Topman and miss selfridge the deal doesnt include the shops, putting 13,000 jobs at risk. The cost of covid for children a report suggests they stand to lose an average of £40,000 each in Lifetime Earnings because most are not in school. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or Around The World. Myanmar� s military has taken control of the country, seizing power and detaining civilian politicians, including Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman widely recognised as its unofficial leader. Myanmar, also known as burma, was ruled by the military until democratic reforms began in 2011. In novembers election, Aung San Suu Kyis party, the National League for democracy, won enough seats to form a government, although she is banned from becoming president as her children are foreign nationals. But the military said a State Of Emergency has been declared for one year, and it was handing power to its Commander In Chief because of election fraud. Soldiers are on the streets of the countrys capital and its main city yangon, and there is widespread phone and internet disruption across the country. So who is Aung San Suu Kyi . Shes the daughter of general aung san, who helped negotiate the countrys independence from British Colonial rule in 19118 before he was assassinated. She spent nearly 15 years in detention between 1989 and 2010, fighting for democratic elections. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, while still under house arrest. More recently, she has received criticism for not doing more to stop the rape, murder and possible genocide of Rohingya Muslims who fled from myanmar to bangladesh in 2017. But she is still very popular amongst most buddhists in the country, who make up the majority of citizens. Tom andrews, the Un Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in myanmar called the situation an outrageous assault on democracy. Were talking about Overturning A Constitution by the generals that the general themselves wrote, that they said just yesterday that they would abide by. So this is notjust an assault, an attack on an individual, on a political leader, a Political Party. This is an assault on democracy itself, on the people of myanmar, on their hopes and aspirations. And the people of myanmar need to know that the world is watching and the world is with them. Theres absolutely no justification for this whatsoever. The International Community cannot afford to stand idly by while this outrage occurs before our very eyes. The Prime Minister also reacted to the news on twitter. The white house also condemned what had happened and gave this warning. Lets speak to the editor of the bbc burmese service, soe win than. Why has the military decided to take over the running of the country illegally . Over the running of the country illeuall . ,. , illegally . Their pretext is that, in the latest election illegally . Their pretext is that, in the latest election in illegally . Their pretext is that, in the latest election in november, | the latest election in november, there were millions of fraudulent votes, so people who are not on the electoral roll, so they asked the government and the Electoral Commission to check those lists, but the government and the Election Commission insisted it was conducted in very free and fair ways and that the results reflected the wish of the results reflected the wish of the people so there is no way they could re count or look back at the results of the election. So the military said this was not democratic, they questioned the integrity of the elections, and then they said they had to step in. The United States they said they had to step in. The United States has demanded that this be reversed. Is there any chance it will happen . Be reversed. Is there any chance it will happen . Like the military would ste back will happen . Like the military would step back and will happen . Like the military would step back and release will happen . Like the military would step back and release the. . Will happen . Like the military would step back and release the. . No, l step back and release the. . No, they made this calculated move, the military was always playing an important, dominant role. The current constitution was drafted by the previous military rulers, and it gives enormous power to the military. They have a major say in the parliament, they have automatic representation in the parliament, so many key decisions are made only with the approval of the military. But they allowed, like, the civilian government to run for five years, but this time when Aung San Suu Kyi again won in a major landslide, and this is what the Military Cannot kind of. It is not very political for the military, so that is why they stepped in. For the military, so that is why they stepped in. Yeah, they are panicking they stepped in. Yeah, they are panicking. What they stepped in. Yeah, they are panicking. What will they stepped in. Yeah, they are panicking. What will it they stepped in. Yeah, they are panicking. What will it mean they stepped in. Yeah, they are panicking. What will it mean for they stepped in. Yeah, they are panicking. What will it mean for the people of myanmar to be governed by the military again . It is people of myanmar to be governed by the military again . The military again . It is terrible, ou could the military again . It is terrible, you could see the military again . It is terrible, you could see the the military again . It is terrible, you could see the anger the military again . It is terrible, you could see the anger on the military again . It is terrible, | you could see the anger on social media, despite the Internet Blocking and the phone line, you know, being down. So a lot of people are sharing their anger on social media, on the bbc Facebook Page as well, that i never wanted to go back to the military rule. They have very bitter experiences, that is the overwhelming penalty. In experiences, that is the overwhelming penalty. In practical terms, overwhelming penalty. In practical terms. What overwhelming penalty. In practical terms, what will overwhelming penalty. In practical terms, what will it overwhelming penalty. In practical terms, what will it mean overwhelming penalty. In practical terms, what will it mean to overwhelming penalty. In practical terms, what will it mean to be overwhelming penalty. In practical terms, what will it mean to be run by the military . It terms, what will it mean to be run by the military . By the military . It will be quite terrible. The by the military . It will be quite terrible. The military by the military . It will be quite | terrible. The military promised, that they would release a statement and they would go ahead with the Covid Vaccination programme and they would work to make peace with the ethnic armed groups and would work with the public and the general population, you know, but the general population have very bad experience under the previous military rule, so they never wanted to go back to that place. To go back to that place. Thank you very much. To go back to that place. Thank you very much, thank to go back to that place. Thank you very much, thank you to go back to that place. Thank you very much, thank you for to go back to that place. Thank you very much, thank you for your very much, thank you for your insight. Lets speak to andy heyn, former uk ambassador to myanmar. How do you react to this . Well, it is a really. How do you react to this . Well, it is a really, really how do you react to this . Well, it is a really, really dark how do you react to this . Well, it is a really, really dark day how do you react to this . Well, it is a really, really dark day for is a really, really dark day for myanmar, and ijust endorse what some of the other speakers you have odd on have said. This is an outrageous act by the myanmar military, they have form with this, as we know, and it is, as i say, a really dark day for myanmar and the International Community. It is really good to see the International Community rallying around straightaway, and i hope it will continue to do so. It straightaway, and i hope it will continue to do so. Straightaway, and i hope it will continue to do so. It has to do more than rallying. Continue to do so. It has to do more than rallying, doesnt continue to do so. It has to do more than rallying, doesnt it, continue to do so. It has to do more than rallying, doesnt it, if continue to do so. It has to do more than rallying, doesnt it, if it continue to do so. It has to do more than rallying, doesnt it, if it can than rallying, doesnt it, if it can reverse what has happened . I mean, that is the worry. Reverse what has happened . I mean, that is the worry. If reverse what has happened . I mean, that is the worry. If you reverse what has happened . I mean, that is the worry. If you look reverse what has happened . I mean, that is the worry. If you look at that is the worry. If you look at what has happened here, why the military has done this at this point, as Wejust Military has done this at this point, as we just heard, military has done this at this point, as wejust heard, the military have major powers which are reserved under the constitution that they themselves drafted, so it enables them to block constitutional change, it means they can hold key ministries, and it seems they have calculated that a second landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi and the nld means a threat to the constitutional power, and the risk is that it goes back to what it was when i first arrived, which is a pariah state and, you know, that is one of the options which the International Community. I was there when sanctions were in place, contacts between governments were almost nonexistent, and the result for myanmar was catastrophic in terms of its economy and people, investors were not going to go anywhere near it, and that must be the risk again unless the Military Reverse what they have done. find unless the Military Reverse what they have done. Unless the Military Reverse what the have done. �. , they have done. And how might they react if sanctions they have done. And how might they react if sanctions were they have done. And how might they react if sanctions were imposed react if sanctions were imposed again . React if sanctions were imposed auain . ~ react if sanctions were imposed a. Ain . ~. , react if sanctions were imposed aiain . , ,. , again . Well, what they did before was ust again . Well, what they did before was just dug again . Well, what they did before wasjust dug down, again . Well, what they did before wasjust dug down, and again . Well, what they did before wasjust dug down, and they again . Well, what they did before wasjust dug down, and they hunkered was just dug down, and they hunkered down, and i blame the west for all of the economic woes that they largely imposed on myanmar themselves. And they blamed. It is difficult to know how this particular Military Regime will act, because we have seen what their predecessors did up until the opening up which happened from 2010 onwards more or less, with the elections in 2015, but if they are true to form, they will just elections in 2015, but if they are true to form, they willjust hunker down. True to form, they will ust hunker down. �. , true to form, they will ust hunker down. �. , , true to form, they will ust hunker down. �. ,. , ~ down. And what will happen to Aung San Suu Kyi . Down. And what will happen to Aung San Suu Kyi . What down. And what will happen to Aung San Suu Kyi . What could down. And what will happen to Aung San Suu Kyi . What could happen down. And what will happen to Aung San Suu Kyi . What could happen to l san suu kyi . What could happen to her . ~ ,. ,. ,. , san suu kyi . What could happen to her . ,. , her . Well, she has had many years under house her . Well, she has had many years under house arrest, her . Well, she has had many years under house arrest, she her . Well, she has had many years under house arrest, she has her . Well, she has had many years under house arrest, she has also i under house arrest, she has also served jail time as well, so it is unsure what will happen. You know, the fact is that she now has two election landslide victories behind her and there is, as we have heard, a lot of anger in myanmar, so it is unsure what will happen, but what they have done previously as held her under the key figures in prison or in house arrest. Or in house arrest. Thank you very much, or in house arrest. Thank you very much. Mr or in house arrest. Thank you very much. Mr heyn or in house arrest. Thank you very much, mr heyn. The or in house arrest. Thank you very much, mr heyn. The former or in house arrest. Thank you very much, mr heyn. The former uk i much, mr heyn. The former uk ambassador to myanmar. I want to bring some years we have just received. Police in austria say they have found 96 foreigners from across europe at the ski resort of St Anton Am Arlberg to be in breach of pandemic related rules on entering the country and the national lockdown. In a statement on friday night, the police said britons, danes, swedes, romanians, germans, australians, irish and poles were among those who were checked and fined. The operation was carried out on friday night. Ski lifts are open in austria, but hotels are closed to tourists. The foreigners are thought to have used loopholes, registering local addresses. The statement said the foreigners are currently in quarantine and face fines of up to 2,180 euros. Another line of Breaking News a court in russia has fined yulia navalnaya, the wife of the jailed critic of the kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, for taking part in unsanctioned protests. Shes been fined 20,000 roubles, thats about £250. More with our moscow correspondent shortly. The nhs says that every elderly care home resident in england has now been offered the Coronavirus Vaccine. The Prime Minister has described it as a crucial milestone. It comes as the uk hit a record daily total of vaccinations over the weekend. Aru na iyengar reports. Across the uk residents of care homes are rolling up their sleeves for the Covid Vaccine, and this is what it means. The day the vaccine was administered was such a positive moment. We feel a sense of relief, i think, that you can see something positive coming, and the residents were amazing, and there was a real air of great atmosphere. The Prime Minister said it marked a crucial milestone in the race to protect the most vulnerable and that the roll out will only accelerate from here. The head of the nhs, simon stevens, also paid tribute to the work of gps, Community Nurses and care home workers. The government says a few homes have had visits deferred due to local outbreaks of the virus and promises to get these done as soon as it is safe to do so. Some residents also may have been missed because they were suffering from covid. Ministers are growing increasingly confident of hitting the target of vaccinating the 15 million most Vulnerable People by mid february after a record high ofjabs on saturday, reaching nearly 600,000. Nearly nine million first doses have now been administered and nearly nine out of ten people aged 80 and above and over three quarters of people aged 75 and over have now had their firstjab. But the charity alzheimers uk says it is concerned about the level of staff vaccinations amid reports that some workers have declined jabs. Its also calling for the government to speed up the roll out of the second dose to allow homes to resume meaningful visits. In wales, around three quarters of staff and care home residents have received the vaccine. All homes in Northern Ireland have now been visited. And the Scottish Government said it expected to complete the first stage of its roll out, including care homes, by the end of this week. Aruna iyengar, bbc news. 0ur chief Political Correspondent adam fleming explained a little earlier why not every elderly care home resident has been vaccinated. Some people might turn it down, there might also be logistical problems that mean it is not able to be delivered at a particular care home at that exact point, and also some care homes are closed off because there are local outbreaks and it is not safe for Vaccination Teams to go in, so it is not a Blanket Announcement that everyone who wants a vaccine has got one. The government is being open about that in their statement. The other big question, of course, does it make a difference to people doing visits to see their loved ones . Helen whately, the Care Minister, doing interviews this morning, sounded very cautious about that. And we are working on right now what can we do in order to allow some more normal visiting, to be able to allow indoor visiting to start again, how can we use testing, to use that, you know, what confidence can we have as Community Rates should come down further in the wider community, which is what poses the biggest risk to care homes. Ill absolutely say were looking at it. Just cos. Cos i knowjust how important it is, actually, to the health and to the physical and Mental Health of those living in care homes and their families to be able to. To have contact. And as we were hearing, the other issue rate at which staff are being vaccinated, which seems to be going more slowly than the residents. The governments other target is to have the top four most vulnerable groups in the Vaccination List are getting their injections by the middle of february, that is 15 million people, and if you look at the rate of vaccination at the moment, it is probably going to have to increase if the government is going to hit that second target, and officials admit it is going to be pretty tight. In other vaccine use, the government has announced it is ordering a0 million extra doses from the french firm valneva to take the total up to 100 million doses. Crucially, they will arrive between 2022 and 2025, another sign that the government is preparing for people to have multiple Coronavirus Vaccines over a number of years. And the Health Secretary, matt hancock, will be leafing the downing street briefing today. Viewers in the uk can watch it here on the bbc news channel at five oclock. Captain sir tom moore, the british war veteran who raised tens of millions of pounds for the health service, has spent the night in hospital with coronavirus. Captain sir tom, whos 100 years old, was admitted yesterday because he needed help with his breathing. John maguire reports. It all started as his way of thanking the nhs for looking after him following a fall. Now captain sir tom moore the record breaking fundraiser is under its care once again. Hes being treated for pneumonia and covid 19 at Bedford Hospital. In a Statement Released yesterday afternoon by one of his daughters, hannah said he was being treated at home but was taken to hospital when he needed additional help with his breathing. Hes on a ward, and not in intensive care. She described the medical care hes received over the past few weeks as remarkable and goes on to say, we know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all they can to make him comfortable and hopefully return home as soon as possible. This year, of course. We last spoke to him just before christmas, and he was his usual optimistic self. But things will get better, and next year will be all right. Captain toms endeavors walking 100 lengths of his back garden before his 100th birthday last april saw him raise almost £40 million for Nhs Charities. He inspired so many to follow in his footsteps, and his story was told Around The World. Now, once again, people are lining up to wish him well. The Prime Minister, borisjohnson, tweeted. The labour leader, keir starmer, wrote. When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high. And the singer michael ball whose duet with captain tom helped him to break yet another record as they made it to number one said. He is a huge cricket fan, and the former england captain Michael Vaughan sent this message. Sir captain tom, over the last ten months, youve been our inspiration. Youve been the nations heartbeat. Were all Thinking Of You get well soon. Thank you, captain tom, from the nhs and, in passing on their best wishes, the Nhs Charities he helped reminds us of the difference hes made. We owe him so much for inspiring people to support Nhs Charities. The funds that he raised are making such a difference right now to nhs staff, volunteers and patients. Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time, and we wish you a speedy recovery, captain tom as the pandemic led to repeated lockdowns, captain tom has always offered messages of hope and positivity reminding us all to walk, to talk, and to look after each other. Its now time for us to return the favour and to look forward to seeing that smile once again. John maguire, bbc news, bedford. One in three israelis have now received at least one shot of the Coronavirus Vaccine far higher than anywhere else in the world. The states 24 7 campaign has meant many vulnerable populations, including about 70 of over 60s, have already received the prescribed two doses of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. The country is injecting up to 200,000 people a day, and last week made the jab available to anyone over 35. The early results in israel are offering some optimism on the effectiveness of vaccines in fighting coronavirus. Well, im joined now by our health reporter, rachel schraer. Saw what is the data coming out of israel . Saw what is the data coming out of israel . ,. ,. , israel . Have data from their National Ministry israel . Have data from their National Ministry of israel . Have data from their National Ministry of health i israel . Have data from their l National Ministry of health and israel . Have data from their National Ministry of health and one of the Biggest Health care providers, and it is suggesting that under 0. 