tennis star novak djokovic is facing fresh controversy after photos and footage emerged of him in public, without a mask, at around the time his lawyers say he tested positive for covid—19. australia has banned him from entering the country to defend his australian open title because he has refused vaccination. his lawyers say he doesn't need one as his infection was confirmed by pcr test on 16 december and he has since recovered. this footage shows the tennis player at an event on the 16th commemorating his own personal stamp. it's unclear whether djokovic knew he had covid at the time. he's currently in an immigration detention centre, ahead of an appeal hearing on monday. the bbc�*s shaimaa khalil reports from melbourne. the world's top tennis player is spending the weekend in an immigration detention hotel. and his supporters have turned up for a third day. this is novak djokovic arriving in melbourne on wednesday. the documents his legal team presented to the court state he'd received the exemption from tennis australia, with a follow—up letter from the home affairs department, saying he was allowed into the country. his legal team added that on 1january, djokovic received a document from home affairs, telling him his responses indicated he met the requirements for a quarantine—free arrival into australia. what's becoming clear is a breakdown in communication among those making the decisions, and what the judge has to look at and examine is exactly which rules apply. is it state government rules or federal government rules? and until a decision is made about whether novak djokovic can remain in australia, the world no—one is still stuck in this immigration detention hotel, and in the middle of a huge controversy. this particular set of incidents, the victorian government's not briefed on the matter. in terms of how people got into the country, that's a matter for the federal government. last night his mother offered some reassurance. he said he's ok, but i'm not so sure. but he's mentally very stable, and he's waiting. the tennis tournament is only a few days away, and what's normally one of the biggest highlights here is turning into a political and a diplomatic embarrassment for australia. shaimaa khalil, bbc news. i've been speaking to mary crock, a law professor at the university of sydney. she says djokovic�*s lawyers have created a strong case. i have now been able to read the submissions put in on behalf of novak, and i think it's going to be a very, very interesting case. he's got good lawyers and they seem to have made very interesting legal arguments that could well play out in his favour. so you think there's a chance he could make it to the australian open, but there are quite a few complications about this case, aren't there, there seem to be lots of different sides, the state side, the federal side, and also the border force. look, the case that's been put to court is really based on very close reading of the actual migration law and i agree with you, i think the policies that apply, both at a state level and at a federal level are far from clear, you've got bio security legislation, you've got the migration act, you've got policies made under the migration act and then policies that seem to be changing almost by the day coming out of an organisation called atagi, and so there will be very interesting questions about the status of all the different policies and, indeed, the ground that was relied upon by the decision maker to cancel the visa in the first place. and i think, for me, one of the interesting questions is, first, of course, what does the judge decide in terms of the legality of the cancellation? but the judge can either say i'm going to vacate this decision altogether and pretend it didn't happen, in which case novak gets his visa back straight away, apparently, or he can refer the matter back for reconsideration, in which case the saga drags out. so everything's unclear at this point and everything is very, very interesting. yeah, it almost doesn't matter about his vaccination status anymore, does it, it's more of a legal wrangling. i also just wanted to bring up the fact that, for a wider case, it brings up this issue, doesn't it, of strict border laws, strict border restrictions that we've had in australia over the last two years, families have been kept apart, but also for migrants and people trying to get into the country, this has really shone a light on just how strict australia are. well, absolutely. i think the problem with his case is just how unclear the laws are at this point, because some people are being allowed in — they knew about novak�*s status before he left serbia and the big question on everybody�*s lips is why wasn't this sorted out before he got on the plane, what is with the drama of keeping him up all night to then take him into the same hotel quarantine detention centre where the refugees are being kept? mary crock there. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died within 28 days of a positive covid test. another 313 deaths have been reported in the latest daily figures. the uk is the seventh country to pass this number of official deaths after the us, brazil, india, russia, mexico, and peru. it comes as britain experiences its worst wave of coronovirus cases yet, as the highly—transmissible 0micron variant sweeps across much of the country. 