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says initial evidence from overnight us and british air strikes in yemen suggests all intended targets were destroyed looking under way in new hampshire where nikki haley is looking to close the gap on donald trump. and oppenheimer leads the oscar nominations with 13 — but barbie�*s margot robbie and greta gerwig both miss out. to the united states now — and the people of new hampshire are voting in a primary election, with just two candidates left for the republican party's presidential nomination. officials are predicting a record—setting turnout for the primary which is taking place in the north east of the country. nikki haley is hoping the traditionally moderate new england state will give her a result that allows her to continue in the race — but opinion polls indicate donald trump has built up a clear lead. our north america correspondent

emma vardy is monitoring events for us in new hampshire and gave us the latest. well, for nikki haley's supporters, those anti—trump republicans, they're hoping that this is the moment she can show everyone that she can seriously challenge donald trump, and that there is an alternative to him for the party. but that looks like a very tall order. as you say, donald trump continues to lead in the polls despite the fact that new hampshire, this state, is thought to be the one that would be more favourable to nikki haley. more moderate conservative voters are here. so the thinking is if she can't get a good result here, beating donald trump or coming very close to him, it's going to be very hard for her to carry on. now, nikki haley came third in the last nominating contest in iowa, but it felt that this is the place where she could get a result. but donald trump won by a landslide in iowa. and if he wins by a solid margin again here, in many people's eyes, he will then be the inevitable republican nominee to go on and face joe biden in november. and you get a sense when you're talking to people on the ground, nikki haley supporters acknowledge that this is a tall order. it's going to be a difficult one.

but they say, look, "new hampshire often delivers surprises. it often goes a different way to the result in iowa". so they're hoping against the odds that nikki haley could do something here. on the other hand, you go to a trump rally and he continues to inspire this kind of enthusiasm and devotion from his supporters on the ground. and you say to them, "look, he's facing all these legal battles. "he's having to crisscross from campaign events to court back to campaign events again". you know, "how can you keep voting for him"? and they say to you, "it's political persecution. he's our guy". none of those legal battles really matter to the supporters for trump on the ground. so you can understand once you're here why he continues to create enthusiasm, continues to create almost devotion from the people supporting him. it's very interesting when you pop into diners and you hear it first—hand from supporters here, donald trump is addressing these big, big rallies. and nikki haley's been the more sort of traditional popping into diners, tramping through the snow,

knocking on doors and things like that. people are coming in to vote throughout the day here. we should get an indication later tonight what the numbers are stacking up to be. if it's a win for donald trump. well, he could have it all wrapped up by the end of today. that was emmy of arctic —— emma party in new hampshire. in the last hour donald trump paid a visit to one of the new hampshire polling stations. here he was speaking to reporters. i'm very confident, i mean, this is it, look, we just up here, we stopped at a polling site, we picked at random, we may stay at one more, and no one knew we were coming, this is pretty amazing. mr president, nikki haley standing through super tuesday, is she a threat to you? no, no, i don't care if she stays in, let her do what she wants, it doesn't matter. i canjust say, there has never been a movement like this, "make america great again", in the history of our country.

ijust stopped here and i figured i would see three or four people and maybe walk inside, and you see the crowd like this? this is organic. we will be covering the new hampshire primary care on bbc news through the evening so stay with us if you're interested in us politics,. let's turn to a major health story now, as the world health organization warns that measles cases have risen thirty—fold across europe, in what it's described as an "alarming rise". more than 30,000 cases were reported by a0 eu member states in the first ten months of last year. to give you a sense ofjust how big the increase is — that compares with just 940 cases in 2022. the who says poor vaccination rates are largely to blame, and says the jabs are the only way to protect children. earlier i spoke with dr siddhartha datta, vaccines regional adviser at the world health organization — he told me why vaccination rates are falling in europe. if you urn the pages

of the vaccination services for the last two years or three years. we all know, and we have seen that, the vaccination coverage in the who european region dropped by almost 3% from 2019 to 2022. that doesn't look good, look big. but if you look by country, by country, a drop of the coverage has been from 5% to 15%. what does that mean? that means that there are under—vaccinated children, that are unvaccinated children in several countries, in several communities, several municipalities. if you translate that into an immunity gap, that means there are people, the children who are left unvaccinated, who are left unprotected. and the number of rise that you have told us, by the month november, we have seen more than 40,000 cases now and nine deaths reported

