. ♪ >> we are here in the bbc newsroom. our big story is that buckingham palace says prince andrew has given back his remaining military titles and will no longer be known as his royal highness. next we turn to canada. a father in quebec province has temporarily lost the right to see his child on the grounds that he's not vaccinated against covid-19. a judge said it would not be in the child's best interest to have contact with her father if he is not vaccinated. the father's facebook page displayed a number of posts posing the vaccine, which were used as evidence. beck is struggling with the surge in cases and has imposed a health tax on the and vaccinated. here's that announcement being made earlier this week. >> right now, these people are putting a very important burden on our health care network. i think it's normal that the majority of the population is asking that there be a consequence. >> let's hear from stephanie, a journalist in montreal who has been reporting on the case for a while. >> is a first, according to

. ♪ >> thi is "outside source," live from the bbc newsroom. our main story, queen elisabeth's son prince andrew faces civil trial in the u.s. with allegations of sexual assault after a judge in new york fused to dismiss the case. u.k. prime minister boris johnson has admitted for the first time that he attended a drinks party in the garden of number 10 downing street during england's first lockdown. he apologized, but dismissed calls to resign, telling parliament he was acting in work-related events. we have lots of clips. let's start with the prime minister. >> i want to apologize. i know millions of people across this country have made extraordinary sacrifices over the last eight months. i know the anguish that they have been through, unable to mourn their relatives, unable to live their lives as they want or to do the things they love. and i know the rage they feel with me, over the government i lead, when they think that in downing street itself, the rules are not the improperly followed by the people who make the rules. and though i canno

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story: france has recorded its highest ever daily number of cases of coronavirus — with more than 330,000 postive tests. the tennis men's world number one novak djokovic has arrived in melbourne, looking to defend his australian open title. but he's met a backlash over a waiver he's been given by tournament organisers, allowing him to compete despite not being fully vaccinated. and he is yet to clear through passport security hours after landing. we're going to spend the next few minutes, looking at how the story has developed. novak djokovic is the reigning champion at the australian open. on tuesday, he tweeted this picture from the airport tarmac and told us... but australia's prime minister had a warning. we await his presentation. and what evidence he provides to support that. if that evidence is insufficient, then he won't be treated any different than anyone else, and he'll be on the next plane home. djokovic's special dispensation is under close scrutiny. tennis aus

this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is? a usjudge is considering whether to throw out a sexual assault case against britain's prince andrew, brought by a victim ofjeffrey epstein. police in washington dc have been speaking about the security measures they have in place ahead of the anniversary this week of last january's riot at the capitol. these images are hard to forget — this was onjanuary 6th last year, when that a huge crowd of supporters of former president donald trump stormed the building that houses the us congress, seeking to overturn the election result. here's the us capitol police chief, t0m manger. the united states capitol police as an organisation is stronger and better prepared to carry out its mission today and it was before january six of last year. the department began significant work immediately after the sixth to fix the failures that occurred. intelligence failures, operational planning failures, leadership failures. 0ne planning failures, leadership failures. one thing that did not feel that they

now on bbc news — it's time to look at some of the stories from bbc newsrooms across the uk. armed police continue to surround a house in coventry this afternoon, more than 52 hours since officers were first called to the property. a 41—year—old man is believed to be armed with weapons and has his eight—year—old son with him. 0ur correspondent kevin reide is at the scene. bring us up—to—date. bring us up-to-date. the situation re no bring us up-to-date. the situation pretty no ch _ bring us up-to-date. the situation pretty no ch the — bring us up-to-date. the situation pretty no ch the same, _ bring us up-to-date. the situation pretty no ch the same, still - bring us up-to-date. the situation pretty no ch the same, still a - pretty no ch the same, still a stand—off, still armed police, we are in the earlston district of coventry in a card than remains in place, those inside cannot really leave their houses, just doing so with a police escort. early run today i managed to speak to one resident who had been able to go to the shops and he also knows the 41—year

