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The UK is expected to remain in lockdown until March, with people being urged to stay at home, as the scale of the public health emergency becomes even more daunting. More than 60,000 new Covid cases have been reported in the past 24 hour period, the highest number since the start of the pandemic. More than a million people in England are currently infected. There is some progress, with more than 1.3m people having been given a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, including a quarter of people over 80. However some experts have warned that the government’s target of delivering 13 million vaccines by mid-February is unrealistic. Record numbers of people have been admitted to hospital since Christmas putting huge strain on the NHS. And government advisers have warned that some restrictions may still be needed next winter to keep the virus under control. Huw Edwards presents BBC News at Ten reporting by deputy political editor Vicki Young, health editor Hugh Pym and health correspondent Dominic Hughes.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the president’s call pressuring the Georgia Secretary of State to overturn his defeat in the sate, an act he calls “impeachable” and a “criminal offense.” He says, “It is unprecedented. It is the most consequential attack on American democracy in the history of our country.” Aired on 01/04/2021.

A top Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling on Monday went through what he called “new” claims about election fraud, saying things like ballot shredding were not occurring. He also addressed a question asked by President Donald Trump in a controversial phone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which he questioned if parts in Dominion voting machines were being “changed,” something Sterling said is “not a real thing” nor were machines hacked. He also debunked the theory that Raffensperger had a brother named “Ron” who works for Chinese company Huawei, saying it’s not real.

Gabriel Sterling, the Republican in charge of Georgia’s voting system, pleaded with Georgians to go out and vote in the Senate run off while also debunking each of President Trump’s and his supporters baseless election claims.

Germany is lifting an eight-year-long ban on deportations to Syria, creating a way to send people back to the devastated and dangerous country. Officials insist the decision will only affect a very small group of serious offenders including those who have carried out politically motivated crimes, like terrorist attacks, but that has done little to calm rights organisations and many in Berlin’s Syrian community. DW asks: what is driving their fears? what are the consequences of the decision? why it’s happening now?

The prime minister warned the weeks ahead ‘will be the toughest yet’ as he announced England will be placed in its strictest nationwide lockdown since March. Schools will be closed until mid-February and people will be advised only to leave their homes once a day for exercise. But Johnson added that the arrival of the Oxford vaccine showed that ‘the end is in sight’. England to enter toughest Covid lockdown since March.