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this is bbc world news, the headlines us president—electjoe biden has said it's a good thing donald trump is refusing to attend his inauguration — and accused the sitting president of encouraging a mob attack on congress. democrats in the us house of representatives have drawn up an article of impeachment against donald trump which accuses him of inciting insurrection. joe biden said it was up to congress to decide on a second impeachment of the republican president. a police officer is the fifth person to die from the violence on capitol hill. a murder investigation has been launched into his death. police say brian sicknick was "injured while physically engaging with protesters". the uk records its highest daily death toll since the pandemic began — more than 13 hundred deaths reported today. and a major incident has been
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declared in london —— hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me arejohn stevens, deputy political editor at the daily mail, and susie boniface, columnist at the daily mirror. tomorrow's front pages, starting with breaking news coming from the united states because twitter has just announced that it has permanently suspended president donald trump's account and you can see the page there, a permanent suspension of his which has millions of followers it is due to the risk of further
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incitement of violence. the social media sites says that due to the recent tweets of the context around them, we have permanently suspended them, we have permanently suspended the account due to risk of further incitement of violence. that is according to the statement from the company that the 12 hours a suspension that we saw after the events suspension that we saw after the eve nts o n suspension that we saw after the events on capitol hill. this is now a permanent suspension of president trump's account which will come as a huge blow because we know how much he uses it. i'm sure we'll be bringing this into our conversation and let's start with some of the papers that we already had earlier to bring the sin because of course, this is just breaking. to bring the sin because of course, this isjust breaking. let's have a look at what some of the front pages have got already. so, according to the daily mail. according to the daily mail — boris johnson is "begging" families to stay at home — warning the only way to prevent thousands more deaths
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is to follow the rules. the daily mirror says approval for a third vaccine in the uk is the only bright spot on a grim day of statistics — as the worst daily death toll was recorded. the daily telegraph reports there is growing concern in government over non—compliance with the current lockdown — after cases continue to rise sharply. the times says police in england are toughening enforcement of the lockdown — as government scientific advisers fear that public neglect of restrictions could keep infections high for months. according to the ‘i' — police offices are being redeployed — to drive ambulances. while the financial times reflects on the london mayor declaring a "major incident" in the city. saying the spread of the virus in the capital is "out of control." and the sun features tributes to dame barbara windsor, whose funeral took place today. so, let's begin. the news does not stop. john and susiejoin us today the news does not stop. john and susie join us today and we will talk
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about what was going on in the states and we will bring in this latest breaking news from twitter a little bit later on and a review but susie, ijust little bit later on and a review but susie, i just want to start with you in the daily express, which is focusing on the harsh reality, the grim reality of covid—19 and this dreadful milestone that the uk has reached today. it is crazy that the harsh reality has been left to tell anybody about. because the department of health and social care, journalists have been asking for weeks and months to get cover what is happening in there in there in the past few weeks. this case, there been refused access and the bbc and a few others have been able to go in and start reporting. had we been able to do this sooner, then we would've had the clear evidence of what was happening in front of the
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public for free a lot earlier on instead of a government that spent millions of pounds on an advertising campaign showing this and showing eve ryo ne campaign showing this and showing everyone too late. although there is a horrific story there, it should have been told so much sooner and perhaps it wouldn't be at this point 110w. perhaps it wouldn't be at this point now. in a public health crisis, using the media to tell that story for you is a vital part of public health messaging and it has been manipulated at the start of this pandemic and it has been reduced to personality politics and arguing about whether or not you're doing this on one side or the other end it has been abandoned. the public health messaging the journalists and media should been doing. it is grim news, but he did not need to be this grim. there are some the things that could've been done better in the course of this pandemic. we should not be at this point. other nations are not at this point. we have the highest covid—19 infection rate on
