podcast has been profound. tim muffett, bbc news. you can watch that special episode of you, me and the big c on the bbc news channel at 8.30 this evening and you can listen in on bbc sounds. barrett strong, a pivotal figure in the history of motown records, has died at the age of 81. he sang the label's first major hit, money, in 1959, and went on to co—write classic songs like i heard it through the grapevine, war and papa was a rollin�* stone. time for a look at the weather. here's stav daneos. this afternoon will be a good

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tuesday, plenty of blustery showers further north. gail is developing in scotland towards the end of the day. temperatures, single figures in the north, 11—12 across the south. tuesday night into wednesday we could see some disruptive gales across the northern half of scotland, severe gales across the north highlands into orkney and the shetlands, which is likely to cause some disruption to the ferry services, for example, on wednesday morning. stay tuned to your bbc local radio for that. on wednesday morning you can see the squeeze in the isobars as the low pressure pushes into the norwegian see, and then high pressure wants to build in, but we have got this weather front hanging around, bringing patchy rain, but to the north of it, a few showers, to the south of it, generally dry, with variable cloud, again, double figures for much of england and wales, a little bit cooler further north. the

england and wales, a little bit coolerfurther north. the high pressure moves northwards towards the end of the week which should move most of the weather fronts and the stronger winds away from northern scotland. much of the country will end up having a settled end to the week with temperatures above normal. a reminder of our top story... the nhs in england is to get thousands of extra hospital beds and ambulances in a bid to tackle delays in emergency care. we nowjoin the bbc team is where you are. good afternoon. it's 1.34pm and here's your latest sports news. rory mcilroy admits it was mentally tough, but was happy he didn't let his emotions get in the way

as he beat his rival patrick reed to win the dubai desert classic today. the american here is part of the rebel liv golf tour which mcilroy has repeatedly spoken out against. reed called the northern irishman an "immature little child," mcilroy says reed "isn't living in reality". it all added to the drama on the final day. mcilroy began the day with a three—shot lead, but reed found himself level heading into the 18th. mcilroy needed this to win it and made the putt, describing the victory as "emotional". newcastle manager eddie howe hopes he can help new signing anthony gordon unleash what he calls his "huge potential" after his move from everton. the 21—year—old has signed a 4.5 year deal in a transfer worth potentially up to £16 million. the forward hasn't started a game since boxing day, but could make his debut for newcastle when they play west ham on saturday. i think he will give us a lot. he is

a young player with huge attributes, huge potential, so we'll have a big impact on our season. very quick, dynamic player. versatile. come play—off both sides. i think the best is yet to come from him. i think he can add something different for us. i'm delighted to get him. i'm delighted to get him. leeds united are understood to be closing in on their third signing of the january transfer window, withjuventus midfielder weston mckennie due to arrive at the club today. it is anticipated he will sign a loan deal, but that could turn into a permanent transfer. the usa international had attracted interest from elsewhere in the premier league, but has opted for the elland road club, where fellow countrymen tyler adams and brenden aaronson already play. brighton have rejected a second bid from arsenal for midfielder moises caicedo and told the gunners he is not for sale. the ecuador international has told brighton he wants to leave the club and in turn caicedo has been instructed to remain away

from training until the transfer window closes tomorrow night. arsenal as well as chelsea had offers for caicedo turned down last week. the latest offer from mikael aretea's side is thought if to be in the region of £70 million, but brightont remain adamant he will not be sold. joao cancelo could be moving on from manchester city. the joao cancelo could be moving on from manchester city.— manchester city. the emergence of rico lewis and _ manchester city. the emergence of rico lewis and nathan _ manchester city. the emergence of rico lewis and nathan -- _ manchester city. the emergence of rico lewis and nathan -- nathan i manchester city. the emergence of i rico lewis and nathan -- nathan rk's rico lewis and nathan —— nathan rk's improved form has given pep guardiola options on the left side of defence. australian open champion novak djokovic says he is focused on making more history in the sport after winning his 22nd grand slam title, which brought him level with rafael nadal.

the 35—year—old world number one has been showing off the trophy he has now won ten times. djokovic admits this year's tournament in melbourne took a huge mental toll on him due to off court controversies and fears about how the crowd would respond to him after he was deported from australia last year due to his covid vaccine status. djokovic says he was delighted by how he was welcomed in melbourne and is already planning his return next year, iamas i am as fierce competitor is anybody there, really. ilove i am as fierce competitor is anybody there, really. i love to go out, weather it is a grand slam or any other category of any event in the world i always give my best. i don't like to lose. i do everything i possibly can to wind every match i play. i think there is still a lot of that fire inside of me that is burning of passion for the sport and competition and i will keep on coming back as long as i feel that i can perform at the highest level and be able to be one of the candidates

to wind our slam. former all black player campbelljohnstone has publicly come out as gay on new zealand television, in what is a first for the national rugby team. the 43—year—old prop had already told his family and close friends. it's been hailed as a "momentous moment for new zealand's rainbow community". johnstone says "living a double life was hard" and he hopes speaking out will help to change perceptions. within myself i was never really comfortable with the whole concept. my dream was to be an all black. what did you have in your mind about what an all black was? manly. strong. possibly had a wife, kids. i pushed that side of me down deeper and deeper and it slowly starts to affect you. it's hard living a double life or living a lie.

