lockdown in wales will last for three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. around 300,000 people are expected to leave hong kong for britain using a new visa route which opens on sunday. investors respond with outrage after trading platforms halt the buying of shares in the us games firm gamestop and other companies. it follows days of frenzied trading that led to a massive increase in its value. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a new coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be 89.3% effective in large scale uk trials. the novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and south african variants of the virus. as you can see from this graph, the uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. the doses are expected to be delivered in the second half of this year if approved for use by regulator. meanwhile, the european medicines ag
for many rail commuters, like these in marston in west yorkshire, getting around has become an ordeal and notjust on strike days. trains are always cancelled, you can t rely on them. i go to work to manchester, i only go one day a week but it s still a nightmare. i would probably go in a bit more to work if i could get the trains, it s absolutely shocking at the moment. i don t feel like it s train service at all. it s just incredibly dire and stressful for commuters. train cancellations in britain have reached record levels. the industry blames covid delaying the training of drivers, staff sickness, and factors like winter weather, plus the knock on impact of strikes. transpennine express, which runs services around the north of england and into scotland, has been making dozens of cancellations each day for months. the northern powerhouse partnership, campaigning business group, claims today that the operator s problems are costing the economy in west yorkshire £2 million a
leicester city were four minutes from being knocked out of the fa cup by derby county, but wes morgan earns them a replay. and chris has the weather. it s not as cold as it has been over recent days, but we ve got rain to contend with today and it is still cold enough for some of that range of four as snow in the hills of scotland. a full forecast in the next half hour. good morning. first our main story: the actor sirjohn hurt has died. he was 77 and had recently been battling cancer. he starred in around 200 films, including harry potter, and was nominated for an oscar for his roles in the elephant man and midnight express. our correspondent nick higham reports. everything seemed to come to a head today. john hurt as political diarist alan clark. both my black teeth have disintegrated into blackened stumps or stalactites. not a nice man, but surprisingly sympathetic a complex character john hurt played with such ease and subtlety. his talent was spotted early in a success