these pups will be dropped off to their puppy—raising families. for lisa's first pup, fergal, it's the end of one journey, but the start of another. the day has come for fergal to start his advanced training. that means lisa must say a painful goodbye. i want him as upset as little as possible. they're his toys. there you go, you get a big—boy lead now. bye—bye, sweetheart. many guide dog users stay in touch with their puppy raisers. but many do not. thanks a lot. i'll ring you tomorrow. lisa knows this could be the last time she sees fergal. yeah, i'm fine. it's hard. but you've got to remember why you're doing it. guide dogs say they need more volunteers like lisa to help cut waiting times.

people like us are needed so much to help people like you. the tears are worth it. sean dilley reporting. 0k, time for a look at the weather with darren bett. what a difference a day makes, it couldn't be more different than yesterday, everything coming in from the atlantic, and if we look at the satellite picture, all this cloud streaming our way, and of course thatis streaming our way, and of course that is bringing the rain we are seeing across many parts of the country at the moment. we also have stronger winds picking up, but they are south—westerly, bringing in tropical, maritime air, which is why temperatures are higher, and why we have cloud and rain. double figure temperatures for large parts of the uk, a little cooler in scotland and north—eastern parts, where it was a chilly start this morning. we will continue to see rain through the afternoon, evening and well into the

night, heavy across the hills, localised flooding, and by the end of the night most of it, the worst of the night most of it, the worst of it anyway, will have pulled away, but it stays very mild. these are the temperatures by the end of the night, very mild for this time of year. in the north—east of scotland and the far south—east, slower to pull away, then sunshine and showers, a stream of showers running into northern ireland, pushing into the far north of england and southern parts of scotland, and later in the day more rain arriving in the far south—west of england as well. the winds will be quite strong, particularly across england and wales, with gusty winds over the pennines as well, but a very mild day. these are the temperatures, higher than today, and when you think the average maximum temperature at this time of year is around six or 7 degrees, we could make 14 in the south—east of england and east anglia. brief respite from the wet and windy weather, but then another area of low pressure developing and heading across from

the atlantic very quickly, many places will stay dry on thursday, but the cloud will increase and we will get a few showers ahead of the main rain that aroused to western areas and in the north—west of the winds will be picking up to gale false. still mild, though, look at those temperatures, 10 degrees in the central belt of scotland, 13 across some parts of england and wales. that area of low pressure continues to deepen, gusts of 70 mph in parts of scotland overnight before that runs away and we get another weather system steaming in from the atlantic once again. that essentially means we stay in very unsettled weather to the end of the weekend into the weekend, showers or longer spells of rain, windy at times, and again it is going to be mild. that is all from the bbc news at 0ne. mild. that is all from the bbc news at one. on bbc one now, wejoined the team is where you are.

good afternoon, i'm qasa alom, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. there are four premier league games tonight with brighton away at everton, and leicester hosting fulham. in—form manchester united are at home to bournemouth, and league leaders arsenal take on the team in third, newcastle. arsenal are seven points clear at the top — but their manager is hoping fans don't get too ahead of themselves. it's not about stopping anybody, it's about being realistic about where we are and the way we are performing, its impressive and we are really happy with that but as well we set the bars and objectives in the short term and where we want to improve and what is making us win that many matches. manchester united are in fourth having won four in their last five games. they take on bournemouth at home

and boss erik ten hag says there's a "need" for quality signings this january we have a good team when all of the players are available, but many games are coming up and i think there is a need, you need one who can have an impact, and otherwise you are just burning money. in snoooker, two more chinese players have been suspended by the sport's world governing body, the wpbsa, as part of its on—going investigation into match fixing. they are the 2021 uk champion zhao xintong and zhang jiankang. xintong was due to play at the masters next week at london's alexandra palace. a total of 10 players have now been suspended. a boost for the england test cricket side as lancashire fast bowler saqib mahmood is set to make his return from injury on england lions�* white—ball tour of sri lanka in february.