1 of people who have been vaccinated out becoming infected, and those who are becoming infected are experiencing very mild cases with few symptoms, so really positive signs that the programme is starting to have effect on national cases. �. ,. ,. ,. ,. , cases. And what does that mean for, sa , the cases. And what does that mean for, say. The uk cases. And what does that mean for, say, the uk campaign . Cases. And what does that mean for, say, the uk campaign . Israel cases. And what does that mean for, say, the uk campaign . 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All right, thank you very much, rachel, thank you. The European Commission says the drug firm astrazeneca will now supply an additional nine million Covid Vaccines by march. Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen said it was a step forward. But it still means the eu will only get half of what it had hoped for in that time frame. The commission has been involved in a row with both the uk and astrazeneca over who gets access to vaccine supplies. A World Health Organization team sent to china to investigate the origins of the coronavirus is visiting two centres for Disease Control today. One of them is close to the wuhan food market which allegedly was at the centre of the initial covid 19 outbreak in the city. 0ur correspondent Stephen Mcdonnel sent this update from wuhan. So the team has just arrived at the centre for Disease Control, and inside there will be speaking to local experts about the early stages of the outbreak here, same as they did at another Disease Control facility this morning. So talking about how, in the early stages, they identified cases, how were they able to treat the early patients, and were there any similarities between the conditions of different patients and the potential for how they caught the disease. But also, crucially, inside this facility there is a lab, just like there is in the other facility, and they visited the labs at the first location they went to presumably theyll do the same thing in here today. This place is only, like, hundreds of metres from the huanan livestock market, which isjust over that way behind my shoulder. So you can imagine people have thought, what are the chances that some lab worker here, i dont know, has the virus on them or Something Like that, somehow accidentally it is leaked, they come out of here, maybe they have gone down the road to buy some seafood or something, and in that way the coronavirus initially got out into the open and infected people in that market, causing the early clusters . Now, i should add this isjust one of many theories of how the coronavirus started. But it is a remarkable coincidence that this facility is here, just around the corner from the huanan livestock market. I mean, at the beginning of this trip to china, they said they had no strong leads at all, so they come here to examine, they say all options are on the table. This is why they are going to the huanan institute of virology, to see if there was a lab leak there, or why theyre speaking to animal experts, to say, could it have come from bats to an intermediary animal then to human beings, may be in yunan, maybe even in another country and then into china. There are all these possibilities, and they are saying they are going to spend a lot of time running through all the data, speaking to a lot of people, and that there is no way that, after these next two weeks, theyre going to say to the world, ta da, we have discover the origins of the coronavirus and here it is. I think its going to take much longer than that. In the last few minutes, weve heard that yulia navalnaya, the wife of the russian activist Alexei Navalny, has been fined 20,000 roubles, thats about £250, for taking part in unsanctioned protests over her husbands detention. She was among thousands of people detained in moscow as demonstrations broke out in 90 cities across russia in support of putin critic navalny. Meanwhile, russian prosecutors have backed a request to convert navalny� s suspended three and a half Year Prison Sentence into realjail time. The bbc� s Sarah Rainsford in moscow gave us more details. It does make it even more likely that on tuesday, when mr navalny appears before a court here in moscow, he could be facing time behind bars in prison. Because the general Prosecutors Office has supported an application by the Prison Authorities here to have his previous suspended sentence made into a custodial sentence. They say that that application is legal and well founded. So when the court comes to consider it, it is highly likely to prove it. Now, that would mean that for the first time in all his time as Anti Corruption campaigner and as a political opponent of vladimir putin, Alexei Navalny could spend a significant number of months in prison. The kremlin has always been thought to consider the Political Risk of that too high to do it before now, but it does look like all the indications are that mr navalny could be sent to prison. Potentially, this could create more protests. If you bear in mind that there are crowds of come out onto the streets calling for Alexei Navalny to be released, they are angry at the way he has been treated, and if he does get a long prison sentence, then that anger could potentially grow. Certainly, mr navalny� s supporters have called for crowds to gather outside the Court Tomorrow here in moscow. I suspect that by the evening time, perhaps after work, there could be significant numbers on the street again. That is certainly something the kremlin has always wanted to avoid in the past. Perhaps this calculation its calculations are different now. Certainly it will have been looking at the protests yesterday right across russia and last week to evaluate how it moves forward. But the kremlin is not known for giving in to pressure, particularly pressure from the streets. So the general consensus here at this point appears to be that mr navalny is about to be removed from the political equation. A report out today in the uk suggests the long Term Economic effects of covid 19 Will Hit Children The Hardest and has called for a National Education recovery plan. The Institute For Fiscal Studies estimates that many pupils, whove lost six months of normal schooling, could lose around £40,000 in income over their lifetime. It says the loss of schooling is contributing to lower educational progress and skills, particularly for disadvantaged pupils. The government says its Investing Hundreds of millions of pounds to help students catch up and has got more than 800,000 laptops to children. Well, with schools in england not set to reopen fully until march 8th at the earliest, our education correspondent Elaine Dunkley has been to one school in merseyside where Head Teachers and staff are working hard to help vulnerable pupils. Egremont primary in wallasey. The school at the heart of the community. Weve got 107 on average in school each day out of our 309. We are not turning children away, but we are obviously needing to do what we are expecting to do in keeping our numbers small. But it is a really hard job. Morning, guys, can everybody see . Good morning the workload the teachers are doing has without question increased significantly. Essentially, they are tripling what they are doing. Theyve got their live learning, theyve got the google classroom, and theyve got the paper learning, if you like. Lockdown has been a challenging time for staff and pupils. I would say the children are quite anxious. They are feeling like, when is this going to end, whats going to happen . You cant really go anywhere or play. | and thats a strugglel for you because were all used to going out. We cant socialise with anyone, and school is very different because we have different restrictions. I come into school because i havent got any devices or laptops at home. My teachers are really kind to me, and ijust like it in school. This area has high levels of deprivation. One of the biggest concerns is that children will go hungry. Round this vicinty, around most of the wirral and liverpool, it is working poverty, and it is child poverty, and it is all those things put together, everything. It has affected so many more people and children than ever before. Every week, the school delivers food parcels to families, and the numbers are growing. People are embarrassed, but they shouldnt be. They shouldnt be. We have a couple of members of staff that i provide food for. Again, husbands been furloughed, been laid off. And they are working, working in a school, but it hits them as well. As well as food poverty, the head teacher is worried that the pandemic has made it harder for children struggling with behaviour, psychological and emotional issues to get the care they need. Thats hard to cope with, because we are not getting what we would usually get, so if we want pretty much any agencies to come out, theyve stopped. Where you are requiring somebody to come and observe a child in class, that is difficult. School life is very different now. Part of our Pe Curriculum is live lessons with the children. Its cold today, absolutely freezing in school. Lily, what have you got in your hands . Laptop. And what is your laptop for . Schoolwork. Part of our new routine, as teaching staff, is to take a covid 19 self test. Over the past year, life and learning for many has been tough. Here, the challenges have been met with resilience, imagination and, of course, humour. Do you want to tell us what youre going to be doing today, talia . Well, to be honest, i only woke up, like, 45 minutes ago. Are we 0k . Now and again, you just think, wow, 0k, what do we need to do next . You cant switch off from it. This isntjust a school where you finish at the end of the day. This is a lifestyle. Im not sure it ever stops she laughs. The headlines on bbc news. The miltiary have taken over the running of mynamar illegally Detaining Civilain leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest against the coup. Messages of support have flooded in for captain sir tom moore, whos in hospital with coronavirus. All care homes residents in england have now been offered a vaccine according to the government its being hailed as an important milestone. 0nline Retailer asos buys topshop, topman and miss selfridge the deal doesnt include the shops putting 13,000 jobs at risk. The labour party is calling for a National Task force to be set up to tackle a crisis over flammable cladding. Mps will debate the issue in parliament today. 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire injune 2017, but an estimated 700,000 people are still living in homes with flammable cladding, as sarah corker reports. A bombshell has just been dropped on us with this cladding. Caught up in britains building safety crisis. These sums of money are absolutely eye watering, and something that we could never afford. Thousands of people are trapped living in unsafe homes. These flat owners in salford say they face repair bills of up to £100,000 each. And if im made bankrupt by this, i lose myjob,. My career, and my home. This tower block in south london is having its cladding removed paid for by government funding. But across britain, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in homes wrapped in dangerous materials, now facing huge repair bills. Labour says the government needs to get a grip on cladding problems, which are pushing people towards bankruptcy. Flat owners like giles in manchester say being trapped in an unsafe home is taking its toll. For the last two or three years, a lot of our lives have been completely ruined. We remain in uncertainty. Were Living In Fear and limbo. All weve been told so far is the government wants us to pay sums running into the tens of thousands of pounds simply to make our homes safe. Its all got even worse over the last year because were literally trapped in our homes for 23 hours a day during the pandemic. We almost feel safer outside than inside our home. Mps will debate the issue in parliament later. Labour are calling for a deadline of 2022 for buildings to be made safe, and a system to prioritise repairs based on fire risk. The government has set aside £1. 6 billion to remove cladding and says it is making Good Progress. But campaigners estimate itll cost ten times that amount, given the scale of this crisis. Sarah corker, bbc news. The duke of cambridge has called for racist abuse aimed at footballers to stop, calling it despicable. Manchester united forward Marcus Rashford was the latest player subjected to racist abuse this weekend after a series of incidents. On twitter, the Manchester United forward said, he was subjected to humanity and social media at its worst yesterday, after his sides goalless draw with arsenal. Social Media Companies have also reacted. Facebook issued a statement saying theres no place for racism on instagram and theyre committed to removing it when they find it. Their statement went on to say theyve take action in this case by removing accounts and comments and are continuing to investigate. Last week, the uk government held talks with current and former footballers about tackling discrimination and abuse. Lets talk to chris stokel walker, a technology and social media journalist. And im also joined by the former the former swindon and huddersfield forward, iffy 0nuora, whos now Equalities 0fficer at the professional footballers� association. Seem of the messages that Marcus Rashford received involved Monkey Emojis and i will read one message, Thatis Emojis and i will read one message, that is offensive. Fff, this banana peeler should leave and go back to the zoo. How do you reacts to messages like that . Haifa back to the zoo. How do you reacts to messages like that . To messages like that . How does an one to messages like that . How does anyone react to messages like that . How does anyone react. Good to messages like that . How does anyone react. Good morning. To messages like that . How does| anyone react. Good morning. How to messages like that . How does anyone react. Good morning. How does anyone react. Good morning. How does anyone react . It is abhorrent. All the things we have said over the last two years, we have been speaking for that length of time and not enough has been done. So welcome facebook and twitter making statements this weekend, but that is, that feels very late in the day. We have been having conversations with them for many months before that. If i state at one point their advice was to say, ask the players to report the abuse. That is not how it should work. These are multibillion industries and companies with resources to do more than what theyre doing now. They need to be an environment where this is unacceptable. Not the words, we have heard a lot of that, but making it tangible and welcome the government bill that is probably going to go through parliament this year. But again even that is late compared to germany and australia, who have had legislation since 2018 and 2019 which has involved fines of turnover for the social Media Companies, if they dont remove offensive content within a period of time and that is the level of strength that they have shown and welcome to see what comes out of the online harms bill, hopefully a similar amount online harms bill, hopefully a similaramount of online harms bill, hopefully a similar amount of strength is directed with that as well. Chris do ou auree directed with that as well. Chris do you agree that directed with that as well. Chris do you agree that we directed with that as well. Chris do you agree that we should directed with that as well. Chris do you agree that we should be directed with that as well. Chris do | you agree that we should be talking about massive fines for the social Media Companies and jail sentences for Senior Executives . Yes Media Companies and ail sentences for Senior Executives . For Senior Executives . Yes every word that iffy for Senior Executives . Yes every word that iffy has for Senior Executives . Yes every word that iffy has said for Senior Executives . Yes every word that iffy has said is for Senior Executives . Yes every j word that iffy has said is correct. The statement from facebook said we will take the statement from facebook said we will take action where we will find it and will take action where we will find it and the will take action where we will find it and the part of the problem is theyre it and the part of the problem is theyre not it and the part of the problem is theyre not currently finding it. They theyre not currently finding it. They have theyre not currently finding it. They have huge resources they can spend they have huge resources they can spend on they have huge resources they can spend on moderating this content, but they spend on moderating this content, but they dont, because they dont see it but they dont, because they dont see it a but they dont, because they dont see it a as but they dont, because they dont see it a as priority and all of these see it a as priority and all of these abhorrent things continue to happen these abhorrent things continue to happen. Social media is often a minor happen. Social media is often a mirror to happen. Social media is often a mirror to society and sadly people with these mirror to society and sadly people with these views still exist in society with these views still exist in society. But it gives them a megaphone and it can reach into peoples megaphone and it can reach into peoples personal lives and iffy has lon peoples personal lives and iffy has long and peoples personal lives and iffy has long and storied career on and off the pitch long and storied career on and off the pitch and he has experienced horrible the pitch and he has experienced horrible things that none of us, particularly me a and you can comment particularly me a and you can comment on. But we should be doing more comment on. But we should be doing more to comment on. But we should be doing more to tackle this and if it involves more to tackle this and if it involves trying to compel those social involves trying to compel those Social Media Platforms To Act Through Social Media Platforms To Act Through huge fines, by making them do stuff, through huge fines, by making them do stuff, then we have to do that. Even do stuff, then we have to do that. Even if do stuff, then we have to do that. Even if that do stuff, then we have to do that. Even if that happened, those people who are posting the race ist comments would still be racist. How do you educate them . It is comments would still be racist. How do you educate them . Do you educate them . It is the environment. Do you educate them . It is the environment. If do you educate them . It is the environment. If we do you educate them . It is the environment. If we have do you educate them . It is the environment. If we have this i do you educate them . It is the i environment. If we have this Zero Tolerance environment there will be out layer, we are not here to eradicate racism and goes on behind closed doors, but this is a public forum, so it is no different to any public forum and there are rules and they shouldnt be tolerated, but theyre being tolerated which leaves to a feeling of impunity and they can get away with it and they have been able to get away with it. Once you start addressing that and challenging that environment, then they disappear. They dont go away completely, i dont care what people say behind closed doors, that is up to them. You will never reach everyone, but it is important to set a tone as a nation what we consider good behaviour, reasonable behaviour, tolerant behaviour, that involves weeding out this kind of behaviour from swron Line Platforms onLine Platforms. I might add in any other medium, television, newspapers, the government by 0fcom and they are regulated. Social media is a relatively new medium in that sense, but the time for Self Governance is long past gone. I would imagine if i was a Tv Executive Thinking i cant allow this sort of contest. Why should they. This sort of contest. Why should the. ,. ,. , this sort of contest. Why should the. , ~. ,. ,. , they. Now know what they argue, they sa the re they. Now know what they argue, they say theyre not they. Now know what they argue, they say theyre not publishers. They. Now know what they argue, they say theyre not publishers. That they. Now know what they argue, they say theyre not publishers. That is say theyre not publishers. That is why they say they are not, they dont come under the rules of 0fcom. Yeah, i mean the rules as theyre narrowly