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. all 379 passengers and crew managed to escape the burning japan airlines aircraft before it was 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 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 monday's powerful earthquake. ukraine suffers another intense night of russian bombardment, leaving at least five people dead. ukraine's air defence claims 35 drones were shot down. the uk government says it has met a promise to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims — with more than 112,000 cases processed last year. 0n terrified today, has the government creo the legacy asylum backlog? we've been looking at the numbers and it's a lot more complicated than ministers have claimed. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. five japanese coast guard crew have been killed in a collision between their plane and a japan airlines passenger jet at tokyo's haneda airport. dramatic tv pictures showed the airbus a350 passenger

plane ablaze as it travelled at speed down the runway. all 379 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, before the plane was completely engulfed in flames, and its fuselage collapsed. here's the moment passengers disembarked. these are the pictures live from tokyo. it's emerged that the coast guard aircraft was taking emergency supplies to help earthquake rescue efforts in niigata. 0ne coast guard crew member managed to escape with severe injuries. it's thought to be the first major incident involving a passenger plane made largely of carbon fibre and other composite materials. 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. joining us now on the line is former british airways pilot — now aviation consultant — alastair rosenschein. thanks forjoining us. my first question to you is how surprised are you that everybody on board the passenger plane was able to survive? when you look at those pictures of the plane engulfed in flames. the straiaht the plane engulfed in flames. tue: straight answer the plane engulfed in flames. tte: straight answer is that, yes, i am

surprised. it was a major accident at high speed as the aircraft came into land and the collision was catastrophic for the smaller of the two aircraft but the flight crew kept the airbus going straight down the runway and they managed to do those shutdown checks from what i can see and successfully disembark or in this case use the evacuation slides to evacuate the aircraft in a timely way with no loss of life for those on that aircraft. tt is those on that aircraft. it is incredible, _ those on that aircraft. it is incredible, i— those on that aircraft. it is incredible, i cannot - those on that aircraft. it is incredible, i cannot overstate that and i think you are watching will probably share that sentiment especially when you look at those pictures of the aircraft on fire. as a pilot, what kind of procedures would have had to have happened to ensure that everyone was able to get off so quickly given we are talking about more than 300 people had to disembark a plane that was on fire? well, the flight crew's job is first

to keep the aircraft under control until complete. and then initiate the evacuation with not having the engine is running for example then give instructions to the cabin crew as to what doors they can or cannot use but the pilots' view would be restricted from the flight deck. the cabin crew have made the decision on their own to evacuate itjust in case they do not get decisions from the flight deck is possible and the relevant doors could be opened, the slides are deployed automatically and then the passengers disembark. very rapidly. the cabin crew giving instructions ofjump, jump, whatever the airline specific wording is and having got all the passengers off and the cabin crew off, the flight crew's job is then to walk through the cabin and check that no one has been left behind and of course that

depends on whether they can do so with the fire but it looks like they've done it really successfully and i think the video of this evacuation will be used in training for years to come.— for years to come. indeed. really remarkable- _ for years to come. indeed. really remarkable. i— for years to come. indeed. really remarkable. i want _ for years to come. indeed. really remarkable. i want to _ for years to come. indeed. really remarkable. i want to ask - for years to come. indeed. really remarkable. i want to ask the - for years to come. indeed. really i remarkable. i want to ask the plane, the a350 because much has been written about its structure, what it's made of, which has meant that it's made of, which has meant that it did, in the end, save lives. i do not know if you retired before this came into circulation or whether you flown one and not for telling more about the aircraft.— about the aircraft. well, the body ofthe about the aircraft. well, the body of the aircraft _ about the aircraft. well, the body of the aircraft is _ about the aircraft. well, the body of the aircraft is made _ about the aircraft. well, the body of the aircraft is made of - about the aircraft. well, the body of the aircraft is made of a - about the aircraft. well, the bodyj of the aircraft is made of a carbon fibre, a bit like fibreglass and it is highly inflammable but not flammable... able to withhold flames for a certain length of time which it managed to do quite successfully and the most important thing is that

