has a busy day ahead here in washington. later on tuesday, he's due to meet president biden, leaders in the senate and republican house speaker mikejohnson. he's trying to build momentum for further support to kyiv at a time when additional funding has stalled in congress. this is mr zelensky�*s third trip to the us since the war began. on prior occasions, he has received a hero's welcome from us lawmakers. on monday, he visited the international monetary fund, which announced it would disburse another $900 million under its ukraine program. mr zelensky says such aid and more like it is vital to his country's war effort against russia. let me be frank with you, friends. if there's anyone inspired by unresolved issues on capitol hill, it is just putin and his sick cliche. but it's not clear if that message will resonate with republicans who want

tougher border measures at the mexico border in exchange for any additional funding for ukraine. the us military aid package that has stalled would include $61 billion for ukraine as part of a larger package. congress has approved more than $111 billion since the war began, but the biden administration is warning that money is running out as the war in ukraine ticks closer to its two—year mark. our correspondentjess parker has the view from kyiv. he's here on a rescue mission to liberate billions of dollars in defence aid for ukraine, money that's become ensnared in arguments amongst us lawmakers. overnight, a fresh wave of russian missile strikes crushed buildings in kyiv and blew craters in the earth. ukraine's war is with russia, but officials must battle sceptics in the west who ask, "what's the endgame? " after ukraine's faltering counteroffensive. it is widely seen to have

not delivered hoped—for gains. what, in your view, went wrong? translation: indeed, for us, it is very difficult today, - but it doesn't mean that victory won't be on our side. in may, everyone in our country wanted the war to end quickly. there were hopes, but they didn't come true. but it's not a tragedy. there is now a big question of "what next", even with ukraine's obvious will to endure. but days aren't without joy, even for the sons of soldiers. macar�*s dad is away fighting. his mother has this plea. the russians are too much and they do have a lot of weapons, so we need more and more and more. like, without the support of the united states, i don't know what would happen here. people here aren't talking about giving up hope or, indeed, the frontline fight, but those firm promises from some western leaders

that they'd be with ukraine for the long haul suddenly feel far more fragile. a commander from russia's red army is sawn down from public view. also in peril this week are hopes for fresh eu economic aid and progressing membership talks as ukraine tries to forge a path to europe by severing the past. jessica parker, bbc news, in kyiv. pa rt part of the us aid package that is stalled in congress include aid in israel. tang are moving further into southern gaza is intense air strike bombard the north. israel is ordering civilians to flee the centre of khan younis as the humanitarian situation there worsens. a hospital director in the city says staff is struggling to cope with the volume of casualties as medical supplies, food, water and fuel are all running low. the un's palestinian refugee agency says there is "almost a total breakdown of civil order"

around its aid deliveries in southern gaza. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says dozens of hamas members have surrendered, calling it "the beginning of the end" for the group. amid renewed calls for a ceasefire, hamas has threatened that not a single hostage will be allowed to leave gaza unless its demands for a prisoner exchange are met. this report from our international editor jeremy bowen has scenes that some may find distressing. siren wails taking cover on the road to tel aviv from rockets out of gaza. air raid sirens and the activation of israel's iron dome antimissile system. most of the time, life looks pretty normal here in central israel, but everything changed with october 7 attacks. their fear shows the depth of the collective trauma hamas inflicted on israelis. iron dome took care of most of the rockets, but one man nearby was hurt. the fact that hamas can still attack means that it is not beaten.

