B.b.c. News at midnight this is Jane Steele. Donald Trump's lawyers have told his 2nd impeachment trial the charge that incited supporters to storm Congress is a monstrous lie wrapping up the defense case in the Senate they argued that the accusations against the former president were an act of political vengeance going to virus cases a falling in each part of the u.k. But the health secretary Matt Hancock has Want there is still a long way to go the immigration offices union says its members haven't been told how to operate the new quarantine hotel scheme just days before it comes into force m I 5 was warned that the terrorist who killed 2 people at a rehabilitation conference might be planning an attack before he was released from prison but the sightings former chief doctor has been charged by the u.k. Anti Doping Agency lawyers representing Donald Trump and his 2nd impeachment trial have concluded his defense insisting the Democrats have used the proceedings to settle political schools the former president's legal team said the charge of incitement of insurrection relating to last month's riot at the u.s. Capitol was a monstrous lie Mr Trump's opponents believe he should be held accountable for his comments on January the 6th but a Senate conviction appears unlikely from Washington North America correspondent to 2nd reports Donald Trump's lawyers that the case against him was unconstitutional and was an unjust and politically motivated act of vengeance they argued that the former president's comments that his supporters should fight like hell was ordinary political rhetoric a member of the defense team Michael Vanderveen said nothing in Mr Trump's speech could be construed as encouraging unlawful activity no thinking person could seriously believe that the president's January 6th speech on the old lips wasn't any way an incitement to violence or insurrection. The suggestion is patently absurd on its face the defense used the Democrats' own words against them playing heavily edited video of them using similar language what we've got to do is fight in Congress fight in the courts fight in the streets fight online fight at the ballot box so we always must fight to fight to fight and to fight that is the guiding purpose of House Democrat Donald Trump's words were his lawyers said protected under free speech and the prosecution had deliberately ignored his call the supporters to be peaceful another defense attorney David Shinn accused the president's opponents of distorting and falsifying evidence and he argued that Donald Trump had been denied due process hatred animosity division political gain and let's face it for House Democrats President Trump is the best enemy to attack that Mr Trump's lawyers took roughly 3 hours to make their case shows how confident they feel only a handful of Republicans have indicated that their minds are not yet made up the Democrats need 17 of them to cost a guilty vote in order to secure a conviction the arguments put by the defense but more about making their case to the American public the winning over senators who've already decided on their position the latest figures on Corona virus infections from the Office for National Statistics suggest that the national lockdowns are working with levels falling across the u.k. The reproduction number or value of Corona virus is below one meaning the outbreak is shrinking is the 1st time since July that all has been this lead but experts are warning that the number of infections remains high more from our health correspondent James Garner There's a stream of coronavirus the to stakes every Friday but they are all painting the same positive picture the amount of Corona virus in the country is folding the off that's the average number of people each infected person is passing the virus on c . Is at its lowest level since the summer the Office for National Statistics survey says the level of infection is falling in each part of the u.k. And the number of people testing positive in the last 24 hours is 15000 that's down on the same day last week but the health secretary Matt Hancock said it was still work to do the plan is work but we are a long way off getting this sorted the still over 25000 or even hospital we throw the virus right now so everyone can have confidence that the plan is working what we collectively doing together is having a really positive impact but still a long way to get the daily data poses 2 big questions is the vaccine making a difference and when can we lift restrictions both are still hard to answer government science advisers say it is still too soon to know whether the vaccine has begun to make an impact the answer will line detailed studies comparing people who have and haven't been immunized to know for sure and what the situation is undoubtedly improving the amount of virus in the country remains high the onus estimates 3 quarters of a 1000000 people were infected during the week of its study a further 758 people have died across the u.k. Within 28 days of a positive test it brings the total number of such deaths 211-6280 7 just over half a 1000000 more people received their 1st dose of the vaccine yesterday. The head of n.h.s. England says Simon Stephens has said the vaccination rollout is on track to hit Monday's target of offering at least one jab to everyone in the foremost fundable groups the Welsh government says it has already hit its target but amid the general success of the vaccine rollout one center in London has said it is working far below capacity with many more doses available than patients or details from our health correspondent Dominic Hughes support said that in. Days the vaccination Center at the Francis Crick Institute in London which has the capacity to deliver a 1000 jobs a day was at times only doing $100.00 and on some days not even that support who is also a patron of scientists for Labor said it didn't appear to be an issue of vaccine supply more the system for booking people in for a Jap and he said delays in getting the vaccine out could cost lives and livelihoods it can't make any sense to have only 5 to 10 percent of the capacity being used over the sea there is a p.r. Issue here a communication issue but that force through a lower level in my view is simply getting people vaccinated n.h.s. England maintains it's following evidence based advice so that everyone gets a job as supplies allow And those words are crucial supplies of the vaccine are expected to be lower in the coming weeks to allow the manufacturers to ramp up production even further ministers in both Scotland and Wales have confirmed they are also planning for a reduced