from standing. the twin children of nobel peace prize winner — narges mohammadi — receive her award in oslo. she is injail in iran. oh, wow. it's huge. and revealed — the skull of a sea monster that's 150 million years old. you're with bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in israel where nine weeks after the attacks by hamas that killed 1,200 people — prime minister

benjamin netanyahu says it is �*the beginning of the end' for the group. israel says its ground forces have now reached the centre of khan younis in the south of the territory — to which many palestinians had previously fled on israel's instructions. israel urged civilians to leave the city's centre and move to safe zones. the head of the un agency for palestinian refugees has described gaza as �*hell on earth.�* meanwhile, civilians living in the other palestinian territory — the west bank — have had their rights and freedoms severely curtailed by israel since october 7th. our international editor jeremy bowen reports now on the situation on the ground in both the west bank and gaza. at al nasser hospital in khan younis, they laid out the wrapped bodies of people killed in the night by israel. at the end of the line was asiya abdul wahab killed on the day she was born. laid across the bodies

of her mother, also called asiya and her father yahia. "don't cry", he told theirson, mohammed. "they are in heaven." gaza has been turned into a living hell for civilians by israel's offensive. thousands of children are among the palestinian dead. their families say there is only one way to make a difference. "everyone is only talking aboutaid", said ibrahim. "we don't care about aid, we want them to stop the bloodshed." the americans say israel is killing too many innocent people, but they still blocked the un's latest attempt to vote in a ceasefire. the war has increased the tension in hebron, a city on the west bank holy tojews and muslims that has been a flashpoint for decades. most palestinians can no longer access property, live or work in part of the city centre. that's because jewish settlers live here, behind the security provided by the israeli army.

extremejewish nationalists in israel's government also live in hebron, and since the 7th of october attacks, palestinians of all ages near the settlement have been ordered to stay home under a strict curfew. the guard dogs are owned by shaddai — necessary, he says, to protect his family from attacks byjewish settlers. weeks of lockdown in the curfew have paralysed their lives. translation: you could call us zombies. - we have been imprisoned for two months. we can't leave the house or go to work or take our children out. life is hard. the curfew has been eased slightly but the security forces still didn't like him talking to us. translation: they have all. the rights, we don't have any. they don't see us as humans. just outside his house, the settlement was having a party to reunite army

reservists with their families. it was to thank them for all they have done for hebron'sjews, said the organiser. what do you think of the fact that the arabs are under a curfew most of the time? is itfair? "i don't know anything about any curfew", she said. "the way the arabs behave isn't fair." the essence of the conflict is here in hebron. it's a reminder of the depth of its roots and of the reasons why it has never been settled. and as well as that, the enormous sacrifices in terms of deeply held beliefs that would be necessary if israelis and palestinians are ever going to make peace. back in gaza, israel says civilians suffer because hamas uses them as human shields. israel insists its strikes are precise and intelligence—led. al aqsa martyrs hospital in deir el—balah, one of the few still functioning,

is overwhelmed. no more beds are left. no hope either. polls have closed in hong kong, after the first local elections in which pro—democracy candidates were banned from standing. the turnout was a record low 27.5%, down from a historic high of 71% in 2019. with no opposition candidates to vote for, the turnout is being seen as an indication of the level of support for china's tightening grip on hong kong. china denies this. one of the politicians unable to stand is ted hui. a former municipal councillor and member of the legislative council. he's in self—imposed exile in adeleide after being sentnced in absentia to three and a half years in prison. i asked him for his reaction to sunday's election. i think it's very obvious that

if you people see the voter turnout, even though the final figure has not been released, but it's been reported from interim turnout, that it's been historic low. so i personally believe the turnout would be less than 30%. that is very low. so i think it's very, very obvious that people are angry. people are angry at not having the choices that they can choose from. and people are angry that the pro—democracy voices have been totally cracked down. that's why people are not interested to to take part in that election anymore. they don't think it's a real election. people call it a sham elections and i agree. and at most, it's a selection by beijing among its own people. so it doesn't represent people's choice. that's why people are protesting somehow in a way of boycotting the elections, and other people are simply lost their interest.

that's why it's a reflection of level of democracy in hong kong has dropped to the all time historic low from this election. yes, especially compared to the 60% that we saw in the last elections. the hong kong police have offered a bounty for information about you and seven other activists who are now living abroad. do you feel safe in australia? um, in australia generally, yes, because i don't believe that australian governments will extradite me back to china or hong kong and i don't believe that they have any means of getting me back to theirjurisdictions. but at the same time i can see that the chinese government's embassy here has been trying very hard to mobilise to stir anger amongst their beijing loyalists here. so whenever we have protests, pro—democracy protests

for hong kong, for hong kong political prisoners, they will come after us. so i've had beijing loyalists, their fans, throwing water at me and grabbing my microphone and public assemblies and protests. these things happen and i've seen in others places they would beat up those activists who support hong kong and drag them into the chinese embassy, beat them. this can happen. so i'm not completely safe, but at least it's not done by the government agencies here. the new president of argentina, javier milei, has said that shock treatment is needed to deal with the economic crisis in the country. mr milei has taken over from the unpopular centre—left president alberto fernandez, but will need to negotiate with rivals as his coalition only forms a small bloc in congress.

