the headlines at eight: police say they won't waste time reasoning with people who endanger others by breaching coronavirus restrictions and will fine them instead. the home secretary blames a rule breaking minority. if you do not play your part, our self as police officers who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe... and i will back them to do so. as the number of dead continues to climb — the wife of a 55—year—old who died at christmas begs people to listen.

he was 55 years of age. he was so young and we had so much still planned and people need to take note and stop being selfish and ignorant. no mask — no entry. supermarkets say they'll crack down on people not following the rules — amid concern about the spread of the virus in shops. complaints about the quality of food parcels for those on free school meals — ministers promise to investigate. a devastating report into so—called mother and baby homes run for decades by the catholic church in ireland reveals around 9,000 children died over eight decades. donald trump arrives in texas for his first live public appearance since the riots at the us capitol. this is the scene live near alamo in rio trump is expected rio grande donald trump is expected to use the appearance to talk about his achievements in building the

wall. good evening. police forces are warning they will take tougher action against those who do not comply with the coronavirus restrictions. the home secretary, priti patel, held a downing street briefing earlier where she thanked the majority of people for complying with the rules, but blamed a minority who she said were putting the health of the nation at risk. ms patel said she would back the police in enforcing the law. and that the current rules are tough enough, but under constant review. the head of the national police chiefs' council said more officers will be on patrol and that so far around 16,000 fixed—penalty notices have been issued.

here's our home editor, mark easton. visitors are not welcome at the seaside. southend's beachfront car parks are locked, peaked caps patrolling the shoreline. with people restricted, the rats are enjoying new freedoms. this tourist town doesn't want non—locals coming for a constitutional. they shouldn't be coming. i think they should define what local is, and exercise. i heard about borisjohnson yesterday going from downing street to the olympic park. what really irritates me is that i hear minister after minister say, "don't go out". but they don't follow it with, "except for exercise". the news that the town's hospital is struggling to cope, close to running out of oxygen yesterday, has contributed to the sense of emergency. most people do seem to be obeying the rules. southend looks like a place in lockdown. it feels as though the mood has changed. in the last couple of days,

police say they'll be quicker to fine rule breakers. there's strong public support for tougher enforcement and tighter restrictions as the appeals from health professionals become ever more desperate. we need to really focus on what the enforcement issues are. if the legislation was a lot tighter, it would make it a lot easier for our colleagues in the police force to enforce what we are asking them to do. home secretary, we are warned we may be facing a health service catastrophe. so why are the rules of this lockdown not as tough as they were last spring? the rules are actually very simple and clear. we are meant to stay at home and only leave home for a very limited number of reasons. that didn't answer the question, of course. the concern is not about the clarity of the rules, but their strength. police say people who flagrantly break the law, like these illegal gatherings in london, can expect heavy fines. because of size of the party and the lack of engagement from people here, you are probably

going to end up with up to a £10,000 fine. 0ur successful staged enforcement approach remains, but we will not linger on encouragement for those who are choosing to break the rules. the rules are clear, and we need to abide by them if we are going to protect the nhs and save people's lives. psychologists say getting people to obey the rules may have less to do with confronting lawbreakers and more with a focus on those who are following the guidance. if you tell people, "everybody is doing this, stop it", actually, what happens is that what people hear is, everybody is doing it. it begins to set a norm. it tells you, "if everybody else is doing it, why shouldn't i?" and so it undermines the behaviour. positive tests in southend have been falling in the past week, but 55 people have also died from the disease, an increase of 53%. what happens next is a matter of life and death. mark easton, bbc news, southend.

0ur deputy political editor vicki young is at westminster. priti patel says the rules are there to be followed but are under review, so to be followed but are under review, so where are we? there are lots of legitimate reasons why you are allowed to leave home and so the police this is clearly a bit more of a problem than it was in march because people can be out and about, they are allowed to be out and about, but what the government seems to be saying by shifting their message towards enforcement and personal responsibility is, yes, you can order the parcel and do click and collect, yes, you can meet a friend and exercise in the park, but do you really have to do it? they are almost saying, it's a bit of a contradiction, stay at home as much as you can come up contradiction, stay at home as much as you can come up with exemptions, but please ignore them. everyone knows the rules aren't completely

straightforward, you would have to be mugging up to keep across all the changes there have been, but the government is trying to appeal to people's better nature and saying it isa people's better nature and saying it is a national endeavour and how you behave or have an impact on other people and they really want people to think twice about that but there's no doubt that there will be more fines. the police have been pretty careful approaching people and warning them and going through a series of steps before reaching for that punishment of a fine. i think that punishment of a fine. i think that may change a bit but the problem is a lot of the rule breaking will be going on behind closed doors and that can be much harderfor closed doors and that can be much harder for the police to find. have the government's efforts to clarify its rules on coronavirus worked? david jamieson is the west midlands police and crime commissioner and a former labour mp. hejoins us from birmingham. did the home secretary clarify things for you today?” did the home secretary clarify things for you today? i think she did andi things for you today? i think she did and i think we've got some pictures now of what the rules are.