the structure of the aircraft remains intact despite a very hard hit with another aircraft allowing the flight crew to bring it to a halt on the runway and because the structure remained intact it made the evacuation far more... let's call straightforward as the crew were trying to do in the passengers were trying to do in the passengers were expected to do in an evacuation like this so these modern materials, they are superior in many senses, in they are superior in many senses, in the sense that whilst they have different characteristics, they are lighter and very, very strong indeed. t lighter and very, very strong indeed. ., , ., ., lighter and very, very strong indeed. ., , ., , ., indeed. i mean, it is too early to know for certain _ indeed. i mean, it is too early to know for certain because - indeed. i mean, it is too early to know for certain because we - indeed. i mean, it is too early to know for certain because we are | know for certain because we are waiting on more details from the authorities injapan but when you watch videos that show the aftermath, have you been able to draw any early conclusions about what you think caused this? well. draw any early conclusions about what you think caused this? well, it is obviously — what you think caused this? well, it is obviously an _ what you think caused this? well, it is obviously an impact _ what you think caused this? well, it is obviously an impact with - what you think caused this? well, it is obviously an impact with anotherl is obviously an impact with another aircraft, you can see the damage on

the left hand engine. there is a clear dent in the front and also the nose cone of the aircraft is missing and there was damage to the engine on the side. whether or not the right hand engine impacted the other aircraft is difficult to tell, or near impossible to tell at this stage but the damage is consistent with two aircraft colliding on the runway. i was reading that haneda airport is the third busiest in the world which surprised me, would this be a missed munication or something else, would you draw anything on that, the factor to such a busy airport and two aircraft might have overburdened with a number of aircraft coming in or out? there is no reason — aircraft coming in or out? there is no reason to _ aircraft coming in or out? there is no reason to say _ aircraft coming in or out? there is no reason to say that _ aircraft coming in or out? there is no reason to say that is _ aircraft coming in or out? there is no reason to say that is the - aircraft coming in or out? there is no reason to say that is the case. |

no reason to say that is the case. there _ no reason to say that is the case. there are — no reason to say that is the case. there are many very busy airports all around — there are many very busy airports all around the world. at a quiet or busy— all around the world. at a quiet or busy airport, you can still get a runway— busy airport, you can still get a runway encroachment her one vehicle enters _ runway encroachment her one vehicle enters a _ runway encroachment her one vehicle enters a live — runway encroachment her one vehicle enters a live runway and we do not know _ enters a live runway and we do not know if— enters a live runway and we do not know if that — enters a live runway and we do not know if that is what happened but it looks _ know if that is what happened but it looks that _ know if that is what happened but it looks that way but we cannot be sure but i looks that way but we cannot be sure but i don't _ looks that way but we cannot be sure but i don't think the fact it is a busy— but i don't think the fact it is a busy airport like cigna can factor however — busy airport like cigna can factor however haneda is a very complex airport _ however haneda is a very complex airport to — however haneda is a very complex airport to navigate on the ground, there _ airport to navigate on the ground, there are — airport to navigate on the ground, there are many, many taxiways and three _ there are many, many taxiways and three main— there are many, many taxiways and three main runways which make it tricky— three main runways which make it trickv as— three main runways which make it trickv as a — three main runways which make it tricky as a pilot to make sure you do not _ tricky as a pilot to make sure you do not enter— tricky as a pilot to make sure you do not enter a live runway. the lighting — do not enter a live runway. the lighting system is very complex and the lights _ lighting system is very complex and the lights are very right on the ground, — the lights are very right on the ground, very difficult to see an aircraft — ground, very difficult to see an aircraft that might have entered your runway as your coming into land _ your runway as your coming into land you — your runway as your coming into land. you think it is obvious, you think— land. you think it is obvious, you think you — land. you think it is obvious, you think you can— land. you think it is obvious, you think you can see it but it's very difficult — think you can see it but it's very difficult to — think you can see it but it's very difficult to see an aircraft at

