Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First. Scotland has largely gone into a National Lockdown following a rise in new coronavirus cases. People will have to stay at home for anything other than essential purposes, and schools will have to provide distance learning, until at least the first of february. With me is news reporterjohn mcmanus. John, reporterjohn mcmanus. Tell us more about the restriction. John, tell us more about the restriction. James, those restrictions that were announced by the first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, on monday, came into force about one minute ago, midnight here in the United Kingdom. Quite wide ranging as well, its a legally enforceable stay order. People must remain at home unless they have caring duties to go out and buy essential shopping, of course, for some outdoor exercise and those who are part of extended households. But those w
Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Millions of people in england are to go back into a tough lockdown, similar to that which was imposed last march. The measures will come into force early on wednesday. It will mean most schools shut, and people will be instructed to stay indoors almost all day long, unless they have an essential job or a vital task like shopping forfood, or getting medical attention. 0ur uk Political Editor Laura Kuennsberg has the story. Boris johnson since the pandemic began last year, the whole United Kingdom has been engaged in a Great National effort to fight covid. And effort that is not over, not even close, as downing street pointed the finger of blame at the new variant spreading fast. As i speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic. With most of the country already under
The wikileaks founderJulian Assange wins his court battle against being extradited to the united states. And donald trump is accused of a bald faced abuse of power after he was recorded trying to persuade an election official to find him more votes. Coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news within hours of arriving in sri lanka, moeen ali tests positive for covid 19 and will have to isolate from the rest of the squad. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. With coronavirus running out of control across much of the uk, new restrictions to our daily lives are coming in. The Prime Minister will make an announcement at eight oclock tonight, setting out further steps in england. Schools will close again for most pupils, and its expected people will be told again to work from home unless theyre key workers, or if its not possible for them to do so. The threat from coronavirus is to be raised to the highest level five across the uk, meaning Health Services are at risk of
Dusting of snow. But nowhere dusting of snow and the so the northlands of scotland. With that i suggested across many Western Areas and cold start to the tuesday morning. That run of rain a little bit of hills the and snow for the Channel Islands, wintry showers Northern England, southern eastern scotland. A lot of dry and bright weather for many as will be of the next few days. Wins latest in north and west quite a stiff breeze blowing and its here where the wind show will make it feel substantially colder with three to five celsius as recorded tuesday evening so those lines of showers across scotland going Northern England and that one towards the southeast corner and the Channel Islands. That will persist through tuesday night into wednesday. Clear skies away from it means there will be another widespread frost and ice around. As we go into wednesday the isobars align in the charts and note the further apart they are the light of the winds will be. So less busy day for many and nota
What can you tell us . Huw, leeds and the wider yorkshire and humber area are in tier3 the wider yorkshire and humber area are in tier 3 at the moment, but it feels as though lockdown has already begun. We are just across the road from the main bus station, services have been coming and going, we havent seen a single passenger on any one of them. It is less than a week since large parts of Northern England were down in tier 2, places like North Yorkshire and cumbria, and in cumbria the infection rate has taken off over the last week or so. Has taken off over the last week or so. Two of the three main hospitals on the highest state of alert. The director of Public Health called for primary schools not to open, but 2a hours later. The latest figures for Northern England look pretty dire, to be honest. They have been
analysed this evening, and areas which is seeing the biggest rise in the number of coronavirus cases are clustering in the north of england at the moment. This area it looks