Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African coronavirus variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 p
these are life pictures in tel aviv because we are expecting at any moment now that antony blinken, the us secretary of state, to come and speak to the world media there as and when we see him approach the microphones we would be crossing straight back to tel aviv there. back to the middle east and the war between israel and hamas. the mother of two of the final child hostages still held hostage in gaza has spoken of her ordeal. 16 year old aisha and 18 year old bilal, both muslims from southern israel s bedouin community, remain in captivity after being taken by hamas with their father and older brother on october seventh. our correspondent anna foster reports from rahat, in the negev desert aisha still hasn t come home yet. each day, as more hostage children are released, her name has been missing from the list. so too her brother, bilal. it s been 55 days of waiting. this is the last picture naeema saw of her sons from hamas s media channels, held prisoner. in this bedoui
Concept to make sure they could go. that s why they had a relatively small number, and if that continues to work, as it appears it did, and god willing more will come tomorrow until all of them, out. all of them, out. and that s important. all of them, out. and that s important, because - all of them, out. and that s l important, because hundreds all of them, out. and that s - important, because hundreds of people are still trapped? people are still trapped ? right. people are still trapped? right. they want to get all the people out. the second issue will be the battalion fighters themselves, that will probably take some more complex negotiations before they are willing to surrender. but the reality is the place has been cut off since march the 7th, if they are not already out of food and water, they soon will be. they are going to have to make the choice for the fighters, do they die there and not surrender or do they risk giving up? they are not going to be able to hold out much
Strategy for this complex? longer. what is russia s - strategy for this complex? it strategy for this complex? it makes sense that they didn t want to lose many people taking the city, but it was vital for them to do so because strategic and tactical reasons. they surrounded the city on march the 7th, and slowly they squeezed it down. they used lots of artillery and rocket power and methodicallyjust destroyed all the ukrainian defenders in the zone until they were finally escorted into that azovstal. .. they were finally escorted into that azovstal. now they were finally escorted into that azovstal. .. now they are ready to clear that the final piece there and instead of sending troops in that would only cause more disruption, russia decided basically to just starve them out. you talked about just starve them out. you talked about the - just starve them out. you talked about the battalion of fighters in there, and why they might find it difficult to make the choice to leave. talk to
Been fighting. it s just another amazing development. it means when secretary mnuchin told me in the committee hearing on march the 7th that he couldn t answer my questions and he needed more legal advice he already had legal advice and he had it when he made these multiple subsequent excuses in responding or nonresponding to the committee. i believe there is no legal advice that will stop the lawlessness and the lies of this administration. and that s why congress needs to act firmly now to use every tool it has available to get this information that trump so fears that the public will see and to to take action, i believe, it s going to require fines or confinement under our power of inherent contempt to get the information we need and to get all these other people that under what seems to be gang rule are told don t say anything and don t provide anything. total silence, total obstruction.