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hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment with calum macdonald and sienna rodgers — first the headlines. the latest coronavirus figures show there's been 1,035 more deaths in the uk — taking the overall total to more than 80,000. a new campaign in the uk is urging people to abide by lockdown rules — scientists and senior public health officials are warning that despite the lockdown, even tougher restrictions may be necessary. the queen and the duke of edinburgh have received their first covid—19 vaccinations. the queen is 94 years old and prince philip is 99. an indonesian passengerjet has crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from jakarta. 62 people were on board.
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donald trump has been permanently banned from twitter — because of concerns his tweets could incite more violence. democrats reveal the draft of a new impeachment resolution against donald trump — the president elect accuses him of inciting an insurrection and endangering the security of the us. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the times radio presenter, calum macdonald & sienna rodgers — editor of labourlist. tomorrow's front pages...
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the sunday telegraph reports that every police officer has been told to fine people in breach of covid rules £200 if they refuse to go home at the first time of asking, in new guidance issued to all chief constables. it also carries a picture of the queen and the duke of edinbugh — who both had their first covid vaccine innoculation today. the sunday mirror describes the royal's vaccinations as sending a powerful message to anti—vaxxers. the sunday express says the queen and the duke of edinburgh have led by by example, joining more than 1.5 million other britons who've so far had the jab. the sunday people carries an ominous warning from a front line nurse — urging everyone to follow the rules. and the observer has senior nhs figures warning the number of doctors, nurses and other health care workers who are falling ill with covid—19 has reached crisis levels and is seriously hampering the fight against the rapidly escalating pandemic.
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so let's begin... welcome to you both. quite a microphone there. if you could kick us microphone there. if you could kick us off with the front page of the telegraph, looks as if it is a case of enforcement rather than a tougher lockdown restrictions. yes, the story in the telegraph talking about how every police officer has been told to find people if they breach covid rose, £200 of the refused to go home after the first time of asking. it is the law and sounds reasonable and they can be fined but i find it quite concerning especially the framing about how ministers are prioritising enforcement over feroz, ijust worry we know we have seen the government hesitate over and over again to bring in the rules that are needed
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and at this point in time nbc the death toll go above 80000 and the nhs on the brink of being overwhelmed if not already then at this lockdown should be tougher probably than the first one. i worry about this approach especially as we know in the first lockdown and black people for instance much more likely, twice more likely to be fined than white people by the met police. those kind of disparities and the story about derbyshire police finding women going for a walk in what seemed like they were actually following the law and received a fine enemy, those things concern me. what would a tougher lockdown look like according to you? at the moment early years settings are open, people are asking questions about why that is happening when it didn't happen in the first lockdown and a main reason isa the first lockdown and a main reason is a lot of them are private and the
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government does not want to bail them out because they are on the brink of collapse if they had to close. it does not make much sense for schools to be closed but for those settings to be open. and places of worship also open. callum, your thoughts. it speaks to the bigger problem here which is peoples underlying this to go along with things that are clear and perhaps the government unwillingness to clarify those things that are not clear. throughout this whole pandemic there has been a communication issue, that is generally widely accepted and people have struggled to distinguish between what is a law, what is guidance, what is advice, how strict the rules are in any particular area, region, town, country across the uk. when we started this there was a willingness from people to stick to the rules, it was scary and unknown and we were all learning as we we re unknown and we were all learning as we were going along. after that first lockdown from march until the
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summer first lockdown from march until the summer it has gotten hazy as we have gone along and that is what the problem is. iagree gone along and that is what the problem is. i agree that when it comes to lockdown and the rules and guidance as we have then we should be throwing everything at this so if it isa be throwing everything at this so if it is a £200 thing reduced to 100 paid quickly then that is what is going to deter people from breaking the rules then go for it. it is at the rules then go for it. it is at the stage where medics and ministers and scientific advisers are saying we need to throw more at this and it isa we need to throw more at this and it is a case i think of stuck it up high, get through this, toughen it up high, get through this, toughen it up in the next few months and emerged out the other side. in terms of getting the message across your privacy and the new guidance been broadcast, as professor whitty the correct person? i think so and that he is largely a trusted figurehead. i think what probably helps as he is not a politician and it takes it
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away from the prime minister and other ministers remain at some point in the last year or so have muddied the waters or tainted their own reputation with perhaps being too flippant to begin with or letting advisers off with the spirit of the rules are rubrics so i think this whitty is the right man because he knows what he's talking about key knows what he's talking about key knows what he is doing and if we all get in line and do what we are told then the next few months will pass and he will get out of this any safer manner. in the observer, it seems the message us if you do not comply your carers will not look after you when you get ill. comply your carers will not look after you when you get illi comply your carers will not look after you when you get ill. i think thatis after you when you get ill. i think that is an important message. we sought city can announce reality criticaljunction sought city can announce reality critical junction and this sought city can announce reality criticaljunction and this is a
