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time for a look at the weather. here's sarah keith lucas. you won't be too surprised to hear that there is yet more wintry weather in the forecast, especially over the next 2a hours. eventually, things will turn a bit milder as we head into next week. for now, there we re head into next week. for now, there were scenes like this in staffordshi re were scenes like this in staffordshire a beautiful wintry weather there, but we have had icy conditions on any untreated surfaces, and freezing fog patches. for the rest of the day, it will feel cold wherever you are. there will be some sleet and snow, but we we re will be some sleet and snow, but we were not all be seeing it. we have had quite a bit of snow across parts of scotla nd had quite a bit of snow across parts of scotland and northern ireland overnight as this weatherfront pushed further south. it is now bringing outbreaks of snow across parts of northern england and parts of wales as well. some of that is falling as rain or sleet close to the coast, but come in london across the coast, but come in london across the pennines, there could be up to

ten centimetres of snow for the rest of today and overnight. to the south of today and overnight. to the south of that, mostly dry, a few freezing fog patches lingering all day. where they do, temperature struggle to get above freezing. more wintry showers working in across scotland and into northern ireland. some rain and sleet here and further snow across the north of scotland. overnight, we still have that weatherfront bringing more snow to parts of northern england and flurries across the midlands into wales. there could bea the midlands into wales. there could be a fresh dusting of snow tomorrow morning. mostly dry to the south of that, but wherever you are, another cold night. across scotland, we could see lows of —io cold night. across scotland, we could see lows of —10 degrees. watch out for some icy conditions first thing tomorrow morning, certainly a sharp frost. and we will see this weatherfront lingering through tomorrow, pushing further south. weatherfront lingering through tomorrow, pushing furthersouth. it will bring further outbreaks of sleet and snow across parts of northern england, the midlands and wales. one or two flurries to the

south of that, but nothing particularly heavy. sunshine returning from the north and perhaps one or two wintry showers across the north of scotland. but generally a drier day for scotland and northern ireland. we have the wintry flurries for england and wales. pretty chilly out there on friday. towards the weekend, things are looking mostly dry on saturday. we have a change as the wind starts to come from more of a westerly direction, said temperatures will pick up as we head into next week. a reminder of our top story... the us congress sits all night to confirm joe biden as president, after pro—trump rioters stormed the building, seeking to overturn the result. that's all from the bbc news at one. now we can join the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon.

the international olympic committee say it's fully concentrated on delivering the tokyo games later this year, despite a state of emergency being declared in the japanese capital as covid infections hit a daily record there. the delayed games are due to get under way at the end ofjuly. our senior sports news reporter is laura scott. they have declared this one—month state of emergency and of course they are hoping that this achieves the right things in bringing the coronavirus cases down in tokyo. that is in tokyo and three neighbouring prefectures and is in place until the 8th of february, the state of emergency. the situation is at crisis point, they say. we have heard from the ioc and the local organising committee of the tokyo games, the ioc saying that they have full confidence in the japanese authorities and the measures they are taking. the tokyo organising committee also confident that the games can go ahead and they are still very much planning for that.

just a word of caution, clearly last year we heard from the ioc president thomas bach on the 3rd of march, and he said the tokyo games would go ahead as planned and then they were postponed on the 24th of march. so all eyes on tokyo to see how this state of emergency goes in terms of bringing those coronavirus cases down. still several months to go before the games are due to get under way. as far as putting on a successful and safe games is concerned, we know vaccinations will be central for that, for all of those involved, certainly athletes. interesting comments from the british olympic association that athletes who wants to compete in tokyo will not be skipping the queue, they recognise that there are more important people like front line workers that need the vaccine first. yes, the chief executive of the british olympic association said the priority has to be people who need it first which i'm sure most people would agree with.

