live from london. this is bbc news. japan's prime minister confirms that five coastguard crew have been killed in a collision between two planes at tokyo's haneda airport. as smoke filled the cabin, all 379 passengers and crew managed to escape the burning japan airlines aircraft using the emergency inflatable slides — before it was fully engulfed by flames. ijust came here to pick up a friend and luckily they got off the flight, but they aren't able to get their bags. and it was pretty scary. like the whole airport kind of just froze. this is the scene live on the runway at haneda airport where emergency services appear to finally have the blaze under control. searching for survivors — japanese officials say at least 48 people have died and many others are trapped beneath rubble after a powerful earthquake

struck on new year's day. hello, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. we start with the news that five members of the japanese coast guard have died after their plane was involved in a collision with a japan airlines flight that was arriving at tokyo's haneda international airport. the coastguard aircraft was departing from the same airport to deliver aid to the earthquake disaster area in ishikawa. flames and smoke could be seen pouring from the windows and fuselage of the larger aircraft, following the collision.

this is the scene live on the runway where the blaze seems to be under control. all of its 379 passengers and crew were safely evacuated, as matt graveling reports. a fireball engulfs the runway at japan's haneda airport. an airbus coming in to land collides with a coastguard plane. tragically, the five people on the smaller aircraft are killed. japan airlines flight 516 remained ablaze as it continued down the runway, with 379 people on board. inside, passengers watched as sparks flew past their windows... shouting. ..as the pilot brought the plane to a stop. everyone was safely evacuated. ijust came here to pick up a friend. it was pretty scary — like, the whole airportjust froze. the people that were boarding planes all had to get off, planes just completely stopped everywhere and, yeah, it's kind of crazy. all runways were immediately closed. more than 70 fire engines tried to contain the blaze, which quickly spread through the whole body of the aircraft. it looks like the structure has done what it was designed to do,

which is to protect the occupants and allow a fast evacuation, and of course the fire service focus will absolutely have been on protecting exits, making sure there was a clear path for people to evacuate from the aircraft. the airbus landed at 5:45pm local time, having made a shortjourney from northern japan. one person is believed to have escaped from the coastguard plane, which was on its way to the west of the country to deliver aid to a region that was hit hard by an earthquake yesterday, which claimed the lives of 48 people. the japanese prime minister said he wants officials to act quickly to ascertain the damage and provide information to the public. matt graveling, bbc news. alex macheras is an aviation analyst based in london. he gave me his reaction to the incident in tokyo. it's remarkable that we have witnessed what is the first whole loss of an airbus a350. this is the world's latest generation aircraft. and to the airlines that have

ordered this aircraft, it is still new to them. now it is state of the art. and airbus prides itself with its flagship, the 350, in being one of the safest aircraft to ever exist in the history of flight itself. and i would argue that today's accident in tokyo and from what we have learnt so far, the accident itself and the way in which almost 400 people have been able to safely evacuate this aircraft is a testament to that safety. it's that combined with the fact that it's japan airlines, because in the industry, japan airlines is known for being a leader with safety. and, you know, air travel is the safest form of transport globally. thankfully, we have an amazing industry that is incredibly safe. but japan airlines specifically is known for being forensic with its safety. and just ten days ago, i was with the japan airlines delegation and airbus at airbus headquarters, where they were showing a new safety

centre that was built and created in honour ofjapan airlines because airbus was so impressed with their safety protocols. so it doesn't surprise me then that with something as freak as this accident and this accident is simply extraordinary, the airline was able to evacuate almost 400 people in less than 90 seconds off of an aircraft that flies high density, busy domestic flight routes. it's a large aircraft, but injapan, they only use it for domestic flights because they have that demand. so that right there, i think it puts this into a bit of an extraordinary category. thankfully, we know that the almost 400 on board are safe and and now they are letting the wreckage burn out, as is often safer to do so. and, of course, the investigation begins. alex, we're looking at those pictures, the few seconds of footage that we have that someone has taken on a mobile phone of people evacuating that plane. as you say, it's thought that all those nearly 400 people evacuated from that emergency slide in 90 seconds or so.

