this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm sally bundock. new national lockdowns in england and scotland as the more infectious variant of coronavirus continues to see a surge in cases. france speeds up its vaccination programme after a sluggish start draws an angry rebuke from president macron. a return to the rallies, president trump and joe biden campaign in georgia ahead of runoffs to decide which of their parties controls the senate. the early voter turnout in georgia has been huge because estate knows that their candidates will decide just how powerfuljoe biden‘s presidency

will be. and making headway on the moscow metro. women can now become train drivers as dozens of professions are opened up. hello and welcome. england and scotland have been placed into new national lockdowns in response to the new restrictions which include the closures of schools and universities. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, warned that the weeks ahead would be "the hardest yet". here's our political editor laura kuenssberg since the pandemic began last year, the whole united kingdom has been engaged in a great national effort to fight covid. .. an effort that isn't over, not even close, as downing street pointed the finger of blame at the new variant

spreading fast. as i speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic. with most of the country already under extreme measures, it's clear that we need to do more. that means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home. that includes children, who he said should go to school just this morning. our kitchen tables, our shared sofas become offices and classrooms again. primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across england must move to remote provision from tomorrow, except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers. this might feel agonisingly familiar but there is one big difference. we're now rolling out the biggest vaccination programme in our history. by the middle of february, if things go well, and with a fair wind in our sails, we expect to have

offered the first vaccine dose to everyone in the four top priority groups. nearly 1a million offers planned to the most vulnerable and most elderly. the doors could be unlocked in about six weeks but there is a list of big ifs. if the roll—out of the vaccine programme continues to be successful, if deaths start to fall as the vaccine takes effect, and critically, if everyone plays their part by following the rules, then i hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the february half term and starting cautiously to move regions down the tiers. i want to say to everyone right across the uk that i know how tough this is. but now, more than ever, we must pull together. the weeks ahead will be the hardest yet but i really do believe that we're entering the last phase of the struggle, because with everyjab

that goes into our arms, we are tilting the odds against covid and in favour of the british people. so with the force of the law, most of life will retreat again behind closed doors. chairs on tables, empty streets, silent dinner halls — corridors falling quiet in every corner of the uk. good morning, everybody. this time, the hope a needle in millions of arms provides a way out of all of this, but the lockdown we'll live through first is far from being a quick sting. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. new york governor andrew cuomo says his state has found we will look at how businesses will be operating throughout this lockdown in our next

half—hour. new york governor andrew cuomo says his state has found its first case of the more infectious virus variant, first detected in the uk. it's raising concerns over the healthcare system should it spread rapidly in the state. mr cuomo has also told hospitals to speed up vaccinations or face a fine or loss of future supplies. any provider who does not use the vaccine could be fined up to $100,000 going forward. they have to use the allocation within seven days, otherwise they can be removed from future distribution. i don't want the vaccine in a refrigerator or freezer, i want it in somebody‘s arm. france is accelerating its vaccination programme, after a slow initial roll—out which has drawn an angry rebuke from president emmanuel macron. he's set a target for a million people to be innoculated by the end of the month. but efforts may be complicated by widespread vaccine skepticism. courtney bembridge reports.

front—page news and front of people's minds as the health minister visited a vaccination centre in paris. he was stopped by a doctor who told him elderly patients were waiting to be vaccinated. translation: you can tell them it is soon. for the moment you are getting vaccinated because you have priority but soon it will be their turn and you will be able to protect them. france has been slow off the mark in the first week of the vaccination campaign, just over 500 people had the jab. regional leaders say there is too much red tape. translation: all the doctors wrote to me and tell me they are available, even on weekends, but we still do not have the directives to set up these logistics. the health minister says vaccinations have been ramped up this week and thousands more have now had the vaccine. translation: we are multiplying the number of centres by four which means that there will be about 100 hospitals that will offer vaccination.