nicholas witchell, bbc news. let's beat our news who is with me in the bbc newsroom. we heard nicholas witchell talking about the prince looking to fight on, in practical terms, what does that mean? on, in practicalterms, what does that mean?— on, in practicalterms, what does that mean? for starters, it means that mean? for starters, it means that he is not _ that mean? for starters, it means that he is not going _ that mean? for starters, it means that he is not going to _ that mean? for starters, it means that he is not going to do - that mean? for starters, it means that he is not going to do that - that mean? for starters, it means that he is not going to do that as i that mean? for starters, it means| that he is not going to do that as a working member of the royalfamily. he had effectively stepped back from public life and formal engagement on behalf of the royal family, and public life and formal engagement on behalf of the royalfamily, and his official title is an honorary positions were effectively suspended as soon as this controversy really grew around hi

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. the white house says russia could be at any point ready to launch an attack on ukraine. russia denies its troops that are on the ukrainian border mean an invasion. let me bring you an update on last weekend�*s siege in texas in the us. it�*s emerged that the man from blackburn in the uk who was shot dead in texas after taking hostages at a synagogue was known to the security service m15. malik faisal akram was no longer thought to be a risk when he travelled to the us late last month. then, on saturday, this happened. mr akram interrupted a morning service at the congregation beth israel in colleyville with what he claimed was a gun and a bomb. armed police and negotiators then became involved. after a ten—hour stand—off, mr akram was shot dead by police. the four hostages were unharmed. the attack on thejewish synagogue happened in dallas in texas. when it became known that mr akram was from blackburn here in the uk, the investigation became global. the uk foreign secretary i

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? you satellite images are showing russian troops are closer to ukraine porter as america warns moscow that any invasion would have catastrophic results. every week we make an in depth report for the bbc news website and, for the those of you in the uk, for iplayer too. — this time — it's on the issue china's covid strategy — and the government's attempts to eliminate all coronavirus infections. (tx in europe there are millions of cases of covid—19 every week and in china there are very few and china's commitment to its zero covid—19 strategy remains as strong as ever. jayna's overall situation remains stable and cases can be controlled within a short period of time. this is what effective control means in practice. is what effective control means in ractice. , ,_, is what effective control means in ractice. , ,. ., ., practice. they discovered three a symptomatic _ practice. they discovered three a symptomatic cases _ practice. they discovered three a symptomatic cases and -

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the uk's prime minister boris johnson is facing fresh questions after a 100 people were invited for drinks at downing street during strict covid lockdown rules in 2020. one of the biggest illegal darknet has gone off—line as the selling counterfeit cash and malware used to hack and disabled computers. the administrations shut it down over christmas but new illegal sites are pepping up christmas but new illegal sites are popping up all the time. research by the bbc highlights the success of the bbc highlights the success of the all my drug stray. our cyber reporter has more. i come up here and tell him off. clear campbell i6—year—old son died after taking a strong ecstasy tablets at a youth disco. ~ . . , strong ecstasy tablets at a youth disco. ~ ., .,, ., ., ~' strong ecstasy tablets at a youth disco. ~ ., ~' strong ecstasy tablets at a youth disco. ~ ., ~ ., disco. what was look like as a erson? disco. what was look like as a person? he — disco. what was look like as a perso

sarah corker, bbc news. this is outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... novak djokovic has finally made it onto a tennis court in melbourne after a different type of court rejected the australian government's cancellation of his visa. the world just experienced its fifth—hottest year ever, as average global temperatures continue to rise. that's according to a new report by the eu's climate change monitoring service. the report's authors say the past seven years have been the warmest in recorded history by a clear margin. justin rowlatt has more. deadly floods heralded the new year in brazil, and there've already been wildfires the us state of colorado, as 2022 looks to continue the trend of extreme weather we saw last year. these latest temperature figures confirm that europe experienced it's warmest summer on record, as well as devastating floods in germany and belgium injuly. the data collected by european satellites shows 2021 was the fifth hottest year ever recorded. it also shows the concentration of warming gases in the atmosphere continuing to ri

