i feel angry about what is going on in downing street, but the correct process now is to get to the full facts. it's being reported a man who held four people hostage at a synagogue in texas for more than 10 hours was a british citizen. police say the man is now dead, all the hostages have been freed. rafael benitez has been sacked as everton manager, after less than seven months in charge at the club. coming up later this hour, mark kermode joins jane hill to discuss the latest cinema releases and what's new on streaming in the film review. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. the tennis star novak djokovic has deen deported from australia after losing his attempt to have the government's decision to remove his visa overturned. a federal court upheld the decision to cancel his visa on the grounds that the world men's number one's refusal to be vaccinated against covid made him a threat to public health. the serbian prime minster accused australia of a witch hunt. mr djokovic�*s family say they are "very disappointed" by the ruling, claiming the decision was not about sport, but politics. from melbourne, shaimaa khalil has the latest. for days, he's been fighting to stay in australia. but novak djokovic has finally conceded he has to go after three judges upheld the government's decision to cancel his visa. the amended application... the immigration minister had argued that the unvaccinated tennis star's presence here could bolster anti—vaccination sentiment, with the government's lawyer describing him as an icon for anti—vaxx communities. in his statement, the world number one said... outside the court, many of his fans were still in shock, and emotions were high. it's disgraceful. how was his first visa. . . 7 how did the first court ruling rule in his favour, but now it ruled against him? why? novak came here to play tennis. i can't understand what kind of threat novak to this country. and serbia's president was even more indignant. he came there with a medical exemption proposal, and then you were mistreating him for ten days. why did you do it? and then doing that witches—hunt campaign against him? that is something that no—one can understand. this was a high—stakes court battle for both sides. the government has been publicly embarrassed by its mishandling of the controversy. everything's been so close to the wire with this case. we're less than 2a hours away from the australian open. novak djokovic was actually due to play on the first day, but instead of staying and defending his title, he's had to leave the country. djokovic said he felt uncomfortable that all the attention has been on him, and that he now hopes it turns to tennis and the tournament he loves. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, melbourne. aleksandar miladinovic is from bbc serbian and joins us from belgrade. what is the reaction been from novak djokovic�*s family? the what is the reaction been from novak djokovic's family?— djokovic's family? the family stated its disappointment _ djokovic's family? the family stated its disappointment with _ djokovic's family? the family stated its disappointment with the - djokovic's family? the family stated its disappointment with the fact - its disappointment with the fact that djokovic has to return from melbourne and was extradited, basically, without his visa. the family also said it is all about politics and other interests, as they said in their written statement. "it is a different approach than what we have seen the past days." when the family was out and about speaking at the press conference, they spoke to the public through a written statement. find conference, they spoke to the public through a written statement. and we have heard a — through a written statement. and we have heard a little _ through a written statement. and we have heard a little bit _ through a written statement. and we have heard a little bit of _ through a written statement. and we have heard a little bit of the - have heard a little bit of the political reaction from president aleksandar vucic in shaimaa's report a moment ago. what other political reaction has there been? it is reaction has there been? it is reaction has there been? it is pretty much _ reaction has there been? it 3 pretty much unanimous here in belgrade that what happened to novak djokovic in australia is purely a political matter, not a matter of health or vaccination. what i have also heard is that serbia was justifiably labelled as the anti—vax country —— unjustifiably. they say the lawyers used wrong data to present serbia as an anti—vax country. he named romania and bulgaria as examples. many politicians from serbia claim that it is just an issue of political interest. it isjust an issue of political interest. �* . ., it isjust an issue of political interest-— it isjust an issue of political interest. �* . ., ., interest. alexander, for the moment, thank ou interest. alexander, for the moment, thank you very _ interest. alexander, for the moment, thank you very much. _ the austrian chancellor says the planned law on compulsory covid vaccinations will apply to everybody over the age of 18. the punishment for not being vaccinated in austria will be fines of up to £500 a time, up to a total of £3,000. parliament votes on the plan in the coming week, and the rule will take effect on february 1st. it's being reported that five year old british girl has died after being struck by a skier travelling at high speed in the alps. local papers say the girl — who lived with her family in switzerland — was pronounced dead on the way to hospital. a ao—year—old man from the haute savoie region in france has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. the labour leader says borisjohnson has presided over "industrial scale partying" in downing street and has renewed his call for the prime minister to resign. sir keir starmer said there was no need to wait for the senior civil servant inquiry into a series of alleged rule—breaking parties. the tory party chairman oliver dowden admitted there were failings in number 10 but denied it was a resigning matter for the prime minister. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. a prime minister under pressure over what went on in here. were covid rules broken in downing street? how often did staff drink late into the night while the country was locked down, and can boris johnson survive? labour's leader has made his mind up. i think it's pretty obvious what's happened. there's industrial scale partying been going on at downing street. not much of it is really denied, and i think that the public have made up their mind. i think the facts speak for themselves. i think the prime minister broke the law. i think he then lied about what had happened. mr speaker, i want to apologise. the prime minister has admitted he attended one drinks gathering at a time when socialising was extremely limited. that left many of his mps furious. this woman, sue gray, is looking into allegations spanning almost a year. her report is expected soon, but ministers are already suggesting it's the culture, not the man at the top, that needs to change. the culture in downing street does need to be addressed, and i think it's absolutely essential that when the prime minister responds to the sue gray report, and he's committed to doing that in parliament, that he addresses that culture. i know from many conversations i've had with the prime minister that he's in absolutely no doubt that he should and will take responsibility. but many tory mps are worried about the man at the top. former minister tim loughton is the sixth to say the prime minister should go, tweeting... others are angry in private. the next week could be crucial in deciding if that happens. mps will return to parliament afterjudging the mood in the country, and the report on parties in downing street is set to be published. will the prime minister be able to move on, or is the clock ticking on boris johnson's premiership? nick eardley, bbc news. kelly beaver is the chief executive of ipsos mori and has been assessing how borisjohnson is holding up in the polls. so, if we go back to the height of august this year — or last year, even, 2021 — the conservative party were sitting on a lofty 41, in comparison to labour's 30 percentage points — of the british public who would vote for them. that has completely flipped over the last few months. we've seen the conservative party and borisjohnson's own ratings in a slow but steady decline since that point in august. so now there's a minimum of a five—point lead for labour, and some of the most recent polls that have been out in the last few days have shown as much as a ten—point lead for labour. and keir starmer currently has a higher score himself by way of public satisfaction with him in his role, in comparison to borisjohnson and how the public feel about him in his role. what's driving that change, then? in terms of the government and perhaps borisjohnson in particular not doing as well? so it's notjust the story of lockdown parties. and obviously this has been coming to light over the last month or so. but even before that, you could see the government's ratings were starting to decline. when you look deeper and you understand the public mood about what the proportion of people is who think the country's going in the wrong direction, how they feel the conservative party are performing on really important policy areas for the public, like the economy, where for the first time in december they polled with more people saying they were doing a bad job than a good job on the economy. but on some other really important parts of their manifesto pledges, where again the public are not perceiving the government to be doing a good job, like immigration policies and the nhs, and also the levelling up and regional inequalities, too. so it's not one specific issue, and it is the broad picture that should be of concern. and that vaccine bounce we saw in both the conservative party and borisjohnson's ratings in march 2021 is now quite a distant memory. if we look in particular at borisjohnson's polling figures. i wonder where he stands now compared with when other prime ministers have been feeling the heat? so, he's definitely feeling the heat. he's sitting in our net satisfaction ratings at the minute on —37. and we have seen three other pms sitting at that kind of level of negative public satisfaction. we have had cameron and may, who both resigned within a number of weeks after reching that level of lacking in popularity amongst the british public. but we have seen one british prime minister since 1977 who has bucked that trend — and that was margaret thatcher herself with the falklands war bounce. she managed to come back from a —37 rating to actually be re—elected. so it's not unforeseen that people can buck that trend. who else is doing