but the numbers are still low compared to more thani million in the uk and more than 200,000 in germany. the sluggish start has irritated president emmanuel macron. the newspaper quoted him as saying the pace was like a family stroll which was not worthy of the moment nor of the french. emmanuel macron‘s target isi million people vaccinated by the end ofjanuary and the government says that many doses will be available by the end of the week. but the vaccine will not be mandatory and france is one of the most vaccine—sceptical countries in the world. a recent survey showed just 40% of french citizens would get the vaccine if it were available. translation: the french population has always been anti—vaccinations. we see that here when we do the flu jabs. every year it is a mess. it is up to us as doctors to convince them that here the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. that is clear. but some do not need any convincing.

have you just been vaccinated? yes, i have been vaccinated. how did it go? very well. i get the vaccination as soon as possible. i work in the health sector, i am an ambulance driver and i would like to be vaccinated. france is among europe's hardest hit countries. its death toll is above 65,000, just behind italy and the uk. and with an election looming next year, the stakes could not be higher for emmanuel macron. mexico's health regulator has approved the covid—i9 vaccine developed by oxford university and astrazeneca. writing on twitter, foreign minister marcelo ebrard said: "the emergency approval of the astrazeneca vaccine by cofepris is very good news". with this, production will start soon in mexico." democrats and republicans have made their last pitches to voters in georgia where two runoff elections on tuesday will decide who controls the senate in washington.

both donald trump and joe biden have been in the state to lend their support to their respective candidates. from georgia here's nomia iqbal. the man standing withjoe biden may just be the man standing withjoe biden mayjust be this most important friends right now. democrats are running for the two senate seats in georgia. if they wind, the president—elect‘s party will control the senate. one state. one state can chart the course not just for the state. one state can chart the course notjust for the next four years but for the next generation. the people in georgia, this means campaigning has never stopped. the place we demand better is that the ballot box. the energy here in georgia is something i have never seen before. yes, we can

do it. yes we can! ifjohn winds he will be the youngest senator, a title that once belonged to joe biden. senator, a title that once belonged to joe biden. he has been campaigning day and night. joe biden's fate lies in your hands. if you lose is mist biden's presidency weakened before it skins? we are going to win on tuesday and when we do, we will have an agenda that serves working people in this country. the pressure is on georgian republicans as well. fellow candidate david has had to quarantine for a few days. make sure you get your friends and family out. this is about turnout. we will win if we get turnout. we will win if we get turnout. the early voter turnout. the early voter turnout in georgia has been huge because this state knows that their candidates will decidejust how that their candidates will decide just how powerfuljoe biden's presidency will be.

pro—business, pro— conservative values have trickle down to us. as mayor what i am telling people's go out there and vote. vote, vote, vote. and teenagers are getting organised as well with live stream to events like this. polls suggest they could give democrats the edge. since the presidential election, more than 23,000 have turned 18 and can now vote in the senate race. i did the maths in my head and i got so mad at my mum for being unable to vote in the presidential election. even though i couldn't vote in the presidential election in some ways i am still able to vote on a presidential scale to georgia is the final battle for president trump. he still wrongly believe the election was rigged. there is no way we lost georgia. no way. that was a rigged election. some republicans worry that he puts off voters, giving the advantage to joe biden.

let's talk now to our north america correspondent david willis. how would you sum up donald trump ‘s rally overnight and also biden's last—minute visit to georgia? sally, donald trump used this rally to reiterate his belief that the election was stolen from him. he called election officials in the state of georgia crooked, corrupt and incompetent and he sought to relitigate familiar concerns that he has raised in the past about such things as misplaced valets and miss performing election machinery and so on. despite the fact that georgia election official earlier in the day had on through all of those point by point and disavow them. donald trump made the point that an outcome of this election could be crucial, the turnout could be crucial to the turnout could be crucial to the way this election goes and,

indeed, there are signs that the democrats are rather pleased with the fact that there has been a healthy turnout early on among young and like voters. republican voters tend to turn out on the day of the election itself. but some senior republicans are a little concerned that donald trump ‘s denunciation of the election process itself could undermine faith in the process and actually deter some republican supporters from actually turning out to vote later today. as you say, both leaders are saying how crucial this is. the next 48 hours. talk is what is at stake. on wednesday there will be a giant session —— joint session of congress held to certify the electoral college vote. normally, of course, that is something of a formality but this time various republican senators and lawmakers have

