who was standing in richmond park, 11 miles away from the city, which gives such a dramatic perspective of the moon. extraordinary picture. time for a look at the weather. here's stav da naos. from moon rising to sunsetting. yes, it looked fantastic _ from moon rising to sunsetting. yes, it looked fantastic and _ from moon rising to sunsetting. 133 it looked fantastic and you from moon rising to sunsetting. was it looked fantastic and you will be lucky to capture that in central and southern parts of the country with clear skies but here it will be very are cold and frosty. further north, more cloud around generally. so not much good looking up to the skies there. high pressure is holding on which is why we are seeing a lot of fine and dry weather in central and southern areas. through the night, those patches of mr fog, and southern areas. through the night, those patches of mrfog, and it southern areas. through the night, those patches of mr fog, and it will turn a lot colder as well. these are town and city values in the countryside. central and southern england could be down to —5 —6. scotland and northern ireland, where they have the cloud, it will be less

cold. patchy rain and drizzle coming to scotland and northern ireland through the day tomorrow. it would tend to fizzle out and allow some sunshine to develop that further south after a cold and frosty start with the mist and fog, it will be a lovely sunny day. after the cold start, temperatures are are reaching 7-9 but it start, temperatures are are reaching 7—9 but it could be colder weather mist and fog hold on. a repeat performance to wednesday. a cold and frosty start. i put the isobars on to show you what's going on across the north—west of the country. it will be turning wetter and windier later in the day as this active front starts to push into western scotland. again, temperatures pretty much where we should be for the time of year. it is later wednesday into wednesday night that we start to see the wind is picking up a north and west scotland. gusts up to 75 mph, yellow met office warning for that. a band of rain will sweep across the uk. thursday, much colder air to our shores but then the orange colours return for friday and the weekend. it will turn milder and high

pressure still nearby. a lot of dry weather around to end the week once weather around to end the week once we lose the wind and rain across scotland and very mild as we head into the weekend, temperatures above the seasonal norm. with high pressure nearby, it stays fine and dry with plenty of sunshine. that it, good night. thanks, stav. and that's bbc news at ten on 6th of january. newsnight with victoria derbyshire, which isjust getting underway on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. but from the ten team, it's goodnight. good evening. good evening, this is your sports news where we start with football and leeds united have parted company with their manager. jesse marsch has been sacked after less than a year in charge. it follows leeds 1—0 defeat at nottingham forest which left them without a premier league win since november. they're only above the relegation zone on goal difference. adam cottier has more.

jesse marsch acknowledge the leeds fans with a rueful expression after a seventh premier league game without a win. a sharp decline that has prompted the lead hierarchy to act, even though marsh stood defiant in the sight of his side's latest loss. we are just struggling to get the results that we feel like we deserve. the work on the inside and commitment has been good. but from a result does that to put stress on the environment and then i have to take responsibility for that and i do. he leaves after less than a year in charge after struggling to engage supporters the way his predecessor did. leed's only solace of late comes of progress in the fa cup, in the

premier league and cause for concern has lingered for such a time. with only four wins despite extensive investment in new players. i think it is a good decision. i am quite surprised i thought they would give a bit more time. while in the transfer window i think we all felt pretty positive, on the end of the transfer window night. here we are, one game later and he has gone. it is a big surprise but i am pleased that they have done it. i think it is the right thing to do. we are running out of time. they failed to make progress after the win that saw them complete the initial task of avoiding relegation last season. but the american boss leaves having only won 25% of his league games in charge. he said he didn't enjoy the job. the first thing he said when he came on is that he has to relieve the stress on the players. it was unpopular with a lot of fans that decision, leeds were

in a bit of a problem, he had a dozen games to sort it out. on the final game they stayed up at the stress hasn't gone away. with the club searching for a new boss, leeds players must focus on back—to—back premier league games against manchester united in the coming days starting at old trafford on wednesday. leeds are yet to put anyone in interim charge. man united are first up on wednesday night. the premier league has charged manchester city with more than 100 breaches of its financial rules following a four year investigation. it has referred the club to an independent commission over alleged rule breaches between 2009 and 2018. it also accused city of not cooperating since the investigation started in december 2018. city said they were "surprised" by the charges and are supported by a "body of irrefutable evidence". here's sports law barrister ashley cukier. i'm pretty sure that the primary leak want to have taken the steps it has today without having spent a lot of time with its own lawyers looking at this in detail. the sanctions go from, on one hand reprimands, fines, a slap on the wrist i suppose, all the way through to the other end which is,

potential points deductions, potential retrospective points deductions and even expulsion from the league itself in the most severe circumstances. wigan athletic have drawn their first match under new manager shaun maloney, a goalless draw at blackburn rovers. the point wasn't enough to take wiggin off of the bottom of the table but goalkeeper ben amos ensure them of a first clean sheet since october, denying been ne brereton diaz and sorba thomas in a game of limited chances. justin rose has ended his four year wait for victory with a three stoke win at the pebble beach pro am tournament. the former world number one had to wait until today to play his final nine holes to claim the title in california, but five birdies and an eagle in his final round helped him to an 11th pga title. it means he'll now take part in the masters in april and can be optimistic about his chances of getting a spot in europe's ryder cup team later in the year.

