President ial election. The incumbent, Yoweri Museveni says hes confident of victory his main challenger bobi wine warns him no to steal the election. Scottish patient and demand compensation after importers refused to accept deliveries due to border delays caused by brexit. We begin in france, where authorities have Just Announced they will extend an overnight curfew to the whole country from saturday. Prime Ministerjean Castex says the curfew will also start two hours earlier at 6 pm instead of 8 pm for at least 15 days to better combat the spread of the coronavirus. The new rules mean that a 12 hour curfew, running from 6pm to 6am, will be in place across the country from saturday. From monday all travellers from outside the eu will have to show a negative covid test and self isolate for a week ani the restrictions come as the covid 19 death toll in france nears 70,000 people lets go live to our paris correspondent hugh schofield. 6pm curfew, doesnt get more than that . ,. , ~ , that . You need to keep it in perspective that . You need to keep it in perspective in that . You need to keep it in perspective in the that . You need to keep it in perspective in the sense that . You need to keep it in| perspective in the sense that that . You need to keep it in perspective in the sense that the country is already under a curfew of one kind or another. I bought a quarter of the country where the infections have been rising more rapidly is already on the six oclock curfew and that curfew is being set in the rest of the country. So the rest of us would have to get home by six instead of by a twitch will have an effect on the way we conduct our lives and they shopping and they will have to shut earlier and so on. What the government is saying is to counteract the effect of getting together for drinks and the government clearly thinks this practice is still going on and people are still despite the warnings have little social gatherings before they go home in the evening and the want to put an end to that. They put an end to it already and they say its had an effect on the number of infections have gone down quicker than the rest of the country. So they could be put on the same restriction now. How is the countrys on the same restriction now. How is the countrys health on the same restriction now. How is the countrys health care on the same restriction now. How is the countrys Health Care System the countrys Health Care System managing . How is the countrys health care keeping this in perspective, what he was saying was that the country is in a worrying situation but not an alarming situation. In comparison with friends� s neighbours it is not doing that badly. The number of intensive care beds is high but it is stable. It is what they call a high plateau. In other words do not level of everything is too high. It is not the moment to call for a general we can find meant. Which is of course a time for a graduated response to initiate this universal six oclock lockdown. What the government is saying is able to keep abreast of the situation and any kind of weekly update will tinker with the rules and it may well be that if things get out of control and if they is a new variant particularly the one from britain which is very worrisome. If that starts to take hold and we see levels of infection skyrocketing them expects maybe a possibility here as well. What about the speed of their vaccination . Does here as well. What about the speed of their vaccination . Of their vaccination . Does he have been reporting of their vaccination . Does he have been reporting. France of their vaccination . Does he have been reporting. France is been reporting. France is embarrassed by the slowness of its response. At the start of the year it was supposed to take him in france as it was in European Countries and after a week it was the number of vaccinations that have been carried out. It is picking up and from monday it will become even more because it is going to extend to the general population. People not in the homes. Anyone over 75 from monday is eligible and can apply for a slot at one of the 700 centres that are being set up and about a Million People who have some condition either treatment for cancer or an organ transplant which makes them vulnerable to covid i9, they can also apply for an early inoculation and the hope is by the end of the month they will be way behind. Picking up speed the marrow. Globally there have been more than 16,000 deaths recorded in the last 24 16,000 deaths recorded in the last 2a hours. The global death toll since the start of the pandemic is now close to 2 million. It is 1. 99 million. A lot of new cases happening globally. We have full data for tuesday, and gave it registered nearly 700,000 new cases and confirmed injust one day. It is estimated it is currently 24. 5 Million People infected with the virus around the world. The us remains the country were steeped by the coronavirus pandemic. Its recorded more than 4000 deaths per day over the past week. In california to paris is putting a huge strain on the Health Care System. The pressure on the los angeles Health Care System has reached dangerous and desperate levels. Ambulance teams have been told not to take those unlikely to make it to hospital. Doctors must decide who should receive the shrinking supplies of oxygen. Heartbreaking choices for medical workers and for the families at the hundreds dying here every day. The risk of contracting the coronavirus here in los angeles has never been greater thanit los angeles has never been greater than it is now. One in five people tested are testing positive. That is four times the number doing so just two months ago. Public Health Officials are warning it could get worse when hospitals are already overflowing. People have been ordered to stay at home to stop that from happening. More than 66,000 people in