defined, that is not to stay they cant be expanded on. That is what the online bill, that is what they have done in other countries. That argument and i understand there is a Jurisdiction Problem as well with some of the american companies. But that can be got it. They have done it in other countries, in australia and germany they have come down hard on this kind of thing. I think it is probably ideological as well. It is social Media Companies, the whole ethos is to have as many users and i agree with chris. It is not in their business model. They take the content and hide behind the fact theyre hosting it. They have a Responsibility, they have the power now beyond any we have seen w that comes Responsibility. The now beyond any we have seen w that comes Responsibility. Comes Responsibility. The power the mone and comes Responsibility. The power the money and the comes Responsibility. The power the money and the resources comes Responsibility. The power the money and the resources they comes Responsibility. The power thej money and the resources they have. Chris, do you think they are publish ers and we need to treat them as such . ,. ,. , such . Yes although they will say the are such . Yes although they will say they are not. Such . Yes although they will say they are not, they such . Yes although they will say they are not, they are. Such . Yes although they will say they are not, they are. This such . Yes although they will say they are not, they are. This is i such . Yes although they will say i they are not, they are. This is part of the they are not, they are. This is part of the issue they are not, they are. This is part of the issue. Theyre being dragged kicking of the issue. Theyre being dragged kicking and screaming by politicians under kicking and screaming by politicians under the kicking and screaming by politicians under the threat of punishment to moderate under the threat of punishment to moderate these comments. It is more a ethos, moderate these comments. It is more a ethos, the moderate these comments. It is more a ethos, the way that these platforms were set up, 15 or 20 years platforms were set up, 15 or 20 years ago. Platforms were set up, 15 or 20 years ago, i have done a book on youtube years ago, i have done a book on youtube and spoke to early y employees who were drawing up the Moderation Policy and their thinking was a Moderation Policy and their thinking was a libertarian west coast ideal, sun light was a libertarian west coast ideal, sunlight is was a libertarian west coast ideal, sun light is the best disinfeck tants~ sun light is the best disinfeck tants. Know know that sun light makes tants. Know know that sun light makes things grow. 0ne tants. Know know that sun light makes things grow. One of the makes things grow. 0ne of the solutions makes things grow. One of the solutions that has been proposed is putting solutions that has been proposed is putting some sort of forced disclosure, so you cant have any anorn disclosure, so you cant have any anorn imty disclosure, so you cant have any anom imty online. That is an issue. Some anom imty online. That is an issue. Some of anom imty online. That is an issue. Some of the anom imty online. That is an issue. Some of the journalism you have done in the some of the journalism you have done in the past some of the journalism you have done in the past is some of the journalism you have done in the past is talking to people who are by in the past is talking to people who are by definition needing to remain anonymous to speak out about these things anonymous to speak out about these things. That would be going in the wrong things. That would be going in the wrong dreshgs. Direction, but we cant wrong dreshgs. Direction, but we cant tolerate wrong dreshgs. Direction, but we cant tolerate this in our society. Thank cant tolerate this in our society. Thank you cant tolerate this in our society. Thank you both very much for talking to us. In hungary over a hundred cafes and restaurants say they will re open today in protest against government imposed restrictions, or against the governments failure to compensate them for their losses. After months of struggling to stay in business due to the sharp drop in revenues caused by pandemic restrictions, certain businesses claim this isnt an anti lockdown protest as such, but more A Cry For Help. Lets speak now to tiborvarady, owner of Espresso Embassy coffee shop in budapest. Are you open today . We are not doing an rotest are you open today . We are not doing any protest opening. Are you open today . We are not doing any protest opening. We are you open today . We are not doing any protest opening. We are are you open today . We are not doing any protest opening. We are open are you open today . We are not doing any protest opening. We are open as l any protest opening. We are open as usualfor any protest opening. We are open as usual for takeaway. Any protest opening. We are open as usualfor takeaway. As any protest opening. We are open as usual for takeaway. As we have any protest opening. We are open as usualfor takeaway. As we have been allowed to do in the past two months. And i think actually most places are obviously not opening. In this kind of guerrilla way. It is A Cry For Help that some are. The fact thatis cry for help that some are. The fact that is we have been closed most restaurants and pubs have been closed for a long time now and Government Support is little. So people are getting tired the, people are getted bankrupt. People losing theirjobs and trying to find some kind of help from the government. 50 kind of help from the government. So this is a plea for cash from the government to help businesses like yours keep going . I government to help businesses like yours keep going . Government to help businesses like yours keep going . I cannot represent those who actually yours keep going . I cannot represent those who actually opening. Yours keep going . I cannot represent those who actually opening. Im yours keep going . I cannot represent those who actually opening. Im sure| those who actually opening. Im sure some indeed believe that these restrictions dont make sense. But i think the majority of us understand that we do need to restrict social contacts and so restricting hospitality does make sense. But it has to be compensated. What we have had so far is too little and too late. ~. , had so far is too little and too late. ~. ,. , had so far is too little and too late. ~. , late. What is the government saying about whether late. What is the government saying about whether there late. What is the government saying about whether there is late. What is the government saying about whether there is a late. What is the government saying about whether there is a prospect i late. What is the government saying about whether there is a prospect ofj about whether there is a prospect of compensating you further as the day and weeks go by . And weeks go by . There is a couple of schemes and weeks go by . There is a couple of schemes going and weeks go by . There is a couple of schemes going on. And weeks go by . There is a couple of schemes going on. One and weeks go by . There is a couple of schemes going on. One of and weeks go by . There is a couple of schemes going on. One of them | and weeks go by . There is a couple. Of schemes going on. One of them is where the government is supporting about half the salaries of the people working in hospitality. There is two issues. Most people havent yet got the compensation for the november salaries. Yet got the compensation for the novembersalaries. So yet got the compensation for the november salaries. So that is late for almost two months. And also this help does not help those who have already lost theirjobs. So i think in the first month, or first two months of lockdowns, people more patient or thinking that somehow we willjust get by. But now we see that trouble is getting bigger. Some of us can do takeout business. Coffee can be taken out. I feel that. Maybe im not the worst affected. But i know so many restaurants, so many pubs are down to zero and if you dont have any money, it is impossible to keep your staff and to have any hope of even re opening. {th staff and to have any hope of even reopening staff and to have any hope of even reoenina. ,. , reopening. Of course. We wish you the best, thank reopening. Of course. We wish you the best, thank you reopening. Of course. We wish you the best, thank you for reopening. Of course. We wish you the best, thank you for talking reopening. Of course. We wish you the best, thank you for talking to i the best, thank you for talking to us. The headlines on bbc news the military have taken over the running of mynamar illegally Detaining Civilain leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest against the coup. Messages of support have flooded in for captain sir tom moore, whos in hospital with coronavirus. All care homes residents in england have now been offered a vaccine according to the government its being hailed as an important milestone. Evidence about the way the Emergency Services responded to the Manchester Arena attack will begin this week at the inquiry into what happened. Little is known about the members of the public who helped the injured in the absence of proper medical help and equipment. Survivors say its vital their role isnt overlooked in the official version of events. 0ur north of england correspondent, judith moritz, has been speaking to two of them, and a warning her report contains some distressing details. Your emergency, please . Theres been an explosion at Manchester Arena. Has anybody been injured . Yes, loads. We are going to get as many. Ambulances to you as we can. Yes, we have very few at the moment. I am shouting out, help, we need help we need paramedics. Theres that expectation theres going to be help, there is going to be help and it just didnt come. In the wake of the bomb at Manchester Arena, the most seriously injured could not move from where they fell. And although blue lights pulsed outside, inside there was only one paramedic for the first 40 minutes. Jane tweddle lay fatally hurt. There was little expertise or equipment at hand. It was left to a stranger, sean gardner, to sit by her side as her life slipped away. When you are faced with injuries. So severe, you know, im not trained, i dont know what to do. You just feel so helpless. All you can do is comfort, and it isnt enough but that is all i felt i could do. Did you speak to jane . Were you trying to communicate with her . Yes, i held her hand, and she knew somebody was next to her, i suppose, that was the main thing is. 0rdinary people found themselves on the medical front line and sam depended on them for survival. 0rdinary people found themselves on the medical front line and some depended on them for survival. Children like freya lewis, who was very badly hurt and fell into the arms of a stranger. I kept saying to her, im not going to leave you, im not going to leave you. Kim dick looked after freya for over an hour. The teenager had 29 injuries. I had to hold freya with all my. You know, sat up, in an upright position. How do you feel about the fact help wasnt there straight away . At the time, really helpless. You know, because i could see whats going on, and especially because freya was losing so much blood. Luckily, from watching tv, i knew to keep her upright. But we needed help. Hello hi their story has a happy ending. Freya has stayed in touch with kim and her husband, phil. She says she owes her life to them. I think the absolute world of them. They are in my thoughts every single day. They are the reason why i am still here. And kim and phil, they saved my life. They acted as my parents when my parents couldnt. And i will always, for the rest of my life, be eternally grateful to them because, yes, they are just amazing. Kim and freya now share a bond, forged from terrible circumstances. The survivor and her hero, just one of the ordinary people who stepped up when help was so desperately needed. Judith moritz, bbc news, manchester. The Online Fashion retailer asos has confirmed its purchase of the topshop, topman and miss Selfridge Brands from the collapsed Arcadia Group. In a £295 million deal with administrators, asos is acquiring the stock and the brands but not their retail stores. Earlier i spoke to our Business Reporter vivienne nunis. Asos they wont buy the stores, that will put around 2,500 jobs at risk. Around 300 back upjobs, such as buyers and designers, they will be transferred, but for the thousands in Retail Outlets, the future looks uncertain. It is a lot of young people and women that take up those roles and those groups have been hit during the pandemic in terms ofjob losses. Uncertainty also in terms of the pension fund. We understand there around a £350 million hole in the Arcadia Group pension fund. There is pressure on the former owner of the group, sir philip green to plug that hole. He is worth around £930 million. We will have to wait and see. The worlds first rocket powered by bio fuel has been launched in the United States. Its called stardust 0ne and it successfully flew a mile into the air before parachuting back to earth. Jane 0brien reports. Five, four, three, two, one. Ignition sequence started. Lets go. Oh, my gosh making space history in the state of maine. Stardust 1. 0 becomes the first commercial launch of a rocket with the fuel derived from a secret substance found on farms. This is awesome. This is fantastic. All right. Sascha deri is the inventor of the biofuel and head of blushift, which built the rocket. But its been a long road to success. Stardust made its historic debut at a runway for heavy bombers at the disused Loring Air Force base in the far north near the border with canada. Compared to other commercial rockets that now ferry astronauts to the space station, stardust 1. 0 is very small, but cheap to fly. That makes space accessible to many more people. This launch carried experiments from a college and a business that wants to test an alloy for vibration. It will eventually launch satellites into space. Right now there are Freight Trains to space like spacex and ula. There are Medium Sized Companies and rockets that are launching i would call them buses to space, with medium sized payloads. But we want to be the uber to space. Maine is well placed for launching into polar orbit, but its also really cold and that can cause its own problems. Once you get to minus, below minus 10 fahrenheit, we actually have issues. We didnt expect it to get this cold. So right now we are doing everything to warm up the rockets internals. We have actually a heater in there and we are hoping that Heater Windfall do the job. But anyone doubting maines ability to establish itself as a key player in the increasingly Diversion Space Industry should look at the history books. As a key player in the increasingly diverse Space Industry should look at the history books. During the cold war with russia, this Windswept Winter Wilderness was americas front line of defence. The b 52 bombers that constantly patrolled the skies were maintained inside this massive hangar. The base closed in 1994, but the infrastructure is still here. Just waiting to play a new role. Hello maine has other bases it can use and some 50 Companies Already working in the aeroSpace Industry. It is hope that blue shift� s success will boost plans for a new spaceport complex. Thanks for your e mails. Liz says about visits to care home, my mum has been locked away for near lay year. I have seen her on Window Visits and one pod visit. Despite guidelines, we are not in lockdown, there were no outside visits, no technology and only recently we have have been allowed in the pod. I have watched my mum go from a fun loving lady to a shuffling old lady who is losing her speech and cries through the crack in the window for me to come in. Care staff might be great, but theyre not family. Ive watched them hug her as why shout to my mum. The Care Minister in england has continued to answer any queries on this by families with the same copy and paste response tell us to read the guidelines. We have had a lot of e mails about this issue and it is something we are going to return to here on bbc news. So keep your messages coming in. Youre watching bbc news. Now its time for a look at the weather with carol. Hello, as we go through the week, while we are looking at some unsettled conditions with rain and snow. A lot of this will be over Northern England and scotland, most of it on the hills, but at times to lower levels. It is going to be milder in the south for a time, with temperatures back into double figures. This front is coming across Northern Ireland bringing rain and hill snow. Northern ireland bringing rain and hillsnow. Laterthese Northern Ireland bringing rain and hill snow. Later these fronts will come from the south west and increase the strength of wind, bringing rain and snow tonight. There is a lot of cloud and dampness in the south of england and wales. It should brighten up in west wales and east anglia. Showers continuing in northern and Eastern Scotland and some could get into North East England and we have rain and hill snow across Northern Ireland later this band will come up. Nine degrees in plymouth. Two or three in lerwick. Tonight we will see a spell of some snow across Northern England and in through scotland and this next band comes in with a strengthening wind, bringing rain and further snow across the north midlands and Northern England and scotland. We could sigh some in east anglia. Tomorrow all of that advances north and west and later turning back to rain across Northern England and southern scotland. But at the same time, we will have a clutch of showers moving across england and wales, some will be heavy and thundery. But mild here at 14 degrees. 0nly heavy and thundery. But mild here at 14 degrees. Only four in aberdeen, where we could have some drifting snow in the north and east. Heading through tuesday into wednesday, fronts pushing north and we have this next system coming in, that looks like it will bring heavy rain to the southern counties of england. The ground is already saturated and it will move across the south. It may get further north than this chart suggests. That is open to debate. Then we have trier weather with sunshine and for northern and scotland we have that mixture of rain, sleet and hill snow. This is bbc news. The headlines at 11am. The military have seized power of mynamar detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest and the un have called the coup an outrage. This is notjust an assault, an attack, on an individual, a political leader, a Political Party. This is an assault on democracy itself. All care home residents in england have now been offered a vaccine, according to the government, its being hailed as an important milestone. Messages of support have flooded in for captain sir tom moore, whos in hospital with coronavirus. Its confirmed online retailer asos buys topshop, topman and miss selfridge but 13,000 jobs are at risk because the deal doesnt include the shops themselves. The cost of covid for children a report suggests they stand to lose an average of £40,000 pounds each in Lifetime Earnings becaue most are not in school. Good morning. Welcome to bbc news. Myanmar� s military has taken control of the country, seizing power and detaining politicians, including civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and her close ally president wyn mynt. Myanmar, also known as burma, was ruled by the military until democratic reforms began in 2011. In an election in november, Aung San Suu Kyis party, the National League for democracy, won a Landslide Victory though she is banned from becoming president as her children are foreign nationals. But the military has now claimed election fraud, declared a year long State Of Emergency and handed power to its Commander In Chief. Soldiers are on the streets of the countrys capital nay pi taw, and its main city and former capital, yangon. Theres widespread phone and internet disruption across the country. So who is Aung San Suu Kyi . Shes the daughter of general aung san, who helped negotiate the countrys independence from British Colonial rule in 1948, before he was assassinated. She spent nearly 15 years in detention between 1989 and 2010 fighting for democratic elections. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, while still under house arrest. More recently, she has received criticism for not doing more to stop the rape, murder and possible genocide of Rohingya Muslims, who fled from myanmar to bangladesh in 2017. But she is still very popular amongst most buddhists in the country, who make up the majority of citizens. Tom andrews, the Un Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in myanmar called the situation an outrageous assault on democracy. We are talking about Overturning A Constitution by the generals, that the generals themselves wrote. That they said just yesterday they would abide by. So this is notjust an assault, an attack, on an individual, a political leader, a Political Party. This is an assault on democracy itself, on the people of myanmar. On their hopes and their aspirations. And the people of myanmar need to know that the world is watching and the world is with them. There is absolutely no justification for this whatsoever. The International Community cannot afford to stand idly by, while this outrage occurs before our very eyes. Tom andrews of the Un Special Rapporteur on my myanmar. Borisjohnson reacted to the news on twitter saying i condemn the coup and unlawful imprisonment of civilians, including Aung San Suu Kyi, in myanmar. The vote of the people must be respected and civilian leaders released. The white house also condemned what had happened and gave this warning the editor of the bbc� s burmese service, soe win than, explained the background to the coup. Pretext that they gave is like, you know, in the latest election held in november they said that there are millions of votes which are fraudulent, which either kind of Repeat Voting or which people who voted who are not on the electoral roll. So they asked the government and the Election Commission to check those lists. But the government and the Election Commission insisted that the election was conducted in very free and fair ways and that the results reflect the wish of the people. So there is no way that they could recount or look back at the result of the election. So the military said that this is not democratic. They questioned the integrity of the elections and then they said they have to step in. I think they made this a calculated move. The military only wants to play an important, dominant role. The military, the constitution, The Current Constitution was drafted by the previous military rulers and it gives enormous power to the military. They have a major say in the parliament, they have 25 representation, automatic representation in the parliament. So many key positions are made only with the approval of the military. But they allowed the civilian government to run for five years. But this time when they again won in a major landslide and this is what the Military Cannot, its not very palatable for the military. That is why they have stepped in. Andy heyn, the former uk ambassador to myanmar, said myanmar� s military are known for using these tactics to retain control over the county. If you look at what has happened here, why the military has done this at this point, as has been said, the military have major powers which are reserved under the constitution they themselves drafted. So mirza can drop constitutional change, they can hold key ministries. And it seems they have made a calculation here that the second landslide win for the nld means a threat to that constitutional power that they hold. And, yeah, the risk is that what we could see is that myanmar goes back to what it was when i first arrived, which is a pariah state. And that is one of the options which the International Community has. I was there when we had sanctions in place, contacts between governments almost and the result for two to was catastrophic for its economy, its people, investors werent going to go anywhere near it and that must be the risk that that happens again unless the Military Reverse what they have done. What they did before it they dug down and blame the west for all of the economic woes that they largely had imposed on turn to themselves. So it is very difficult to know how this government, this particular Military Regime, will act because we have seen what their predecessors did up until the opening up, which happened from 2010 onwards or less, ending with the elections in 2015. But if they go true to form they will just elections in 2015. But if they go true to form they willjust hunker down. True to form they will ust hunker down. ,. ,. ,. , down. The former uk ambassador to turn to. Down. The former uk ambassador to turn to down. The former uk ambassador to turn to. Myanmar. Lets speak to our special correspondent fergal keane who has reported extensively in myanmar and has interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi. It it makes you wonder what happened behind the scenes in turn to . That is a aood behind the scenes in turn to . That is a good question behind the scenes in turn to . Trust is a good question and people talk about the Transition To Democracy. Was it really the Transition To Democracy . No. It was a level of freedom where people were free to vote for the Political Party and use the internet and when the elections came round, they were free to earn their living as much as i could notwithstanding the immense depredations of the military and corruption that still goes on. But what they were not free to do is have a leader who could tell policemen or Security Forces or Intelligence Services what to do. They with the people, the Military Regime, the people who still held onto real power. And that is not the Transition To Democracy, its a kind of liberalised autocracy. Of liberalised autocracy. Which countries in of liberalised autocracy. Which countries in the of liberalised autocracy. Which countries in the international. Countries in the International Community does myanmar listen to . Because there has been condemnation from many quarters. The because there has been condemnation from many quarters. From many quarters. The question is, what we mean from many quarters. The question is, what we mean by from many quarters. The question is, what we mean by the from many quarters. The question is, what we mean by the international. What we mean by the International Community . Can we even talk about an International Community any more . Im not sure that we can. You look at the divisions on the United Nations Security Council which have manifested themselves for example around an issue like syria, which was seen by the russians as a key strategic moment for them. And you look at myanmar, the chinese are the key people here. If they choose to put on pressure they can be affected but are they going to allow themselves with the Biden White House and what they see as Meddling Western elements to put pressure on the generals . Its possible that might happen, its possible that they might see The Greater Good of they might see The Greater Good of the region in this and decide to act but very doubtful, i have to say. So you will have the International Community speaking with very strong voices coming from the west, possibly the imposition of new sanctions. We have already heard borisjohnson sanctions. We have already heard Boris Johnson today sanctions. We have already heard borisjohnson today calling for the restoration of the nld government. But from the region uncritically from china, i think it maybe much less. Forceful, to put it mildly. Some Breaking News now regarding prince harry, who has received an apology and damages from the publishers of the Mail On Sunday and the mail online over an article which claimed that he had snubbed the Royal Marines after he stepped down as a Senior Member of the royal family. His lawyer at the High Court Said that the allegation was baseless, false and defamatory and it relates back to an article in the Mail On Sunday last october which claimed that harry had turned his back on the Royal Marines. His lawyer told the court harry had made repeated and concerted efforts to support the Royal Marines and other parts of the armed services, even though he had been forced to step down from his ceremonial duties. After hearing harrys spokesman, after the hearing should i say, harrys spokesman said his commitment to the military was unquestionable and he will be donating the damages to the Invictus Games foundation. The nhs says that every elderly care home resident in england has now been offered the Coronavirus Vaccine. The Prime Minister has described it as a crucial milestone. It comes as the uk hit a record daily total of vaccinations over the weekend. Aru na iyengar reports. Across the uk residents of care homes are rolling up their sleeves for the Covid Vaccine, and this is what it means. The day the vaccine was administered was such a positive moment. We feel a sense of relief, i think, that you can see something positive coming, and the residents were amazing, and theres a real air of great atmosphere. The Prime Minister said it marked a crucial milestone in the race to protect the most vulnerable and that the roll out will only accelerate from here. The head of the nhs, simon stevens, also paid tribute to the work of gps, Community Nurses and care home workers. The government says a few homes have had visits deferred due to local outbreaks of the virus and promises to get these done as soon as it is safe to do so. Some residents also may have been missed because they were suffering from covid. Ministers are growing increasingly confident of hitting the target of vaccinating the 15 million most Vulnerable People by mid february after a record high ofjabs on saturday, reaching nearly 600,000. Nearly nine million first doses have now been administered and nearly nine out of ten people aged 80 and above and over three quarters of people aged 75 and over have now had their firstjab. But the charity alzheimers uk says it is concerned about the level of staff vaccinations amid reports that some workers have declined jabs. Its also calling for the government to speed up the roll out of the second dose to allow homes to resume meaningful visits. In wales, around three quarters of staff and care home residents have received the vaccine. All homes in Northern Ireland have now been visited. And the Scottish Government said it expected to complete the first stage of its roll out, including care homes, by the end of this week. Aruna iyengar, bbc news. 0ur chief Political Correspondent adam fleming explained a little earlier why not every elderly care home resident has been vaccinated. Some people might turn it down, there might also be logistical problems that mean it is not actually able to be delivered at a particular care home at that point. And also some care homes are closed off because there are local outbreaks and it is not safe for the Vaccination Teams to go in. So it is not a Blanket Announcement that everyone who wants a vaccine in a care home has got one. The government is being open about that in their statement. The other big question of course is does this make a difference to people doing visits to see their loved ones . And helen whately, the Care Minister, doing interviews this morning sounded very cautious about that. Iloathed interviews this morning sounded very cautious about that. Cautious about that. What we are workin cautious about that. What we are working on cautious about that. What we are working on right cautious about that. What we are working on right now cautious about that. What we are working on right now is cautious about that. What we are working on right now is what cautious about that. What we are working on right now is what we | cautious about that. What we are i working on right now is what we can do in working on right now is what we can do in order working on right now is what we can do in order to allow some more normal do in order to allow some more normal visiting, to allow indoor visiting normal visiting, to allow indoor visiting to normal visiting, to allow indoor visiting to start again. How can we use testing . What confidence can we have as use testing . What confidence can we have as Community Rates should come down have as Community Rates should come down further have as Community Rates should come down further in the wider community, which down further in the wider community, which is down further in the wider community, which is what poses the biggest risk to care which is what poses the biggest risk to care homes. I knowjust how important to care homes. I knowjust how important it is actually for the health. Important it is actually for the health, physicaland mental important it is actually for the health, physical and Mental Health, of those health, physical and Mental Health, of those living in care homes and their of those living in care homes and their families to be able to have contact their families to be able to have contact. �. ,. , contact. And as we were hearing, the other issue contact. And as we were hearing, the other issue is contact. And as we were hearing, the other issue is the contact. And as we were hearing, the other issue is the rate contact. And as we were hearing, the other issue is the rate at contact. And as we were hearing, the other issue is the rate at which other issue is the rate at which care home staff are being vaccinated which seem to be going a bit more slowly than the residents. Now the govans other target is to have the top four most vulnerable groups in the Vaccination List getting their injections by the middle of february, by the 15th. That is 50 million people. And if you look at the rate of vaccination at the moment, it is probably going to have to increase if the government is going to hit that second target. And government officials admit that it is going to be pretty tight. And in other vaccine news, the government has announced that it is ordering 40 million extra doses from the french firm val neighbour, which will take the total number up to 100 million doses. Crucially they will arrive between 2022 and 2025. Another sign that the government is preparing for people to have multiple Rotavirus Vaccines over a number of years. Well, the Health Secretary matt hancock will be leading the Downing Street Press Briefing Today and you can watch it here on the bbc news at 5pm. The headlines on bbc news. The military have seized power of mynamar detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest and the un have called the coup an outrage. All care home residents in england have now been offered a vaccine, according to the government, its being hailed as an important milestone. Messages of support have flooded in for captain sir tom moore, whos in hospital with coronavirus. As weve heard, captain sir tom moore is in hospital with coronavirus. The 100 year old, Second World War veteran, who raised tens of millions of pounds for the nhs during the first lockdown, was admitted yesterday because he needed help with his breathing. He is not in intensive care. John maguire reports. It all started as his way of thanking the nhs for looking after him following a fall. Now captain sir tom moore the record breaking fundraiser is under its care once again. Hes being treated for pneumonia and covid 19 at Bedford Hospital. In a Statement Released yesterday afternoon by one of his daughters, hannah said he was being treated at home but was taken to hospital when he needed additional help with his breathing. Hes on a ward, and not in intensive care. She described the medical care hes received over the past few weeks as remarkable and goes on to say, we know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all they can to make him comfortable and hopefully return home as soon as possible. This year, of course. We last spoke to him just before christmas, and he was his usual optimistic self. But things will get better, and next year will be all right. Captain toms endeavours walking 100 lengths of his back garden before his 100th birthday last april saw him raise almost £40 million for Nhs Charities. He inspired so many to follow in his footsteps, and his story was told Around The World. Now, once again, people are lining up to wish him well. The Prime Minister, borisjohnson, tweeted. The labour leader, keir starmer, wrote. When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high. And the singer michael ball whose duet with captain tom helped him to break yet another record as they made it to number one said. He is a huge cricket fan, and the former england captain Michael Vaughan sent this message. Sir captain tom, over the last ten months, youve been our inspiration. Youve been the nations heartbeat. Were all Thinking Of You get well soon. Thank you, captain tom, from the nhs and, in passing on their best wishes, the Nhs Charities he helped reminds us of the difference hes made. We owe him so much for inspiring people to support Nhs Charities. The funds that he raised are making such a difference right now to nhs staff, volunteers and patients. Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time, and we wish you a speedy recovery, captain tom~ as the pandemic led to repeated lockdowns, captain tom has always offered messages of hope and positivity reminding us all to walk, to talk, and to look after each other. Its now time for us to return the favour and to look forward to seeing that smile once again. John maguire, bbc news, bedford. Police in austria say they have fined 96 foreigners from across europe at the ski resort of St Anton Am Arlberg for breaching pandemic related rules on entering the country and the national lockdown. In a statement on friday night, the police said people from across europe including britons, romanians and germans as well as australians were among those who were checked and fined. The operation was carried out on friday night. Ski lifts are open in austria but hotels are closed to tourists. The foreigners are thought to have used loopholes by registering local addresses. The statement said the foreigners are currently in quarantine and face fines of up to 2000 euros. One in three israelis have now received at least one shot of the Coronavirus Vaccine, a far higher number than anywhere else in the world. The states 24 7 campaign has meant many vulnerable populations, including about 70 of over 60s, have already received the prescribed two doses of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. The country is injecting up to 200,000 people a day, and last week made the jab available to anyone over 35. The early results in israel are offering some optimism on the effectiveness of vaccines in fighting coronavirus. Well im joined now by our health reporter, rachel schraer. Whats the data coming out of israel telling us . So we have data which suggests that they have seen a significant fall in infections but also in illnesses among people who have been vaccinated. What were seeing is well which is really significant is a big difference between the over 60s, who were vaccinated first, and the under 60s. We also seen differences in the cities that are further ahead in their Vaccination Programme and those that are further behind, which suggest to us that it really is the effect of the vaccine and not of lockdown are factors. 50 and not of lockdown are factors. So what does this mean for the uk . 