they don't understand that there is a difference between being a public figure who wants to have some boundaries, and not to be consistently intruded upon, versus being private. one of the points oprah winfrey said, one of the difficulties was shortening the interview which actually went on for three hours and 20 minutes so you can only imagine what might have ended up being on the cutting room floor. she was asked whether she had spoken to either prince harry or meghan markle since the interview had aired and she said no but she was hoping to speak to them later today but she had a text for meghan simply asking them how is it going? what had a text for meghan simply asking them how is it going?— them how is it going? what a question! _ them how is it going? what a question! no _ them how is it going? what a question! no answer! - them how is it going? what a question! no answer! thank. them how is it going? what a i question! no answer! thank you them how is it going? what a - question! no answer! thank you very much. time for a look at the weather...here�*s ben rich. a relatively quiet start to the new week but this is the calm before the

storm. on the satellite picture we can see a lot of cloud to the east of north america at the moment. this took shape developing in the cloud is a sign of a weather system that is a sign of a weather system that is strengthening and being picked up by a powerfuljet is strengthening and being picked up by a powerful jet stream and is strengthening and being picked up by a powerfuljet stream and pushed across the atlantic is a deepening area of low pressure. that will bring some very windy weather later this week and fact we have two bouts of windy weather this week. things are set to get a lot more lively with spells of rain and some very windy weather on the way. i said it is a quiet start the week but that does not mean completely dry sunny by any means. a lot of cloud for many this afternoon, some outbreaks of patchy rain and brighter skies for north—east scotland and also for wales, parts of southern and south—western england. temperatures nine, 10 degrees. through this evening most areas keeping a lot of cloud, it could be misty for some coasts and hills but when we see the

clear skies across parts of southern england and south east wales, the midlands, that is where we have temperatures as low as —3 in some spots. and that is where we have bright weather to start off tomorrow morning. the wind first thing relatively light, some spots of rain and drizzle on the nature and the day the wind starts to strengthen out west. some rain also into northern ireland and western scotland but it is going to be a mild day with highs of nine, 12 degrees. so turning windy in the west during tuesday evening. windiest of all across parts of north—west scotland. a weather warning out here. the wet and blustery weather pushing its way south east as we head into the first part of wednesday. the rain then trying to clear away and you can see that there is a window of quieter and perhaps brighter weatherfor that there is a window of quieter and perhaps brighter weather for a time ben true wednesday afternoon rain set to return from the south—west and the wind starts to

pick up once again. this is where we have that spell a very windy and potentially stormy weather through wednesday night into the first part of thursday. already a yellow warning in force for england and wales but even across northern ireland and scotland gales are possible. there could be some disruption and the wind will only slowly eastwards into the week with a mixture of sunshine and heavy showers. a reminder of our top story... the duchess of sussex tells american television her treatment by the royal family led her to contemplate suicide. that's all from the bbc news at one so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are. he good afternoon. i'm chetan pathak with your latest sports news. we start on international women's day with the details of a new bbc sport study that has found the overwhelming majority of sports now offer equal winning prize money to men and women at the top level. but the biggest gaps remain

in football, golf and basketball. jo currie reports. marched the eighth, one year ago. over 86,000 fans packed into the melbourne cricket ground to watch the women's t20 world cup final. now a number of those players are coming to england to compete. where the women's tournament will offer the same prize money as the men's. where you have to identical tournaments running side by side, i do not see how you can justify not having equal prize money when you have to groups of people doing the same thing. the latest edition of the bbc prize money in sport study found that the overwhelming majority of sports now offer equal prize money at the top level in at least one major competition. hockey for example offers equal prize money in both the pro—league and euro league. however, the biggest

gulf falls in football. last year's winner of the women's super league won £100,000. the premier league champions picked up a huge £38 million. football needs to look at sports like ours to see the opportunity. there are just as many little girls as little boys and boys get to watch the tv and say they want to be a footballer when they grow up but a lot of girls don't because they do not see it. i think football are missing out on a huge opportunity and an audience they could get involved by tapping into women. it is yet to be seen how the pandemic will affect prize—money as a whole, but for now at least, the future looks bright for women's sport. you can see the full details of that study on the bbc sport website. the british and irish lions could be getting a women's team. it's been announced that sponsors are looking at the cost of putting a programme together. meanwhile, the world snooker tour

has announced that leading women players reanne evans and mg on—yee can turn professional from the start of next season with two—year tour cards. novak djokovic has beaten roger federer�*s record for most weeks as world number one. this is the 311th week he's been on top of the rankings. djokovic won his 18th grand slam title and his ninth australian open crown in melbourne last month. he says now he has this record, he's going to focus his attention mainly on mainly grand slam victories as he targets nadal and federer�*s 20 titles. big—hitting bryson dechambeau has beaten lee westwood to win the arnold palmer invitaional in florida westwood the arnold palmer invitaional in florida. westwood was unlucky to land his ball in a divot on the final hole. he didn't drop a shot but still finished one behind the american, who showed his power best when he drove straight across the water to take a huge short cut on a par—five and landed just short of the green. that's all your sport for now.