at least 30 people have been killed in an explosion at a mosque in the pakistani city of peshawar. the blast in the northwest of the country happened at around 1.30pm when the mosque was packed with worshippers. more than 150 people were injured. a section of the building was destroyed and officials say people are buried under the rubble. several others are being taken to local hospitals. the cause of the explosion is unclear. a peshawar police chief has said they cannot rule out the possibility of a suicide bombing. our pakistan correspondent caroline davies sent this update a short while ago. what we know about this blast so far is that it happened inside a mosque inside a police compound in the city of peshawar. according to a police official that spoken to the bbc, the blast and the force of the blast collapsed half of a wall inside the mosque. a video that's been circulated on local media and social media and has been verified by the bbc shows the inside of the mosque after the blast.

half of the wall has caved into the mosque. there is rubble and debris on the floor and you can see people clambering over that in order to try to get out. now, lady reading hospital in peshawar has declared an emergency. they are calling for blood donations to try to help. they have told the bbc that they are still receiving the injured and they have also received people who have died, as well. a government minister speaking earlier has said that they know that the majority of people that have been injured and died in this blast are police and he has suggested that they were potentially the target of this explosion. the parents of a young woman in the uk who died after taking a highly toxic chemical compound sold illegally in diet pills are to meet government ministers ahead of it being reclassified as a poison. campaigners say that tablets containing dnp have been responsible for the deaths of at least 32 vulnerable adults. rhaya barton reports.

bethany shipsey was just 21 when she ingested the dnp that would kill her. she had been raped and had a history of overdose. but no—one in the hospital in february 2017 was prepared for the effects of dnp. there's no antidote, and her father has campaigned for greater awareness ever since. the body heats up to an extent where they're like... literally like an athlete running an olympics, where eventually, unfortunately, they go into cardiac arrest. their body can't withstand it anymore. so that's no reason to thank the ministerfor what should have already been prevented happening in the first place. bought over the internet as a slimming aid, there were no controls other than the food standards agency treating it as not fit for human consumption. mr shipsey�*s campaign took him

to confront the man, who sold her the dnp from ukraine. who is this? you sold her the dnp that killed her. i watched her die in hospital in four hours. i'm really sorry, if i could do anything. if i could, at that moment, if i knew. firing. but as well as a poison, dnp is also an explosive — a highly dangerous substance that should have been on the statute book. the government will now class it as a poison. look at the green eyes. absolutely amazing. totally natural. but for mr shipsey, after 32 deaths, it's not enough. what we'd actually like to see now, immediately, is a ban on dnp. we're aware that other countries, for example, australia and russia, have applied bans for any uses — based on the number of deaths in the uk, which is quite ironic.

unfortunately, the uk has the highest number of deaths. bethany�*s legacy means that from next year only a pharmacist can sell dnp and only to someone with an explosives licence in the hope that no more young people will lose their lives. rhaya barton, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: the prime minister insists he acted decisively in sacking conservative party chairman, nadhim zahawi, but labour say rishi sunak must "come clean" about what he knew and when. at least 32 people have been killed and 150 others injured in a blast in the pakistani city of peshawar. a £1 billion plan to improve nhs care in england, including thousands more hospital beds and hundreds of new ambulances, is being set out by ministers.

#today sees the start of a clean air zone in parts of newcastle and gateshead, with the most polluting taxis,buses and lorries charged up to fifty pounds to enter the zone. but drivers of private cars will be exempt. while newcastle council says the scheme will help clean up air pollution some local businesses claim it'll drive customers away. mark denten reports. eight o'clock this morning, rush hour over the tyne bridge, and the first day of the clean air zone. charges of up to £50 now enforced for the most polluting taxis, buses and lorries. i think it is a great idea. i mean, i think... i wish it would expand further. going to make, like, taxis and stuff more expensive,

so that is kind of a worry. but we have all got to, like, play our part. needs to be more money, l more funding put into public transport to encourage people out of their cars, otherwise it is never| going to be a success. well, the early morning traffic is flowing well across the tyne bridge this morning, but you can't help noticing that the vast, vast majority of it is made up of private cars. of course, they do not have to pay under this new scheme, while the owners of older and more polluting coaches, buses and taxis do, and for them today means big changes. for peter, who runs a taxi in newcastle, the new scheme could be the final straw. the other day, there was a private car was parked over there, and the amount of smoke that was coming out the back of it was horrendous. everybody could see the smoke now. he doesn't have to pay a penny, he can drive around the city 2a hours and not get charged. and basically we are in and out of the city all the time and they are charging £12.50 a day. now you're thinking, "is it time just to pack up, go and do something else?" you are seriously contemplating...? well, i have done this for 18 years, but at what point does enough becomes enough? you can'tjust keep paying out all the time.

