Heres helen willets. Simon, thank you. Good afternoon and if you are in leek in staffordshire you are looking up to blue skies or you have been so far today. Unfortunately the cloudier skies are to come tonight and tomorrow and some nor more snow. Its a different picture this afternoon, still waterlogged in parts of suffolk as you can see and overcast and grey. You see that on the Satellite Picture in southern england, wales and Northern Ireland. Snow showers but good spells of sunshine. We have Rain And Hill Snow in Northern Ireland and almost a line of that picture is where we have that milder atlantic air trying to get in but that cold air is reluctant to relinquish its residency is. Which means we will continue to have issues with whether it is going to rain or snow. Snow melt as the rain adding to the risk of further Flooding Melt as the rain adding to the risk of furtherflooding and melt as the rain adding to the risk of further flooding and december eruption is likely. So for the rest of afternoon it is relatively quiet actually. Mostly drier for england and wales, a few wintry showers in scotland, Rain And Hill Snow for Northern Ireland. And already we have the next weather system waiting, so it will will bring rain to the west but it will turn to snow more the hills north wales, Northern Ireland and even lower levels will see snow. With temperatures close to freezing, Treacherously Icy as well. This snow is notjust for the hills, so tomorrow morning, heading out across the pennine, low levels in Northern England, southern and central scotland, even Central Lowlands we will see several sent metres the wind starts to strengthen, hot on its heels southerly winds, milderairand southerly winds, milder air and sunny southerly winds, milderairand sunny spells and heavy showers with hail and thunder. Look at the contrast from north to south with that atlantic and arctic air, the mix there. That continues, notjust through tuesday but wednesday, by wednesday there is a chance that we could see some wetter weather again pushing into southern area, still that area of rain, and snow. Snow away from the coast, but even to relatively lower levels, blowing round in that strengthening wind. Ii78 round in that strengthening wind. Ii78 haar areas, the far north of england. Southern around central scotland. Further north brighter but chilly so you can see the pattern this week and that doesntjust continue through wednesday but thursday and friday as well. Some concern with already over 60 Flood Warnings in force from what we had they could go up again, a plethora of Weather Warnings on the website. A reminder of our top story. Tens of thousands of people face emergency door to door testing after the South African Variant Of Covid is discovered thats all from the Bbc News At One so its goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc� s in britain in 2021 . Good afternoon. Its 1. 30pm and heres your latest sports news. The duke of cambridge has called the racist abuse aimed at footballers despicable, and said it must stop now after Marcus Rashford became the latest player targeted. Prince william, who is the president of the football association, said, we all have a responsibility to create an environment where such abuse is not tolerated, and those who choose to spread hate and division are held accountable for their actions. Greater Manchester Police have opened an investigation and whilst the uk government plan to introduce new legislation to tackle online abuse, social Media Companies are being urged to take more action. Not enough has been done. I work on facebook and twitter making statements this weekend that feels very late in the day. We have had conversations with than for many months before that. They stated at one point advice was to ask players to report abuse. That is not how it should work. These are multi billion Dollar Industries and companies with resources to do far more than they are doing. Germany and australia have had legislation since 2018, 2019. They have removed offensive comment. Possible offences for senior executives. Liverpool could be the busiest club on transfer deadline day as the premier League Champions move to bring in some much needed defensive cover. Jurgen klopp looks set to sign ben davies from preston for around £2 million and is keen to bring in another defender as well. Hes been without First Choice Centre backs Virgil Van Dijk and joe gomez, who are both injured. Englands cricketers have been allowed out of quarantine in india, after the players whod arrived from sri lanka returned negative covid 19 test results. Theyll be able to train together as a full group for the first time tomorrow, with the first test starting in chennai on friday. Ben stokes, jofra archer and rory burns have already been training, having arrived in india separately, and they could soon be playing in front of fans, with reports that a 50 Capacity Crowd will be allowed in for the second test. We all want to play in front of crowds, that is for sure. 0bviously, crowds, that is for sure. Obviously, it needs to be safe and we dont want to obviously be adding to, you know, a problem which is affecting the whole world. So if it is safe and if it is good, then great. Yes, obviously we would love to play in front of crowds as soon as possible. Katie boulter began her season in impressive style, but she was the only briton to win in the various warm up events ahead of the australian open. Boulter has dropped to number 371 in the world after a long spell out with a back injury and this is only her second tour event in almost two years but she won in straight sets against anna kalinskaya, whos ranked 264 places above her. Boulter next faces the american teenager coco gauff. Thats all the sport for now. You can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. An admission from Serena Williams that she might not have been fit enough to play at the tournament had it not been delayed for three weeks. A statement is expected in the Scottish Parliament tomorrow, where the government will set out new steps to control the spread of coronavirus. Speaking in her Daily Press Briefing at lunchtime, Nicola Sturgeon said that cases are going down in the country, but they remain high and steps will be taken to prevent new cases and identify existing ones. 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. 