there's more on the equal prize money study, and on rangers' title win in scotland and a look at what's going wrong at liverpool on the bbc sport website. i'll have more for you later. scotland's deputy first minister john swinney has been holding the daily coronvirus briefing. he said scotland is still on track to offer a first vaccination dose to all over—50—year—olds, unpaid carers and those with underlying health conditions by the middle of april. but he expressed his dismay at the scenes in glasgow over the weekend, when fans gathered to celebrate ranger's victory to celebrate rangers' victory in the scottish premiership. all of us recognise that winning the league was a special moment for rangers football club, and before i say more, i want to congratulate the club on their success and thank all the fans who celebrated at home and followed the rules. but the behaviour of some fans has been an absolute disgrace and has undoubtedly cast a shadow over what should have been a special day for the team. the success that we have had

in recent weeks in reducing case numbers is because so many people in scotland we have stuck to tough in scotland have stuck to tough rules designed to prevent the spread of the virus to different households. to see so many people deliberately flouting these rules, with no regard for the safety of others, is shameful. events like yesterday risk spreading the virus. and they show no regard or respect for the millions of households across scotland who have been sticking to the rules, who have not been able to meet up with friends and families, to fully celebrate birthdays and other milestones, or in some cases to attend funeral services of their loved ones. the government and police scotland reminded rangers of the need for the club to advise fans to adhere to the current restrictions in discussions in february and march. it is a matter of profound regret that that did not happen. the scottish government will be

making our disappointment clear to the team management and will speaking to authorities and will be speaking to authorities about what further assurance they can give to us ahead of future planned games. i understand that many people have questions as to the preparation for and the nature of the policing that took place yesterday and why they did not prevent people from gathering. i understand the anger of those living and working in the city centre at what they saw and what took place. policing of such occasions requires difficult operatioin judgments to be policing of such occasions requires difficult operationaljudgments to be arrived at by police scotland. thejustice secretary has spoken to the chief constable and to rangers football club and will be doing so again to understand why the events of yesterday took place as they did, what actions are now being taken to identify those responsible and what more can be done to try to ensure that we do not see repeats of these scenes

at upcoming events. the main issue that i want to highlight relates to schools. children in primary 4—7 will return fulltime next week, and next week is the start of a phased return for young people in secondary school years 1—6. guidance on this phased return is being published today. it stresses that all staff and secondary school pupils should wear face coverings in classrooms, in communal areas and while moving about the school. the guidance highlights the importance of 2m physical distance during the phased return. we expect, further to our success in suppressing the virus, that all secondary school pupils will return to full—time in—person learning after easter holidays. the welsh government has confirmed that all primary school children will be back in classrooms next week. their education secretary kirsty williams has been briefing reporters on the easing of lockdown measures.

next week, we will see the rest of our primary school pupils return to school, as well as groups of learners in secondary, and more college students. schools will also have the flexibility to bring in pupils in years 10 and 12 to support them to progress to the next stages of their learning. and we are also giving schools additional flexibility so that learners in years seven, eight and 9 are given the opportunity to check in and spend valuable time in school, with their teachers, reacquainting themselves with that environment. it is still my expectation that if the conditions allow, we would see a full return of all learners after the easter break. now, we all know it has been a tough 12 months for our young people, being away from their friends and adjusting to studying at home. i have seen terrific work that schools and colleges have done

to ensure that learning has continued, while putting in place preparations so that the return of learners is safe and the return to the classroom is as smooth as possible. i am grateful for school, college and local authority staff for also embracing the testing programme in schools. by the end of this week, more than five and a half million lateral flow tests will have been distributed to schools, colleges and childcare settings in wales, which will be an important measure to provide further assurance at this time. but i also know that extra help is needed this year, especially for learners at key stages in their academic careers and, indeed, their lives. last summer, i announced an extra £29 million to recruit, recover and raise standards. i set a target to recruit an additional 900 teachers or teaching assistants to provide more support for learners

during the pandemic. i am pleased to report that, so far, the equivalent of 1800 full—time staff members have been recruited, double to our original target. but, today, i can confirm this support will go even further. as i am announcing today an extra £72 million to ensure our schools and settings get the support they need. this takes our support for learning recovery to over £112 million during the pandemic. let's get more now on our top story, the interview with the duke and duchess of sussex in the united states. earlier, my colleague victoria derbyshire spoke tojulie montagu, viscountess hinchingbrooke, who gave her reaction to the interview. well, i think as an american, and obviously someone who married into the british aristocracy, not the royal family, but again still into the sort of institution here, i think that their