but we've got to have consistency. consistency for the public to understand what the rules are and secondly for police to enforce the rules and the law where it's appropriate. just look at what's happened in the last few days, we had matt hancock saying only move in the close vicinity of where you live. then we got the prime minister going off on a seven mile cycle ride, then we got the police saying a cycle ride would have been okay. that is just totally inconsistent and totally unclear, so what we need from the government is to spell out exactly what it is that it should be expected of people under the rules. you've just said that you think the rules are clear, having heard the home secretary, so the people who have flouted those rules have done wrong, but you are now clear in your own mind what people should be doing. i think we need clarity over what area you can travel into. that

would help us enormously and it will va ry would help us enormously and it will vary in an urban area, probably different to a rural area, but some clarity from the government on that would help police with the enforcement. the other area in terms of looking at the law, as it stands at the moment, if somebody is not wearing a mask going into a shop, and a police officer stops them and the person says they have a medical reason, there is no requirement of that person to produce a medical reason. equally she is talking about enforcing parties and i think martin hewitt and the home secretary mentioned these parties and it's a problem we've had in the west midlands, people flagrantly ignoring the law. if the police turn up and there are covid offences being

committed, the police have no right of entry to that property as they would with other crimes so it's another area that the home secretary needs to address to help the police administer the law. have you got enough officers to do this? in the last ten years we've lost over 2000 officers due to cuts. the police will always do what they have to do and we'll have to make the resources available. the chief constable is working extremely hard. let's go to donald trump in texas. its as strong as you can get but we

give you 100% of what you wanted so now you have no excuses. i didn't wa nt now you have no excuses. i didn't want you to have any excuses. you set records and we cannot let the next administration even think about taking it down, if you can believe that. i don't think that will happen. when you see what it does and how it is so important for our country, nobody is going to be touching it and you are very proud of it and proud of the work you did because we really designed together. we are going to celebrate a great achievement, the wall on the southern border. before we begin, i'd like to say that free speech is under assault like never before. the 25th amendment as of zero risk to me but will come back to haunt the biden administration. as the expression goes, be careful what you wish for. the impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witchhunt in the

history of our country and is causing tremendous anger and division and pain, far greater than most people will ever understand, which is very dangerous for the usa especially at this very tender time. and now i would like to briefly address the events of last week. millions of our citizens watched on wednesday as a mob stormed the capital and trashed the halls of government. as i have consistently said throughout my administration, we believe in respecting america's history and traditions, not tearing them down. we believe in the rule of law, not on violence or rioting. because of the pandemic, horrible, horrible invisible enemy, and despite our tremendous success developing a vaccine years before it was thought even remotely possible, nobody thought it was going to be possible, they said it would take five years or seven years, all of

our scientists were saying, our advisers were saying it would take five, seven, ten years maybe. well, we did itjust like i said we would and we had it out years and years before they thought it was possible and we are now delivering it to states including your state where your governor and government are doing a terrificjob in getting it administered in texas and florida is doing great, some of them are doing great, but they have all they can handle and we get it to them as fast as they needed and even faster, but they are calling it a medical miracle and this has been a difficult year and a very difficult election, the pandemic has made it a very difficult yearfor election, the pandemic has made it a very difficult year for our country and virtually every country all over the world. now is the time for our nation to heal in time for peace and for calm, respect for law

enforcement and the great people within law enforcement, so many are here, is the foundation of the maga agenda and we are a nation of law, thatis agenda and we are a nation of law, that is why we are here today to talk about what we must do to uphold the rule of law in america and how we must continue to support our law enforcement heroes which is exactly what you are. do you feel like a hero? i think you do, and you are. i wa nt to hero? i think you do, and you are. i want to thank customs and border is patrol commissioner mark morgan who has been incredible. stand—up, mark. greatjob. has been incredible. stand—up, mark. great job. fantastic. chief has been incredible. stand—up, mark. greatjob. fantastic. chief patrol agent brian hastings, thank you very much, greatjob. he said, sir, this really works. and most importantly the brave law enforcement officers who risk their lives every day to protect our families and our

