South yorkshire has entered the highest level of restrictions, and the row between the mayor and the government continues. Pope francis says he believes same sex couples should be allowed to have civil unions something that dozens of countries around the world already allow. The french president , Emmanuel Macron, is giving a tribute to samuel paty, the history teacher who was beheaded last week after he showed depictions of the pohet mohammed to his class. These are the live pictures coming to us from paris. President macron will award mr paty the countrys highest order of merit, the legion dhonneur at a ceremony in sorbonne university, in paris. Im joined now by our correspondent hugh schofield. Help us understand more of the ceremony and the proceedings that we are seeing here. Well, we are in the university chosen because it represents academic freedom, samuel paty was a teacher. Inside the university, theyre paty was a teacher. Inside the university, they re pictures paty was a te