we hope it is a fact, the data seems to indicate that omicron is less severe than delta has been. we still have the huge numbers, don't we? that is obviously a concern. at have the huge numbers, don't we? that is obviously a concern.- that is obviously a concern. at the moment, that is obviously a concern. at the moment. the _ that is obviously a concern. at the moment, the measures _ that is obviously a concern. at the moment, the measures that - that is obviously a concern. at the moment, the measures that are i that is obviously a concern. at the | moment, the measures that are in place are completely inadequate to prevent infection. therefore, vaccines are very important, i would also urge the government to ensure that those vaccinations are made available to everyone over all ainge rages as quickly as possible. our schools go back and we will see omicron invading that population as well. i think really, i omicron invading that population as well. ithink really, i have omicron invading that population as well. i think really, i have to say that we should not be allowing cases to run rampant on their own. we need to run rampant on their own. we need to try and get back in control, because we have huge numbers of clinically vulnerable people who are being exposed to infection again. and on the point about it being mild on any upon the pathogen itself, the virus, and its host. omicron is different to delta in the sense it is able to overcome those antibody defences that we have a lot of the time. so many of the people it is infecting have already been vaccinated, which is different to the situation the delta which was more easily stopped by those antibodies. it is a question, you are almost comparing chalk with cheese. it is not to do with the virus itself, though there are some changes to the virus which may suggest it is changing the way it infects people, but really to say that the virus itself is mild is not quite right. sol that the virus itself is mild is not quite right. so i don't think the danger the is that we will be dismissive of omicron as a health challenge and the fact that the nhs is now offsetting already is still a massive challenge to the uk. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's austin. starting with novak djokovic? not starting with novak d'okovic? not auite, we starting with novak djokovic? lint quite, we will come to that. we are starting with the ashes. we start with the lith ashes test, where, it feels like we've said this plenty of times before, but australia are in control once again. but australia are in england's opening batters managed to survive a nervy final few overs, before the end of the second day in sydney, but that was only after another big first innings of more than 400 from australia. joe wilson reports. technique is everything. they are. balanced. steve smith has his way, batting with assurance through the sydney morning. england didn't stop in, the weather sometimes did. when rain showers interrupted, the ground staff raised to cover the pitch. who would get there first? replay suggested foul play. competitive. the cricket lost its edge and a chance to catch reisman khawaja on 28 dropped. costly. what next? well, ben stokes opposed to bawl aggressively hooked himself a new process and australia just kept cutting. —— urged to bowl aggressively hurt himself in the process. aggressively hurt himself in the rocess. ., ,, ., , aggressively hurt himself in the rocess. ., , , ., , process. that is beautifully bald. you're my _ process. that is beautifully bald. you're my aunt— process. that is beautifully bald. you're my aunt was _ process. that is beautifully bald. you're my aunt was out. - process. that is beautifully bald. you're my aunt was out. finally, | you're my aunt was out. finally, something for stuart broad and england. then court. but going nowhere, except to 100. recalled to the team after a colleague tested positive for covid, this was an opportunity seized for australia. for 160 total, and after chasing that ball for nearly two days, england then had to bat for a few minutes. zach crawley out for zero but mitchell stark overstepped the line, no ball, zach is back. meanwhile, the start of the women's ashes, has been brought forward by a week, to january the 20th, to allow both sides time to complete a 10—day quarantine period in new zealand, ahead of the women's world cup, which starts on the lith of march. now staying in australia... the sporting world is awaiting the outcome of novak djokovic�*s legal challenge, which will decide if the world number one can stay in melbourne and compete in the australian open, which starts a week on monday. the 20—time grand slam champion had his visa revoked on arrival into australia, after a huge backlash about his vaccine exemption. he's currently in a detention hotel, awaiting the verdict of his appeal, which is expected on monday. ash barty, is the world number one, in the women's game. in she stopped touring during the pandemic, because of the travel restrictions , and she says she can understand why australians, have been so angered by what's going on. it's a tough one. i think, as it may be seen able _ it's a tough one. i think, as it may be seen able to _ it's a tough one. i