new lockdown measures have come into force in poland and across large parts of france, including around the capital paris. switzerland is among other countries extending their restrictions. european leaders have shown support for the astrazeneca jab. the french prime ministerjean castex received the vaccine and urged the public to do the same after eu regulators found it didn't cause blood clots. here in the uk, borisjohnson also received his first astrazeneca injection. president biden has appealed for unity during a visit to atlanta, saying many asian—americans now live in fear. his comments came in the wake of a killing spree at massage pa rlours in atlanta, which left eight people dead, six of them women of asian descent. now on bbc news,

it's time for click. this week — beating the covid and. and anyone for robot tennis? —— this week — beating the covid scammers. welcome to click. i would like to share with you some personal joy, to share with you some personal joy, if i may. iwas to share with you some personal joy, if i may. i was getting ready to film the programme this morning when i got the best text message that i think i have received in years. inviting me to get my first dose of the vaccine. congratulations. i presume you acted on it. congratulations. i presume you acted on it— acted on it. sure did, took about three or four - acted on it. sure did, took about three or four clicks, | acted on it. sure did, took| about three or four clicks, i think, and i booked in for

later this afternoon so it was easy, i did that and that i had a big cry. i easy, i did that and that i had a big cry-— a big cry. i was so worried when i spoke to you - a big cry. i was so worried when i spoke to you first i a big cry. i was so worried - when i spoke to you first thing this morning, you were so upset, but now i know they were tears ofjoy. i upset, but now i know they were tears of joy-— tears of 'oy. i might go again, 'ust to tears ofjoy. i might go again, just to warn — tears ofjoy. i might go again, just to warn you, _ tears ofjoy. i might go again, just to warn you, but - tears ofjoy. i might go again, just to warn you, but this - just to warn you, but this feeling of relief and possibly a release of pent—up emotions from the last year, i don't know what it was but it happened, let'sjust know what it was but it happened, let's just say that. but here's the thing, right? before i confirmed, ifound myself looking at this text and thinking is this genuine? i checked the website that sent me to and it did and in nhs .uk so it was all fine but these are the times we are living in most gamers target world events and take advantage of people's fears. �* , fears. and by genuine coincidence, - fears. and by genuine coincidence, this - fears. and by genuine coincidence, this is i fears. and by genuine i coincidence, this is what fears. and by genuine - coincidence, this is what we're talking this week. well united services institute says that cyber scams reached epidemic levels during the pandemic, so dan simmons has been finding out more. preparing for a dawn raid. as soon as the door is

breached, will go in and then there will be a slight pause. officers on their way to a terraced house in north london. this is the city of london police force's 10th raid against covid scammers this year alone. against covid scammers this yearalone. operation against covid scammers this year alone. operation parasite is aiming to seize evidence before devices can be locked or destroyed. before devices can be locked or destroyed-— before devices can be locked or destroyed.- police! - destroyed. police! police! police with _ destroyed. police! police! police with a _ destroyed. police! police! police with a warrant! - destroyed. police! police! police with a warrant! a i destroyed. police! police! i police with a warrant! a red box is flung _ police with a warrant! a red box is flung out _ police with a warrant! a red box is flung out of - box is flung out of a bedroom window. it seems the suspect has something to hide. but it's what the cops will find inside the house that makes them certain they have their man. that's a simple file so it is essentially 123115678 mobile phones and it is used by the fraudsters to send messages. specialist equipment housing multiple sim cards is designed to fire out thousands of texts at one time in a type of fraud

known as sms fishing or smishing. officers are backing up smishing. officers are backing up anything they think is evidence and they also have evidence and they also have evidence to a digital dog that can sniff out this kind of equipment. the drug dog, fred has been trained to recognise the smell of materials used to make digital equipment. the search will continue for several hours. whether it is raiding a house or simply taking a website off—line, police are now closing down 2500 covid scams like this every single month in the uk. 30,000 campaigns have been stopped in the last year. but that doesn't mean that these often sophisticated comms are not working. partly because of the way our lives have changed —— cons. one line of attack has been to focus on the massive increase in home shopping. all