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 about the extent to which we intend to operate 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 in 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. You will recall that in december we conducted pilots of Large Scale Community testing in selected communities. We offered covid tests 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 to that, we have been considering whether routine testing could help reduce the risk of outbreaks in certain workplaces and businesses where transmission is a particular risk, Food Processing plants being an example. Again, we will set out our latest thinking on 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. We will set out our most up to date thinking on how and when we might be able to start and resume in Person Learning and child care. 0bviously, all of us want to be able to do that as soon as possible. I will also tomorrow provide information on some expanded arrangements for testing in those settings as well. The Welsh Government says that Vaccination Teams have visited all care homes for older people in wales, apart from those which had a covid case in the last 20 days. The minister for mental health, wellbeing and welsh language, eluned morgan, hosted a Press Conference about an hour ago. Lets have a listen to what she said. The latest figures were published just a few minutes ago. They show that more than [116,000 people have now had their first dose of the vaccine, that is more than 13 of the population. I know you will be anxious to hear whether we have met the next marker in our Vaccination Strategy by offering vaccines to all care homes in wales. I am pleased to confirm that they have. We have. All older Person Care Homes have either received visits from Vaccination Teams or have visits planned. Where visits have not taken place yet, it is because there have been live covid cases in the past 20 days and these Vaccination Teams will visit homes as soon as the Public Health advice allows for those who have not yet received them. I want to thank everybody for that huge effort and for everybody in care homes. Im just really pleased that you are now protected. Every vaccine delivered is a small victory against the virus. 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. 0ur 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. 0rdinary people found themselves on the medical front line and sam depended on them for survival. Some depended. 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 headlines on bbc news. Tens of thousands of people face emergency door to door testing after the South African Variant Of Covid is discovered in parts of england. A crucial milestone in the fight against Coronavirus Confirmation expected later today that all older residents in englands eligible care homes have been offered a vaccine. Detained in a coup myanmar� s aug sang suu kii is one of a number of political leaders held as the military takes control. Yulia navalnaya, the wife of the jailed russian activist Alexei Navalny, has been fined 20,000 roubles thats about 260 for taking part in unsanctioned demonstrations. She was among thousands of people detained at protests calling for the release of her husband, one of president putins most renowned critics. Meanwhile, russian prosecutors have backed a request to convert Alexei 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 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 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 the team has just arrived at the centre for Disease Control. Inside they will be speaking to local experts about the early stages of the outbreak here, the same as they did at another Disease Control facility this morning. Talking about how in the early stages they identified places. How are they able to treat the early patients . Were there any similarities between the conditions of different patients and the potential for that . Conditions of different patients and the potentialfor that . How they caught the disease. Inside this facility there is a laboratory, just like any other facility, and they visited the labs at the first location and presumably they will do the same thing here again today but at this place is only like hundreds of metres from the Livestock Market, which is a that lay behind my shoulder. You can imagine people have thought, what are the chances that some lab work here has the virus on them or Something Like that, somehow accidentally it is leaked, they had come out of here and gone down the road to buy some seafood or something and in that way initially the coronavirus got into the open and infected people in that market causing the early clusters. This is one theory on how coronavirus started. It is a remarkable coincidence that this facility is here, just around the corner from the Livestock Market stop. Police in austria say they have fined 96 foreigners i , including britons, romanians and germans. They are currently in quarantine and face fines of £2000. A headteacher has today come out to his pupils in an online assembly. Nicholas hewlett is the headteacher at St Dunstans College in catford, south east london. He spoke to my colleague Victoria Derbyshire earlier and explained why he was doing this. I heard some excellent conversations with students a few weeks ago, talking about diversity and inclusion in school and how make it even better. I was struck by them and how confident and courageous they were talking about their own identities, one in particular talking very confidently about the fact he was gay and how comfortable he felt being gay in the school but also the real nod to the importance of role models among staff. It really got me thinking. I thought, if role models are this important to young people, and of course they are, when you think about it, as a gay man, living in a very happy marriage, it ought to be transparent with students about that because i feel like they could well draw considerable strength from that fact. So here we are. Have you done it yet . Is it live . Have you pre recorded a message . How is it going to work . It is pre recorded because of the world were living in at the moment. It will go out to various groups of students throughout the rest of the day. In fact i have just recorded the message just before coming on air with you. What do you say . Well, i actually built it around the life of one of our alumni, a chap called martin preston, who died last month, he was out to the whole school in the 1970s. An extraordinary act of bravery. It was met with real resistance from the then head, i understand. The rather beautiful part of that story is pupils at the time rallied around him. He was outed in private eye in 1981 and they wrote all sorts of letters of their inspirational teacher, who they thought was wonderful. It is a really lovely story. My point being, the school has moved on and society has moved on such a very long way. We must not forget the importance of those values and that they are fragile and precious and we need