mr milei gained popular support for radical proposals including scrapping the central bank and allowing people to make money by selling their organs. argentina is experiencing its worst economic crisis in decades. our bbc mundo reporter, veronica smink, is in buenos aires, i asked her about the reaction in argentina. people here have a lot of hope. he won in a runoff by 56% of the vote, which, you know, no other president in the last years got such support. and many people, when you ask them why they voted for him, theyjust say, we couldn't go on like this. i mean, many people discovered inflation after the coronavirus pandemic, but argentina has been suffering a problem of inflation for ten years. it's been over 25% yearly since then. and many people just said, you know, we needed a change.

javier milei seems to offer a very radical change. veronica, here in asia, argentina and china are obviously big trading partners, butjavier milei has had quite strong words during the campaign about china. is there a softening in tone now? yes, definitely. when he when he lost, he came in second, rather. seven points behind the then economy minister back in october, in the first round of elections. and certainly he moderated his tone after that. the famous chainsaw that he wielded around during his campaign was put away and all the harsh comments he had made, not only with china but also with brazil towards brazil, that the other main argentine commercial partner, they were certainly moderated. and, you know, many people are hopeful that the relations with these countries are still going to stay strong because argentina is very dependent on them.

and lastly, veronica, i mean, what's the first agenda item going to be? obviously, the economic crisis is quite significant at the moment. that's right. we're expecting 180% inflation for this year. and argentina has a huge debt as well to pay with the imf over $41; billion. so one of the main things he said is basically argentina has no more money. we have no other option than to cut. you know, he said that that he expects have 5% gdp cuts, but he said it's going to go mainly on the state and it won't affect the private sector. but certainly, he said, we have no other option. in the uk, it'sjust 2 days before parliament votes on the prime minister's revised legislation to send some people seeking asylum, to rwanda. here's our political correspondent, helen catt. this time last week, rishi sunak and robertjenrick were together in government — allies about to announce a slew of measures

to reduce immigration. it's a new experience for me but it was a very important point of principle... this morning, mrjenrick was facing off against former colleagues. in his first interview since resigning, he said he would not vote for mr sunak�*s rwanda safety bill. i think that a political choice has been made to bring forward a bill which doesn't do thejob, and i think that at this moment, when you've got a small boats crisis where "4,000 people have crossed the channel on dangerous, unnecessary, illegal small boats, that we cannot take that risk. mrjenrick�*s latest intervention came in a crucial weekend when his conservative colleagues are considering whether or not to back mr sunak�*s plan. the veteran mp sir bill cash has been examining the legislation with other lawyers on behalf of right—wing mps.

his verdict in the sunday telegraph — it's not sufficiently watertight. michael gove disagrees. my confident expectation would be that the overwhelming majority of people who we choose to send to rwanda will be sent to rwanda, but more than that, you don't need to take my word for it, you merely need to see what lord sumption and a variety of other lawyers from doughty street chambers, from cambridge university and others have said. but it's notjust his party's right wing which is taking legal advice. moderate conservatives have concerns, too, of a different kind. we insist that one of the basic tenets of conservatism that all conservative governments should stick to is the rule of law and meeting our international obligations, and so what we are spending this weekend reassuring ourselves, if we can, is that the legislation proposed actually stays within the law. conservative mps agree that small boat crossings should be stopped. they disagree on how far the party should go to do that. labour doesn't believe the rwanda plan will work at all. it really does feel

like the desperate dying days of this government. and labour understands that this is a serious issue, dealing with the dangerous boats. it's serious for our national security and because of the potential numbers of lives being lost. rishi sunak has staked part of his political reputation on stopping small boat crossings. the coming days will be a crucial test of that. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news bringing you different stories from across the uk. operation wave breaker was launched by the marine units in 2020 due to what essex police describe as a massive increase in the number ofjet skis being used along the coastline. you can buy them off social media selling pages and you can take them out in the water without any kind of instruction or knowledge and skills.