0bviously what does this mean for the uk . Obviously we are trying to plough ahead with our Vaccination Programme as well. , � , ahead with our Vaccination Programme as well. � ,. , as well. Thats right. Israel is absolutely as well. Thats right. Israel is absolutely by as well. Thats right. Israel is absolutely by far as well. Thats right. Israel is absolutely by far the as well. Thats right. Israel is absolutely by far the service | as well. Thats right. Israel is absolutely by far the service ahead in terms of the proportion of its population. It has a smaller population. It has a smaller population than the uk and the uk is steaming ahead and is well up there in the charts of countries vaccinating. And we would hope and expect that we would start to see some impact on cases in the uk, hopefully within the next few weeks. We have been told by some epidemiologists that they would be surprised if they didnt see some signals in the data by the end of this month in terms of an impact on hospitalisations we would expect to see first, as the most vulnerable to severe illness are being vaccinated. A World Health Organisation team sent to china to investigate the origins of the coronavirus is visiting two centres for Disease Control today. One of them is close to the huanan food market, which allegedly was at the centre of the initial covid 19 outbreak in the city. 0ur correspondent Stephen Mcdonnel sent this update from wuhan. So the team has just arrived at this centre for Disease Control and inside they will be speaking to local experts about the early stages of the outbreak here, same as they did at another Disease Control facility this morning. So talking about how in the early stages they identified cases. How were they able to treat the early patients. And whether any similarities between the conditions of different patients and the potential for how they caught the potential for how they caught the disease. But also, crucially, inside this facility there is a lab, just like there is in the other facility, and they visited the labs at the first location they went to. Presumably they will do the same thing here today. This place is only hundreds of metres from the livestock market, which Isjust Hundreds of metres from the livestock market, which is just over that way behind my shoulder, so you can imagine people have thought, well, what are the chances that some lab work here, i dont know, as the virus on them or Something Like that, somehow accidentally it is leaked. Theyve come out of here and maybe gone down the road to buy some seafood or something and in that way the coronavirus initially got out into the open and infected people in that market, causing the early clusters. I should add, this isjust one of many theories of how coronavirus started. But it is remarkable coincidence that this facility is here just around the corner from the livestock market. Businesses are calling on the government to set out how it plans to lift lockdown restrictions. The confederation of british industry wants more clarity on how the economy will reopen, and which firms will be allowed to trade first. Heres our business correspondent, katie prescott. Silent streets, and all too familiar sight around the uk. Most businesses know that when they can open will depend on the spread of the virus. But the Business Group the confederation of british industry said they need to know how it will happen. Said they need to know how it will ha en. ~. ,. , said they need to know how it will hauen. ~. ,. , said they need to know how it will hauen. ~. ,. ,. , ~ said they need to know how it will ha en,. ,. ,. , ~. , happen. What we would really like to see is business happen. What we would really like to see is business and happen. What we would really like to see is business and government happen. What we would really like to see is business and governmentjust| see is business and governmentjust working together to develop a road map for reopening. Not a call for a specific date, that will be informed by the health data, but really working together to use the time wisely to plan. The way to help those hardest hit industries is twofold, one, give them a really clear plan. Understand what the risks are and when they are likely to be able to begin to reopen again. And in the meantime, let us give them absolutely the support they needin them absolutely the support they need in lockstep with the ongoing restrictions, so it maximises their chances of both survival and then a strong bounce back when the time comes. � , , strong bounce back when the time comes. � ,. , strong bounce back when the time comes. ,. ,. , strong bounce back when the time comes. ,,. , strong bounce back when the time comes. ,. ,. , strong bounce back when the time comes. ,. , comes. Businesses want to see a list of criteria from comes. Businesses want to see a list of criteria from the comes. Businesses want to see a list of criteria from the government, of criteria from the government, which will explain it also wants to see plans for economic support measures alongside this, targeting sectors that will be shot the longest. In response, the government says it has invested more than £280 billion to protectjobs and businesses. And it says by mid february it will be in a better position to lay out the next steps for the economy. All eyes now are on the upcoming budget, which the chancellor will deliver at the start of march. Katie prescott, bbc news. Wont it be nice when we can go for a drink with a friend in a pub or bar again . This pub on the isle of man was the only place in the British Isles where you could get a drink last night. It opened its doors at midnight as the island lifted almost all its coronavirus restrictions. Today schools, shops, pubs and restaurants are open again with no social distancing. The islands borders are still closed to everyone, except residents. They look very happy, dont they lets get the weather. Hello again. As we go through this week, there is further rain, sleet and snow in the forecast. And in fact today we have got some of that already. There is a lot of cloud, dampness, murky conditions across southern england and wales. It should brighten up in east anglia and west wales later. We have got a band of rain and hill snow moving across Northern Ireland, wintry showers across north and east scotland, getting in at times to North East England. But in between, some brighter skies, even some sunshine. Tonight, the rain and hill snow in Northern Ireland pushes into Northern England and scotland. And then this next system comes in bringing rain and some snow, even to lower levels, across the north midlands, Northern England and also parts of scotland. We could see some of that getting into east anglia as well. Tomorrow then, all of this edges steadily northwards. The winds are going to be quite strong across scotland, so we will see some drifting of that snow in the north and east highlands. But it will turn readily back to rain in the Southern Uplands and pennines. But at the same time, some heavy, thundery showers moving across england and wales. This is bbc news. The headlines at 11am. The military have seized power of mynamar detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest and the un have called the coup an outrage. This is notjust an assault, an attack, on an individual, a political leader, a Political Party. This is an assault on democracy itself. All care home residents in england have now been offered a vaccine, according to the government, its being hailed as an important milestone. Messages of support have flooded in for captain sir tom moore, whos in hospital with coronavirus. Its confirmed online retailer asos buys topshop, topman and miss selfridge but 13,000 jobs are at risk because the deal doesnt include the shops themselves. Prince harry receives an apology and damages from the male and the mail online. Sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heresjohn watson. Marcus rashford became the latest player targeted over racism. Prince william said well have a Responsibility to create an environment where such is not tolerated. The uk government plans to introduce new legislation to tackle online abuse. Social Media Companies are being urged to take more action. Not enough has been done. We had conversations not enough has been done. We had conversations for not enough has been done. We had conversations for many not enough has been done. We had conversations for many months not enough has been done. We had i conversations for many months before that. We wanted to ask the players to report the abuse. This is not how it should work. These companies have resources to do far more than they are doing now. Germany and australia have had legislation since 2018, 2019, which have involved wines. If they do not remove offensive content within a certain period of time. Finds. This should not be tolerated. Unfortunately they are being tolerated which leads to a feeling of impunity, feeling they can get away with it and they had been able to get away with it. Once you start addressing that and challenging environment, they disappear. They do not go away completely but i do not care what people say behind closed doors. In any other medium, they are governed by 0fcom, they are regulated. Social media is relatively new in that sense but the time for south governance is long gone. People will be thinking, i cannot host this kind of content. It is transfer deadline day in england and scotland. Nothing huge to report at the moment but liverpool on the verge of signing ben davies from preston. Celtic were chasing his signature at the weekend. Liverpool got their premier league title defence back on track last night with an emphatic win. First league goal by mo salah in seven games. Shaqiri with that brilliant run. Liverpool now four points behind the leaders, manchester city. Tottenham lost even more ground after they were beaten 1 0 at brighton. The seagulls got theirfirst were beaten 1 0 at brighton. The seagulls got their first home win in the premier league sincejune. That isjust about it the premier league sincejune. That is just about it from the bbc sports centre. More over on the website. Liverpool might move notjust for one defender but two. For now, that is all from me. A report today suggests the long Term Economic effects of covid 19 Will Hit Children The Hardest and has called for a National Education recovery plan. The Institute For Fiscal Studies estimates that many pupils, whove lost six months of normal schooling, could lose around £40,000 in income over their lifetime. It says the loss of schooling is contributing to lower educational progress and skills, particularly for disadvantaged pupils. The government says its Investing Hundreds of millions of pounds to help students catch up and has got more than 800,000 laptops to children. Im joined now by pauljohnson, director of the Institute For Fiscal Studies. Thank you forjoining us. How have you quantified these long term consequences . You quantified these long term consequences . Quite a number of studies look consequences . Quite a number of studies look at consequences . Quite a number of studies look at the consequences . Quite a number of studies look at the additional i studies look at the additional effects of time spent in education over earnings over a lifetime. In the uk we had an increase in School Leaving age in the 1970s and people have made estimates of the back of that. There have been other changes people had been able to make. It is only a difference of 3 , 4 in earnings but over a lifetime that adds up to a lot. Numbers might be inaccurate but in total across the population, we are looking at hundreds of billions if that education is not made up at some point. It education is not made up at some oint. ,. ,. , education is not made up at some oint. , point. It is a loss to those individually point. It is a loss to those individually but point. It is a loss to those individually but there i point. It is a loss to those individually but there is l point. It is a loss to those individually but there is a | point. It is a loss to those individually but there is a knockon individually but there is a knock on cost to the country as a whole, i am assuming. Hf cost to the country as a whole, i am assuminu. ,. ,. , assuming. If people are less productive assuming. If people are less productive and assuming. If people are less productive and earning i assuming. If people are less productive and earning less, assuming. If people are less i productive and earning less, there will be less money coming into the exchequer. 0verall, will be less money coming into the exchequer. Overall, we will be less well off. There will be an effect. Probably more important is actually the distribution of this effect. Some people will have been much more impacted than others and all the evidence suggests it is those children from less well off families who will be more affected because they have struggled more to work at home, they tend to have less support from schools. We know private schools have provided far more support than state schools but a lot of children have home environments which make it quite hard to learn in. The long run consequences of inequality may be significantly bigger than the long term consequences for incomes as a whole. We had a statement from a Government Spokesperson saying we will invest more in tutoring programmes and have a catch up front. The Prime Minister said the School Closures will make more than a year to make up and has said the government will work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long term plan. How adequate is he £1. 3 billion . It develop a longterm plan. How adequate is he £1. 3 billion . If you look at it this adequate is he £1. 3 billion . If you look at it this way, adequate is he £1. 3 billion . If you look at it this way, we adequate is he £1. 3 billion . If you look at it this way, we spend i adequate is he £1. 3 billion . It gm. Look at it this way, we spend about £60 billion a year on schools. Children have lost up to half a year of schooling. If that is true, and there of the evidence actually is that despite work schools and teachers have done, a lot of this time has been lost. That is £30 billion worth of normal schooling that has been lost. Even if the answer is only half, you can see the 1. 3 billion is only a small fraction of the expected loss in spending we have had over this year. I think the ambition probably needs to be considerably greater than that which the government has put forward so far in terms of amount spent. It also needs to be well targeted. 0ver also needs to be well targeted. Over the next, not immediate. All this year but over the next two had met three years, we might need an ambition that there is several fold more than what the government has committed to. Me more than what the government has committed to more than what the government has committed to. We have talked about some children committed to. We have talked about some children repeating committed to. We have talked about some children repeating a committed to. We have talked about some children repeating a year i committed to. We have talked about some children repeating a year of i some children repeating a year of school in some parts of the uk. You mention importance of proper targeting of the many. What does that look like in the best Case Scenario . Scenario . Children from less welloff backgrounds scenario . Children from less welloff backgrounds have l scenario . Children from less welloff backgrounds have certainly well off backgrounds have certainly been more affected, partly because they had often got less good equipment and space at home. Better targeting means a good fraction of that money going to schools with less affluent intakes and to less well off children in schools. It also needs to be tobacco there needs to be an element of universality because all children, particularly in state schools, had been affected but that needs to be a relatively high fraction of that going to less well off children and less well off schools. Welloff children and less well off schools. ,. ,. ,. , schools. Digital to you as always. Thank you schools. Digital to you as always. Thank you very schools. Digital to you as always. Thank you very much. Schools. Digital to you as always. Thank you very much. Thank i schools. Digital to you as always. J thank you very much. Thank you. Schools. Digital to you as always. I thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Did to talk to you. The Online Fashion retailer asos has confirmed its purchase of the topshop, topman and miss Selfridge Brands from the collapsed Arcadia Group. In a £295 million deal with administrators, asos is acquiring the stock and the brands but not their retail stores. Lets talk to our Business Reporter vivienne nunis. If they are not buying the buildings, staff are at risk. It is bad news buildings, staff are at risk. It is bad news for buildings, staff are at risk. It is bad news forjobs. Buildings, staff are at risk. Ut 3 bad news forjobs. The key thing is they are buying the brand. Asus is by miss selfridge, top brand and top shop. Asos. They are not buying the shops. Thejobs shop. Asos. They are not buying the shops. The jobs will be carried over to asos but a lot of people on the shop floor are facing uncertainty. We know it is often women and younger people who often have those roles. More bad news there. There is also uncertainty around the Arcadia Group pension fund. We believe there is a £350 million hole in the pension fund. The former owner of arcadia before it went into administration, there is pressure on him to plug the hole himself. He is worth £139 million himself. He is worth £139 million himself. Whether he chooses to do that we will had to wait and see. What about other companies that are part of the Arcadia Group . Hotel] what about other companies that are part of the Arcadia Group . Part of the Arcadia Group . Well asos has bou~ht part of the Arcadia Group . Well asos has bought the part of the Arcadia Group . Well asos has bought the crown part of the Arcadia Group . Well asos has bought the crown jewels, part of the Arcadia Group . Well asos has bought the crown jewels, there. Has bought the crown jewels, there are other brands, Dorothy Perkins and wallace. Who is in exclusive talks to buy those. You could say we are seeing the final chapter of the battle between the traditional cohorts. A few weeks ago, boohoo bought debenhams, the brand. Although these brands are going to continue in some forms, we are looking at pretty substantialjob losses. B. Looking at pretty substantial ob losses. �. ,. , looking at pretty substantial ob losses. ,. ,. ,. , losses. A lot of Square Footage will be empty in losses. A lot of Square Footage will be empty in many losses. A lot of Square Footage will be empty in many towns losses. A lot of Square Footage will be empty in many towns and i losses. A lot of Square Footage will be empty in many towns and cities| be empty in many towns and cities across the country, which at one time would have been extremely desirable estate. Time would have been extremely desirable estate. Absolutely stop on an emotional desirable estate. Absolutely stop on an emotional and desirable estate. Absolutely stop on an emotional and nostalgic desirable estate. Absolutely stop on an emotional and nostalgic level i an emotional and nostalgic level lots of people have memories of going to debenhams and top shop stores to buy clothes. Asos was a selling top shop close on its website. To some degree the transition had already happened. Now with the confirmation that asos is going to buy these names, it is the final nail in the coffin. The labour party is calling for a National Task force to be set up to tackle a crisis over flammable cladding. Mps will debate the issue in parliament today. 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire injune 2017, but an estimated 700,000 people are still living in homes with flammable cladding, as sarah corker reports. A bombshell has just been dropped on us with this cladding. Caught up in britains building safety crisis. These sums of money are absolutely eye watering, and something that we could never afford. Thousands of people are trapped living in unsafe homes. These flat owners in salford say they face repair bills of up to £100,000 each. And if im made bankrupt by this, i lose myjob, my career, and my home. This tower block in south london is having its cladding removed paid for by government funding. But across britain, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in homes wrapped in dangerous materials, now facing huge repair bills. Labour says the government needs to get a grip on cladding problems, which are pushing people towards bankruptcy. Flat owners like giles in manchester say being trapped in an unsafe home is taking its toll. For the last two or three years, a lot of our lives have been completely ruined. We remain in uncertainty. Were Living In Fear and limbo. All weve been told so far is the government wants us to pay sums running into the tens of thousands of pounds simply to make our homes safe. Its all got even worse over the last year because were literally trapped in our homes for 23 hours a day during the pandemic. We almost feel safer outside than inside our home. Mps will debate the issue in parliament later. Labour are calling for a deadline of 2022 for buildings to be made safe, and a system to prioritise repairs based on fire risk. The government has set aside £1. 6 billion to remove cladding and says it is making Good Progress. But campaigners estimate itll cost ten times that amount, given the scale of this crisis. Sarah corker, bbc news. Well, to discuss this now, we can speak to nigel glen, the chief executive of the arma, the trade association for residential leasehold management. Welcome. Thank you very much. Three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower tragedy. And a half years since the Grenfell Towertragedy. How and a half years since the Grenfell Tower tragedy. How Much Movement has there been . , tower tragedy. How Much Movement has there been . , there been . There has been some movement there been . There has been some movement that there been . There has been some movement that most there been . There has been some movement that most of there been . There has been some movement that most of it there been . There has been some movement that most of it is i there been . 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A long investigation has i been done and a lot of ideas are in her paper, which have been brought forward. Going forwards we are all right. The problem will be legacy stock, where we have hundreds of thousands of buildings which it would appear to have been built incorrectly. Would appear to have been built incorrectly would appear to have been built incorrectl. , ~. ,. , ~ incorrectly. Thank you for talking to us. Incorrectly. Thank you for talking to us thank incorrectly. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you. The headlines on bbc news. The military have seized power of mynamar detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest and the un have called the coup an outrage. All care home residents in england have now been offered a vaccine, according to the government. Its being hailed as an important milestone. Messages of support have flooded in for captain sir tom moore, whos in hospital with coronavirus. Evidence about the way the Emergency Services responded to the Manchester Arena attack, begins this week at the inquiry into what happened. Little is known about the members of the public who helped the injured, and tended to those who were killed, in the absence of proper medical help and equipment. Survivors say its vital their role isnt overlooked in the official version of events. Our correspondent, judith moritz, has been speaking to two of them, and a warning her report contains some distressing details. Your emergency, please . Theres been an explosion at Manchester Arena. Has anybody been injured . Yes, loads. We are going to get as many. Ambulances to you as we can. Yes, we have very few at the moment. I am shouting out, help, we need help we need paramedics. Theres that expectation theres going to be help, there is going to be help and it just didnt come. In the wake of the bomb at Manchester Arena, the most seriously injured could not move from where they fell. And although blue lights pulsed outside, inside there was only one paramedic for the first a0 minutes. Jane tweddle lay fatally hurt. There was little expertise or equipment at hand. It was left to a stranger, sean gardner, to sit by her side as her life slipped away. When you are faced with injuries. So severe, you know, im not trained, i dont know what to do. You just feel so helpless. All you can do is comfort, and it isnt enough but that is all i felt i could do. Did you speak to jane . Were you trying to communicate with her . Yes, i held her hand, and she knew somebody was next to her, i suppose, that was the main thing is. Ordinary people found themselves on the medical front line and sam some depended on them for survival. Children like freya lewis, who was very badly hurt and fell into the arms of a stranger. I kept saying to her, im not going to leave you, im not going to leave you. Kim dick looked after freya for over an hour. The teenager had 29 injuries. I had to hold freya with all my. You know, sat up, in an upright position. How do you feel about the fact help wasnt there straight away . At the time, really helpless. You know, because i could see whats going on, and especially because freya was losing so much blood. Luckily, from watching tv, i knew to keep her upright. But we needed help. Hello hi their story has a happy ending. Freya has stayed in touch with kim and her husband, phil. She says she owes her life to them. I think the absolute world of them. They are in my thoughts every single day. They are the reason why i am still here. And kim and phil, they saved my life. They acted as my parents when my parents couldnt. And i will always, for the rest of my life, be eternally grateful to them because, yes, they are just amazing. Kim and freya now share a bond, forged from terrible circumstances. The survivor and her hero, just one of the ordinary people who stepped up when help was so desperately needed. Judith moritz, bbc news, manchester. Prince harry has received an apology and damages from the publishers of the Mail On Sunday and mail online over an article which claimed he had snubbed the Royal Marines after he stepped down as a Senior Member of the royal family. In a short statement to a remote hearing of the high court, a lawyer for harry said the allegation was baseless, false and defamatory. After the hearing harrys spokesman said his commitment to the military community was unquestionable. He said harry would be donating the damages to the Invictus Games foundation. The worlds first rocket powered by bio fuel has been launched in the United States. Its called stardust one and it successfully flew a mile into the air before parachuting back to earth. Jane obrien reports. Five, four, three, two, one. Ignition sequence started. Lets go. Oh, my gosh making space history in the state of maine. Stardust 1. 0 becomes the first commercial launch of a rocket with the fuel derived from a secret substance found on farms. This is awesome. This is fantastic. All right. Sascha deri is the inventor of the biofuel and head of blushift, which built the rocket. But its been a long road to success. Stardust made its historic debut at a runway for heavy bombers at the disused Loring Air Force base in the far north near the border with canada. Compared to other commercial rockets that now ferry astronauts to the space station, stardust 1. 0 is very small, but cheap to fly. That makes space accessible to many more people. This launch carried experiments from a college and a business that wants to test an alloy for vibration. It will eventually launch satellites into space. Right now there are Freight Trains to space like spacex and ula. There are Medium Sized Companies and rockets that are launching i would call them buses to space, with medium sized payloads. But we want to be the uber to space. Maine is well placed for launching into polar orbit, but its also really cold and that can cause its own problems. Once you get to minus, below minus 10 fahrenheit, we actually have issues. We didnt expect it to get this cold. So right now we are doing everything to warm up the rockets internals. We have actually a heater in there and we are hoping that Heater Windfall do the job. But anyone doubting maines ability to establish itself as a key player in the increasingly Diversion Space Industry should look at the history books. Diverse Space Industry. During the cold war with russia, this Windswept Winter Wilderness was americas front line of defence. The b 52 bombers that constantly patrolled the skies were maintained inside this massive hangar. The base closed in 1994, but the infrastructure is still here. Just waiting to play a new role. Hello maine has other bases it can use and some 50 Companies Already working in the aeroSpace Industry. It is hoped that blueshift� s success will boost plans for a new spaceport complex. Now its time for a look at the weather with carol. Hello again. As we go through this week, while we are looking still at some unsettled conditions with some rain and some snow at times. Now, a lot of this will be across Northern England and scotland, most of it on the hills, but at times we will see it at lower levels and it could cause some disruption. But it is going to be much milder for a time in the south with temperatures back into double figures but that wont last either. So we have got this weather front which is coming in across Northern Ireland bringing in some rain and some hill snow. But later we will see this clutch of fronts coming in from the south west, increasing the strength of the wind, bringing in some rain and some snow this evening and overnight. There is also still quite a bit of cloud and dampness and murkiness across southern parts of england and wales. It should brighten up in west wales and possibly east anglia as well. Wintry showers continuing across northern and Eastern Scotland. At times you can see some of those getting into North East England. And we have got this rain and hill snow across Northern Ireland. Later we will see this band coming up from the south west. 9 degrees in plymouth, two or three as our maximum in lerwick. Now through this evening and overnight we will see a spell of some snow across Northern England and in through scotland. And then this next band comes in with the strengthening winds, bringing in some rain further snow across the north midlands, Northern England and also scotland. And some of this will get down to low levels, we could even see some potentially across for example east anglia for a time. And tomorrow, all of that advances northwards and eastwards. Later in the day turning back to rain across Northern England and eventually southern scotland. But at the same time, we will have a clutch of showers moving across england and wales, some of those will be heavy and thundery. But very mild here, 14 degrees, only four in aberdeen, where we are likely to have some drifting snow across the north and east highlands. Now, heading on through tuesday night and into wednesday you can see our weather fronts pushing steadily northwards. And then we have got this next system coming that looks like it is going to bring some heavy rain across southern counties of england. Now, obviously, the ground here is already saturated, we dont need this rain and it is going to be moving we think steadily across the south stop it may get a bit further north than this chart is suggesting, that is still open to debate. But then we run into some drier weather with some sunshine. But for Northern Ireland and scotland we are back into that mixture of rain, sleet and hill snow. This is bbc news, the headlines. Fears that the south african variant is in the community in parts of south east england and the midlands. Localised testing will take place to monitor the spread. All elderly care home residents in england have now been offered a vaccine, according to the government, its being hailed as an important milestone. The military have seized power of mynamar detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest agains the coup. The cost of covid for children a report suggests they stand to lose an average of £40,000 each in Lifetime Earnings becaue most are not in school. And messages of support have flooded in for captain sir tom moore, whos in hospital with coronavirus. Good afternoon. We begin this hour with Breaking News. The south african variant of the coronavirus is feared to be in the community in parts of the south of england and the west midlands. Previous cases in the uk have been traced back to south africa but several cases in surrey found with the variant have no known links with travel there or previous cases. House to house testing is to start this afternoon in woking to check if the new strain is spreading in the community. With me is our Health Correspondent catherine burns. What more do we know about this . The numbers what more do we know about this . Tt;e numbers we what more do we know about this . Tt9 numbers we are looking at here are very small. This is actually in woking it is going to be starting, they are going to be going house to house for about 9500 people. The reason theyre doing this is this south african variant, as you said. We know that viruses mutate all the time. The problem with some limitations of the coronavirus is essentially theyre Getting Better at fighting into ourselves and our immune systems of the last thing we want is this spreading. We have known about the south african variant for a while and the numbers be very small. The last official cases last week from the government was 77 cases. At that stage we knew that all of those cases could be traced back to someone who had been in south africa or someone who had been so it wasnt in the community. Now were talking about two cases in woking but they cant trace them back to south africa. So the numbers are very small but the concern is they want to stop this and act on it now before that more widely. What now before that more widely. What does this mean now before that more widely. What does this mean for now before that more widely. What does this mean for the now before that more widely. What does this mean for the coverage of these variants by the variants that are currently available . These variants by the variants that are currently available . Well, there are currently available . Well, there are questions are currently available . Well, there are questions about are currently available . Well, there are questions about how are currently available . Well, there are questions about how effective l are questions about how effective the vaccines will be against it. Last week for example some figures were put out suggesting that it would be about 60 effective, their vaccines, against the south african variant, which is less effective than others. But lets give this a bit of context here, the World Health Organization, when vaccine makers first started to try and come up makers first started to try and come up with something against this, they set a target of 50 . So it is still above that. So it is not as good as it would be for other variants but it would be for other variants but it is still worth having. This is absolutely the best thing they have got right now. And just another note, woking, the area that is being focused on right now, it has about 290 cases for every 100,000 people that live there. It is just over the average for england, which is about 270. And actually in the last week the number of cases in that area are falling. So this isnt about telling people to go out and panic right now, it isjust people to go out and panic right now, it is just about finding out if there are any other cases of this variant spreading, finding them and stopping it. Variant spreading, finding them and stoninu it. ,,. , stopping it. Stopping it spreading within the community. Stopping it. Stopping it spreading within the community. Thank stopping it. Stopping it spreading within the community. Thank you j stopping it. Stopping it spreading within the community. Thank you very much. The health minister, helen whately, has said there are no plans to speed up offering second doses of Covid Vaccine to residents in care homes to allow more visits by friends and family. The governments claiming all elderly care home residents in england have now been offered a first vaccination, and that its on track to meet its targets. Aru na iyengar reports. We are getting reports at 17 essex care homes have not received the vaccine yet because of outbreaks in their homes. Across the uk residents of care homes are rolling up their sleeves for the Covid Vaccine, and this is what it means. The day the vaccine was administered was such a positive moment. We feel a sense of relief, i think, that you can see something positive coming, and the residents were amazing, and there was a real air of great atmosphere. The Prime Minister said it marked a crucial milestone in the race to protect the most vulnerable and that the roll out will only accelerate from here. The head of the nhs, simon stevens, also paid tribute to the work of gps, Community Nurses and care home workers. The government says a few homes have had visits deferred due to local outbreaks of the virus and promises to get these done as soon as it is safe to do so. Some residents also may have been missed because they were suffering from covid. Ministers are growing increasingly confident of hitting the target of vaccinating the 15 million most Vulnerable People by mid february after a record high ofjabs on saturday, reaching nearly 600,000. Nearly nine million first doses have now been administered and nearly nine out of ten people aged 80 and above and over three quarters of people aged 75 and over have now had their firstjab. But the charity alzheimers uk says it is concerned about the level of staff vaccinations amid reports that some workers have declined jabs. Its also calling for the government to speed up the roll out of the second dose to allow homes to resume meaningful visits. In wales, around three quarters of staff and care home residents have received the vaccine. All homes in Northern Ireland have now been visited. And the Scottish Government said it expected to complete the first stage of its roll out, including care homes, by the end of this week. Aruna iyengar, bbc news. The Health Secretary matt hancock will be leading the downing street briefing today. You can watch it here on bbc news at five o clock. Myanmar� s military has taken control of the country, seizing power and detaining politicians, including civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar, also known as burma, was ruled by the military until democratic reforms began in 2011. In an election in november, Aung San Suu Kyis party, the National League for democracy, won a Landslide Victory though she is banned from becoming president as her children are foreign nationals. But the military has now claimed election fraud, declared a year long State Of Emergency and handed power to its Commander In Chief. Soldiers are on the streets of the countrys capital and its main city and former capital, yangon. Theres widespread phone and internet disruption across the country. So who is Aung San Suu Kyi . Shes the daughter of general aung san, who helped negotiate the countrys independence from British Colonial rule in 19118, before he was assassinated. She spent nearly 15 years in detention between 1989 and 2010 fighting for democratic elections. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, while still under house arrest. More recently, she has received criticism for not doing more to stop the rape, murder and possible genocide of Rohingya Muslims, who fled from myanmar to bangladesh in 2017. But she is still very popular amongst most buddhists in the country, who make up the majority of citizens. Well this morning, borisjohnson reacted to the news on twitter saying this report from jonathan head. The burmese people woke up this morning to see a tv announcer telling them the armed forces had seized power. This mp was one of dozens of political figures rounded up dozens of political figures rounded up in the hours before dawn. By daybreak, roads in the capital were being blocked by soldiers and armoured vehicles. Somewhere here, the burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi was being detained with the rest of her government. It is was being detained with the rest of her government. Her government. It is nothing short of outrageous. Her government. It is nothing short of outrageous, deeply her government. It is nothing short of outrageous, deeply disturbing. L of outrageous, deeply disturbing. And i think what is important is for the International Community first and foremost speak out very clearly, very unequivocally. This is unacceptable. Very unequivocally. This is unaccetable. , ~ unacceptable. Last november, Aung San Suu Kyi unacceptable. Last november, Aung San Suu Kyi and unacceptable. Last november, Aung San Suu Kyi and her unacceptable. Last november, Aung San Suu Kyi and her party unacceptable. Last november, Aung San Suu Kyi and her party were san suu kyi and her party were re elected in a landslide. Parliament was supposed to sit this morning to start formalising that victory. But the military had objected to alleged irregularities in the election after its own party had performed badly. The coup leader is this an forces leader. The general accused of genocide by the United Nations for his role in the expulsion of the muslim hinge up population three years ago. Back then Aung San Suu Kyi defended the military, even testifying for them in the hague. And so tarnishing her international reputation. The Prime Minister borisjohnson was one of many leaders Around The World who condemned the coup. Military supporters arejubilant condemned the coup. Military supporters are jubilant and happy to show it. But their party won only 6 of the seats contested in the election. Aung san suu kyis won 13 times as many. Her supporters are staying low for now she has managed to put out a letter urging them to reject the coup. Translation our country is just a bird reject the coup. Translation our country isjust a bird learning to fly, now the army has broken our wings. For now, the soldiers are in charge, as they have been for so much of two tos history. But whether they from here . Unpopular and illegitimate in the eyes of many burmese, they have given themselves a year in power. After that, wejust dont know. Jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. Prince harry has received an apology and damages from the publishers of the Mail On Sunday and mail online over an article which claimed he had snubbed the Royal Marines after he stepped down as a Senior Member of the royalfamily. In a statement to a remote hearing of the high court, a lawyer for harry said the allegation was baseless, false and defamatory. Lets get more on this from our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. Tell us a little bit more about what was alleged. I witchell. Tell us a little bit more about what was alleged. Witchell. Tell us a little bit more about what was alleged. I think the first thing to about what was alleged. I think the first thing to say about what was alleged. I think the first thing to say is about what was alleged. I think the first thing to say is that about what was alleged. I think the first thing to say is that this about what was alleged. I think the first thing to say is that this is first thing to say is that this is not the case involving the duchess of sussex versus the Mail On Sunday. That case rumbles on. This involves harry and the Mail On Sunday and an article bullish in october it quoted the former falklands commander saying that harry had to take the role of captain general seriously. But then it went on to suggest that the Royal Marines were considering replacing harry as captain general because he had not been in touch by phone, letter or e mail since march. And it was that that clearly hit a nerve and gave rise to this court action against the Mail On Sunday. Harrys lawyer said that the suggestion that he was snubbing the Royal Marines was baseless, false and defamatory and said he had made concerted efforts to support the Royal Marines, even though he had been forced to step back from formal military roles as part of him stepping back is an active member of the royalfamily. And the Mail On Sunday has both apologised and pay what was described by harrys spokesman as significant damages. It will be given to the Invictus Games foundation stop but it underlines i think how extremely sensitive harriers about his image and about any perception and is it had been confirmed on this occasion an untrue suggestion about him. Suggestion about him. Given that he is no longer suggestion about him. Given that he is no longer a suggestion about him. Given that he is no longer a senior suggestion about him. Given that he is no longer a Senior Member suggestion about him. Given that he is no longer a Senior Member of suggestion about him. Given that he is no longer a Senior Member of the | is no longer a Senior Member of the royalfamily and we is no longer a Senior Member of the royal family and we covered that extensively of course, what are his obligations to the Royal Marines . Well, thats a very good question. And i think that it is the case that there have been eyebrows raised within the military about what is his role going forward. But he clearly regards his role and his support of the British Armed forces very, very seriously. And i think that he was hurt by the need to step back, not step down but step back for the time being, from this role as captain general. It is supposed to be under review at some point this year. But these are all matters still to be decided and which clearly as i say, our extremely sensitive to him. Clearly as i say, our extremely sensitive to him. Indeed. Nicholas witchell, sensitive to him. Indeed. Nicholas witchell. Our sensitive to him. Indeed. Nicholas witchell, our royal sensitive to him. Indeed. Nicholasj witchell, our royal correspondent, thank you very much. Prince harry receiving an apology and damages which will be donated to the Invictus Games foundation. Much more ahead you are watching bbc news. The headlines on bbc news. Fears that the south african variant is in the community in parts of south east england and the midlands. Localised testing will take place to monitor the spread. All elderly care home residents in england have now been offered a vaccine, according to the government its being hailed as an important milestone the military have seized power of mynamar detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest agains the coup. Lets just show you some latest pictures that we have got in. The Prime Minister has been out and about today. His destination West Yorkshire. To be precise in dewsbury where he has been visiting another Vaccination Centre, bumping arms as we have all learnt to do over the last year. And coming on the day of course when we learn that all care home residents in england have been offered theirfirst dose home residents in england have been offered their first dose of the vaccine. We have heard in the last few minutes that there were 17 care homes in essex that have not been able to carry out those vaccinations just yet because they do actually have some active cases of it. But he will be a bit of an expert, perhaps they will rope him in. Anyway, that is the Prime Minister at the Vaccination Centre in dewsbury. Lets hear from the first minister of scotland Nicola Sturgeon on her daily briefing. Good afternoon, everyone, thanks forjoining us today. As ever i will go through todays statistics. There were 8118 new positive cases reported yesterday, which is 9. 