this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at four: ending lockdown must happen "very slowly", public health england's covid strategy chief says. but the uk should start seeing the impact of the vaccination programme in two weeks. reports that more than 4,000 people have been arrested in russia, as protests take place in support ofjailed opposition leader, alexei navalny. manchester united player marcus rashford says he's been subjected to online racist abuse following his club's draw at arsenal. he called it "humanity and social media at its worst". mps will debate the cladding crisis tomorrow, as campaigners say residents of flats covered in the flammable material are being financially crippled by rising insurance costs.

a global paper shortage due to pandemic shopping online. industry leaders say there's a temporary lack of cardboard packaging. and coming up in half an hour, global questions, which asks if tech giants have gone too far after social media sites suspended donald trump. hello and welcome to bbc news. england's covid lockdown will need to be eased "very slowly and very cautiously", with the focus on getting people vaccinated and preventing another wave of infections.

that's according to dr susan hopkins from public health england, who said the uk should start seeing the impact of the vaccination programme within a fortnight. meanwhile, "a happy and free great british summer" is being predicted by the health secretary, matt hancock. but he warns of "a tough few months" before then. it comes as the irish prime minister, micheal martin, said lessons had to be learnt, after the eu was "blindsided" by its row with astrazeneca, before backtracking on its threat to put checks on the irish border to tackle european vaccine shortages. the british government has reassured people there'll be no interuption in supplies of vaccines from the eu in the wake of the row. here's our political correspondent, jessica parker. years of painstaking work to keep this border free and flowing between northern ireland and the republic. but on friday night, the eu decided to temporarily override part of the brexit deal as it imposed controls

on vaccine supplies. the backlash was immediate, the decision quickly reversed. so, what went wrong? my observation is that the terrible row, it's an acrimonious row, between astrazeneca and the commission over the contractual obligations of the company in respect of supplying vaccines to european member states, took centre stage here. and people were blindsided by the decision that was taken and its implications for the protocol. so, questions forseniorfigures in brussels about what is widely seen as a major misjudgment. the vaccine roll—out continues in the uk. confident about the programme, assured on supplies, ministers are even talking about possibly sharing vaccines with other countries in future. i hope that once we do have those most vulnerable in britain vaccinated, when we are on track with our vaccine programme, we will be able to look at helping the developing world and of course,

our friends and neighbours, because we need everybody to be protected, that's the way we are going to grip this disease. even some suggestions surplus stocks could be shared later this year while the roll—out continues in the uk. but warnings from health officials that any resulting relaxation of the rules will be slow. i hope that this summer will be similar to last summer. i hope we will be down to those sort of case numbers and that will allow us to be able to do things that feel more normal but i think that we need to be very cautious on that. we do not want to have another wave as we have had this winter. all those empty streets, the country in lockdown. it's hoped the vaccine can be a key part of the way out but clearly, the fight against covid has some way to run. jessica parker, bbc news.

we have the latest government figures, it has been reported that 8.98 million first doses have been administered to patients. that is around 100,000 more than has been done so far, it's an 9000 people now have received their first dose. sadly, 587 deaths have been reported in comparison to yesterday which was 1200, so today, sunday, 587 deaths have been reported, death within 28 days of course with a positive test. 21,088 new cases of covid—19 have also been reported and that compares with 23,275 yesterday, that is a saturday. and those are figures for

the united kingdom. well, the latest coronavirus regulations in england, which came into force at 5pm on friday, include fines of £800 for people caught at house parties with groups of more than 15 people. and we are getting news of police reports across the country now beginning to issue these fines. essex police say 18 "reckless revellers" were fined almost £15, 000 after officers interrupted a house party on saturday. further north, merseyside police discovered around 200 people partying in a hotel in the early hours of sunday morning and broke up a gathering of 20 people in a gym on saturday night. in west london, more than 70 people are facing fines after they breached coronavirus regulations by attending a boat party. police were called to north acton shortly after 11 o'clock last night, to reports of a large gathering

on a moored boat. the group was dispersed and a total of 72 people were reported for the consideration of fixed penalty notices of £800 each. the organiser of the event has also been identified and could face a £10,000 fixed penalty notice. there have been more widespread protests in russia, in support of the jailed opposition leader, alexei navalny. more than 4,000 people have already been arrested according to monitoring groups. mr navalny was jailed on his return to russia, after recovering from an attempt to kill him with a nerve agent. he is accused of not complying with a suspended sentence. with the latest, here's our correspondent andy moore. in st petersburg, the security forces cracked down hard on the demonstrators. dozens were arrested here. thousands across the country. in vladivostok, the city