he said there will be a time ahead of the games when athletes can be considered for vaccination but he said they will only do it when they think it is appropriate, our understanding that would be late spring, early summer, and they want to stress they don't want to jump the queue. the ioc are understood to be working out how they will deal with and help nations who do not have vaccination programmes. laura scott talking to me earlier on about the impact on the olympics in the tokyo area this year. southampton‘s fa cup third round tie with shrewsbury on saturday is off after a number of positive coronavirus tests amongst the players and staff at shrewsbury. manchester city's game against west ham in the women's super league this weekend has also been postponed, after positive tests in the city camp. arsenal's game against aston villa is also expected to be postponed. games in the nba went ahead as planned in the united states last night, despite the violence in washington dc. a joint statement by players at the boston celtics and miami heat

said that they decided to go ahead with their game "with heavy hearts". as we've seen in the news this morning four people died when the us capitol building was stormed by hundreds of supporters of outgoing president donald trump. i will say it because i don't think a lot of people want to, could you imagine today, if those were black people storming the capital and what would have happened? that to me is a picture that was a thousand words for all of us to see, and probably something for us to reckon with again. the england women's cricket team are going to tour pakistan for the first time they'll play two twenty20 matches and one—day series in october. and they will be there alongside the men's team. clare connor, who's in charge of women's cricket at the ecb says it's an important step in their history.

lots more on the bbc sport website and app. including the news that the former ireland captain paul o'connell has returned to the international set—up as forwards coach. he joins andy farrell's team a month before ireland start their six nations campaign. that's all from us for now. thank you, john. in scotland 383 deaths were registered over the christmas period between 21st december and 3rd january, where covid—i9 was mentioned on the death certificate. this takes the total death toll in scotland under this measurement to 6,686. but the national records for scotland said the latest figures were not a reliable indication of the actual number of deaths, because of the closure of registration offices over christmas. earlier the first minister gave an update on the progress of the vaccination programme in scotland. public health scotland has just

published its weekly statistical update, and that includes amongst other things details of the progress of our vaccination programme to date. and i can confirm that this shows that by sunday third january, 113,459 individuals had received their first dose of the pfizer covid vaccine. we started using the astrazeneca vaccine on monday to next yea r‘s astrazeneca vaccine on monday to next year's —— next week's figures will include people who have received that vaccine. a few further points that i want to expand on today about the vaccination programme to give you a sense of how the programme is progressing. in weeks to come, public health scotla nd weeks to come, public health scotland intends to provide a much more detailed breakdown by group of population and also by region of scotla nd population and also by region of scotland of who has been vaccinated, but i am able to confirm today that we are now well over halfway through

vaccinating care home residents with a first dose of the vaccine. that is extremely important, as you just heard, more than a third of people who died of covid last week died in oui’ who died of covid last week died in our care homes. we hope that the vaccine will very soon start to significantly reduce the risks of ca re significantly reduce the risks of care home residents becoming ill with the virus. in addition, the programme for vaccinating all people over the age of 80 is under way. all over the age of 80 is under way. all over 18—year—olds will be starting to get appointments by phone or by letter —— over 18—year—olds. —— 80—year—olds. don't worry if you have not got your letter yet, these are being aligned with the supply and you will get it soon. we want to get all the people over 80 the vaccine in the next four weeks. if you haven't received an appointment letter or phone call yet, don't call up letter or phone call yet, don't call up yourgp, you

letter or phone call yet, don't call up your gp, you will be contacted within a point as soon as possible and you will get your vaccination over the next four weeks. that the final point i want to make is from next week to support all of this, more than 1100 vaccination sites will be operational across scotland from next week. these will mainly be gp practices and community vaccination centres at this stage. the number of vaccination sites will continue to grow as our supplies of increase and as pharmacies and access increase and as pharmacies and a ccess — — increase and as pharmacies and access —— mass vaccination centres will be coming online. from next week more than 1100 sites will be operational in getting this faxing it to people. we will keep you updated on the vaccination programme as we go along and i can confirm today that we have decided that from monday next week we will publish statistics every day, every weekday, on the total number of people