5 total of the number of test which means it is 180,533. The new cases, 244 the number of test which means it is 180,533. The new cases, 2; ring Greater Glasgow and clyde. 111 in lothian. The remaining cases are across nine other health board areas. 1958 people are currently in hospital with covid, which is 17 more than yesterday and 143 people are in intensive care, that is the same number as yesterday. And im sorry to report that six additional deaths have been registered over the last 24 hours of patients who first tested positive in the previous 28 days. As you will recall though, the figures we report on a monday are often low because registration offices are largely closed at the weekend. Since the last media update on friday, 72 new deaths have been recorded, which means that the total number of deaths under the daily measurement is now 6112. Every single one of those deaths was of an individual who will be missed and is being mourned by families and friends. So again today as i always do i want to convey my thoughts and condolences to everybody who is mourning a loved one. Now, im joined by the chief medical officer who will shortly help me address questions. Before then to let me quickly update on a couple of issues. Firstly, let mejust highlight that there will not be a 1215 Media Briefing here tomorrow. Instead, i will make a statement to parliament. That will take place shortly after tpm tomorrow. And in that i will give an update on the latest data and what all of that means the lockdown restrictions. That will set out our latest thinking on what how much longer the current restrictions may need to continue. They will last until at least the middle of february. But the statement will also provide some more detail and other steps that we are planning to take to help us keep the virus under control, even when we do get to a point when we start to gradually ease the lockdown. The first thing i will say and i will go into more detail on this tomorrow, is that the current lockdown is working. I think you can see that in the figures we are reporting every day. It is helping to reduce the number of cases in scotland and we should all take encouragement from that. That said, case numbers are still high, too high, much higher than we would want them to be so we need to get them down further. And then of course we need to keep them as low as possible. Obviously, the vaccine is the most important tool we have at our disposaljust now and i will update a little bit on progress with vaccination towards the end of my remarks. But even with the end of my remarks. But even with the vaccine programme, there is still more that we need to do. For example, and we covered this in one of the briefings last week, as we suppress the virus more and more within our own borders, we need to do all we can to prevent new cases and especially new strains entering the country, just as i was preparing for the briefing i saw news from surrey today where door to door testing is getting under way because some cases of the south african variants have been identified there and people with no travel history. So the threat of new variants, new strains of this virus, remains a real one and that means we have to be ever more vigilant in trying to stop the virus coming into the country. Of course, we also need to continue as we have been doing throughout the pandemic to improve our own surveillance so that we can quickly identify cases, clusters and outbreaks and get them under control as quickly as possible. So tomorrows statement is also going tomorrows statement is also going to cover some of the measures that we will be taking to help us control the virus as we continue to suppress it. And in time, not immediately, but in time start to gradually ease the lockdown restrictions. So firstly, to reduce the risk of the virus entering the country as you know we have already agreed with other countries across the uk to introduce supervised quarantine from some countries. However, as i said last week, in our view, the current uk wide proposals dont go far enough. So tomorrow we will provide some more information to the extent to which we intend to supervised quarantine here in scotland. We will also set out some additional measures we are working on to make current travel restrictions more effective than they are already. As well as preventing new cases from entering scotland of course we have got to continue to be able to identify cases within the country, especially in areas where rates of transmission are high or where after we have suppressed more than is the case right now, they start to rise again. Now you will recall that in december we conducted pilots of Large Scale Community testing in selected communities. We offered a 21 test to anyone who wanted one, regardless of whether or not they had symptoms. We have been assessing these pilots over the last few weeks and at the same time local authorities have been sending us their proposals for much more extensive use of community testing. In parallel so that we have been considering whether routine testing can help reduce outbreaks in certain workplaces and businesses where transmission is a particular risk. Food Processing Plant being an example. So again we will set out our latest thinking and plans on all of these issues tomorrow. Now, in addition to that and most importantly actually, tomorrows review will also consider schools and early years provision. And we will set out our most up to date thinking on how and when we might be able to start to resume in Person Learning and child care. Obviously, all of us want to do thatjust as soon as possible. I will also tomorrow provide information on some expanded arrangements for testing in those settings as well. And of course in addition and lastly, as you might expect, the statement tomorrow will give an update on where we are with Vaccination Programme. But i want to of course give you an update on that today as well. As of 830 this morning i can report that 575,897 people in scotland had received theirfirst dose of the vaccine. Im pleased to say that now includes a 98 of all residents in all the care homes. And to be clear, that is notjust a 98 of people in our care homes being offered, that is 98 who have now received the first dose of the vaccine. In addition, 88 of the staff working in older peoples care homes have also now have that first dose of vaccine. A really important step in order to help protect the people we know our most vulnerable to this virus and we saw that of course with great distress earlier in the pandemic, those who are frail and vulnerable in our care homes. However, in addition i can also report today that 80 of those over the age of 80 living in the community have also now received their first dose of the vaccine, meaning that we are ahead of schedule to complete first dose is for that age group by friday. Obviously, we will be trying to get as close to 100 uptake in every group as possible but 80 as we get above 80 we are already getting to the kind of uptake figures that we see routinely with, or above the kind of figures we see routinely with the flu Vaccination Programme, so that is Good Progress to report on over 80s. Vaccination of the over 70 group is now under way as well and i can say today that already 14 of over 70 have been vaccinated and this number of over 75. By the end of this week, everybody aged 70 to 79 and everybody in what we call be extremely clinically vulnerable group, in terms of adults in that group, in terms of adults in that group, will have received an invitation letter inviting them to receive their first dose of vaccine and we are well on track everyone in these groups to receive their first dose by mid february, as planned. Many people aged 65 to 69 have also already received appointment letters and more appointment letters for that age group will be going out this week, particularly in lothian, grampian and Greater Glasgow and clyde. And as ive seen in the media this morning, today marks an important stage in the Vaccination Programme with mass centres opening at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre here in the capital and at the complex in aberdeen. The Edinburgh Centre will be able to initially administer 21,000 vaccine doses a week. The Aberdeen Centre will have an initial ability of 6000. Of course, the mass Vaccination Centre in glasgow is already up and running. Other Vaccination Centres are opening across scotland, many of these in smaller communities will be located in facilities like Village Halls and sports centres. By the end of this week more than 150 of these will be operational in different parts of the country. And of course that is in addition to the centres and the gp practices that have been administering vaccine for the last few weeks. Now, assuming supplies of the vaccine come through as we expect them to do, this expansion of capacity means that we are confident of meeting all our targets for vaccinating different groups of people. And i want to take the opportunity to pay tribute to and thank all those who are working so hard across the country to get these shots of vaccine into peopless arms. Now, the last point on vaccine i want to make isjust arms. Now, the last point on vaccine i want to make is just to arms. Now, the last point on vaccine i want to make isjust to remind people, particularly those who have already received the first dose or who might be receiving it over the course of the next few days, you must remember that it doesnt start to have a protective effect until, we estimate, about two weeks after you receive it. And at that point, while we know that it will help to protect you from becoming seriously ill if you get covid, we dont yet know if you will prevent you from actually getting it up transmitting its other people. So the reason i making his point right now is just to remind you that notwithstanding the Good Progress were making vaccination, that doesnt yet mean we can relax. That even those who get the vaccine will be able to relax restrictions on straightaway. It continues to be the case that these restrictions are important to suppress the virus to much lower levels than it is at right now. And of course they only work if everybody sticks with them, including of course people who have received or are about to receive the first shot of the vaccine. So please, everybody, my plea as usual is to stick to the lockdown rules. These rules are what i willjust quickly recap on before moving on to questions. Of course the most important ask we are making of everyone right now is stay at home as much as you possibly can. Only leave your home for essentials purposes, whether that is caring responsibilities, essential shopping, exercise, work that genuinely cant be done from home, meeting outdoors please limit those to one of the person from one of the household. Work from home whenever you can. Employers, rememberyou have a legal duty to support people to work from home wherever possible. And if you are out for essential purposes, please remember all of the facts and advice, where face coverings for example if you are doing essential shopping, avoid places that are busy, clean your hands and clean surfaces. Used two metres distancing if youre meeting with another person outdoors and self isolate and get tested if you have symptoms. We are, at this stage, making Good Progress through lots of hard sacrifice and we are also making Good Progress through the Vaccination Programme. But the virus remains a real threat, it remains at higher levels than we would want it to be, so we have still got work to do. And im grateful to everybody for your cooperation with that. So let me leave you with usual advice today, please stay at home to help protect the nhs and of course save lives. We will move now straight to questions. And as you can see, the chief medical officer is here to assist me with questions. And first day i will go to stv. With questions. 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The first and is currently being stored . On the first question we are aiming and is currently being stored . Q� t the first question we are aiming to do all of the over 70s by the middle of february, so a big chunk of those will have been done over the course of this week. I have checked to see what the actual expected breakdown of that is between this week and next week but remember the key date is the middle of february to do all of the over 70s. Actually, we would expect many over 65 is also to have been vaccinated then. I know there are over 65 is who will be starting to get the vaccination this week as well. I know we are on track to meet that and the progress we have made on the over 80s, the target we had set was friday of this week. We are ahead of that schedule. I cant tell you that because we have been asked by the uk government to not give figures for the doses that have been allocated to us because they say thatis allocated to us because they say that is commercially confidential. Notwithstanding that we have agreed for the moment not to publish those figures, uk government ministers continue to brief them to the press. And you know that is a source of some contention. I had a four nations call on saturday chaired by michael gove where i express my frustration and i want to get to a position where we have got an understanding that either we all agree that for good reasons we dont publish these, or we publish them properly. And, you know, if it is going to be the case that these figures are brief, i would rather we publish them properly and transparently. Let me be clear, that is not about future expected supplies but about the supplies we have right now and where they are in the supply chain from the moment they are allocated right through the different stages before they get to somebody putting the needle into somebody� s arm. So hopefully we can get to an agreement with the uk government on that over the next few days. But i hope people will realise it is not political in any way to say it is not really fair, it is not so much fairness to government, it is not fair to people to have the Scottish Government asked not to release figures when another government is briefing them out to the press. So we want to get to a sensible and transparent position on that as quickly as possible. Lets leave the press briefing now and move on to the subject of the south african variant of the coronavirus, which is feared to be in the community in parts of the south of england and the west midlands. Several cases in surrey found with the variant had no known links with travel or with previous cases. Has to has testing and starting this afternoon in woking. Borisjohnson has been visiting a Vaccination Centre near dewsbury this morning. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker is in westminster. This is what has been feared that other variants would find their way into the community. That other variants would find their way into the community. Other variants would find their way into the community. That is why the government into the community. That is why the government has into the community. That is why the government has recently into the community. That is why the government has recently talked into the community. That is why the l government has recently talked about tightening border controls and why critics of the government think it needs to go further. There are fears as the vaccine is rolled out, and the government has been widely praised for the vaccine roll out so far, if we still further mutations, that the vaccine was not as effective against, it could derail progress in terms of vaccine roll out and effort to try and get schools back from early march in england and gradually start to unlock the economy. The Prime Minister has been visiting a Vaccination Centre in West Yorkshire this morning and he was asked about this morning and he was asked about this issue, in terms of whether he was concerned that the vaccine might be slightly less effective against the south african variant. Taste be slightly less effective against the south african variant. We are confident all the south african variant. We are confident all the the south african variant. We are confident all the vaccines the south african variant. We are confident all the vaccines we the south african variant. 