you put them down. next poem. when lockdown ends the australian state "russia is invincible. in 10 days' time. of new south wales prepares to reopen its border with victoria after covid we will defend russia cases there fall to zero. from any aggressor. the japanese have fought wars against us, so have the greeks, the khazars, the turks, the swedes, the lithuanians, the germans." we sent them all packing. the head of the us covid—19 vaccine programme says the first americans to receive 0ur enemies will never beat us, the vaccine could get it they never could and never as soon as december 11th — will." you get the general idea. less than three weeks from now. i think games like this reflect the growing emphasis the authorities here dr moncef slaoui says he hopes are placing on patriotic education in russia. to be able to ship vaccines 0k, time for one more card. to immunisation sites, within 2a hours of regulatory russian sport. "our top athletes defend approval. the country's honour. our washington correspondent, lebo diseko, has more. runners and swimmers, wrestlers and bobsleigh teams, as the us battles to deal they're all brilliant. with coronavirus at last, they have won lots of some welcomed news. trophies and medals." hm, no mention of russia's 4—year ban from international the head of the government sport for doping. oh, well, it's only a game. vaccine programme saying that immunisation could start in less than three weeks. you can reach me on twitter — the second the emergency authorisation is approved, the acip and the cdc will issue recommendations for who will get the vaccines i'm @lvaughanjones. on a priority basis. that is very likely to be health care workers, first line workers, individuals hello there. that are very high risk. high pressure means a largely elderly. dry but rather a chilly start to the new working week infection rates are with a touch of frost in place. however, a frontal system up to the northwest will rising at alarming rates eventually change things for some as we head on up through monday. across the country. but immunisation efforts risk being undermined by lack but the morning starts off of trust in the process. rather on a chilly note. a recent poll showed less temperatures down around than 60% of americans freezing even a touch below first on. would take up a covid—19 vaccine. not as cold in the far south that is up to 50% in september, with some extra cloud, not as cold in but still less than the 70% the far west either. needed to achieve in the cloud in the west will roll its way eastwards herd immunity. through the day introducing there are a few things rain into northern england, are going to the effectiveness wales, the south—west. of the vaccine programme. a highly working vaccine and we have two of them that have a 95% efficacy. the other part of the equation is how many people get vaccinated. if you have a highly especially around the coast efficacious vaccine and only and over the hills the sunshine a relatively small a0—50% through the afternoon of the people get vaccinated, across eastern counties you're not going to get the herd immunity that of england and perhaps some you need. parts of north—east scotland. windy, particularly towards the north—west. those are the average speeds. the gusts could touch 60 mph for the western isles. with days until thanksgiving, turning milder from the west. they're preparing for a holiday it will be a bit of a struggle season unlike any other. with those temperatures in eastern areas after such a chilly start. turkey giveawayse happen every but ass we go through monday year, but with pandemicjob losses, the scale of those night into tuesday that milder in need is just one thing that air will waft its way right across the british isles. makes it very different. by tuesday morning, double digits for most of us. still some rain across northern ireland and scotland i came out to give out free with quite a lot of cloud elsewhere. turkeys, free groceries as you go through tuesday and especially during this with this frontal system, we will see further pulses pandemic, we need it. of rain across northern ireland and scotland. quite a wet day in prospect actually, on tuesday across northern ireland another is the one from the top health authority not to travel was up some heavy rain. to spend time with across western parts friends and family. of scotland. friday saw more than a million for england and wales, people travelling through drier conditions, some spells america's airports. of sunshine, best of that it is less then half towards the south and the east. the volume of last year. and tuesday will be the mildest day of the week. highs of 11, 12 or 13 degrees. but still bound to raise alarms about the virus being spread. that is set to change for donald trump, another day because as we move out of tuesday and into wednesday, spent on the golf course. this wriggling frontal system will finally start he still refuses to to push eastwards. concede thatjoe biden is president—elect. the rain along it will tend and he's blocking the sharing to weaken but behind of sensitive information, including on the vaccine. that weather front, a cold front. we open the