this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan—jones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. washington dc in lockdown: the fbi warns police across the us the threat of violence remains high. india's vast vaccine rollout is underway. we meet the hospital cleaner, the first person in the country to get the jab. as the world of tennis prepares for the australian open, there's anger with many australian citizens still stranded abroad. and a team of climbers from nepal conquer one of the last remaining challenges in mountaineering.

hello, and welcome. all 50 us states are on alert for possible violent protests this weekend, ahead of president—electjoe biden�*s inauguration on wednesday. members of the national guard are patrolling the streets around the capitol in washington, following the storming of the building by supporters of president trump. so far, there have been none of the mass protests that had been feared. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. america on high alert like never before. the nation plasma capital has turned into a fortress. with security worthy of a war zone, the national guard has been deployed to try to ensure a smooth transition of power when joe to ensure a smooth transition of power whenjoe biden is inaugurated on wednesday. in the meantime there is concern that harm supporters of donald trump may try to stage more protest, still refusing to accept the result of the election. the capitol building,

which was stormed by a mob earlier this month, is now surrounded by a high fence, and the city is under lockdown. it's a place in our history that i'm sad we've come to. american troops should not have to be armed against their fellow americans. but what we saw was an unprecedented attack on our democracy in the cradle of that democracy. bi; of that democracy. by wednesday, - of that democracy. by wednesday, 25,000 troops will be in the capital to try to keep the peace. the goal is to try to prevent a repeat of the attack that led to mr trump being impeached for a second time, on a charge of incitement of insurrection. he now faces a trial in the senate. the fbi has warned police agencies around the country but state capitals could be the target of further protests in the coming days. — that state capitals. a state of emergency has already been declared in maryland, new mexico and utah.

state—by—state, members of the national guard are being deployed over fears that extremists may try to infiltrate planned protests. in minnesota, the national guard are stationed at the state capital, which has already been descended upon by protesters. in california, in sacramento, riot police are patrolling outside the home of the state governor, gavin newsom. in some cities around the country the post office has removed letterboxes from the streets as part of the security clampdown. away from the fray, for now, as he prepares to take office, joe biden has been to church and it has been revealed that within hours of moving to the white house, he will sign executive orders to reverse some of donald trump's key policies. they include rejoining the paris climate accord and scrapping a travel ban on several predominantly muslim countries. but this is a nation on edge, holding its breath for the days ahead. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination

campaigns is underway in india. prime minister narendra modi said such an ambitious project had never been attempted before. the huge inoculation programme aims to reach 300 million people by august. healthcare staff and frontline workers will be among the first to receive the doses. since the pandemic began india has confirmed over 10 million cases. that's the second highest number in the world. rajini vaidyanathan reports from delhi. in a nation of well over a billion people, 34—year—old hospital cleaner manish kumar became the first to receive a coronavirus vaccine. translation: the fear in my mind has gone. i everyone should get the vaccine, as this is how we save oui’ country. the country's prime minister narendra modi used a virtual address to kick off what he described as the world's largest immunisation programme. front line and health care workers take priority in the initial roll—out. at this hospital in delhi, they were given the red carpet, and red roses.

dr puneetjaitley, who has treated countless covid patients, also got the vaccine today. how are you feeling now you've had the vaccine? i'm feeling absolutely safe and absolutely fit and absolutely fine. verijyous, very ecstatic. this is one of around 3,000 vaccination centres which have been set up across india. here and elsewhere, they're hoping to vaccinate around 100 people a day. so if you do the maths, that means that india's aiming to vaccinate more than 300,000 people every day. but as the day drew to a close, the government said it had only reached two thirds of that target. known as �*the pharmacy of the world,�* india's the global leader in vaccine manufacturing. the oxford—astrazeneca covishield jab, produced in the city of pune, is one of two being rolled out. the second, covaxin, developed by an indian company, bharat biotech, is yet to pass its phase three trials, which means even though