take us through the fire and how it would have taken hold and what enabled those people to evacuate so quickly, given the speed with which that fire did take hold outside and internally in the end. well, that's why timing is everything. it's so key and critical here, because while we have seen, of course, the footage being shared everywhere of the aircraft and ultimately engulfed by flames from the nose right over to the tail in those first couple of minutes, that wasn't the case. the aircraft had a fire that was isolated to one area that was linked with what we know the authorities are saying is a collision with the coast guard aircraft and this is how this accident is believed to have taken place. so that initial 90 seconds, the first one and a half to two minutes is key because the aircraft hadn't been engulfed by instant flames.

the crew were able to initiate a textbook evacuation, locating the doors that were safe to open, that were not located near to active flames. and that's why not all of the doors we can see were open. not all of the evacuation slides were deployed, only the select doors. so that's the crew taking that decision with the correct decision then as to what to open and to open in order to initiate a fast and efficient evacuation. and sometimes that's not always the case. passengers can slow things down. there can be a lot of fear in the cabin. passengers can, by instinct, go to grab a passport or their bag from the locker. and all of that can really impact the success rate of the evacuation. what we've seen here is a textbook evacuation. as we mentioned, the coast guard plane involved in that collision in tkyo was on a mission to deliver aid supplies following monday's

in tokyo was on a mission to deliver aid supplies following monday's earthquake in japan. at least 48 people are now known to have died in the quake. japan's prime minister says rescue teams are facing a �*race against time�* to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble. the quake — with a magnitude of 7—point—6 — hit the province of noto. 0ur correspondentjean mckenzie reports from there, close to the epicentre of the quake. sirens. this is a race for survival. rescue workers stream through japan's isolated noto peninsula. the roads blocking their way. they're trying to reach these worst—affected areas in the north — where people are trapped under their collapsed homes. many families were out at temples, celebrating new year's day, whenjapan was hit by its strongest earthquake in 12 years. nomura—san thought his shrine was going to collapse. "the whole gate was swaying. the alleyway was swaying, too. the children had to squat on the floor so as not to fall over," he told me.

alerts chime. as we travel towards the epicentre, we're alerted to another earthquake. these aftershocks keep coming. further in, old wooden homes have been brought to the ground — not made to withstand the ferocity ofjapan�*s enduring quakes. toshio iwahama lives here alone after losing his wife. at 82, he doesn't know how he'll manage the repairs. translation: we always have earthquakes around here. - but i just didn't think we'd get a big one like this. i didn't take it seriously. i thought we were safe here. this is only the tip of the destruction. we are trying to get closer to the epicentre, to a city where we know that at least a dozen people have died and many more are trapped in their homes that have collapsed. but we are struggling — because if you look at this road here, it is completely ruptured, and this is what we keep

coming up against — these roads that are totally blocked off and even these emergency services here, these rescue teams, have been struggling to reach people in these worst—affected areas. so we are still trying to piece together the extent of the damage, and how many people have been killed and injured. some firefighters have managed to get into the wrecked city of wajima, and are searching for survivors. but the death toll is expected to rise. the people here have lived through many an earthquake, but never felt tremors of this magnitude — which have shaken both their surroundings and their sense of safety. jean mackenzie, bbc news, in noto peninsula, injapan. earlier i spoke to barnie davis who lives in kanazawa injapan with his wife and two daughters. he was at home when the quake started and described what happened it was about 4.10 in the afternoon, i was at home by myself.

my wife and daughters were out shopping. recently we've had quite a few smaller earthquakes, but this one just continued and got bigger and bigger. it lasted bout a minute and a half, and it was quite scary. the fridge door was banging open. pictures were falling down. my cats were going crazy. there are some pictures you sent, i want to play those so you can talk us through them. take us through what happened? as it started shaking, i thought it was just a normal small one, so i started taking a video for my family. then it got worse and worse, you can see my cat running around, the fridge flying open, books flying off shelves. when i went upstairs, everything had fallen down, it was crazy. as soon as the shaking stopped, i got in touch with my family, we had a group call.