los angeles dont have a home, their lives already a constant battle for survival. Now, they must confront cobit as well. This means semipermanent structure was built to construct trim to more than a hundred women, instead its become a makeshift covid 19 warrant. National guard are now on the ground here learning how to protect themselves as they assist medical overwhelmed and exhausted by the surgeon admissions. The stadium is now being transformed into massive vaccination sites in the hope of stopping this super surge. Lebanon has entered its strictest lockdown since the start of the pandemic. For the first time, even supermarkets have been told to close their doors and only offer delivery, triggering chaotic panic buying as people rushed to Grocery Stores before they shut. Today it emerged that lebanons Health Minister is being treated for covid 19 after being hospitalised overnight. Meanwhile, there a growing fear that hospitals do not have the facilities to cope with a dangerous surge in coronavirus cases. In beirut, intensive care units are now at ninety eight per cent capacity, and on the streets, Security Forces are manning checkpoints to ensure compliance. For more on the situation in beirut, heres lebanese journalist kareem che hayeb. Lebanon has already been implementing a partial lockdown since earlier this month. Its inability to control a surge in cases forced the authorities to revisit this lockdown and implement a complete lockdown and the state of emergency. It is primarily because a month ago that hospitals are struggling to take in all the patients. Most patients with mild symptoms are being sent back home and most hospitals including lebanons large private hospitals that are well equipped are transforming entire words to take in more covid 19 patients of moderate and severe cases. It is a pressing point by lebanon which is going to a criminal crippling economic process. Doctors described the situation of a controlled mass. Things have not lost complete control but it is still a mess nonetheless. Its extremely stressful in the past year has been difficult with the currency declining by 80 . The babe ruth port explosion which flattened much of the capital. Putting all these things together, its been a very distressing time for much of the population and many people fearing that they might not have access to resources once they need them are purchasing a lot and under these kinds of circumstances many are saying that its hard for them to be hyper rational about how they go about these things. Japan has so far managed to keep covid 19 relatively well contained, it has seen just over 4,000 deaths so far, but it is seeing a slow increase in daily cases, as you can see in this graph from japan news, the number of people being hospitalised, the dark pink line, is also on the rise. And today a japanese minister has, for the first time, signalled that this summers already delayed 0lympics might not take place. Taro kano said the government had to do the best it could to prepare for the games, but said it could go either way. Up until now, japan has insisted that covid will be sufficiently under control by the summer for the Tokyo Olympics to go ahead. Now to china, where a team of experts from the World Health Organisation arrives in the chinese city of wuhan for a long delayed investigation into the origin of the coronavirus. The group will spend two weeks in quarantine in a hotel before visiting different sites under chinese supervision. 0ur correspondent robin brant is in wuhan with more on what we can expect the Investigation Team to do there. It has taken a long time to get them here, it ended with two people staying in a hotel room under quarantine for a fortnight and then leaving. A baker team is here now and theyre here for around a period of time up until the very end of theseissues of time up until the very end of these issues last week. And Still Deciding on dates and arrangements up deciding on dates and arrangements up until last week. They are now in quarantine for a period and that is the most significant question. What kind of access are they going to get and the city where the press reports of cases where. What kind of access are they going to get to research material. Human and animal samples. The kind of data material that chinese authorities and chinese scientists have been gathering over the last year. The answer is we do not know at this stage. It may be because its not been made public but maybe at this stage they dont know either. The Research Team arrived on the same day that china reported a death from covid nineteen for the first time in eight months. No details were given about the incident other than it occurred in hebei province. The last reported death in Mainland China was in may last year. Kerry allen is china analyst for bbc monitoringq where will the who investigators want to go once theyre out of quarantine starting at the Seafood Market presumably . We know that this is a woman with Underlying Health conditions but we dont even know which city or which county she lives in. We know that there are more than 500 cases of confirmed symptomatic cases but there are cases expanding three cities and the government has not been releasing this information yet. There are questions as to whether. He had been stressing she has Underlying Health conditions more than anything else. It was not unexpected to some extent. But for china this is a big deal because its been more than a hundred days since any confirmed deaths from the coronavirus. Let since any confirmed deaths from the coronavirus coronavirus. Let us look at that world health coronavirus. Let us look at that World Health Organization coronavirus. Let us look at that| World Health Organization team coronavirus. Let us look at that. World Health Organization team in wuhan. fist World Health Organization team in wuhan. �. , j