officials say it's safe, we still don't know how effective it is. there's been widespread concern its approval was rushed. junior doctors at a delhi hospital told me they won't be taking it yet. the phase three efficacy data is not out yet for covaxin, which is being administered here. as doctors, we believe in science, so at this moment, we will not be going for covaxin. we don't want to be the guinea pigs. persuading people to take the vaccine is just one challenge in a nation hit hard by covid—i9. here, they're burning a coronavirus effigy to celebrate the start of the vaccine drive. it's been a dark year for this vibrant nation. today, indians are hoping they've turned a corner. rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, delhi. uganda's election commission

has declared the veteran leader, yoweri museveni, to be winner of thursday's presidential election, taking 59% of the vote. museveni described the election as the most fraud—free vote in the country's history. the much younger main opposition candidate, bobi wine, got 35 per cent of the vote. he says the poll was a sham and that soldiers are preventing him leaving his home. catherine byaruhanga reports from kampala. much of downtown kampala was deserted but some of the president's supporters made it out onto the streets to celebrate his victory. they insist the final result reflects the will of the people. our future is secured by yoweri kaguta museveni. our country has got to be protected. the economy has got to develop. when you look at the tourism, it's got to continue because peace is back again in uganda!

it is now another five years in office for yoweri museveni. by the time this term is done, he will have been in power for a0 years, helped along by changes to the constitution which could allow him to be president for life. there has been an internet shutdown since the eve of the elections, but the electoral commission says it has been able to overcome the connectivity issues and collect results from across the country. i think this may turn out to be the most cheating—free election since 1962. some observers question how that is possible. my gardeners came and informed me that we were surrounded. bobi wine, the main opposition candidate, is alleging widespread irregularities and rejects the result. he is yet to provide evidence for his claims.

bobi wine has not left his home since voting day. soldiers and police are stationed around his property — they say to ensure his safety. so long this one, they are in power, they are using guns. you will walk around kampala, every corner, there is guns. guns — are we need — are we in a war? whom are we fighting with? with this result, bobi wine still finds himself in a relatively strong position. his national unity platform is expected to be the biggest opposition party in parliament — a good result, considering that it was only formed a few months ago. he will play a key role in ugandan politics in the coming years. for now, the opposition leader says he will challenge the results. he has yet to announce how he will do that. catherine byaruhanga, bbc news, kampala.

germany's christian democrats have announced the winner of the race to lead angela merkel�*s party, the cdu. he's armin laschet, widely seen as the heir to mrs merkel�*s centrist brand of politics. and he's now in pole position to replace angela merkel as chancellor when she stands down later this year. mark lobel reports. is this the jovial heir to angela merkel�*s throne, as germany's leader? armin laschet has won the right to lead germany's christian democrats. now his sights are firmly set on the top job. translation: the germany | | invision is a european germany, leading the world by excellence, example and humanity. i'm saying it loud and clear. we will not let right—wing terrorists and trouble makers destroy our country. like angela merkel, the 59—year—old is a fellow centrist on economic policy, a strong defender of keeping germany's borders

open to migrants. he shares a similarly non—combative approach in dealing with russia and china and is enthusiastic about eu integration. the cdu will continue with policy that merkel has led over the last 15 years. but to follow angela merkel and become the conservative bloc�*s candidate for chancellor, laschet has to win another contest in spring, facing potential rivals such as markus soder, the popular leader of his sister party, the christian social union. whoever succeeds mrs merkel then faces the public in september's general election. current rival parties or possible coalition partners like the greens welcome laschet�*s win, but with caveats, as laschet believes climate policies should not suffocate the economy. translation: he inherits a divided cdu. _ when armin laschet talks about climate change, he sounds more like �*against tomorrow�* and not �*because of tomorrow�*. he is stuck in the old coal

ideals of the cdu. mr laschet holds his former coal—mining father�*s id tag dear for luck. recently, though, coronavirus momentarily reversed his fortunes. after criticism of his early handling of the crisis in north rhine—westphalia, but after this important party victory, perhaps a fair wind may now sweep him onto the world stage. mark lobel, bbc news. this is bbc world news, our main story this hour: authorities in all 50 us states are bracing for more protests, asjoe biden�*s inauguration moves closer. 25,000 members of the national guard are patrolling washington dc. well let�*s get more on this now, william bratton is a former nypd police commissioner, here�*s his take on the security threats across the country. i think, as evidenced by the preparations under way

