alan jones. — about it. alan, thank you very much.l have the chance to extend their premier league lead to eight points later in the north london derby at spurs. before then though two other games to tell you about — joelinton is playing for newcastle after his arrest for drink driving on thursday. eddie said he has to think about it but know of any of his team—mates. these games ticked off at two o'clock so they the second half. chelsea languishing in tenth place are goalless at crystal palace so no goals in those two games so if newcastle win they will retake their spots in the premier league. meanwhile chelsea's january transfer window spending continues, and during their match agaisnt crystal palace they announced the signing of ukraine forward mykhailo mudryk from shakhtar donetsk. the fee is initially 62 million pounds, and he's at stamford bridge this afternoon where he's agreed an 8 and a half year deal. chelsea beat arsenal to the signing of the 22 year old, who is their fifth new player in this transfer window. chelsea score

that was alan jones _ desperately unhappy about it.ss association. a major disaster has been declared in california which has been hit by a succession of severe storms. president biden ordered federal aid to be sent to affected communities, where around 25 million people remain under a flood watch. at least 19 people have died as a result of the storms, with thousands more forced to evacuate their homes. the world health organization is urging china to provide detailed information about the level of covid infections in the country. 60,000 covid—related deaths have been reported injust over a month, but the chinese government has been accused of not releasing the full details of the pandemic. we leave with you news of a life—changing sum of money. someone in the us is now $1.3 billion richer, after winning the second—biggest jackpot in american history. the winner — who hasn't been named — has the option of taking a lump—sum payment of $723 million or an annual payment for 30 years. ——taking a lump—sum payment or an annual payment for 3

that is alan jones from pa. right, time for a big story from cornwall.blast off. the company behind the operation is the california—based virgin orbit, founded by sir richard branson. the british entrepreneur has had one of his old passenger airliners converted to carry a rocket, called launcherone, beneath its left wing. the plane will take off from newquay airport in southwest england and head west over the atlantic, to a designated launch zone off the coast of ireland. at the appropriate moment, at an altitude of 35,000ft, the aircraft will release the rocket. its first—stage engine will then ignite and begin its climb into orbit. the bbc�*sjenny kumah was at the launch site earlier today. —— because a fully fuelled rocket is a heavy load, the plane's lower deck has been completely stripped to save weight. two flight engineers will sit at consoles to monitor the launch. the bbc�*s rebecca morelle had a look. here in the cockpit are all the usual controls that you need to fly a plane, but there is one big difference, and it's this. this red square is a

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let's talk to alan jones, who's correspondent with the press association. alan, really good to .most, do you think it's even the offing , a general it's even the offing, a general strike ? i mean, the number of strike? i mean, the number of times this has been asked have made the last couple of months. no, i don't think so. it would take somebody like tuc to organise a general strike and it would be umbrella . it be would be umbrella. it be difficult. i mean, some of the big unions are having coordinating strikes within their own union because it's so difficult to do that kind of thing now. so no , that's not to thing now. so no, that's not to say discussions not being held. they are being held about talks about coordinating strikes . about coordinating strikes. we've seen a little bit of that with the health unions. i think we'll see more of that going forward. but in terms of the unions involved, disputes now getting together on one day or one or one or two days to have a strike. i think that is highly unlikely. well a breath of relief then on that one. but we are in a situatio

back to you or if the arithmetic is right with the numbers are alan fish are there at abner capitol hill? allen? thank you. what john jones, they political strategist, he says things are looking up for kevin mccarthy. the last 4 days have been very long for representative mccarthy. but the last 24 hours have probably been the most promising for him. having been able to flip about 15 rebels and bringing him 2 or 3 boats shy of this number of both that he needs to become speaker. so he and his allies are much more confident today than in 3 days past. but it's going to be very interesting to see as a mr. mccarthy makes more and more concessions to the right way. will this upset centrist and disappoint moderate, within the republican caucus. busy and will it be challenging to actually bring all of these votes together? so that's going to be the big challenge for representing mccarthy going forward. it's going to be really serious for those who are looking to see how strong centrist and moderates will be in the united states congress. and both the republican and democratic parties. what you're going to need in order to fund th

chatter about how alan farrell were so aligned to eddiejones, whether they how alan farrell were so aligned to eddie jonese to start somewhere. and i have seen some of his work, very good. you are talking about skeleton, the to sport there, you need ice, obviously, it needs to be cold. not so much elsewhere? apart from in scotland! absolutely, _ not so much elsewhere? apart from in scotland! absolutely, the _ not so much elsewhere? apart from in scotland! absolutely, the place - not so much elsewhere? apart from in scotland! absolutely, the place to - scotland! absolutely, the place to go if you fancy a bit of skiing this weekend. ,., ., _, ., , , weekend. good conditions, it is often good _ weekend. good conditions, it is often good start. _ with one centre in aberdeenshire getting so many visitors that they've had to stop selling tickets for only the second time in 45 years. but not everywhere in europe has been so fortunate, with unseasonably warm and wet weather causing a distinct lack of natural snow in the lower lying alpine resorts. that looks a bit desperate. ski sunday presenter ed leigh is in th