door to some much mr biden‘s team says it puts distribution of it in jeopardy colder air which will start because it is they, rather to push in from the north—west. than donald trump's team, test of the remnants of this that will be responsible front are likely to linger across south england. perhaps southern coastal counties more generally for any roll—out. through the day on wednesday with some patching rain. we can now speak to some showers in north—west scotland, sunshine dr peter hotez, who's in between director of the texas children's hospital center but temperatures for many stuck for vaccine development. in the single digits by this stage. and it stays rather cool by day and chilly by night as we head towards the end of the week. thanks for coming on the largely dry with some programme. thanks for having me frost and fog in places. tonight at. we have spoken fairly regularly throughout this year, ordinarily, it's been pretty bad news, is this the good news that it sounds like a? i think so, we have at least two vaccines that are more than 95% effective, we think, and remember there are others coming to follow, and we have the adenovirus based vaccines, so those will follow as well, so the hope is that by the first or second quarter of next year, we will have a small fleet of vaccines and we also have vaccines that are being developed globally, like ours that we are scaling up production on in india, so there is definitely good news on the horizon if we can just get through the next couple of months. what are the logistical challenges? the pfizer vaccine presents some of the more daunting challenges because it requires a deep freeze, manges 94 to 100 fahrenheit so it will be less amenable to get a vaccine the way americans usually get vaccinated, at least adults do in pharmacies and supermarkets and that sort of thing, that will present some challenges by the leadership has been thinking about this now for several months and i think we have a good plan in place, so that by the middle of december we can start rolling out vaccines at things will really start to gearup in the things will really start to gear up in the early part of next year. thank you so much for coming on a programme, we will have to cut that short because we do live now to hong kong, the pro—democracy activistjoshua wong, kong, the pro—democracy activist joshua wong, facing criminal charges is speaking. ever since my first release from prison lastjune, i swore to draw more global attention to draw more global attention to fight for freedom, and urge the world to stand with hong kong,. perhaps the authorities wish me to stay in prison but i am persuaded by the present boss, not election boss, not any other power will stop us from activating. what we're doing now is displaying the value of freedoms of the world through our compassion, so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our own. iam prepared sacrifice the freedom of our own. i am prepared for the thin chance of walking very. this case will draw the world ‘s public attention through the power of the criminaljustice system, who is manipulative by beijing. to sum up, whatever happens today, i faced beijing. to sum up, whatever happens today, ifaced my family and colleagues — thank my family family and colleagues — thank myfamily and family and colleagues — thank my family and colleagues for the unwavering support they gave me and the activists in china. they are in my daily prayers. i also pray for peace and wisdom. may god bless hong kong and we will continue to fight forfreedom, kong and we will continue to fight for freedom, and now kong and we will continue to fight forfreedom, and now is not the time for us to kowtow to beijing into surrender. thank you. that was the pro—democracy activist who is also standing alongside ivan and agnes, who are also expected in court on charges related to a siege of police headquarters, that was injune 2019, during last year, during those pro—democracy movements, all three are prominent members of the pro—democracy movement and wejust of the pro—democracy movement and we just heard joshua wong saying he is willing to sacrifice his own freedom and after speaking here outside the cord they will then head into court and will of course follow those proceedings. i am joined now byjohn, a local activist from hong kong. wejust heard in the last few seconds from joshua wong before he heads into fees that caught. you know him. what you think he be feeling right now? my feeling is mixed. i knew him back in 2010, and since then he has been active in hong kong's activism for a decade or so. to me, this prosecution is another way that the authorities, whether it be hong kong or beijing try to harass democracy, activists or dissidents, for now, in a way to silence them either physically or with a chilling effect to fellow hong kong as. what effect do you think this court case will have on the pro—democracy movement in hong kong? certainly not much, because of covid, and the national security law, the momentum of protests has been deteriorating, and it cannot be propped up. frankly, there are more families trying to consider emigrating for now, especially when the visa