this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at eight... more than 80,000 people have now died in the uk within 28 days, of a positive covid—19 test. a new campaign in the uk, is urging people to abide by lockdown rules. scientists and public health officials warn even tougher restrictions may still be necessary. the queen and the duke of edinburgh receive their first covid—19 vaccinations at windsor castle. an indonesian passengerjet has crashed into the sea, shortly after taking off from jakarta. 62 people were on board. donald trump is permanently banned from twitter, due to concerns his tweets could incite further violence. democrats reveal the draft of a new impeachment resolution

against donald trump, as the president elect accuses him of inciting an insurrection. he has been an embarrassment to the country. embarrassed us around the world. not worthy, not worthy to hold that office. at least four people have died, as a storm hits spain, causing the heaviest snowfall for 50 years. and in half an hour here on bbc news, witness history takes a look back at a previous world—changing vaccine breakthrough to treat polio. good evening and welcome to bbc news. scientists and senior public health officials are warning that, despite the lockdown, even tougher restrictions are needed in england

to curb the surge in coronavirus cases, hospital admissions and deaths. government figures show that, since the pandemic began, more than 80,000 people in the uk have died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. our health correspondent, katharine da costa reports. the race is on to protect the most vulnerable. this the home of bristol city football club, now one of seven mass vaccination centres. final preparations are being made ahead of monday, when it willjoin hundreds of gp sites and hospital hubs across the country. they have been working genuinely day and night and they're working all through weekends as well, to make sure that their populations get vaccinated. it's not like flu clinics — this has been hugely complex. more than 32,000 patients are currently being treated for covid across the country, 11,000 more than during the first

wave in the spring, and with new admissions now at 4,000 a day, nhs staff say this year's winter pressure is off the charts. it really is unprecedented, in terms of the numbers of patients that require intensive care, being put on ventilator at one time and most hospitals have reached... have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. there's now an urgent need to free up some beds at hospitals. this hotel in south london's preparing to take on a small number of homeless or vulnerable covid patients from king's college hospital, while they continue their recovery. once more, we must all stay home. a simple and clear message in this new government campaign, reinforcing just how critical it is to follow the social distancing rules, wear a mask, wash your hands and ventilate indoor spaces,

because even with the uk—wide lockdowns, experts warn the new variant spreads more easily, which is likely to make the virus much harder to control. because we have the more infectious variant, which is somewhere around 50% more infectious than last time round in march, that means that if we were to achieve the same results as we got in march, we would have to have a stricter lockdown than then and it's not vaccinations will eventually help relieve pressure on the nhs. today, the queen and duke of edinburgh received their first doses, but with new infections still at record levels, hospital admissions and deaths are expected to continue rising for several weeks to come. katharine da costa, bbc news. well, let's take a look now at the latest government figures in detail. there were 59,937 new coronavirus cases recorded in the latest 24—hour period. and there were 1,035 deaths — that's people who died within 28

days of a positive covid—19 test. it takes the total number of deaths, so far, across the uk, to 80,868. stephen reicher is professor of social psychology at the university of st andrews and a member of the behavioural advisory group of sage. he gave his thoughts on what the latest data shows us... we are in a real emergency this time. a real emergency. so, you've heard all the figures, over 1000 people dying every day, some 30,000 or so people in hospital, way above the peak in april. in london, about one person in 30 being infected and the figures are still rising. that's the point. they are still rising. we haven't seen the effect of

loosening the rules over christmas. we haven't seen the effect of whatever happened at new year. we are in a real crisis. i mean, when you get to a situation where you're taking people out of hospital and putting them into hotels you know in an extraordinary situation and yet the problem is, although we use the word lockdown, and i think we use it rather loosely, the restrictions are considerably less than they were back in march. although the figures are worse and although we are dealing with a more virulent infection, and there are all sorts of things we're allowing now which i think we need to look at very carefully. we are allowing cleaners and tradespeople to go in and out of each others' houses. we are keeping places of worship open. it is true we have closed schools, but at the same time, the definition of critical workers whose children should go to school or at least can go to school is so broad that about a third of children are still going back to school, and the point is, we've got to do something more.