those parcels have to be delivered, right? it was last autumn and i have been doing quite a bit of online shopping. anyway, i got this text message through from korea firm dpd asking me to rearrange a parcel delivery. like thousands of other people, i would have gone online and left some details but i did not because it was not dpd, it was fraudsters — courierfirm and the not dpd, it was fraudsters — courier firm and the only reason i knew, it was pretty convincing, was i had been in all day. convincing, was i had been in all da . �* convincing, was i had been in allda . �* convincing, was i had been in allda. �* , all day. the black friday sales started and — all day. the black friday sales started and i _ all day. the black friday sales started and i decided - all day. the black friday sales started and i decided to - started and i decided to purchase a lovely coat that i really wanted to buy for a very, very long time. anna was not so lucky and is _ not so lucky and is so worried about being targeted again, we've agreed not to use her real name. when she received an e—mail saying her coat needed to be redelivered, she handed over financial details before realising it was a fake website. she immediately told her bank about the fraud and cancelled her card. i her bank about the fraud and cancelled her card.— cancelled her card. i actually thou~ht

cancelled her card. i actually thought now _ cancelled her card. i actually thought now i _ cancelled her card. i actually thought now i have - cancelled her card. i actually thought now i have nothing i cancelled her card. i actually l thought now i have nothing to worry about. everything is fine. you know, case closed. a, fine. you know, case closed. a few days later she received a call from the phone number on the back of her bank card. we have the back of her bank card. 7 have detected fraud on your account. we willjust need to take a few pieces of security information to get this sorted out. ok, thanks for that. i can see that while we have been talking your account is taken out and i thousand pounds loan. was that you? right, in that case, we will need to transfer that money back into our account. we'll give you the account. we'll give you the account number and sort code now. —— £9,000 loan. account number and sort code now. -- £9,000 loan.- account number and sort code now. -- £9,000 loan. with the information _ now. -- £9,000 loan. with the information she _ now. -- £9,000 loan. with the information she had _ now. -- £9,000 loan. with the information she had given - now. -- £9,000 loan. with thej information she had given them the crooks are taken out a £9,000 loan into anna's account and were trying to finish the job by talking her into sending the money onto them. then job by talking her into sending the money onto them.- the money onto them. then i thou . ht the money onto them. then i thought 0k. _ the money onto them. then i thought 0k, give _ the money onto them. then i thought 0k, give me - the money onto them. then i thought 0k, give me the - the money onto them. then i - thought 0k, give me the account thought ok, give me the account number and sort code so i still felt quite suspicious and i decided to google the sort code that they gave me and to see what it might come up with. it came up with a completely different account, different bank. i said you know what? i'm

going to hang up right now and call you back. and this is when theyjust call you back. and this is when they just started call you back. and this is when theyjust started panicking a lot and they were like no, no, don't hang up, don't hang up, the longer the money is out somewhere, the more likely that they are just going to be used by fraudsters.— they are just going to be used by fraudsters. anna then called her bank and _ by fraudsters. anna then called her bank and realised - by fraudsters. anna then called her bank and realised the - her bank and realised the scammers had come back to hit her again. scammers had come back to hit heragain. she scammers had come back to hit her again. she closed that account, changed her e—mail address and mobile number in a bid to escape the crooks. she still does not feel safe. i know i did not lose any money but it did feel like a real burglary, to be honest. i did not feel like that was the end because there was still a lot of my information out there that fraudsters can potentially try and use, and i don't know if they are going to use it now or in two months' time or in two years time.— or in two months' time or in two years time. that particular fraud netted _ two years time. that particular fraud netted nearly _ two years time. that particular fraud netted nearly a - two years time. that particular fraud netted nearly a quarter. fraud netted nearly a quarter of £1 million last year, and the true figure is probably much higher due to underreporting. infact, during

the pandemic, uk service the cyber helpline saw an increase of 366% in the number of people seeking support after being a victim of cyber crime. only a quarter of those had already reported the crime to the police. detective chief inspector martin elliott helped lead the fight against fraud on a national level. —— martina. the different types of fraud we have seen have dramatically shifted. for example, online shopping fraud has gone up by 43%, which is a huge leap. we saw a definite increase in smishing after the december rollout for the covid vaccine where we received over 1000 reports in one week. they are taking advantage of the most horrendous time. people at the moment are short of money, people have lost employment, they have lostjobs, they are