time flies by doesn't it. it's amazing how long it's been. i did happen to have my breakfast this morning and saw that come up on the golf channel, that 86 things and how many missed cuts and, mm... that's not a great reading, but it is amazing how time does fly and this just a moment to say thanks to the people have believed in me more than, probably, i do. my team have been incredible. british heavyweight anthony joshua will fight americanjermaine franklin on april the 1st at london's o2 arena. joshua lost back to back fights to world champion oleksandr usyk and will be seeking a first win since beating kubrat pulev back in 2020. franklin was beaten on points by the british boxer, dillian whyte last november a first loss in 22 fights. england women's rugby union head coach simon middleton will step down after the this year's women's six nations. middleton has led the england women's team to five titles in the six nations including four grand slams, they have also been runners up in two world cup finals and recently had a record run of winning 30 test matches in a row

between november 2019 and 2022. that's all the sport for now. now make sense of your world while so many people are on strike. across the uk, people are on strike. in england... there is a growing anger in this country. ..scotland... the workers united will never be defeated! ..northern ireland... horns sound ..and wales. how are people going to pay these bills? i workers spent more days on strike in 2022 than at any time since the 1980s. unions and bosses are further apart than ever. so why are they striking and is there an end in sight? these strikes are completely unnecessary. i'm finding it really hard, like, to heat my house, to feed my children.

our members have been. getting poorer and poorer. at the end of the day, i they deserve a pay rise. there has to be a reality check amongst the trade union colleagues about where that money would have to come from. no—one's taking it lightly but it's, kind of, the only way now we feel like we're going to be heard. if the union leaders - continue to be unreasonable, then it is my duty to take action. i'm not the grinch. i'm a trade union official and i'm determined to get a deal. the biggest strikes in a generation are happening even though fewer people are in unions. membership peaked in the late 1970s, when 13—million people were members. since then, it's declined to about 6.7 million people — about a quarter of the workforce. it's mostly in the private sector that union membership has fallen, but unions are still strong and able to flex their muscles elsewhere. strikes, increasingly,

are largely concentrated in the public sector or in the formerly public sector. so privatised utilities, for example. and we're seeing it in royal mail and we're seeing it, of course, the railways were privatised. trade unions are recognised for bargaining over pay and conditions in the public sector. that hasn't really gone away. it's been under challenge. it's got more fragmented but it still holds up. unions say strikes are a last resort and are usually called when negotiations break down. workers, when they vote to strike, first have to weigh up the alternatives. people have to see a serious injustice in the workplace and then, if they're in a unionised workplace, they think that the union can actually do something about it.

and also that they think, weighing up the costs and benefits, on balance, it's worth taking a deep breath and going on strike. the current wave of strikes has echoes in history. the uk's biggest industrial action was in 1926. the general strike shook the country, with coal miners playing a central role. one in ten men or boys of working age were employed in the coal industry. now, miners had won important gains in the 19105 and then during the first world war by having established a national system of pay bargaining. so there was an attempt by employers to abandon national minimum and to reduce the overall volume of wages, so miners resisted and workers, trade unionists in other sectors of the economy, joined them in a sympathetic strike — the general strike.

the government of the time, including the chancellor of the exchequer, winston churchill, refused to back down. after nine days, most unions called off their strikes, leaving the miners out on their own. they were ultimately unsuccessful in that the national system of pay awards was abolished in coal mining. protesters: two, four, six, eight, castle must negotiate! _ fast forward to the 1970s and the so—called winter of discontent, rolling strikes across lots of industries stopped work. rubbish piled up in the streets as refuse collectors joined the walk—outs. workers were attempting to protect themselves against attacks on their cost of living and they were on strike because many of them worked in the public sector and their wages were being controlled downwards by the then labour government that was trying to seek a way out of the high levels of inflation in britain in the 19705,

very similar to the 20205 where we are today. the disruption then was the biggest in modern times, with 29—million working days lost. estimates for today's strike suggest the total for 2022 could be 2—million. in may 1979, a conservative government led by margaret thatcher was elected and, within months, it passed new laws to limit the power of trade unions. they've certainly become less influential. they became less influential from the 19805 to the 20105. i believe they're becoming more influential now. just as in 1979, today's strikes are being driven by powerful forces of economics. the covid pandemic saw a pay freeze on many workers, and just as things were getting back to normal, came the war in ukraine, causing a huge increase in the cost of energy.