we've got to limit in every way our contact with other people if we're to get through this period and emerge when the vaccines begin to get hold and more and more people are immunised. so, we are in the midst of a real crisis, a real storm, and we have got to batten down all the hatches. notjust some of them, all of them. that was a professor speaking to us earlier. as we've been hearing, buckingham palace has confirmed that both the queen and the duke of edinburgh, have been vaccinated against covid—19. royal sources say the jabs were administered by a household doctor at windsor castle, though we've not been told which vaccination they received. it's being reported that the decision to release the news was made by the queen, so as to prevent any inaccuracies or further speculation. 0ur royal correspondent, nicholas witchell has more details. normally, of course, the queen and the royals are very sensitive about disclosing medical details, but in this instance, clearly, they want to set an example

and encourage people to come forward and have the vaccinations. so buckingham palace has come forward and let it be known, and it is the queen's decision that both she and the duke of edinburgh had their covid—19 vaccinations earlier today. they were administered by a doctorfrom the medical household at windsor castle, and of course they are both, at their ages — the queen 94, just a few months short of her 95th birthday, the duke 99 — they are both, of course, in the categories that are entitled to early vaccination, so there is no question of, sort of, jumping of the queue, but they will want this to be generally known that they have received their vaccinations in the hope that this will encourage any of those who have misgivings about the vaccination process. the head of the catholic church, pope francis, also is going to be immunised next week. speaking to an italian tv station, he described opposition

to the vaccine as "suicidal denial". the pontiff has also become the latest figure to express shock and condemnation for wednesday's riots in washington. he said the assault on the capitol, was "against democracy and against common good." and we'll find out how coronavirus — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are the times radio presenter calum macdonald and sienna rodgers, editor of labourlist. a boeing 737 passenger plane — carrying 62 people — is believed to have crashed into the sea in indonesia. search and rescue teams are trying to locate the sriwijaya airlines jet, which appeared to fall around 10,000 feet in less than a minute after taking off from the capital, jakarta, en route to pontianak. boeing says it's aware of the reports and ready to support the families of passengers during this difficult time.

jonathan head reports. flight sj182 had only been in the airforfour minutes when all contact was lost. with no emergency call from the pilots, indonesian officials struggled to piece together what might have happened. transport minister budi karya sumadi described the boeing aircraft veering off—course before disappearing from radar screens. the flight tracking app, flightradar, monitored the plane making an apparent plunge from 10,000 feet to near sea level before it vanished. friends and relatives were left waiting at its destination in the city of pontianak, but there was no information to give them. the authorities are now setting up a crisis centre for them in the capital, jakarta. a depressingly familiar scene in indonesia, which has a poor aviation safety record. several boats were sent out to search for any signs

of the missing plane. some reported finding what looked like debris, but by nightfall, the search had to be called off until morning. translation: we are deeply sorry for what has happened to flight sj182. we hope our prayers can help with the searching process and that everything goes well. the plane disappeared close to where lion air flight 610 crashed two years ago. that exposed flaws in the design of the brand—new boeing 737 max. this flight involved a much older plane, though sriwijaya air says there was no known problems with it. the airline is one of dozens which have proliferated in indonesia in the past 20 years, giving millions access to air travel for the first time, but raising worrying questions about safety. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. rebecca henschke is the asia editor for the bbc world service. she's been listening to eyewitness

reports sent to bbc indonesia, and brought us this update. well, they have been speaking to these desperate families who are waiting for information about the claim that their loved ones were travelling on, speaking to one man who said that his wife and three children were on board and they were hoping tojoin him in borneo where he was temporarily working for a holiday. we've also spoken to eyewitnesses, fishermen who were in this area around the thousand islands off the coast of jakarta where the plane is now believed to have crashed. we spoke to one fisherman who said he saw the plane fall like lightning into the ocean and then explode under the water and he said shards of material came flying out, nearly hitting his boat, a terrifying experience. this is now the area where rescue workers are carrying