think, as it may be seen able to bit _ it's a tough one. i think, as it may be seen able to bit in _ it's a tough one. i think, as it may be seen able to bit in the - it's a tough one. i think, as it may be seen able to bit in the last - it's a tough one. i think, as it may be seen able to bit in the last day| be seen able to bit in the last day or so, that from the australian public, i know how hard it has been for australians all around our nation but in particular victorians have had a real roughshod over the past 18 months or two years and ultimately i have no interest in speaking about the medical history of novak djokovic, it is not my decision. and great britain still have a chance of reaching the semi—finals of the atp cup in sydney, after beating the united states 2—1. dan evans put them one—up with victory overjohn isner in the singles. but when cameron norrie lost to taylor fritz, it all came down to the doubles where evans and jamie murray produced a stunning comeback, from a set and a break down to beat isner and fritz. murray said this was as an "amazing" point and he was right! it gave them the crucial break back they needed, and they continued the momentum into the deciding set. britain will reach the last four if germany beat canada — but the canadians do lead that tie 1—0 at the moment. and you can keep across the latest from the tennis and everything else on the bbc sport website, but annita that's all the sport for now. today, for the first time, the 1921 census of england and wales has been revealed. these records detail the lives of 38 million people from 100 years ago, offering a glimpse into post world war one britain. they reveal the lives of war veterans, working women and well known figures including alan turing andjrr tolkien. the historian professor david olusoga explained why this census is so exciting. it's partly exciting because it is 100 years on this day has been 100 years in the making but the 1921 centres especially, there will not be another census released until 2052 and that is because the 1931 census was sadly destroyed by fire. 1921 is a moment of huge change of trauma and disruption and what is really empowering as we can see our own ancestors impacted upon them. joining me now is 1921 census expert, the head of content publishing operations at the online genealogy service, findmypast — mary mckee. give us your take. we are incredibly excited to bring the census to life and everyone can now search it. what we are seeing from the census is a world after the first world war, after a pandemic and what we can see is the impact on the population numbers. we can also see the change in society mentioned, more people in professional roles, the change in society, council houses, the census returns to the first council house which is incredible to see so it is an amazing time pass that is open and at the same time, you can also understand what your family was doing at the time and how they connected this broader historical narrative. �* ., , , narrative. i'm really interested because you — narrative. i'm really interested because you reference - narrative. i'm really interested because you reference the - narrative. i'm really interested - because you reference the aftermath of the spanish flu, that huge pandemic that we have been talking about over the past couple of years as we talk about this current pandemic and what can we learn from this census about how people recover and build their lives following the spanish flu?— spanish flu? what it can show aussies that _ spanish flu? what it can show aussies that we _ spanish flu? what it can show aussies that we are _ spanish flu? what it can show aussies that we are resilient l aussies that we are resilient countries. you can survive the trauma. ., .. countries. you can survive the trauma. ., trauma. how can people view this? you've mentioned _ trauma. how can people view this? you've mentioned it _ trauma. how can people view this? you've mentioned it is _ trauma. how can people view this? you've mentioned it is open - trauma. how can people view this? you've mentioned it is open now i trauma. how can people view this? you've mentioned it is open now to the public right around the world so what do people need to do to take a look? ,, , ., .., what do people need to do to take a look? ,, , ., .. ., what do people need to do to take a look? ,, , ., ., ., look? sure, everyone can go to find m ast look? sure, everyone can go to find my past dot — look? sure, everyone can go to find my past dot co _ look? sure, everyone can go to find my past dot co .uk _ look? sure, everyone can go to find my past dot co .uk and _ look? sure, everyone can go to find my past dot co .uk and search - look? sure, everyone can go to find my past dot co .uk and search the l my past dot co .uk and search the census, you can search by a name, an ancestor name or even an address to find out your house history. so ancestor name or even an address to find out your house history.