wuhan. At the moment theyre undergoing wuhan. At the moment theyre undergoing two wuhan. At the moment theyre undergoing two weeks wuhan. At the moment theyre undergoing two weeks of wuhan. At the moment theyre i undergoing two weeks of currency wuhan. At the moment theyre undergoing two weeks of currency and they will be there for another two weeks. They will be looking at the early stages of the coronavirus and a member of the patient� s links to this Seafood Market. So thats a possibility but there are two members of the teams that are still not able to reach wuhan at the moment because cheney requires that you need to have to coronavirus tests and an Antibody Test before arriving and to people tested positive for antibodies of the coronavirus. Positive for antibodies of the coronavirus. Has cheney been forthcoming coronavirus. Has cheney been forthcoming with coronavirus. Has cheney been forthcoming with the coronavirus. Has cheney been forthcoming with the who coronavirus. Has cheney been l forthcoming with the who since coronavirus. Has cheney been forthcoming with the who since the crisis began . In forthcoming with the who since the crisis began . Crisis began . In recent days its been emphasizing crisis began . In recent days its been emphasizing that crisis began . In recent days its been emphasizing that china i crisis began . In recent days itsl been emphasizing that china has crisis began . In recent days its been emphasizing that china has been working closely with the who and the ministry has been emphasizing that china is showing a transparent approach and working closely with the who but at the same time there have been some cutbacks. So the World Health Organization did indicate it wanted to travel to china and they are a number of visa restrictions in place and there have been the case more recently at the beginning of the year that the visit was to push back. China has been very careful about any information in terms of what they visit red and fair. I had seen already on platforms facebook or twitter and clear censorship in place about people wanting to talk about this visit and thats whats going to happen. So posts from social media users that you can see only a handful. 44 men have served as us president. 40 of them managed to get by without being impeached. Three faced impeachment. Just one donald trump has been impeached twice. The house of representatives has formally charged him with inciting a mob that stormed Congress Last week after he repeated false claims of election fraud. Five people died in the violence. The president still hasnt reacted directly to his second impeachment but as you can imagine many other people have. Heres one democrat speaking to the bbc. A lot of folks we are saying we cannot heal the democracy unless there is accountability and siding and insurgents needs to see some sort of accountability. Essen and insurgents needs to see some sort of accountability. Sort of accountability. Even if it is towards sort of accountability. Even if it is towards the sort of accountability. Even if it is towards the end sort of accountability. Even if it is towards the end of sort of accountability. Even if it is towards the end of the sort of accountability. Even if itj is towards the end of the term. Sort of accountability. Even if it i is towards the end of the term. If they did not go forward with impeachment one could argue that there is a just mean a president can do anything they want in the last few weeks of the term and not be held accountable . Veteran lawyer alan dershowitz� s has a completely different view. We should not become amazing free speech in the interest of ending a term for five days early. It will stick with us forever and it will be a horrible precedent. 10 republicans broke from their party to vote for impeachment this time remember that none defected during the first impeachment a year ago. If mr trump is convicted by a two thirds majority in the senate, a subsequent vote could then also vote to bar him from ever Holding Public office again. So will any of this happen before mr Trump Leaves Office on the 20th january . No. The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says. Given the rules, procedures, and Senate Precedents that govern mr mcconnell says we will not convene the senate for a trial untiljanuary 19. It would require at least 17 republicans to vote yes for impeachment in order for it to pass. To tell us about the likelihood of this, heres our correspondent gary odonoghue. I think its a lot more likely than it was even a base coat that 17 republicans will a donald trump, particularly after the list seems to last wednesday which horrified democrats and horrified republicans in the senate and the house as well. They felt under threat, under physical threat. They felt under threat, under physicalthreat. From they felt under threat, under physical threat. From these protesters who appointed to be supporters of the president. Thats a big change. The other big change thats taken place is the republican leader in the senate, Mitch Mcconnell has indicated hes open to impeachment process, possibly even open to the idea of convicting donald trump and that gives a big, Big Green Night to republican senators who may have been wavering and gives them cover. Whether its enough to get those 17 votes let have to wait and see because it is there a big, big ask. Its going to be an interesting discussion and debate by the democrats over how big a beer and how long a time that allow this child to go on. Whether it be a quick down and dirty thing or will it be lots of witnesses and evidence and the fear forjoe biden is this whole thing overshadows the first period and the first days of his inauguration and his administration when he wants to push on with covid 19 relief and getting the economy back on its feet. Is the president to be allowed to tu