we were going to tel aviv to see the man on the left, amos yadlin, a veteran fighter pilot, air force general and former head of israeli military intelligence who still advises his successors. he insists israel doesn't kill palestinians indiscriminately, and says the us and uk killed more civilians in iraq and syria. israel is having a better ratio of terrorists to collateral damage than the americans and the brits has in mosul and raqqa. what about the civilians? so, when i say "collateral damage", i'm speaking about the civilians. there are more civilians for terrorists killed in mosul and raqqa than in gaza. please go and check the numbers. why is it that the americans, your most significant ally, are saying that israel is killing too many palestinian civilians? they want it to be done without any collateral damage, without any

humanitarian crisis. if they have the formula how to do it, please, help us to have it. this formula does not exist. will this lead to a lengthy israeli occupation of gaza? no, we don't want to occupy gaza. we don't want hamas to be in gaza. we don't want to occupy gaza, one reservation — there will not be a military power that can repeat the october 7 attack on israel. and the future for wounded civilians in gaza's last few overcrowded hospitals may be amputations or death as they're not getting the follow—up treatment they need. rafiq, aged 1a, thought he'd died when he was hit in an airstrike in a district israel said was safe. he has shrapnel in his body and he can't get life—saving stomach surgery here. rafiq often vomits and he can't feel his legs. the love of his family

might not be enough to save him. this girl has just been wounded for the second time. she says, "they cut my hand. "my grandpa was killed, my dad was shot "and my brother is dead." she's asked what she wants. "a new hand." jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. more details are coming to light on what the released israeli hostages faced during their time being held by hamas. a doctor treating them says they have proof of severe sexual abuse and drugging of children, women and men that came back from captivity. there are people that came back and told us that they were given psychiatric medications and other drugs to children in large dose,

and over time, and they came back here drugged with those drugs. it took us time to realise why the kids didn't fall asleep. there is no reason to give healthy children such medications, and i'm sure that that was purposely made in order to torture them and to hurt them. for more, i spoke tojoe english, an emergency communication specialist at unicef. what more does unicef know about the treatment of children, those who were held hostage and are still being held hostage? yes, thank you. it is good to be with you. horrific reports. i don't think anyone can hear those kind of stories and fail to be absolutely horrified. sexual violence against children in conflict is a grave violation of their rights and it must be investigated and the perpetrators must be held to account.

i also want to go back to those words from jeremy's report — his family's love may not be enough to keep him alive. i think so many of these stories we are hearing from the attacks in israel on october 7 and the situation in gaza are every parent's worst nightmare. millions of children, millions of parents going to bed every night not knowing if their children are going to survive the night, not knowing if their children will be able to deal with the trauma that they may have been through. for unicef, ourfocus is always on the children, and the clear way to ensure that no more children will pay these prices is through humanitarian ceasefire, and for that to happen as soon as possible. i want to ask you about how your organisation can help children at this point. the save the children ceo said on cbs this weekend that the situation in gaza is so dire, that humanitarian agencies cannot help children. do you agree with that description? in terms of providing them with the basics of life — safe water, food, shelter —

it is increasingly difficult to do so, and what we are able to get is barely a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. but there is one way which we can continue to help children, which is to call for all parties to this conflict and anyone, governments, individuals who have any power whatsoever to continue to call for a humanitarian ceasefire. nothing, sadly, will bring back the lives already lost, but we can protect the children who have survived so far. for parents who are living through this, we are speaking to families and they are exhausted from the sheer effort of trying to keep their families alive. children are — they don't even have the energy left to cry, they're shellshocked, they are literally on an hour—to—hour basis fighting for their life. can you tell us what the long—term impact of this type of trauma for children on both sides of the conflict

will be? yes, it can be absolutely debilitating, it can be long term. i mean, we work in conflicts all around the world, whether that's ukraine or whether it's south sudan or anywhere where children are affected by conflicts and crisis, and on one hand, you can see the long—term impacts of this, of children very quickly becoming withdrawn, it exhibits itself in different ways. each child is different. but we also know that by providing a level of care and support to those children, it is never irreversible. we can always find a way to support children, but to be able do that, first and foremost, children need to feel safe. as long as the bombs are falling, for children and families, that step towards repairing the wounds and giving these children any kind of hope of a better future is slim. one more question —