the fast bowler impressed in his two tests for england in march 2022, taking six wickets against west indies. since then mahmood suffered a stress fracture in his back meaning he hasn't played competitively since may but the 25 year old should get plenty of practise on the lions tour against sri lanka a in the form of two four—day tests and three one—day internationals — in his bid to be picked for the ashes next summer. luke wood has also been named in the one—day lions squad. it might help alleviate the disappointment of his melbourne stars side losing to melbourne renegades in australia's big bash league. he took two wickets, but could only manage one run as the stars lost by 33 runs at the mcg. his fellow english team mate joe clarke had a bad day too. he opened the batting for stars, but went for a duck. emma raducanu made a winning start to 2023 with victory over teenager linda fruhvirtova in her opening match at the asb classic in auckland.

the 20—year—old came through a nervy three setter against the 17—year—old czech rising star winning 6—2 in the final set in a rain—affected match. the 2021 us open champion, was a set and a break down but managed to regroup and get through to the next round where she will face victoria kuzmova from slovakia who'se ranked outside the top 100. there were first — round defeats for the brits at the adelaide international as kyle edmund and andy murray both lost in straight sets. murray was edged out 7—6, 6—3 to seb korda from the us in a close match — while kyle edmund was beaten 6—3, 6—2 by the world number 15 jannik sinner from italy. but better news for novak djokovic who is comfortably through the next round beating constant lestienne and will now face another french player quentin halys. the 21—times grand slam champion is going for a 10th australian open later in the month.

that's all the sport for now. huge crowds are lining the streets in the city of santos to pay their respects to pele, and the funeral procession is now underway in the brazilian city of santos with the mourners lining the streets to see his coffin draped in the brazilian flag. it's being driven, as you can see, on the top of a fire engine with officers from brazil's presidential guard carrying the casket from the santos stadium where palais began his playing career. and the coffin had been on public view in the middle of the pitch for some 24 in the middle of the pitch for some 2a hours. resident lula, the new brazilian president, he was among the mourners and met family members, and this is the scene now in santos

as people pay theirfinal and this is the scene now in santos as people pay their final respects to the legendary footballer pele. many people say the greatest footballer ever to have played the game. he won three world cups, an extraordinary feat and his death really, although it followed a long illness, his death has been marked by a huge outpouring of national grief across brazil. earlier we spoke to the general secretary of the rmt lutein about what it would take to settle the dispute over pay and conditions —— union. we dispute over pay and conditions -- union. ~ ., �* , ., , ., ., union. we don't put a number on what we would settle _ union. we don't put a number on what we would settle out _ union. we don't put a number on what we would settle out because _ union. we don't put a number on what we would settle out because it - union. we don't put a number on what we would settle out because it is - union. we don't put a number on what we would settle out because it is a - we would settle out because it is a package deal. there isn't a separate payoff are available to us. all of the pay proposals that have come from all of the companies, sponsored by the government are conditional on

us ripping up all of our contracts of employment and our conditions and our members are not prepared to do that. there is no such thing as a clean, no strings attached pay deal available in the railways in any of the companies in this dispute. so on the companies in this dispute. so on the thing of — the companies in this dispute. so on the thing of tearing _ the companies in this dispute. so on the thing of tearing up _ the companies in this dispute. so on the thing of tearing up the _ the thing of tearing up the contracts and wanting rail workers to work under different terms, the position of network rail and the government is that it is a seven days a week service on the contracts should reflect that in that currently the contracts don't reflect that and some times and conditions have not been updated since they were introduced by british rail in the 1960s and say several outdated working practices remain in the industry. how do you respond to that? i remain in the industry. how do you respond to that?— remain in the industry. how do you respond to that? i respond that that is completely _ respond to that? i respond that that is completely untrue. _ respond to that? i respond that that is completely untrue. every - respond to that? i respond that that is completely untrue. every single i is completely untrue. every single one of the train operating companies have gone through restructuring since privatisation so these agreements have been made by the companies who are the incumbents,

