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and, yeah, we realised it was a gigantic millipede in the middle of this rock. time for a look at the weather. here s matt taylor. farfrom a tropical far from a tropical climate today, really wintry. it is the winter solstice, the days start to draw out a bit more fun today. but we saw temperatures well below freezing across the highlands and they will not write a great deal more through the rest of today. some sunshine across the highlands at the moment, some through wales and increasingly to southern parts of england and the channel islands. more over you will see most sunshine developed through the afternoon, but the vast majority know the story, it is cloudy and will stay cloudy and will stay rather chilly with some spots not getting above freezing and dropping quickly below as you head into the evening and overnight. overnight we expect more clouds breaks to develop, some lingering cloud. the temperatures from developing too much but a more widespread frost across ....
three week period, a situation similar to that and wales from boxing day. and there are there are further covid restrictions expected in wales, as a minister calls for the uk government, to restart the furlough scheme. meanwhile as 0micron spreads rapidly across america, president biden, prepares to ramp up, the federal government s response. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. borisjohnson has confirmed there ll be no further covid restrictions put in place before christmas. he said there currently isn t enough evidence on the severity of the 0micron variant, while the hospitalisation rate and the impact of the booster roll out, didn t justify tougher measures. however, the prime minister says situation is finely balanced and remains difficult across the country, infgection rates at an all time high, and he did not rule out tighter restrictions after the festive period. more on that in a moment, but let s take a look at the rest of the day s d ....
now on bbc news, it s time for dateline. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the best known columnists on uk newspapers, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week, record breaking daily increases in covid infection hit the uk. pleas, not lockdown, are the order of the day, though the public are already voting with their feet. borisjohnson s pleas are ignored by 100 of his own mps, and by voters in a previously loyal part of england. is he now leader of the party and the country only in name? henry chu is long serving foreign correspondent and deputy news editor at the la times. polly toynbee is a veteran columnist on the left of centre guardian newspaper. and simonjack, the bbc s business editor, is here in the studio. good to see you, simon, and good to have you both joining us from parts around the uk while we maintain all our social distancing ....
the whole of the final a session to salvage an unlikely draw. they resumed on 82 for 4 and quickly lost ollie pope and ben stokes. buttler dug in and resisted for over 200 deliveries, but he lost chris woakes and ollie robinson before the tea break and then the cruellest of blows for england buttler out for 26. so australia need just one more wicket for victory. stuart broad and james anderson at the crease in adelaide. with the covid crisis deepeding, six games postponed in the premier league this weekend, the liverpool managerjurgen klopp s implored the premier league to ease the busy festive fixture schedule ahead of a meeting between the league and the 20 top flight clubs later. liverpool drew with tottenham yesterday, andy robertson put them 2 1 ahead. spurs capitalised following a mistake by liverpool goalkeeper allison. that was just before robertson was shown a red card for this challenge. klopp pretty angry with the decisions that went against his side who co ....
across central and eastern england, parts of southern england haven t the sunshine for a good week or so now, so that will be a welcome change. probably the best of the sunshine again across the north of the uk, and again, whatever you are, it will be chilly whether you have the grey and gloomy skies or even the sunshine. now, as the run up to christmas has been giving us a headache. at the moment it looks like we could see this area of low pressure push in from the atlantic. that will have some weather fronts, some rain bands and some milder air which will push into the south and west, but colder air will want to continue to dig down from the north east. so we re in a bit of a battleground between these air masses around the christmas period. it does look like the upcoming week to start with, certainly for the first few days, will be chilly and bright, and then it will turn more unsettled around the christmas period and with some cold and we could see some sleet and sn ....