vaccine supply in the near future but the head of the n.h.s. In England says Simon Stevens says the program remains on track we expect to see continued vaccine supply but of course it will vary from week to week on my health service will continue to be agile in adjusting how much transformation takes place each day or each week based on the supplies available we are are confident that if the vaccine supply continues to arrive in the way that the government expects then we will be able to get the job done more than 14000000 people in the u.k. Have now had their 1st job at least a quarter of all adults in each of the 4 Nations it's still possible the vaccine rollout may slow over the next few weeks and then pick up again in March just as 2nd booster dose is start to fall due 12 weeks after the 1st jabs were administered days before the quarantine hotel scheme is due to begin the immigration offices Union has warned that its members a yet to receive instructions on how to manage arrivals the new restrictions. I mean people travelling to England from 33 high risk countries will have to stay in a designated hotel for 10 days the government said operational guidance for the Border Force was constantly updated and staff were given support on how to apply it more details from our transport Correspondent Karen Davis quarantine hotels open on Monday but with only a few days left there are still questions about how the scheme will work Lucy Morton the general secretary of the Immigration Services Union has said that offices still don't know whether they'd be required to check the passports and tickets of people arriving to ensure they went from red list countries how detailed the check should be and whether they should give chase If someone the checking tries to run away quarantine hotels are only available at 7 airports Heathrow Gatwick London city Edinburgh or Glasgow Aberdeen and Birmingham anyone intending on flying from one of the 33 high risk countries to a different u.k. At Port will have to change that ticket. New data has laid bare the impact of the cave in pandemic on the U.K.'s economy confirming that it shrank by a record amount in 2020 the Office for National Statistics said that in the year as a whole the total value of goods and services produced fell by nearly a 10th that's more than twice as large as any previous annual drop the chancellery soon accept the virus had caused a serious shock but labor criticised the government's response as stop start this report from our economics correspondent Andrew Verity today's figures give a sense of the unprecedented economic rollercoaster caused by the pandemic last year in the spring mass restrictions caused the economy to shrink faster than it had in 300 years contract in by 19 percent then as they were eased it surged back by 16 percent in the summer then more measures in a slowdown again in the run up to Christmas over the whole of 2029 point 9 percent drop in activity compared with the previous year was the biggest on record for the u.k. According to the National Institute for Economic and Social Research It's also likely to be the largest annual fall among the g 7 advanced economies something the shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds picked up on we've had the worst death toll of any European country but we've also had that worst economic crisis of any major economy as well we've really need public spending to be directed in the right places not have this level of waste and mismanagement of public funds the chancellor issue soon acted spew to that claim saying the key measure of the goods and services the economy produces gross domestic product or g.d.p. Was measured differently in other countries if you either correct for that difference or look at it in a way that's more comparable nominal g.d.p. What you find as the Bank of England the Office for National Statistics of pointed out what you find is that our performance there is very much in line or comparable to other countries within the gloomy picture for the whole of 2020 were some bright spots growth or slightly better than expected in the final 3 months of last year. Up one percent a manufacturing in construction and now down only a few percentage points from there prepared to make levels the economic pain was concentrated on sectors such as pubs restaurants and hotels under the current measures across the 4 Nations the economy is expected to shrink in the 1st quarter of this year by 3 or 4 percent which in more normal times will be seen as a severe contraction but it's less than a quarter of the size of the slum caused by the shutdown nearly a year ago the court has been told that the security service m I 5 had intelligence that the man who murdered 2 people at the fishmonger's who in London might have been plotting an attack while still in prison this man com was released at the end of 2018 and the following November he killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at a prisoner rehabilitation conference he was then shot dead by police on London Bridge his own home affairs correspondent Daniel Sanford the existence of the m I 5 intelligence a merged at a pre inquest hearing ahead of the full inquest in April Nick Armstrong a lawyer for Jack Maritz family said m I 5 had received the intelligence that was known Khan might be plotting a post release attack before he was freed from prison it was enough for his priority level within the Security Service to be razed oarsmen Khan was also deemed a high risk category a prisoner until shortly before his release his prison records showed that he'd been radicalizing other inmates and encouraging violence Mr Armstrong had been ongoing concerns in m I 5 in the probation service but was none can could have been gaming the system by falsely appearing to be compliance and attending the radicalisation courses the lawyer for Mr Maritz family raised these issues while arguing that individual m I 5 officers might need to be called to give evidence not just a senior manager you're not going to get to the bottom of what officers understood by asking the manager Mr Armstrong said. The Supreme Court in the u.k. Has ruled more than 50001000 farmers can sue the oil company Royal Dutch Shell for a series of spills in the Niger Delta shell argues that the spill which contaminated land and water supplies with the results of sabotage and theft is an economics correspondent Andrew Walker to communities in the Niger Delta want to sue shell for the harm done by oil spills the Supreme Court ruling does not settle the question of whether the oil giant is liable but it does mean that the claimants can make their