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moment where it has been confirmed london hospitals are saying within two we e ks london hospitals are saying within two weeks the best case scenario london hospitals are overwhelmed. that means turning people away from receiving critical care, in practical terms so this story is really worrying, talking about how over 46,000 hospital staff are off sick with covid—19 and emphasises the need for doctors and all health workers to be vaccinated as soon as possible. i know a friend of mine who is a doctor was saying to me that he has received his first dose and is expecting the trust to administer the second within the energy north three week schedule and he told me that actually quite a lot of trusts are choosing to ignore that central advice and vaccinate nhs staff within the three weeks rather than 12 week timeframe talked aboutjust because rather than 12 week timeframe talked about just because they don't want to undermine staff morale and that is important. when you read into the
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article talks about the fact that the nhs has been under winter pressures since november 2019, that really puts it into sharp focus. pressures since november 2019, that really puts it into sharp focusm does, i think both the pressure of the nhs is facing and the absolute awful conditions workers in hospitals throughout looking after us across hospitals throughout looking after us across the country are facing emphasises what we were talking about, our need to look out for one another and do our bit. the numbers are staggering, 46,000 people ill or self isolating as a result of covid—19 and the pressure the nhs is facing over a year. this speaks to what we have kind of known about was on its way and that perhaps baffles me slightly that over the last few months of the first lockdown, all
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the measures and restrictions we faced have been because we do not wa nt to faced have been because we do not want to pile pressure on to the nhs over the wintertime when as we know it already faces struggles, heightened in terms of who is looking after, number of people walking in the doors and again it is room for further investigation as to why we have reached this point when one of the central messages throughout the whole pandemic from the start was at now so we can look after the nhs, protect the nhs was pa rt after the nhs, protect the nhs was part of the central slogan and save lives. it is slightly disconcerting we have got to this point and the nhs is struggling with to the levels we are hearing about. turning to the express , we are hearing about. turning to the express, the royals are leading the way. we have been told that the queen and the duke of edinburgh have received their vaccines, they are in the top priority group so talking about over 80 and they are well into
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the 90s so it is not surprising they have received their covid vaccinations and it is rare we are told, private medical matters are being made public by buckingham palace but in this case it is important and the government are very pleased this has happened because the are trying to address any kind of vaccine hesitancy amongst the public and if this encourages anyone who was feeling worried or anxious about getting a vaccine that actually it is ok to the queen is doing it and that can only be a good thing. maybe it would have been an idea to release a picture or video, i know they are obviously very private about medical matters but that would have been splashed across every front—page fa had done that so it could have been an idea they might have wanted to pick up. i know other celebrities like pru leith and ian mckellen have done so so i wonder whether that was considered at all. callum, you will note in which also leads with the
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story in the middle. i agree and i would add that something i have really appreciated is that the pictures and videos of people who are so excited to be getting the first second vaccination whatever stage the ad that, i totally get that. i think i also find interesting that the queen was much ability to lead quite subtly as simply by releasing this information creates a bit of a stir and i wonder is relevant gives away perhaps that sort of generational divide. i feel like the older generation, the people who are up for vaccinations right now top of the priority list are far more willing to do what is being asked of them in general when it comes to particularly being vaccinated. they are found most sceptical perhaps than younger people and rightly so. that should feed into the leading by example
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pa rt feed into the leading by example part of this as well, the queen and the duke going for it, that is an example for us all to follow and it is going to be part of our duty to get this vaccination when the time is right. let's finish on a final story, pressure growing on mr trump. the big story of the week has been us politics, we saw the horrendous violent us politics, we saw the horrendous viole nt scenes at us politics, we saw the horrendous violent scenes at the us capital earlier and now trump is under pressure because democrats are saying it is time for a second impeachment and they have got that majority to impeach him for a second time which has never been done before to a president so it would make a serious statement and increasingly republicans are actually speaking out. one senator has said trump has to go at this point, quoted as saying i want him to resign, he has caused enough damage. it also mentions that a man
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has been charged because she had molotov cocktails and assault weapons, guns and home—made bombs at the so—called protest earlier this week, it is important to recognise this was domestic terrorism that we saw. the principle of this can be best summed up by the character charlie from the west wing, little a lwa ys charlie from the west wing, little always turn to them for wisdom who said whilst we respect your right to overthrow the government we do not respect your right to do it violently nor from respect your right to do it violently norfrom inside respect your right to do it violently nor from inside the oval 0ffice violently nor from inside the oval office and that sums up the attitude of most elected representatives and the latest dates who have any sense. you will come back to this at 1138 but for now thank you very much, nice to see you on the programme.