vulnerable, and these despicable people are taking advantage of all of those things. it's reprehensible. back at the morning raid, and 21—year—old ty gallagher has been arrested. officers find scripts on a smartphone designed to trick vic is into revealing personal information. —— victims. messages with associates about the most effective ploys._ associates about the most effective ploys. use this to make the _ effective ploys. use this to make the money. - effective ploys. use this to make the money. and - effective ploys. use this to j make the money. and lists effective ploys. use this to i make the money. and lists of numbers _ make the money. and lists of numbers that _ make the money. and lists of numbers that can _ make the money. and lists of numbers that can all- make the money. and lists of numbers that can all be - numbers that can all be targeted at the press of a button. ., targeted at the press of a button. . , button. that willjust bombard button. that will 'ust bombard these with fake _ button. that willjust bombard these with fake messages, - button. that willjust bombard | these with fake messages, you see how much money it isn't all this can be done from sitting in your bedroom with a laptop and mobile phone. tiara in your bedroom with a laptop and mobile phone.— and mobile phone. two days after his arrest, _ and mobile phone. two days after his arrest, he - and mobile phone. two days after his arrest, he pleads i after his arrest, he pleads guilty to two charges relating to fraud. he is awaiting sentencing. it's estimated that one third of charity suffered a cyber attack between the start of the pandemic and november

last year. as remote working made online security more difficult. among them is jonathan's outfit charity digital which ironically works to help other charities make better use of online. like many workplaces over the last year, they've gone from this to this. but did working from home play a key role in opening them up to a successful attack? an attack that happened earlier this year. hikers had started sending malicious code from an employee's e—mail. they had been poking around the network for over a week —— hackers. they had actually been sending sort of e—mails to business partners of owls with modified invoice and bank details on to try and basically defraud the partners ought defraud us of the money that was owed to us. do you think that with more people working from home, that

made your organisation more vulnerable? definitely. it's much harder— vulnerable? definitely. it's much harder to _ vulnerable? definitely. it's much harder to check - vulnerable? definitely. it's much harder to check that| much harder to check that something is coming in is genuine and then if you have been penetrated and your e—mail account, which is what happened here, was behaving oddly, it is really hard to get that checked. i really hard to get that checked.— really hard to get that checked. . , ., ., checked. i really want to get this started _ checked. i really want to get this started and _ checked. i really want to get this started and we - checked. i really want to get this started and we are - checked. i really want to get j this started and we are sorry that— this started and we are sorry that this _ this started and we are sorry that this has happened not make the charity hosted a webinar to explain — the charity hosted a webinar to explain what happened and a lot of those — explain what happened and a lot of those affected.— of those affected. although charity digital _ of those affected. although charity digital did _ of those affected. although charity digital did not - of those affected. although charity digital did not lose l charity digital did not lose any money directly, donovan estimates the cost of dealing with the attack ran into five figures —— jonathan. with the attack ran into five figures ——jonathan. but figures —— jonathan. but perhaps figures ——jonathan. but perhaps the most worrying attacks over the past year has been the ones targeting the uk's ability to manage and counter the spread of the pandemic itself. four years ago, the one crime ransomware attack brought the nhs to a for several years. with attackers seizing control of hospital systems and demanding payment. vaccine research and other key

infrastructure has been desperate to avoid a repeat. —— wannacry. desperate to avoid a repeat. -- wannacry-_ wannacry. the things we learn very early _ wannacry. the things we learn very early on — wannacry. the things we learn very early on was _ wannacry. the things we learn very early on was that - wannacry. the things we learn very early on was that the - very early on was that the organisations, the businesses that supplied our hospitals, supplied the work behind the vaccine, all of those became critical and so there is still potentially a target for criminals.— potentially a target for criminals. ,, ., , ., criminals. the ncsc has told click the number _ criminals. the ncsc has told i click the number of high-level click the number of high—level incidents against key coronavirus related targets like the nhs and vaccine development is happening around the clock and around 30 every month. but none of them are believed to have affected the nhs response.— nhs response. there have certainly — nhs response. there have certainly been _ nhs response. there have certainly been no - nhs response. there have certainly been no service l certainly been no service disruption or impact or theft that we are aware of. i mean, obviously, you know, it's hard to be, always be confident about everything because you don't see everything.- don't see everything. have there been _ don't see everything. have there been against - don't see everything. have there been against any - don't see everything. have l there been against any other critical systems?— critical systems? there unfortunately - critical systems? there unfortunately have - critical systems? there | unfortunately have been critical systems? there i unfortunately have been a number of successful ransomware

