good afternoon. the health secretary matt hancock has announced that more than half of adults in the uk have now had a first dose of covid vaccine. more people received the jab yesterday than on any other day. despite this, a scientist on a government advisory body warns summer holidays overseas are extremely unlikely because of the risk of travellers bringing coronavirus variants back to the uk. it comes as france and poland have reintroduced partial lockdowns as both countries battle a sharp rise in infections in recent weeks. richard galpin reports. here in germany the authorities are warning that the country is now facing a third wave of coronavirus. infections rising exponentially. and this particularly worrying as just 8% of the population here has had a first dose of vaccine. there are now calls for lockdown measures to be brought back in. the situation also serious here in france, with covid cases surging. more than 20 million people now facing restrictions. pol
today scotland has snowfall, in the days ahead colder air that spreads across the whole of the uk, the risk of snow move southwards. here is thursday with the cold air to a north, by saturday and sunday it works right the way southwards into the north of france. here are scotland this afternoon, still a pretty tricky travelling conditions, particularly for higher routes for the next few hours, snow piling up. rain at lower levels, central belt with a mixture of rain and sleet and snow. that persist this afternoon, snow. that persist this afternoon, snow piling up in places, an easterly breeze. feeling chilly in the wind. towns and cities, 3 4 c, lower elsewhere. in the south, comparatively mild but that s set to change. this area of low pressure will move southwards in the coming days are bringing rain overnight insert northern ireland, northern england or perhaps note for the pennines, persisting across scotland. ice a consistent issue for the north of the uk to begin with o
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are broadcaster david davies and rachel watson, deputy political editor at the scottish daily mail. tomorrow s front pages starting with. the telegraph leads with brexit, saying that the eu is promising a new deal over northern ireland trade but won t strip europeanjudges of their role in the province. the i splashes on congestion at felixstowe, saying supply chain delays have caused a build up of containers threatening deliveries in time for christmas. the ft s also features felixstowe with a striking picture of containers piled high. but its main story is a warning by the imf that the uk s economic recovery from covid will lag behind that of other g7 nations. the metro leads with the covid response report saying cabinet office minister steve barclay refused 20 times to apologise for government pandemic mistakes. the northern ireland trade story also makes the lead in the guardia
hello and welcome to our second look at with the papers will be bringing us on tuesday morning. joining me tonight the chief leader for the observer newspaper and deputy political editor for the daily express. let us bring you up to date with the latest from pages that we have. in which the governments earlier response to the pandemic was one of the most important public health failures that the uk experience. adding that it found ministers took a fatalistic approach which probably exacerbated the death toll. the investigation found many thousands of care home residents dying needlessly in the pandemic and that the elderly were just an afterthought, as they put it. the daily mirror says the thousands of lives could ve been saved if boris johnson i made the decision to lock down only days earlier than he did. they said taxes for the social care crisis, borisjohnson is coming into effect and will not be enough for the institute for fiscal studies. the time threats the borisjohn
he is 80. polling shows 65% of voters believe he s too old to effectively serve another four years and renewing scrutiny around the dnc not holding primary debates with jack dorsey tweeting this. open the democrat primaries and debates. this isn t fair to anyone. let s bring in our panel. joe concha, columnist at the mess messenger. juan williams and lee carter. welcome to you all. joe, to you first. it seems like the media says the gop is pouncing on joe biden s fall. let s play a little montage and get your response. okay. his age is an issue here. the republicans immediately jumped on this. they blasted it all over social media. givening voters concerns, this is not an image that his critics are pouncing on. this is not pouncing, this is relevant to this campaign. poll after poll shows that people are concerned about joe biden s age. as you said, other polls showing 2/3s of voters saying that they don t believe he has the physical or mental fitness or the the job