in the who european region, the countries. so we really are, this situation is alarming and we are concerned. if could just tell me very briefly, if possible, why is measles such a major concern? what does it do to you if you catch it? yeah, sure. i think measles is one of the most infectious agent, the virus that we all know that doesn't only lead to the disease, but also leads to death. and we really don't want anybody to suffer from these disease when we actually have a safe and effective vaccine. and i think it's important that we now reach out to them who have missed their doses during the last couple of years. what kind of areas and communities and countries are we seeing the worst cases of under—vaccination? certainly, the situation is quite mixed in the who european region. the vulnerable communities, as we are identifying country by country, differs considerably. we have seen some religious groups bring the children

and the religious groups be left behind, but also children who are living far off from the vaccination centre. it's critically important that we vaccinate. we reach out to them, find out why these children are not being vaccinated, and then develop a tailored strategies country by country. the vaccines are there. that was a composition about measles and if vaccinations, and let us bring you back to the uk. english cricketer, shoaib bashir, has been forced to fly back to the uk — in order to sort the visa delays which are preventing him from joining the england squad in india. there's growing concern about the treatment of the 20—year—old british muslim who is of pakistani heritage, and was the only member of the team to experience significant delays. number ten has weighed in saying it "expects india to treat live now to our political correspondent, harry farley. and harry do we know why his visa hasn't been approved?

we don't know for sure why shoaib bashir didn't get a visa along with the other members of the glen cricket squad, what we know is this isn't the first time that a cricketer of pakistani heritage has had difficulty getting it visa to india. the australian opening batsman had difficulties around this time last year when australia toured india, the bb sports on commentator has had difficulties as well —— bbc sports. so, not the first cricketer to experience difficulties, not the first cricketer of pakistani heritage to have such difficulties, india and pakistan have not played a bilateral match against georgia since 2016 because of difficulties, i put this to prime minister spokesperson this afternoon and you ask questions in these context

people are good at ducking and weaving and not giving an answer but when i put the case to the prime minister deputy oppressed spokesperson, they said" we have previously raised the issue of which is citizens of pakistani heritage struggling to get visas to india and they expect india to treat british citizens fairly at all times in these processes". number ten waning on the issue and ben stokes earlier expressing his frustration at the experience for shoaib bashir and he pointed out the squad had set us up since mid—december and here we are injanuary and everyone has a visa except shoaib bashir, which means the cricketer will miss the first test and not be there until at least the weekend. a study has found that a blood test could revolutionise diagnosis of alzheimer's. the study from the university

of gothenburg found that measuring levels of a protein could be just as good at detecting disease as lumbar punctures and scans. live now to dr nicholas ashton. he is a researcher at the university of gothenburg at the department of psychiatry and neurochemistry. he is the first author of the study. so it's good to have you in a programme. tell me a bit more about how this works, it sounds really exciting. how this works, it sounds really excitina. . ~ how this works, it sounds really excitina. ., ~ , ., how this works, it sounds really excitina. . ~' , ., ., ., exciting. thank you for having me. i think in research _ exciting. thank you for having me. i think in research terms _ exciting. thank you for having me. i think in research terms we - exciting. thank you for having me. i think in research terms we are - exciting. thank you for having me. i think in research terms we are not l think in research terms we are not surprised by these results, we know that blood tests has been under way for a number of years and year on year the results have been getting better, what is different about this study is as you have mentioned, we are starting to use a commercial test. so it takes away from research and makes it more closer to in clinical reality.— and makes it more closer to in clinical reality. so, explain to me wh this clinical reality. so, explain to me why this is _ clinical reality. so, explain to me why this is important _ clinical reality. so, explain to me why this is important and - clinical reality. so, explain to me why this is important and why - clinical reality. so, explain to me l why this is important and why does it matter to get a diagnosis of potential alzheimer's early? first of all, it's important _