vaccinated which will help people see on an ongoing basis the progress that the programme is making. the weekly public health scotland report will also as i indicated earlier on, as as soon will also as i indicated earlier on, as as soon as will also as i indicated earlier on, as as soon as possible, give more detailed breakdowns of the numbers vaccinated in each group and each pa rt vaccinated in each group and each part of the country, but i hope today's initial information provides some assurance that the vaccination programme is already starting to protect a significant proportion of the people who are most vulnerable to covid, particularly those in our ca re to covid, particularly those in our care homes. and that the programme will grow rapidly in scale in the coming days and weeks. vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to ensure that as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so. the second issue i want to update on today relates to temporary regulations to protect people from

the risk of being evicted from their homes during the pandemic. early on in the pandemic, the scottish government acted to prevent evictions by extending the notice period required for action. last month we introduced regulations to prevent eviction notices from being enforced at all with only some very limited exceptions. these regulations are in place until friday 22nd of january, regulations are in place until friday 22nd ofjanuary, they regulations are in place until friday 22nd of january, they were regulations are in place until friday 22nd ofjanuary, they were in tended as temporary action to protect public health to make sure that evictions could take place over christmas and new year. since those regulations were introduce, we have seen a regulations were introduce, we have seen a major increase in cases so if anything there is now an even greater public health needs to prevent evictions than there was even back in december. it has become even back in december. it has become even more important from stopping people from having to find a new home or having to move in with a different household. for that reason, the regulations to prevent the enforcement of eviction notices

will be extended until the 31st of march in all level three and level four areas, which of course right now is the entirety of scotland. if necessary , now is the entirety of scotland. if necessary, the regulations can be extended further after that date and we will review that position as we get closer to the 31st of march. as is currently the case, there will continue to be limited exceptions in these regulations, for example, it may still be possible to evict someone may still be possible to evict someone if they are guilty of anti—social behaviour or other criminal behaviour. overall, though, these regulations should stop the vast majority of eviction notices from being served. that will help us protect public health by helping people to stay in the same household, and also provide reassurance for tenants living in private or socially rented housing. police leaders have been explaining how the new restrictions will be monitored in england, under the principles of "engage, explain, encourage and enforce". martin hewitt, chair of the national police chiefs‘ council, said the priority

was stopping the transmission of the virus. whilst we will still be our adopting our approach of four es, we will still engage with people, explain and we will encourage. we are going to move more quickly to enforcement where people are blatantly breaching the rules. the rules now are very, very clear. similar to where we were back in the spring of last year. and everyone has a responsibility to follow those rules and we will play our part and deal, particularly deal with those people who are blatantly breaching the rules and putting everyone's lives at risk. the home secretary priti patel has said it's right that police "act robustly" to enforce the new coronavirus lockdown. she said it was right to have stringent measures in place. the fact of the matter is, the police have been out every single day, enforcing the covid regulations and they have been using the methods of the four e5 in particular, to explain, encourage and now of course they are going to enforcement much quicker than they had done previously

but actually, in a very similar way to which they had them in the spring of last year. they will continue to enforce, they will continue to pursue egregious breaches of the coronavirus regulations and they have been doing that anyway. in the last two weeks over the christmas period we have seen something like over 800 fixed penalty notice fines being issued when it comes to egregious breaches and people breaching the regulations around covid. now, returning to the covid—19 vaccination programme, the news just in from the pharmacy company superdrug, which has said that five of its locations will be helping with the roll—out of the vaccine. we know that pharmacies have been pushing to be allowed to roll out the vaccine as well as gp

surgeries. they say they need two consultation rooms, so they will use one within the store itself and creating a temporary room outside. they want to deliver 1000 per week from their bristol broadmead store and also similar numbers in the other locations. questions that remains over who will be next to receive the jab after those most at risk. the nhs aims to vaccinate 13 million people in priority groups by mid—february but should teachers and teaching staff be next in line to receive vaccinations? the health secretary matt hancock says teachers and nursery workers have a very strong case. earlier my colleague geeta guru—murthy discussed the issue with adam finn, professor of paediatrics at the bristol children's vaccine centre at the university of bristol, and leora cruddas, chief executive of the confederation of school trusts. as a paediatrician, i'm extremely

