john maguire, bbc news, nailsea in north somerset.e — as part of the government's test, track and trace system. the prime minister will face questions from senior mps this afternoon — amid continuing calls for his senior adviser dominic cummings to resign. president trump threatens to close down social media platforms, after twitter labelled two of his posts as potentially misleading. so, the prime minister will face questions from the chairs of all of the house of commons select committees this afternoon. it's an event called the liaison committee hearing, and it comes amid rising backbench anger about dominic cummings, and calls from dozens of conservative mps for mr cummings to resign. let's talk to anne mcelvoy, senior editor at the economist. good afternoon. the liaison committee, it has an awful lot to discuss, a lot of serious things to be covered, is it going to be overshadowed by the story that has dominated for the last three or four days? the government would very much like to be the moment when this moves on and people sta

john maguire, bbc news, nailsea in north somerset.today. students had to have their temperature taken and do a health check on an app, to show they had no covid symptoms, before being allowed back into the classroom. our correspondent laura bicker sent this report. well, this is pe class, as you can probably tell behind me. 2.5 million students are going back. this is part of a phased return. so a series of students go back every week. but teachers are on edge because there are clusters of infection popping up across the country. this is all related to an outbreak in nightclubs in seoul's party district a couple of weeks ago. health officials have traced 86,000 people. and tested them for the virus. but still these little pockets of infection keep cropping up. and that is why every single student must wear a mask. at the gates they are having their temperature checked. that's the first temperature check of the day. there are many temperature checks throughout the day. each of the classes have dividers in them to keep students apart. d

john maguire, bbc news, nailsea in north somerset.ts test, track and trace strategy will deal with regional outbreaks of covid—i9. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson, will be questioned by senior mps later amid continued calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. riot police in hong kong fire pepper pellets to break up protests over a law that would criminalise insulting china‘s national anthem. donald trump has accused twitter of interfering in the 2020 us election after it labelled two posts by the president as potentially misleading. mr trump had claimed that the use of postal votes would lead to widespread voter fraud. twitter responded by directing readers to a page with news articles and information from fact checkers debunking the claim. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. a twitter war about twitter. it started when mr trump, who has more than 80 million followers on the social media platform, tweeted that postal ballot papers would result in a rigged election. mailboxes will be robbed, ballots wil

john maguire, bbc news, north somerset.parts of england at the moment. that return will be on monday for many people. let's take a look at today's papers. once again the guardian leads with the ongoing row over dominic cummings' trip to durham. the paper says tory mps have received hundreds of e—mails from constituents calling for him to be sacked. it also features a yougov poll which shows 59% of respondents think mr cummings should resign. the daily mirror also features the story on their front page. the paper claims the government is "in chaos" over the row and describes the "scandal" as becoming "farcical". that is michael gove on the left, who was on this programme yesterday. the front page of the daily express says a "breakthrough drug" that speeds up recovery for coronavirus patients, is the "biggest step forward since the crisis began." the medicine remdesivir has been approved for the nhs following successful trials. and we will talk about that a little bit later on in the programme. and online, one of the most rea

john maguire, bbc news, north somerset. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell.oss the uk for the rest of this week and on into the rest of this week and on into the weekend. it was though particularly chilly and windy to start the new week. the next few days will see the wind ease. it will get warmer gradually. we were sitting to the east of this area of low pressure —— high pressure on monday. it eventually brings us warmer atlantic air. come the weekend our temperatures will get quite a surge. here we are for the rest of today. the weather front working its way down out of southern scotla nd working its way down out of southern scotland into northern england. patchy rain and perhaps even some snow for the tops of the pennines. wintry showers in scotland. a frost in scotland and northern england overnight. further south, cloud in scotland and northern england overnight. furthersouth, cloud and a few showers. a few showers at the south—east first thing. they will tend to clear. the northerly wind will bring more showers into the north—east of england through the

john mcguire, bbc news, north somerset. we're joined now by dan visser from cumbria tourism.good morning. we have a number of concerns over what the government announced yesterday. there is going to be an increase in day visitors, that's ok for people to do, so naturally they are going to want to visit beautiful places. to enjoy some of the fantastic landscapes and get some exercise and get a boost to their mental health, a breakfrom lockdown between have, particularly difficult challenges herewith an older population and very high rates of coronavirus which means now probably isn't really the best time to be coming. i imagine you have spent your entire professional life working in this industry saying come to the lake district, it's beautiful. now here you are on national television, understandably for many people, saying don't come. it's counterintuitive to everything we do in our visitor economy here. we've got some very good ranges of businesses, staff desperate to get back to work, start welcoming visitors and providing fantastic experiences they come for today, enjoying

north of scotland less threatening. heavy bursts of rain in the channel islands and more persistent rain through devon, dorset, parts of somersetnshine around. onshore breeze through eastern coasts. cooler day in the south—west compared to yesterday. temperatures between 11 and 14 degrees. this evening, overnight as well, still some rain across the south—west. it will ease away through the night. most places will be dry. more cloud in shetland and orkney. with clear skies in between, lighter winds, the greater chance of some frost to take us into tomorrow morning. through the second half of the week we will all see ourselves tapping into the warm air pushing across france and spain. temperatures will rise on wednesday, thursday and friday. lots of sunshine on wednesday. the chance of a few showers in cornwall, may be paying brochure, cloud in shetland and orkney as well. sony for the vast majority under temperatures in the mid to high teens, if not low 20s. less chili along those eastern coasts. enter thursday and eastern areas of the best of the sunshine. more cloud in the west. a few showers here and there. most places will s