hello and welcome to sportsday i m chetan pathak, coming up on the programme: the highs and lows of a rollercoaster day in melbourne where england are on the brink of ashes defeat. just one league win all season and fighting for survival can newcastle get a crucial three points against manchester united we ll be at st james park and in the big game in rugby union s premiership harlequins take on northampton saints at twickenham but who ll come out on top? hello and welcome to sportsday, it s rarely easy watching england play cricket in australia and fans went through almost every emotion earlier after a day of drama at the mcg. needing to win to keep alive their hopes of regaining the ashes, james anderson led an england fighback in the first couple of sessions on day two of the third test. as the aussies were limited to a first innings lead of 82. but no sooner than hopes were raised, it all went wrong with the bat again, as england crumbled to 31 for 4 at s
christmas message this year, her first since the death of her husband prince philip. hello and welcome. the uk has again recorded its highest number of daily coronavirus cases since the pandemic began more than 120,000. it s the third day in a row that cases have topped 100,000 with 122,186 recorded today a separate survey from the office of national statistics found that on december 19th, an estimated 1 in 35 people in the uk had coronavirus that s1.74 million people. in london the ratio is much higher one in 20 people were likely to have tested positive for covid, the highest proportion of any region or nation in england. let me show you quickly the stats for the other nations. in wales it s around one in 45 scotland s rate is one in 65 and in northern ireland it s one in a0. but despite soaring cases, early findings suggest that the 0micron variant is milder than delta, and leads to less hospitalisation the head of the uk health security agency drjenny harries ca
everything s gone up. we are announcing a wage increase for all of our front line colleagues the prime minister said he had made a mistake but then tried to turn soak from the wild weather, let s checkin soak from the wild weather, let s check in on what it s doing a little closer to home. hello there. it has been a chilly start to the day, but a lot it to the day, but a lot turns colder again this weeker this it turns colder again this weekend. this afternoon a lot of dry weather around, there will be a few showers closer to these areas of low pressure to the north and west of the uk but later went to the south because of this area of high pressure. it means as we move through this evening and overnight, with lighter winds and clearer skies we will see those temperatures fall away again the further north and west with the cloud and rain it will be milder in the last few nights. that continues as we head into thursday, south westerly winds and some m
across western scotland, but i suspect in eastern scotland we could get 17 degrees, something down to what is called the phone effect. not that, i mean, but you will have to check. the average is 9 degrees, so way above the average, between five and 8 degrees above average for the time of yearand and 8 degrees above average for the time of year and then a complete change by the time we get to sunday where we have a northerly wind and it looks a little bit like a cold snap but it s not going to be a cold snap but it s not going to be a cold snap because we will go from around 15, 16, 17, snap because we will go from around 15,16,17, down to snap because we will go from around 15, 16, 17, down to 9 snap because we will go from around 15,16,17, down to 9 degrees and remember i showed you that that is actually the average where it should be. that s all from the bbc news at six hello i m olly foster, here s what s coming up on sportsday. azeem rafiq tells mps that racism in crick
to soaring energy costs. all they do is talk and the problem is to get action on the ground, and that s what i ve been trying to do for the last 40 years. prince charles tells the bbc politicians must take bold action on climate change, rather than just talk . and, captain kirk, the actor william shatner, explains why he ll soon be going into space, to explore, the final frontier. and coming up on the bbc news channel, it is another night of world cup qualifying as wales continue their bid for a place in qatar. they take on estonia in tallinn. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the nhs is appealing to all pregnant women to get their coronavirus jabs, as new figures show one in six of the most critically ill covid patients is pregnant and unvaccinated. the royal college of midwives says pregnant women are at a greater risk of becoming severely ill from the virus. nhs england found that betweenjuly and september, out of 118 people who needed the most intensive ki