potential alzheimer's early? first of all, it's important to _ potential alzheimer's early? f "st of all, it's important to mirror the or match the clinical signs of a summers with the biological opinions of the disease, what's going on in the brain, and that can be done by advanced brain scanning and spinal taps through lumbar puncture but only a small percentage of people get that around the world and in the uk, so it blood test is designed to come in and fill that void. because it is a blood test, it can be screened and rolled out to many hundreds of thousands of people in a quickly. the second reason why it is important to get an early diagnosis is that we have drugs that are on the way to our approved by the fda in the united states, and these seem to be effective in the early stages of the disease, and if you have a blood test is a must quicker way to get the diagnosis and hopefully get you therapy. h0??? get the diagnosis and hopefully get you therapy-— get the diagnosis and hopefully get ou thera . ., ., , ., you therapy. how long before we can start seeing — you therapy. how long before we can start seeing these _ you therapy. how long before we can start seeing these blood _ you therapy. how long before we can start seeing these blood tests - start seeing these blood tests becoming a reality, in the uk for

example? in becoming a reality, in the uk for examle? , ., ., example? in the uk it is a great time and i _ example? in the uk it is a great time and i think— example? in the uk it is a great time and i think the _ example? in the uk it is a great time and i think the people's i time and i think the people's lottery alzheimer's society and assignments redress in the uk of all would be having an announcement here where there was support a large project to see which one of these tests they would allow for the nhs, and this will take about five years, in the united states, is another example, these tests are already available and in sweden where i am it would be approved this year. thank you for your time, and best of luck in your research and rulers of this. roll—outs of this. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news — bringing you different strays from across the uk. - i bent down, he put his feet on my shoulders and gave me a kiss, i thought this dog needs to come home. been there nine years at the time, he had. maybe the next three orfour years in the house. it's a case of better late than neverfor a nine—year—old akita cross, hambug.

he spent almost his entire life at an animal sanctuary in outside kennels. well now he's experiencing a warm home for the first time, thanks to his new owners, ken and sandra. he loves it, he absolutely loves it. he has two beds. he has one up under the landing, one downstairs that's near the radiator. he is just fit ti so well. but despite hambug's close bond with ken, it has come as a bit of a surprise, as part of the reason he was so difficult to rehome was because of his fear of strangers. after nine years, he needs a proper home. he's loved already. for more stories from i across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. the oscar nominations have been announced — let's run you through the key headlines from the ceremony in los angeles. leading the way is oppenheimer with a massive thirteen nominations —

including cillian murphy for best actor. poor things did well — with 11 nominations, including one for emma stone in the best actress category. ten nominations for killers of the flower moon — including best director for martin scorsese — the 10th of his career. not so good for barbie — eight nominations including best film. but margot robbie missed out on best actress — and no best director nomination for greta gerwig. i spoke earlier to film critic, siobhan synnot for her take on the nominations big, big time for oppenheimer and oppenheimerfans. interesting, isn't it, that the oscars recently have shown a preference for small, quirky, independent movies. you think of coda, nomadland and of course, last year's everything everywhere all at once. but this could well be the year of high—profile, high—budget hollywood hits.

so you look at the nominations, as you say, oppenheimer was 13, 11 for poor things. poor things is an interesting one because i think it came up late in the race. it's a slightly transgressive, dark comedy, perhaps not not exactly family viewing at times. and then there's favourites like martin scorsese with killers of the flower moon, as you say, a shock, perhaps, that barbie misses out on best director and best picture. maybe the feeling amongst the voters was that while it was terrific that as part of barbenheimer, it delivered big audiences and footfall in the summer holidays, it perhaps doesn't quite deliver as a picture that there are lots of ideas in greta gerwig's barbie. they're firing off all at once, and perhaps a firmer director might have refined the ideas

and pointed the ship brand in a narrative direction. i have to say. i haven't watched poor things. sorry, but my producer tom brodeur says he watched it with his mum. was that a bad idea? what a broad minded mum. yeah. well, one of the conversations we had when we left poor things was who can we take to see it when it goes on? general release. but it is a fantastic performance by emma stone. and as be said, the director, yorgos lanthimos is something of an oscar favourite. he makes dark, transgressive, but ambitious, interesting films and and i think they really wanted to reward him for that now with poor things. and also, as we said, this year's oscars are quite an internationalist bunch. so, you know, we've got five nominations for justine tries, anatomy of a fall. it's a twisty courtroom thriller.