square was closed off by the security forces, so the protesters went out onto the frozen sea ice to continue the demonstration, there were arrests here, as across russia, but still people turned out to protest, knowing the risk they faced. translation: i was here last week, | i came again today because i want i navalny to be released, i want the country to be free, i want it to be pleasant to live here. translation: i decided to come out i because either i have to come out | now or be afraid the rest of my life. in my opinion, it's impossible to tolerate this. i do not know how people can bear this situation. it's the second weekend running protesters had turned out to support the opposition leader alexei navalny, jailed on his return to russia after surviving an attempt to kill him with a nerve agent. before his freedom was taken away, he posted a video of a £1 billion palace said to have been built for president putin with illicit money. the kremlin has denied that claim but the video was watched by more

than 100 million people in a week. in cities across russia, they linked hands to protest, not just young firebrands, but older women with their shopping bags and handbags. from east to west, across the time zones, the protests continued. the toilet brush is now a symbol of protest — the ones at putin's palace are said to cost more than £500 each. the crowds had been chanting, "down with the tsar." the man they are referring to, president putin, will be watching these images but what will he make of them? and how will he try to stop further protests? andy moore, bbc news. the footballer marcus rashford has revealed he's been the target of racist abuse online. on twitter, the manchester united forward said he was subjected to "humanity and social media at its worst," yesterday, after his side's goalless draw with arsenal. former england player, ian wright, says social media companies need

to do more to tackle racist abuse online. i think as long as the powers that be will continue to let people like that feel like it's something they can do because it seems to be a fad now, black player plays poorly or they think they played poorly, and they come with all the emojis and whatever it is. there's ways of being able to catch people. i don't think they're vigilant enough, nowhere near. a 13—year—old boy has been taken to hospital, after being stabbed in an attack by four men in greater manchester last night. the attack took place in the car park of an asda supermarket in longsight, south—east of the city centre. the boy was taken to hospital with serious injuries and is in a stable condition. four men, described as carrying large bladed weapons, were said to be dressed in all black with hoods. police are appealing for information. the uk is applying tojoin a trade agreement with 11 countries

around the pacific, with talks likely to start this year. the "comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans—pacific partnership" includes countries such as australia, canada, japan and new zealand. the uk already has free trade deals in place with several of the members. between them, the club's constituents are home to around 500 million people, and generate more than 13% of the world's income. the government says joining the bloc would reduce tariffs on uk exports, such as whisky, cars, and service industries. the united states was originally in talks to be part of the cptpp, but former president donald trump pulled out when he took office. well earlier today, the uk's international trade secretary, david henig is director of the uk trade policy project at the european centre for international political economy — a policy research think tank. he explained the difference between

the cptpp and the eu trading bloc. it is not really a direct replacement. we have left the eu. the cptpp, as it's slightly easier known than its full title, is 11 countries. it is less of an organisation and an institution than the eu. it is a trade agreement that reduces tariff, similar to the trade agreement that we have with the eu, and so it is different. it is not an exact replacement, but these are countries that we work together with closely such as canada, australia, mexico, so these are countries we expect to be our allies in the future. i have been looking at your comments on this announcement and you actually say that the politics is far more interesting. what do you mean by that? what i mean is that in trade terms there are three big powers, the eu, the us and china. outside of that, there are a number of countries that are trying to keep the system open,

trying to stop those three countries almost from dominating and trying to keep an open trading system, which is kind of what the uk's objectives should be as well with regard to trade, so in joining with the likes of australia, singapore, canada, new zealand, in trade terms, these are our natural allies now and it makes a lot of sense for us to look to work together with them. economically, there is not a lot of new gain in this because we already have trade agreements, but in terms of building alliances, building partnerships, this does make a lot of sense. 0k, one of the words i suppose that everybody has learnt about is tariffs. when we talk about a free trade agreement, what do we mean by that and just how free will free be? what we are learning in the last few weeks is that it is notjust about tariffs, it is about the checks at the borders, it is also about the ability to travel and provide services. tariffs are already quite low, so this agreement might reduce them a little further,

