majority of people anyway. —— is famous or notorious. the depression and the sense of people hunkering down and not really

enjoying things is very much prevalent in january in enjoying things is very much prevalent injanuary in normal times. so in one respect that makes it worse for people because it is already a difficult situation that is exacerbated. on the other hand it is exacerbated. on the other hand it is not as though people would necessarily have had particularly high expectations of the spirit. as caroline said earlier, there was always an expectation of some sort of clamp—down whether it would be a full lockdown, all you need to do was look at the weather patterns consistent every year. and to look in any sense of easing over christmas and new year. not just here been in other countries. there was always an expectation of tightening our belts again in this difficult period. but as i say, didn't need to be as chaotic as this one has been. caroline wheelerjust to put the alternative point of view, isn't it the job of a prime minister to show that there is light

at the end of the tunnel was like if we had a prime minister singh is all doom and gloom, might that cause a negative reaction in a way that would not be helpful to the country, that leaders do have to say there is a way through this, one last push, people might be buoyed up by that.|j think people might be buoyed up by that.” think you are right and that has been part of the whole strategy about promising better times ahead in the hope that people will make the sacrifices and stay at home and follow the rules, and that has really been the sort of promised land that has been dangled in front of us since march of last year. i think if you remember very dip and for reasons of psychology these reviews were put into the lockdown period some people could have something to look forward to and hope of opening up moving forward into the summer and we had more of that going into the autumn. the problem is we have had too much of that and too many times we have been promised things will be better by christmas, better by the spring, better by easter. and i think people

are growing tired of that. and the notion that the vaccines are going to be the kind of promised land for us to be the kind of promised land for us that are going to open up society again, even your own bulletin this evening suggesting that there were grave concerns about the new south african mutant strain of the virus and whether or not that would be resista nt to and whether or not that would be resistant to vaccines. there are all sorts of things that are happening all the time which undermine confidence in that hope that it's all going to be all right and i think of course when the for things that have damage that more than anything else is the fact that we had been promised hope of so many times before and yet ended up in further and further tighter restrictions. i think people at this particular point of year asjohn was saying where traditionally it is a ha rd saying where traditionally it is a hard old slog, christmas is over, back into the new year, the weather is rubbish, the nhs is struggling, it is difficult to hold onto that hope particularly when we don't know how the vaccine roll—out is going to go and there have been many question

marks raised over whether or not they can deliver the full of vaccines needed in order to reopen society in the way we would hope as quickly as we hoped.” society in the way we would hope as quickly as we hoped. i do remember reading an article a few years ago that this week in january reading an article a few years ago that this week injanuary is in general terms meant to be the worst week of the year anyway. that article was written before the pandemic. it might not have to be rewritten. we are going to look at the times now which like all of the newspapers features that boris johnson speech, that appears to be a screenshot of his speech, return to lockdown is the headline. there is also an article that we will have a quick look at. on the right—hand side, this is a race against time to vaccinate the vulnerable. john, i think we have all seen the calculation done byjournalists at the ft on social media saying that in order to hit the government's goal and there were a lot of if so and hopefully these within the government's will, they would have to inaccurate 1.9 million people week on promised doses of 2 million facet there is not a lot of wiggle

room there. and this is a government that sad to say has not hit a single covid targets ever since last march. so why on earth when anyone in the right mind, and i'm not saying this political, i am saying this as a rational actual effect, why on earth would you assume that a government that time and again structurally gets things wrong, gets his calculations wrong, does the opposite of what you are taught at any business school or any school of life which is to under promise and over deliver? and does the opposite present i think the chance is sadly and everybody is affected, i am in over 50, and everybody is affected, i am in over50, i and everybody is affected, i am in over50, lam and everybody is affected, i am in over 50, i am right at the end of that first set of people, i would love it if my target which is supposed to be april would come to pass. do i think it will? not in a million years so i think it will simply because what they are doing