will open for application in january, they are already 2000 families currently living in the uk and waiting for for that to open. we are seeing the live pictures outside that court in hong kong there, just ten past nine in the morning, those three pro—democracy activists, joshua wong among them, giving a statement to the press outside the court, they will then be going inside the courts to face charges that relates to the democracy protests last year, specifically surrounding the police station in hong kong, and you can see they are moving and there is considerable media attention, as you would expect and joshua wong said himself that he hoped what was happening that would show the world the justice system in hong kong. back to you, how do you think this will be viewed in china right now? the brazing administration will simply feel they are winning a battle over the dissidents, for sure. after has been very low —— has been very vocal in the past year on the international stage saying, advocating for sanctions, and the sentence, or the decision to plead guilty will be a triumph, and perhaps a celebration in peking. indication we have had so far is joshua wong and indication we have had so far isjoshua wong and the other two activist would intend to plead guilty, and the maximum sentence, five years, depending on the proceedings there, obviously we don't know quite what will happen, if it will move straight to sentencing or not, we will find out as we watch them head into court, but this is a pretty severe punishment and joshua wong says himself, he is willing to sacrifice his own freedom, that is clearly the message he wa nted is clearly the message he wanted to get out to the world, and clearly something that he will follow through with now. michael, if you can still hear me, just checking. just because we are dealing with two crossed lines, one to the pictures outside the court and want to use. reminders last year of the pro—democracy activism and demonstration, what was the overall aim and point. at the beginning of the protest, millions of hong kongers took to the streets to ask the government to withdraw the exhibition bill which would enable hong kongers to be extradited to china, and it would be considered as a serious erosion of freedom for hong kongers that they used to enjoy, and the government backed down eventually but the protest itself has asked for further demands in essence, to investigate police brutality, and misconduct during their deployment, or so—called crowd control from their perspective, and of course the demand has gone unanswered, and right after the district consul last year, there would be various covid outbreaks, the turnout, the movement, it has deteriorated, and we come to national security laws injuly and it knocked out all possibilities. thank you so much for coming on, that is michael mo, pro—democracy activist in hong kong. air travel is resuming on one of the world's busiest routes between sydney and melbourne in australia, after being suspended for months during the pandemic. the states of new south wales and victoria shut their borders and cut most travel nearly five months ago, to stop covid—19 spreading. nearly 90% of australia's coronavirus deaths have been in melbourne, and the state of victoria has endured some of the world's longest and toughest lockdown measures. shaimaa khalil has more for us from melbourne airport. busyisit busy is it there? it's been busy all morning. behind me, people are getting ready to check—in. the departure gates to sydney have been quite busy but they have also been quite emotional. we were speaking to families at one of the departure gates about to board a flight to sydney for the first time in 4.5 months and it's a mixed bag of emotions. excitement, relief and a bit of nerves. we spoke to women whose grandchildren were born in the last few months, they weren't able to see them, some of them told me they couldn't sleep last night, just waiting for this moment. when new south wales closed its borders to be courier, that was an unprecedented move, the first time in about 100 years back in july but that was in response to the surge of cases that happened here in melbourne and in victoria. now with 24 days running with zero covid—19 cases, it feels like the country's second state and the city of melbourne have turned a big corner and this is why we are seeing air—traffic now resuming between melbourne and sydney. as you say, it's one of the world's busiest air routes. they are starting on 20% capacity but many here are telling us they are hoping the demand will become picked up and more people will be travelling back and forth between the two cities. just remind us more widely, how has australia coped with covid—19? well, australia is seen as a success story when it comes to controlling the virus but there are so many factors to this. remember, australia is an island nation and when the pandemic happened at the very start, it completely locked orders on the borders are still closed so australians have to have permits to travel, mostly there is a ban on travel and international visitors are banned from coming in and it has really contributed to the control of the