night — difficult to see an aircraft at night in _ difficult to see an aircraft at night in those conditions. that is interesting- _ night in those conditions. that is interesting. specific _ night in those conditions. that is interesting. specific concerns - interesting. specific concerns perhaps about the airport itself then. t perhaps about the airport itself then. ., �* ., ., ., ., then. i wouldn't even go that far to sa that. then. i wouldn't even go that far to say that- this _ then. i wouldn't even go that far to say that. this is _ then. i wouldn't even go that far to say that. this is possibly _ then. i wouldn't even go that far to say that. this is possibly either - then. i wouldn't even go that far to say that. this is possibly either a i say that. this is possibly either a communication error or an error of taxiing by the aircraft on the ground, those are the sort of initial thing that will be looked at but i cannot pre—empt an investigation that will involve many people over many months.- people over many months. indeed. thank ou people over many months. indeed. thank you very _ people over many months. indeed. thank you very much _ people over many months. indeed. thank you very much for _ people over many months. indeed. thank you very much for sharing i people over many months. indeed. l thank you very much for sharing your insights on this developing story. staying injapan... at least 48 people are now known to have died in japan's earthquake. the country'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 close to the epicentre. 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. 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 forty—six 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 twenty—three — was remanded in custody. last year was provisionally the second warmest year in the uk since records began in eighteen—eighty—four — according to the met office. the national weather service said the provisional mean temperature of nine—point—nine—seven degress celsius was just behind the figure recorded in twenty—twenty—two — the warmest year on record.// —— recorded in 2022 — the warmest year on record. scientists say climate change is to blame. you're live with bbc news. heavy russian air strikes on ukraine have killed at least five people and wounded dozens more. russia attacked kharkiv — the country's second largest city —

with waves of different 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. as we saw in that report — there were russian attacks on the capital kyiv.

the home of kira rudyk, a member of the ukrainian parliament was damaged. she shared pictures of the aftermath on her social media account — windows smashed — next to the christmas tree. kira wrote that her home was now partially in rubble. well we can now speak to kira who joins us from kyiv. first of all we are very sorry to see what happened to your home. tells what happened.— see what happened to your home. tells what happened. hello and thank ou for tells what happened. hello and thank you for having — tells what happened. hello and thank you for having me. _ tells what happened. hello and thank you for having me. well, _ tells what happened. hello and thank you for having me. well, i _ tells what happened. hello and thank you for having me. well, i woke - tells what happened. hello and thank you for having me. well, i woke up i you for having me. well, i woke up with the sound of the air raid siren and i was going down to sit under the stairs which is what we do during attacks like this but it actually happened very fast so i did not even get their and i have just seen that part of my house is blowing away and the shattered glass was everywhere and basically the

windows are all gone. you can see probably any pictures how tall was the explosion and it was not very close to me, it's actually far away and the wind was so strong that it shattered the buildings, windows for so many people so it felt like armageddon because the attack did not stop when the explosion was nearby. it continued and can you imagine running around in the dark when the world is collapsing? going to your neighbours and asking if everyone is ok and trying to maintain some sanity. today, the whole day was cleaning up, making sure that we have a way to go through the night and it is so

terrifying that these actions are happening and there is not too many things you citizens can do, you can sit in the bomb shelter but there is nothing you can do to prevent this happening to your home or your loved ones and this is the most terrifying that russia continues to terrorise us. we are fighting back with all our capabilities and here is the result. so i'm just calling for all our lives and the people who are standing with ukraine to give us more missiles for those air defence systems because they may prevent situations like this. right now in ukraine, if you're going to bed, you do not have a guarantee that you'll wake up in the morning because you will miss an air raid siren being

on. t will miss an air raid siren being on. , . will miss an air raid siren being on, , ., ., will miss an air raid siren being on. , ., ., ., will miss an air raid siren being on. , ., ., , on. ijust wanted to ask, you sit in parliament — on. ijust wanted to ask, you sit in parliament in _ on. ijust wanted to ask, you sit in parliament in ukraine, _ on. ijust wanted to ask, you sit in parliament in ukraine, you're - on. ijust wanted to ask, you sit in parliament in ukraine, you're a i parliament in ukraine, you're a member of parliament. how do you think president zelensky is handling things. your calling on the west to do more and supply more aid and we have seen that they are unable to agree to send additional aid particularly in the us, it's a big political issue now but what do you think about domestically how president zelensky is handling things. i think he is doing what is possible to do, president zelensky, and although i am a leader of an opposition party, we are standing on the same side which is to make sure the same side which is to make sure the country winds the war and physically survived the war so right now it is about acting as one and understanding that from our side, providing people that will be fighting at the front, training them and making sure that we are doing