is the equivalent of saying, "i need to get to the airport to catch this fight. i'm going to give it the absolute bare minimum on the assumption there is no traffic at all and that i will lop off ten minutes from that as well but i was still make my flight." no, you want and the problem is that the target of mid february is almost certain not to be made and that will only exacerbate. and let me just juxtapose one thing, james. last september when juxtapose one thing, james. last septemberwhenl juxtapose one thing, james. last septemberwhen i was juxtapose one thing, james. last september when i was in berlin where i'm frequently, i was talking to the head apartment health select committee. and this was september in berlin where things were looking by covid standards pretty darn rosy, things have always been much better handled there and september — october there as what here wasn't as bad. i asked october there as what here wasn't as bad. iasked him october there as what here wasn't as bad. i asked him when you think things will be normal again percent and he said well defined returns, but will be the new normal? i said people might be wary but they can do

their own thing. he said forget 2021. and i was really taken aback. you never get that sense... maybe thatis you never get that sense... maybe that is too pessimistic, whatever, and then he ran me through the reasons but you never get that sort of sense of a heart heavy dose of reality among our leading politicians. maybe they are doing that psychologically because they don't want to make an already difficult situation harder, but i think you should trust your voters and your people to understand how difficult the situation is. caroline wheeler, as stepney political additur of the sunday times, you know the inside of this government as well as on the sunny of the journalists. is it a realistic goal when you know that the levers of government that they have? —— deputy editor. i think it is difficult to say, iam editor. i think it is difficult to say, i am desperately depressed by whatjohn there with the idea that this will not be over this year and it was interesting to see some of

the language boris johnson it was interesting to see some of the language borisjohnson use in the language borisjohnson use in the sunday newspapers even this week when he referred to this being a better year but not point back in the easter promise. i think one of the easter promise. i think one of theissues the easter promise. i think one of the issues we've got here is i think asjohn said, we have had a situation where there has been a lot of armour promised and a lot of under delivery. it is hard looking at it from the inside. —— of over promise. it's hard to see how it will live up to the basis that so many of the other pages have fallen to the wayside, knowing that there would be this world being track and trace system. testing in schools which was promised when the schools reopen in september and is now only just becoming a reality if indeed it does, and all those other promises along the way, even the prime minister singh on andrew marr on sunday morning that schools are safe and the very next day you turning on it. i think that creates question marks about the competency of this government. i don't say that widely

and not saying that the government doesn't face the absolute crisis of not only our generation but our century, but i do think that there has been some mistakes made that perhaps they need to be learning from. one of those is about not overpromising things because i think thatis overpromising things because i think that is what will cause great problems for this government if people really lose faith in what is being promised and really don't follow the rules because they don't believe that we are ever going to get out of this or that those promises are going to come to pass. whatsoever final paper now, the guardian. the pm imposes new lockdown. .. final paper now, the guardian. the pm imposes new lockdown... —— let us look at. boris johnson getting pm imposes new lockdown... —— let us look at. borisjohnson getting up from his desk after having delivered that speech. don it deals with its su btext that speech. don it deals with its subtext there any paragraph, "schools in england close with exams unlikely to go ahead." families will look back to the uncertainty in august over exam results and tricky months when people were trying to learn from home even if they did not have ipads. will there be care for

stu d e nts have ipads. will there be care for students this year? absolutely not. exams are not going to happen but we are not sure what will replace them. rememberthe are not sure what will replace them. remember the debacle of last year with the assessments and people's lives were ruined. —— young people pots are that is not a word to describe to that. whether it is primary, secondary or particularly the two major exams, i feel so sorry for our young people going to university and having such a difficult time of it now being at home at least until midway through probably the whole of this term. it is incredibly difficult. just if you would allow me, we talked all time about covid for completely and absolutely right reasons and it is remarkable how incredibly important this story is that it is not off —— has knocked off the donald trump story and trying to stuff ballots in