cases in most states, they've been doing really well, with the exception of the courier, specifically melbourne that had the out they can surge back injuly of up to 700 cases. in a global perspective, these are low numbers but for the australian context, it was quite worrying. it went into severe lockdown with a curfew in melbourne and effectively vic courier was sealed off from the rest of the country and after more than 100 days, victoria has now turned the corner but of course it's come at a huge cost. we know the states lost about $70 million a day because of that lot down. we spoke to many businesses around melbourne who say they feel like they are starting from scratch, even coming out of that shop down so as the city opens up and emerges, we're going to see the economic and mental health toll become more clear in the days and weeks to come. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the perfect present for a russian patriot: what a board game on sale in moscow says about the increasing importance of patriotism in the country. president kennedy was shot down and died almost immediately. the murder ofjohn kennedy is a disaster for the whole free world. he caught the imagination of the world. the first of a new generation of leaders. margaret thatcher is resigning as leader of the conservative party and prime minister. before leaving number 10 to see the queen, she told her cabinet, "it's a funny old world." angela merkel is germany's first woman chancellor. easily securing the she needed. attempts to fly a hot air balloon had to be abandoned after a few minutes but nobody seemed to mind very much. as one local comic put it, "it's not hot air we need, it's hard cash." cuba has declared nine days of mourning following the death of fidel castro at the age of 90. castro developed close ties with the soviet union in the 1960s. it was an alliance that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, with the cuban missile crisis. this is bbc news, the latest headlines. the us says it hopes to approve and start distributing a coronavirus vaccine in less than three weeks time. the g20 summit ends with a commitment to the fair distribution of covid vaccines. the german chancellor says not enough's being done to help developing nations. poland is seeing its biggest protests in decades, with widespread fury at a decision to almost totally ban abortions. the country already has some of the strictest abortion laws in europe, but the ban would prevent even women whose foetuses have severe malformations from being able to terminate their pregnancies. the protests have delayed the law's implementation, but hospitals across poland have already stopped the procedure. 0ur europe correspondentjean mackenzie sent this report. weeks of rage pouring through the streets of warsaw. women fighting to protect what little right to abortion they have against a government that is trying to take it away. but authorities have had enough now. police are brought in from across the country to break this up. there are just such a surprising number out here this evening and it feels so disproportionate to the protesters. the protests erupted after poland's top court announceed a ban on abortion when the foetus is severely malformed, virtually the only terminations allowed here. shocked by the backlash, the government hasn't enforced the ruling yet, leaving women in limbo. but dr pasinksa is one of the few doctors still performing terminations. many hospitals have already stopped with fear of breaking the law. are you afraid? actually, i am not. i do not know why but i am not afraid. i mean, ifeel the pleas inside that i am doing the right thing so i hope that the karma will save me and i won't go to jail. she introduces us to her patient who was admitted in the morning. 21 weeks pregnant, herfoetus is missing vital organs and won't survive. but she's been refused a termination three times. poland is strongly catholic, and the conservative government often portrays abortion as an attack on the country's faith. but even so, this new ban has very little support. have you picked the wrong fight? 0h, definitely not. this is a good fight because we want human life to be protected and so we are very open about this. i am sorry if anyone is offended by it but, actually, we will not be apologising for it. back in march, the mood suddenly changes. police close in. a pensioner is dragged from the streets. others are beaten and pepper sprayed. clementina is one of them. why are the authorities reacting so strongly to your protests? because they are scared, the fear they are losing their power. are you going to win this fight? we are winning. it does not look like it, but we are. the ban could be implemented any day, but protesters know this is a bigger battle over which direction the country takes. jean mackenzie, bbc news, warsaw. human rights activists in belarus say more than 300 people have been arrested in continuing protests against president alexander lu kashenka. it was the 15th consecutive sunday of protests since the disputed election in august. campaigners have reported at least five people had been

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