Again off the non seat with snow showers heading up towards North East England and eastern scotland. The cloud continues to thin out in Northern Ireland, wales and the south west with sunshine here, but temperatures barely above freezing for much of the country and they fall sharply this evening where we have clearer skies. More snow showers towards the north east which fade away later in the night, cloud thickens towards the west, so a Weather System from the atlantic which of course will bump into the cold air and there will be a frost widely tonight, with temperatures typically 4, 7 so not as cold as it has been. Lets focus on the weather in Northern Ireland tomorrow because here for most of the day, it will be snowing. We expect five to ten centimetres of snow quite widely, some browsers and drifting over the high ground in strong winds. The same wet weather sneaks its way further east, a mixture of Rain And Snow for south west england, snow for the hills of wales and eventually into Western Scotland, but snow amounts here much less. Further east across the uk, it may be dry, but increasingly cloudy and it will be a windy day for all areas, which means quite a chill. Temperatures on the whole a bit lower tomorrow for many areas, but adding on the strength of the wind, it may feel more like 6 7 so it is a day to wrap up well certainly. During the evening, snow peters out, it doesnt get further east. We are waiting for the next Weather System from the atlantic on sunday. The winds will strengthen, more of a south to south westerly wind, meaning a Milder Airfrom the west pushes its way very slowly eastwards during the day. But we start up quite cold for eastern areas of england and scotland, with a touch of frost. Milder further west and here we see the winds picking up, The Rain Coming in. Ac for a while in scotland, but windy weather through the irish sea icy. Into the Western Isles of scotland. Further east, largely drape through the day for eastern england, slow rise in temperature here, still feeling cold in the winter. Further west where it is wetter, temperatures may reach double figures. Next week, the weather looks very different. It will be less windy, but there may be a bit of rain at at times, but it will be much milder both by day and also by night. Kate. Thank you very much. A reminder of our top story the r number is now estimated to be 0. 7 to 0. 9, slightly down from 0. 7, to zero point zero. It has fallen for the First Time Since july. Thats all from the bbc news at one, so its goodbye from me. And on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc� s news teams where you are. Hello and welcome to the bbc sports centre. Lets start in melbourne, where a new coronavirus lockdown has started and spectators at the Australian Open were asked to leave midway through Novak Djokovic� s third round game agains the American Taylor fritz. Our tennis correspondent Russell Fuller is here. Very strange scenes, wasnt it, late on in that game . On in that game . Quite a dramatic moment when on in that game . Quite a dramatic moment when the on in that game . Quite a dramatic moment when the umpire on in that game . Quite a dramatic moment when the umpire read on in that game . Quite a dramatic. Moment when the umpire read from on in that game . Quite a dramatic moment when the umpire read from a preprepared announcement to tell everybody that at 11 30am in melbourne with the latest lockdown thatis melbourne with the latest lockdown that is going to last five days, due to start midnight, they now had to leave the rod that arena even though Novak Djokovic and taylor fritz were not anywhere near close to finishing their match. There was a Good Natured Jeering and they good natu red jeering and they suspended Good Natured Jeering and they suspended the match for nine minutes while people left to give them the encouragement to leave and then we returned to that slightly eerie echoey sound of tennis balls reverberating. And jUst The Support Teams of the two. The reverberating. And Ust The Support Teams of the two. Reverberating. And Ust The Support Teams of the two. The american might want some crowd teams of the two. The american might want some crowd supporters. Teams of the two. The american might want some crowd supporters. He teams of the two. The american might | want some crowd supporters. He might upset the defending champion. We deal with the situation and the chocolate has one until we give that press match on Court Interview afterwards and you think everyone. You might have torn his Stomach Muscle and might not be able to play that match. Another thrilling five setter was with nick kyrgios. Thank noodness setter was with nick kyrgios. Thank goodness this setter was with nick kyrgios. Thank goodness this match setter was with nick kyrgios. Thank goodness this Match Point Setter was with nick kyrgios. Thank goodness this match point before the curfew and i dont think spectators would have left quite so willingly. He led by two sets to love. He came back to win in five sets taking the decider by five curios played at a high level. There has been so much to enjoy. Serena williams was another winner, she came through a scare later on and there was naomi a sack as well. Radio silence. Nell might guess, we will keep going. Thank you. Ireland Captainjohnny Sexton will miss their six nations game against france on sunday with ulster� s billy burns starting at fly half instead. Sexton has failed to recover from a head injury picked up against wales last weekend, as has vice captainjames ryan, who was also going through the return to play protocols. Scrum half conor murray has a Hamstring Injury and will miss out. Iain henderson will captain the side in sextons absence. England have made four changes, to the squad for the second test against india, which starts tomorrow. Jimmy anderson is rested after that starring role in the first test. Jos buttler is rested too and jofra archer is injured. Stuart broad and ben foakes come in, as does moeen ali in place of dom bess whos been dropped. And in the early hours of this morning, british sailor pip hare became only the 8th woman, in history to finish the vendee globe the solo around the world race. There were the scenes at the finish line in france, as pip became the first brittish skipper to finish, after 95 days at sea, non stop for 28,000 miles. Shes also done it in a boat that is 21 years old. The oldest vessel to cross the finish line, in this years race. Thats all the sport for now. Some breaking news. This has come up from the government website, the latest art rate for the uk are 0. 