case in English court that show u.k. Should be own struggle for the actions of its subsidiary in Nigeria Daniel leader of the solicitously de is representing the Nigerian communities he told the b.b.c. That the situation was scandalous and he said the u.n. Had reported the water in the area was unfit for consumption it was only resurrected all over these communities saying you can't drink you whole fish usually be using We are falling as is chronically balut and yet there is no clean up so what they are pushing for is for Shell to do what they are legally obliged to do on a Nigerian law which is to clean up the oil which is built from their own pipelines Shell says criminal actions including sabotage and theft the main reason for pollution in the Niger Delta the company says it cleans up after spills whatever the cause Shell has faced a number of legal actions over its operation in Nigeria last month a Dutch court ruled that it should compensate a group of farmers who said they had lost their livelihoods as a result of the oil leaks the high court has rejected an attempt to disqualify the founder and 7 former trustees at the children's charity Kids Company which collapsed in 2015 the Official Receiver argued that they were unfit to hold company directorships as a result of their running of the organization but the judge ruled that Kids Company might have survived were it not for unfounded allegations Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic report. When Camilla but man get rich founded Kids Company in south London in 1906 she aimed to turn around the lives of some of the poorest the most vulnerable children in society 19 years later her organization had become a 20000000 pound operation but was struggling as demand for its services increased beyond London today after a 3 year long legal battle Mrs Justice folk ruled that neither Ms but my gal age nor the charity's trustees could have expected this collapse despite claims from the Official Receiver that they should have seen it coming the church said the financial rescue plan backed by 3000000 pounds for ministers fell apart only because private donors pulled out following unfounded allegations of sexual and physical assault tonight Camilla Batman college set the judgment vindicated the charity and its workers a judge has already said we did our best and it's very unfortunate that the misinformation generated by elements of the media and some political force this is truly a really good charity of course when you are an organization you can always do things that all of us and that our Linnean told the B.B.C.'s former creative director was chairman of the charity when he went into liquidation despite reports in the media that he and others had lost control the Church said the public needed no protection from the highly impressive and dedicate the trustees. The un is warning that harsh of all Yemeni children under 5 are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year with $400000.00 of them at risk of starving to death the charity Save the Children said the numbers were horrifying our world affairs correspondent Caroline Hawley reports images of tiny school little children gasping for breath have become Familia 6 years of war in Yemen have created the world's most serious humanitarian emergency and it's getting worse the charity Save the Children says the hunger crisis facing Yemen is unprecedented acute malnutrition has increased with every year of the conflict between the Saudi led coalition and healthy rebels backed by Iran the un says that more than $2000000.00 children under the age of 5 a likely to be affected this year 400000 of them could die it warns without urgent intervention more than a 1000000 pregnant or breastfeeding women also facing acute malnutrition the u.n. Currently has a severe shortage of funds to prevent starvation but officials say the situation is so dire it must now shock the world into action. The home secretary pretty Patel has condemned last year's Black lives matter protests and said she would not take a knee the symbolic act of the dollars he against racism adopted by sports stars and other public figures and the racism demonstrations spread across the world last summer in the wake of the killing of the black man George Floyd by a white police officer in the u.s. State of Minnesota Jon Donnison reports pretty Patel was appearing on l b C's Nick Ferrari program fielding calls from listeners when asked about last year's Black lives matter protests which were widespread around the world she described them as dreadful protesting in the way in which people did last summer was not the right school we saw that she's be down some chance of making fun but frankly is dance around stuff she's a street names there are other ways in which those discussions aren't place and who say Well frankly I didn't support that sense of Iraq history that was wrong during the protests in the u.k. a Number of statues were pulled down including one in Bristol of the slave trader Edward Colston pretty but so was also asked whether she would take a knee the gesture of solidarity adopted in particular by sports stars to protest against police brutality towards black people she said she would not now and would not have done last year either in a statement the campaign group stand up for racism said it was outraged and appalled by the Home Secretary's remarks it said the comments were reminiscent of something former president Donald Trump might have said adding Miss Patel was extremely out of touch with what many saw as an inspirational anti racism movement . A couple have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a one year old baby boy they had agreed to adopt died while he was in their care the adoption had been organized by Cumbria County Council the authority has described the case as deeply distressing Steve so reports at the time of his death it's understood the boy was living with prospective adoptive parents before a final adoption order was granted assess the requirements of the process while parental responsibility rests with the adopters the child is also still looked after by a local authority on till adoption is confirmed the county council's recommended an independent safeguarding review be carried out an investigation by Cumbria police is continuing Cumbria County Council's Executive Director John Readman says it was a deeply distressing case the man convicted of raping and murdering the university student Libby squire in Hull has been jailed for a minimum of 27 years misc why he was 21 and from bucking Misha was attacked by Pavel releve it after a night out in February 2900