particularly with malaysia where there is no existing trade deal. but in general, it will not mean too much for the tariffs. services, in terms of market access, is quite open already to most of these markets, but again, a small improvement is likely. in terms of the nontariff barriers, these are the checks on goods that we are seeing, food for example, going to europe at the moment. the cptpp does not do a huge amount to reduce them, which is why again it is not really a replacement for the eu per se. labour's emily thornberry says she hopes the public will be consulted on this. if we were, what would we need to know? there are some question marks about this. this is existing texts, the cptpp countries have already agreed the text. so, does it affect the uk in any way? there are some question marks about whether for example we might need to change our food regulations if we joined. would we need to accept the food

that is produced in australia for example which uses hormones to grow their cattle, their beef? so we wait to see whether that is the case and that will only come out through the negotiations. very, very quickly, david, we have learnt a lot about how long it takes for deals like this to be sorted out, how long is it likely to take? yes, i think it is probably more a case of a couple of years to conclude this process rather than weeks or indeed months. no country has joined the cptpp since it was formed, so the exact process is not fully known, but i would expect in the order of one to two years is the most likely timescale. the headlines on bbc news. public health england says ending lockdown must happen "very slowly", but the uk should start seeing the impact of the vaccination

programme in 2 weeks. 8.98 million people have now been given their first covid vaccine dose in the uk — up 600,000 on yesterday — a record in a 24—hour period. reports that more than 4,000 people have been arrested in russia, as protests take place in support ofjailed opposition leader, alexei navalny. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's 0lly foster. good afternoon. leicester city could have moved up to second in the premier league but slipped up at home to leeds united. they lost 3—1, patrick bamford starred for the visitors, setting up leed's equaliser then putting them ahead in the second half with a great finish. he then ran from his own half and unselfishly put it on a plate forjack harrison to score leeds' third. it's their first win of the year but they stay 12th. chelsea have won for the first time under their new manager

thomas tuchel beating burnley 2—0 at stamford bridge. their goals came from two unlikely sources, full—back cesar azpilicueta firing in for chelsea's opener in the first half. there was also a first appearance for marcos alonso since september and he got their second inside the last ten minutes. a comfortable win for tuchel�*s side who've not conceded in their first two games under him. i am impressed that we never lost the control, we never lost the courage and the confidence to impose our style and to impose our match and to impose our match here. i am very happy with the energy, even now in the dressing room the guys who were on the stands were happy with everybody. this is good because it gives us a good boost for self—confidence. let's get more reaction to that racist abuse received by manchester united's marcus rashford. it's been condemned by facebook, which owns instagram, where the messages were sent.

they say they have shut down a few accounts. greater manchester police says it's investigating a number of hate crimes against united players this week. the former west ham and sunderland defender anton ferdinand says online platforms have to do more. it is sad that it is becoming the norm, that after every game there is some type of incident where there is racial abuse on social media platforms and i think we need to look at the fact that yes, we are having good conversations at the moment, but the social media companies and the secretarial state who i had a conversation with a few players a week ago cannot hide behind the fact we are having these conversations. these conversations need to turn to action and they need to turn to action soon. there are three matches in the women's super league today. manchester city beat west ham 4—0, while manchester united are beating everton 2—0. earlier champions chelsea thrashed tottenham 4—0. german midfielder melanie leupolz opened the scoring with the pick of the goals, she also

scored a penalty. as it stands they'll stay top ahead of manchester united on goal difference. paul casey has won the dubai desert classic, his first tour title in 14 months. the englishman finished four shots ahead of the south african brandon stone after a two—under parfinal round. the four—time ryder cup player has now put himself in contention for a fifth call—up when europe face the united states later this year. it's casey's 15th tour title and his first since 2019. 15 wins is a pretty cool, i wanted 15. 2019 was the last and ijust wanted that 15th. it is one of the coolest trophies in golf. there are smaller, there are more important, but it is one of the iconic trophies, without doubt and i am very thankful to be able to do what

