some of his best—loved work and at the vatican they are preparing to hang his tapestries in the sips tyneshow some of his best—loved work and at the vatican they are preparing to hang his tapestries in the sips tyne chapelle. —— sistine. where sacred power meets artistic mastery, night brings quiet but no rest. in the sistine chapel, where popes are chosen beneath michelangelo's glory, we got rare access to the cleaning of one of humanity's greatest triumphs. to do this job offer to clean the chapel is, for me, the best thing i can do in this life. the upkeep now is particularly special. 500 years since the world lost michelangelo's contemporary, raphael, preparations to host his tapestries in the chapel where they were designed to hang. amidst the magical story of this place was an intense renaissance rivalry between the older michelangelo and the younger, more sociable raphael, and legend even has it that while michelangelo was absent during the painting of the ceiling, raphael even snuck in to take a peek at the competition for favour driving these masters to new artistic heights. raph

this report from our health correspondent dominic hughes starts in newcastle—upon—tyne. is particularly stark in the north—east of england. in newcastle, self—employed music teacher lucy beckman is struggling to make ends meet and it's having an impact on her health. all the clothes that i have are given to me by friends. i use a food bank. i can't get my hair done. coffee is a luxury — if i go out for a coffee. so, the nicer things in life are just not happening. the stress is a killer. it really is. it lessens your life span. today's report suggests that for the first time in a century, life expectancy for the poorest women in the north—east is falling and the funding cuts associated with austerity the most likely cause of a worsening health picture. my own view is that health and health inequalities is telling us something fundamental about the nature of society. and if health‘s not improving and health inequalities are increasing, something's going wrong with society. in some of the most deprived areas like the north west, there are signs of change. what do we want t

this report from our health correspondent, dominic hughes, starts in newcastle—upon—tyne. the north—east of england. in newcastle, self—employed music teacher lucy beckman is struggling to make ends meet and it's having an impact on her health. all the clothes that i have are given to me by friends. i use a food bank... i can't get my hair done... coffee is a luxury — if i go out for a coffee. so, the nicer things in life are just not happening. the stress is a killer. it really is. it lessens your life span. today's report suggests that for the first time in a century, life expectancy for the poorest women in the north—east is falling and the funding cuts associated with austerity the most likely because of a worsening health picture. my own view is that health and health inequalities is telling us something fundamental about the nature of society. and if health‘s not improving and health inequalities are increasing something's going wrong with society. in some of the most deprived areas like the north west, there are signs of change. what do we want to be in 20 years tim

this report from our health correspondent dominic hughes starts in newcastle—upon—tyne.e gap is particularly stark in the north—east of england. in newcastle, self—employed music teacher lucy beckman is struggling to make ends meet, and it's having an impact on her health. all the clothes that i have are given to me by friends. i use food banks. i can't get my hair done. a coffee is a luxury, if i go out for a coffee. so the nicer things in life are just not happening. the stress is a killer, it really is. it lessens your lifespan. today's report suggests that, for the first time in a century, life expectancy for the poorest women in the north—east is falling, and the funding cuts associated with austerity the most likely because of a worsening health picture. my own view is that health and health inequalities is telling us something fundamental about the nature of society. and, if health's not improving and health inequalities are increasing, something's going wrong with society. in some of the most deprived areas, like the north—west, life expectancy is well below aver

on the river tyne and river wye.or the rest of scotland, northern ireland, northern england, wales and south—west england 60 miles per hour gusts. it will slowly ease as we go through the course of the day. an array of showers, some thundery with some hail. as we head on through this evening and overnight, we will still have blustery conditions bringing ina still have blustery conditions bringing in a lot of showers from the west of the ease. hail and thunder and lightning mixing. wintry end of the hills and mountains in scotland. also the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. tomorrow, a lot of showers coming in, mastery day in prospect. organise themselves into bands. one moving across england and wales, another one following in hot pursuit and of these two will be heavy and thundery with some hail and wintry across the hills and mountains of scotland. we're not out of the was just yet. the weather remains unsettled this week with showers and longer spells of rain and this again the potential for some really strong wi

it depends largely on the tyne at.ly because he attracts so much support in the under 35 age range. he really outstrips the others massively in that age range. if he gets those youngsters out to vote he has a good chance of doing pretty well. i know that iowa has legendary status in american elections. how important is it to win itand elections. how important is it to win it and if you don't win, how much of a disappointment is that and a setback for the candidate? they say that you really can't lose... you can't really win the presidency on the nomination in iowa but you can probably lose it. there are numbers if you like, 55% chance of going on to get the nomination if you win iowa, but there aren't many exa m ples you win iowa, but there aren't many examples in the modern era to base that figure on. it's very important in terms of momentum, in terms of what they called the narrative nowadays. in terms of the delegate count it is i% of the democratic candidates overall. but it can push you forward, put you in people'

cellular and molecular sciences at northumbria university he joins us live via skype from newcastle upon tyne thank you for joining us when we saw that some people are returning to work after that extended new year new holiday what could this mean for the spread of the virus well i'm afraid that in my personal humble opinion i'm not in the beyond just i think we were going to see you know week 2 what that would mean about the display of the virus published or to the idea that the chinese that they're writing to should talk to harm. they have to do something about the economy so the question is not how do they educate the people to make sure they minimize that risk to themselves and restart the economy and make sure the country can run so the virus is now in 27 countries can it really be contained if it's only spread to that extent i think it's important to emphasize that the vast majority of the cases are in china. the 2nd largest cluster is basically in japan and singapore those other countries are present more transmission restaurant in trying to seem in france and in britain but the people

jacolyn walker sent in this picture from washingon, tyne and wear in sunderland.e seen your pictures and weather watchers. this one in north yorkshire. you can see the snow in northern ireland overnight. some higher parts are seen as much as 15 centimetres. this picture also from one of our weather watcher 's of harrogate. you see the snow piling up quite nicely now and another one, this one from winston intact county durham. —— in county durham. you get the picture that the snow is in the forecast across northern ireland, northern england and scotland. we will see some significant amounts on higher ground across much of scotland and northern england. as much as 12— centimetres but across the north—east of scotland, 10—20 centimetres on higher ground but some of this, as we have seen, is getting down to lower levels. add in the wind and you will have some poor visibility this morning with blowing snow, drifting snow and blizzards on higher ground so disruption is possible. if you don't have the snow, you have the rain. we have rain crossing the rest of england and