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the planet. it is even higher here than in america which is run by an actual maniac. that is worth bearing in mind. i'm sure you want to respond. our medical reporter has set some incredible access such moving reports that he has been doing from various hospitals and credit to him. let's, john, i know you would like to reply back, i'm sure. yes, it is absolutely important that we see the reality of what is going on and to prove to the people once switcher that saved us all a hoax, that is complete rubbish. these words in hospital are crammed full of people —— on twitter. and we have become slightly numb to the numbers that happen over and overagain. numb to the numbers that happen over and over again. and enormous numbers of people getting this virus and dying to the virus. the survey data that was out today showing that in london now is many as one of 30
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people actually got coronavirus and people actually got coronavirus and people barking and many people have got coronavirus. this is really serious and this is been a problem and people have gotten slightly tired of the rules and to tired of lockdown. saying that the numbers of cars, it is double what it was in the first lockdown. 76% of the normal level of traffic in london was in the first lockdown, it was 30 or 40%. with this new strand of the virus, it is much more easily transmissible and people need to be able to be able to follow the rules. is exactly what they are picking up on. medics are begging the people to not let hospitals get swamped, follow the rules. it was a pretty straightforward. don't mix and don't go out if you do not have to. they are you have to remember as
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well, a lot of people in this country live in the cities and there are many that live in rural areas, places mentioned in this article where there is a 62% increase in infection rate locally and in london, some of the big cities, the hospital may have a thousand beds or even 2000 beds and they are stretched. they do not have enough ca re stretched. they do not have enough care capacity because you can expand the critical care beds to take and a few other wards, project f equipment to make them a critical care bed. you have to have staff to turn them into critical care beds. notjust a mattress, you have to have staff and equipment to render properly. and they're having equipment to render properly. and they‘ re having trouble equipment to render properly. and they're having trouble in london and further out in places, rural areas, hospitals may have a few hundred beds and some have a hundred or less than that. they really do not have the capacity to search like this. if you are saying that 63% increase in infections, that is an absolute crisis in that area and will be
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facing a problem here with very localised health care conditions. but, in one town with the hospital that has more beds slightly more closer to having more people in it and work capacity, could cope with the search result hospital not far away with far fewer beds is going to really fall over and the people there will have less care and may be more likely to die. this is a horrible situation that we find ourselves in with the spread of what has become known as immune strain, this new variation that is spreading across the country into infecting places up in yorkshire as well as london and these are all infections that took place two weeks ago, maybe three weeks in the run—up to christmas in the christmas period when restrictions were relaxed despite all the scientific advice not to do that. given that viruses mutate, we should have been aware that there could be a new strain and this is a very, very difficult
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strain and highly infectious, but we should have been across this, surely. there were some mornings saying that this was one of the risks that we could see the virus mutate and it is possible that we might have to see restrictions go even stricter in places that london, have been in the national lockdown after a week in london wasn't here for before that and the numbers seem to be rising at such a high level that the mayor of london was talking about the possibility of bringing in things and the possibility of us wearing masks when out in public and rather than just when you're queuing outside the shop, whether you're walking down the busy street, maybe we do need to have some extra things to keep in control of the virus. the impact of lockdowns and all of it, the lack of
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this is leading to damage to children's mental health and given the strain that children will be experiencing and locked him once again, not at school, exams been cancelled, all of it, it does, we tend to forget our younger population because they in theory are more protected from the virus but yet when it comes to everything else that is going on, it will have an impact on them. they are not protected from this in terms of losing family members. there is a 20% increase in referrals on last yearfor 20% increase in referrals on last year for children's mental health problems and they are making an assumption that it's a clear correlation between them and locked down earlier this year. and this is what they said is a perfect storm of a pre—existing mental health crisis