0ur health correspondent catherine burns takes a look now at the toll the pandemic has taken on people around the uk. how do you begin to imagine 150,000 people? it's almost the entire population of oxford, a city, like others, where the pandemic has caused so much pain. the first death within 28 days of a positive covid test was recorded in the uk on 6 march, 2020. five weeks later, more than 10,000 people had died. sabir—hussain mirza was 0xford's first muslim councillor. mostly, though, he was a family man — married with ten children. they relied on video calls when he went to hospital. we would be like, "come on, dad, get better quickly and come back." but one day sabir stopped answering his phone. he'd been put on a ventilator. after almost three weeks, doctors said some of the family could visit him for the last time. i said to him, "i love you, and i want you to know that i will always love you, and i will never forget you." you just can't come to terms with someone actually telling you that your father's left this world. sabir was buried next to his younger brother. he'd died the day before in the same hospital, killed by the same disease. as the pandemic spread through society, the death toll rose rapidly, but scientists in this city were also working at speed, racing to find a vaccine, and by the end of april 2020, the oxford astrazeneca team was already testing it on volunteers in clinical trials, and as the year came to a close there was a real sense of optimism as both this and the pfizer vaccine were approved. january last year was a turning point — it saw more deaths than at any other time, over32,000. but by the end of the month almost half a million people had had theirfirst dose of a vaccine. she was looking forward to the vaccine coming along. traceyjones turned 50 in lockdown. she didn't make it to 51. she said to me, "i feel very, very ill." isaid, "i know, my darling, they're going to put you to sleep and you'll be better." she said to me, "look after stephen," and those were the last words i ever heard from her. neil and tracey were a team, caring for their son stephen who has special needs. i had to tell him, unfortunately, "mum has gone to heaven now," and he hugged me and cried. no—one could come and see you. we were left to grieve on our own, really. it's very hard, especially when you have a special needs son, and you don't want him to see you crying, but sometimes you just had to go away and have a little cry. the pandemic has seen too many sad milestones. in november, 2020, the death toll stood at 50,000. just 11 weeks later, it reached 100,000. vaccines helped slow that pace right down. it's taken almost another year to get to this point. i'm so glad that he retired when he did, early. robin birchmore was 63. his invitation for a vaccine came through two days after he died. in hospital, he had one last video call with his daughter. he kept saying, "i'm struggling, i'm struggling to breathe," and i said to him, "hurry up and get better," and he said, "i'm trying." that was the last time i spoke to him. camilla's nan had also died from covid. 0n the night after her funeral the call came, it was time to say goodbye to her dad, too. it was horrendous, horrendous. the doctor said, "here's your dad," and i went, "that's not my dad." i didn't even recognise him because of all the tubes. you say your goodbyes and then you have to walk away from them. the uk has reported 150,000 deaths before any country in the eu. there is hope, though, that this pandemic will never again bring suffering on such a scale. catherine burns, bbc news. now let's turn to the us where coronavirus cases continue to surge to record levels. it's estimated by the centers for disease control and prevention covid that between 20 and 50,000 americans could be attending hospital every day by the end of january. america's health care system is becoming increasingly under strain with many us hospitals depleted by an exodus of healthcare workers. of those who have stayed, many now can't work, because they are suffering from covid. i've been speaking tojeremy faust who's an emergency physician at brigham and women's hospital and an instructor at harvard medical school. we began by discussing the what can be done to tackle the soaring covid case rates. no, that doesn't sound very good at all. and we know that 0micron might be a little bit milder, but if you look in the hospitals we see patients who have coronavirus that looks just like it did in 2020. so if you combine that with the amount of care we have for other things, influenza, heart disease, things that, quite frankly, we had a lot lower levels of a year ago, and you have this combination that is putting the hospitals all around this country on the brink of overflowing. so, yeah, we are vaccinated throughout the older population, we have some immunity from prior infection, but all that is erased by the fact that we are taking care of so many other patients and the extravagant contagiousness of this variant means it finds everybody and it highlights the under vaccinated or the unvaccinated. and so right now providing the top care that we are able to do becomes more and more difficult with each day. absolutely. can you draw any parallels to europe to see where this is going, because obviously it hit europe first, the 0micron wave, is there anything you can do to look across the pond and so we can look out for this or, you know. . ? it is very difficult. for south africa, for example, it's a different time of year, so there some seasonality to this which i think will begin to understand. when you look at the uk and the eu compared to the united states there is a very big difference in terms of the level of mitigation in every community, the density of the populations, in the age of the vaccinated. we have a lot of people in this country who are vaccinated who are older, but we also have people who are not boosted who are in that age group. young people can get this virus and spread it. and so i think that's really what's happening in some centres. we're seeing that several weeks ago younger people were the ones getting it. you saw those pictures of the long lines of people waiting for tests, those were young, healthy people. unfortunately, over the holidays they bring that back