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is — borisjohnson boris johnson says borisjohnson says he welcomes investigation of the metropolitan police into parties held in downing street during lockdown. so, police are now investigating potential breaches of coronavirus regulations at a number of events in downing street and whitehall. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports on what they will look at and asks why they didn�*t act sooner. for months, arguments around alleged parties in downing street and its garden have swept through whitehall, while london�*s main police force has kept quiet, saying only that it was in touch with sue gray, who is leading the cabinet office investigation. so, why is the met investigating now? this morning, the force�*s most senior officer said three factors might lead to them investigating covid rule breaches from many months ago. my three factors were and are — there was evidence that those involved knew or ought to have known that what they were doing was an offence, where not investigating would significa

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. staff at downing street have been accused of holding two parties the night before the duke of edinburgh's funeral in april. restrictions in england at the time banned indoor mixing between different households, and meant the queen had to sit alone during the service. mps are calling for borisjohnson to resign — including conservative andrew bridgen who has submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime minister. we are getting news the former communications director who was reportedly giving a leaving speech on date he has said he wants to apologise unreservedly for the anger and hurt caused by a party held to mark his leaving do at downing street months. he said it should not have happened at the time it did. when you think about all the references to whether or not a gathering at a party or not, he has used the word party. we are going to be talking to da

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. mps are returning to westminster today after a weekend in which many of them will have been finding out what their constituents think about the way downing street was operating during the pandemic. we can speak now to the education secretary nadhim zahawi. good morning, mr zahawi. good morning, mrzahawi. thank good morning, mr zahawi. thank you for being with us today. let's talk about the weekend. how concerned have you been that this ongoing saga about parties, whether they were christmas parties or lockdown parties, are turning voters against the government?— parties, are turning voters against the government? good morning, dan. look, for the government? good morning, dan. look. for me. — the government? good morning, dan. look. for me. you _ the government? good morning, dan. look, for me, you will— the government? good morning, dan. look, for me, you will know _ the government? good morning, dan. look, for me, you w

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. coming up on breakfast this morning... the show must go on — we'll meet the understudies stepping on to centre stage, as covid isolation leaves theatres short of their leading stars. it's the letters game taking the internet by storm — we'll give you a step—by—step guide to playing wordle, and we'll even have countdown's susie dent on hand to help. # dance your cares away. # worries for another day. # let the music play. # down in fraggle rock...# and a trip down memory lane — fraggle rock is back for us to dance our cares away to. and we'll hear all about the new series just before eight this morning. and that tune will be in your head all day. it and that tune will be in your head all da . , and that tune will be in your head allda. , . all day. it is always in my head. they have _ all day. it is always in my head. they have kept _ all day. it is always in my head. they have kept the _ all day. it is a

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with charlie stayt and naga munchetty. coming up on breakfast this morning... bird—watchers assemble — we'll be live at sherwood forest in nottinghamshire, to find out how you can get involved in this year's national bird counting survey, which gets under way today. binge? where sean connery puts his rubbish. remembering a life in comedy — we'll have tributes to the late, great barry cryer, who has died at the age of 86. step back and admire. and we'll be joined by the queen of colour, sophie robinson, to discuss her new interior design show, dream home makeovers. living independently into old age is the hope for many of us. but if often relies on a service that is increasingly under threat — home care. that's because a staffing crisis in the sector means it is being rationed, and the regulator has told breakfast the vacancy rate is continuing to rise. jayne mccubbin has been to meet people

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. va nessa felt vanessa felt is speaking to a counsellor from the london vanessa felt is speaking to a counsellorfrom the london borough of hackney. hello, this is breakfast with sally nugent and dan walker. get some more news on our top story. the prime minister's former top adviser dominic cummings has claimed borisjohnson "waved aside" warnings of a planned drinks party at downing street during the first lockdown. last week, the prime minister apologised to mps and said he believed he was attending a "work event". number 10 have denied the latest allegations. joining us now is thejustice secretary, dominic raab. good morning to you, mr raab. great to see you. thank you forjoining us. i would like to start if i can with a really simple question, a basic principle. if the minister applies to parliament, do you believe they should resign? == if applies to parliament, do you believe they should resign? -- if a minister lies. _ believe they