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and years of underinvestment which mutual of the generation of children growing up in poverty and mental illness. that should be devastating news that smashes everything off the front page in a normal day. but i do not think we've had a normal day for four or five years not think we've had a normal day for four orfive years in not think we've had a normal day for four or five years in the news. not think we've had a normal day for four orfive years in the news. so, it's done a few paragraphs in the telegraph. it is indicative of what is happening with the rest of coronavirus in a pandemic in every problem that we had. years of underinvestment in the years that what i am not too bothered about stefa n what i am not too bothered about stefan cutting and cutting and cutting and that is a crisis and suddenly it is showing all of these terrible fissures in our society, the deprivation, the things that have not been funded properly and there is a price to pay and the generations to come. we tried to do oui’ generations to come. we tried to do our best to fix it now. unprecedented times as well. i think we need a bit of lightness, the daily mirror, john, we are going to
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go with you. let's talk about the newjab. go with you. let's talk about the new jab. the go with you. let's talk about the newjab. the third vaccination, vaccine that is been approved in the uk. this is the modernity jab. this is around 17 million doses of it and we won't be getting them until recently. there's bit of a wait on the first of the government is going to be under a lot of pressure that is going to get the vaccine brought up in bulk and they have to be brought out as quick as they can. they want about 15 million people to receive the vaccine. in boris johnson is going to face a lot of pressure to deliver that or go further and so we can get out of lockdown restrictions as soon as possible to get our economy going again. i'm not going to let you talk
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about your own paper because i want to crack down because we are running out of time. the daily telegraph talks about this in theory would've had front cover, far higher is the post—brexit red tape will create delays in the border. yes, i'm certain michael go said there would be no red tape and extra bureaucracy and that it would be joy injam during this stage of bureaucracy and that it would be joy in jam during this stage of brexit. u nfortu nately, in jam during this stage of brexit. unfortunately, he seems to become sucked into project fear and he started doing all of this remaining business talking break down and complaining about all the massive opportunities if got in front of us and apparently this article across the northern irish border. so, who knows what's going to happen next and michael gove's world. he seems to have turned down a bit of a
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dying. concerns of a john? the customs union and the single market la st customs union and the single market last week, we have not seen that much delays on the border and chewing up at dover. but i think thatis chewing up at dover. but i think that is partly because it was the new year and not so many travel at that time. warning that we could see significant problems in the weeks to come in the worst—case scenario, they said that he could see up to people queuing to go over to france. we are going to leave it there are brexit, normally would be poring over it, but after crack on. the times focusing on the impeachment of president donald trump. for a focus on that, susie, let's talk about the twitter suspension, the permanent suspension. i will submit a note of how many millions of followers he had. but his account now totally blocked. i think he had 90 million. iam not blocked. i think he had 90 million. i am not sure. we live in a world
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where this man has beenjudged to be too dangerous to operate a twitter account. it does still have nuclear warheads to play with for the next fortnight. what can you say? mode and taking them off twitter, but you ta ke and taking them off twitter, but you take is of the toys away, please? he could find himself impeached because the house of representatives have not circulated this draught of a new impeachment resolution and it is accusing him of incitement of an insurrection. this is moving. nancy pelosi pushing this forward. insurrection. this is moving. nancy pelosi pushing this forwardm looks unlikely that he will be impeached, it will be the second time you'll be impeached earlier this year, he was impeached over dealings with ukraine. but, we also heard him say that he is not going to be attending the inauguration of joe biden. he is the first outgoing president did not go into the
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inauguration and over hundred 50 years. one of the problems of donald trump, his twitter has been in outlook for some of his anger. if he is unable to use it, i'm not sure what he will do. let's and on the funeral of barbara windsor. what a calamity. a sad end. she passed away today was her funeral. such warm tributes to her andi funeral. such warm tributes to her and i think it tribute was written that i think was a first to be called saucy. i'm sure that flourish situated. she was a great and lova ble situated. she was a great and lovable character and a nice person as well. it was someone i knew that was trying to interview her, surrounded by a mob of male reporters, can get to the front,
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couldn't get in there, babs spotted her, tractor to the front, sat down to her and said what you want to ask me, ducky. she could see there was a young girl starting out who needed a bit of help and so she elbowed eve ryo ne bit of help and so she elbowed everyone else out of the way. she is a decent person and lovely and it is a decent person and lovely and it is a shame that she is gone and the way that she is fading away.|j a shame that she is gone and the way that she is fading away. i don't think i could love her anymore, but you just made her even more lovable and yes, of course really important to say that she was so passionate about spreading the word about alzheimer's and getting it out there and getting people to talk about it, even borisjohnson. and getting people to talk about it, even boris johnson. after she died, she challenged boris johnson even boris johnson. after she died, she challenged borisjohnson to make sure she delivered on his promises to improve treatment and social care is an area where we have repeatedly failed and not move forward to deal with it. but it is a difficult time and there is a limited number of