georgia. and the julian sanchez story as well, his extradition to america being blocked. it gives you that sense of just america being blocked. it gives you that sense ofjust how extraordinary this moment is. i have looked to the papers and you are right i have not seen any papers and you are right i have not seen any mention of them in the hard copies i god. -- the julian assange story. caroline coming back to you, eve ryo ne story. caroline coming back to you, everyone is at the start including people who have had to shoot them up but i wonder if those teenagers, 16, 17, 18 euros have not had it as hard as anyone in some ways?” 17, 18 euros have not had it as hard as anyone in some ways? i think all children have had a particularly hard. ithink children have had a particularly hard. i think you are right that the age group have had it difficult on the basis this is the moment in their lives where they should be delivering and have their exams and looking forward in life to those university days or whatever comes next but i have three children, myself, tween eight—year—olds and an 11—year—old and i think the impact

on them has been absolutely phenomenal, notjust on the pet they have missed out on so much learning but they have also lost that behaviour for learning. but they have also lost that behaviourfor learning. i but they have also lost that behaviour for learning. i think there are millions of children at that that are stuck to devices and are speaking into computers these days and they are completely missing that one to one human interaction which i think we can all appreciate as adults is missing from all our lives but particular those.” as adults is missing from all our lives but particular those. i don't know if it is past their bedtime... say hello from us, i'm sure it won't be very exciting. but anyway hello from us. caroline we are, deputy political and at her of the sunday times and john kampfner, thank you so much. that's it for the papers this hour. thanks to caroline and john. i will be back with the main news at the top of the hour. goodbye for now. hello, i'm sarah mulkerrins at the bbc sport centre with a round—up of the latest sports news. liverpool have dropped points

in the premier league title race after a 1—0 loss at southampton tonight. former liverpool player danny ings put the saints early on from that set piece. just two minutes in with that lovely lob there. and the host — well, they held strong from there. sadio mane went so close in stoppage time with liverpool camped out in southampton's area. but it was southampton's first win in five games. so you can see their boss, ralph hasenhuttel, clearly moved by it all. a second loss, though, of the season for the champions and both manchester united and manchester city could leapfrog them if they win theirgames in hand. well, premier league football and other elite sports with testing regimes and bubbles in place will continue behind closed doors in england despite the latest coronavirus restrictions announced by the prime minister, borisjohnson. exercising outside is allowed once a day, but venues such as golf courses, gyms, and tennis courts will be

closed, while the fa say all non—elite football is now suspended. in scotland, professional sport will continue. derby county say several first—team players and staff members have tested positive for coronavirus, with the club closing their training ground. derby say they are holding discussions with the efl and the football association in relation to their upcoming fixtures. they're next due to play on saturday in the fa cup third—round tie against non—league side chorley. and manchester city women are also affected. four first—team players tested positive for covid—19 and they are now self—isolating. it's not clear whether their wsl game against west ham on saturday will go ahead. and also with the latest restrictions impacting non—elite football, it means that the women's fa cup will now be suspended. managerjoey barton has left fleetwood town with immediate effect after nearly three years in charge.

the former manchester city and newcastle midfielder leaves the league 1 side with the club tenth in the table, just three points off the play—off places. he was initially appointed in 2018 and led fleetwood to last season's league1 play—offs. meanwhile, league 2 club port vale have parted company with managerjohn askey. they are currently 17th. england all—rounder moeen ali is likely to miss the first test against sri lanka next week after testing positive for coronavirus. team—mate chris woakes has been deemed a possible close contact and will now also self—isolate. here's our cricket correspondent jonathan agnew. they were tested on friday, and they flew on saturday and arrived sunday morning where they were tested again twice at the airport. two different types of tests, i understand. one set of tests all came back negative, but then the one that did come back did show that moeen ali was testing positive. so, clearly that is an issue