country. i also want to thank a tremendous gentleman friend of mine, tom holman, a great american patriot and he was with us right from the beginning. he said, we need a wall when they were saying no, we need drones. i said why, so you can watch the people poured into a country illegally? and i want to thank you very much, what a professionaljob you've done. all of you people are incredible. everyone here today as pa rt incredible. everyone here today as part ofan incredible. everyone here today as part of an incredible success story, this is a real success story. we inherited a broken, dysfunctional and open border. everybody was pouring in at will, working alongside the heroes in the great outdoor space, looking at our wall. we reformed our immigration system and achieve the most secure southern border in us history. it is at a level that it has never been before. the cartels, the coyotes and the

special interests, we restore the rule of law. for years, special interests, we restore the rule of law. foryears, politicians ran for office promising to secure the border, only to get elected and do the absolute exact opposite. they even promised a wall, if you remember, about ten years ago, they promised a while but couldn't get it built. it wasn't easy getting it built. it wasn't easy getting it built orfinanced. built. it wasn't easy getting it built or financed. getting built. it wasn't easy getting it built orfinanced. getting it built was even tougher. all the different things we had to go through, very, very complex and very difficult but we got it done, but years ago, you remember that better than anybody, they never got it done, never com plete they never got it done, never complete the task, and ultimately the money was sent back to the federal government, spent but no wall was built. but unlike those who came before me, i kept my promises and today we celebrate an extraordinary milestone, the completion of the promised a50 miles

of border wall. a50 miles. nobody realises how big that is. iremembered when i first came down about a year and a half ago, it was under construction, and i started walking and i'm looking at the wall and i'm walking and walking and i'm used to a development project where you can walk a fu acres, then i realise, that's a long time —— a fu a caer‘s. that's a long time. a lot of the work is natural. you have water areas and some that are impossible to get by so we didn't need wells everywhere but where we needed them because it has been so successful that we have added nearly 300 miles and that is currently under construction. 0ur original wish was to get these areas done where there was such trouble and now

we have it, either in construction or preconstruction, an additional 300 miles. in every region we have built the wall, illegal crossings and drug smuggling have plummeted. in the rio grande valley, crossings have dropped, illegal entries have been slashed by 90% nationwide ice and border control have seized £2 million of narcotics, saving thousands of lives. we have arrested nearly 500,000 illegal aliens with criminal records, some with very serious criminal records of the type you don't want to know about like murder. we remove nearly 20,000 gang members from the united states including a500 members of msi3, probably the worst gang of them all. through the landmark reforms we put

into place and ended the immigration chaos and re—established american sovereignty. 0ur chaos and re—established american sovereignty. our most important form is ending catch and release, not easy to do. dealing with congress, very, very difficult, which is the functional equivalent of open borders, but even worse, catch and release means release into our country, not into another country. this policy was exploited by vicious criminal organisations who understood law is better than our people understood them for years, to spread misery and suffering and drugs all across the hemisphere. now, instead of catch and release, we have detain and remove. it's called detain and remove, doesn't that sound better? one of the biggest loopholes we closed was asylu m biggest loopholes we closed was asylum fraud. under the old broken system, if you merely requested asylum, you are released into the country. the most ridiculous thing

anyone has ever seen, and we were taking in some people that you didn't want to have in your country. we instituted a series of historic policy changes to shutdown asylum fraud and that's what we did. this includes the ground—breaking agreement with mexico known as the migrant protection protocols. under this agreement, if an illegal alien requests asylum, we have to wait in mexico until their cases heard. they used to wait here and when they were waiting, they would say bye—bye and disappear into our country and essentially we never find them again or see them again. this one measure alone ended a humanitarian crisis and saved countless lives. especially lives from crime. i want to thank the great president of mexico. he is a great gentleman, a friend of mine, he is a man who

really knows what's happening and loves his country and also loves the united states, but i want to thank him for his friendship and professional working relationship. we actually have 27,000 mexican soldiers guarding our borders over the last two years. nobody thought that was possible, and they made it very, very difficult and that is why the numbers were able to plunge even during the construction of the wall. 0ne during the construction of the wall. one of the big elements of the wall that make it so successful as we can have far fewer people working on other things related to crime and drug prevention, a lot of other elements they are working on because we saved massive numbers of people and included here we have the most sophisticated camera systems and most sophisticated electronic systems anywhere in the world. we implemented three historic agreements with the northern

triangle, that's guatemala, honduras and el salvador. under these critical asylum cooperation agreements, the burden of illegal immigration is now shared all across the region, now when an illegal immigrant is arrested at our border, they can be sent to a neighbouring country instead of the us. they said... these gentlemen said they wa nt to ta ke said... these gentlemen said they want to take them back. they came, they may be worded —— murderers, they may be worded —— murderers, they may be cartel heads or visions people, the countries didn't want them back and i stopped all payments to those countries, i stopped everything going to those countries, and after it was stopped for about a month, they called and said we'd love to have them back. and i never