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and nina warhurst. we have been talking about this story regarding cladding today. the government will give details in the commons this afternoon of its plan to spare more flat—owners in england from the ruinous costs of removing unsafe cladding, more than four years after the grenfell tower fire. joining us from our newsroom in london is the housing secretary, michael gove. he will speak in more detail about this later on today but where exactly is this money coming from? from those who are responsible. we know that ever since the terrible tragedy at grenfell, we have had a building safety crisis in this country and we know that in particular what we needed to do was remove cladding from high—rise buildings but there were other things we needed to do as well to make sure the people were safe. and ultimately, the key question is, who put that cladding up? who was responsible for the state of those buildings? they are the individuals, they a

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. coming up on today's programme. we'll be speaking to jay blades in around 20 minutes. the "repair shop" star — who has dyslexia — has made a documentary about learning to read at the age of 51. the actor romola garai has got behind the camera to direct her first feature—length film — which is not for the faint—hearted. she'll be on the sofa before 8. and take a look at this. pushing a cart up and down the street — i suppose that's one way to train. that man making the queen laugh is raf gunner shanwayne stephens, who is also part of the jamaican men's bobsleigh team. we'll be catching up with him before he heads off to the winter olympics. we thought it might happen yesterday. many people did. then we thought, surely, today. you know what we are talking about. now we understand there's a good chance that a report into alleged parties at downing stre

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. plenty more on our website at the usual address. now it's back to sally and dan. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with sally nugent and dan walker. more pressure for the prime minister this morning, after it was revealed that downing street staff met inside number 10 to celebrate his birthday during the first lockdown. it's the latest huge headache in what has been a difficult week for boris johnson, as ros atkins reports. in the last six days, the pressure on borisjohnson has continued to grow. this was on wednesday. you have sat there too long for all the good you have done. in the name of god, go. the former minister, david davis, wanted the prime minister to go. borisjohnson declined. i take full responsibility for everything done in this government and throughout the pandemic. also on wednesday, the conservative mp christian wakeford defected to the labour party. on thursday, a conservative mp who had called for mrjohnson's resignation alleged he'd been threatened by the gov

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in an hour. now though it's back to naga and charlie. bye for now. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. secondary school pupils in england will no longer need to wear face masks in class from this morning, as the government's plan b measures are phased out. advice to work from home has also ended, and from next thursday, mandatory face coverings in public places and covid passports, previously used to gain entry to nightclubs and large events, will both be axed. lots to talk about this mornining with the health secretary sajid javid, who joins us from westminster. a lot of people coming to terms with the changes you've announced with plan b measures coming to an end from next thursday. how certain are you that this is the right time to relax those rules? i you that this is the right time to relax those rules?— relax those rules? i am certain because not — relax those rules? i am certain because not least _ relax those rules? i am certain because not least its _ rela

do you accept that with fewer experience journalists in the newsroom mistakes are going to happen like that even more? well, mistakes do happen. i'm not going to deny that. but i think in that particular case, it was less to do with cuts, to be honest and more to do with covid. it was also the 28th of december, it was night, i think the teams are actually quite thinned out come no doubt about it but that's not because of cuts so much as where we are between christmas and new year. really? people thought you should have just googled alan dershowitz, you'd have known you should be putting them on the air in that context. well, possibly, actually, i think the teams now know that actually they could of avoided it by doing some kind of more considered handovers to each other on it. and we admitted it was a mistake and dealt with it. mistakes happen, they do. but i don't necessarily think there are any more of them now than when ijoined the bbc nearly a0 years ago. or if there are is probably a factor of having so much more output. after this week's announcement on the licence fee, bbc news

