Leaders drop points at home for the first time this season in a 1 1 draw with west brom. Good morning. More of us seeing our first snow of the season this morning. It is frosty, it is icy, there are difficult travelling conditions and the cold weather will see us conditions and the cold weather will see us out of the year. Forecast coming up. Good morning. Its monday, the 28th of december. Our top story. Hospitals across the uk say theyre facing intense pressure, as the number of Coronavirus Infections continues to rise. Three ambulance trusts in the south of england are urging people to only call 999 if theres a genuine emergency. London Ambulance Service says boxing day was one of the busiest 2a hours in its history. And in scotland, Doctors Say Health services could be overwhelmed if the relaxation of covid restrictions for christmas triggers a surge in cases. With this report, heres andy moore. Health services across the country are under pressure, and in some areas such as wales and london, they are under particular strain. The capital is where the new variant of coronavirus is growing most rapidly. The london Ambulance Service has reported that boxing day was one of its busiest days ever, second only to march 16th earlier this year, when the first wave of the pandemic was beginning to surge. On the 26th of december this year, the service dealt with 7918 emergency calls. Thats an increase of more than 50 on last years total for the same day of 5217. In order to meet the rising demand, the service is putting back office staff on the road, and drafting in extra ambulances from neighbouring regions. Other Ambulance Services in the south east are reporting similar problems. Ambulance trusts in particular are coming under extreme pressure, as are community and mental Health Services. Everybody affected by the impact of covid. And talking to trust leaders overnight, they are under no illusion about how challenging this is. In wales, more than half of intensive care beds are now occupied by covid patients. Its a situation described as unprecedented. The situation across wales is quite sobering. The number of people that are presenting with symptoms of covid that not only require hospital admission, but are so seriously ill that they require intensive care, and that more than 50 of our bed occupancy in intensive care, is now due to covid patients, is very worrying. In scotland, the countrys clinical director has denied the system could be overwhelmed. He said measures were in place where extra capacity was needed. But some doctors are warning that a combination of factors could create a perfect storm. The combination of these two occurrences, much more mixing over christmas and the very high transmissibility of the new strain of covid, would result in many more infections. And therefore many more hospital admissions, and necessarily, then, more admissions to an intensive care unit and more deaths, sadly. But there is some good news on the horizon. Another vaccine, the Oxford University astrazeneca version, is expected to be given approval soon by the regulator and its roll out could start early in the new year. The uk has ordered 100 million doses of this jab, and unlike the pfizer vaccine, it doesnt need to be kept at extremely low temperatures. Andy moore, bbc news. Businesses and people travelling to the European Union are being warned to get ready for substa ntial changes from new years eve. The Cabinet Office minister, michael gove, said there would be some disruption, which Everyone Needs to prepare for as the brexit transition period comes to an end. Heres our political correspondent, helen catt. Big ben chimes. This was the moment the uk left the eu. 11pm on the 31st of january this year. And itll be iipm again, this time of the 31st of december, when we leave the Single Market and the customs union. This time the government says we will notice the change. A trade deal was finalised in brussels last week, and it is expected to be in place before thursday. The eu are set to approve it possibly as early as today. The Uk Parliament is expected to pass the necessary law on wednesday. But even with a deal in place, businesses that trade goods with the eu will still have to file customs declarations, even though they wont pay any tariffs. Lorries wanting to use the channel tunnel port of dover will need a permit to enter kent. In holyhead, authorities are also putting in place measures to deal with possible traffic build up. There will be new trade rules for Northern Ireland. The government has said there was likely to be some disruption to trade. It has advice for anyone planning a trip to any eu country except ireland. Check your passport is valid, double check your roaming policy for your mobile phone and take out full travel insurance. Valid ehip cards will still be recognised. The government says with a big change comes challenge and opportunity. And that, its reminding us, starting a few days time. Helen catt, bbc news. Buy one, get one free promotions on unhealthy food and free refills of sugary soft drinks in restaurants, will be banned in england from april 2022, as part of new government plans to tackle obesity. Supermarkets will also be barred from displaying unhealthy goods at checkouts, as Aruna Iyengar reports. Ministers want us to buy more of this and less of this. Loading up the trolley with unhealthy buy one get one frees may soon be a thing of the past. Ministers say this promotional practice is bad for our health, and encourages us to buy excessive amounts of food we dont actually need. The government says it wants to get tough on tackling obesity. And Childhood Obesity is seen as one of the biggest threats to britains future health. The