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people who have a funeral at the moment. if it was not coronavirus, that would've been a massive affair and a handful of celebrities, but not as many as you would expect for this time. that's it for the papers for this evening. my thanks again tojohn and susie. all the day's sport next, and i'll be back at midnight. see you then. thank you so much and if anyone wa nts to thank you so much and if anyone wants to get in touch via social media. if you have not had your account suspended, donald trump has. twitter has announced that they are permanently suspending the account of donald trump and they said the company says that it is due to the risk of further incitement of violence. that is literally breaking
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in the past half hour. so, if you are one of the 80 million people following him, well, he is not there anymore on twitter. more stories on our website. goodbye. good evening, i'm chetan pathak with your sports news. liverpool didn't have it all their own way against aston villa's academy players in the fa cup tonight — but they found the goals they needed in the second half to make it into the fourth round. villa were without their entire first team because of covid cases whilstjurgen klopp fielded a strong side including sadio mane who found the opener after 4 minutes. but a villa side made up of under 23's and under 18's got a deserved equaliser through 17 year old louie barrie shortly before half time. liverpool's quality came
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through after an hour — they fired three goals in five minutes with mo salah rounding off the scoring as it finished 4—1. our kids played here in the last year. lost 5—0 but it was a very good team as well. these boys are all talent, and they're really players. and they're really good players. we saw that tonight and is an easy thing to defend and i don't know if that was jamie vardy‘s little brother was there but, they scored a goal off of it and that is absolutely deserved and fine. so congratulations to them. meanwhile in the other all premier league fa cup third round match played tonight — wolves have knocked out crystal palace by a goal to nil at molineaux. adama traore scoring what proved to be the winner in the first half. everton's wsl match against manchester united on sunday has been postponed due to the blues not being able to field a squad because of recent covid—19 cases.
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five members of the everton squad tested positive for coronavirus between christmas and new year, and while they've returned to training this week, they've been deemed unfit to play. injuries have also hampered the squad. tomorrow's games between arsenal and aston villa and manchester city against west ham are also off because of positive coronavirus cases. in recent months, there's been a growing discussion around dementia and what can be done to protect players sportspeople from it. previous research has shown that ex—footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of dementia than the general population. the former england and west brom strikerjeff astle died from a brain condition in 2002 which doctors say was caused by heading footballs. now his daughter dawn astle and rachel walden, daughter of former player rod taylor, who've long campaigned on the issue, are joining forces with the professional footballer‘s assoication. dawn's been speaking
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to natalie pirks. i've been one of their biggest critics when it biggest critics when it comes to this issue, it would've been very easy me to turn around and say no, i am angry with them. people say forgive and forget and i know i cannot do that but it is not about me, it is about the families and the players. no doubt there will be a lot of money that is needed and just because rachel and i will be working alongside them, that does not mean we will not be critical, does not mean that they're going to silence us because that really won't be the case. you know, if we find that its words instead of actions, suppose then we'll just walk away, he will be a waste of time and at the minute, though, it is offering the support to be there for the families. were you surprised to find that all of these years down the line that the pfa still do not know how many players have been
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affected by this? that's always amazing to me. my dad will have passed away 19 years in a couple weeks. on the 19th of january. was the corners court where they said it was a disease. they headballs had killed him. and within seconds of leaving that court, my mom said your dad cannot possibly be the only one. and we see players families getting in touch with us, talking about their particular dad, their husband are about others within the therefore, five or six players all affected by dementia and it became a very clear thing to us within a few months that there was a real problem within the game. so, i do not accept for a second that nobody else knew about that. i do not accept that for second.