concerned that we try and keep schools resilient and preferably open them as soon as possible. one of the main ways of doing that it will be to protect the teaching staff. the age profile of severe covid is very... age is a very strong predictor of severity. in that excellent and very disturbing report from fergus walsh just now, we saw that of course it isn't just old people, but also, to some extent, adults of a younger age that can be affected. i think in the next phase of the roll—out, once the most vulnerable groups have been immunised, hopefully, as soon as possible, then teachers, on a personal level, i would certainly endorse the idea that teachers should be prioritised. that decision will be debated over the next month byjcvi and we expect to have a phase two plan by next february.

but you think that should happen ahead of people, who are, for example, over 50? that's not what i said, the first phase needs to be implemented. the model that we have got from uk epidemiology is very clear that the best way to bring down the pressure on hospitals and the number of sick people and the number of people dying is to immunise on an age prioritised approach, so bringing down the age limit as we work our way through. and bringing in also people with co—morbidities over the age of 50. we need to prioritise those people alongside the front line health care workers as well. after that, then i think teachers would certainly be among the groups that we would be considering for immunising in the next phase. leora cruddas, i imagine that you are very much wanting teachers to be protected, how much support is there among the profession?

i agree with adam, those tragic stories from the report show why those with clinical needs and older people should receive the vaccinations first, that should be our first priority. nhs staff and those in a care sector should be prioritised. but when it comes to a point when everyone who has a clinical need for the vaccination has had it, then we have a conversation about which groups of the workforce are prioritised for the vaccine and at this point, we need school staff, not just teachers, school staff, to be on the priority list. this is because the education of our children is a national priority. it is an everyone's interests for children to be in school and there is no question that being taught face to face is the best thing for young people, particularly for those

for whom the disadvantage gap is opening up. it is also in the mental health interests and welfare of young people that they are in school. prioritising the school workforce gives us a way of doing that safely. what about older teenagers, 16 to 18—year—olds? we are seeing more infections in older children, in their teens, than we do in younger children. so we will be studying vaccines in that age group, so the roll—out continues, we should have the evidence to support safety and effectiveness for younger people. but at the moment the licences for the vaccines are for adults from the age of 16 or 18. do you think children and older teens could be vaccinated in the next few months

or will the medical community want to tread more cautiously on that front? i think once we have the evidence to support the use of the vaccines, which we are busy accumulating, once we have the vaccines available to provide it, there is absolutely no reason in principle why the immunisation programme cannot be universal. butjust as we have been discussing, we need to prioritise at the moment and work out how best to deploy the doses we have got to have the maximum impact. leora cruddas, how would you sum up the reaction to the government's ever changing plans on schools? because those doing mock exams for gcses and a—levels and other exams were due to be doing them right now, borisjohnson told everyone that schools were safe on sunday, they closed on monday, how difficult will it be for this generation for children? these qualifications are absolutely essential, aren't they? certainly, that is the case. and in the education community,

we are incredibly worried about the disruption continually to children and young people's education. i can assure you that all teachers and schools and support staff are doing their very level best to ensure the highest quality of remote education, and when schools do go back, we will teach intensively to make sure that children and young people catch up on the missed knowledge, the missed and are ready for the next phase of their education. in terms of teacher assessments, have you had any guidance yet as to how that will roll out? it happened as an emergency last time retrospectively but what about this time? a lot of those kids will be thinking, as soon as school opens in february, march, after easter, are those mock exams effectively going to be my public exams? we don't have the detail on that.