restrictions will apply to foods high in fat, salt or sugar, such as cakes, crisps, soft drinks, breakfast cereals, pizzas and ready meals. Smaller shops will be exempt from the rules. And there will be no more free refills of sugary soft drinks when dining out. Suck in a tower burger smothered in spicy. An eight week consultation will also propose going ahead with a ban on junk food adverts being aired on tv before 9pm. The approach, which will apply in england, is seen as a u turn for borisjohnson who has in the past criticised so called sin taxes and nannying by the state. Aruna iyengar, bbc news. Police investigating a camper van explosion in nashville on Christmas Day have named a suspect. Us officials said dna found at the scene matched that of 63 year old Anthony Quinn warner, who died in the blast. Three people were injured. The fbi said it was too early to suggest a motive. Now, hows this for precision flying . A pilot in germany has traced an image of a syringe in the sky to mark the launch of vaccination campaigns across the European Union. Flight tracking data showed the small plane drawing the outline of a syringe above a town in southern germany. Pilot samy kraymar says he thought it was a fun way to raise awareness on such an historic day. Blimey. That sounds complicated enough without doing it upside down. You might get your bearings a bit wrong. Those lines are very precise. Nine minutes past six. If you are out and about early this morning, it is cold and there is snow around, isnt there . Good morning, nick. Good morning. Very wintry to start the day. Difficult travelling conditions. A few centimetres of snow have fallen across parts of the uk. Widespread ice. It is the start of a cold end to the year and the start of 2021 with frost, with ice at times this week, further rain, sleet and snow occasionally to come. Not wet all the time. Occasionally drive moments with sunshine. If you are in an area with sunshine. If you are in an area with flooding, there will be more wet weather occasionally. Overall precipitation amounts are not going to be as large as we have seen. This is the latest. We have seen snow in scotla nd is the latest. We have seen snow in scotland in the past few hours, into Northern Ireland. It is north west england, wales, the West Midlands into South West England where we are waking up to a few centimetres. Difficult travel conditions. Warnings for snow and ice. Do check those out. This area of low pressure is what was storm bella. Clearly not as powerful now. But it is Still Producing some rain, sleet and snow. Cold air across the uk at the moment. That is why the precipitation coming out of storm bella is giving snow in some areas. This is how it is looking, the first few hours of this morning. Icy conditions, frosty, difficult roads and pavements. This area of rain, sleet and snow pushing further across parts of central england. Not all of it falling snow. On Higher Ground there will be some snow. Outbreaks of rain until snow through Northern Ireland into western scotland. Coastal counties will see wintry showers. Clearly temperatures are going to be struggling. It will feel colder the further west you are. This is where it is quite windy as well. Continuing to see a few more showers overnight. We could also see some more rain, sleet and snow putting in to the midlands as the night goes on. I see in places. Where you have got flooding and run off as those temperatures fall a few degrees below freezing as we start the day tomorrow. Not all of us seeing the wet weather tomorrow. We could very well see this area of rain, sleet and snow putting across parts of southern england during the day. Coastal areas continuing to pick up some wintry showers. By tomorrow afternoon many of us seeing some fairly dry weather. Some occasional sunshine for those but those temperatures are still struggling, as they will on wednesday. Another area of wet weather coming into the cold air. On the leading edge that we could see it turn to sleet and snow in some spots. Seeing out of the year and the start of 2021, those temperatures not in a hurry to head up. Snowy for some of us. Take care if you are travelling. Pretty dicey with the snow and the ice. Hopefully not too many people having to travel today, because it is a bank holiday. Its quite scary out there. Thank you. And if there are snowy scenes where you are this morning, you can send your pictures into us by email at bbcbrea kfast bbc. Co. Uk. And you can tweet about todays stories using the hashtag bbcbreakfast or follow us for the latest from the programme. Lets take a look at some of todays front pages. A shot at freedom thats the headline on the front of todays daily mirror, as the paper reports the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine is just days away from approval. It also says this could mean lockdowns can end as soon as february. Meanwhile, a warning from senior doctors leads the times this morning. They say the nhs is at risk of being overwhelmed as the number of patients in hospital is about to exceed the peak of the first wave. And as were reporting this morning, one area being impacted by that is the capital. The Evening Standard reports that new cases rose in every london borough during the week before christmas. Meanwhile, reviews for the television remake of the 1947 film black narcissus, starring gemma arterton, feature in some of the papers this morning. The telegraphs headline reads bbcs winning habit. Quite a clever headline. We will be speaking to. I dont know how many of you have watched bridget in yet. We will be speaking to one of the stars later. A quick look at some of the story is making the inside pages. This has made a few of the papers. Sir David Attenborough saying that he will probably never film overseas again. He feels a guilt attached to the amount of overseas travel he has done. Someone has done the maths. He has notched up 1. 