tim muffet, bbc news.ry's best known and oldest human rights organisations, memorial, accusing it of violating a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents. it comes at the end of a year in which the kremlin has cracked down vigorously on its critics. 0ur moscow correspondent steve rosenberg reports. more and more, it feels as if russia is turning the clock back. liquidate, the judge says, as she orders one of russia's oldest civil rights groups, international memorial, to shut down. the n60 was found to have broken russia's draconian foreign agents law. disgraceful decision, the reaction from the gallery. it's100% a political thing. and the substance of this political decision is just one more step from an authoritarian regime, to totalitarian. for more than 30 years, memorial has been shining a light on one of the darkest chapters of russian history. what became known as the great terror. of stalin's mass repressions. up to 20 million soviet citizens are believed to have been sent to the gulag, t

tim muffet has more.t we say. so if we say to them, don't smoke cigarettes, and we are smoking ourselves, our behaviour is going to have a much greater impact. a new film from the nhs aimed at parents who smoke. why do children seem to take up the behaviour of the adults around them? despite a huge drop in smoking over the past 50 years, around one in eight adults in the uk still smoke, according to the office for national statistics. and new research shows that teenagers whose parents or caregivers smoke are four times as likely to take it up. smoking is a habit, it is something that can be passed down through families. so the additional motivation to quit for parents will be knowing that if they do that, they substantially reduce the risk of their own children taking up smoking. this campaign is targeting conventional smoking rather than vaping. electronic cigarettes are widely seen as a safer alternative, although most do contain nicotine, which is addictive. the pandemic has also affected smoking habi

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tim muffet has this report. aberdeenshire council put out an urgent request for military help.rived. around 4000 homes will be visited to support those struggling in the aftermath of storm arwen. the infrastructure is pretty fragile. the weather hasn't helped. the high winds that came yesterday have further weakened some places. but we're hoping it gives them that reassurance somebody is looking out for them. joanne is a nurse and lives near harbottle in northumberland. she still has no power, no water and no internet. i'm sleeping in here, which isn't ideal. eating what i can in here. boiling pans of water on the log burner. you know, you can only take so much. do you know what? i burst into tears, i'm not ashamed to say. joanne is now relying on a nearby community centre, along with her neighbour anne. i feel that we've just been left out and forgotten about. i'm more worried about the emergency services, because where we were there's no signals, no internet. if somebody needs an ambulance, how are they going to get hold of it? in county durham, a major incident has been decl

tim muffet, bbc news.milies forjustice group. herfather aldrick died of covid in april last year. lam very i am very sorry to hear of your family's loss. given the video we have seen emerge in the last 2a hours and the prime minister's response today, what is your response today, what is your response today, what is your response to what the government is saying? mt; response to what the government is sa int? y , , ., saying? my response is that i feel utterly second _ saying? my response is that i feel utterly second by _ saying? my response is that i feel utterly second by what _ saying? my response is that i feel utterly second by what i _ saying? my response is that i feel utterly second by what i have - saying? my response is that i feel| utterly second by what i have seen and by what i have heard these last 24—hour is. it is unimaginable that people who are working, the leaders of our country, the centre of government were behaving in this way. so breaking rules regarding lockdown restrictions, expec

tim muffet, bbc news.developing symptoms, collecting the sample and ending up in hospital of about a week. in the worst case, that people die, that happens a further week or more after that. so it means as cases are rising, so the risks of hospitalisation and that's our baked into the system, which is why delaying is potentially very problematic. we know there are several hundred thousand cases a day, we identify may be about a third of them, we are now 300,000, 400,000 cases a day and we know the number of hospitalisations in london which is ahead of the curve nationally has gone up. it has gone up nationally has gone up. it has gone up a third in about the last week stopped plenty to worry about. we're also seeing pressures on the workforce in almost area of business and obviously in health and social care as well. there are lots of challenges. the good news is that the vaccination programme is going well and that is another reason to be a bit cautious because it takes a bit of time for the booster doses