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I do not think it will be as bad as the last 12 months. Think it will be as bad as the last 12 months, anything like of course, but it 12 months, anything like of course, but it is 12 months, anything like of course, but it is very 12 months, anything like of course, but it is very important vaccines continue but it is very important vaccines continue to but it is very important vaccines continue to develop and adapt, and they with continue to develop and adapt, and they will. We continue to develop and adapt, and the will. 9 ,. ,. Continue to develop and adapt, and the will. , they will. We assurance the vaccines we have can they will. We assurance the vaccines we have can be they will. We assurance the vaccines we have can be adapted. They will. We assurance the vaccines we have can be adapted. We they will. We assurance the vaccines we have can be adapted. We are we have can be adapted. We are expecting the press conference from downing street to be led by matt hancock. No doubt the south african variant will crop up. I am hancock. No doubt the south african variant will crop up. Variant will crop up. I am sure it well. Variant will crop up. I am sure it well the variant will crop up. I am sure it well. The government variant will crop up. I am sure it well. The government will variant will crop up. I am sure it well. The government will want | variant will crop up. I am sure it i well. The government will want to talk about its programme and latest figures in terms of the aim to have offered the vaccine to all the elderly care home resident in england by last night. It is so interesting listening to Boris Johnson, we have heard before from Public Health officials and ministers that there is not going to be a point where the coronavirus disappears and he did talk about how we would be living with covid for a while to come. The hope is, as the vaccine is rolled out and they tried to adapt it to ensure it is effective against any different variants, this will allow an unlocking of society. The message here as well, borisjohnson has been striking a cautious note. People need to prepare themselves for the long haul, even as he suggests things will not be as bad as they have been for the last 12 months. We learned this morning the government has increased its orderfrom learned this morning the government has increased its order from a manufacturer valneva but they are not expected to come in until 2022, 2025. That shows the government is preparing for a long haul on this one. As weve heard, captain sir tom moore is in hospital with coronavirus. The 100 year old, Second World War veteran, who raised tens of millions of pounds for the nhs during the first lockdown, was admitted yesterday because he needed help with his breathing. He is not in intensive care. The Prime Minister spoke to the family of captain tom last night and said he was an inspiration. John maguire reports. It all started as his way of thanking the nhs for looking after him following a fall. Now captain sir tom moore the record breaking fundraiser is under its care once again. Hes being treated for pneumonia and covid 19 at Bedford Hospital. In a Statement Released yesterday afternoon by one of his daughters, hannah said he was being treated at home but was taken to hospital when he needed additional help with his breathing. Hes on a ward, and not in intensive care. She described the medical care hes received over the past few weeks as remarkable and goes on to say, we know that the wonderful staff at Bedford Hospital will do all they can to make him comfortable and hopefully return home as soon as possible. This year, of course. We last spoke to him just before christmas, and he was his usual optimistic self. But things will get better, and next year will be all right. Captain toms endeavours walking 100 lengths of his back garden before his 100th birthday last april saw him raise almost £40 million for Nhs Charities. He inspired so many to follow in his footsteps, and his story was told Around The World. Now, once again, people are lining up to wish him well. The Prime Minister, borisjohnson, tweeted. The labour leader, keir starmer, wrote. When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high. And the singer michael ball whose duet with captain tom helped him to break yet another record as they made it to number one said. He is a huge cricket fan, and the former england captain Michael Vaughan sent this message. Sir captain tom, over the last ten months, youve been our inspiration. Youve been the nations heartbeat. Were all Thinking Of You get well soon. Thank you, captain tom, from the nhs and, in passing on their best wishes, the Nhs Charities he helped reminds us of the difference hes made. We owe him so much for inspiring people to support Nhs Charities. The funds that he raised are making such a difference right now to nhs staff, volunteers and patients. Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time, and we wish you a speedy recovery, captain tom. As the pandemic led to repeated lockdowns, captain tom has always offered messages of hope and positivity reminding us all to walk, to talk, and to look after each other. Its now time for us to return the favour and to look forward to seeing that smile once again. John maguire, bbc news, bedford. Businesses are calling on the government to set out how it plans to lift lockdown restrictions. The confederation of british industry wants more clarity on how the economy will reopen, and which firms will be allowed to trade first. Heres our business correspondent, katie prescott. Silent streets an all too familiar sight around the uk. Most businesses know that when they can re open will depend on the spread of the virus, but the Business Group the confederation of british industry said they need to know how it will happen. What wed really like to see is business and governmentjust working together to develop a road map for re opening, not a call for a specific date, that will be informed by the health data, but really working together to use the time wisely to plan. The way to help those hardest hit industries is two fold, one, give them a really clear plan. Understand what the risks are and when theyre likely to be able to begin to re open again. And in the meantime lets give them absolutely the support they need in lock step with the ongoing restrictions, so it maximises their chances of both survival and then a strong bounce back when the time comes. Businesses want to see a list of criteria from the government, which will explain what count as a high risk business, what conditions need to be met in order to scrap restrictions like social distancing and what are the plans for harder to open sections of the economy, such as International Travel . It also wants to see plans for economic support measures alongside this, targeting the sectors will that be shut for longest. In response, the government says it has invested more than £280 billion to protectjobs and businesses and it says by mid february it will be in a better position to lay out the next steps for the economy. All eyes now are on the upcoming budget, which the chancellor will deliver at the start of the march. A report today suggests the long Term Economic effects of covid 19 Will Hit Children The Hardest, and has called for a National Education recovery plan. The Institute For Fiscal Studies estimates that many pupils, whove lost six months of normal schooling, could lose around £40,000 in income over their lifetime. It says the loss of schooling is contributing to lower educational progress and skills, particularly for disadvantaged pupils. The government says its Investing Hundreds of millions of pounds to help students catch up and has got more than 800,000 laptops to children. Earlier, i spoke to pauljohnson, director of the Institute For Fiscal Studies. He explained how they came to these findings. Quite a number of studies look at the effects of time spent in education and are over a lifetime. Studies were made in the 1970s. In other countries that have been other changes people have been able to make those estimates on. It is only a 3 , 4 change in earnings but over a 3 , 4 change in earnings but over a lifetime it adds up to quite a lot. The numbers might be inaccurate but we know in total across the population, we are looking at hundreds of billions, probably, if that education is not made up at some point. It that education is not made up at some point some point. It is a loss to individuals some point. It is a loss to individuals but some point. It is a loss to individuals but a some point. It is a loss to | individuals but a knockon some point. It is a loss to individuals but a knockon loss to individuals but a knock on loss to the country as a whole. Ii individuals but a knockon loss to the country as a whole. The country as a whole. If people are less productive the country as a whole. If people are less productive and the country as a whole. If people are less productive and earning l are less productive and earning less, there will be less money coming into the exchequer and we will be less well off. There will be an effect. Probably more important is actually a distribution of this effect. Some people will be much more impacted than others. All the evidence suggests it is those children from less well off families who will be more effective because they have struggled more to work at home, they tend to have less support from their school they know private schools have provided far more support than state schools. Also may lot of children have home environments which make it quite hard to learning. The long term consequence is equality may be bigger than the long term consequences for income as a whole. We had a statement saying, we will build on the covid patch up front. The Prime Minister was clear extended School Closures have had an impact on learning. The government will work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long term plan. How adequate is the £1. 3 billion . Ii how adequate is the £1. 3 billion . If you look at it this way, we have spent about £60 billion a year on schools. Children have lost up to half a year of schooling. If that is true, and most of the evidence actually is that despite the work schools and teachers had done, a lot of this time has been lost without his £30 billion worth of normal schooling has been lost. Even if the answer is half of that, you can see the 1. 3 billion is only a very small fraction of the affected loss in spending on education we have had over this year. I think the ambition needs to be considerably greater than that which the government has put forward so far in terms of amount spent. It also needs to be well targeted. I think over the next. Not all this year but over the next two or three years, we might need an ambition which goes severalfold more from might need an ambition which goes several fold more from what the government has so far committed to. The headlines on bbc news. Fears that the south african variant is in the community in parts of south east england and the midlands. Localised testing will take place to monitor the spread. All elderly care home residents in england have now been offered a vaccine, according to the government. Its being hailed as an important milestone. The military have seized power of mynamar detaining civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Shes urged her supporters to protest agains the coup. The government says its a turning point that Coronavirus Vaccines have been offered to residents at every eligible care home in england. Elderly care home residents in more than ten thousand homes have been invited to have their firstjab. It comes as charities said that take up had been lower among staff. Official figures are expected to confirm later that the government has reached its official target. Our news correspondent Graham Satchell reports. Vaccination day, come on you can see and hear the relief. Were going to get vaccinated, right here lets celebrate right throughout the year. How are you feeling, barbara . All right. Looking forward to it. Looking forward to it, are you . Vaccination day here in somerset was january 15th. All the residents and staff at Court House Care home have now had theirfirstjab. The last nine, ten months, you know, weve been really up against it. Weve been really staring into the abyss and to finally there to be some measure of hope, something to guide us, steer us in the right direction, although being very cautiously optimistic, you know, you couldnt help but get that that spring in your step. And this is chris getting vaccinated. Hes only cautiously optimistic because the virus is spreading again rapidly in care homes and is killing residents, even those whove had the firstjab. Lovely, thank you. In our area, there 11 care homes in Weston Super Mare that are suffering serious outbreaks at the moment, you know, losing lots of residents. So, you know, for us it is really, realising we are in the eye of the storm. They said from the first positive case it went through the whole care home within a couple of days. They just couldnt. It was so aggressive, they couldnt keep on top of it. Natalie and amys dad died just after christmas. Johnny clark was a brilliant boxer, a british and european champion. He was just as strong as an ox. Ive never known anyone stronger. Itjust hasnt sunk in because weve not been able to see him since march. I cant stop thinking about him being on his own when he passed away. I wake up in the night, and i just think about him in his room on his own. Residents atjohnny� s care home were just about to be vaccinated. The outbreak has had a devastating impact on residents, families and staff. They just feel absolutely on their knees and completely broken at the moment. The spread of the virus means vaccinating care homes could not be more vital, so where are we . In scotland, 94 of residents have now had their first dose and 80 of staff. Wales has now given a first dose to 74 of residents and 78 of staff. In Northern Ireland, 80 of residents have now had both doses of the vaccine. In england, finalfigures will be published later but nhs england says all eligible care homes have now had their first offer of vaccination and the figures for staff are comparable with the other nations. This is one of the bedrooms we have, so all the bedrooms have a lovely bed. Persuading all the staff to take the injection has proved a real challenge in some places. This care home in North Yorkshire is run by vida healthcare. Almost 30 of staff in one of their homes has refused the vaccination. Industry wide, the figure is almost a fifth. Our residents are very vulnerable and, in an ideal situation, every member of staff should be vaccinated. For their own safety and their own well being and for the residents. Are you happy to go ahead with this . Lam indeed. Fantastic. We cant make people have it. Its as simple as that. And its very, very frustrating. Its very worrying for the families as well because they may not want people that havent had the vaccine to be looking after people and that creates a whole new area to look at. Julie, are you looking forward to all of our lovely residents having a vaccination today . It is the day weve been waiting for, chris. Back in somerset, staff at court house are watching death rates rise in care homes with alarm. They want the policy to change so residents dont have to wait 12 weeks between injections. We dont feel as protected as we thought we were going to be. I think if we were to get that second vaccination, if our residents were to get that, we would feel even more safer than we do now. When you think its well over a third of all deaths have been in care homes, so. You know, no apologies for wanting to fight our corner to be as protected as we can be. To have given a first dose of the vaccine to the vast majority of care home residents in just a few short weeks is a significant achievement back you can sense the nervousness in the care sector as the virus continues to spread. But you can sense. Graham satchell, bbc news. The Online Fashion retailer asos has confirmed its purchase of the topshop, topman and miss Selfridge Brands from the collapsed Arcadia Group. In a £295 million deal with administrators, asos is acquiring the stock and the brands but not their retail stores. Earlier i spoke to our Business Reporter, vivvienne nunis. Pretty much bad news forjobs. So the key thing here is that they are buying the brands, so asos is buying miss selfridge, topshop, topman and an active wear label. But, as you say, not those 70 Retail Outlets where those brands were sold. So we think that means around 2500 jobs will go. Around 300 back office jobs will be carried over to asos, people who are doing roles such as designing or buying for topshop. But certainly a lot of those people on the shop floor are a facing a lot of uncertainty. We know that it is generally women and younger people who take on those roles and these are two groups that have already been disproportionately impacted in terms ofjob losses during the pandemic. So more bad news there. There is also uncertainty around the Arcadia Group pension fund. Now, we believe there is around £350 million hole in that pension fund. The former owner of arcadia before it went into administration, sir philip green, there is pressure building on him to plug that hole himself. He is worth around £930 million himself, so whether he chooses that is something we will have to wait and see. What about the other companies that were part of the Arcadia Group . Because it was a really big concern, wasnt it . Indeed. So while asos in this deal has bought perhaps the crown jewels in the arcadia empire, your topshops and the like, there are other brands Dorothy Perkins, wallis and burton. Now boohoo, an Online Shopping platform rival of asos is in exclusive talks to buy those. So really you could say we are seeing the final chapter here of this power struggle we have seen over many years between those traditional stalwarts of the high street, your topshops and debenhams and the like because boohoo just a week ago bought debenhams the brand, so it boughtjust the brand, not the 120 stores, so they were job losses there. So we are seeing this power struggle where those high street retailers are now being sold on to those emerging onLine Platforms. So although these brands are going to continue in some form, we are looking at pretty substantialjob losses. And theres a lot of Square Footage that is going to be empty, isnt there, in many towns and cities across the country, which at one time would have been extremely desirable estate. Absolutely. And i think also on a kind of emotional and nostalgic level, a lot of people have memories of going to certainly debenhams and Topshop Stores to buy their clothes. Now all that seems to be gone. One interesting point is recently asos was already selling topshop clothes on its site over the past year. It has actually been selling more pieces of topshop and topman clothing than the Topshop Topman stores themselves. So in some ways this transition had already happened. Now with the confirmation of this deal that asos is going to buy these big names, it is really perhaps the final nail in the coffin. The worlds first rocket powered by bio fuel has been launched in the United States. Its called stardust one and it successfully flew a mile into the air before parachuting back to earth. Jane obrien reports. Making space history in the state of maine. Stardust 1. 0 becomes the first commercial launch of a rocket with the fuel derived from a secret substance found on farms. This is awesome. This is fantastic. All right. Sascha deri is the inventor of the biofuel and head of blushift, which built the rocket. But its been a long road to success. Stardust made its historic debut at a runway for heavy bombers at the disused Loring Air Force base in the far north near the border with canada. Compared to other commercial rockets that now ferry astronauts to the space station, stardust 1. 0 is very small, but cheap to fly. That makes space accessible to many more people. This launch carried experiments from a college and a business that wants to test an alloy for vibration. It will eventually launch satellites into space. Right now there are Freight Trains to space like spacex and ula. There are Medium Sized Companies and rockets that are launching i would call them buses to space, with medium sized payloads. But we want to be the uber to space. Maine is well placed for launching into polar orbit, but its also really cold and that can cause its own problems. But anyone doubting maines ability to establish itself as a key player in the increasingly Diversion Space Industry should look at the history books. During the cold war with russia, this Windswept Winter Wilderness was americas front line of defence. The b 52 bombers that constantly patrolled the skies were maintained inside this massive hangar. The base closed in 1994, but the infrastructure is still here. Just waiting to play a new role. Hello maine has other bases it can use and some 50 Companies Already working in the aeroSpace Industry. It is hope that blushift� s success will boost plans for a new spaceport complex. Ina in a moment, it will be time for bbc news at one. Now it is time for the weather. Hello again. More snow issues with likely disruption. A few showers in the cold air across scotland. We have a battle with the ongoing milder atlantic are trying to push in meeting the cold polar air. It never really relinquishes its grip, the cold polar air. Hence snow showers across scotland. Winteriness. This across the antrim hills. Lots of clout in the south. It feels chilly. Drier than yesterday and we do have sunshine breaking through west wales and Northern England, across scotland as well. This evening and overnight it is all change. The rain get heavier. Temporary snow for wales, more likely to linger in the east midlands and east anglia. Low levels, through southern Central Scotland and Northern England will see a few centimetres building up. Treacherously i see with temperatures close to freezing. That snow is reluctant to ease. In the Central Lowlands we will see the snow building up. In the south, behind it milder air but heavy showers with hail and thunder coming through, eventually pushing into Northern Ireland. Quite a contrast between where we have got the cold wintry weather and the milder showery weather in the south. The low pressure will stick with us into wednesday. In the south there is the potential for more rain to wednesday. In the south there is the potentialfor more rain to push its way across southern areas. At this stage it will be difficult to get the detail. Once again central and southern parts of scotland, the far north of england is seeing more snow away from the coast. Eventually we will see the rain moving out of the way in the south. We already have, we still have, numerous flood warnings enforce following recent weeks of rain. With more rain to come that is not news. You can find out all the weather warnings on the website. 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