9 million miles of International Travel in his career, according to the daily mirror. The equivalent of travelling around the world 76 times. Quite a striking quote from sir david who says his heart is sinking deeper into his boots every time he gets on a plane. Suchis boots every time he gets on a plane. Such is his concern about Climate Change. Idid speak change. I did speak to him a couple of months ago. He has in trouble for ages. There still is a notable optimism though. Thankfully. We should talk about that notable optimism, actually. There is a report out by the National Trust this week and it is talking about wildlife and saying that so many of us wildlife and saying that so many of us have turned to wildlife during these difficult few months that we have been going through. Britains tourist hotspots have been proud of this year with vulcans, partridges and other wild creatures. Vulca ns. And other wild creatures. Vulcans. Also, jimmy and other wild creatures. Vulca ns. Also, Jimmy Greaves and other wild creatures. Vulcans. Also, Jimmy Greaves said to become an mbe in the new years on as. Tv host of course as well as former spurs striker. He has turned 80. Expected to get a gong, as the newspapers like to call them, in the onerous which we will learn about in the next few days. Plenty more speculation about who is going to feature on that list coming up. It is exactly a quarter past six. Its just three weeks until the us president Electjoe Biden will begin his tenure as the 46th president of the united states. Tackling the coronavirus pandemic will be his biggest challenge at home, but mr biden has lots to sort out internationally too. With an assessment of the challenges ahead, heres our World Affairs editor, john simpson. America is back. Ready to lead the world, not retreat from it. Once again sit at the head of the table. Now thatjoe biden is about to take over the white house, and donald trump is moving out, governments right around the world are heaving sighs of relief. Im not actually walking into the real oval office. This is an exact replica, in a norfolk film studio, much used by hollywood movies. But Whenjoe Biden sits at that desk for the first time, hes going to be taking charge of a country whose standing in the world hasnt been as low as this in decades. Right around the world, there are offences to be mended and alliances to be built up again. America is back, multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back. That means taking the lead in nato again, afterfour years of complaints about other members, plus threats to cut americas contributions. And another major priority, rejoining the paris climate accord, which donald trump said damaged american interests. Joe biden hopes to revive the Nuclear Agreement with iran, which trump tried to kill off. Iran, the big European Countries and britain are all enthusiastic. Trumps one Foreign Policy success was getting two gulf states plus sudan to recognise israel. Trump sided strongly with the israelis and cut aid to the palestinians. How easy will it be forjoe biden to be able to change this . Even more important for him is how hell approach russia. The russians meddled in the 2016 us election and seem to have hacked into some of americas most fundamental secrets. There is a lot of Unfinished Business with russia. I think together with the uk and with europe, we are going to have to again sit down and decide what kind of serious signals do we send to russia, that its behaviour must indeed change. We have a max for years, probably two years, to really do things together with our allies. And there is the most complex problem of all, china. What should joe bidens approach be . Work with china. Compete with them in a persistent and forceful and effectual effective way, and be prepared in the event there is conflict. But also be willing to cooperate with china on some Critical Issues that are right before us, like combating Global Climate change, dealing with the covid 19 pandemic. At 78, time isnt exactly onjoe bidens side. But for the outside world, he has one huge advantage. He isnt donald trump. John simpson, bbc news. In all of the news around brexit and the coronavirus, you forget there is a huge inauguration coming up. With so many of us stuck at home, 2020 was the year that saw our relationship with the Great Outdoors change. Lockdowns led many of us to appreciate our natural surroundings like never before. Now a National Trust report says that Climate Change remains the biggest threat to our environment as breakfasts john maguire reports. At least 2020 has been good for some. The grey seal population here at Blakeney Point on the north norfolk coast, is thriving. Its just a handful of pups that were born at the end of the late 90s, early 2000s. Were now on roughly 3,500 to 4,000 pups born every year. So theyve basically been increasing since then. So its been a pretty phenomenal rise. And they dont really show any signs of slowing down at the moment. Its been a year of large scale trends driven by Climate Change, but also lockdowns and restrictions have meant that some of the conflicts between the human and the Natural World have been diminished. Its been a kind of record breaking year, and we can expect that as the climate continues to change. And so the challenge for us really is, how do we respond to, not only the climate, but also the nature crisis . And so were having to adjust our Land Management to make sure that we make are our landscapes as not only nature rich, but resilient also