7 0. 9. It was 0. 7 21 and that makes it. The range is now under one for the First Time Since july. It. The range is now under one for the First Time Sincejuly. We will be picking up on the context of that and what that actually means with professional glove professor deirdre hollingsworth, an Infectious Disease modeller. For now, those figures for the greatest art range for the uk being a 0. 7 0. 9. As we have also been hearing, the economy shrank by a record 9. 9 last year. More than double any previous annual fall. There is a slight recovery in december where restrictions were briefly relaxed the chancellor says the economy has suffered a series shock because of the pandemic. He has been speaking to our economic editor. The reasons for cautious optimism because of the vaccine and the roll out, and i pay tribute to everybody involved in that, and the Prime Minister will set out a road map for exiting restrictions on the next few weeks and months. In the week of february 22, it is right that we base that road map on the best possible evidence and data, and that is exactly what youre doing and hope to provide some of that outlook that week. Can we presume the things may last longer and some form of restriction seems inevitable to last weeks or months longer that the support you have given from this building, some forms of it, whether universal credit or weight support, will last longer tour, too. My priority has always been to try to protect peoples jobs first and foremost and help families and businesses through what has been an enormously difficult time. It helped that that difficult time is not going to be over in the spring, while support runs through to the spring we will set through the next stage of our economic response to coronavirus at budget in early march and that will be based on the road map that the Prime Minister has set out the week before. It some of the measurement issues in terms of international comparisons, when you look at health outcomes, excess deaths, gdp of 2020 now, we are at the wrong end of International League tables. Do you accept that it is some reflection on the government because my overall response to these extraordinary times . I think the point on economic comparative importance as important clean up. We calculate gdp different to everyone else and if youre correct for that different look at it a way more comparable in than nominal gdp then what you find is that our performance then is very much in line comparable to other countries and in fact maybe on a margin better than places like canada, germany, italy and spain. There is a presumption that Randy Cannot Leave my cabinet table, at various points, your voice has been the voice saying perhaps the restrictions have gone too far and maybe we need to lift them, get the early going the and weve had some bad outcomes in terms of cases. Was that you . Do you accept there was mistakes made . What we always try to do is base our decisions on the data and the evidence in front of us and this is an uncertain situation always, so youre trying to make the best judgments you can in the face of that uncertainty but what i can say is when it comes to things like restrictions, it is important to recognise they also have consequences and of course they help suppress the spread of the virus but we have to balance that against the impact on childrens education for example and kids not being in school, the impact on People Bosman jobs and ill, and all those things have to be weighed and they are difficult decisions but we will make them based on the evidence, based on the data and we have set a road map out of the current restrictions in the week of february 22. I think todays figures show that last year, our economy experienced a significant shock. And whilst there were some signs of resilience overwinter, whats clear is right now, many families and businesses are experiencing hardship. Thats why weve put in place a comprehensive plan forjobs to support people through this crisis, and we will set out the next stage of our economic response at our budget in early march. In wales everyone in the first four priority groups for vaccination has been offered a coronavirus jab, Making Wales The First Uk nation to reach its mid february target. The first minister Mark Drakeford thanked all those who have played their part in what he called a � phenomenal effort�. Im proud to say weve achieved the first milestone in our Vaccination Strategy and what that means is we have offered to vaccinate first priority. That is everyone over 70 or front line health and social care workers. Everyone living and working in an old persons care home and everyone who are clinically extremely vulnerable. This has been a phenomenal effort and it is thanks to the hard work of our thousands of nhs staff are volunteers and Military Personnel across wales who have been vaccinating every day of the week and the mass vaccination centres, gp practices and hospital sites. Take up of the vaccine in wales has been incredibly high and the very latest figures which will publish at midday show that in total more than 715,000 people have already had the first dose of the vaccine. But we want to make sure that nobody from those first four groups is left behind. If youve changed your mind about having the vaccine or mist your appointment because of illness, you have not missed out on your chance