that hold the contracts and they've come to agreement with them. they are nothing to do with british rail and they are not british rail inherited agreements, they are private—sector agreements we have made since 1993 and 1996 when the railways were privatised, so we have a seven day railway but what we have is an agreement on how that seven—day railway operates. we can facilitate that and we will get to an agreement in the end but what we can't have is those new conditions imposed on us which virtually make us... y imposed on us which virtually make us," , ., imposed on us which virtually make us... sorry, to come in again, but to be clear. _ us... sorry, to come in again, but to be clear, what _ us... sorry, to come in again, but to be clear, what are _ us... sorry, to come in again, but to be clear, what are the - us... sorry, to come in again, but i to be clear, what are the conditions you do not want to see put in place? you say, it is a fact, there is a seven—day system that there seems to be a disparity in terms of how the rail workers actually operate within that. . , ., ., , rail workers actually operate within that. ., ., , ., ., that. the vast ma'ority of railway workers — that. the vast majority of railway workers are contracted _ that. the vast majority of railway workers are contracted to - that. the vast majority of railway workers are contracted to oblige| workers are contracted to oblige them to work seven days a week. i worked on the railway for a long time myself and was rostered sundays as part of my normal conditions and

that's the condition of the vast majority of the people in this dispute so some of this is red herrings and starting hair is running. what they also want to do is chop our sick bay and change the holiday conditions and they want to make our members lives on social and ruin their worklife balance across the piece. they also want to close every ticket office in britain and remove the guards of every train on the national railway network. these are fundamental changes to working practices but also the service that the public receives, so what they are trying to do is cut costs at any cost so they can deliver more profit to the private sector operators who have made profit all the way through the pandemic and every day we have been on strike, they are delivering profits for their owners. halal been on strike, they are delivering profits for their owners.— profits for their owners. how keen are ou profits for their owners. how keen are you to — profits for their owners. how keen are you to get _ profits for their owners. how keen are you to get a — profits for their owners. how keen are you to get a deal— profits for their owners. how keen are you to get a deal and - profits for their owners. how keen are you to get a deal and get - profits for their owners. how keen are you to get a deal and get a - profits for their owners. how keen l are you to get a deal and get a deal quickly? i’m are you to get a deal and get a deal cuickl ? �* , ~ quickly? i'm very keen and i'm available _ quickly? i'm very keen and i'm available now. _ quickly? i'm very keen and i'm available now. i— quickly? i'm very keen and i'm available now. i don't - quickly? i'm very keen and i'm i available now. i don't understand why i met the rail minister on december the 15th at the house of commons along with the employers and

they've done nothing since. they didn't even ask us to call off the strikes. they were perfectly content for them to go ahead and we have a government that does not get involved and keep saying they are facilitating discussions and when we go to the discussions, the employers tell me, directly that the government will not give them a mandate that can settle the dispute. i've got the rebuttal from the government on the points that you made that they say that while there has not been a formal meeting involve ministers since the 15th of december the rail minister has been in regular contact with all parties pushing for a resolution, furthermore the action agreed at the meetings were for unions and employers, not her majesties government and they say it is wrong to say that the government, sorry, wrong to say that the government won't give a mandate to employers, they say they gave the employers a mandate in early december to agree a fair and reasonable deal. you have got your perspective and the government is giving its perspective, but the question is when will this finally resolved, and

network rail say they think the situation in terms of ending the strikes is within touching distance because they say that there needs to because they say that there needs to be better communication of things that have been misunderstood? hearing you speak, it sounds like this could go on forever. it hearing you speak, it sounds like this could go on forever.- this could go on forever. it won't to on this could go on forever. it won't go on forever- — this could go on forever. it won't go on forever. we _ this could go on forever. it won't go on forever. we have - this could go on forever. it won't go on forever. we have got - this could go on forever. it won't go on forever. we have got a - this could go on forever. it won't - go on forever. we have got a meeting being arranged for monday or tuesday next week with all the actors, including the minister for rail next week with all the actors, including the ministerfor rail and we will be working with constructive solutions. we can contact with network rail last night saying that they want to talk to us about the documents they have put forward and the detail of the content of that and i am in discussions with the train operating companies through their group, the rail delivery group, to look at what can be delivered, but the government do hold the key because in the contracts that they have with the train operating companies, the secretary of state for transport is responsible for the conduct of industrial relations and the

