extension. the four in favour were leeds, st. helens... the one extension was super league —— voted against by the super league. what does this mean for the next season? would one come up from below? do we know any of those finer details? who knows? the governance of the game is also being quizzed a little by some by also being quizzed a little by some rugby league's insiders because these in the super league clubs themselves deciding whether or not they should come back or not. some mightfind they should come back or not. some might find the rfl only get a similar say, or now the clubs themselves are going to have to decide whether they wanted to be a 12 team super league competition or just the 11. my understanding is there is a slight majority in favour of having a 12 team competition, but who decides who comes up? because there is no play in the championship this year so no automatic promotion. do the rfl get the final say? they will tell you that they should do, but several clubs will say it's up to them who they decide to bring up and there'll be a lot of clubs who wa nt to and there'll be a lot of clubs who want to up. thank you so much for joining us, our rugby league correspondent there. four years ago, whales were four points away from our rugby cup final. their worst performance in 13 yea rs, final. their worst performance in 13 years, so final. their worst performance in 13 years, so it has prompted a lot of media criticism. —— wales. patrick gea rey media criticism. —— wales. patrick gearey looks at what has gone wrong. 2019 feels like a very different world for everyone, but in particular for those with rugby close to their heart. this was march of last year, no one at the time was thinking of the hangover. the perfect ending has become a difficult start. new coaches first nation finished with over one win over italy. they gone from the grand slam. i think it's the toughest job to ta ke slam. i think it's the toughest job to take over from warren gatlin. it's like taking over for... when you are following someone as good as gatlin, it's always likely to happen. the transition between regimes is often tricky and sport. gatlin 13 grand slam ‘s for whales by coding them in steel, making them physical and ferocious. and not the source of side this would have too often. the scotland certainly now, we've put a line in the sand and we know how to look forward. we have to make sure that in the next game, we get a much better performance. where that is coming from is not yet clear. to understand, you need to look at his ca rless understand, you need to look at his carless guide who won the pro 12 with flowing fluid rugby. embrace, not employed at risk. it took us 18 months to set it into it, so it is going to take a bit of time. but like i said, when the pressures comes on players, they go to what they are used to. at the moment, it's not quite wayne's way. that means wales or the big question. can players change the system or does the system require new players? revolutions have costs. they have to effectively the reprogrammed. they are reverted, but to be honest, to ditch six or seven senior players for me would be madness at this point in time. you have to look at it on an individual basis. it is a naturaltime have to look at it on an individual basis. it is a natural time for experiments with the world cup still three years away, but p fact faces a complicated equation of all the steep bead, time and pressure. patrick geary, bbc news. he might step away, signing pressures . he might step away, signing pressures. they may be wanting something different ahead of himself. hamilton on the verge of equalling shoemakers record. it depends on what day you speak to which member of the team for what they say. if you speak to toto will fall about whether he still going to be the boss, he says he looking to head off in a different direction. rather than his kind of hands—on approach at the moment. i think all of this is interlinked with what will lewis hamilton do in the future as well. i've heard some reports of him this yearin i've heard some reports of him this year in interview saying he would be here for the foreseeable future. can't see himself going anywhere anytime soon. over the weekend, he says you never know what's around the corner. and it's true, none of us the corner. and it's true, none of us know what's around the corner, but he is about to win a seventh title and i expect he's about to signa title and i expect he's about to sign a contract as well. when you look at that, he's going to win that seventh title, that would equal the record with michael shoemaker. next season, if you still on form with the best team, would not make sense to stay on? you might feel like your life is in a different point, but i think the reality is that lewis hamilton will be a seven times world champion, probably within the next couple weeks. of course he's going to wa nt couple weeks. of course he's going to want to go on, isn't he? he's going to want to break the record and set his own new record of being and set his own new record of being an eight times world champion. his opportunities look good for next year to be able to be in another championship higher up. i just year to be able to be in another championship higher up. ijust can't see him walking away. just before we 90, see him walking away. just before we go, let's check in on the latest from the premier league. one game under way between. under way a from the premier league. one game under way a little bit later, leeds will take on leicester. you'll be able to follow it right across the bbc. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. bye— bye. hello, more on the lockdown in england. some breaking news from northwest ambula service who've tweeted that they've declared a major incident due to the high level of because they're getting. they are saying please follow a warning that if your call is not life—threatening, may be seek an alternative source of care or make your way to hospital. that obviously suggest that the ambulance services overstretched and they might not be able to get to you if you are seriously ill. so if you can get the hospital in a car or in a taxi, then do. we know that in the greater manchester area, the numbers have been very high on the covid fronts. lots of strain across the whole of the health service. worry about the health service being overwhelmed, of course, has been one of the key problems and concerns about covid and the call for the lockdown from many scientists and opposition parties as well for a lockdown earlier, but a major incident alert there in the northwest. we will bring you more on that as soon as we can. there is unhappiness more now on the lockdown in england, and the unhappiness among some conservative backbenchers at the extent of the measures. borisjohnson told mps this afternoon that failure to impose a national lockdown in england could lead to a situation where the sick were turned away from hospitals. anne marie morris is the conservative mp for newton abbot in devon. you might have just seen that alert from manchester. where the covid levels are much lower, but would you not accept there is a need for national unity on this front now and to have complete buy—in from the public for lockdown?” to have complete buy—in from the public for lockdown? i think the real key here is to make sure that we have a proportionate response. no, i don't think it needs to beat... i think it needs to be appropriate. one thing that's clear as this is just about those who are very, very vulnerable to covid infection. but this is also about the many people with heart challenges, with strokes, with cancer and we need to make sure that they are properly supported, and my concern is that the impact of the process of the lockdown actually makes things worse. today in the house, i asked the prime minister for a proper assessment of what the impact is going to be. but i've not yet seen it. so, the response must be proportionate and i don't think that a lockdown across the whole country is the right way forward. so are you going to vote against it?|j am. ithink are you going to vote against it?|j am. i think it will do much more damage and the reason i think it will do much more damage is it will not be looking at the overall health needs. i think here in the southwest, we need to address them. it is really critical that we get this right. but there's less hospital capacity in the southwest. i think the grasp of that the government put out on saturday should actually... hospital capacity was already more likely to be stretched sooner in the southwest because of the lack of capacity. we also know that people visit the southwest from cities all over the country and therefore, you can get up country and therefore, you can get upflare—up, country and therefore, you can get up flare—up, which is dangerous. country and therefore, you can get up flare-up, which is dangerous. we didn't get a sudden flare—up during half term, nor during the holidays. technically, it's possible. in terms of capacity, i think it's actually the crux of this. if we can yield capacity, we wouldn't have many of the challenges we have now. and you say that we are running out of beds. we have fantastic doctors and fantastic nurses, but they are really challenged because we're not being safe. we haven't use our nightingale at all currently. one of oui’ nightingale at all currently. one of our four district general hospitals, they haven't been separated into covid—safe, and that means we are wasting beds. that's got hundreds of beds out of action and we can't reallocate because some hospitals simply don't have the necessary equipment in working order. we have two operating theatres in torbay and they're not working, and that's why they're not working, and that's why they cannot be used with the current infection. it's in an elderly ward. just very briefly, what would you wa nt just very briefly, what would you want for you're your area in devon instead of it being part of a national lockdown? indeed, tier1 was actually fine, and impact would have been so much better because if we look at what's happening to our economy, many of those businesses are going to go out of businesses and many have had no help at all. the government has just quickly offered more help for self—employed? yes, but it's said that before. let's just see what we get. if you get it, fantastic but that doesn't mean we should say we should have a full lockdown. think about them impact on mental health. i'm so sorry, but we are out of time. thank you so much for your time today. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen. good evening. it's still pretty windy out there, especially across england and wales and those winds are driving and lots of showers notjust across england and wales but further north as well and that process will continue through this evening and overnight. some wet—ish weather as you can see across parts of northern ireland moving into scotland across northern england just adding to the issues that we've seen with flooding here. there are still numerous flood warnings in force. some snow as that moves northwards into parts of scotland through the night, we could even see some sleetiness in the south from this area of rain moving in. so, it's a colder start to tuesday morning, a chillier night, some wet weather still with us across southern and eastern areas, the rain breaking up to showers in the north. so a day of sunny spells and showers, quite a brisk wind but a notch down notably across england and wales. so, some sunshine between those of showers helping temperatures to about ten or 11 degrees but some sharp showers with hail and thunder potentially in the north — but for the rest of the week, high pressure bringing instead frost and fog.