but duncan, who runs a cafe, has a health condition and reckons the scheme should go further. this is a polluted street, it is logged as a polluted street, and, yes, i have had a diagnosed sinus problem because i have been breathing dirty air. i think it is a step in the right direction. whether it will have a net effect on improving air quality, i would say no because not everybody is being charged and not everybody is being equally and fairly encouraged to reduce car usage, van usage, bus usage. more polluting vans and light goods vehicles will also have to pay £12.50 a day to enter the clean air zone, but not untiljuly. newcastle council says grants are available towards the cost of adapting vehicles. mark denten, bbc look north, newcastle. what do the wembley stadium arch, the shard and the big one roller—coaster in blackpool all have in common? the steel tubes used in their construction were manufactured in corby in northamptonshire.

what do the wembley stadium arch, the shard and the big one now tata steel has announced a multi—million pound investment to modernise the plant. they hope corby will become the country's first net zero steel factory. stuart ratcliffe has been given a tour. corby has a long and proud history of steel making, and that tradition continues today. here, steel coils are transformed into tubes for use in the construction industry. i think corby is very important to tata. we're one of the few tube makers left in the uk and the only tube maker that still makes hot finished tubes in the uk. but this process is power—hungry. and now the double whammy of extreme pressures on the national grid, plus rising energy costs, have forced a rethink. just one of the furnaces here uses about ten megawatts of electricity per hour. that's the equivalent of the electricity for 11,000 homes, which is why from 11:00, this machinery is now switched off.

of course, in the longer term, better fuel efficiency is the answer, but that can only come from modernising this ao—year—old plant, and tata is planning to dojust that, whilst also making this site the country's first carbon net zero steel factory. decarbonisation is a challenge for the industry but also represents a huge opportunity. to have spoken today about our plans for reducing our energy consumption and our path to net zero manufacturing, and it's really good to say that we're not talking about a plan anymore, we have started thatjourney. so if this a huge vote of confidence in corby, would you say for tata? certainly, investments of this scale haven't been seen for generations in corby, so it's a huge show of faith from the business in the tube making here at corby. and that vote of confidence is certainly welcome news. as, in the last few weeks, this town has been battered by a string of redundancies and closures. but as ever, corby is looking

forward, and ironically it's now the steelworks which is playing its part in creating a greener, more energy efficient future for the town. stuart ratcliffe, bbc look east, corby. you've probably heard of counting sheep to help you fall asleep — but how would you go about counting the wild deer that roam around ten square miles of dense woodland? the answer is a high—tech drone camera. that's what they're using in ashdown forest, in east sussex — where the deer population needs to be closely monitored to keep the roads safe. yvette austin went to find out more. surveying the ashdown forest from the air. this winter's cold, clear days perfect for spotting the wildlife that inhabit the ten square miles of woods and heathland. ecologists are here to build up a detailed picture of deer populations. so we're using this drone today. it's equipped with a thermal imaging sensor on the camera there.

it has three cameras on the device. it's a wide—angle, thermal—imaging and a super zoom lens. the weather conditions today only allowed a short demonstration. but the deer nearby were easily seen nonetheless. so that's a group of primarily female deer. and the thermal signature, we can see there's 21 in this group. oh, yeah. the rest is in the corner there. the survey is all part of the forest's deer management programme. numbers of fallow deer are species, not native to the uk — need to be kept in check. fallow deer tend to have... they're a herd species. we do see — tend to see a lot more of them from numbers ranging from 20 to even 100 deer in one herd. you can imagine them going through a wood block, not being pressured and staying there. they're just going to completely

change the biodiversity. managing their numbers also helps prevent scenes like this — the result of a deer collision. luckily, the driver of this car made a full recovery. for some years now, road accidents involving deer have been recorded in the south—east and, as time has passed, a picture has built up of where most happen. of course it does rely on the collisions being reported, but the data suggests the ashdown forest and area around tunbridge wells are hotspots. accidents in the forest have decreased in recent years since deer numbers have been managed. this winter's survey results will give staff more accurate information for future culls. so as we're flying the drone, and we locate the deer, we then put it onto the mapping system. we record the species, the age class, if we can tell from the imagery and the sex of the deer. and then it creates this distribution and density map

of the deer across the forest. the ultimate aim — a healthy forest with healthy animals. yvette austin, bbc news. police in the us state of georgia have rescued a man from an overturned patrol car seconds before it was hit by an oncoming rain. the man had stolen a police vehicle during our traffic stop. he subsequently lost control of the car which overturned on the rain tracks. radio: radio, the train struck the patrol car, i it has struck the patrol car. i believe that they may have just got the guy out in time.