— find out your house history. so you can look for— find out your house history. so you can look for an _ find out your house history. so you can look for an address _ find out your house history. so you can look for an address and - find out your house history. so you| can look for an address and perhaps see who lived out there and find out more about what was happening in your neighbourhood at that time? yes, absolutely, it gives us the opportunity to reconstruct communities and also look at the early generations. if you do not have an ancestor living in 1921 in that area, i can look up the history of my house instead and understand why the kitchen was laid out the way it was, because there was a chef there at one point. shire it was, because there was a chef there at one point.— it was, because there was a chef there at one point. are there any extraordinary _ there at one point. are there any extraordinary stories _ there at one point. are there any extraordinary stories that - there at one point. are there any extraordinary stories that have i extraordinary stories that have jumped out for you in what you have seen so far from the census? there is so much — seen so far from the census? there is so much you _ seen so far from the census? there is so much you can _ seen so far from the census? there is so much you can find _ seen so far from the census? there is so much you can find in - seen so far from the census? there is so much you can find in the - is so much you can find in the census and one of the most amazing finds that we have is the kings return, and also keeping inside the same book that helped it as the crew pill and i think itjust demonstrates that the census a complete leveller, everyone was a numerator, whether you are the p°pper numerator, whether you are the popper of the king, you can all complete your census. irate popper of the king, you can all complete your census. we also have arthur conan — complete your census. we also have arthur conan doyle, _ complete your census. we also have arthur conan doyle, who _ complete your census. we also have arthur conan doyle, who census - complete your census. we also have i arthur conan doyle, who census shows that he had a median in the house —— like a medium in the house and a psychic, and it's very possible that on census night, he was having a seance in the house. that is a fascinating glimpse of what can be found in a census. thank you for your time today. the european court of human rights has dismissed a legal challenge in a long—running dispute with a gay rights activist in northern ireland. the court ruled action brought by gareth lee, who claims that he was discriminated against back in 2014 when the christian owners of a belfast bakery refused to make him a cake iced with the slogan "support gay marriage" was inadmissible. our ireland correspondent chris page gave us the background into the case. never before, you could say, has a cake been so controversial. this started in 2014, when gareth lee, a gay rights activist, walked into a branch of ashers baking company in belfast city centre and placed an order for a cake bearing the slogan "support gay marriage". at the time, same—sex couples were not able to get married in northern ireland. the law finally changed in 2020. gay marriage was legalised then. but eight years ago, it was a major political debate going on. there was a big campaign going on, so mr lee wanted the slogan endorsing that campaign. however, he got a phone call from the bakery owners saying that they were not going to bake the cake because they thought the message on it was at odds with their christian beliefs. mr lee took legal action. he was supported by the northern ireland equality watchdog in doing so. he alleged he had been discriminated against on the grounds of his sexuality. he won his case at the high court here in belfast and then at the northern ireland court of appeal. but then it went to the uk supreme court and it overturned the previous verdicts. judges in london ruled in favour of the bakers, saying their objection to making the cake was on the basis of the political message that they disagreed with, and not mr lee's sexuality. mr lee then took the case further to strasbourg, to the european court of human rights, and that court enforces and interprets the european convention on human rights, which is an international treaty signed by the uk and 46 other european states. this morning, in a writtenjudgment, thejudges in strasbourg have said the case brought by mr lee was inadmissible and therefore have dismissed it. they said that at no point in the proceedings in the uk courts did mr lee invoke his rights under the european convention and therefore, to quote directly, by relying solely on domestic law, mr lee had deprived the domestic courts of the opportunity to address any convention issues raised, instead asking the european court to usurp the role of the domestic courts. judges say mr lee failed to exhaust domestic remedies, so the application was inadmissible. and therefore have dismissed it. it's one year ago today that supporters of then president donald trump stormed capitol hill to try and stop congress from certifying his election defeat. americans remain deeply divided about what happened that day, and those rifts continue to fracture the nation. barbara plett usher takes a look back. the day that the country's political turmoil exploded into violence. it was the worst attack on the capitol in two centuries, playing out for hours on live