number of successful ra nsomwa re attacks number of successful ransomware attacks against businesses. i can think of roughly about ten that we have— that again we would deal with a number of ransomware cases which are far too many but about ten have been, it could have been considered part of the supply chain. ~ ., considered part of the supply chain. ~ . , .,, chain. meanwhile, the problem of fraud, particularly _ chain. meanwhile, the problem of fraud, particularly during - of fraud, particularly during the pandemic, continues relentlessly.— the pandemic, continues relentlessly. we are never coin: relentlessly. we are never going to — relentlessly. we are never going to be _ relentlessly. we are never going to be able _ relentlessly. we are never going to be able to - relentlessly. we are never going to be able to arrest| relentlessly. we are never. going to be able to arrest our way out of fraud because the levels are rising, technology enables fraudsters so it is on the increase and it is likely to continue to increase. hopefully we are keeping pace and we are dealing with it and we will continue to keep pace with it. ., ., ., , with it. the level of fraud has 'um ed with it. the level of fraud has jumped over _ with it. the level of fraud has l jumped over the past five years and now the pandemic has allowed scammers to prey on fears and uncertainty. officers admit that perhaps the most effective weapon against all of this is for us to adopt a sort of new normal and double check any message that asks us for our details. that was damned.

now, obviously, getting a text inviting you for your vaccination is a massive deal and as i said, i checked the website i was being sent to endedin website i was being sent to ended in the official dot nhs .uk and once there i was not asked to any other details apart from my date of birth —— that was dan. that might be different for you where you are. so our general advice is... . ~ are. so our general advice is... , , are. so our general advice is... , are. so our general advice is... check it sends you to an official website _ is... check it sends you to an official website and _ is... check it sends you to an official website and you - official website and you recognise it and nothing is misspelled. ii recognise it and nothing is misspelled.— recognise it and nothing is misspelled. if you are asked for our misspelled. if you are asked for your bank _ misspelled. if you are asked for your bank details - misspelled. if you are asked for your bank details or - misspelled. if you are asked for your bank details or any | for your bank details or any other information, and suspicious.— other information, and susicious. , ., ., ., _ suspicious. just a note that by clickin: suspicious. just a note that by clicking on _ suspicious. just a note that by clicking on the _ suspicious. just a note that by clicking on the text, _ suspicious. just a note that by clicking on the text, you - suspicious. just a note that by clicking on the text, you are i clicking on the text, you are not automatically going to be handing over your bank details. itjust means you are likely to be asked for them. find itjust means you are likely to be asked for them.— be asked for them. and if you are suspicious, _ be asked for them. and if you are suspicious, you _ be asked for them. and if you are suspicious, you can - be asked for them. and if you l are suspicious, you can contact the organisation which sent you the message independently. find the message independently. and if ou're the message independently. and if you're in _ the message independently. and if you're in the _ the message independently. firm if you're in the uk the message independently. e"ic if you're in the uk you the message independently. el"ic if you're in the uk you can forward any text messages to 7726, that spells the word spam

so the police can investigate and reply to you as to whether it is genuine or not.— it is genuine or not. hello and welcome _ it is genuine or not. hello and welcome to — it is genuine or not. hello and welcome to the _ it is genuine or not. hello and welcome to the week - it is genuine or not. hello and welcome to the week in - it is genuine or not. hello and j welcome to the week in tech. it is genuine or not. hello and i welcome to the week in tech. it was the week facebook agreed to pay nukes copper australia for its journalism, following a world first law to make tech fat —— tech platforms pay for content. —— news corp australia. ubersaid content. —— news corp australia. uber said it would pay drivers a minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions after it lost a legal battle around workers rights. and google and headspace launched a series of children's mindfulness videos to help combat stress around online learning, social distancing and screen time. canadian researchers are developing an exoskeleton that uses ai developing an exoskeleton that uses al to see and react in real—time. where other assistive systems typically use manual control, this combines computer vision and deep learning to adjust movements in relation to its surroundings. from two legs to four, this

robot in norway is using machine learning to shape shift. destroyed's limbs can be short, stable and slow, or tall, fast and nimble, for example to step over objects. sensors and camera vision informative decisions by tracking and analysing its terrain. and finally, a russian firm is helping robots to look more human. the robot maker showed off its new department dedicated to making realistic robot skins. the r&d arm houses polymer specialists, artists and 3d model is. it's getting harder to tell who is a robot and who isn't. —— modellers. now as we saw earlier, police forces are targeting scammers at their homes. but there are also online vigilantes who are fighting back, and one of them is utilising artificial intelligence to tackle telephone fraud. omar has been

finding out more. this is kip, he is a twitch streamer, youtube, and scam batter. what is a scam batter? they trick and waste time of scam callers who tried to steal money from an suspect wing innocent people over the phone. scam baiting seems to be getting more and more popular, with videos flooding social media. i mean, ifound kip on tiktok. usually, he operates by himself, but now him and a few others from the scam baiting community are creating an artificial intelligence bot to