i do and still be out here playing golf. we had some fans this week, so to have something like this happen, hopefully that can bring happiness to other people as well. the indoor athletics season has struggled to get going in the uk but there has been some racing in dusseldorf today. that's where dina asher—smith won the women's 60 metre race at a world indoor tour meeting. she won in 7.12 seconds, just a fraction off the world leading time she posted on friday in karlsruhe. the cyclo—cross world championships have been taking place this weekend in belgium, british rider tom pidcock was talking up his chances yesterday navigating the beaches and mud along the flanders coast. the 21—year—old from leeds won silver last year and was looking good for the podium with two laps to go, but slipped to fourth by the finish in 0stend. dutchman mathieu van der poel recovered from this early crash to overhaul beglium's wout van art

to claim his fourth world title. australia could step in to host this summer's british and irish lions series against south africa. they are due to take on the world champions injuly and august but covid—19 concerns, with the emergence of a new variant of the virus in south africa, has put the tour in doubt. the chairman of rugby australia say they can help with profits split between the lions and the springboks. crowds, remember, have returned to watch live sport in australia. another contingency plan is that south africa face the lions in the uk and ireland. there are a couple of games in rugby union's premiership this afternoon. london irish are beating newcastle. wasps losing at home to harlequins — that one is on bbc radio 5 live sports extra right now. you can follow both games via the bbc sport website and app.

i will be with you a little later with another update. thousands of people have been asked to self—isolate in guernsey, after a steep rise in coronavirus infections. there have been 44 cases in the past 24 hours — some of them linked to a dance festival last week. anyone who attended the event has been told to self—isolate. the island has recorded 186 infections in the past week, up from just eight. dr nicola brink is the director of public health for guernsey and alderney. shejoins me now. why on earth with a dance festival be held at a time when we note there are variants that are particularly infectious and parts of the uk are infectious and parts of the uk are in lockdown? i infectious and parts of the uk are in lockdown?— infectious and parts of the uk are in lockdown? i think it is important to contextualise _ in lockdown? i think it is important to contextualise where _ in lockdown? i think it is important to contextualise where we - in lockdown? i think it is important to contextualise where we are - in lockdown? i think it is important to contextualise where we are in i to contextualise where we are in guernsey. it has been entirely different. we came out of lockdown on the 20th ofjune last year and we

had no evidence of a community ceiling of the virus at all. we had very strict border controls with itself isolation for two weeks, tests on day 13 and from our perspective, things changed on the evening of the 22nd of january, perspective, things changed on the evening of the 22nd ofjanuary, that was on friday night, when we detected four unexplained cases of community ceiling. that was a change that occurred to us, so prior to that, there was absolutely normality in guernsey, no restrictions on gatherings or the size or number of people who cannot meet, no restrictions on sport and so on. aligned with that, we had a very careful monitoring of the situation and on friday we detected these four unexplained cases of community seeding. we notified at leadership

and within 24 hours we went into a really strict lockdown, so the dance festival occurred against that background. festival occurred against that background-— festival occurred against that background. you said it was a community — background. you said it was a community seeding, - background. you said it was a community seeding, with - background. you said it was a community seeding, with the| background. you said it was a - community seeding, with the origin of this have come from guernsey or would it have been a someone who travelled to the island? you say you have quarantine measures, but where did it come from? it have quarantine measures, but where did it come from?— did it come from? it must have been introduced into _ did it come from? it must have been introduced into the _ did it come from? it must have been introduced into the island. _ did it come from? it must have been introduced into the island. prior- did it come from? it must have been introduced into the island. prior to i introduced into the island. prior to that we had no evidence of cases in the community. that was the evidence by not only our programmes but also the surveillance we have on hospitals, some of the routine testing we do, so there must have been action, i suspect it is the variant because of the rapid spread, but we monitor cases on a daily basis and prior to that, all of our cases were associated with travellers who were in itself isolation and in addition to a day of arrival test, we have 14 day quarantine and also a 13 day test.