television. americans watched in horror as armed supporters of the president beat police officers. and stormed through the country's citadel of democracy, threatening lawmakers. this was the climax of donald trump's desperate campaign to overturn his election loss. we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country any more. the rioters believed they were following his orders. a year ago, i was here, walking with trump supporters to the capitol, finding out with them in real time what was going on. it felt momentous, it felt like history breaking cover. it felt like a turning point. but was it? what impact has it actually had? hearye, hearye, hearye. there was the theatre of an impeachment trial. it is civil process. and hundreds of criminal prosecutions by the department ofjustice. also, an ongoing political investigation by a congressional commission. but after a fleeting moment of criticism, most republican politicians closed ranks behind trump. his allies continue to propagate the lie that the election was stolen. the vast majority of republican voters now believe it. and americans looking back at that day see different realities along bitterly partisan lines. the congressional commission is determined to write the definitive draft of this turbulent history but so far, trump has not been held accountable and he appears to be preparing a 2024 comeback. usually, after a year, you would be like, all right, what's changed? nothing. nothing has really changed. nothing? no, as far as accountability, as far as justice, as far as a deterrent from this happening again. nothing has changed. one year later, many americans believe the capitol attack was not an isolated incident. they fear that further political violence lies ahead. this is a nation still at war with itself. barbara plett usher, bbc news, washington. we will have special coverage of the first anniversary of the 6th of january riot at nine o'clock this evening, here on bbc news. the rac has accused petrol retailers of ripping off motorists by refusing to pass on wholesale price cuts. they say drivers were overcharged by around five—million pounds a day in december, while retailers made an average of 16p a litre on petrol instead of the normal six pence. nick lyes is head of roads policy & public affairs manager at the rac. we are watching very closely so the next move really is up to the retailers and they've got to start making the right decision in our view and ultimately if prices do start to creep up again quite quickly, then that will really give ground to the idea of feather and rocket so prices go up like a rocket and come down like a further and a lot of the people suspect that has been going on but when you look at the margins, the average margin for a long term retailers is generally about £6 per litre and what we saw in december was margins of about 16p per litre so more than double and it certainly does not give drivers much joy certainly does not give drivers much joy at the pumps unfortunately when they are filling up their cars and having to deal with the rising cost and transpiring inflation. the winner of the bbc�*s sound of 22 competition has been revealed as pinkpa ntheress. for the last 20 years — the competition has been predicting music's biggest new names — previous winners include adele, years and years, celeste and sam smith. this year's winner — the 20—year—old singer from bath, only started making music in her university bedroom this time last year. our music correspondent mark savage has been talking to her. # i found the street in the house in which you stayed # a familiar sound with a modern twist. pinkpantheress's music has been described as the new nostalgia. # when you wipe your tears, do you wipe them just for me # aged 20, she only started uploading songs to tiktok a year ago, initially keeping her identity a secret. i personally find it easier to kind of not lay every single card you have on the table. i think it's quite nice sometimes too, like, have privacy and i kinda felt like if i had my music out as well as my face everywhere, it would just start getting too much for people. helped by that air of mystery, her music took off in a big way. by last summer, she had two top 40 hits and coldplay had covered one of her songs. # do you wipe them just for me, me, me, me, me #. now she has been named the winner of the bbc�*s sound of 2022. here's the moment she was told the news by radio 1's jack saunders. what if i told you that you are the winner of radio 1's sound of 2022, how would you feel then? i mean, i'd be very happy. well, you're the winner of radio 1's sound of 2022, pinkpantheress, congratulations! what the hell? that's a shock! thanks very much. it was this gig by paramore at the reading festival in 2014 that set pinkpantheress on the road to stardom. iwas like, 15, and i was a big paramore fan. i saw her on stage and i was like, shejust looked like she is enjoying herself so much. and then i deeped it, i was like, she is getting paid for this. on top of that. like, iwasjust like, yeah, i just want to do this. by the time she made her own stage debut in october, pinkpantheress already had a passionate fan base of her own. the reason i'm smiling is because i'm remembering the people that were in the front row and how funny they were. but i actually did always want to go in quite deep with them from the very get go. i know it sounds really patronising but i have genuinely been there. i was like the biggest fan girl. # when you wipe your tears, do you wipe them just for me # the bbc sound of list has previously tipped the likes of adele, stormzy and dua lipa for success. pinkpantheress joins their ranks now with big things predicted for 2022. joining me now is our music correspondent mark savage. good to have you with us, really fascinating story, isn't it? making all the music.