of having knee vaccine. The nhs across wales is checking and rechecking its list. Every health board has dedicated phone lines and E Mail Addresses for ppll in these first four groups to get into to arrange an appointment and we have put these on our website, too. So, please, if you know of anybody who, for any reason, is still to be invited for their vaccination, help us to help them to come forward. We vaccination, help us to help them to come forward come forward. We will hopefully be sueakin come forward. We will hopefully be speaking to come forward. We will hopefully be speaking to mark come forward. We will hopefully be speaking to Mark Drakeford come forward. We will hopefully be speaking to Mark Drakeford after. Speaking to Mark Drakeford after 2pm. Scotland has recorded 67 covid related deaths and 830 positive tests in the past 2a hours. Speaking at todays government briefing, Scottish Health secretary Jeane Freeman said most of the new infections are in the Greater Glasgow area. Shes also been giving an update on scotlands Vaccination Programme. As at 830 this morning, 1,113,628 people in scotland have received their first dose of the vaccine. At 8 30am. That is an increase of 64,881 since yesterday. The highest reported increase since the Vaccination Programme commenced in december. I cant at this point give you detailed percentages for the groups. And how each of the Vaccination Teams are doing although from that number of 64,881, they are doing exceptionally well. A technical issue with the data from the gp it system, one of two systems that feeds into those numbers we report, has delayed that calculation. But the calculation will be on the scottish governments website 2pm today. We remain on course to give first doses to all 7079 course to give first doses to all 70 79 Year Olds and those with a serious clinical vulnerability by the 15th of february. After that, subject to supply, we intend to give first doses of the vaccine to all 6569 first doses of the vaccine to all 65 69 year old by the end of february and beginning of march. And we continue to plan for everyone over the age of 50 to have received their first dose in may. However, over the age of 50 to have received theirfirst dose in may. However, i have to emphasise again of course that all of this is subject to supply. The uptake weve seen so far has been both remarkable and very welcome. But as the first minister indicated yesterday, a combination of circumstances, remarkably high uptake, a temporary reduction in supply from pfizer and the need to ensure people who receive that can receive second doses on time means we need to reduce the number of appointments we schedule over the next few weeks. As soon as supply improves, our programme will scale up improves, our programme will scale up again, as we have shown that it can and we remain on target to meet those targets. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has made that possible and that includes everyone who has helped to deliver the Vaccination Programme, our Vaccination Teams, support staff, local authority and voluntary sectors and the armed forces, and importantly, everyone who is turning up importantly, everyone who is turning up to receive the first dose. The headlines on bbc news. The uk economy shrank by more last year than any other according to from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. The art rate falls below one for the First Time Since july. It is estimated to be between 0. 7 0. 9 across the uk. Make the r rate. The government insists new roles for travellers and Quarantine Hotels at the start of monday will be in line with restrictions in other countries. The Supreme Court has ruled that more than 42,000 nigerian farmers and fisherman can sue the Oil Giant Royal Dutch Shell in british courts. This follows years of oil spills contaminated land and groundwater pollution in the niger delta. Judges said shell had a common law duty of care. Our correspondent in abuja, ishaq khalid, has the background basically the two communities they can sue Royal Dutch Shale but there are millions of people in the area who pay have been affected by the oil pollution, environmental pollution and their livelihoods have been destroyed. That is what they say and of course they are talking about drinking water, it has been contaminated, farmlands, Fishing Waters and there are strange diseases, so their livelihoods have been destroyed and this Court Ruling Means they can seek compensation, they can seek clean up this is a huge relief there is a possibility the uk chairman of the accountacy firm kpmg has resigned after reportedly telling staff to � stop moaning about concerns over possible cuts to pensions and pay during the covid 19 pandemic. ff gfx in a statement, bill michael said � i love the firm and i am truly sorry that my words have caused hurt during the covid 19 pandemic. In a statement, bill michael said � i love the firm and i am truly sorry that my words have caused hurt amongst my colleagues. In light of that, i regard my position as untenable and so i have decided to leave the firm. � our Business Correspondent theo leggett has the background. Well, this is a meeting, an online meeting, the court a town hall meeting, the court a town hall meeting, that happened between bill michael and several hundred kpmg consultants on monday. Haw. Consultants on monday. Now, immediately consultants on monday. Now, immediately after consultants on monday. Now, immediately after that consultants on monday. Now, i immediately after that meeting, consultants on monday. Now, immediately after that meeting, a lot of it came out about alleged insensitive remarks made by bill michael and some of them have now found their way onto the internet, with a video which a major newspaper has put online. I ,and , and now he has told his position is untenable and he had to step down. It� s the start of Chinese New Year an annual occasion that is traditionally spent with family and friends. But this