mandate, the negotiating mandate. mick lynch, leader of the rmt rail union. they have 248—hour strikes this week and as lead, the train drivers union also have a strike this week on thursday. mick lynch talking to my colleague, joanna gosling. now for some of the stories making headlines across the united kingdom. investigation work is continuing in perth this morning after a fatal fire at a hotel in the city. three people died at the new county hotel early yesterday morning. let's speak now to our reporter morag kinniburgh. do we know what caused the fire? no word officially from any of the authorities so far about what caused the fire. we understand that

authorities are contacting the next of kin of the people who died at the moment and we know that the fire and police investigations have continued to investigate the cause of the fire and they began that yesterday at around 630 when the fire was brought under control and extinguished and they have been working ever since and that. we heard from local people who are simply trying to get their head around what happened when fire broke out. they cannot make sense of it and it could take a long time before we know what happened. as well as the fire and safety investigators, the police investigators, the police investigators, they have been structural engineers on site at the new county hotel in central perth, trying to assess the safety of the building. we spoke to many passers—by and a member of staff who was on duty on the night of the fire at the hotel and he declined to go on camera but did explain how he was woken in the early hours of monday morning at around 5:35am and managed to get himself up and out to safety

and escorted around 16 guests out to safety on the pavement of the road here behind me. we know that the staff and guests involved were offered alternative accommodation around perth and help with any essentials with many of them having to leave behind all of their belongings, their luggage and medicines and so on and i spoke to one of those hotel guests who managed to escape the fire with his wife and daughter this morning. around for 30 one person was shouting — around for 30 one person was shouting loudly that his room is on fire -- _ shouting loudly that his room is on fire -- at— shouting loudly that his room is on fire —— at around 4:30am. i came out and checked, — fire —— at around 4:30am. i came out and checked, and i could see the room _ and checked, and i could see the room is — and checked, and i could see the room is firing, sol and checked, and i could see the room is firing, so i wait here. me, my daughter— room is firing, so i wait here. me, my daughter and my wife. many room is firing, so i wait here. me, my daughter and my wife. many of the ci streets my daughter and my wife. many of the city streets in — my daughter and my wife. many of the city streets in central _ my daughter and my wife. many of the city streets in central perth _ my daughter and my wife. many of the city streets in central perth have - city streets in central perth have been closed off through the whole of

yesterday and some of the cordons have been lifted to allow businesses to get back to their daily business and trade and one of the retailers we spoke to did say that it was really hard to have lost trading at this time of year and he now managed to reopen his business but he also understands how serious the tragedy was and the work of the investigators has to be allowed to go on. many local mps and councillors, msps, have sent their condolences and joined those locally here calling for a full and thorough investigation and it may be many days, weeks, even months before we know what caused the fire but it has been a very difficult time to begin the new year in this way and it might be a long time before we know exactly what caused the fire.- exactly what caused the fire. morag, thank ou exactly what caused the fire. morag, thank you very _ exactly what caused the fire. morag, thank you very much. _ in the next few weeks the tallest wind turbine on english soil will go up

beside the river severn near bristol. at one hundred and fifty metres high, it's seen as one way to make energy cheaper — and greener. paul barltrop reports it'll need 100 tonnes of steel, 1,000 tonnes of concrete. when the new turbine goes up next month, it'll dwarf others built years ago on severnside. as people come and visit bristol from the south west and travel over the bridge there, they'll see this turbine standing proud behind the rest of them. and this is a real testament of hope for the future, really. it's not been easy. set up by a local community group, the seven—year project has had support from many engineers and experts. the site is old council land, and onlyjust big enough. it's a very large turbine. it is the largest in england, 150 meters to tip height. size does make a difference, it makes a lot more energy if it's bigger and higher, and the constraints around this area are very substantial.