they have been out shopping, and the moment the shaking got serious, everybody in the centre, their phone started with the alert, that you can't mute. they crouched down and covered their heads, and had to evacuate as soon as the shaking stopped. you said you had experienced that kind of thing before, did it feel more severe than the previous incident? yes, i have been injapan since 2000, this is by far the worst i have experienced. the tohoku one about 12 years ago and we felt that here as well, and a few years before that there was another in pretty much the same place in wajima, but this is by far the worst i have experienced. how did it feel? how worried where you? i was more worried about my family, really, because i knew i would be ok. i say worried, but i knew they had earthquake training at school. they knew what to do, just get under something, under a table or chair, cover your head if you can't do

that, or get into the door frames, that is what people say. so we were fairly confident it would be ok. but then we saw that everyone was evacuating, which we haven't actually done before, so we got lots of stuff together, drinks, snacks, coats and what have you, and we walked to the local elementary school gym, which was the evacuation point. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news here in the uk. the home office says it's cleared what it's called the "legacy" backlog of asylum claims — meeting a pledge made by rishi sunak. the home secretary says the target has been successfully met — and the process for future claims has been speeded up. but critics — including labour — have accused the goverment of massaging the figures. a man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 46 year old man in sheffield. chris marriott — a father of two —

was hit by a car while trying to help a stranger. hassanjhangur — who's 23 — was remanded in custody. last year was provisionally the second warmest year in the uk since records began in 1984 — —— in the uk since records began in 1884 — according to the met office. the national weather service said the provisional mean temperature of 9.97 degress celsius was just behind the figure recorded in 2022 — the warmest year on record. scientists say climate change is to blame. you're live with bbc news. the israeli government has sharply criticised a ruling by the supreme court which struck downjudicial reforms. it said it was the wrong time for such a decision, when israel is at war and needs unity. the reforms sparked months of protests — as the legislation limited the court's powers to cancel government decisions.

its opponents said it prevented proper oversight of the government. the court was split in its decision — eightjudges voted in favour of striking down the law, while seven voted to uphold it. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has not spoken publicly since the ruling — but his senior advisor mark regev explained to us a little earlier what the prime minister's position on this has been. his position has been consistent since the war has started, that we have to win this battle against hamas. we have to destroy its military machine and we have to end its rule over the gaza strip. it's a time for israel for national unity. it's clear that the issue ofjudicial reform was polarising israeli politics. you saw how it had divided the court itself eightjudges to seven. it's an issue that is divisive and the prime minister's opinion is that all issues that are divisive, we should put them aside now and focus on what needs to be done. earlier i spoke withjotam confino, foreign editor ofjewish news. i started by asking him about the significance of the supreme court decision.

first of all, as expected, the government has been very critical towards this landmark ruling, quite an unprecedented ruling from the supreme court. it's the first time ever that they're striking down an an amendment to a basic law. and and second of all, some of the more far right ministers in the government are calling it dangerous and an extreme undemocratic. and, of course, the opposition has expected a welcoming this this ruling and especially the protest movement who've been organising these mass demonstrations week after week are saying they are relieved, really. so this is kind of a death blow really to the government's judicial overhaul. this reasonableness law, as it was called, would have basically removed the supreme court's tools to oversee or to overturn government decisions if they were deemed unreasonable. and the last time it did that was in january. so it's quite a relevant tool, really. it called prime minister netanyahu's appointment of a party leader as health minister and interior minister unreasonable

in the extreme because he has a criminal past. so that's the latest example of when this clause was used. it's quite an important tool really to have checks and balances in israel. and will it mean anything for the war and the israeli government's ability to make decisions? it won't really, because it was an amendment to an already existing law. now the question really is, will the government respect the this court ruling? i believe they will for now. but when the war is over, will they respect this ruling? if they don't, we are and what we're calling a constitutional crisis, where citizens in israel will have to simply, simply make up their minds. will they obey the supreme court? will they listen to the government? it's quite astonishing, really, that we've gotten to this point, and netanyahu has not said yet publicly if he will respect the court ruling.