revelations were astounding. and i think we are already feeling that today. i definitely could relate to meghan, in particular, when she said going into it, she didn't know anything. it's true, as an american, we do look at royal life as, really, a fairy tale, living in a castle. this fairy tale. that's what we actually think of the royal family itself. if you were meghan, and you start going out with harry, then he tells you what it's like, surely. well, i think he probably tried to, but i always say, i married into the earl of sandwich family. you don't really know until you are in it. so, i'm sure, as my husband did, tried to prepare you for it, but you don't really know until you are in it, and

i think that she made that very well known last night in her interview. when you heard her say she just didn't want to be alive any more, what did you think? i think that itjust goes back to really when we look at celebrity or royal family or people who are successful who have a lot of money, sometimes we can't think... "how can they not be happy? they have what we perceive as everything." but at the end of the day, if you don't have your mental health, and your mental health is suffering, that is the most important thing. money cannot buy mental health. so, for me, it was extraordinary listening to that comment because we all think of the royal family as having castles and being so grand, but at the end of the day, it is the mental health that is the most important, no matter who you are. as you can imagine, people are split as to whether they feel sympathy for the couple or not. simon says, i can't help but feel for this couple.

it seems that one or both are struggling very badly with their demons. it's a shame they couldn't find support within the institution. they must try hard to find the right support now, and very, very quickly. others say that this interview shows great disrespect to the queen and prince philip, who are obviously elderly. prince philip is in hospital. what were they thinking? i think that they did show respect for the queen. i think we were all waiting to make sure or see if they were going to really pinpoint the queen. harry still has a very good relationship with the queen. i think, more to the point, they made it much more about the institution itself. but the queen is the head of that institution, isn't she? the queen is the head of it. they may have professed their love for her personally, but they trashed quite a lot of what she reigns over. yes, they absolutely did.

so, they did in one sense, in more than one sense, you know, really reveal what it was like for them in this institution. and as you said, the queen is the head of it. i suspect they were trying to find a real balance of talking about the institution, but then separating how they felt about the queen. and read it as it is. for me, i felt that they really opened up. i think it was a bombshell interview, absolutely. for me, personally, i thought it was going to be more about the british tabloid press, and not so much about prince charles, william, kate and in particular, obviously, their relationship with the queen. so, i think, right now, we just have to wait and see if the royalfamily will come out and say anything,

but i suspect the royal family will do what it has always done, and it will deploy its greatest ally, which is silence. i'm a big believer that time heals all things, and i suspect the royal family will be very careful about this if they put anything out at all. i personally doubt that they will. i think that they will, again, deploy what they have always deployed, their greatest ally, which is silence. more now on the lockdown restrictions in england being eased. from today, care home residents in england can have one regular visitor — who they can meet indoors and hold hands with. luxmy gopal has been at a care home in scarboroug this morning. it is a day that many people in care homes and many people with loved ones in care homes have been desperately been waiting for, because, from today, they can finally, after months and months without, they can finally meet up in person,

indoors, face—to—face and they can hold hands. up till now, visits in care homes have had to be through protective screens or in specially designed visiting pods or, in some cases, just simply through the care home window. but, from today, that degree of separation has changed and there are some conditions, because, of course, covid has not gone away, so visits have to be done with ppe and with covid testing and it is up to each individual care home's discretion and, significantly, it isjust one person that can be chosen as the visitor. as you can imagine, that has led to some difficult decisions with families. who is the person? who is the one who can visit mum in person and hold her hand? that is a decision that has been facing brother and sister anne and paul here, whose mum, kathleen, is in this home. anne, if we start with you, how difficult has it been not being able to see your mum face—to—face for all these months? it's been absolutely heartbreaking. just not to be able to touch her. normally, i spend every day with her and it hasjust been... and from her point of view, i can't imagine what she's thinking.

paul, now, the two of you are in a bubble, a support bubble, and you have both been travelling here from york to see your mum, butjust through a window. what has that been like? it's been hard. so frustrating. we've come to realise the value of human contact, after all this time, that we have taken for granted. all we've had is a window, a telephone, and we have been very close, but we might as well have been a million miles away. the frustration ofjust not being able to reach out and hold hands, which is sometimes all you need, and just to show you still care, which you don't get through a phone. we are really looking forward to it — it's fantastic. anne, how much of a difference has it made to your mother not been able to have that physical contact? this is what we are not really sure of, because she has more or less stopped speaking. so i think she is very, very upset and doesn't really understand why we are so close, but not there.

i don't think she totally understands, really. and what difference do you think that physical contact will make, paul? i think it will make a massive amount of difference, because you can say so much more with contact that you can't with words. just so the person knows you're there and, for us, just to hold her hand and show her we care and show her the love is still there. sometimes, you don't need anything more than that. and how have you reached the decision of who is going to be the one to visit her? i just thought that paul was very kind, but also it's because i've been with her every day for a long time. because i live closest to her, nearly next door, so i've been every day with her and i've been caring for her this last year so...