next door is a gas fired power—plant built when prices were far lower, the new turbine won't just be much greener, it'll also generate handsome profits for the local community who own it. they hope many others will follow. there's been a huge and dramatic reduction in cost of wind turbines in the last couple of decades, and they're now the cheapest in cash terms, the cheapest forms of new generation, as well as being clean and quick. so it's a slam dunk. why wouldn't we be doing it? for the last seven years, the government have made it almost impossible to put up wind turbines onshore in england. this is a rare exception. the rules now, though, are going to be changed, so there could be many more appearing in the future. paul barltrop, bbc points west, avonmouth. thousands of photographs offering a glimpse of post—war

coventry have been digitised thanks to the painstaking work of volunteers. the negatives, dating from the 1940s to the 60s were rescued from a skip and belong to press photographer arthur cooper. they've been released online by coventry university. the first i heard of the arthur cooper find was when i visited coventry digital�*s office, and when i saw it ijust couldn't believe that there were over 8000 photographs, none of which had been identified. arthur was a freelance photographer and he worked the coventry patch for birmingham post and mail, midland daily news. arthur passed away quite a few years ago. the coventry telegraph archivist walked past arthur's house, outside of which was a skip, and the negatives were being put into the skip. and so they were rescued and they went to mirrorpix down in watford and they have cleaned them up and given them

back to coventry. so what we did was go to a variety of coventry organisations that know a fair bit about coventry history and they were able to identify people, places, events. i have helped to identify approximately 700 of these photos precisely with cathedral personnel, and sometimes the date of the event that they recorded. the important thing for me is it captures a moment of history that have gone. and without this find, those moments would be lost forever.

a london—based entrepreneur — craig cohon — has made making the biggest new year's resolution of his life. the former executive begins a 4,000 kilometre walk from london to istanbul today — to campaign for carbon removal. he's due to arrive in istanbul in earlyjune, just before his 60th birthday. the project comes after he became the first private citizen to undertake a personal �*lifetime carbon audit�* following the cop26 climate conference. i have been a polluting, privileged white male businessman and i have put a lot of c02 into the world and i�*ve decided to remove all of that from 1963 and put forward carbon credits to get that carbon down. we have 2 trillion tonnes of carbon we have 2 trillion tonnes of carbon we have put up there and boomers need

to be part of the solution because i�*m not going to leave this planet to my kids and grandkids worse off than when i came into it. i to my kids and grandkids worse off than when i came into it.— than when i came into it. i think it took ou than when i came into it. i think it took you two _ than when i came into it. i think it took you two months _ than when i came into it. i think it took you two months to _ than when i came into it. i think it took you two months to work - than when i came into it. i think it took you two months to work out | than when i came into it. i think it - took you two months to work out your carbon footprint. how on earth did you do it? i carbon footprint. how on earth did ou do it? , , you do it? i interviewed my parents who are 85 — you do it? i interviewed my parents who are 85 and _ you do it? i interviewed my parents who are 85 and 84 _ you do it? i interviewed my parents who are 85 and 84 who _ you do it? i interviewed my parents who are 85 and 84 who are - you do it? i interviewed my parents who are 85 and 84 who are now - who are 85 and 84 who are now converts to the mission, so to speak, and we talked about how much beef i ate and how many flights i took and where did i travel and harmony cars, t—shirts and ibai, it�*s a huge amount of work and it was 28 times more than the average person in the uk and ifelt kind of ashamed of that and i am guilty, totally guilty but not to blame, so i want to reverse, remove and redeem myself, so to speak and i am getting the balance off my debt, the debt of my books for carbon and i�*m campaigning and walking across europe as a start of the campaign to hopefully inspire other people to get involved. we are in a pretty bad

situation in the world right now and this is a little bit of hope and i think we can make the change we need to make, but we have to start now and stop talking about it. explained to me more — and stop talking about it. explained to me more in _ and stop talking about it. explained to me more in how— and stop talking about it. explained to me more in how you _ and stop talking about it. explained to me more in how you will- and stop talking about it. explained to me more in how you will do - and stop talking about it. explained to me more in how you will do it. to me more in how you will do it because you have gone back and worked out how many burgers you have eaten in all your years on the planet, probably too many, more than you want to tell me, but to use your words, how do you redeem that? i think there is something called carbon removal so we have to not only reduce and mitigate the amount of carbon we put in the environment take the two trillion tonnes down and we can do that with planting a huge green belt around the city of london as an example and do it by putting c02 into concrete when we build new buildings and we can do that by taking old trees, christmas trees and turning them into a better type of forestation that sucks carbon in so there�*s lots of interesting technology and we will