in washington, dc, our nation�*s capital, and many of the state capitals around the country, they have shown that with intelligence and intelligence analysis, the threat level is very high. i think the prevention capabilities also — unlike the events of january 6, are very high. my concern would more incidents such as that which just occurred in washington, the lone wolf, the individual actor, rather than large—scale crowds showing up at some of these very heavily guarded sites. i see, and those lone wolf actors, as you say, they are presumably pretty difficult to try to pinpoint, target and stop? that�*s correct. the stage right now is dealing with three crises. the coronavirus crises — which we�*re all dealing with. the criminal crises — crime in our major cities is up dramatically, murders and shootings, and in some instances has been surpassing 20—30 records, and thirdly, we now have a domestic terrorism crises — the scale of which we are not certain of because so many of them operate

beneath the surface. and our country is not going to be solving that as ofjanuary 20, on the inauguration. we anticipate all three of those crises are going to continue for some time after that event. you mentioned there that domestic terrorism has been operating below the surface, which is of course true but on the flip side of that, many viewers around the world will be slightly astounded to see those armed militias wandering around, not only dc but in other parts of the us, openly, hugely armed. and that seems like an image of a — well, a kind of medieval image — a medieval mentality. is that — that must pose a real threat that is actually quite clear and present. one of the benefits that you have in your country that we do not have in the united states is that

you tightly control gun ownership, possession and display. in my country, there are more guns than people. and many states have what are called open carry laws, where you can carry any type of firearm, anywhere, including into state capitol buildings. michigan — the capital lansing of michigan had an incident a couple of weeks ago where armed militants took over the capital for a period of time. and there was another group plotting to kidnap, possibly kill, the governor. so we have in our country, because of the availability of firearms and lax gun control throughout the country, a real danger that is being posed by these individuals who have the ability to easily acquire, display and use firepower that is, in many instances, the equivalent of, or in excess of, what our police and military possess. that�*s really interesting. and just before i let you go, we have seen the huge number of troops and national guard in washington, dc.

the threat is right across the country. is it in your mind, that actually, probably away from dc, where there is not perhaps the same level of resources, it could be potentially more vulnerable? there are two concerns there, that — you are correct — that there may be upwards of 20—25,000 national guard — the largest concentration ever, i believe, in the history of our country — for a single event. they are drawn from many other states, so as a result, some states have a depleted supply of national guard. but the problem with the national guard, however, is that with the exception of their military police components, which is only a small part, most of them are not trained to deal to crowd management or deal with crowd control. they are not equipped. you see them carrying high—powered rifles but they are not carrying batons. they are not equipped with pepper spray, many of them are not equipped with shields. so that in many respects, in the sense of their sheer numbers, they are a deterrent.

but you would hope they are not challenged directly by the mobs, similar to what we saw onjanuary 6, because they are really not trained to deal with that type of provocation. our thanks to william bratton. tennis players have arrived down under ahead of the australian open, but as the build up to the tournament is dominated by the global pandemic, the leadup is looking very different this year. 47 players have been forced into two weeks of hotel quarantine after three coronavirus infections were reported on two chartered flights, carrying them into the country. meanwhile it�*s caused frustration for the near 40,000 australians still stranded abroad due to travel restrictions. earlier i spoke to craig gabriel, who has been a tennis commentatorfor more than three decades. he explains what the players are having to go through. 15 charter flights flown by tennis australia, that left from seven different cities around the world, there was a window from between the 14th and the 16th of january that all these