well, though? it's all very well to say that you might want a different leader, but who? interestingly, the majority of the conservative party ministers that the public would recognise, some of the big names like truss and rishi, they are also seeing declines in their own ratings as well. there are not necessarily a standout candidate that could be taken forward in place of borisjohnson. should that be a decision that the party— should that be a decision that the party wants to press. so even rishi, who is the darling of the british public for quite some time throughout this pandemic because of the fantastic work he did to support people who were struggling throughout the lockdown periods, but now even he is seeing his ratings drop down, too. we are told that there had been 88 new deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test. must advised that these figures do not include the numbers for scotland, because there has been an it problem which has prevented those being collated. the uk has recorded a 70,924 collated. the uk has recorded a 70,921; new cases of covid—19 today. but again, that doesn't include figures for scotland so it makes it look like there's been quite a big drop since yesterday when there were 81,713. but this got its numbers have not been factored in, so we should see there is included later in the week. the culture secretary nadine dorries has said the bbc�*s licence fee days are numbered with the next financial settlement, due to end in 2027, the last — if the conservatives are still in power.0ur media correspondent david sillito explained more of what had been said. it was a tweet this morning. the words, "this licence fee announcement will be the last. the days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over." what does this mean? well, essentially, two pieces of information here. one is a front—page story that she was retweeting from the mail on sunday that says that the licence fee agreement for the next five years — she appears to be endorsing what they are saying here — is that there will be a freeze for the next two years and maybe even a below inflation increase after that, which will be essentially a fairly hefty cut, again, in the bbc�*s funding. but then, of course, there is the wider point, which is throwing open the question of the future of the licence fee based around the ownership of televisions. she says, "time to discuss and debate new ways of funding." well, this has been going on for a long time, and the biggest problem about it is some people say, "why can't it be just like netflix?" a subscription service. the question is, how do you stop people watching, millions watching on free to air tv and listening on free to air radio? a subscription bbc would be a very different bbc to the one today. the headlines on bbc news... novak djokovic has been deported from australia, afterjudges rejected his appeal to stay in the country on public health grounds. labour leader sir keir starmer says borisjohnson broke the law and should resign, over a series of parties at downing street during coronavirus restrictions. rafael benitez has been sacked as everton manager, after less than seven months in charge at the club. which might give you an idea of where the sports bulletin is going to start. good afternoon. everton have sacked manager rafa benitez after fewer than seven months in charge. it comes after their disappointing 2—1 defeat at strugglers norwich city yesterday. there were angry scenes from travelling fans. everton have lost nine of their past 12 premier league games, sinking from fourth in the table at the start to where they are currently, which is six points off the bottom three. the club released a statement a short while ago. leeds united have moved above everton in the premier league and are now nine points clear of the relegation zone after a brilliant 3—2 win at west ham. after being beaten in the fa cup here last weekend, leeds took a deserved lead through jack harrison. west ham equalised with their first shot on target with jarred bowen's fourth goal in three games. harrison was on target again to give leeds the advantage at half—time, but the second half was barely six minutes old when pablo fornals levelled the match. harrison won it for a depleted leeds side, sealing his first hattrick in the process. west ham remain in the top four but missed the chance to put distance between themselves and arsenal, whose north london derby at tottenham was called off. and liverpool are up to second in table with a 3—0 win over brentford at anfield — a crucial three points forjurgen klopp's side. fabinho, alex oxlade chamberlain and takumi minamino here with the goals. the win moves liverpool above chelsea, 11 points behind the leaders manchester city with a game in hand. in the women's super league, bottom of the table leicester have beaten brighton 1—0 — shannon o'brien the scorer. tottenham can go third and just two points behind the leaders arsenal if they can beat west ham in the late game. and the referee was the centre of attention once again in the africa cup of nations with two late var penalties in a 1—1 draw between gambia and mali. mali took the lead when brighton's yves bissouma went to ground inside the penalty area. play continued for a couple of minutes before the penalty was eventually awarded and scored. gambia equalised when bissouma was penalised for this handball. musa barrow converted the spot kick to leave