have to scale it up because we are not changing fast enough on reducing the footprint and so this is a way to get people interested in a solution and bring some hope to this era of war and pestilence and famine and floods and inflation and high energy prices, so maybe we can do something and it starts with people my age. something and it starts with people m ace. �* , ., my age. ok, let's say there are --eole my age. ok, let's say there are people your _ my age. ok, let's say there are people your age _ my age. ok, let's say there are people your age you _ my age. ok, let's say there are people your age you cannot - my age. ok, let's say there are i people your age you cannot afford the time or whatever else to go on these kind of walks you are embarking on. are there any smaller things people could do that might make a difference?— things people could do that might make a difference? absolutely you can, make a difference? absolutely you can. number— make a difference? absolutely you can, number one _ make a difference? absolutely you can, number one start _ make a difference? absolutely you can, number one start thinking - make a difference? absolutely you i can, number one start thinking about removing past carbon, so this is not everyone, is for people who have the means and opportunity to think about their past carbon footprint and you can you can go where there are interesting technology is that you can understand and invest in and i

think that is the start. this is not about plastic reduction or buying an electric car, this is looking backwards to look forward and we have to think about it, 2 trillion tonnes is 2 trillion baby elephants. martin is coming back 2pm, busy taking selfies at the moment, but first let�*s look at the weather. today weather could not be more different than yesterday. 0nly today weather could not be more different than yesterday. only the far north of scotland seeing sunshine early on and for most of us we have these weather fronts piling in from the atlantic, bringing cloud and rain as well and we have stronger winds as well but the winds are coming all the way from the atlantic from the azores, bringing in some higher temperatures even as we head into the evening, for much of the country, the temperatures will be in double figures, very mired but with rain around. the far north of scotland sees clearer skies and always colder here but even here we will see rain overnight and further rain pushes eastwards on the

strong winds and heavy rain over the hills of wales and also scotland threatening local flooding hills of wales and also scotland threatening localflooding perhaps threatening local flooding perhaps by threatening localflooding perhaps by the end of the night by which time the worst of the rain should have moved away. still very mild out there away from northernmost parts of scotland and heading into tomorrow, again, it�*s going to be a windy day but we will see sunshine this time, particularly through the midlands and may be parts of scotland as well and there will be a few showers and we have this stream of showers affecting northern ireland and moving in southern scotland, the far north of england and a bit of rain in the far south—west as well. the strongest winds will be crossing in wales, not far away from gale force around some of the hills and coasts in the west. very mild day for most parts of the country with temperatures remaining in double figures around 7 degrees in double figures around 7 degrees in northern areas of scotland but at least we have some sunshine. as we move into thursday, after a brief respite, we have another area of low pressure winding in from the atlantic which will bring strong winds and rain as well and had a bit

it might start dry in many places but a little sunshine but cloud will tend to increase and one or two showers out of the main rain coming into western areas and in the north—west of the uk the wind will strengthen significantly with gales likely by the of the day but those temperatures making 10 degrees in the central belt of scotland, 13 in southern parts of england and wales. quite a deep area of low pressure, seven or eight millibars, which will bring gusts of 60 or 70 mph after dark across scotland before it moves away and another weather system begins to arrive from the atlantic in time for the start of the weekend. so, essentially, we keep this very unsettled weather going by the end of the week and into the weekend as well for showers, perhaps longer spells of rain, windy at times, but still mild.

this is bbc news. the headlines... the government admits the health service is facing an "unprecedented challenge" amid warnings the strain on it this winter is intolerable. new year misery on the railways with another strike — as 40,000 members of the rmt union walk out again in their dispute over pay and working conditions government to come to its senses so that the passengers can get what they need from the railway and that our members can get a decent settlement. ——we need the government to come to its senses so that the passengers can get what they need from the railway and that our members can get a decent settlement. i want those employers and trade unions around the table and trying to hammer out a deal so that we can get this dispute resolved so that we can have a brighter future for the rail industry.

a british couple, diane and ron hughes, are among four people to die in a helicopter crash