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professor paul hunter, as ever, weeks. professor paul hunter, as ever. thanks _ weeks.oining us. - now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello, it was very cloudy today across the country. the temperatures slowly coming up a little bit, though, and into tomorrow, it will feel a bit milder. that's because we will have more sunshine around, but there will be some showery bursts of rain, too. we could see this weather front which is bringing some very wet weather to northern ireland, much of central and western scotland through this evening and overnight, but it will slowly move its way eastwards, eventually, by the end of the night, reaching parts of western england and wales. and we should see clear spells and showers following on behind there for northern ireland. ahead of it, for much of england and wales, it will be dry, breezy, and very mild, much milder than what it was last night. so, we start sunday off on a mild note, a lot of cloud around, a little bit of sunshine, too. that weather front begins to weaken and fragment as it moves eastwards, e

professor paul hunter, alwa s from us. professor paul hunter, always good _ from us.from us. professor paul hunter, always good to talk to you. - from us. professor paul hunter, | always good to talk to you. thank you so much from the university of east anglia, thank you. it is 5:16pm and you're watching bbc news. the headlines on bbc news — the government has set out its plans for cutting carbon emissions to zero by 2050, including a big push towards electric vehicles. grants of £5000 will be given to help households switch to heat pumps as ninisters plan to end the sale of new gas boilers by 2035. an inquiry finds that child abuse allegations against the late labour peer lord janner were not properly investigated because of multiple failures by police and prosecutors. let's get more on that story. an inquiry has found that "multiple failures" by police, prosecutors and council officials meant that child abuse allegations against the late labour peer lord janner were not properly investigated. lord janner died in 2015 facing criminal charges spanning three decades an

professor paul hunter, very aood to weeks. professor paul hunter, very good to speak _ weeks.s always. i good to speak to you as always. thank you for your time. the nhs in england and wales is to fund the first ever audit of patients living with secondary breast cancer. doctors say it will help ensure that every patient diagnosed with secondary cancer when the disease spreads to other parts of the body has access to the best possible treatment and care. it follows a decade of campaigning by charities and patients. our correspondent jeremy cooke was given access to the clatterbridge cancer centre in liverpool, where he spoke to three patients. are you ok to step on the stairs, please? i had a tumour in my breast that was relatively large, metastases in my liver, spleen, spine, hips and sternum. alina is a young mother with a devastating diagnosis — secondary breast cancer. stage four is classed as terminal, and to hear that language at the age of 32, with a ten—month—old, is quite scary. for her, living with cancer means living with uncertainty. i have an appointment for some

consider these differing analyses, here is a word of caution on being too definitive from professor paul hunterot clear whether what we're seeing at the moment will continue to increase as we move towards christmas or, as some modellers have suggested, will peak sometime this month and then start to decline. what is more certain is that we are seeing two relatively clear schools of thought. there is the uk government, with its focus on the vaccine. ever since our phenomenal vaccine programme began last winter, we have been in a race, a race between the vaccine and the virus. and although we are ahead in that race, the gap is narrowing. the government's strategy injuly, the strategy now, rests almost entirely on the vaccine, and that's not what the world health organization is recommending. the who's position is that we can't only rely on vaccination at the moment, due to the threat of the virus, that we need to continue to bring transmission of covid—19 down, especially as we enter the winter period. but sincejuly, that is almost exactly what has happened in england. life in many ways has gone

professor paul hunter, as ever and — pointed out.m has given no details of what adjustments it might make to how the cap is calculated, but will set out its thinking as it launches a consultation next month. currently the regulator caps the energy bills of more than 14 million households at £1,277 per year on average. our business editor simonjack is here. hello, simon. how badly was this needed? . , , ,, hello, simon. how badly was this needed? . , , ., , needed? the recent spike in energy trices needed? the recent spike in energy prices exposed _ needed? the recent spike in energy prices exposed problems _ needed? the recent spike in energy prices exposed problems in - needed? the recent spike in energy prices exposed problems in the - prices exposed problems in the energy market. one is the existence of the cap itself. here you have a market where the wholesale price moves on a daily basis, and yet you have got this cap which is set twice a year, so pretty inflexible. so when you see wholesale prices shooting up, you have some com