gave him as much money as they were getting, but they got some, and it was amazing. they wouldn't take them back without planes —— we would have planes flying over loaded with people we didn't want year. i said, don't think about landing that plane. all of a sudden, they say, welcome back, we love having you. so it was a great thing and now they do ta ke it was a great thing and now they do take them back and the relationship of those countries, the triangle, the relationship is a much better one than it was before. in addition to your agreements with mexico, guatemala, honduras and el salvador, we have systematically reformed the regulatory code to adjourn asylum to its original legal meaning and purpose, not a free ticket for entry. a recent comprehensive report by the department of homeland security and justice showed how effective our reforms have been and how disastrous their removal would

be. it would be a disasterfor our country. i know they are thinking about removing them, i hope they don't do that. it would be an absolute travesty for our country. the report conclusively proves once and for all that aliens released at the border remain at large in the country and do not return home. they won't go home. and you rarely find them. it's very tough to find them so we have aliens released in our country, many of whom are serious criminals, and we stopped that. don't ever start that process again. by don't ever start that process again. by contrast, under our policies, 98% of aliens that remain in dhs custody are removed. simply put, if you enter the united states illegally, you are apprehended and immediately, safely removed from our country. without this core principle, there is no border, there is no law, there

is no border, there is no law, there is no border, there is no law, there is no order. my administration also instituted vital public health measures on the border in response to the china virus under title a2 of the us code, illegal immigrants are being promptly removed to protect the health of border agents. 0ther migrants and local communities and the public at large removing these protections would invite a public health catastrophe of epic proportions, as you probably know. in tijuana, various parts of mexico, the covid... in tijuana, various parts of mexico, the covid. .. it's in tijuana, various parts of mexico, the covid... it's got about 2a names from covid to china virus, the plague, the china plague, a lot of different names, but we always call it the invisible enemy. the invisible enemy has been very tough on mexico. we have areas along the border where we are in great shape because right there, because of that, we are in great shape but on

the other side in mexico they are suffering greatly with the virus. it's been incredible what we have achieved and we didn't do the wall because of sick—mac, —— covid, we did it because of security and drugs and other things but in the middle of it all came across this plague. we inherited a dangerously lawless border. the people who work here are unbelievably brave. they are tough, strong and they are great patriots, great americans. we fixed it and we secured it. we empowered our wonderful ice and border control to fill their oaths. they became sworn officers of the law. it's a tough job, it's a nastyjob. they are not paid what they should be paid, to be honest, but we got you up. these are

incredibly talented people that could probably do a lot better in terms of economics than they do here but they love what they do and they love their country. we also put into place vital measures to protect american workers, keep out terrorists and stop the abuse of our welfare system. they would come up on our welfare system and live for yea rs on our welfare system and live for years and american welfare without ever having a job. we also have and had but we have them all the time, we had terrorists from the middle east coming into our country through the southern border. that was before what you see right here because it was easy to come into a country through the southern border than it was through airports so they would land in south america and they would work their way up and coming to our country and these are not people from the countries that you would suspect, these are people from some very seriously dangerous places in the middle east and the numbers are far greater than anybody would

understand, really far greater. removing any of these measures would hamstring our workers, endanger our country and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year. no matter our party, we should all agree on the need to protect our workers, ourfamilies agree on the need to protect our workers, our families and agree on the need to protect our workers, ourfamilies and our citizens of all backgrounds, no matter who they are, in particular our border security measures are reversed, it will trigger a tidal wave of illegal immigration like you have never seen before and i can tell you that already, waves are starting to come up from 2000 and 1500 miles away, we see what's coming and they are coming to the gravy train at the end. i changed the name from the caravans which i think we came up with. this will be

an unmitigated calamity for national security and public health. it would destroy millions and millions of jobs and claim thousands of innocent lives. the policies are put into place are uniformly and strongly supported by the men and women of ice and border patrol, we worked on them together like we did on the wall, we worked on the policy together, because nobody knows this whole world better than the incredible people right in front of me. to terminate those policies is knowingly to put america in really serious danger and to override the great career experts that have worked so hard, those from dhs. at this very moment, smugglers and coyotes are preparing to surge if policies are loosened or removed. they are literally waiting, the groups of people, some of them very unsavoury, i might add. this is an

entirely preventable tragedy, it's waiting to happen. the safety of our nation must come before politics. we have many disagreements in the country but we should all agree the urgent need to secure our borders, protect our homeland and allow law enforcement to fulfil its mission without political interference. ice and border patrol agents swore a sacred oath to uphold the law and no political appointee should ever order them to violate that oath. these are real experts, they really get it. i won border towns which are likely largely hispanic. the governor of texas called, greg, great guy, great governor, said, you

had numbers that no one has had since reconstruction... reconstruction means civil war and largely hispanic. they understand is better than anybody and they want a law enforcement to help them help them live save lives. there was that congress passed must be upheld to the men and women of ice customs and border protection and all across the hs, law enforcement in general, you have earned the everlasting gratitude of our nation and you've no idea how much our nation that loves you and respects you. i don't think you do have an idea but it's true. i only hope and pray that your voice will be heard, or not, he did and respected long into the future. god bless you, god bless law enforcement and god bless america. thank you very much. thank you.

