Lots to look forward to in the fourth round of the fa cup. Non League Chorley get a home tie against premier league wolves, and liverpool will play Manchester United. Keeping busy during lockdown we explore some of the ways people are filling their time in the face of the call to stay at home. Good morning. A mixed picture out there today, things turning colder from the north with sunshine in store. Further south, many from the north with sunshine in store. Furthersouth, many will stay quite cloudy with outbreaks of rain. Full forecast through the programme. Its tuesday the 12th of january. Our top story. Theres a warning that tighter lockdown rules and tougher enforcement could be imposed in england as hospital admissions for covid continue to rise. Ministers have warned we are currently at the worst point of the pandemic. Meanwhile, one of englands Top Police Chiefs says people who break the rules are increasingly likely to be fined. Our Political Correspondent Jessica Parker reports
The rules themselves . If youd like to get in touch on this or any of our stories, you can contact me on twitter geetagurumurthy, or bbcyourquestions. Ministers say theyre looking into claims that some food parcels sent to children who would normally get Free School Meals are inadequate. Security is stepped up as the fbi warns of armed protests across the United States in the run up tojoe bidens inauguration. And coming up this hour. Finding your thing during lockdown. We look at how people are keeping themselves motivated while staying at home. The uks most Senior Police officer has said that people who break lockdown rules are being fined much more quickly, but says that more clarity on the meaning of local on exercise guidelines is needed from the government. It comes as the Health Secretary says that tighter measures for england cannot be ruled out. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida dick wrote in the times that its preposterous that anyone could now be unaware of the n
This is bangkok, live at midnight. Spectacular scenes in the capital of thailand. There was a pause on the dot at midnight. Perhaps someone had lost the key moment. But in the end, it was worth waiting for. Those fireworks will no doubt continue for a number of minutes as people in thailand celebrate the arrival of 2020. Those images matching some of those we have shown you around the
world in the previous hours in cities like auckland, sydney, where there was controversy over the rights and wrongs of the fireworks display in sydney harbour. Pictures from tokyo. We showed you what happened one hour ago in hong kong, a more low key celebration because the annual firework display did not happen because of security concerns. There was instead a light show. But now the scenes in bangkok and i think you will probably agree that they are pretty good. Plenty more capital is to visit, of course, in the coming hours, and we will show you some of the preparations going on in this country as midn
By this weather watcher from north yorkshire. Now, it does look as though when we go through the night tonight the isobars are set to squeeze together. The winds will increase before the arrival of these weather fronts which will bradley bring in some rain. We keep a lot of cloud through the night does mike crook will gradually bring in some rain, we keep a lot of cloud through the night. The winds will continue to strengthen, we are sitting across them out out of the time being, the cold air waiting in the winds and that was slipping as these cold fronts slipped east. One front sweeps this way south east, and will be replaced by yet another. So by the middle of the afternoon it looks like the winds would be a feature, gusting in excess of 50 60 miles an hour on exposed coasts and there will be some show outbreaks of rain in the north west and out weather fronts living south out of the Scottish Borders into north wales. Ahead it stays cloudy
and blustery, but the strongest of the winds
Tonight at ten the city at the heart of a Public Health crisis in china is shutting its Public Transport Network to try to prevent the speed of a virus. The coronavirus has already infected hundreds of people as millions across china prepare to travel for the Lunar New Year celebrations. As concerns grow experts around the world are assessing the risks posed by the virus as they consider declaring it an international Public Health emergency. The International Community are right to be concerned about this. This is a very new virus, weve not seen it before. Therefore we dont know what it can do. And the uk says it will monitorflights arriving from china as part of a series of precautionary measures. Also tonight. The governments plans to tax the uk profits of Big Tech Companies cause more tension between britain and the usa. You listen here. He is not the messiah, he is a very naughty boy. Tributes to the mony python star terryjones, whos died at the age of 77. Un experts say theres cre