what aid and treatment can still be provided, and what is needed most? safe drinking water. i have two young children and i cannot imagine being a parent and on an hour—to—hour basis, struggling to find safe drinking water for your child, struggling to find water for formula. i think thousands and thousands of breast—feeding mothers in gaza, because of the trauma they have been through, are no longer able to breastfeed and they are desperately searching for some way to keep their newborns are well alive. but it is one of many, many needs and how can we prioritise safe drinking water and keep them alive and there is no food? there is that is safe to go to a no medicine in hospital when they get sick. ultimately, the most important thing now is a ceasefire

and an end to the fighting, otherwise children will continue to pay the price. so important to cover the story. thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you so much. the us, the uk and other countries have criticised a draft of a potential climate deal at the cop28 summit. it suggested a range of measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions. however, some nations are outraged at the scrapping of what they say is important language to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees celsius. the latest draft says that countries "could reduce production and consumption" of fossil fuels. it scraps previous calls to phase out coal, oil and gas use. the us and eu have called for the draft to be strengthened and some island states have called the new draft "completely insufficient". our climate editor justin rowlatt has more. when the new draft was released, there was confusion. negotiators and journalists scrolled through the pages. the realisation slowly dawning that the agreement had changed. a landmark deal to get rid of the fossil fuels responsible for climate change had

seemed within reach. now it appeared to be being snatched away. eamon ryan is one of the eu's lead climate negotiators. if the text doesn't change, will you walk away from the deal? this text will not be acceptable. would you walk away? if this doesn't change, it will not be accepted as a text. so what went wrong? a group of oil—producing nations led by saudi arabia had openly opposed the deal. they said there wasn't enough to compensate for the losses they feared they could face. you need me to change? of course. i am ready to change. where is your support? please, we are bored of talking. we are victims. if you want me to change, you should support. we have been walking around this vast site speaking to different country groups, and it seems quite a few developing countries felt there wasn't enough in this dealfor them.

not enough cash to help with the switch to clean energy, for example, not enough to adapt their countries to the climate change they know is coming. the process isn't over yet. the negotiations continue here in dubai, but the un will be anxious. if we don't get a commitment to phase out fossil fuels in this deal, does that mean this cop conference has been a failure? a central aspect, in my opinion, of the success of the cop, would be for the cop to reachl a consensus on the needj to phase out fossil fuels, in line with a time i frame that is in line with the 1.5 degrees limit. we certainly don't have that at the moment. how is it going? is it going through the night? not much sleep for the president of cop28, then. and after almost 30 years of these summits, it appears the world is still a long way off a final deal on phasing

out fossil fuels. justin rowlatt, bbc news, dubai. gina mccarthy served as white house climate advisor under president biden, and spent nearly a week at the cop28 summit. she had this reaction to the news of the draft resolution. it certainly is a disappointment, especially the framing that is in their is really just about what happens in 2050. we need to reconcile the fact that we have two phase out fossil fuels beginning now, and make significant progress in 2030. so the phrase of not having the phase—out of climate change is a challenge, it is not what the world expects, and i think most of the world wa nts. the cop28 talks are officially supposed to wrap up on tuesday, but could overrun as nations argue over a final deal. around the world and across

the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at what's making news in the uk. on the eve of a crucial vote for britain's prime minister and his plan to send illegal migrants to rwanda, rishi sunak�*s party remains divided. some mps have given it their backing. others say it has to change or be scrapped altogether. our political editor chris mason has the latest. there are few more awkward places for a prime minister to find themselves than one where they are transparently and very publicly at the mercy of their own mps. clumps of conservatives who have been meeting to decide the fate of this bill and deciding precisely how they might vote or whether they will vote, and the prime minister and his senior team trying to do a huge persuasionjob. the prime minister making calls. this evening he will host a breakfast at downing street for some conservative mps in the hope that, i don't know, a bacon sandwich might make a difference. so every technique possible is being used. also on monday, mr sunak gave evidence at the covid inquiry. he said he was "deeply sorry" for those who lost loved ones,

