Embarrassed us around the world. Not worthy to hold that office. And snow in spain leaves hundreds of drivers trapped in their cars as roads are blocked and madrid airport remains closed. Hello and welcome to bbc news. Breaking news from our world correspondence just in the last couple of minutes. Royal correspondent. Buckingham palace at has announced that the queen who is 94 and the duke of edinburgh who is 99 have today received their covid 19 vaccinations. These were administered at windsor by a doctor in the royal household. The decision to release the news was made by her majesty and there will be no additional comment. So it isjust a one line statement really thatjonny dymond has brought us that they have received their covid 19 vaccinations. The queen has remained at windsor instead of moving to sandringham due to the tier 4 restrictions. These are library pictures clearly of an event that took place before we were in the pandemic and people with facemask and all the rest of it
With many major hospitals in the capital under unprecedented pressure there is an urgent need to free up beds. This hotel in south london is preparing to take on a small number of homeless or vulnerable Covid Patients from Kings College hospital, while they continue their recovery. The first is expected later today. The hospitals lead for social care says it has been successfully used for non Covid Patients. We know there is a demand for more of this hotel beds to be set up in order to ease the pressure on the nhs, we hope by starting small we can up scale in order to meet demands of the trust. Londons declared a major incident, with more than 7,000 Covid Patients in the hospitals and admissions approaching a thousand a day, staff say this yea rs a thousand a day, staff say this years winter pressure is off the charts. It really is unprecedented, in terms of the number of patients that require intensive care, being put on a ventilator at one time, and most hospitals have reached, have
Sunshine. A cloud frosty start with sunshine. A cloud especially rain heads through wales, south east england and into Northern Ireland. Some snow over the welsh hills, and by the end of the day into the pete district as well. I had of that we look at sunshine in scotland, showers in the northwest. Showers in england and wales after the rain clears. Here we will see the rain clears. Here we will see the highest temperatures. That rain continues to move northwards in a Northern England. Not expecting huge amounts of rain, 10 15 mm or so, with the rain gradually easing away during wednesday night and thursday morning into the england. Another area of low pressure. This could bring some rain through the English Channel into the far south of england for once, some heavier rain as well. Elsewhere it improves as you had for the north, brightening up, still some showers around mainly for scotland and Northern Ireland, interpreters around 6 sullivan celsius for large parts of the uk
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Hello, youre watching bbc news. The time is 10. 30. Heres whats coming up on sportsday tonight. Its an fa cup knockout for klopps liverpool. Chelsea are through to the quarterfinals. Let the games begin. On time. The ioc president says its business as usual for the Tokyo Olympics despite the coronavirus fears. And as the virus continues impact sport across the world, we go inside the hotel where four elite cycling teams have been quarantined. People are starting to lose their minds now. I saw some people throwing some bags around the core door, not from our team but some of the guests. There also unfortunately caught up in this mess at the moment. Good evening. Two weeks ago, liverpool were all conquering the best team in europe, invincible. The league title will surely come but they have lost 3 matches in their last 4 and tonight they were knocked out of the fa cup. Chelsea winning 2 nil to reach the quarterfinals. Nick parrott reports. The last time these two met in the fa cup was th
Town striker Martyn Waghorn admits he would love to end a 14-game goal famine at Preston on Saturday but insists the number one priority will always be the team and trying to secure a positive result.