flights had to come in, and that�*s what happened — the players are all in place now, and they are obliged to follow incredibly strict quarantine protocols, guidelines, call them what you will. even on these aircraft, there was a limited number of people that could be on, so a massive intercontinental, or international aircraft could only have 66 people on, and they have been separated, et cetera, so even getting into australia. they are in quarantine in three different hotels, and not allowed to leave their rooms unless you are not one of the players from these flights who have a covid positive test on them, and if you are in that fortunate position, you are allowed to leave your room for five hours each day for practice or training, and only move between the bubble of the hotel and the tournament site. so not a normal builder for the players. have there been any

complaints from them? yeah there have been some complaints as would be expected, after all they are international tennis players, and they are used to a lot of... everything laid on for them, but i think they have to appreciate, and a lot of them do and appreciate and understand the measures taken by tennis australia in conjunction with the australian federal government and the state government of victoria to put this event on, because it�*s not just the australian open, there are another six tournaments being played in melbourne, either before, during or after the australian open, to give these players to opportunity to be on court. there is a slight problem with objects here because australia specifically has a policy in place which basically restricts the number of people that can come into the country, and that means tens of thousands of australian citizens who are outside australia, are struggling, sometimes for many months, to be able to get back home, and then they see these tennis players flying in. yeah, but we have to remember

that the intake of 1,270 people related to the australian open, players and their support crews, et cetera, is above and beyond the intake of australians trying to return to the country. they are two entirely separate situations, and i think it has been blurred in a lot of areas of the media so that the whole picture has not been explained properly, and i can understand the frustrations that a lot of people, australians wanting to come back, whether it is in the uk or france or the united states or wherever, they are feeling that frustration, that we are australians and we cannot get in. it�*s a different situation altogether, and i think a lot of this responsibility also lies with the individual states. new south wales, where i am, has been carrying the load on this intake of australians returning, whereas places like queensland, victoria, western australia, certainly have not been picking up things as much as new south wales,

and as a result, that has also been restricting the number of people that can come back into the country. and in a couple of seconds, when does the actual tournament start, when does the tennis start being played? the australian open will begin on the 8th of february, three weeks later than previously, and the other leading tournaments from the 31st of january, so two men�*s events, two women�*s events, plus the atp cup, and then the second week of the australian open, they will play another smaller women�*s event as well. ten climbers from nepal have completed one of the last remaining challenges in mountaineering, reaching the summit of the world�*s second highest peak, k2, in winter. it�*s the last of the fourteen tallest mountains to have been conquered during

the winter months. i spoke to alan arnette who became the oldest american to reach the summit of k2 in 2014, he told me why this latest effort was such an achievement. it�*s a fantastic day for mountaineering. i am just so proud of the nepali team that they got up there and they are back down now at camp three. actually, two went back down to base camp. it was a 16—hour summit day, and what makes k2 so hard anytime is that it is steep, steep, steep and the weather is unrelenting. there is also tremendous objective danger and by that i mean avalanches and rockfall. so that is in the summertime, and that is when the winds will maybe hit 60 or 70 miles an hour. in the wintertime, it can be 100 degrees below zero fahrenheit wind chill, so what they went through what they accomplished is astounding on the mountaineering community should be incredibly proud of them. i�*m sure they are, and what�*s the significance of the fact that they are nepalese?

if you go back and you look at the history of the 1a 8,000—metre mountains that you cited, all of them with the exception of k2 have all been summitted in the wintertime, and to note there has never been a sherpa involved in those summits, it�*s been typically dominated by the russians, the polish climbers and the italian climbers, so mingma sherpa, mingma g, decided that they wanted to try to prove to the world, as if the world needed proving, that the sherpas had the same skill set as any other climber in the world, so what other mountain to prove that on than k2, unclimbed in the wintertime for the last, what, 38 years or so. there�*s been six attempts and no—one has ever been successful. they have typically been small, national teams from those three countries i mentioned so the fact that the sherpas went up and did it, and honestly, they almost made it look easy. they went in and acclimatised, got in early, set the ropes, made up the high camps. they took advantage of a very, very narrow window to stand