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it's at the bottom of my dads death certificate, it is now on the bottom of the death certificate of other professional footballers. the game has killed them. do you feel that they're dragging their heels little bit. definitely. and the implications, i find it unsettling, they find it uncomfortable but this is real. players are dying and we know because of the field study because there's this terrible increase in footballers deaths and to not do anything about this because the frightening implications of powdered from the game is not acceptable. on any level. in fact, it borders negligence. next to rugby union's premiership where there was a brilliant high scoring game at the rec where wasps scored seven tries as they beat bath 52—44. bath led 29—24 at half time, but wasps powered
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through in the end to get a fifth straight win. tom cruse here with the second of his tries. and tries from faf de clerc here and jono ross helped sale sharks to victory over worcester warriors. it finished 20—13 at the aj bell. and that's all the sport for now. hello. a spell of cold wintry january weather will be gradually easing through the weekend and into next week as things turn a little bit milder. but certainly on friday, we had a lot more snow for some parts of northern england. this was of the picture in cumbria. north wales, as well, had a lot of lying snow. into saturday, still the odd flurry of snow around but most places largely dry, very cold and frosty with some freezing fog as well. look at these temperatures,
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first thing saturday morning at dawn around —11 degrees or so, could be —15 across some of the sheltered glens of scotland. so, widely subzero, we've got the freezing fog to contend with, particularly across parts of the midlands, central southern england and east wales as well. that should slowly tend to break up into low cloud with some sunshine coming through, but in places, it could linger all day. now, a lot of dry weather through the day on sunday, some sunshine for north wales, northern england, eastern scotland, for instance, as well. but we have a front moving in from the northwest, that will bring some rain and some hill snow for the northwest of scotland. not as cold on saturday as it has been over recent days, with temperatures about 3—5 degrees for most. into saturday night now heading into the early hours of sunday morning, we have got that front bringing a bit more cloud further south, so not as cold across the north and northwest of uk. still, though, getting down to around —3 or “11 across the south of england first thing sunday. so it will start off chilly once again. we have got milder air gradually working in from the northwest. so a bit of a cloudier picture
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through the day on sunday. the best of any sunshine will be for central and and southern parts of england, eastern scotland should see a bit of sunshine as well. but towards the north and west, we have more cloud, and that will bring some outbreaks of rain, particularly to the west of scotland. it could be quite heavy, and as things are turning milder, some snowmelt could well lead to a little bit of flooding there. but for most of us, a largely dry picture, turning a bit milder as well. now, as we head through into next week, we will keep low pressure to the north, higher pressure in the south, and this wedge of slightly milder air will work in across the country. still have cold air heading in from the northeast. so a bit of a mixed picture as we have through the course of next week. temperatures not as cold as they have been recently, but things are looking little bit unsettled, particularly through the middle part of the week. but all in all, as we head into next week, it won't be as cold as it has been. there will be rain around at times, some snow over the hills, and the driest conditions in south. bye— bye.
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this is bbc news. i'm kasia madera with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. permanently banned — twitter says it's suspending president trump's account saying that allowing him to continue would risk further incitement to violence. house democrats are to introduce articles of impeachment against president trump on monday, the second time lawmakers have brought such charges against the outgoing president. the us president—elect says he's fine with donald trump not attending his inauguration in 12 days' time. joe biden also takes sharp aim at the man he's about to replace. he's been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world, not worthy, not worthy to hold that office.

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