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you could take advantage of some of the tech platforms that really well last year, they certainly benefited from the at—home exercise boom. 0ne of those companies as a virtual and jonathan threw himself into this to find out more. cycle is a sport which is always developed technology and a leap into the virtual world. popularity has soared during the pandemic i know has modern 3 million
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subscribers. but, once you're plugged in, all you need to do is start pedalling. you canjoin a group ride, do a workout or simply cruise around some of the best routes in the world with maps, stats and data. so, to see what all the fuss was about, i thought i'd the plan, to get fit enough so that in five weeks, i could take part in a race on zwift. and, in order to do that, i recruited matt rowe, a professional cycling coach who trains people through zwift.
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it is the future, for sure, for training, and that's for amateur cyclists, who have four or five hours a week, right through to professional ranks. for indoor training, the benefits it brings to performance gains, speaks volumes. now, there's one key metric that seems to be the lifeblood of zwift, and that's watts. put it like this — your tv needs about 250 watts to work, and olympic gold—medallist bradley wiggins broke the hour cycling record by generating an hour average of 440 watts just with his legs. zwift bills itself as a training platform and, unlike many sports, this set—up can actually replicate many aspects of cycling with genuine road speeds and conditions, meaning that all the data you gather is comparable to what you get in real life. so matt has set me a test tonight to see how fit i am. basically, it's to see how hard i can push myself and how many watts i can generate. so i've got my screen down here where i can see the training plan.
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what i've got to do, what he's going to put me on. it's 45 minutes, and it looks pretty brutal. at the moment, i'm doing 167 watts, or thereabouts. my legs are really, really starting to hurt now. that was one of the hardest things i have done... for a long time. i mean, look at me. it's just horrendous. certainly i had some work to do and the training carried on — five days a week for five weeks. but while you can train hard and make real gains, it feels like competition is the pinnacle of zwifting. it's where zwift goes to the next level, both for the users and for the company itself. suddenly the platform switches from being training—focused to something more akin to an esports platform. you can select a race, turn up at the right time and you're suddenly on the starting line with a huge group
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of other riders. and, if you're good, there's serious money to be made from winning. i've heard from several zwifters who say, "i made more money on this one zwift race than i ever made in an outdoor race that i've ever done." there's been some big cash prizes. at december‘s uci cycling esports world championships, the prize money was almost $10,000 for the winners. incredibly, female cyclists can make more money racing from zwift than in real life. so after five weeks of training, five days a week, the time had come. it was race day. at 12:30pm, on a tuesday afternoon, the race began. and i had matt there on zoom to coach me through. that's the most painful thing i have ever done. that was... i mean, it was genuinely really fun. there was a real kind of thrill of racing. it must be unique to zwift.