as to why everyone tested negative on the friday and then suddenly this positive one now appears. but the poor fact is poor moeen ali. we hope he's going to be ok, of course. he now faces ten days of self—isolation in his hotel room. he has food delivered to his door. he is not allowed out of his room. so he has got ten days ahead of him i suspect he would rather not have. it also knocks him out of the first test match, which he might not have played, but he is there is the third test spinner in that squad, but now having spent ten days in his room, there is no way he'll be fit to play in ten days' time. snooker‘s masters event — which starts on sunday — has been moved from the alexandra palace to milton keynes so that strict covid—19 regulations can be followed. the tournament features the world's top 16 players, with stuart bingham defending the title against the likes ofjudd trump, ronnie o'sullivan,

neil robertson, john higgins and mark selby. all players will be tested the day before their first match, and will remain within the bubble as long as they are participating in the tournament. the netball series between england and jamaica later this month has been called off because of covid—19. extended restrictions to international travel between the uk and jamaica mean it is not currently possible to stage the fixtures. it's hoped the four—match series can be rearranged for later in the year. the new pdc world darts champion, gerwyn price says he's grasped the opportunity of reaching the pinnacle of the sport after winning his first world title last night. price beat gary anderson to take home the £500,000 winners cheque and become the new world number one. not bad for someone who six years ago was playing professional rugby. i never really fulfilled my dream potential in the rugby days,

but if i had what i have gone on to become a darts player? i'm not sure i would. everything happens for a reason and i've had this opportunity in completely different sport and over the past seven years i'm thankful i've got another opportunity and i've taken another opportunity in another sport. and that's all the sport for now. hello. well, let's see what the weather is up to on tuesday. and in summary, not an awful lot of change. it's going to stay pretty cold and in fact over the next few days, you can see that cold air sitting over europe. and the nagging north—to—north—easterly wind will keep things very chilly here in the uk. so, let's summarise the week ahead. got a lot of cold weather on the way, overnight frosts,

additionally windy in the south and along the north sea coast, and on top of that, rain, sleet, a bit of snow, some ice around as well. as far as the rain's concerned, it looks as though the wettest place will be east anglia and the south east, and that's because of the wind direction. it'll be blowing out of the north—east and the showers will keep coming to this same place. so, we could see 20—50 mm of rain over the next couple of days — so, some big puddles there. anyway, back to the here and now. so, here are the temperatures early in the morning — freezing or below in most towns and cities. here is that north—easterly wind blowing across the north sea, and you can see those showers affecting east anglia and the south east. can be quite grey and wet both in the morning and in the afternoon here. elsewhere, i think a mixture of sunshine, and occasional rain, and wintry showers. but the further west you are, the better the weather will be. belfast, ithink, swansea, plymouth in for some sunshine but chilly, 3—5 celsius briefly in the afternoon, and then very quickly, those temperatures will drop during the course

of the late afternoon and evening. and you can see, that north—easterly wind continues through the course of tuesday and also into wednesday. and that weather pattern is pretty evident here. you can see the isobars pointing out at the north east, due south—west, and that's how the wind blows. so, once again on wednesday, it's copycat conditions. again, that extreme south—eastern portion of the uk can be quite grey and wet at times with those persistent showers. best of the weather will be in the west, but notice a weather front‘s approaching there, the far north—west of scotland. so, some rain there, i think, for our friends in stornoway. but still wednesday night, we're expecting another widespread frost across the uk. temperatures in many areas will be well below freezing, down to —5 even, in bigger towns and cities, and you can see how chilly it remains in some of the bigger cities over the next few days. that's it for me, bye—bye.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm james reynolds. new national lockdowns in england and scotland as a surge in cases of the new coronavirus variant threatens to overwhelm the health system. the announcements came just hours after the uk became the first country to roll out the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. but there are fears in south africa that a variant detected there, could be resistant to vaccines. a court in london rules that wikilea ks founder julian assange cannot be extradited to the united states. thejudge says he is at risk of suicide.