radio: someonejust got in my patrol car! | radio: whoever got it is driving at a high rate of speed - with the lights on eastbound. i have eyes on it. coming up to the connector eastbound. he is coming up to university. a1, standby. 41. 41 hard on the train tracks. he is going to roll over. a1, rollover. train! get up! train! move! radio: radio, trainl struck the patrol car. good job, officers. got everybody safe. they just saved that man's life for sure. there are several billion

combinations but only one solution. for many, the rubik cube isn'tjust a game at a competitive sport. hundreds of bands of the puzzle have descended on glasgow this weekend. the cube has experienced something of a renaissance recently, with a new generation taking up the puzzle during the covid pandemic. we went along to meet some of the competitors. i can usually solve the cube in under six seconds. my name is tymon kolasinski and i'm one of the current 3x3 rubik's cube world record holders. we're at a competition here in glasgow. there are 155 registered competitors and they're all trying to compete and get their best results. the rubik's cube is very important to me because it's, like, i have my own distraction from whatever's happening. it's reallyjust something that's really calming to me.

i first started cubing two years ago on christmas day and the first one i solved was a couple of hours later. once i picked it up, i couldn't put it down. we always had a rubik's cube lying somewhere around the house, so at one point i was like, "well, it'll be cool to solve one". so i looked up how to do it on the internet, and when i did, i also came across competitions. basically, ever since then, i'vejust been cubing, like, all day, every day. you can choose how competitive you are about it. i mean, for me, it's all competitive! as well as the standard 3x3, this competition offers - events such as one—handed, i 3x3 blindfolded, then variations for 3x3 like the 2x2, - which is a smaller version, and the 6x6 or 7x7, i which are a lot bigger. i can personally do it one—handed, but i'm trying to learn blindfolded, but it's really hard. it's really addicting and sometimes you can be up really late doing it and not even realize it.

now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello, there. much of this week will be fine and settled, thanks to higher pressure. but around the middle part of the week, there is a chance of some wet, windy weather. stormy weather, in fact, across scotland, particularly the northern half of scotland, for a time. today, though, we're under the influence of this area of high pressure. you can see the ridge extending across the country. so mostly fine and settled. this is the low pressure system, though, which will bring that wet and windy spell across the north of the uk, as we move to tuesday and wednesday. for the rest of this afternoon, though, many places will stay fine and settled, plenty of sunshine around. temperatures into double figures across the south of the uk, closer to the seasonal norm further north. now the clouds will be building across scotland, northern ireland this evening. and as we move through the night, this band of rain will sink southwards across the country, lying through central parts of the uk by around dawn. ahead of it dry with some clear spells quite chilly. further north and west behind the weather front,

it will be less cold but windy with frequent showers. that weather front will work its way southwards as we move through tuesday. this area of low pressure starts to exert its force now across the north of the country. so the winds will be picking up across scotland and northern ireland with gales developing later in the day. there'll be sunny spells and plenty of showers running in on that strong westerly wind, a bit of wintriness over the high ground across scotland, too. but for much of england and wales, once we lose that early band of cloud and rain, it'll be bright with some sunshine temperatures into double figures again. but through tuesday night, certainly we've got some concerns with some very strong winds which will affect scotland, particularly the northern half of scotland. we could see gusts in excess of 70, 80 miles an hour for northern scotland in towards the northern isles. and you can see the squeeze in those isobars as that low pressure system moves in towards the norwegian sea early on wednesday. so a very windy start across the north of the uk. the winds will ease down though through the day. we'll have some rain affecting northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england.

to the south of it though, variable cloud, some sunshine, temperatures into double figures and the winds are not a feature there, but the winds will ease down further north as you move through thursday and friday. and if anything, this area of high pressure starts to exert its force across the country. just keeping the weather front and the stronger winds at bay, mainly affecting northern parts of the uk. but generally speaking, for the end of the week and indeed into the weekend, it will be largely settled thanks to high pressure.

this is bbc news. the headlines... the nhs in england is to get thousands of extra hospital beds and hundreds of ambulances to tackle delays in emergency care, but there are questions about who will staff the extra resources. we have 100,000 vacancies in the nhs, more than 150,000 vacancies in social care, so staffing really becomes the absolutely critical constraint about whether some of the ambitions and improvements in today's plan will be able to be delivered. rishi sunak defends his handling of allegations about nadhim zahawi's tax affairs, saying he "acted pretty decisively" in sacking him. what i've done is follow a process, which is the right process. integrity is really important to me.