he was asked repeatedly about this prior to the ruling and he didn't give a clear answer. tell us a bit more about the decision by the israeli military to pull out thousands of reservists. what kind of numbers? what's the reasoning behind this? and again, also, what impact could that have on decision making when it comes to gaza? well, first of all, this comes after intense pressure by the united states. president biden has asked israel repeatedly to shift from a high intensity military operation to a low intensity intensity of military operation simply because the civilian death toll is so high in gaza. and israel is currently conducting both airstrikes. it's targeting hamas targets from the sea, from with the navy artillery, and it's conducting ground operations. so all of that combined is really very, very harsh on the civilian population. now, it's going to take thousands of soldiers out of gaza, five brigades. and that means that israel will not be able to to to conduct the same amount of operations. it will be much more targeted.

it will be limited in scope, and it will that's why the war will drag on. the israeli military is saying that we should expect it to be throughout the year 2024. it will be there will be a war in gaza. just briefly, ijust broke that news line that israel's to appear before the icj at the hague to, in quotes, "dispel south africa's absurd blood libel" according to the israeli government. just briefly explain what that will mean, do you think? well, first of all, israel has to defend itself. it's one of the most serious accusations you can get, really. so it has to defend itself. now, it will be up to the court to find out if israel has indeed committed genocide or genocidal acts of south africa. of course, israel is rejecting this. this is not the only country who has accused israel of that. bothjordan and turkey have also accused israel of it. heavy russian airstrikes on ukraine have killed five people and wounded dozens more. russia attacked kharkiv with waves of missiles during the morning rush hour. there were also missile attacks on the capital, kyiv. this all comes a day after president putin vowed to intensify strikes on ukraine. 0ur correspondent in kyiv,

james waterhouse, sent this update. this is how close the missile got to hitting this block of flats. the crater is about five meters deep. and just look at the devastation caused, you can see the windows completely, not blown through, blasted through. you can see drying laundry or what was once drying laundry inside. smoke is billowing higher up and even the block on the other side has been blown through. and the buildings across the road from there, such is the force generated from blasts like this. in case it wasn't obvious, this is from a missile. but russia uses drones as well. and to be honest with you, we haven't seen attacks like this since the early days and weeks of the invasion. last night there was a six—hour missile and drone attack where air defenses could be heard all night. and then there were again explosions. this morning, vladimir putin said he wanted to respond to a ukrainian

drone attack across the border into russia this week, despite it being in response to russia's biggest ever aerial bombardment of ukraine. the timing is also significant as well because there were fears russia had been stockpiling missiles like these to use around the new year period. and with no more military aid set to arrive from the us for now, attacks like this test air defense systems which rely on continued western help to be replenished in the long term. so it's incredibly uncertain. it's an incredibly critical time for ukraine. the spanish footballer, jenni hermoso, has been giving evidence in court in the sexual allegation case involving luis rubiales, the former president of the spanish football federation. he's accused of kissing ms hermoso on the lips against her will, after their world cup victory last august.

he's sought to portray the kiss as consensual. well our madrid correspondent — guy hedgecoe — gave us this update from outside court they's hearing was focused on an alleged sexual assault within the limit with nest by people all around the world. the player in the middle of this wasjenni hermoso and she told thejudge in of this wasjenni hermoso and she told the judge in the of this wasjenni hermoso and she told thejudge in the national court here in central madrid today that the case that luis rubiales gave her after the world cup final back in august in sydney was not consensual, that she did not agree to it. of course, luis rubiales contests that saying it was consensual and that they both agree to it, it was a spontaneous moment according to him but thejudge spontaneous moment according to him but the judge investigating this now has the task of deciding if there is enough evidence against luis rubiales for him to go on trial for sexual assault. this case has already had a huge impact here in