a short while ago, i spoke to the epidemiologist professor paul hunter from the university of east angliais very difficult at this stage to know exactly what is going to be happening in coming weeks. what we are seeing is some early evidence that, actually, the booster dose might be having a pretty impressive impact. in the over 80 category, we're seeing the speed of the epidemic is slowing quite obviously in the over 80s and also starting in those over 60, so it may well be the case that the booster vaccine is the thing that is going to make the big difference. the other thing we have seen in recent weeks, we have seen significant waves of infection, really, going back to earlyjuly, and these waves have actually not been sustained for very long before we have seen declines. we may already be starting to see the first of that. i think, as you probably gathered, it is difficult to be absolutely certain, but i'm more optimistic than professor 0penshaw, that we will not need to go into that sort of lockdown. but the next couple of weeks will be critical to actually helping us decide one way

consider these differing analyses, here is a word of caution on being too definitive from professor paul hunter of thought. there is the uk government, with its focus on the vaccine. ever since our phenomenal vaccine programme began last winter, we have been in a race, a race between the vaccine and the virus. and although we are ahead in that race, the gap is narrowing. the government's strategy injuly, the strategy now, rests almost entirely on the vaccine, and that's not what the world health organization is recommending. the who's position is that we can't only rely on vaccination at the moment, due to the threat of the virus, that we need to continue to bring transmission of covid—19 down, especially as we enter the winter period. but sincejuly, that is almost exactly what has happened in england. life in many ways has gone back to normal, with the benefits that brings, and the rise in cases that brings too, and now, with the nhs warning that a tough winter is coming, so too are tough questions for the government. it believes that for now, vaccines alone can work. this winter will reveal i

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joining me now is professor of medicine at the university of east anglia, paul hunter.federation right to say that plan b should be implemented in england immediately? i that plan b should be implemented in england immediately?— england immediately? i think it's a very difficult _ england immediately? i think it's a very difficult issue, _ england immediately? i think it's a very difficult issue, this. _ england immediately? i think it's a very difficult issue, this. cases, . very difficult issue, this. cases, hospitalisation rates, are going up, but nowhere near as quickly as they were this time last year. about a year ago, were this time last year. about a yearago, people in were this time last year. about a year ago, people in hospital, the numbers were doubling about every 9-10 numbers were doubling about every 9—10 days. at the moment they are doubling about every five or six weeks. so, ithink doubling about every five or six weeks. so, i think we have got a little bit more time to judge what is going to be happening. this has been very difficult to predict, this a

consider these differing analyses, here is a word of caution on being too definitive from professor paul hunter so too are tough questions for the government. it believes that for now, vaccines alone can work. this winter will reveal if that's right. now sport. from cycling to cricket and are happy team behind you. england's cricketers made the perfect start to their t20 world cup campaign. they thrashed defending champions west indies by six wickets after bowling them all out forjust 55 runs. our sports correspondent joe wilson reports. the cricketers of west indies and england are shared the stance against racism at the t20 world cup. they share memories in this competition. the last final, when carlos braithwaite's magnificent sixes took the trophy away from england. the best of times, the worst of times. but it motivated england. they are now ranked top of the world in this format and from this moment, we saw why. the west indies side was mature. chris gayle, now 42, made 13. success for mills on his england comeback. dwayne bravo, jonny bairstow. caught it. the captain's brain beneath the

hunter: so, both of my sources said they participated in, "dozens of briefings" with republican members of congress and their staff. that included marjorie taylor greene, lauren boebert, paul, mo brooks, madison cawthorn, and louie gohmert. and we have already had some indications that these members were involved in the efforts to overturn the election. they spoke at the events at the ellipse. they were billed as speakers at this wild protest. gosar headlined a stop the steal rally in arizona. but what they specifically described was these members sort of strategizing to help them pick state locations for protests that would target persuadable senators to join the objection. and they were also going back and forth trading "evidence" of supposed election fraud. obviously, any of that would have been baseless. but they described them as intimately involved in kind of plotting a grand show that day, both at the ellipse and on the house floor. yamiche: and representative gosar dangled this idea of a blanket pardon. talk a bit about that, and explain that it was part of an unrelated ongoing investigation, but was also connected somehow to the events of january 6? hunter: given