both sides with one win and a draw from their opening two group games. three more games today, ivory coast v sierra leone knowing a win would take them into the knockout stages. coalesce there. tunisia 2—0 up in that one. both of those are four o'clock kick—offs. algerian action tonight against equatorial guinea. england's miserable ashes tour has come to an end with one last catastrophic batting collapse as the hosts won by 146 runs in the final test in hobart to claim a 4—0 series win. the day had started well, bowler mark wood getting career best figures of 6 for 37. he removed aussie captain pat cummins, the hosts gone for 155, leaving england chasing 271 to win. rory burns and zak crawley made a promising start until burns was bowled by cameron green just before tea. joe root was unlucky — scott boland the bowler — as he got one that did not bounce and then came the collapse. ollie robinson the last to go — as england lost theirfinal three wickets for 17 runs to eventually be bowled out for 124 having been on 68—0 at one stage. the end summing up a dismal series for england. finally, as you've been hearing in the news, novak djokovic says he's extremely disappointed with the ruling that has seen him deported from australia, but says he respects the decision. the world number one, who is unvaccinated against covid—19, failed to overturn a decision from the government to cancel his visa on public health grounds. that decision ends an 11—day legal row over whether djokovic would be able to defend his title at the australian open, which starts tomorrow. his name's now been removed from the order of play — and his wait for a record 21st grand slam title will go on. djokovic says he will now take some time to rest and recuperate. that's all the sport for now. it's the final of the masters snooker — with barry hawkins taking on neil robertson at alexandra palace this afternoon. it is all to play for in that one. five frames to three after the first session. you can follow on the website or watch it on bbc two. more on a sportsday at 6:30pm. four people who were taken hostage by an armed man at a synagogue in texas yesterday have been freed. there are reports that the man who held them was british and died at the scene. they also suggest he'd been demanding the release of a convicted terrorist. i've been speaking to our north america correspondent peter bowes, who's in los angeles. well, this was a situation that went on for more than ten hours, the stand—off at a synagogue to the north—west of dallas, and it ended with an explosion — gunfire could be heard coming from the synagogue, and it was shortly after that that it was announced that the four hostages — a total of four hostages, one had been released earlier, but in total four — were released, and that they were all safe and well. the suspect has been killed, or is dead, we don't know the circumstances surrounding the death of the suspect yet. we are hearing confirmation from the british government that a man in texas who is british has died — it is assumed that the man in question is the person that took these people hostage, and it was an unusual situation. this was a traditional saturday morning service at the synagogue that was being live streamed — live streamed in large part because of covid, many people in the congregation not wanting to go in person, which is clearly something that's happening at many churches around the world. and on that live stream this man could be heard ranting and raving, and talking in pretty explicit terms, and then sometimes being quite quiet and almost apologetic for what he was doing, and he seemed to be focused, and at the news conference afterwards, the police referred to this — focused on one issue, and that is the case of dr aafia siddiqui, the convicted terrorist. she was found guilty of attempted murder, targeting four us service people in afghanistan, and she was sentenced to some 86 years, and she is serving that sentence in texas. it's become something of a cause celebre. herfamily have long maintained that she was wrongly convicted. the fbi seemed to bring it under control, thankfully with no—one hurt, but it did go on for quite some time, and the impact onjewish communities and synagogues across america must be quite profound? there was an immediate impact in that we had police forces around the country, initially first here in los angeles, saying that they were stepping up patrols outside of synagogues, putting more people, more officers, stationing them outside synagogues, because clearly anti—semitism is on the rise. there have been other cases, examples around the country, so there were a few very nervous hours as this was under way, but it was ultimately up to those fbi crisis negotiators, they seemed to bring the situation under control and allow for the safe release, thank goodness, of those hostages. australia and new zealand are sending help to the pacific island nation of tonga, to assess the damage caused by an underwater volcanic eruption and tsunami. the island appears to have been covered in volcanic ash and communications have been limited. rupert wingfield—hayes reports. from high up in space, weather satellites caught the moment the huge underwater volcano let loose, sending a cloud of ash and rock 20 kilometres high and nearly 500 kilometres wide. that's an ash cloud that could stretch from london to edinburgh. somewhere beneath it is the tiny island kingdom of