he has signed the trump administration spent $12.7 billion on that. according to his critics, only a0 miles of the a50 miles are newly constructed. no instruction from the president about how it's important for the nation to heal. talking about one enforcement, many of the people who worked in the control of the border force were

make america great again supporters. it's part of the agenda. an president biding the lead back biden... saying be careful what you wish for. he did talk about the mob attack last week. he did talk about the china plague, one of the more startling comments he made was that, in america, on the side of the border, he said we are in great shape, not compelled to what is happening across the border wall in mexico. some people might be surprised about that. 38,000...

387,000 deaths averaging more than 300,000 deaths a day. there is some dispute about how much ofa there is some dispute about how much of a wall he has built. yes, you heard him say they are, i promise to build a wall and i have built the wall. he has built a50 miles of it, maybe a75 miles of it by the time he leaves office. now, admittedly, this is over areas where there had already been some kind of construction so it has been reinforced and extended, but there was something he could stand next to and say, i achieved this, and spent some time speaking about how tough

it is and asking for certain reinforcements and so on. it is something that is associated with him and now he is there. what is associated with him in the eyes and minds of the capital last week after the speech he made to his supporters to march on the capital and demand election results. there was that attack on this building where i am. not only what was seen as an attack on democracy but many people will feel for their life so he did address that a bit but didn't talk about it very much. some people described it as a self coup, but what is happening in the past 2a—a8 hours, let me know about when to admit what is happening or you are. you'll make the democrats in the house have put forward a resolution

calling on mike pence, asking him to invoke his constitutional authority to say president trump is incapacitated or unfit for office and asking the cabinet to vote him out which they can do very quickly. mr trott made a reference to that. and the constitutional amendment being invoked. it is not a threat to me. joe biden should be worried about it. be careful what you wish for. you have a threatening response to that. but the democrats are going to that. but the democrats are going to give mr penn's 2a—hour is to respond. we don't expect him to take that route. he has given no indication he would and also they have in the works, plans to impeach mrtrump have in the works, plans to impeach mr trump with the articles of impeachment already being introduced and they expect to start debating them tomorrow, wednesday morning, and have a vote. it means the presidential situation where he would have been —— my unprecedented situation where he would have been impeached twice during his

presidency and what happened at the capitol building. while mr trump might say he feels no threat from the 2ath amendment the constitutional route, it is almost certain he will be impeached for the second time before the... is out. 8:36pm. let's go back to the coronavirus situation in the uk because some of the biggest supermarkets including asda, sainsbury‘s, morrisons and waitrose have said they will crack down on shoppers who do not follow the rules. customers have to wear masks u nless rules. customers have to wear masks unless medically exempt or they will not be allowed in, that follows government warnings that shops are contributing to the spread of the virus. 0ur contributing to the spread of the virus. our business correspondent emma simpson has this. at sainsbury today, security at the door ready to turn people away if they don't wear masks. u nless

unless they have a valid medical reason. in the last few days, customers have been shopping in larger groups. customers wearing a mask. they are making a very conscious shift and appeal to customers. you cannot ultimately enforce this, right? goalwe customers. you cannot ultimately enforce this, right? goal we will do the best we can. thejob enforce this, right? goal we will do the best we can. the job of the police is to enforce the law. we will not ban customers from our stores. shoppers we spoke to approve. just wear a mask out of respect for other people's hell. that's what i think in supermarket should be more strict with it to protect customers. makes sense to me, yes. sensible. i don't know how they will get on because the police say they won't get involved. good idea. i've had mine on since march because i don't wish to get infected with anything. supermarket workers

like sonny need protecting, too. from customers who flout the rules. i've had customers a shout left right and centre. —— sunny. collea g u es right and centre. —— sunny. colleagues don't your confident being on a shop floor. —— colleagues don't feel comfortable being on the shop floor. i guarantee there will be at least one customer will be rude or sarcastic or aggressive or dismissive of your attempts to be safe. supermarkets are one of the few places anyone can go right now. they are essential but also indoors well the risk of transmission is higher. supermarkets are now getting tougher. morrison is the first iran shoppers not wearing masks. tesco, asda and waitrose all doing the same. grocers have already spent millions of pounds making stores are safe. critical times, safe. but in these critical times, they are down.