to relatives who maybe don't take as many risks on a usual basis are now those people are starting to show up at hospitals. we're actually seeing nursing home outbreaks for the first time in a while, and that really gives us concern, because when we see nursing home outbreaks we know that hospitalisations are close to follow. and then it obviously has knock—on effects to public life, when people start to stop going to work, if tens of thousands of people going to hospital every day, what then happens to schools and transport? all these disruptions are just adding insult to injury. one thing that i think is interesting is that we're never going to control this virus in terms of getting to no infections, but i'm very much advocating that we don't get a place where the hospitals are full. so actually slowing down the virus in regions where the hospitals are on the brink is actually important because that really makes a difference. so we will see if, for example, when there is a snowy day that keeps people home that can actually cut transmission a little bit. so anything helps. but, unfortunately, people staying home is not what they want to do. but what i will say is when that happens it is a little bit — there's one bright side of that, it decreases the number of large crowded situations during which super spreader happens. and increasingly, ithink, that is how this virus spreads, it takes advantage of a few individuals who are extravagantly contagious, give it to 100 people in a room, that's really how these things move. so i think when we stay home little bit, we're tired it, but for few days we can actually keep the hospitals safe. jeremy faust there. in pakistan, the bodies of people who died after becoming trapped in their cars by heavy snow have begun arriving in the capital, islamabad. at least 21 people perished after hundreds of vehicles became stranded by unusually heavy snowfall around the hilltop town of murree, to the north—east of the capital. gareth barlow reports. the tragic outcome of what was supposed to be an enjoyable weekend. at least 21 people died after their cars became engulfed by heavy snow. included in the victims, a policeman, his wife and their six children. military units and other emergency services were deployed to clear roads and hand out supplies to stranded motorists as they waited to be rescued. the chief minister of punjab has tweeted that those left stranded by the record snowfall have now been moved to safety. and while work to clear snow continues, many of the area's routes have been reopened — although roads leading to murree remain sealed off by the authorities. siren wails. as ambulances transporting the bodies of people who perished arrived in islamabad, the row over who's to blame for the disaster has already begun. taking to twitter, opposition politicians pointed to the fact the extreme snowfall had been predicted, with claims government officials had not taken steps to prevent the huge influx of tourists keen to enjoy the winter weather. the pakistani prime minister imran khan has ordered an enquiry into the disaster. before that's completed, further heavy snow is expected to fall. gareth barlow, bbc news. the newjames webb space telescope has fully deployed in space — the final step of its two—week deployment phase that began with its launch on christmas day. nasa will now begin to latch the wing into place. the observatory is on a mission to study the very first stars to shine in the universe. many of its components had to be folded to fit inside the launch rocket. 0nce unfurled, the golden primary mirror, the largest astronomical reflector ever sent into space, will allow the telescope to be properly focused. its great size will enable scientists to see the faintest objects from the farthest reaches of the cosmos. let's cross to canada now and speak to daryl haggard — an associate professor of physics at mcgill university in montreal. thanks forjoining us. thanks for joining us. just thanks forjoining us. just how momentous was this for you? extraordinarily exciting. this telescope is amazing. it is one of the most impressive instruments we have ever launched into space and to see it not only launched so successfully but then also unfurl and deploy all of these complicated elements and come online, slowly but surely, the way we all hoped it would, is truly exciting for everyone in our community across the whole entire globe. we are looking at pictures of the launch now. that today was all about the mirror opening up and the thing that lots of people but was going to go wrong. if anything was going to go wrong, it was going to be today. h0. was going to go wrong, it was going to be today.— going to be today. no, come now, going to be today. no, come now. we _ going to be today. no, come now, we have _ going to be today. no, come now, we have such _ going to be today. no, come now, we have such great - now, we have such great engineers. how could it go wrong? no, it truly was nerve racking as we watch these amazing shields that protect the telescope from the sun's light and heat and this beautiful mirror. it is 6.5 metres across. another enormous collecting area. to have it unfold like origami in space is just really a feat of engineering and to some extent —— fate, i guess. but it is exciting to see it happen and see it happen so successfully. —— safe. see it happen so successfully. -- safe. , , ., , -- safe. just getting to this sta . e, -- safe. just getting to this stage. it — -- safe. just getting to this stage. it is _ -- safe. just getting to this stage, it is positive - -- safe. just getting to this stage, it is positive for- -- safe. just getting to this stage, it is positive for the | stage, it is positive for the scientific community. —— faith. it is an enormous international collaboration. we in canada are really thrilled to have played such an instrumental role and the whole world is engaged. we have people from every place across the world participating not only in the design and engineering and launch of this observatory but also getting really excited to take advantage of it scientifically. and so it is very, very, very unifying. it is a lot of money to throw something out into the cosmos. but i think the dividends are going to be huge. people are really excited. the astronomical community is just beside themselves to have this observatory finally up there and getting ready to take data and getting ready to take data and show us about the cosmos. talked about getting the dividends back. when can we expect the first pictures to come back from it?