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if parents are worried about kids doing too much gaming at home, then get them on this, because they'll get fit, and honestly, you can't do it for more than 45 minutes or you'll fall over. but it was time to hear the results. five weeks ago, i had a functional threshold power of 230 watts. so had the training worked? today you were 38 minutes, you did 288 watts. an extra 30, 30—odd watts, 34 watts, they're saying in nearly twice the amount of time. gosh, that's a massive increase. that's a massive increase. out of 32 riders, you ran 14th. out of 42 riders, you ran 14th. hey! good result, you've got to be happy with that. there's what we call a couple of sandbaggers is in the group. there's two riders who were minutes ahead of third place in the cs. there were two guys in the race in my category, category c, who were considerably
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faster than everyone else. in fact, they came first and second with a minute between third place, and these guys who are essentially are category a riders, they‘ re really fast, really light, really powerful, competing in lower categories. you know, i came 14th, but it sounds like i could have actually come 12th. and ifeel a little bit like, i don't know, ifeel a little bit cheated. perhaps where there's competition, there's always going to be cheating, and professional cycling has had its fair share of scandals, and now zwift is having to deal with digital performance enhancement and other methods of manipulation. but as i began to find out more about cheating on zwift, one name kept coming up. i can say this guy's name, cam jeffers, because he...it was all over the news anyway. i don't like to be compared
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to lance armstrong and i don't think it's fair to compare me to lance armstrong. in 2019, cyclist and youtuber cameron jeffers took part in and won the inaugural british eracing championships in london on zwift, but shortly after the race, he was given a 6—month suspension from all racing after british cycling ruled he had breached its disciplinary code during championships. i got a call one day from british cycling saying that they've had an anonymous complaint that my bike wasn't legit. i was like, "you know what? come and check my bike if you want. i don't know what you're on about." zwift said the charge related tojeffers using a bot to ride for him to unlock a special bike in game, thus giving him an unfair advantage over his competitors. jeffers claims that he obtained the bike for a series of youtube videos he was making earlier in the year, rather than for the race. qualifiers, i remember saying to a couple of people, "do you not think, should i not be using a bike that i've legitimately unlocked ? "
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and they said, "there's no rulebook, there's no rules been written for this event, so there's no way you can get disqualified for using a bike that you haven't legitimately obtained." butjust like in any sport, there's a battle between those regulating and those trying to gain an advantage. cheers. let me say this, it was fair they took it away from him, but i think he could have won without the tron bike, so that's the sad thing. zwift are cracking down on any attempts to cheat in their races, with the support of global cycling governing bodies. if the platform wants to be taken seriously, it has to maintain its sporting integrity. i think cheating is probably something we'll have to combat. it will never go away. someone will figure how to game the system, but having said that, there are things we know we can do, including hardware. so, for example, the world championships this year, everyone will be on the same bit of equipment.
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in addition to real world anti—doping controls that bar the use of performance—enhancing drugs, there will also be a group of analysts monitoring riders' race data for any red flags when compared to their previous performance stats. after just five weeks of using the platform, i got so much fitter but really i was hooked, and it was the social element and the gamification that kept me coming back. people were showing up not for training, they were showing up because they crave that social connection. if i think about what zwift could be, it's certainly much larger than bike racing, as a community. if it's a gamified training tool or an esports platform, zwift has hit upon something which has resonated with cyclists. and key to this is the fervent community that is building with youtubers, live streamers, online trainers, and social groups. that's it for the shortcut
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of click for this week, the full—length version is waiting for you right now on iplayer. and as ever, you can keep up with the team of social media. find us on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at bbc click. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. bye— bye. hello there. saturday was a cold day for most of the uk, but the weather will be milder for many of us over the next few days. 0vernight tonight, we've got clouds and rain moving into scotland, that will tend to sink a little bit further southwards with time so turning damp for northern ireland and northern england. further southwards, we've got some fog patches that will reform, re—thicken across parts of east anglia in southern england, visibility down to 100 metres in places.
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and with a widespread frost, there's a risk of some icy stretches as we start off sunday. now, sunday is going to be a milder day for all of the uk, really, the mist and fog clearing to give bright skies in the south. further north, we've got cloud and rain, particularly so across western scotland with rain particularly persistent here. milder for many of us, temperatures around six or seven degrees celsius, but still cold enough for snow showers in shetland. monday, another mild day for most of us, if anything, a bit milder, but we've got cloud and rain around as well. the exception to the mild theme, again for northern scotland, where it could be cold enough to see some further falls of snow. but for many of us, temperatures around seven to nine degrees.
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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a boeing 737 passenger plane has crashed into the sea shortly after take—off from jakarta, indonesia. 62 people were on board. the uk has now recorded more than three million cases of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. nearly 60,000 people tested positive for covid—19 on saturday, with more than 1,000 deaths. the second impeachment process against donald trump could begin as early as monday according to democrats, who've circulated a draft of their resolution to remove him. and the queen and prince philip both receive

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