but otherwise defended his actions during the pandemic. you're live with bbc news. the texas supreme court on monday officially overturned a lower court's ruling that would have allowed a woman to get an emergency abortion under the medical exception for the state's near—total abortion. the news comes as lawyers for 31—year—old katie cox say she left the state to have the procedure for her high—risk pregnancy. cox sought an abortion after her fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 18. that's a potentially fatal condition that doctors said threatened her fertility. in response to the initial approval, the state's attorney general warned a texas medical centre that it would face legal consequences if an abortion was performed. for more on this, i spoke with molly duane, an attorney from the center for reproductive rights who represents kate cox. i want to start with that news. the texas supreme court now officially overturning that lower court ruling that would have allowed this abortion under the state's medical exception. what are your thoughts on this?

my thoughts are this is a stunning development out of texas. here in the united states, abortion is prohibited in 1a different states and there are severe gestational restrictions in many others. patients like kate cox cannot receive abortion care and their home states. while politicians like to tout medical exceptions as being reasonable and available, as kate's experience shows, they simply do not exist in practice and what we have in texas is politicians refusing to take responsibility for the laws passed. we have courts saying they cannot help, the medical board says they cannot help and it leaves physicians in an impossible position and more importantly leaves so many patients suffering. i want to come to texas's position in a moment. but first there are details of kate cox's treatment.

we understand she has left the state to access an abortion. there are details you cannot share with us but can you tell us how she is doing? she is doing as well as she can be given her state government has failed her so spectacularly. we are so focused on getting kate the care she needs which in this case is time—sensitive abortion care. that is the reality. what we had in texas was her attorney general, the top law—enforcement official in her state threatening her doctor and the hospitals where her doctors practice. we havejudges in their state throwing their hands up and saying they cannot help either. i am fortunate to be able to help kate get the care she needs but the reality is so many women will not be so lucky. i have one question, just for clarity, can anyone who helped kate leave the state of texas to access an abortion, could they be prosecuted

under texas law? i am so glad you asked that because i am seeing a ton of misinformation out there about this. that is on purpose. politicians have created a state of fear in texas. on purpose to make people fearful of helping their loved ones. but to answer your question, no. kate and her husband cannot be prosecuted for leaving the state to seek abortion care that is entirely legal in the state where they left. i want to be really clear about that. the environment of fear and confusion and neighbour against neighbour, this is what texas has created on purpose. to terrorise its citizens, not protect them. let's look at what texas has said here. the attorney general has asked the supreme court to issue this emergency order. his office has said texas law does not permit abortion solely on the fact that a foetus is unlikely to survive outside the womb and that the case has not been made that kate cox's health is at risk.

what do you say to that? what i say to that is who do you want to decide whether or not her health is at risk? do you want the attorney general to decide or do you want her doctors to decide? our position has always been it is up to the doctors to determine when their patient�*s lives and health and in kate's case herfuture fertility is at risk. we're talking about a woman who has two young children who desperately want grow her family and the state of texas is saying we don't care if you are carrying a non—viable pregnancy, we do not care if your physician says it is dangerous for your fertility and we do not care what you and your family want. we get to decide. that is what is so stunning about what is happening here. we have about 30 seconds left but i want to ask what this means for other women in texas. what precedent do you think this case sets? this case was really about one

woman and one family but i think it portends something very dangerous about what the future looks like in the state of texas. we still have a case pending with the texas supreme court on behalf of 20 different women who were denied abortions in urgent situations and life and fertility threatening situations. we are waiting for the texas supreme court to decide on the case as well. in the meantime, patients are continuing to suffer. patients like kate will be harmed unless someone puts an end to this madness. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. thank you. let's turn to some important news around the world. epic games, the makers of the video game fortnite, have won an anti—trust lawsuit against tech giant google. a federaljury in california found google broke competition laws in how it runs its app store. they found that the company illegally maintained a monopoly in how apps are distributed and how google collects commissions for transactions. google has denied any wrongdoing.