everything possible but people cannot be fighting empty—handed. this is why we are calling for our allies to do more and why we are calling for all the political promises to be fulfilled and fulfilled in time and i do notjust talk about money but also the weapons supplies and ammunition pieces. thank you there. joining us from kyiv. the uk government says it has met a promise by the prime minister to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims. according to the home office, more than 112,000 asylum cases were processed by officials last year but labour says the government has been manipulating the figures. nick eardley from our verify team has looking at the claims. the big claim from the government todayis the big claim from the government today is that it has got rid of the legacy backlog of asylum applications. this is what rishi sunak told parliament in december 2022 when he talked about the

backlog, numberten 2022 when he talked about the backlog, number ten said he was referring to all cases before the 28th ofjune 2022 at the home secretary said this morning they had all been processed so the government had fulfilled this promise but it is complicated. we think the government has gone too far in claiming that the backlog of older cases has gone completely. have a look at this. this is the number of cases submitted before the 28th ofjune 2022 when rishi sunak made a pledge in december you can see there were around 92,000 still to be processed and there is no doubt the government has brought this down quite significantly with big falls particularly towards the end of the year but then have a look at this. december. there are still 4500 cases left in the government says these have been looked at but more work needs to be done but what is clear from this, the home office's own figures, there are still some cases

in the older asylum backlog. it's not gone entirely. it is also worth having a look at how the government has got the backlog down so significantly. these figures are for the first nine months of the year and as you can see the number of cases being approved has gone up significantly which has led critics of the government like nigel far as to say they have rushed through claims. it is also worth having a look at this bit in yellow with the number of withdrawn cases which is a record high. it includes people who decide not to pursue the asylum case but also includes those the home office decides to take out of the 0ffice decides to take out of the system for things like missing application meetings are not keeping in touch with the home office. finally have a look at this quote from the home office which was released today saying that from the figures it has produced, 35,000 cases were non—substantive decisions

which often means that they have been withdrawn from the figures. as you can see, it's a lot more complicated than some of the government's headline claim suggests. finally, iwant government's headline claim suggests. finally, i want to show you this. although the bit legacy backlog has gone down considerably, this is cases after the 28th ofjune 2022. have a look. they've gone up considerably over time. they now stand at 94,000, more than the legacy backlog was when rishi sunak pledged to get rid of it. there is no timescale for dealing with this at the moment. 0k, ok, i 0k, iwasjust ok, i was just looking ok, i wasjust looking down there because we had two statements coming on that breaking story, the collision between two aircraft in tokyo. we've got a statement from airbus which confirms that her a350

collided with a dhc aircraft landing at the aircraft looming a report saying the exact circumstances of the collision are unknown and says sadly five of the six people on board did not survive and we've also had a statement from japan air on that as well confirming again that on the 2nd ofjanuary, flightjl516 collided with a japan coastguard aircraft and they want to apologise for the distress and inconvenience positively might cause to passengers and their family and they say they are also investigating. —— apologise for the distress and inconvenience caused to passengers. hello. storm henk continues

its weight, bringing heavy rain exacerbating the risk of flooding and also very strong winds. 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 a met office amber warning in place through parts of south wales and southern england to the south midlands. warning for the strength of winds through the swathe of south wales and southern england to south midlands, too, was in an. gusts of 60 mph or maybe more, gusts 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 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 blustery both in 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 still very much in charge of the scene, so plenty of isobars on the chart here across the south so it will stay windy up to the north—east of scotland with the winds 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 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 it may be that the rain just edges a little bit further north than this. elsewhere, sunny spells, scattered showers, not as windy by this stage and again those temperatures dropping back just a little, 6—10c 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 and 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. 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 it could be wintry in places.

frost and fog by night and any showers could be wintry.

this is bbc news, the headlines: japan's prime minister confirms that 5 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 engulfed by flames.