said that they were going to register objections to the votes which could delay the whole process. it probably won't mean very much difference to the fact thatjoe biden will be declared the winner but nonetheless it is a last roll of the dice, if you like, on the part of those who are loyal to donald trump and it presents a particularly republican senators, with something of a dilemma. do they support the democratic outcome of this election and the courts have proven that it was joe proven that it wasjoe biden's victory in that election, or do they support the man who is, without question, the most popular member of the republican party, namely donald trump. it is an invidious decision for them to make and i might add as well that wednesday will also see a mass rally of donald trump supporters in the us capital, washington, dc. none of this,

however, likely to preventjoe biden from being inaugurated as the 46th president of the united states in just over two week time. the kuwaiti foreign minister is saying saudi arabia will reopen its airspace, and land and sea borders to qatar. there's been a long—running dispute between qatar and several of its gulf neighbours. saudi arabia led a coalition of countries in the gulf and beyond that cut ties with qatar injune 2017. an agreement aimed at ending the rift is to be signed in riyadh on tuesday, according to a white house official. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: making headway on the moscow metro — women can now become train drivers as dozens of professions once deemed too dangerous are opened up.

the japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead. good grief! after half a century of delighting fans around the world, charlie brown and the rest of the gang are calling it quits. the singer paul simon starts his tour of south africa tomorrow despite of protests and violence from some black activist groups. they say international artists should continue to boycott south africa until majority rule is established. around the world, people have been paying tribute to the iconic rock star david bowie who sold 140 million albums in a career that spanned half a century. his family announced overnight that he had died of cancer at the age of 69. the world's tallest skyscraper opens later today. the burj dubai, has easily overtaken its nearest rivals.

this is bbc news, the latest headlines: new national lockdowns in england and scotland as a surge in cases of the new coronavirus variant threatens to overwhelm hospitals. going down to the wire in georgia — president trump and joe biden hold rallies ahead of a runoff vote to control the senate. the news of another england lockdown will be met with a mixture of relief and nervousness depending on your own circumstances. john mcmanus has been looking at the reaction from people across england. monday night in york, a place previously in tier three but we re previously in tier three but were cases of the virus are rising as winter tightens its grip. as the prime minister announced a further english

lockdown on tv, the frustration on the face of this gym owner was easy to see. the gym had only just reopened in was easy to see. the gym had onlyjust reopened in any venue after its membership doubled. now it's doors must close. this news has broken me a little bit. i like to think i am a strong, resilient person — i pride myself on that but i'm going home now wondering, what are the things i can do to make sure my bills are paid? it's a double blow for frankie. as a self—employed businesswoman, she is not eligible for the below scheme. meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, devon has one of the lowest rates of infection in england but nowhere in the county can escape lockdown. i think the whole country needs to be treated the same really. it's probably just treated the same really. it's probablyjust easierfor treated the same really. it's probably just easier for the whole country to go into lockdown and then see the whole rates decline in a bigger start again after the. i headed back

in march and when i had it, obviously getting it done here was very rare. i wouldn't wish it anybody. i think whatever it takes to protect who we need to protect, it's worth it. just a few days ago, the people of whole hoped they might move down a tear. those hopes now dashed and university students here and across the country have been told they won't be returning to campus just yet —— hull. gutted, sad, i'm a uni student so i feel a little bit down. boris and talk about universities. gutted, feels like when not going anywhere in 10 months. work now, obviously the key workers can still work on things like that but we both live on our own. like, obviously because there are family and friends and get a bit especially when we live on our own. across england, the outlook is challenging. with only the vaccine rollout offering a glimmer of hope. john mcmanus, bbc news. now one thing different to the last uk wide lockdown this time around is the news that elite sport can continue. and there's been plenty of it

in the last 2a hours — the details now from the bbc sport centre. we start with football — and news of shock defeat for the english premier league champions liverpool. they were beaten at southampton on monday — and missed the chance to go three points clear at the top of the table. the liverpool managerjurgen klopp was stunned by the result, while southampton's ralph hasenhuttl was clearly overcome by emotion at the full time whistle. the only goal of the game was scored after only two minutes by southampton's former liverpool striker danny ings. liverpool remain top of the table — still ahead of manchester united on goal difference, but united now have a game in hand. southampton are back up to 6th. first of all congratulations to southampton, they deserved it.