andrew murphy is the group operations director atjohn lewis partnership, which covers both waitrose &john lewis. the official guidelines and rules haven't changed so why now? good evening. you're right. the official guidelines and rules haven't changed but we've been listening very carefully to what the various governments across the uk have been saying in recent days and there is a very clear shift in emphasis in tone, and that, coupled with the statistics that we are seeing about the pressure the nhs is under, we decided to look for for that marginal gains to improve the security of the john lewis partnership for our partners and customers. wouldn't have helped if the official rules and guidelines had changed? -- would it have helped? we are always striking a balance between the rules you want to set to keep us safe and get the virus numbers to come down, and what

is reasonably enforceable, and they a lwa ys is reasonably enforceable, and they always risk overextending themselves to try and legislate for everything soi to try and legislate for everything so i believe it is reasonable for businesses to try and meet government and police halfway between them and do the best collectively they can. that means the onus is on you with police saying they don't want to get involved in any of this, so you will have more marshals and security staff on hand, won't you? we are, and the pandemic has cost us a lot of money, but it's not really the overriding priority at the moment, just as frankly police enforcing mask wearing in a shop is not the police was ‘s overriding priority. none of what we are facing is ideal and a judgment is one we have to look at to do what we can reasonably to help. click and collect is changing as well. your response will forjohn lewis, waitrose, peter jones as well in central london. how

are things changing on that front? injohn lewis, are things changing on that front? in john lewis, we've are things changing on that front? injohn lewis, we've taken two decisions today. one is you cannot click and collect a john lewis purchase in thejohn lewis shops which have been closed, as you know, for nearly two weeks. you can collect them in waitrose. even though there was only a2 locations, we felt the marginal gain of not giving a further reason for people to travel was not overall helpful. they will also not be carrying out any in—home services to customers or theirfamilies. any in—home services to customers or their families. wasn't a decision reached by yourself? no contact with the government whatsoever. —— mike was it a decision? are your staff

happy with this? yes, lots of positivity because they recognise the bounce you're trying to strike. thank you. the latest government figures show there were a5,533 new coronavirus infections recorded in the latest 2a—hour period which means on average, the number of new cases reported per day in the last week is 55,000 653. across the uk, an average of 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus over the seven days to sunday, including suspected cases in wales. 12a3 deaths reported, that people dying within 28 days of a positive test. on average in the past week, 985 deaths were announced every

day. the total number of deaths so far across the uk is 83,203. the uk has now started a programme of mass vaccinations, 1a5,076 people have had their first dose of one of the three approved covid—19 vaccines in the latest 2a hour period. (ani) taking the overall number of people who've period, taking the overall number of people who've had their firstjab to 2,a31,6a8. (pres)the number of excess deaths in the uk last year rose to its highest level since the second world war. the official statistics indicate how many more people than expected died based on the previous few years. in 2020, there were nearly 85,000 extra deaths, a rise of 1a %. 0ur health editor hugh pym has been talking to one woman who lost her husband at christmas. he was kind—hearted, ambitious, strong, he always

thought about other people. lisa remembers her husband, adrian, who died on boxing day with covid. he was 55. he had previous health conditions, but doctors said they were not a factor, as the virus gripped his lungs and he passed away in intensive care. adrian is not a statistic, he's not a number, he was my husband. he was his family's son, a nephew, a brother, friend to many. and he was well—known in our community because we had a business as well. every covid death is tragic for loved ones. the statistics do make bleak reading, not least at a time of lockdown and concerns about the spread of the virus. 0ne measure of the overall impact of covid—19 is the total number of deaths from all causes, set against what might be expected. there were close to 697,000 uk deaths in 2020, more than 8a,000 above the average in the previous five years. that's a margin of 1a% above that average. so how does that compare with previous decades? well, it was the

highest in 75 years. remember, each year is compared with the previous five, reflecting medical knowledge and population health at the time. as army personneljoined the vaccination efforts, there are hopes that once enough jabs are carried out, fewer people will become seriously ill with covid. but before that happens, there are warnings of more grim news to come. people who are dying now from covid—19 are people who would have been infected well before christmas. and given that we know that cases have been going up since the beginning of december, we can expect to see deaths to go up as well for several more weeks to come. lisa wants others to think about the risks they might be taking.

it can affect anybody. i'm a5 and i was bedbound for two weeks with it, and i got through it, but adrian was 55 years of age, he was so young, and we had so much still planned, and people need to take note. she wants people to know what can be the heartbreaking consequences of the spread of this deadly virus. hugh pym, bbc news. pretty patel has said if you don't play your part, our self as police officers who are out there risking their own lives will enforce the regulations and i will back them to do so, saying the majority of the public were obeying the rules but some were not and the police are now moving more quickly to issue fines.