we can say we have a little bit more lead—in time this time to get that teacher assessment more accurate than we were last time, last year. in the pandemic. but what is really important is that young people continue with their programmes of learning, because qualifications are really important for the next stage of a young person's journey. but perhaps even more so is that underlying knowledge that they need to progress to the next stage of their education. so we need to keep them in school, and learning. that was leonora cruddas and adam finn speaking earlier. let's get more now on the so—called ‘digital divide' — concerns about the disparity between affluent families with access to laptops, and those less well—off without. with schools again closed to the majority of children, those concerns have re—emerged. the general secretary of the national association of head teachers, paul whiteman, explained the issues

as his members see them. we spoke to a little over 4000 of our members across england and wales last night, and we are talking to our members in northern ireland very shortly, after some very busy and chaotic days in education. but i got three very clear messages last night. the first one was that not enough devices have arrived yet. we did a quick poll last evening, and about 70% of the respondents in that poll told us they had less than half the devices that they needed to help with the delivery of education. the second message that i got was that it is not all about devices. you can sit a child in front of a device for the number of hours that is prescribed by the government, but you have to also make sure that child is engaged and learning. three hours of disengaged learning is much less valuable than an hour of really good engagement and proper learning, so we have to be more sophisticated than that and we have to recognise that some children learn better with different

methods of home learning, some schools need some freedom. the third and really worrying development is that the list of key workers seems to be being used much further than was expected. we have reports of about 70% of families trying to access schools despite the stay at home message, and that is working against the government's intention of keeping people apart. so, our appeal today is really to everybody, to government and to families, to work with education, have some calm and some patients first to get this organised. remember, governments change direction in a moment, and schools need some time to respond to all of that. but on the home learning front, it's not all about digital. we haven't got all the devices there. but it's about engagement as well as just having a piece of kit. paul whiteman from the teaching union the naht. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas. hello.

it's yet another cold day out there today. last night was the coldest night across england and wales since february 2019. and we're going to continue with things feeling cold for the rest of the day, some sleet and some snow in the forecast, but we won't all see it. we've also had some freezing fog around, just slowly clearing away. this is the picture in staffordshire, from a little bit earlier on, mistiness clearing away, some beautiful blue skies and wintry scenes around there. we are still in the cold air at the moment and we've got this weatherfront which is pushing slowly south, it's a fairly weak feature but it is bringing some snowfall through the rest of day through parts of northern england in particular, there could be up to ten centimetres on top of the pennines. a couple of centimetres even down at lower levels. further wintry showers returning from the north and we've got some rain and sleet showers down towards the south—west. temperatures struggling to get very much above freezing for some of us, particularly where that freezing fog is lingering through the day. into this evening and overnight, the weather front continues its progress south, bringing some of that snow again across parts of northern england into the midlands, wales as well. so some really slippery conditions overnight tonight for many of us as temperatures once again get

down below freezing. could be as low as —10 across the sheltered glens of scotland tomorrow. so another cold night. do watch out for a sharp frost. if you don't see the first, you may well see some sleet and snow as this weather front continues further south. so friday morning, then, it will mainly be falling as rain i think around the east coast, for lincolnshire, for instance, but come inland, we got some fairly heavy snowfall through parts of northern england, the midlands into wales, south—west of england seeing a mix of rain, sleet and hail snow. either side of that band, mostly dry. a bit of sunshine breaking through at times. but again a cold day tomorrow, those temperatures just a degree or so above freezing for most of us. into saturday, and a bit of a subtle change. we are starting to lose that weather front so the wind turn around more of a westerly influence. quite a lot of dry, sunny weather for many of us on saturday. this weather front will bring wet and windy weather to the north of scotland, with some rain and some hill snow. elsewhere, about two to 4 degrees, so another chilly feeling day, perhaps some sunshine. not quite as cold as we head on into sunday and those winter

winds start to turn more westerly once again. more cloud piling in from the north and west, the rest of the sunshine across eastern and southern parts of the uk on sunday. not quite as cold as recent days with temperatures by sunday around five to 7 degrees. bye— bye.

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