i'm back with the latest from the bbc london newsroom in half an hour. bye— bye. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and sally nugent. coming up on the programme this morning. giving police more powers to combat stalking will be debated by mp5 today. we'll be speaking to the fathers of two women, gracie spinks and alice ruggles, who were both killed after being stalked. the actor turned documentary maker ross kemp willjoin us from windsor castle, to tell us all about this year's national thank you day, which isjoining forces with the queen's jubilee celebrations. and, whatever you do, don't miss this. you show me a bit of street and i will show— you show me a bit of street and i will show you some waltzing. when amelia met anton. we'll show you what happened when the 11—year—old cancer survivor had a dancing lesson with her strictly hero. looks like a lot of fun. i got to watch the _ looks like a lot of fun. i got to watch the entire _ looks like a lot of fun. i got to watch the entire show - looks like a lot of fun. i got to watch the entire show from

may be different over there but we talk to people in the us newsrooms, they're really concerned about how alienated their audiences, how alienated their audiences, how many people they've lost, how many people they've lost, how many people they've lost, how many surveys and directly in e—mails, tweets, how unhappy they are with what we are doing. and there's certainly a huge audience that feels the need for the news and there's a lot of different things happening in one of them is that the nooses been poisoned by social media, not saying that what is my favourite place in the world but there is form of journalism in the world but there is form ofjournalism that in the world but there is form of journalism that you in the world but there is form ofjournalism that you tweeted something and i'm going to read the trending story to find something to be my pre—existing opinion and i will feed it back to you and you will share it because your views are being affirmed and while that is sort of a cheap high a of consumers who prefers that you tweet them and say hey, i dug into it next to t

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do you accept that with fewer experienced journalists in the newsroom, mistakes like that are going to happen more? well, mistakes do happen — i'm not going to deny that — but i think in that particular case, it was less with cuts, to be honest, and more to do with covid! it was also 28 december, it was night, i think the teams, actually, are quite thinned out, no doubt about it — but that's not because of cuts so much as where we are between christmas and new year. really? people thought you should have just googled alan dershowitz, you'd have known you shouldn't be putting him on air in that context. well, possibly — actually, i think there was — i think the teams now know that actually, they could have avoided it by doing some kind of more considered handovers to each other on it. but — and we admitted it was a mistake and dealt with it. mistakes happen — they do — but i don't necessarily think there are any more of them now than when ijoined the bbc nearly 40 years ago — or if there are, it's probably a factor of having so much more output. after this week's annou

you can watch that special documentary on bbc two at nine o'clock tonight. it's called "survivors: portraits of the holocaust". now it's time for a look at the weather, let's cross the newsroom to matt taylor. what kind of a day is it, chilly in the morning when i woke up at a ridiculous hour. a bit it was, not a bad day today, a bit gloomy for one or two spots especially in the south, a few showers across scotland right now, but for most, dry and bright day with plenty of sunshine around. there is the cloud that brought the gloomy start with patchy rain and drizzle. southern counties, confined to the channel islands, west cornwall, isles of scilly, showers and north—west england, but the bulk of the showers in north—west scotland, wintry over the hills, cold day across shetland and orkney but nowhere near as windy as our site. milderfurther south, a big difference to of late. tonight with light winds and clear skies and mist and fog patches, southern counties of england and wales, clouding over towards the west later, that stops the temperature dropping

although this week's revelations have made many newswatch viewers angry, others have accused bbc news of getting overexcited by the story. here's caroline. surely there are far more important news items that the bbc should be concentrating on, like the panic stories of omicron issues, current economic situation, housing the afghan refugees or even what vladimir putin is doing rather than whether or not there was a socially distanced get—together in the garden for those who are working extremely hard together in 2020 at a very stressful time and were invited to use a beautiful space to chat with each other and support each other. i'm sure that nurses and doctors also met in staff rooms that were not nearly as luxurious as the number 10 garden to unwind and unload but none of this is being covered by the press who are holding onto this story and making it much bigger than it needs to be. please can the bbc stop this witch—hunt and report on the stories that are relevant and will impact us now. some of the coverage took us away from westminster to hear from families of those bereaved