to look after them. Not everyone has the privilege of being able to be in an environment which is as inclusive and diverse as the one we have. Yes. I dont know if youre watching its a sin at the moment, butjust a horrific reminder, a horrible reminder of how gay men with hiv and aids were treated not that long ago in this country. As you say, society has moved on. Do you think it is still courageous to come out in britain in 2021 . Ifind it i find it extraordinary that this is actually in 21st century. The news does tell its own story. I did not think it would be. My whole purpose behind this was to front lgbt week, which we have every year, and to take a more proactive stake in it. You talk about its a sin. I have not watched it. Growing up in the 19905, not watched it. Growing up in the 1990s, my generation were conditioned in a way of thinking about Sexual Identity that is totally different from how it is today, totally different. That is one reason why there are so few heads, so few, who are comfortable being open about their sexuality. Very few openly gay heads. I think people forget, i think, just how quickly social values have moved on. Being brought up in the 90s, this condition is a generation of people, particularly leaders, for being far less open about their sexuality than they need to be. Less open about their sexuality than they need to be. There will be some who sa , they need to be. There will be some who say. This they need to be. There will be some who say. This is they need to be. There will be some who say, this is your they need to be. There will be some who say, this is your private they need to be. There will be some who say, this is your private life who say, this is your private life you should keep your private life private, as a head teacher. What do you say to them . I private, as a head teacher. What do you say to them . You say to them . I hear that view. If ou aet you say to them . I hear that view. If you get a you say to them . I hear that view. If you get a chance you say to them . I hear that view. If you get a chance to you say to them . I hear that view. If you get a chance to listen you say to them . I hear that view. If you get a chance to listen to you say to them . I hear that view. If you get a chance to listen to the | if you get a chance to listen to the assembly, d. It is one line in the context of a much broader message. This is a point of transparency, in order to give comfort to students who might themselves be struggling with their sexuality. It is not an exercise in self indulgence, it is purely about transparency to show there are role models out there, that it there are role models out there, thatitis there are role models out there, that it is possible to be in a happily married Same Sex Relationship and also to be successful and to be open about things. D0 successful and to be open about thins. , successful and to be open about thins. I. , things. Do you deliver the line in a ve kind things. Do you deliver the line in a very kind of things. Do you deliver the line in a very kind of practical, things. Do you deliver the line in a very kind of practical, pragmatic. Very kind of practical, pragmatic way or do you feel emotional about doing this . The way or do you feel emotional about doin this . ,. , doing this . The whole thing has built u doing this . The whole thing has built up so doing this . The whole thing has built up so much doing this . The whole thing has built up so much that doing this . The whole thing has built up so much that i doing this . The whole thing has built up so much that i do doing this . The whole thing has built up so much that i do not. Doing this . The whole thing has l built up so much that i do not feel as much emission as i thought i would feel. It is within the context of a much broader message, which is about being comfortable with yourself, allowing others to find their own identities and not permitting too early to a particular identity, particularly a Sexual Identity, particularly a Sexual Identity when you are growing up. There needs to be a sense of exploring that and not necessarily needing to commit and to hold those values dear. Lets not forget there are a number of places in the world where what is happening in my school today would be illegal. Now its time for a look at the weather. More snow issues with likely disruption. More likely to have rain in the south. Already the rain is bringing hill snow across Northern Ireland, a few showers in the cold air across scotland. We have a Battle With The Milder Atlantic Air Meeting the cold polar air. It never really relinquishes its grip, hence the snow showers here across scotland. Some winteriness across the antrim hills. The next Weather Front is waiting in the wings. In the south, it feels chilly. Drier than yesterday and we do have some sunshine breaking through west wales, Northern England and scotland. This evening and overnight, it is all change. The rain will get heavier. It comes across the cold air, temporary snow way is more likely to linger in the midlands and east anglia. In Northern England, southern and central scotland, the hills of Northern Ireland. We will see a few centimetres building up. The snow is reluctant to ease through the data marital to even the Central Lowlands will see the snow building app. Through the day tomorrow. Some heavy showers with hail and thunder coming through, pushing into Northern Ireland. Quite a contrast between where we have the cold wintry weather in the north and the milder showery weather in the south. That is all around this area of low pressure. In the south we have the potential for more rain to pressure. In the south we have the potentialfor more rain to push its way across southern areas. At this stage it will be difficult to get their detail. 0nce stage it will be difficult to get their detail. Once again, central and southern parts of scotland, the far north of england have seen more snow away from the coast. The strong wind blowing the snow around and rein in the south. It remains relatively mild. We still have numerous Flood Warnings in force following recent weeks of rain. With more to come, that is not good news. You can find out all the Weather Warnings from the website. This is bbc news. Im simon mccoy. The headlines Tens Of Thousands of people face emergency door to door testing, after the South African Variant Of Covid is discovered in parts of england. Borisjohnson says he has full confidence in current vaccines. We are confident that all the vaccines using provide a high degree of immunity and protection against all variants. A crucial milestone in the fight against coronavirus. 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