- come back from it? great question- _ come back from it? great question. as _ come back from it? great question. as you - come back from it? great i question. as you mentioned come back from it? great - question. as you mentioned in your introduction, right now the observatory has undergone this great unfolding. in the observatory is learning how to focus properly. getting all of the different elements in place to take really crisp images. this observatory will be detecting thermal radiation. so things that are hot, like you and i, and stars, as you mentioned. planets, neutron stars and galaxies. so we'll expect those images to come crisp over the next few months and really then they will be a stage of testing and making sure that we can actually accomplish the kinds of imaging and things we are excited about. then maybe the scientific data will start coming in for heaven six months�* time. it coming in for heaven six months' time.— months' time. it will be absolutely _ months' time. it will be absolutely fascinating l months' time. it will be i absolutely fascinating and months' time. it will be - absolutely fascinating and as you say it has been an exciting 24 you say it has been an exciting 2a hours to see that happen. thank you for bringing us up to date. now for a doggy tale of international travel with a difference. munchkin was a bali street dog until natasha corbin and herfiance david daynes came across the puppy while they were living in indonesia. and since then munchkin has been on quite a voyage because natasha has spent the last six years working to have her reunited with them back home in australia. and having passed through jakarta, singapore and new zealand, munchkin finally made it to queensland just before christmas. earlier i was able to talk to natasha, david and munchkin, and i began by asking natasha how they�*d first come across the dog in bali. we were living in bali and at the time, i was not supposed to talk to or look at any dogs because i�*m such a dog lover and david knew that i would just fall in love with a dog and want to keep one. and this little doggo kept following us home and we just fell in love with her and our neighbours actually asked us to take her in while they found a new home for her and unfortunately, itjust didn�*t work out and so, we decided after a year of trying to rehome her that we would keep her and try and bring her back to australia. and you�*ve obviously have brought her back to australia and she�*s doing a greatjob at the moment, and well done for keeping her sedate, guys. but i think — can you talk us through the hurdles and all the steps that you had over the last six or seven years to get her home? yeah, so it was supposed to take around six weeks and $10,000 to get her from bali all the way through to australia but she got stopped a couple of times on the way, just complications happened, so in singapore, her rabies vaccine wasn�*t strong enough, so she had to stay there for six months and then while she was there, she got a tick virus which meant she could not come to australia. and then we found out a couple of years ago we could take her to new zealand and live with her there, because we were not able to live with her in singapore, so we were visiting singapore to visit our dog regularly. and so then, when we found out we could take her in new zealand, we did that. and then, when she finally got cleared to travel to australia a couple of months ago, because of covid, all of the flights were being cancelled and so, i was in australia for a surgery, david was with munchkin over in new zealand and we were worried that we weren�*t even going to be able to be together for christmas, so we were frantically searching for ways that we could get them home with all the flights being cancelled. we looked at private jets, we were looking at charters and all sorts of things but we were very fortunate that we had someone reach out to us who had seen our story and they were organising their own private charter and we were able to jump and get david on those. i mean, it sounds like — it sounds like homeward bound — that was my favourite film growing up — itjust sounds like an incredible story that you will, no doubt, sell to hollywood for millions soon. can you just tell us about — because we�*ve got pictures of when you were finally reunited with munchkin — just tell us about that moment. yeah, it was pretty special. i had been separated from them for over six months, having surgery here in australia. and so, i wasjust so, so missing them and so excited to see them. and when she finally came off the plane and she came down on the little forklift and she looked so scared but it was such a magical moment and she did not shut up for, like, 20 minutes after we finally were reunited. she was just squealing with excitement and every now and then, she would stick her head up and squeal at me again. it was so beautiful. and david, you had one rule, don�*t pet any dogs because you will fall in love. how did that go? will fall in love. how did that io? , ~' will fall in love. how