the us supreme court has given lawyers for donald trump a december 20 deadline to respond to an appeal for an expedited decision over mr trump's claim of presidential immunity. special counseljack smith had asked the top court to rule quickly on whether the former president can be prosecuted for an alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election results. mr trump has denied any wrongdoing. and finally, barbie's pink—hued dreamworld led the golden globe nominations on friday, barely beating out the morally grey epic oppenheimer. barbie's nine nominations include margot robbie as best actress in a musical or comedy and greta gerwig as best director. oppenheimer got eight nominations, including for lead actor cillian murphy. on the small screen, succession led the field with nine nominations, including best drama, plus three nods for best actor, and one for best supporting actress. and meryl streep broke her own golden globe record, nabbing a 33rd nomination for her role in the tv show

only murders in the building. the ceremony will take place in los angeles onjanuary 7. that's all from the team here in washington. i'm sumi somaskanda. thank you for watching. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. tuesday is going to bring a lot of cloud and the skies will look rather like the picture behind me. on top of that, shower clouds are expected as well. some of the showers could be heavy, the odd crack of thunder and additionally it will be quite windy around southwestern parts of the uk, but it's going to be relatively mild first thing. now, the satellite picture shows fairly clear weather as we're in between weather systems, or we were during monday. but now the clear skies are giving way to this area of low pressure, which will be moving across the uk during the course of tuesday and will continue to affect our weather at least for a time on wednesday. so the forecast then

through the early hours, we will have had some rain across northern ireland, southwestern scotland, the north of england too, rain elsewhere, but also one or two clear spells and really quite mild in the south. 11 degrees in plymouth, about that in london. but for the most part, it's about 5 to 8 degrees. so certainly no frost first thing. and the forecast then for tuesday. so here's that area of low pressure as it slowly barrels across the uk. here's the weather front spiralling into the centre of the low where the winds are actually really light. so any showers that circle within this low right in the middle could last for quite some time. they'll be slow—moving, very little wind to push them around. but just to the south, around the southwestern approaches, cornwall, devon, central southern england, the winds really could be quite gusty, 40—50mph winds around coasts. on top of that, an onshore wind here around eastern scotland and the northeast of england will make things really wet and it could last right until wednesday. now, on wednesday, finally, that low pressure pulls away out towards the west, high pressure builds.

and that means there'll be some sunshine, for example, in glasgow, liverpool and in cardiff. but the east coasts could stay quite cloudy, gloomy and feel chilly in that breeze off the north sea. here's a look at thursday and into the weekend, really. eventually, all weather fronts clear, high pressure starts to build from the southwest. but there is a lot of cloud stuck in this area of high pressure. so not necessarily all that sunny. and in fact, the northwest of the uk may continue to be brushed by weather fronts coming off the atlantic. so, yes, for the majority of us, the weather settles down come friday and should stay dry and bright with a bit of luck into the weekend. but the north could be wet at times. bye— bye.

voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur and today i am in oslo for the annual award of the nobel peace prize. now, this year, the prize—giving ceremony will be notable for the absence of the recipient, narges mohammadi, the iranian human rights campaigner who is currently incarcerated in iran's notorious

evin prison. to the fury of the rulers of the islamic republic, narges mohammadi's voice of resistance will not be silenced. shouting. back in 1979, the iranian revolution swept the shah out of power, and ushered in the rule of the shia clerics, led by ayatollah khomeini. narges mohammadi was just seven at the time. the revolution changed her life. she trained as a scientist, but having seen family members arrested and imprisoned, she was drawn to journalism and to protest. she married academic and political dissident, taghi rahmani. they became a power couple in iran's protest movement. he spent years in prison before fleeing into exile. soon, their two childrenjoined him. since the green movement protests of 2009,

iran has been roiled by sporadic mass protests.