we also heard from martin hewitt of the police chief counsel who said he made no apology for the a5,000 fixed penalty notices that the police have issued. let's speak now to stephen, professor of social psychology at the university of st andrews, and a member of the behavioural advisory group of sage. the home secretary said the rules we re the home secretary said the rules were clear, is she right? well, the definition of local doesn't seem to be that clear. borisjohnson doesn't seem to be that clear about it and many don't seem to be that clear about it but the real issue lie somewhere else and that is of course. . . somewhere else and that is of course... listening to your last report, how could anybody say that everybody must absolutely must abide by the rules? and everybody must ta ke by the rules? and everybody must take responsibility and we all must limit our interactions with others.

the good news is most people are. if you look at the evidence, this is not just what people you look at the evidence, this is notjust what people say, it is systematic observations of behaviour and gps data. the great majority of people are not the weak link in this, the problem is not the people in flexing the rules but in many people, —— cases, the rules are far too flexible. in some places, we can still have tradespeople and clea ra nces still have tradespeople and clearances in and out of the house. many people have to go to work whether they like it or not, they cannot work at home. employers aren't allowing them to work at home. is it a try and —— not to go to work, they would get no support and lose our jobs, to work, they would get no support and lose ourjobs, so the problem, asi and lose ourjobs, so the problem, as i say, isn't in the public and the danger is that if you blame the public, it's not only that it's inaccurate, it undermines the partnership between public and government which is so important in getting us through this pandemic and still worse, the message that

eve ryo ne still worse, the message that everyone is breaking the rules, please stop it, actually sets a negative norm, tells you that other people are breaking rules and makes us more people are breaking rules and makes us more likely. this is precisely the wrong way to go. praise the public for all that it's doing. tell us public for all that it's doing. tell us to stick to it. supporters and following the rules as treating the public is the problem is not the way to go. is also a problem with the lack of logic on this? we had stricter rules last year than we have now for a more virulent strain of the virus. absolutely. at the moment, we have more cases than we did at the first peak, more hospitalisations and more death, and today more people have died in the second wave than in the first wave. we have a more virulent strain. when you look at the levels of 70, they

are much higher than the first wave and when you closely at the activity, it is not people breaking the rules. it is people mostly going to work, doing the things they are supposed to do. you've made that point, so you're saying i had to be more economic support for people to be able to stay at home? is that what you're advocating? be able to stay at home? is that what you're advocating ?|j be able to stay at home? is that what you're advocating? i think we need all sorts of support. i think if the government started from trusting the public and asking the question how can we support the public to do the right thing, we would be in a far better position. first of all, i think precisely because that is what is they are, people would be able to do the right thing but i think we should be thinking much more creatively about this. looking at digital inequalities in schools, affluent families can still learn, they have the resources which poorerfamilies can't. in the same way, that extends not just as

can't. in the same way, that extends notjust as people spotted to all the family. when we are evil to stay at home, the danger is we isolate people and that isolation is very harmful. if you're digitally connected, it is some consolation but those who are digitally impoverished are covered. looking at how you can support people financially, and that you look at the partner working with them. they would be common cause and that would lead to much more support. waving a big stick and people and blaming them is not the way to achieve them. the government would argue that billions have been spent in other schemes and laptop centres schoolchildren, i willjust put their side. ifi canjust schoolchildren, i willjust put their side. if i can just say, the day after the government played a duty on schools to provide remote

learning, they cut provision by 80%. i'm very pleased they are now beginning to rectify those things but there is much more that we can do. we need a supportive government, not a blaming government. thank you. the government has said that it will investigate now the quality of food parcels being sent to those on free school meals. after a number of complaints about the size and standard of the supplies. england footballer and food poverty campaigner marcus rashford shared images of food parcels online, saying they were "just not good enough". 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley reports. lockdown has hit some of britain's poorest families the hardest. many children are not at school, but the government is still committed to providing free school meals. 0n social media, images of food that fall short of expectation. chartwell‘s, the supplier has apologised and said, "in an effort to supply thousands of meals, it's fallen short on quality."

you getting on ok with your work? yeah. caroline is struggling, she's self—employed, her two children at secondary school get vouchers. for her child in primary, she's been told to drive to school everyday to pick up a sandwich. i'm weighing up losing money not being able to teach a lesson or going to school to get the sandwich, and it's a no—brainer, really, it'sjust not an efficient use of my time or resources. catering companies say they are also struggling. many have had to switch from providing daily hot meals in dinner halls to delivering parcels of food to last families two weeks in a short space of time. i certainly believe this is a glitch. we have seen some fantastic work by caterers working in partnership with their schools and getting out boxes full of food to begin to help children thrive while they are staying at home. schools have a budget of £11.50 per week per child for school lunches. this week, the government has increased the amount to £15 for food parcels in line with free school meal vouchers.