out their operation to try and find any survivors, if that is possible if that is possible at this stage, and also recover wreckage from the plane, to try and work out what went wrong. there are a lot of questions now, rebecca, rather a re—focus on indonesia's airline history and, sadly, a history of airline crashes. that's right. these scenes of desperate families waiting, wreckage being recovered from the ocean are desperately familiar to most indonesians and to myself who has covered those plane crashes many times before. indonesia's safety record not good. sriwijaya, the airline in question, has had a fairly good record but in general we've seen a series of deadly crashes in indonesia. 2018 the lion air crash with no survivors, and then the air asia

crashed also with no survivors. they were definitely questions about the boeing 7117 max manufacturing problems there, underlining both those investigation were very serious questions about lax safety in the aviation safety in the aviation sector in indonesia, which is an archipelago nation, so people have to fly to get around and yet they can't do that safely, so a lot of pressure now on the government to do a full investigation and to come up with some answers. rebecca, thank you very much for that. allies of president trump have condemned twitter‘s decision to close his account, as "an attack on free speech". the social media firm said it had removed his profile, because of the risk of further incitements to violence following the storming of the us congress on wednesday. 0ur north america correspondent, david willis, reports.

the most powerful man in the world no longer has access to one of his most valued assets — twitter. donald trump's preferred platform for picking fights, settling scores and promoting conspiracy theories has blocked him for good. president trump has been blamed for fomenting the protests that led to the deaths of five people at the us capitol on wednesday, and twitter believes his continued use of its platform could stoke further violence in the run—up tojoe biden‘s inauguration in 11 days' time. facebook having already banned donald trump for the remainder of his term in office, the president is looking increasingly isolated, facing multiple resignations, and with members of his own party deserting him, some are concerned about what he might do next. in the final tweet before his account was closed, he said one thing he won't be doing is attending his successor‘s swearing in, breaking with a tradition stretching back more than 150 years. joe biden said he was fine with that, and called mr trump a "national embarrassment." he has been an embarrassment to the country, embarrassed us around the world.

not worthy, not worthy to hold that office. there are those who believe the president should also be denied access to the nuclear button. the house speaker nancy pelosi is actively seeking his removal. democrats plan to introduce an impeachment resolution on monday. sadly, the person that's running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the united states. after a week of unprecedented turbulence, it's difficult to know what will affect donald trump's fortunes more — impeachment, if it happens, or the lack of access to a social media soapbox that's been so effective in building and rallying his mass band of supporters. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. a breakdown in pakistan's national

power grid has caused a countrywide blackout...the country was plunged into darkness around an hour ago. 0ur pakistan correspondent, secunder kermani is in islamabad — by candlelight. thank you very much for taking the time tojoin us and thank you very much for taking the time to join us and obviously for using up precious charging your phone. how unusual is this for an entire country to go into a blackout? pakistan has had problems with electricity supply in the past but this is very unusual. i have beenin but this is very unusual. i have been in pakistan coming up to four yea rs been in pakistan coming up to four years now and we have certainly seen nothing on this scale. around an hour ago, about midnight local time, homes across the country had suddenly had their power supply cut. we have had reports from every major city from every province of outages. it does seem that the is to fully nationwide blackout. now, the power

minister, 0mar ayoob has said that the cause of this was under investigation but fundamentally there was a drop in frequency and there was a drop in frequency and the transmission system and that attem pts the transmission system and that attempts are now being made to restore power in the country. another minister, though, said that it could take a number of hours. because power cuts of some kind or the other are not completely unheard of, let us say, in pakistan, hospitals, for example, most hospitals, for example, most hospitals will have generators so they will be prepared to last a number of hours without electricity but certainly they will be concerned in some of the more remote areas, hospitals there for example, which will be dealing with covid. patients and other patients could come into difficulty if power isn't restored fairly soon. you said there that the power minister has issued the statement via twitter urging people to stay calm. a lot of people in the