i know from my own experience of hitting the water at speed, it feels like concrete. so it's still really dangerous and it's really difficult out there to see other people in the water, especially if you've got swimmers close to the shoreline. essex police says educating the public about water safety before resorting to any enforcement has had the right impact. operation wave breaker has reduced the number of anti—social behaviour incidents on the essex coastline from 99 in 2020 down to just 37 this year. the national college of policing has now adopted this as best practice for other marine units around the country to follow. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. in oslo, the nobel peace prize has been handed out to a human rights activist in her absence — as she has been imprisoned in iran since 2010. this is narges mohammadi, who is opposed to iranian women being required to wear the hijab. she remains in prison in tehran. ms mohammadi's seventeen—year—old twins

received the prize on her behalf and read out a speech their mother had written from prison. farnaz fassihi is united nations bureau chief for the new york times, she's known narges mohammadi for 20 years and has interviewed her many times. she told me why ms mohammadi is so exceptional. narges mohamed is an exceptional human rights activist, a women's rights activist, a woman who has dedicated her life and her career to notjust defending women's rights, but also minorities in iran, religious minorities, death sentences, prisoners. i would safely say that the women's movement that we saw sort of spring out and explode out in the public last year in the women, life, freedom movement really rests on the activism and the diligent work that narges has done in the past two decades.

she's really being compared to nelson mandela. narges mohammadi is iran's nelson mandela. she is injail, currently, serving a ten—year sentence and even injail, she's defiant. she gives interviews, she hosts workshops injail for all the women inmates, teaching them once a week about their rights in iran and the constitution. she holds book reading classes, many different kinds of workshops. and when i interviewed her, she said, "you know, it's this is our life." "i'm in prison and it's keeping up your spirit is really important. so in addition to doing all that, i try to create some good times and positive energy for the women here, too." she's a very skilled and classically trained singer, so she hosts singing and dancing nights in prison with the women to bring some light and happiness to them in every way.

in every way, she's exceptional. and what's exceptional about her is that despite all the tremendous costs that her activism that the islamic republic has punished herfor, her activism, she has never given up. she is resilient and defiant. and even in her message today, which her twin children, ali and kiana, read at the nobel peace ceremony. narges's message was that we will prevail, that she will not be silenced until iran is free and democratic. yeah, i believe she smuggled that speech out of prison. now, the nobel committee did say that the prize was about recognising the thousands of people who have been demonstrating for the same cause as ms mohammadi. what do you think the impact of the protests has been? i think the impact of the protest has been bringing attention to the plight

of women in iran and the challenges that they face in their everyday lives and a government that is really determined to suppress them in every way, including what they decide to wear, whether they want to cover their hair or the clothing that they wear, which is a very basic human right to sort that they wear, which is a very basic human right. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines.... voters are going to the polls in egypt, where president abdel fattah el—sisi hopes to win his third term in office. if successful he will retain power until 2030 — a victory his critics say is already inevitable. voting will be spread over three days, with approximately 67 million egyptians eligible to vote. iranian state media say a fire at an oil refinery in eastern iran has caused two large explosions and remains out of control. thick smoke from the blaze in the birjand area — involving more than a million

litres of fuel — is reported to be visible from several kilometres away. emergency services are trying to contain the fire and a nearby factory has been evacuated. no casualties have been reported. one of the staples of south asian cooking — onions — has doubled in price after india announced an export ban on the vegetable. india, the world's largest exporter of onions extended an existing ban until march next year, to contain a rise in domestic food prices. hundreds of onion farmers blocked a key highway to protest against the ban, saying it would affect their income. (audio tag) a huge fossil

of a 150 million year old sea monster has been unearthed from the cliffs of thejurassic coast in southern england. it belongs to a pliosaur — a giant predator that dominated the oceans at the same time dinosaurs like t— rex were roaming the earth. it s one of the most complete skulls of this beast ever discovered. our science editor rebecca morelle went to see it. 0k. oh, wow! there you go. it's huge! unveiling a jurassic sea monster. this is the two metre long skull of a pliosaur, one of the most fearsome predators the planet has ever seen. it's got big teeth — excellent for stabbing and killing its prey. it doesn't chew its food, itjust breaks into bits. steve etches lead the effort to unearth this enormous fossil. so what makes this unique is it's complete. so the lowerjaws and upper skull are meshed together, as it would be in life. to find that, i think worldwide, there's hardly any specimens ever found to that

level of detail. it's one of the best fossils i've ever worked on. i'll never probably work on another one. this is one of the pliosaur�*s teeth. around here, the back is flat, and there are these two sharp edges and an extremely sharp tip. around here, though, there are these fine ridges. and these would have helped it to sink its teeth into its prey and pull them out again. this really was a killing machine. the snout was discovered by a fossil enthusiast near kimmeridge bay in dorset. ijust found something quite extraordinary. it must've just come out of the cliff up there somewhere. the rest was excavated by a team dangling off ropes halfway down a fast—eroding cliff face. it was all followed by a bbc documentary team and sir david attenborough. the rest was excavated by a team dangling off ropes halfway down a fast—eroding cliff face. it was all followed by a bbc documentary team and sir david attenborough. in these waters, underneath my feet, lurked the ultimate marine predator, the pliosaur. this gigantic reptile grew to more than 12 metres, powering through the water