many parents would prefer vouchers, but companies are already contracted to provide meals during school time, as well as paying these companies, schools would also have the additional cost of the voucher scheme, but some schools say they have little choice. with what we have been getting from the company and it's been not the greatest in the world, and believe it or not, nearly double the price what we paid for the hot meals pre—lockdown. so, yeah, it's... we weren't happy at all. footballer marcus rushford is once again at the forefront of —— footballer marcus rashford is once again at the forefront of the provision of free school meals. he tweeted an image of a parcel said to be three days of food for one family, saying that this isn't good enough, and children deserve better. with children out of school, there are many challenges. the government says it will carry out a full investigation to ensure lockdown doesn't leave children going hungry. elaine dunkley, bbc news.

for much of the last century so—called mother and baby homes in ireland took in unmarried pregnant women. many were run by the catholic church. today a devastating report revealed that around nine thousand children died over eight decades. at one home in county galway, nearly 800 children died, and it's thought many of them are buried in a sewage system. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page has been hearing the storey of a man who was born there. the only thing that i can remember is the beds being wet. i'd march down to school, i had to go ten minutes late in the morning. you had to leave ten minutes early in the evening. we were all cornered off in a section of the playground by the nuns, so you wouldn't mix with the other kids. and then to be locked up in what i call a prison really and to think like why? just because i was born out of wedlock. pj spent his first seven years in the home which once stood here. ireland in the 19505 was a deeply conservative catholic society. unmarried women who were pregnant were taken into religious institutions and separated

from their children. the fathers got away with us. it was always the woman that was to blame, it was always the woman's fault and i suppose when you look at other people, i was lucky i got to meet my mother. if i didn't meet her i would be blaming herfor leaving me in there. there is another reason why pj thinks he is lucky. at the tuam home nearly 800 children aged up to three died between 1925 and 1961. investigators believe many were buried at the site in some kind of sewage system. when i go down there and stand there to think that i could have been there too, a religious country like we're supposed to be would do the likes of that to helpless little baby. the irish government has committed to having this site excavated, so the children whose remains are beneath this ground can be reburied with some dignity. tuam is the mother and baby home that has generated the most

international attention, but there are many other institutions in the republic of ireland with long histories of shame, neglect and unspeakable cruelty. the inquiry report says around 9,000 children died in the 18 homes which were investigated. that is about one in seven of those who were born in the institutions. investigators state it represents an appalling level of infant mortality. the irish government has said there were decades of brutality. the regime described in the report wasn't imposed on us by any foreign power. we did this to ourselves as a society. we treated women exceptionally badly. we treated children exceptionally badly. but pj thinks the report hasn't got to the full truth. there was nothing there today that would say, god that's fantastic,

my mother is being recognised or they're apologising to my mother and they didn't do that today. there will with be a compensation scheme and memorial, though history will still hurt in ireland for years to come. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. the mild but cloudy air was still in place today across the south west of england. elsewhere, it was colder but sunnier for a while. this milder, cloudy air is pushing in from the atlantic, pushing in from the west. and it's bringing rain into northern ireland, over into wales, pushing across the south west of england, into the west country, parts of the midlands and over the irish sea. now, ahead of it, there may well be some more cloud coming in, but it's not preventing the temperatures falling.

it's going to be cold tonight and frosty in scotland, northern and eastern areas of england. and into that colder air, there's the risk of some freezing rain and ice tomorrow morning in western scotland and north west england. our main band of rain moves very slowly into scotland and northern england and gets stuck across the midlands, towards the southeast of england. wales, the south west may well turn drier, but still cloudy. there's more rain to come in northern ireland, maybe turning to snow over the hills of scotland later on. certainly going to be cold enough. cold day in scotland, northern and eastern parts of england. milder further south and west, with temperatures here likely in double figures. this is bbc news. the feds are taking names and preparing charges. the us attorney for the district of colombia says hundreds will be charged. the long arm of the law is ready to reach far and wide for those responsible for the capitol hill siege. us officials say it's unlike anything the fbi or doj has ever seen. the rap sheet will include everything from trespassing to murder. right now, republicans are divided on how to react to the assault on the capitol. some say impeachment of trump will divide the country further but can the country really heal

when the president shows no remorse at all? the impeachment hoax is a continuation of the most vicious witchhunt in the history of our country and