dyas borough will be concerned as to what is going on. watson sense are you getting? —— a lot of people in the diaspora. what sense are you getting from people? are people calm? at alice of people are calm at the moment, i think, calm? at alice of people are calm at the moment, ithink, because calm? at alice of people are calm at the moment, i think, because the power cut occurred at night and some people would have been sleeping anyway. certainly, ithink, if the power is not restored their intentions could potentially rise and that's perhaps why the power minister was appealing for calm, appealing for restraint. i store one a nalyst appealing for restraint. i store one analyst on twitter saying that he expected power to be restored within at the most around six to eight hours but that is still quite a long time for a whole country to be without electricity though, as i say, some places like hospitals, which are families, do have generators that run on diesel, for

example, so they won't necessarily be without power for that whole time. what normally happens when this has happened in the past and you will be taking a flight? what happens to the airports, for example? it is a very good question. that is one of the things that we will be trying to monitor. there won't necessarily be that many internal flights that would be happening at this time of night, but certainly one would imagine that there would be internationalflights that could be arriving. because pakistan is a country where there are power cuts for periods of time, often we would get, for example, in the summer when many people are using air conditioners, power cuts could occur for a number of using air conditioners, power cuts could occurfor a number of hours, so could occurfor a number of hours, so places like airports, hospitals will be cheered up and have emergency provisions although no one, i think, emergency provisions although no one, ithink, will emergency provisions although no one, i think, will have expected necessarily something of the scale

to happen. —— will be geared up. certainly not now, power problems in pakistan were quite frequent may be about six or seven years ago but they have really greatly reduced in recent yea rs. they have really greatly reduced in recent years. i understand we are approaching 120 or 1:30pm in the morning there but if we take the forecasted restoration of power we are looking at seven or eight o'clock in the morning, and would tomorrow be the first day of work in pakistan? no. pakistan follows the same kind of working week as the western world, so sunday would be a holiday but, of course, many businesses would still be open. of course, trains and, as you say, airports would still be running and i think if the situation continues to the morning and we are facing quite a serious situation here. certainly the hope, i would imagine,

amongst officials with that it could be resolved certainly before the morning. we make, waiting to hear more details on this is something thatis more details on this is something that is developing as a power cut only happens and i would go. educate imagine, communication is also more difficult because of the power cuts as well. just very quickly and i do wa nt to as well. just very quickly and i do want to allude to the fact that you are using a very first discharge at the moment i suppose that is the only way that people can communicate until power is restored, if you have a charge on a device. yes, that is white although, like i say, many individualfamilies white although, like i say, many individual families will have diesel generators because power cuts individual families will have diesel generators because power cuts are, generators because power cuts are, let us say, are a fairly frequent occurrence for an hour or so a day at the height of summer, for example, said some families will be able to watch tv and carry on, really, with life as normal mother lefts but for the vast majority of people, yes, they will have no electricity, all communications will only be from whatever charge they

have got on their mobile phones are on the laptops, which i imagine will be that leader seaton, depleting. —— carry on, really, with life as normal more or less. thank you very much from our correspondent in pakistan. this is not only the first weekend of the new lockdown, but also the first one since a "major incident" was declared in london. it's a reflection of how the coronavirus has once again taken a foothold in the capital. and today, 12 people were arrested during a small anti—lockdown protest, in south london. wendy hurrell reports. we wake to a crisp winter weekend morning — in the midst of a major incident in london. the message very much that life, for now, cannot go on as normal — those in the medical profession appearing on major national news programmes to reiterate. to some extent, we can think of this is a new pandemic within a pandemic. of the data coming out, some very serious threats. there was some new data from phu that came out yesterday suggesting that that risk per contact is probably a0 or 50% higher

than it was, so both in the uk and for many other countries as well i think we need to get away from this idea that we are going to see a repeat of what happened last spring with our behaviours and really face the possibility that this is much riskier and we are going to have to work much harder to reduce the impacts. post—covid cases in hospital admissions rise, a campaign is pasted onto london's streets, carrying a stark warning. and the nhs is under severe strain. as covid cases and hospital admissions rise, a campaign is pasted onto london's streets, carrying a stark warning. and the nhs is under severe strain. the reality of all of this is the anybody watching this report right now is one road traffic accident away from needing someone like me to open their head and save their life and needing an intensive care bed to keep them alive afterwards. if we don't have intensive care beds, if we don't have ward beds, that makes this all so much more difficult. today the met police made 12 arrests during an anti—lockdown protest