with huge paddle—like limbs. it would have terrorised the oceans. this is a surface scan of the skull of the pliosaur. scientists have learnt that it had a bite force similar to a t rex. what we're looking at here is the top predator in the environment. you know, this animal had a huge bite. it would have been able to eat pretty much everything else that was around in the water at that time, including some other very large animals. the exact location where the pliosaur�*s head was found is a closely guarded secret. the rest of its skeleton is probably still there and the team wants to get it out. i will stick my life that the rest of the animal is there. it won't be long before the rest of the drop site and gets lost so it would be advantageous to do this because the opportunity is once—in—a—lifetime.

the pliosaur will go on display in dorset in the new year, providing a close—up look at this monster of the seas and the world it lived in all those millions of years ago. rebecca morelle, bbc news, thejurassic coast in dorset. a video shared online appears to show swimmers at a beach in australia, approaching a whale that was swimming close to the shore. the whale can be seen straying into shallow waters in an area near perth — and attracting the attention of people at the beach. the whale later managed to swim back into deeper waters, before heading back out to sea. a marine biologist told the bbc that the whale could have been at risk of stranding, and that this kind of behaviour is "unusual and perilous". finally — here in the uk, members of the royal family have unveiled their official christmas cards. the prince and princess of wales have opted for a black and white family portrait showing william, catherine

and the three children looking relaxed injeans and white shirts. that's in contrast to king charles and queen camilla, who have gone for a more formal look in their card — which shows them in full regalia in the buckingham palace throne room on coronation day — may 6. that's all for now — stay with bbc news. hello. for the second evening in a row, we've seen gusts over 70mph hit west wales. of course, on saturday evening, it was storm elin that brought the very strong winds — whereas sunday evening, it was storm fergus, with a top of 74mph recorded at aberdaron. now those blustery conditions will tend to ease over the next few hours, with the winds picking up across the midlands, east anglia, and southern counties of england — might be strong enough to wake you from your slumbers. further north, the winds are that bit lighter, and it's here where we'll see the lowest temperatures.

in scotland, 2—5 celsius, otherwise the winds keeping those temperatures up for northern ireland, england, and wales, so between 6—9 celsius. so quite a mild start to the day on monday. now monday, any rain left over across eastern england will be clearing pretty quickly, but there will be some patches of light rain coming and going through the day across eastern scotland. some showers work in across merseyside, greater manchester, and northwest midlands — but otherwise, it's a day where the weather will continue to get brighter and brighter with sunny spells breaking out widely, and those temperatures lifting in places into double figures. make the most of that relatively quiet spell because, on tuesday, we're back to another area of low pressure. this one slowly rolling in off the atlantic, bringing with it some persistent rain in scotland — aberdeen's already had over a month's worth of rain, so we could see some localised flooding impacts. bit of snow over the high scottish mountains, but nothing to get excited about, it's really high up. blustery conditions in the southwest with plenty of showers, some of them turning quite heavy, with an odd rumble of thunder. temperatures again quite widely into double figures, but again, scotland seeing temperatures around 6—7.

now, that low pressure starts to pull away during wednesday — as it does so, the winds go round to a northeasterly direction, bringing some damp weather to eastern areas of england, but also dropping the temperatures progressively through the day — such that by the time we get to the afternoon, we're looking at temperatures typically around 6—7 celsius, feeling quite a bit cooler, but in scotland, around 3—4 for some. and then we have a weather front moving into that cold air wednesday night. could turn to snow for a time over the hills above 300 metres' elevation. the snow is short—lived — it will turn back to rain as slightly milder air begins to push in off the atlantic once again. that damp weather then continues eastwards on thursday. high pressure then takes over, giving us quite a long spell of dry and sunny weather. we have to wait until friday to see the best of that.

argentina has a new president who pushed policies against china, its second largest trading partner. we'll look at what this means. and chip—making giant nvidia plans to set up a base in vietnam amid growing geopolitical tensions between the us and china. hello and welcome to asia business report.

i'm suranjana tewari. let's start with latin america, where javier milei has been sworn in as argentina's new president. as we've been hearing on newsday, the liberatarian economist said shock treatment is needed to jolt the country out of an economic crisis with inflation heading towards 200%. —— libertarian economist. on the campaign trail, he also included plans to shake up its relationship with china, saying, he "won't deal "with communists". however, china's foreign ministry has warned it would be a serious mistake argentina to cut ties with the country. rebecca ray, a senior researcher with the global china initiative at boston university, says it's hard to break ties with the world's second largest economy. president milei may not do business with communists, but his farmers are happy to do so. it's important to bear in mind

that while milei came to power