it must have been particularly difficult for you then, to have that separation? yes. dreadful. and how much are you looking forward to having that contact? so much. it's just unbelievable. a fabulous day. lovely. well, of course, you will need to put your ppe on and we will let you go and do that. in the meantime, let's speak to mike, who is the care home owner and you own care homes across the region. so, mike, just let me know a little bit about the impact that you've seen on people in care homes and on theirfamily members not having that contact? well, human contact is very important. i've witnessed a lot of distress caused in what has been in some cases, a year. we are really pleased to take part but we are doing it cautiously. in some cases — those who have got dementia, they have not been able to recognise their loved ones, so it's vital that we can get started as soon as possible, but, as i say, with some

caution, of course. yes, because we can't ignore the fact that care homes have been really brutally affected by the pandemic and by coronavirus so how comfortable are you with this opening up the care homes and allowing visitors in, in this way? well, we are between a rock and a hard place. we want to get visiting going. not everyone can do it. each home is different but we are confident as we can be. nothing is without risk. there is risk of opening up. there is also the risk of people not meeting their loved ones so it's a balanced way forward and we are pleased to take part and hopefully, we will be reuniting many, many people over the next weeks and months. and you are going to be reunited with your own mother soon? yes. yes, i'm hoping to, latertoday, because she, like others, has been in her home not seeing anyone so i will be very pleased to see her. right, , we are going back anne now in just a moment. thank you for that, mike. you've got your ppe on and you've had coronavirus negative test, just to make that clear. so now is the moment we will let you go and say hello to your mum. i'm in, mum! mum! at last!

oh, mum! at last, i'm in. isn't that lovely? mum, smile at me again. smile at me again. oh, thank you, mum! isn't this lovely, after all this time? kathleen, anne, thank you so much for letting us share this moment with you. how does it feel? oh, it's just wonderful. isn't it, mum? just lovely, isn't it? at last! we've missed you so much. thank you so much, anne and kathleen. well, we will let their reunion continue. it's amazing, the difference it can make. just a bit of handholding. something we took for granted before the pandemic. now it's time for a look

at the weather with ben rich. hello. the new week has got off to a relatively quiet start, but it looks like this is just the calm before the storm because well out to the west of us, just up the east of north america, just up the east of north america, we have got this developing area of cloud, a weather system that is going to be picked up by a strong and powerfuljet stream, developing a increasingly deep area of low pressure. and that will be pushing in our direction. actually, there are a couple of bouts of wet and very windy weather to come this week, but the stormiest conditions of all look set to arrive during the latter part of wednesday and into the first part of thursday. much livelier through the rest of this week, with spells of rain and very brisk winds. still relatively quiet out there this afternoon. the wind is fairly light, a lot of cloud, some patchy rain. best of the clear skies across northeast scotland, through wales, the midlands to the south and the southwest of england. and as we head through this evening and tonight, well, most places will keep a lot of cloud, and the odd spot of rain. i think clear skies will continue

to affect some southern parts of england, southeast wales, up into the midlands. that is where we will see the lowest of the temperatures, maybe down to —3 or “4 celsius. so, here, a touch of frost but a bright start to tomorrow. elsewhere, generally a lot of cloud, some brighter glimpses, equally, the odd spot of rain. as we go through the day, the winds will start to pick up in western areas. we will see some rain arriving in northern ireland and western scotland. it is going to be a mild tuesday afternoon, but as we head through tuesday evening, this is our first bout of windy weather. western areas seeing the strongest of the gusts, parts of northwest scotland covered by a met office yellow warning, because here, we can see gusts of 60 to 70 mph. wet and blustery weather will sink southeastwards into the first part of wednesday. there could be a brief window of quieter, even brighter weather for some during the day, but then you can see more rain pushing in from the west, briefly a little bit of snow over the high ground in scotland, because it will be a little bit colder here for a time, but milder further south. and as this next bout of rain arrives, the winds

will pick up once again. this is where we see our deepest area of low pressure pushing through during wednesday night. a met office yellow warning in force — parts of england and wales, the potential for gales and travel disruption. pretty windy elsewhere as well. those winds only slowly easing as we head towards the end of the week, with plenty of showers.

this is bbc news. i'm simon mccoy. the headlines: the duchess of sussex tells american tv that her treatment by the royal family led her to contemplate suicide. she tells oprah winfrey that one unnamed family member raised questions about the skin colour of her son archie. so, we have in tandem the conversation of, "he won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title." and also, concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he is born. oprah winfrey has since said harry wanted to clairfy that it was not the queen or prince philip who made the comments about archie's skin. she also addressed the couple's desire for privacy. they understand they are public figures and the privacy is do not be