in clapham, south london, saying that those looking to gather would face enforcement action by officers. keep your distance, get back! get back! as long queues of elderly people forms outside a south london gps to date some hope as moderna became the third vaccine once more, we must all stay home. it is england's chief medical officer at the forefront of the campaign now, a clear call to us all in london to play our part. around 100 migrants have reached the uk today, by crossing the channel by boat. the home office says that 69 people on five boats, were brought to dover and that another boat with around 30 people on board was taken to eastbourne. they also say that the french prevented three boats with 26 people on board entering uk waters. earlier, the minister for immigration compliance and the courts, chris philp, said, "people should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach,

and not risk their lives making a dangerous and illegally facilitated crossing." at least 4 people have died as a result of a storm, that's covered spain with its heaviest snowfall for 50 years. it's also left hundreds of drivers stuck , and forced it's also left hundreds of drivers stuck, and forced the closure of madrid airport. snow is also forecast for parts of italy, turkey and greece. mark lobel reports. coronavirus victims remembered in spain's capital, madrid, as a different storm sets in. parks were closed early. translation: for those who don't work, it's great. for those who work, it is a little more complicated. translation: i came to madrid and i was surprised, as it's not snowing in berlin. it must have to do with climate change. the snow in spain stopping people getting to their plane. real madrid's footballers among many stuck on the tarmac

for hours at barajas airport. 0perations here suspended at times. storm filomena struck these houses on the portuguese island of madeira. translation: i am 66 years old and i'd never seen so much rain and water like i saw yesterday. i've never seen anything like this. rescuers were on hand after this ferry ran aground in the canary islands. translation: we were afraid for the baby. as a blanket of snow covered eastern spain, lorries reach the end of the road. translation: we have remained in monreal del campo, where we're stuck. things look bad. after high tides here in malaga, in spain's south, and a month's worth of rain in just two days in gibraltar, heavy weather alerts have been issued for italy, turkey, greece and the balkans. in between the fun, spaniards are being urged to avoid nonessential travel.

many now bracing themselves for a white weekend like no other they have ever seen in their own backyard. mark lobel, bbc news. the world's oldest living 0lympic champion is celebrating her 100th birthday. the hungarian gymnast, agnes keleti, won 10 medals in the helsinki and melbourne games in the 1950s , 5 of them gold. in the 1950s — 5 of them gold. she escaped the holocaust and has a new book about her life. jatinder dhillon reports. she'sjust turned 100, but agnes keleti's bubbling energy and enthusiasm has no bounds. he celebrating her birthday with close family, she says of her remarkable long life that it so far has passed by in a flash. translation: 100 years seemsjust like 60 to me, really. i love to live and i wish

for health and there it is! i like to live and i live well. what else is better? i'm healthy and i like my life very much. in her elegant apartment in budapest, this feisty 0lympian and holocaust survivor is surrounded by mementos and medals of her life story, which include adventures and great achievements, but also heartbreak and tragedy. herfirst love was music, but inspired by her father's love of rowing with the family on the danube, agnes swapped her cello for a leotard and took up gymnastics, winning several national medals. in 1940, during the second world war, she was barred from taking part in any of her country's sporting activities because of herjewish background. after the nazi german occupation of hungary in 19114, she skipped deportation to a death camp by assuming the identity of a maid and went into hiding.

her father and several relatives were killed in auschwitz. her mother and brother escaped to sweden. she made her mark as an 0lympian, winning five gold medals in the 1952 helsinki games, and at the 1956 melbourne games, which were won after she turned 30 and was competing against gymnasts half her age. when the soviet tanks crushed the hungarian revolution in 1956, she stayed first in australia and then moved to israel, only returning to hungary in 2015. the queen of gymnastics! and now, to mark her centenary, there's a new book about her life, and the energetic spirit of hungary's most successful gymnast remains intact. translation: am i 100 years old? let's blow the candles out!