— all the music. using things like tiktok to go — all the music. using things like tiktok to go viral. _ all the music. using things like tiktok to go viral. the - all the music. using things like i tiktok to go viral. the interesting thin is tiktok to go viral. the interesting thing is she _ tiktok to go viral. the interesting thing is she only _ tiktok to go viral. the interesting thing is she only uploaded - tiktok to go viral. the interesting thing is she only uploaded 12 - tiktok to go viral. the interesting i thing is she only uploaded 12 second clips to tiktok and she had the challenge of posting a song every day last january and use that as a focus group, finishing the ones that did well and the ones that did not do so well was thrown in the bin. six months later, she has two songs on the top 40.l six months later, she has two songs on the top 40,— on the top 40. i 'ust wonder, is there an on the top 40. i just wonder, is there an element _ on the top 40. i just wonder, is there an element of _ on the top 40. i just wonder, is there an element of deliberate | there an element of deliberate mystery around her? is that the strategy in a way as she really is private a person she comes across? l private a person she comes across? i mean, there is probably a bit of both. i don't think she's going to go the whole way of prince and hide away in a house in minneapolis and never reveal her identity is up to the press. she has slowly revealed more of herself as the year has gone on, right at the beginning, not putting a face on tiktok at all and now she's doing interviews with ours and going to be on radio one tonight so i think it's more of a gradual food, she is only 20 feeling her way through what can be quite a tricky industry. —— matt a gradual thing. now she has won this sound of 2022, what difference is that going to make to her? is it putting a lot of pressure on her at such an early—stage of her music career? it can put a lot of pressure on you. i spoke to jack garrett who won it in 2016 last year and he said he is quite an experimental electronic musician and he felt the weight of expectation of having won that prize was almost too much to bear. he knew he would not become an adele or sam smith, r ellie golding or any of those other winners and he took three years away from music kind of to recalibrate so i think for some artists, it can be too much, the expectation put on you from winning those rises but others pick up the bat on and run with it. i think pinkpantheress is definitely in that category, she has a very commercial sound, she knows who she is and what you want to do and the music industry is personally taking this year. industry is personally taking this ear. �* , ., . ., industry is personally taking this ear. 2 ., . ., ., , year. ok, let's watch out and listen out. some breaking news to bring you. this is regarding novak djokovic, the men's world number one in tennis, who is awaiting a court hearing on monday in australia. the australian deputy prime minister barnaby australian deputy prime minister barna byjoyce australian deputy prime minister barnabyjoyce has full bbc that novak djokovic should be deported if he hasn't told the truth about his exemption status, so you will know of course from our coverage that novak djokovic was travelling to australia, to melbourne to compete and try to defend his title in the australian open saying he was travelling there on a medical exemption but now there are questions about the paperwork submitted by him so the australian deputy prime minister saying if he has not filled out the forms appropriately and is taking the sovereign capacity of another nation for a joke, saying you cannot wander around the world thinking that because you're really rich, you are above other nations. he said 100% someone has made a mistake and if someone has made a mistake and if someone has made a mistake and if someone has not told the truth, it is novak djokovic. he was asked if you are happy to see him deported and the reply was, well, man, it's like anything else, if you wander off into a country and don't tell us the truth, we are going to kick you... i won't use the phrase out of here as well, so that, a rather robust language from the australian deputy prime minister about the novak djokovic case and we'll see what the responses to that, there have been some pretty strong words coming from serbia as well about how novak djokovic has been treated. having successfully completed the unfolding of its sun shield, the james webb space telescope is now manoeuvring its primary mirror into position. at six and a half metres wide it's a massive bit of kit — and crucial to the telescope working for years to come. our science editor, rebecca morelle, explains. travelling through space and getting ready for its mission to begin. the james webb space telescope successfully launched nearly two weeks ago. it's a successor to hubble and will revolutionise our view of the universe. webb has the potential to blow people away, even people who are used to hubble. and i know that's hard to imagine, but the instruments are so powerful, the telescope is so powerful, almost anywhere we look, we're going to be breaking new ground in a huge way. the telescope is so big that to get into space, it had to be folded up like origami. it's been busy unfurling, first its sun shield, which is the size of a tennis court. but now a vital stage of the process is beginning. the mirror is the most important part of the telescope. its two folded sides open up and lock into place at 6.5 metres wide. it's so big that it consists of 18 separate hexagonal segments. they're made from beryllium, a stiff and lightweight metal that can withstand the extreme temperatures of space. the whole thing is covered in gold so thin that the entire coating weighsjust 50g, the weight of a golf ball. although it's made of segments, each one has to line up perfectly for it to act as a single huge mirror. each one of those mirrors, which is very lightweight, they have motors on the back which can move them up and down, tip them sideways, rotate them and even slightly bend them to make sure that they have exactly the right focus. the telescope will be hunting for the most distant stars and galaxies. but to do this, it doesn't use visible light like the hubble space telescope. it uses a kind of light we can't see, infrared light. our universe is expanding, and as the universe expands, everything in it expands as well, including light. when we talk about galaxies that are incredibly far away, the expansion of the universe has expanded the wavelengths of the light and moved the light into the red areas, the infrared. this is an image of the pillars of creation taken by hubble. it's a place where stars are born. but because james webb uses infrared light, it will be able to see through this dust, showing us the multitude of stars that lie beyond. but all of this rests on getting the mirror fully opened and then aligned. nothing this complex has been tried in space before. but if it works, by the summer, the first images should be sent back, and scientists say they will be spectacular. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. we've had a cold start to the day this morning with some frost around and we've also had some rain, some strong winds and snow. that scenario is going to continue. what's happening is that this warm front is bumping into the cold air and producing snow on its leading edge. less cold air follows behind, but then we have a cold front, so the air will turn colder behind that cold front. still some sunshine around, but it won't last long because as our weatherfront pushes from the west to the east, we'll see some rain or some snow, snow at low levels, sea level, in fact, in scotland and northern england, possibly for a time in the midlands. but behind that as we get into the less cold air, it will rapidly turn back to rain. these black circles represent wind gusts. it's going to be windy wherever you are, but getting to gale force, especially across the west and north—west. that could well mean we have some blizzards and snow drifts across parts of the high roots in scotland and northern england. wherever you are today, it's going to feel cold. through this evening and overnight, he was the weatherfront, moving away, leaving a of wintry showers coming behind it, some of those getting down to lower levels. but not all of us will see showers. a lot of dry weather as well and it's going to be a cold night. not as cold as last night but still cold enough sauce and frost on the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. as we head into tomorrow, we are in between weather systems. this one is coming our way. it's going to bring wet and windy conditions across southern areas as we go through the day, and some hills know and some sleet connected with it as well. some of those showers will be wintry, even at lower levels, and you could have the rumble of thunder mixed in with them as well. so saturday is looking pretty windy, especially across the south—west and english channel. this is bbc news. the headlines... novak djokovic will have to wait until monday to find out whether he'll avoid deportation from australia after a vaccine exemption backlash. on the issue of mr djokovic, rules are rules. and there are no special cases. fellow tennis player and rival rafa nadal says the rules were clear. in some way, i feel sorry for him. but at _ in some way, i feel sorry for him. but at the — in some way, i feel sorry for him. but at the same time, he knew the conditions — but at the same time, he knew the conditions since a lot of months ago _ a new report says plans to tackle record health service waiting lists in england could be derailed by demands for emergency care and a lack of staff. covid testing rules for international arrivals to england are being eased from tomorrow.