waste scammers' time. i really need some _ waste scammers' time. i really need some help _ waste scammers' time. i really need some help here, - waste scammers' time. i really need some help here, please l need some help here, please tell me what to do next. using seech speech recognition it can work out what a scammer is saying to them over the phone and respond with some set statements. and you can keep on going on and on until the scammer finally recognises that it is talking to a bot. iii finally recognises that it is talking to a bot.— talking to a bot. ifi could keep them _ talking to a bot. ifi could keep them on _ talking to a bot. ifi could keep them on the - talking to a bot. ifi could keep them on the phone | talking to a bot. if i could i keep them on the phone for talking to a bot. if i could - keep them on the phone for an hour, that is an hour they weren't talking to someone else. i wanted to get out there and do something. what ever i got for that dozen inbound phone calls every day, i can't answer all of them, so if i just forward those to an ai, and even if it only wastes ten, 20 minutes, that adds up. while kitboua 20 minutes, that adds up. while kitboga can. _ 20 minutes, that adds up. while

kitboga can, and _ 20 minutes, that adds up. while kitboga can, and has _ 20 minutes, that adds up. while kitboga can, and has wasted - 20 minutes, that adds up. while kitboga can, and has wasted up| kitboga can, and has wasted up to 37 hours of a scammer�*s time, this ai at its current stage can do that for about 30 minutes before they realise. so this ai is responding with six and is using kitboga's own voice to speak. in the future, he hopes for the ai voice to speak. in the future, he hopes for the al to create its own synthesiser voices and use machine learning to pick up what a scammer is saying to them and come up with their own response. i them and come up with their own resonse. , ., �* them and come up with their own resonse. , . ~ response. i swear the ai said that exact — response. i swear the ai said that exact same _ response. i swear the ai said that exact same line, - response. i swear the ai said that exact same line, like - response. i swear the ai said that exact same line, like 50 j that exact same line, like 50 times in this one call. i really do think we're getting to a point we can allow people, like if they get a scam call, they could just forward it right over to one of these ais. right over to one of these a15. the tricky part would be, you don't want them forwarding their mother—in—law�*s number or something. (laughs). but yeah, ithink i think itjust being more

autonomous or automated, just doing its thing. i think that would be funny, you know? (laughs). would be funny, you know? (laughs-— would be funny, you know? (laughs). . �* , ., would be funny, you know? (laughs). �* , ., , (laughs). we'll see. so what is it like being _ (laughs). we'll see. so what is it like being on _ (laughs). we'll see. so what is it like being on the _ (laughs). we'll see. so what is it like being on the receiving - it like being on the receiving end of this ai, and actually having your own time wasted? let's find out. david is not here, can i take your gift card codes? no, you can't talk to him. he is not here right now. what did she say? (laughs). where would you like to fly to? (laughs). where would you like to fly to? (laughs-— where would you like to fly to? (laughs). they're trying to say new york! _ (laughs). they're trying to say new york! as _ (laughs). they're trying to say new york! as you _ (laughs). they're trying to say new york! as you can _ (laughs). they're trying to say new york! as you can see - (laughs). they're trying to say| new york! as you can see there, it does have _ new york! as you can see there, it does have some _ new york! as you can see there, it does have some teething - it does have some teething problems, but is still in its early stages and they are hoping the next big iteration of this will be available later on in the year.

for the last couple of months, these courts have been empty. but from 29 march, play can resume again. i am really looking forward to getting back to playing tennis, and today i'm going to be testing out some tech to help if you are playing solo, to capture your performance and even improve your game. if you have no tennis partner, you can still play with the sling bag. this portable tennis ball launcher and its attached oscillator cost £780. it started as a kick—start a campaign and is now a good solution for socially distant tennis. —— kick—starter. the bag is quite large but is designed to fit in a car boot with removable battery. once charged it last up battery. once charged it last up to five hours. speed, frequency and feed rate of the balls can all be adjusted and

operated by remote control from across the court. it holds up to 144 tennis balls at one time. we are using just over 74 our practice. —— 70 four our practice. this is the isolation mode. starting again. now it's time to collect the balls. there is no automated collection for balls but the slinger does come with this very handy telescopic tube which makes it a lot easier to collect. i which makes it a lot easier to collect. ., , ., , collect. i have seen many machines. _ collect. i have seen many machines, they _ collect. i have seen many machines, they are - collect. i have seen many. machines, they are various sizes, but the slinger is very unique, it is portable and very easy to carry. the other machines, you have to have wires, long cables, and in terms of health and safety wise, this is a brilliant idea.