we want 10%! workers are experiencing the deepest and longest wage squeeze in 200 years. the cost of living crisis, energy prices soaring, the cost of fuel and household goods and food. people are on their knees and they're saying, "we need more. "we need a fair pay rise." inflation hit 11% as the latest wave of strikes began. the institute for fiscal studies estimates the cost of raising pay to match that across the whole of the public sector would be £18—billion. the government says that increase is unaffordable and would make inflation worse. we need to make sure that in the round, the decisions that we take don't have big economic impacts, both in terms of causing an inflationary 5piral, in terms of other wage ri5e5 a5ked by other people in the economy. also, putting money

into the economy, it causes prices to go yet higher. and that's why these are very, very difficult decisions. unions point out pay is rising more slowly in the public sector than elsewhere in the economy. public sector pay has risen on average 11% to 5% in 2022, according to the ifs. in the private sector, it's gone up about 6%. critics of unions, however, point to other factors in the argument. the people who are 5craping a living lat the moment are people working i in things like retail, - agriculture — low productivity industries with low pay. the public sector... l you know, it's certainly true that l nurses are perhaps not paid as much as they are in some other countries and so forth, but nur5e5 earn morej than the national average. unions say some of their members are on the lowest pay and they say working conditions in the public sector are being worsened, too. it's about the staffing crisis

that's been driven by 12 years of those pay cuts, but also a lack of adequate funding that has meant we've got real work intensification, excessive and unsustainable workloads. elsewhere across the economy, it's about insecure work, it's about attempts to reduce people's pensions and attacks on kind of increasing casualisation, so it is a range of factors. but bosses insist workers' demands can only be met if unions accept the need to change and modernise. look at the railways, for example, where many of these issues - have been unresolved - for generations, literally. if you take the sort of weekend rota arrangement, it's always been - dependent on overtime. that system was being argued about 50 years ago, right, - and it's still here today. and, you know, if we want to make

our public and qua5i _ public, like the railways, - have a sustainable increase in pay over time, and that's _ what we all want to see in a sense, then they've got to i increase productivity. money doesn't come from nowhere. it has to be funded, ultimately, by the industry itself. _ the research shows us that pay strikes tend to be effective, not necessarily in getting all that's claimed, but certainly in achieving a gain. it helps if you're in an occupation which isn't easily substitutable. an example of that is the barristers' strike. you can't suddenly bring in a whole load of replacement barristers to substitute for that job. barristers won one of the largest pay settlements of 2022, calling off their strike in november after the government offered a 15% increase in their fees.

and there was a pay deal worth up to 16% for members of the cwu union after a walk—out at bt. here's how the union praised that agreement to its members. but such victories come at a cost. the general public has faced months of disruption, with unions targeting the busiest periods to strike and co—ordinating their action with other unions. border force staff at the uk'5 l bu5ie5t airport5 announce eight days of strike action. this is a country right now where receiving a letter, catching a train, getting a driving test, even being collected by an ambulance or seeing a nurse might not happen. 124 different government _ departments, people who work in job

centres, in tax offices, - in the department for transport, culture, in museums and galleries. this really is a very bitter dispute and there is no end in sight. of course, it's regrettable that inconvenience is caused and, wherever possible, our members seek to minimise that, but when you've got an employer who won't budge, who won't listen, that often is the last resort to many workers. and it's an important part of the tool box that they have in order to get an employer to come and negotiate and sit round the table. but it is at the workforce's discretion to withdraw their labour. it's a fundamental right that they have. that right to strike is limited by laws which have made it harder to go on strike. unions have to hold a ballot with members voting by post. a strike can only happen if 50% of them turn out. where important public services are at stake, at least 40% must vote in favour. and since the summer, employers are allowed

to bring in agency workers to replace those striking. but those aren't the only reasons going on strike can be difficult. it's a very risky, it's a very stressful thing to do. it can mean difficult relations with your colleagues. certainly it can mean difficult relations with your immediate managers. it's not an easy decision. strike action, historically, has not been a course of action for all workers. there are some groups which haven't been able to do so. the police are one group, prison officers are another, and military personnel. the government is proposing extending some of those restrictions to other parts of the public sector, including paramedics and firefighters. that follows other legislation introduced over the years to reduce the impact of strikes. the laws on who can strike and where have changed since the 19705. now it's only possible to go on strike when you're in direct

