good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be at the
women s nations league on tuesday with plenty still to be decided, nowhere more so than at hampden, where england are hoping to beat scotland emphatically to book their place in the knockout stages. but there s more to it than that. england are trying to qualify for next summer s olympics on behalf of team gb, so defeat for scotland on tuesday night could actually benefit some scottish players who want to be part of the great britain squad. not that they re thinking about it that way is joe curry now reports. that way as joe curry now reports. it s been a qualifying campaign of twists and turns for the lionesses, but now they re one game away from taking a big step towards securing team gb a spot at next summer s olympic games. itjust so happens to be against a very familiar foe, scotland. not only do you have to win it, but you have to score like this. there s goals that come along with it. it s notjust how you win. you win the game, and it s done. we re going to have to rea