just a quickly clarify, it is a significant spike fur guernsey and you are saying that despite is not down entirely to the festival? ida. you are saying that despite is not down entirely to the festival? ila. i down entirely to the festival? no, i am not saying _ down entirely to the festival? no, i am not saying it — down entirely to the festival? no, i am not saying it is _ down entirely to the festival? no, i am not saying it is down _ down entirely to the festival? no, i am not saying it is down to - down entirely to the festival? no, i am not saying it is down to the - am not saying it is down to the festival at all. i'm saying the virus must have been introduced into the community and it appeared in various locations across the community, one of them being the dance festival. i absolutely don't think the dance festival was the cause of the spike.— think the dance festival was the cause of the spike. obviously people have been told _ cause of the spike. obviously people have been told to _ cause of the spike. obviously people have been told to self-isolate, - cause of the spike. obviously people have been told to self-isolate, what| have been told to self—isolate, what other measures have been put in place on the island? indie other measures have been put in place on the island?— other measures have been put in place on the island? we have a three tiered approach _ place on the island? we have a three tiered approach to _ place on the island? we have a three tiered approach to this. _ place on the island? we have a three tiered approach to this. we _ place on the island? we have a three tiered approach to this. we have - place on the island? we have a three tiered approach to this. we have our| tiered approach to this. we have our overall very strict lockdown, it is an extremely strict lockdown. under that we have our itself isolation, so not only self isolation in relation to specific cases and contacts, but also events like the dance festival you mention and that is part of our precautionary approach and under that, we have our enhanced testing programme where we

do a combination of surveillance and testing symptomatic is, so it is a 3—step approach to what is a very worrying situation. 3-step approach to what is a very worrying situation.— 3-step approach to what is a very worrying situation. worrying indeed. thank ou worrying situation. worrying indeed. thank you very _ worrying situation. worrying indeed. thank you very much _ worrying situation. worrying indeed. thank you very much indeed. - mps will debate the cladding crisis in parliament tomorrow as campaigners say three and a half years on from the grenfell fire people still living in flats with flammable cladding are being financially crippled by increased insurance costs. 0ne development in cheshire has seen its premiums rise by 1400 percent since its fire safety problems were discovered as sarah corker reports. waterfront living on the banks of the river mersey. this is the decks in runcorn. gail bought a two—bed apartment here ten years ago. 0ur lifelong dream, our own property. but since then, fire safety faults

have been found in all six blocks, including dangerous cladding. and insurance bills have soared. rising from £34,000 a year to more than half a million pounds in just two years. and for gail, who works in retail, that means finding an extra £2000. well, i just cried. where are we supposed to find that kind of money? and if you can't find that money, what have you been told could happen? we're out. we will forfeit the apartment. it's so hard. i don't know what to do next. and it's notjust insurance costs, big repair bills are looming. you know, we are working class people. we've appealed to the government, do the right thing. we are not responsible for this. seren park gardens was marketed as a green oasis is in south london. a decade on, green algae is taking root in the timber cladding which is also highly flammable.

the block's insurance costs have soared from £123,000 to more than £650,000 a year. i don't understand why they can suddenly put up the prices. either they are unwilling to bear the risk which doesn't make sense because they have presumably borne the risk successfully in the past, either that, or they're just using this to profit dramatically. for some buildings, insurance costs have gone up by more than 1000%, how on earth can you justify that? the process of getting buildings fixed is far too slow, too many people are going to sleep at night in dangerous buildings and that's simply unacceptable. the high cost of insurance is a symptom of those problems. this is clearly a very urgent situation but it's a very complex and multifaceted challenge. i think it's right we come up with the most comprehensive and effective solution before we start making those details public. but the longer it takes to get to grips with this safety crisis, the more money drains away from flat

owners like leigh. sarah corker, bbc news. if your recycling bin is full of cardboard it's no surprise. lockdowns mean that online shopping now accounts for a third of all retail sales. this increase in demand for packaging has led to a global shortage of paper, with supplies for packaging across europe falling by 20% at the end of last year. earlier i spoke to miles roberts, the group chief executive officer of ds smith, a multi—national packaging company and he told me seasonal pressures are behind much of the demand. demand for recycled corrugated packaging, which is the product we make, has been and the outlook is for it to remain very strong. how and where do you get your materials from, then? all our boxes are made from recycled materials. so we actually go and collect

all the old used cardboard from right across europe, throughout the uk, we bring them back, we sort them, take that fibre and turn it into new paper. we have some of the world's leading paper mills to make recycled paper and it goes back into a box and it takes about 14 days to go round. the challenge for us, because so much packaging is now in people's homes or garages, is how we can get that paper back into the recycled network, how we can get it back into our mills so we can convert into paper and we use it again and pick it up again and again and again. that was miles roberts of ds smith. hello. sunday has brought us mixed fortune in terms of the weather. there has been some sunshine for northern and eastern parts of the uk. towards the south and west,

cloudy skies, with already had that mix of rain, sleet and hail snow.