capturing all of this action has been the automated videoing assistant, or ava. has been the automated videoing assistant, orava. it connects your smart phone via bluetooth and follows you as you move around the court. this is a prototype of the device which will be available in the autumn. it also started on kick—starter. ava has nine speeds, rotates .5 seconds, fully charged it has ten hours of battery life. my background is from tennis _ of battery life. my background is from tennis and _ of battery life. my background is from tennis and i _ of battery life. my background is from tennis and i wanted i of battery life. my background is from tennis and i wanted to j is from tennis and i wanted to create something that would capture video footage easily for people who wanted to submit their 40s to the tennis coaches. their 40s to the tennis coaches-— their 40s to the tennis coaches. ., , . coaches. other features include automatic zoom _ coaches. other features include automatic zoom tracking - coaches. other features include automatic zoom tracking and i automatic zoom tracking and this eyesight module attack which connects to ap is like zoom and tiktok.— which connects to ap is like zoom and tiktok. that is in prototype, you screwed on and that does the machine learning on itself which means that anything mounted to it has auto tracking capability, effectively being piggybacked onto the isight module. hiter

onto the isight module. after three months _ onto the isight module. after three months away, - onto the isight module. after three months away, it - onto the isight module. after three months away, it will i onto the isight module. after three months away, it will be j three months away, it will be great to get back to playing tennis with or without human partner. that's it from us for now. �* , y ., partner. that's it from us for now. ~ , , ., partner. that's it from us for now. ~' , partner. that's it from us for now. ~ , , now. as ever, you can keep up with the team _ now. as ever, you can keep up with the team social— now. as ever, you can keep up with the team social media, i with the team social media, find us on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at @bbcclick.— facebook and twitter at @bbcclick. ., ., @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will _ @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will see _ @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will see you _ @bbcclick. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon. i and we will see you soon. bye—bye. hello there. for most of us, the weekend promises a fair amount of dry weather, the amount of cloud will vary a bit from place to place, and there will be somejumps around in temperatures as well, as we will see in a moment. this was the satellite picture then from friday, showing we had some decent sunshine, particularly across parts of scotland. that was how the sunshine looked in the highlands. not far away from that,

in sterlingshire, we have the highest temperature in the uk, up to 17 celsius, very mild for the time of year. but it wasn't like that everywhere — north—east england had a really chilly day on friday, just six celsius. a big jump upwards in temperatures, though, on the way later today. why the change? well, yesterday, we had the winds coming in from the north—east. it's all down to the wind direction, you see. these north—easterly winds brought those low temperature to eastern england because they were travelling over these really cold seas. the temperature in the water just 6 celsius at the moment. but the winds today are changing direction in a big way. they are coming in from a north—westerly direction, hence that big jump upwards in temperatures widely across eastern areas of england. now, here's the weather picture over the next few hours. we've got cloud across england and wales, a few gaps in the cloud for scotland, slowly filtering into parts of northern england. and on account of the cloudy skies, it's not cold, temperatures around 6—7 celsius. on into saturday then, this weather front is going to go nowhere fast, staying across central england

another cold front will push into the far north of the uk, bringing rain to northern scotland late in the day. could be an odd patch of drizzle as well from that slow—moving front that's why it's going to stay cloudy here, but we'll see some sunshine. central and southern scotland, and particularly north—east england, that's where the best of the sunshine is going to be, and it's going to be a much warmer day across north—east england. in the warmest spots, temperatures reach 17 celsius. but those north—westerly winds bringing some cooler weather into north—west england and north wales as well. sunday, while a cold front will have moved across most of the uk bringing cloudy weather across england wales again, what that cold front is going to do, well, it's going to introduce cooler and fresher air. so sunday, temperature—wise, temperatures not quite as high, still, though, managing to reach double figures for most of us. what about next week? well, of the area of high—pressure bringing the settled weather is going to continue to influence our weather, but it will probably gradually turn a little more unsettled across the north—west.

welcome to bbc news. i'm mark lobel. our top stories: europe braces for a third wave of coronavirus infections with fresh lockdowns in france and poland. the french prime minister gets the astrazeneca vaccine and urges others to do the same, as the eu resumes use of the jab. president biden visits atlanta after the murder of eight people this week. he calls for unity and an end to violence against asian—americans. they've been attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed. they've been verbally assaulted, physically assaulted, killed. cleaning out to make some space: final preparations are under way for a mission to remove some of the dangerous debris in orbit.