year the coronavirus pandemic means that celebrations around the world will look and feel very different. Food plays a big role in the celebrations so with restrictions in place making it difficult for people to meet up or eat in a restaurant we� re going to get a few tips on how to cook up a feast at home. And who better to give us those tips than the Celebrity Chef and all Round Authority on Asian Cuisine ken hom. He spoke to annita, earlier. I grew igrew up i grew up in chicago and in the Chinese Community, and the whole thing of Chinese New Year was the biggest holiday, simply because he had to eat a lot and what i love as a child is you got little envelopes filled with banknotes. You would say happy Chinese New Year to an adult and they would have to give you this little red envelope which i love, i cashed in on it. But the best thing was food. We had really wonderful food and they would invite you to their house or their restaurant and you would just beast and of course there was no left overs because we got to take it home. 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There are such a strong connection between the Chinese Community in the us and other communities in the us, that great melting pot. I� m sure you must. And that hasn� t happened in the United States of course, but i� ve been reading about it in recent days, around the new year celebrations, the anti chinese sentiments that have cropped up in some places, somehow trying to think people with this virus, this pandemic that is going on and that must make you incredibly sad when you read those sorts of reports. Yes, of course, it makes me really sad and the problem was you had a president that was actually fuelling all this by making fun and saying. Constantly calling a chinese virus. It is terribly inappropriate. 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Now that we are under a system of restrictions, how do you see people marking Chinese New Year . It� s usually a great gathering of people and it will be different this time because but a special one none the less how will you be marking it . Its the less how will you be marking it . It� s interesting. A lot of people have been marking it. For me, my chinese friends, by sending me photos of what they� ve been making. All their dishes. I� m doing the same. This is what i� ve been cooking with my family and this is what we are eating. We are sharing this with you. We are sharing this with you over the social media. Which is a great medium today about how we all connect during these difficult times. ~. ,. , connect during these difficult times. ~. Connect during these difficult times. , times. What are the most cooked dishes for chinese times. What are the most cooked dishes for chinese new times. What are the most cooked dishes for Chinese New Year dishes for Chinese New Year celebrations . For me, steamed fish because steamed fish means prosperity and we all want prosperity and we all want prosperity after the news that we� ve been listening to. And then of course what i love to serve is chicken because chicken is a sign of fortune and we certainly need fortune, and lots of crispy noodles. Why . Because noodles mean long life and we all want a long life. And if someone wants to start experimenting with Chinese Cooking at home, what� s the best place to start . At home, whats the best place to start . ~ , � � at home, whats the best place to start . , at home, whats the best place to start . ~ , � �. , start . Well, my bbc books. There are many books start . Well, my bbc books. There are many books out start . Well, my bbc books. There are many books out there. Start . Well, my bbc books. There are many books out there. We start . Well, my bbc books. There are many books out there. We know start . Well, my bbc books. There are many books out there. We know we | many books out there. We know we are not supposed to say that. I think there are many really good Cookery Books and also you can just go on the net and get recipes and recipes are abounding about really wonderful things to cook and its easy, just go on the net and it� s pretty fantastic, the sharing that people have with food these days. I love that people post, not only how they made something that looks good but how they made us and what they learn from it, certain lessons and how it was really delicious and sometimes i� ve seen food pictures i thought, that is a great idea now it� s time for a look at the weather. Hello, call day today and it feels a bit colder given the strength of the wind. Still have some snow showers coming in from the north sea mainly affecting eastern parts of scotland during the first part of the night before fading away more significant change coming into the rest for thickening cloud, wetter weather coming in from the atlantic, hitting the cold air of course there will be a widespread frost overnight, not quite as cold as it has been of late. We need to focus on the weather in Northern Ireland because it is going to be snowing here for most of the day, 5 10 c quite widely, blizzards drifting in the hills as well and that band of weather weather will move very slowly eastward, of Rain And Snow in the south west of england, some snow over the hills of wales later into Western Scotland although the snow amounts you will be very much less. Further east, dry, increasingly cloudy for all areas a windy day and it will be a cold day as well with large parts of the country remaining below freezing all day, factoring when strength and it may well feel more like 6 7 and windy again on sunday but turning milder. The value falls below one for the First Time Sincejuly, suggesting that the number of infections and disease are falling. The government insists new rules for travellers and Quarantine Hotels start on monday it will be in line with restrictions in other countries. A five day lockdown is being imposed in the australian state of victoria, barring spectators for the next few days of the Australian Open tennis tournament