dispute with your employer at your own place of work. a poll in october found 60% of the public generally support workers taking industrial action, with 33% opposed. but will that support continue? we think that public support is really enduring. we know that everyone is looking to this industrial action because it means something for them, too. a win for members taking action is a win for all and that public support is really important to keep that pressure on employers, on government, to make sure that those workers get a fair pay deal. i think public opinion on this can be very volatile. - at the moment, for example, - there's plenty of support for nurses and medical workers, generally. whether that will be maintained i if there were serious strikes over a long period of time, _

where waiting lists were going up and up and up and up, i doubt. ithink, you know, opinion i could shift very, very quickly. whistle blows for now, these strikes are going to impact many of us — students, patients, passengers and all the other users of the industries taking action. the number of strikes has risen, with no sign so far of a resolution. so, what's the way out? the way to end the current wave of strikes is to ensure that we get wages rising across britain. the priority for the government is to stabilise the economy and to grow the economy and in order to do that you need to make sure that workers have wages in their pocket that mean they can not only keep their heads above water but they can go out and continue to stimulate demand in the economy. this intensive period of strike action will come to an end. people's personal circumstances,

people can't survive without wages, and they can only carry it on for a certain amount of time. most people don't have large savings to buffer them against difficult times. most people are not being affected by these strikes. i unless the government sort of bottles and gives in, - i think these strikes will settle down. i we won't have these _ inflation—busting pay increases. but it does depend on the government having the will to, _ you know, override temporary unpopularity on this. - as inflation declines, the pressures themselves, the immediate pressures that are so acute that make people prepared to take strike action, will decline as well. people adjust again... ..to making their already declined wages stretch, because it's that much easier to make it stretch when inflation isn't as high

as it is at the moment. hello there. on monday, it was england and wales that had the best of the day's sunshine. blue skies like these were pretty commonplace. this weather watcher picture happens to be from cornwall. for scotland and northern ireland, there was a bit more in the way of cloud around, but still a lot of dry weather. bit of a change, though, into tuesday. a weak weather front brings the risk of a few spots of rain, whereas across most southern areas, we're looking at a cold and a frosty start to the day widely across most of england and wales, and as well as that, the risk of some dense fog — quite widespread fog, i think, across southern england and east anglia — could bring some localised disruption first thing tuesday morning, but most of that fog

will tend to lift and clear by the time we get through the second half of the afternoon. temperatures, mild 6s and 7s for parts of england and wales, but further north it's relatively mild. but with that comes this stripe of cloud and the prospect ofjust one or two spots of rain falling from that cloud. through tuesday night, what's left of our weather front continues to bring areas of cloud across northern ireland, across parts of northern england, southern scotland, and it's where we keep those cloudier skies that the frost is kept at bay. further south, it's another cold one. again, we'll probably see temperatures getting down to about —6 celsius in the coldest spots. for wednesday, we've got another weather front that's going to be approaching the north—west of the uk. isobars pinching together, telling you it is going to be an increasingly windy day. but it's mist and fog again that we'll probably have to start the day across england and wales with that morning frost melting away. sunshine follows, but further northwards, for scotland and northern ireland, it turns increasingly blustery and eventually rain getting into the north—west of the uk. now, we've got some even stronger winds on the way through wednesday night,

particularly running in ahead of this cold front and particularly affecting north—west scotland, where gusts of wind could reach 75mph, potentially disruptive gusts of wind for a time. the cold front itself will then continue to push its way southwards and eastwards as we go through wednesday night, and by the time we get to thursday, it's still going to be a windy and blustery day, but the winds will be starting to calm down across these northern areas. however, following our cold front through, this strap of cloud, a few patches of rain on that, we have cooler air working in. showers for scotland. well, they'll be falling as snow in the mountains above about a00m elevation, so quite high up. but for shetland, some of the showers here will be wintry — you'll probably see a bit of sleet or hail mixed in with those — and temperatures down on recent days, but actually closer to average for the time of year, around 7—8 celsius. that relatively cooler site of weather doesn't last long. we get a warm front moving in across the north of the uk, bringing thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain, quite windy conditions to scotland, but that warm front will also be bringing much milder

air back in quickly, so temperatures will be rising by the time we get to friday, back into double figures in many cases. 11 degrees for stornoway and aberdeen, some of the toastier spots in the uk, a 12 there for belfast. what about the weekend weather prospects? well, high pressure is going to dominate the weather picture, particularly towards southern areas, and the closer you are to the south, the more likely you are to see sunshine. there will be a bit more in the way of cloud coming round the high pressure into scotland and northern ireland, but even here, i think, as we go through the second half of the weekend, you do have a decent chance of the weather brightening up with some spells of sunshine and all the while it will stay on the mild side. england and wales, probably bright on saturday, increasingly sunny skies as we head into sunday. and although the mornings could start off locally quite cold and locally frosty, relatively it is going to be quite mild. that's the latest. bye— bye.

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