tonga. the first thing to hit the island was the shock wave. then came the rushing waters of what appears to have been a — thankfully small — tsunami. in new zealand, prime minister jacinda ardern said communication with tonga remains difficult, but the situation is now calm. we need to finely balance the need to get there quickly, but to make sure we also get the people and resources they need there as well. in some cases, we have parts of tonga where we've just not been able to establish communication. the hunga tonga—hunga ha'apai volcano has been active since mid—december, but saturday's eruption was on a completely different scale. i would expect the activity to continue for a while yet. i'm not necessarily expecting it to get any bigger, but it could conceivably continue on at a similar scale. the tsunami generated by the eruption spread right across the pacific, overturning fishing boats here in japan. but the real concern remains tonga and its outlying islands, many of which tonight remain cut—off from the outside world. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. lord myners, a former treasury minister under gordon brown's government, has died at the age of 73, his family have announced. a statement from his five children said "with great sadness we announce the loss of our beloved father paul myners. he will be deeply missed and in our hearts forever." the duke of sussex has launched a legal challenge for the right to pay for police protection when he's in the uk. prince harry lost his security when he stepped back from royal duties in 2020. he says his private protection team in the us doesn't have adequate jurisdiction abroad or access to uk intelligence information needed to keep his family safe. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell explains why the prince feels he has to undertake this legal move. well, because he feels vulnerable without official police protection when he, or his family and he, are in the united kingdom, and that of course has been withdrawn. now, that police protection used to be provided to the sussexes from the royalty protection department of the metropolitan police, but that was withdrawn after they stepped back from official royal duties and moved themselves to north america. in north america, the sussexes pay for private protection from security guards and that sort of thing. but harry is saying that he does not feel safe coming to the united kingdom without scotland yard police protection. he says that the american security that he pays for would not be sufficient in the united kingdom — for very obvious reasons. it would have nojurisdiction, no status in the united kingdom. it would have no access to the intelligence that scotland yard amasses about possible threats. and, of course, american security guards would not be permitted to carry firearms in the united kingdom. so harry says that he has offered to pay for protection, for security in the united kingdom, but that that offer has been rejected. and it is that decision that he's now seeking a legal review of in the form of a judicial review. normally that would be on the basis of law or process, so it's unclear where that's likely to get to. but certainly, harry is saying that this dispute is preventing him from planning any trips to the united kingdom. he said that when he came over last july for the unveiling of the statue of his mother, diana, princess of wales, that he had no official british police protection then. and clearly he felt concerned at the absence of that official protection. needless to say, buckingham palace says nothing about this, it's a security matter so they won't commit on it. but i think harry's position is likely to be exacerbated even further if it emerges that his uncle, the duke of york, is to continue to receive official police protection, given all his difficulties and the fact that he's stepped right back, right back, from official duties. but it's unclearjust what is going to be the status of his security. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. hello, there. if your thoughts are turning to the week ahead, it looks likely that we are going to see frost and fog returning across central and southern england. we've got a weak weather front clearing away, but as those skies continue to clear, temperatures will fall away. not so the case further north and west. a bit more of a westerly feed driving in more cloud and moisture here, so temperatures will hold up around 3—6 degrees with some light drizzle, but further south we could see temperatures below freezing. so, early morning frost and fog will gradually lift. not a bad day in prospect on monday. sparkling blue sky and sunshine for most. always to the far north and west of scotland we will see a little more in the way of cloud, and perhaps some patchy drizzle from time to time, but in terms of the feel of the weather — well, those temperatures will hold up between 7 and 9 degrees for many. as we move out of monday into tuesday and beyond, it's a very similar story, really. frost and fog could have an impact on the temperatures if it lingers, but a good deal of dry weather is likely throughout the week. now on bbc news it's the film review, with jane hill and mark kermode. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, mark kermode is back with me. hi, mark, what have you been watching? can ijust say happy new year? this is the first show we have done together.