on top of k2. and give us a bit of a flavour of what it�*s like up there. you talked about the really difficult conditions, but you have been up there? you know, with everest, some people arrogantly say that if you want to brag at the bar then you summit everest but if you want respect you summit k2. i�*m not totally sure about that because i have done both of them and i respect anybody who attempts either one of them, much less summits it. but what i found was, i summitted everest when i was 5a years old in 2011, and as you noted, k2 in 2014 when i was 58, it is night and day. k2 is incredibly steep, it is technical. by that i mean you are using your hands on your feet almost the entire time. you are going across rock, very difficult, steep rock sections that you simplyjust don�*t have on the normal routes on everest. everest is all about altitude. k2 is all about technical

climbing at altitude. nasa has ground tested four huge engines from its new mega—rocket at the stennis space center in mississippi. it�*s a crucial part of the artemis programme, which aims to send us astronauts back to the moon by 2024. during the eight minute test the engines consumed more than 2.5 million litres of fuel. although the us government is funding the programme, it faces stiff competition from private sector projects such as elon musk�*s spacex. we�*ve been reporting vivid snow scenes across europe these past few days. but on the other side of the planet, snow has also arrived, to the delight of four giant pandas in northeast china�*s shenyang city. the four pandas, named pupu, bing—qing, fafa and bing—hua, have been enjoying the fresh

air at the shenyang forest wild animal zoo. i�*m lewis vaughanjones and this is bbc news. hello. the snow that some of us had to start saturday mainly turned back to rain before clearing away, and i think rain will be a bigger concern than snow for most of us through the coming week. but not just yet. sunday actually a decent—looking day, dry for many with some spells of sunshine. on the earlier satellite picture, you can see this stripe of cloud brought the snow initially, replaced by rain. that then cleared away to leave a mix of sunshine and showers during saturday, the air turning a little bit milder. it is quite a cold start to sunday morning, not as cold

as some mornings lately, but there could still be a little bit of ice around and, through the day, plenty of sunshine, particularly across england and wales, the odd shower through north west england and north wales. a bit more cloud, i think, for northern ireland and especially scotland, where showers will merge into longer spells of rain through the day, perhaps with some snow over higher ground, say, above 500 metres. quite windy in the north, lighter winds further south and temperatures pretty much exactly where we�*d expect them to be at this time of year, between 6—9 celsius. now, during sunday night, we will see further showers or longer spells of rain and mountain snow across parts of scotland, a few showers into other western fringes. further south and east, it should be largely dry with some clear spells and temperatures generally getting quite close to freezing, but it�*s another one of those nights where it�*s not quite as cold as it has been lately. and then into monday, we will see some further showery rain at times across scotland, western fringes of northwest england, northern ireland, and then rain will become a bit more widespread across the west later in the day, whereas eastern areas should stay predominantly dry. but that rain in the west

is going to become more extensive as we head deeper into the week. various areas of low pressure, various frontal systems pushing across the british isles. uncertainty about the detail, but it does look pretty wet for some of us. these are the rainfall accumulations we are expecting across five days. and where you see the very white colours here, showing up over high ground — north west england, wales, even, parts of dartmoor there — that�*s where we could see in excess of 100 mm of rain. the ground is very wet at the moment, so with spells of heavy rain in the forecast through the week ahead, there is the risk of flooding. it is going to turn very mild for a time, particularly down towards the south, but signs are it�*ll get a bit colder again towards the end of the week.

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the headlines: authorities in all 50 us states are bracing for more protest, asjoe biden�*s inauguration as joe biden�*s inauguration moves asjoe biden�*s inauguration moves closer. 25,000 members of the national guard will patrol the national guard will patrol the streets around the capitol building in washington, with much of the city and lockdown. it follows the violence by trump supporters earlier this month. india�*s huge vaccine rollout is under way. the aim is to vaccinate around 300 million people by the end ofjuly. two vaccines are being used, one of which was developed in the country and given emergency approval. india has the second—highest number of covid—19 infections the world. ten climbers from nepal have completed one of the last remaining challenges in mountaineering, reaching the summit of the world�*s second highest peak in winter. k2, which is only 200 metres shorter than everest, has long been referred to as "the savage mountain".