did that 0? , ~ ., go? exactly. i knew that natasha _ go? exactly. i knew that natasha created - go? exactly. i knew that natasha created a - go? exactly. i knew that natasha created a bond | go? exactly. i knew that - natasha created a bond with a do- natasha created a bond with a dog in— natasha created a bond with a dog in bali and we would end up having _ dog in bali and we would end up having a — dog in bali and we would end up having a dog. long story short, thais— having a dog. long story short, that's what_ having a dog. long story short, that's what happened. and here we are! long — that's what happened. and here we are! long story _ that's what happened. and here we are! long story short - that's what happened. and here we are! long story short and . we are! long story short and tens and _ we are! long story short and tens and thousands - we are! long story short and tens and thousands of - we are! long story short and | tens and thousands of dollars and years later but hey, at least you have a really great story to tell. i gather she came backjust before christmas so the perfect present. it came backjust before christmas so the perfect present.— so the perfect present. it was absolutely- — so the perfect present. it was absolutely. we _ so the perfect present. it was absolutely. we had _ so the perfect present. it was absolutely. we had a - so the perfect present. it was absolutely. we had a lovely i absolutely. we had a lovely family christmas together and yeah, it was just so wonderful to finally have them home. here in the uk, kensington palace have released new portrait images of the duchess of cambridge to mark her 40th birthday on sunday. the photographs were taken at london�*s kew gardens in november 2021 by photographer paolo roversi and show catherine in three different dresses, said to be alexander mcqueen. the photos will become part of the national portrait gallery�*s permanent collection. you can reach me on twitter — i�*m @sipusey. that�*s it, stay tuned to bbc news. hello again. it was quite a wet and windy start to the weekend. saturday brought widespread outbreaks of rain. the wettest place, north west wales, capel curig picking up 34mm of rain. the strong winds towards the isle of wight pushing the waves into the coastline here. towards the end of the day, we had a lovely sunset in dumfries and galloway in west scotland. now, the driving area of low pressure that brought the wet and windy weather on saturday is here and it�*s still on the charts through sunday. what�*s going to happen is it�*s going to weaken significantly as it moves its way across scotland. however, it will still be bringing a little bit of rain with it across parts of scotland and northern england as well. now, for the time being, we�*ve still got some fairly brisk winds blowing in. they�*re bringing scattered showers across western areas. there�*s a little bit of sleet mixed in with some of these across the higher ground, scotland, northern england, northern ireland as well, with temperatures close to freezing but on the whole, just staying above — except in northern scotland, where temperatures could get down to about —5 in the deeper valleys in aberdeenshire. now, for many, it�*s going to be a fine start to the day but that area of low pressure is going to push this band of rain across scotland, northern ireland and through the afternoon, the rain moves its way across northern england. it will turn lighter and patchier, perhaps reaching the north of wales late in the day. still across the midlands, east anglia, most of southern england a lot of dry weather but we end the day with this band of light, patchy rain pushing into cornwall. well, that is associated with this warm front and that warm front is going to pivot its way in to the uk as we go through monday. now, with that, yes, will come mild air, but there will be a lot of cloud around, mist and fog patches quite common around the coasts and hills, and it will be quite damp at times, too, with a bit of light rain and drizzle. a bit of heavier rain into western scotland, where a cold front will begin to move in late in the day. temperatures then are the mildest across western areas of the uk just ahead of this front. in the east, a little bit cooler — highs of around 7 or so. now, by tuesday, this is our cold front now pushing its way southwards across england and wales. that will clear outbreaks of rain southwards. a mixture of bright spells and showers for scotland. a lot of dry weather in between for northern ireland, northern england and north wales as well but you�*ll notice the cooler air starting to move back in from the north and west with temperatures here around 7 or 8, the mildest air in the south. now, beyond that, high pressure is going to build into the south of the uk and that means increasingly, in the week ahead, the weather will become fine and dry with some sunny spells. this is bbc news, the headlines: tennis star novak djokovic faces more controversy afterfootage emerged of him in public around the time his lawyers say he tested positive for covid—19. they�*re claiming the infection exempts him from australia�*s vaccine rules, where he�*s currently detained in an immigration hotel after being barred from entering the country. more than 150,000 people in the uk have now died, within 28 days of a testing positive for coronavirus. it�*s the first country in western europe to reach the figure. at least 21 people have died in freezing temperatures in north—eastern pakistan after their cars were trapped in heavy snow. the chief minister of punjab province has declared the mountain resort town of murree, where 1,000 vehicles were stranded, as a "disaster area," warning people to stay away. now on bbc news, it�*s our documentary cold case: the tunbridge wells murders. and a warning that viewers may