the good thing about southampton as you know exactly what you're going to go. you actually cannot be surprised. but... we look surprised still. in the end, if you don't create with the situations you have, if you don't create better chances, than it is difficult to score. fc tokyo have won the 2020 j—league cup injapan. in a match that was postponed from november, they beat kashiwa reysol 2—1 at the national stadium — with brazilian striker adailton getting the winner 15 minutes from time. it's the third time fc tokyo have won the competition. professional sport has adapted over the past nine months to operate in a global pandemic, england helped to get cricket going again with their bio—bubbles last year — and they left nothing to chance travelling to sri lanka. the whole touring party tested negative before boarding their charter flight, they were hosed down with disinfectant on arrival. but, after a second round of testing, moeen alli

has returned a positive result. he'll have to isolate for 10 days. meanwhile heading into day three injohannesburg, sri lanka will be keen to carry on their fight back from day 2 of the 2nd test against south africa. the home side were bowled out for 302 in reply to sri lanka's 1st innings total of 157. dean elgar made 127, while vishwa fernando took five wickets. the tourists will resume on 150 for 4 with skipper dimuth karunaratne 91 not out. sri lanka have to win the match to level the series. finally, the frenchman yannick bestaven continues to lead the vendee globe. after 57 days at sea, he's now on the home straight in the south atlantic. the epic non—stop solo race sees sailors travel around 50,000 kilometres around the globe. bestaven has a lead of around 380 kilometres ahead of the rest of the field.

finally, the dog that invaded the pitch of during a football match in bolivia on christmas eve has been adopted by one of the players involved in the game. cachito made his entrance during the second half of the match between the strongest and nacional de potosi. he was chewing one of the players' boots. after the match cachito was taken to a shelter in la paz but he's now been adopted by the strongest‘s star midfielder raul castro. great way to start the new year for that puppy. loves it. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport team, goodbye. we will and we want more cachito stories. a forever

home, how nice. commuters in moscow had something of a surprise as they returned to work after the new year break. for the first time in decades, female drivers have been allowed on the city's metro system. it follows a recent change in the law that lets women take up dozens of professions that had previously been deemed too dangerous. tim allman explains. beneath the streets of moscow, a social revolution is taking place. the most shocking of sights for some, a woman at the controls of an underground train. a dozen female employees who already worked on the city's rail network, now fully qualified drivers. translation: we believe that in this day and age everyone should have a choice to work wherever he or she wants, no matter their sex. we are happy that moscow metro has allowed an opportunity to the women who worked here to get a new profession. a new profession but an old one, too. women were actually allowed

to drive underground trains in moscow all the way back to the 1930s. but then the soviet union banned them from this and hundreds of other professions, said to be harmful or dangerous. now that ban's been overturned, they will notjust be train drivers. they can now drive lorries, tractors and serve on board ships. but there are still dozens of professions that are prohibited. so far, only internal candidates have been allowed to apply but moscow metro promises but soon the jobs will be open to anyone to do. these women are not just drivers. they are also pioneers. they are indeed, what a great change taking place there. let's discuss what is coming up next on the program. we will talk about the top business stories and of course, this new announcement of the lockdown across england, also new measures in force today in

scotland. what does this mean for businesses, what does it mean for various sectors? retail, hospitality, et cetera? all that to come in a moment. do stay with us. 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. england goes back into lockdown. prime minister boris johnson says strict new measures will be in place until at least mid—february. with scenes like these a distant memory, what lies ahead for the festivals? and a ride on the subway. we take a look at how new york's transit system deals with covid—19. more now on the announcement from the prime minister that