spain, certainly in the football world felt led to the resignation of luis rubiales and also the replacement of many people at the top of the football federation, there was a huge shake—up they are but also it's seen as having a broader impact across spanish society, triggering a social movement against perceived sexism and many other areas of spanish life. just before we go... at more than 125 years old, the morecambe winter gardens theatre in lancashire is steeped in history — and its intricate mosaic floor is one of the building's crown jewels. years of neglect had left it in a sorry state — but now, after months of delicate restoration, it's been returned to its former glory, as dave guest reports. when they built the morecambe winter gardens, no expense was spared. it had the very finest of fittings and colours chosen to reflect

the hues of a morecambe bay sunset. the people who designed this place lavished so much detail on it because they said they wanted to ensure that mill girls could feel like duchesses for a day when they came to see a show here. among the building's finest features, a grand mosaic floor in the foyer. it decayed during the years when this building lay empty, and also bears the scars of previous brutal patch—up attempts. it's been covered up for a long time. so the directors took the decision in the summer that it was now urgent. obviously, it's the first appearance for visitors when they come in. now, it's undergoing expert restoration — a fiddlyjob, which involves cutting tiny tiles to perfectly replicate those which were lost. we are replacing somewhere in the region of 50...50,000. it is a beautiful floor. it's such a shame it got into such a mess. yourjob wasn't made any easier by the fact that somebody over the years had attempted filling bits in. tell me a bit about that. yes, well, there were some some repairs attempted. unfortunately, they weren't very well done. there were a lot of areas that were filled

in with just concrete. it's painstaking, time—consuming work. but you get used to it and it's quite satisfying once... when the final result occurs. so it's all dry laid. and then once it's dry laid, we tape them up. use these things. and then put adhesive in, put them back in. well, we remove the tape and then we can move them about, get them perfect. and so, six weeks, 50,000 tiny tiles and a great deal of hard work later, this grand old theatre has taken yet another step along the road to regaining its former grandeur.

beautiful restoration there. that's it for the moment. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. the latest named storm of the season, storm henk, has been named by the met office. bring heavy rain exacerbating the risk of flooding and also some amber warning for the strength of winds through the swathe of south wales and southern england to south midlands, too, was in an gust of 60 mph or maybe more, guts of 80 mph around exposed coast on the southern flank of this area of low pressure which is also bringing and persistent rain to many parts of england and wales, fringing and to in scotland and also outbreaks of rain across the northern isles turning to snow across shetlands and also gales here. through the night it will stay quite possibly both in the north—east and in the south of the north—east and in the south of the uk, much of the persistent rain clearing but plenty of showers

following on behind, not a particularly cold night and then for wednesday, low pressure are still very much in charge of the scene, so plenty of isa bars on the chart here across the south so it will stay windy up to the north—east of scotland with the wind is only slowly easing through the north. a of rain and snow, some showers elsewhere with rain and equally some sunshine in between and temperatures if anything dropping back by a degree or two, north to south we are looking at isa between 6—11 c but just 2 degrees across shetlands. then as we go to wednesday night into thursday we see this next system running into the south—west bringing outbreaks of heavy rain, particularly across the channel islands and southern counties of england and that may be that the rain just edges a little bit further north than this and elsewhere are sunny spells, scattered showers, not as windy by this stage and again those temperatures dropping back just a little, 6—10 cfor most those temperatures dropping back just a little, 6—10 c for most of us. then a change in the weather for

the end of the week, low pressure will slowly but surely loosen its grip with high pressure building from the west end also building from the east which will tend to settle things down and bring more in the way of dry weather but this will also introduce some somewhat colder air and we are not looking at anything unusual or extreme for this time of year butjust colder than it has been with those temperatures dropping back to or may be below the average for the time of year and forced muller frost and fault for the time of year and any showers could be wintry. —— frost and fo for the time of year. —— frost and fog for the time of year.

hapag—lloyd red sea tensions continue to rise — german shipping line hapag lloyd will continue avoiding the area because of attacks that are disrupting global trade. and battle of the ev giants — tesla posts record deliveries — but is knocked off the ev top spot by rival chinese maker byd. welcome to world business report. we start in the middle east where the threat of military escalation continues to hang over the red sea and disrupt gloal trade.