good morning, wet and windy start to the day, the good news is the worst of the rain will blow through, come the afternoon the weather will brighten up with spells of sunshine but they will be lots of blustery showers today, particularly across western areas. i will have the full forecast for you later on. it s saturday, 7th january. our top story: the prime minister will hold emergency talks at downing street today to try to tackle the huge challenges facing the nhs. and senior doctors say the health service is on a knife edge, with many a&e units struggling to cope with record demand. our health correspondent jim reed reports. the nhs is under record pressure this winter, where the queues of ambulances delayed out hospitals, rising waiting lists, and more front line strikes planned in the coming weeks. sue front-line strikes planned in the coming weeks front-line strikes planned in the coming weeks. front-line strikes planned in the cominu weeks. ,, , , , ., , coming weeks
world number one. spain s carlos alcaraz will be missing from unable to play melbourne because of a leg muscle injury which the 19 year old picked up in pre season training. alcaraz will have been hopeful of adding another grand slam title to his collection after winning the us open in september. it was all about england fly half 0wen farrell in rugby union s premiership last night as he helped saracens snatch a late win against gloucester. but the headlines aren t all positive. gloucester felt farrell should have been sent off after this high tackle onjack clement. the decision wasn t reviewed and with the last kick of the match, farrell did this to give saracens a 19 16 victory. farrell could still be cited for the tackle and a future ban could mean he misses some or all of the six nations, which starts next month. there s been another medal for great britain at the skeleton world cup in winterberg. matt weston has won bronze to take gb s tally to seven.
worker. 16, 17 year olds have had such a big social life and quite a lot of us have been going out quite a lot, and you know, there s a lot of people as well who aren t wearing masks at the moment, so i think it is really important to be jabbed because it reduces transmission, and also if you get covid you don t know how bad you re going to have it. some people are more affected or less affected than others, and you wouldn t want to be one of the ones who is really badly affected. but this decision wasn t straight forward. the statistics show under 18s are far less likely to get seriously sick with covid, and while side effects such as inflamed heart tissue are very rare, they do exist. i think it s the right thing to start extending vaccination down into older teenagers. we know that they have a very high rate of infection, and if you look at where the infection is currently flourishing within society, it s largely in those younger age groups.
we have to get our standards back. our performances are still not close to where they should be, but hopefully we can get ready and be the good teams and get better in the second half. west ham have gone above spurs who were held to a 1 all draw by ten man southampton at st mary s. james ward prowse tends to get his goals from set pieces but this one came in open play to give southampton the lead. harry kane equalised with a penalty awarded for a foul by mohamed salisu who was sent off. spurs dominated the second half and had two goals disallowed, so it finished all square. it is not easy to play after only 44 hours. for sure, we felt a bit of fatigue and may be our decision wasn t so right. but i think that at the end of the game, we could win,