it includes best director forjustine tries, which makes her the only woman in the director category and best actress for sandra. and that, rather suggests that four years after parasite, the academy awards are getting a little more international in their flavour. let's talk about actresses. we did emma stone a second ago, lily gladstone, who is the actress in the killers of the flower moon. she was narrowly shut out from the bafta shortlist, wasn't she? absolutely. yes. no, i think this islily on home territory. it's a great performance in killers of the flower moon. much talked about. slightly surprising, perhaps, that leonardo dicaprio got shut out of the best actor category. but i suspect it's a very strong category this year and everybody had to really fight for their place. and they might be just a feeling that leonardo dicaprio has already had his tea since he won for the revenant a few years ago. it really is that is that the kind of way that things work or? i think there's a streak of sentiment in in oscar voters.

i mean, you look at martin scorsese's umpteenth nomination for best director. he last won for the departed. but i think the academy awards, they love martin scorsese. they like to give him awards. you look at maestro, i mean, bradley cooper was shut out of best director, but he's up there for best actor for playing leonard bernstein. and, you know, some of the performance is terrific, but it's a flawed film. maestro. let's ask you this question, siobhan. what of all the films that have been nominated is your absolute standout favourite? what film do you recommend everyone watching at home to get out there and watch as soon as they can? oh well, poor things if you've got a very broad minded mum. i don't. so let's kick that one out. anatomy of a fall is a really good thriller. it's actually a french film, but a german actress, and it's in german, french and english. and the french, surprisingly, didn't put it forward for best international film. they put in taste of things,

which didn't show up at all. and other bad news for the french. napoleon is doing very well in the craft categories this year. that was siobhan synnot talking about the oscars and let us go to the united nations the security council is continuing its meeting about the israel— gaza conflict, in the last few minutes we heard from the un chief antonio guterres, talking about the fact that he believed that nothing can justify, about the fact that he believed that nothing canjustify, in his word, the collective punishment of the palestinian people and he also said the clear and repeated rejection of the clear and repeated rejection of the two state solution at the highest levels of israeli government is unacceptable. he said all this as he appealed for more aid to be put through into the gaza strip. that is the un security council meeting to discuss the israel— gaza conflict, and we will bring you the latest on that as we get it. let's talk about another stair —— a storm here in the

uk. just a day after storm isha caused travel chaos and left thousands without power — the uk is bracing itself for more severe weather with storm jocelyn, due to hit this evening. major disruption to transport is expected and no trains in scotland will operate after seven o'clock tonight. the met office has issued yellow weather warnings — meaning disruption — because of wind and rain across most of the uk — with only east anglia and southern england likely to escape the worst of storm jocelyn. an amberwarning — meaning more widespread disruption — is in place for parts of western and northern scotland and orkney. our north of england correspondent danny savage sent this report from york. jocelyn is the latest name storm to be sweeping in from the atlantic into the uk, coming hot on the heels of storm isha, which affected us yesterday and also on sunday night, and caused a lot of damage. now, the main problem withjocelyn will be winds overnight and into tomorrow with much of the uk covered by weather warnings for wind, but particularly

western and northern scotland has an amber warning with gusts perhaps up to 80 mph. the main problem for this part of the country here in northern england, this is york behind me, the city centre with the river ouse flowing through it, is that there has been a warning of rain today for the hills where all the water that supplies this river comes from. and it's been raining very heavily and has flooded up there or in catchments, which are already waterlogged and have a problem with flooding. and that water will come down the system over the next 24—48 hours. so river levels here are expected to rise. it doesn't mean it's necessarily going to cause a big problem here in york. this is a city that is very well defended against floods, and all indications are is that those defences will hold. there won't be a serious problem. but there will be problems where those rivers burst their banks elsewhere as that water comes down the system. tonight in scotland, all train services have stopped running as of 7:00. so there are no services tonight and into tomorrow

morning's rush hour as well. and over in northern ireland, they're still trying to clear up the mess from yesterday where the storm literally snapped power lines and poles, and they're having to rebuild them and get several thousand customers back online who are still not connected to mains electricity. that is an ongoing job and will last perhaps another 2a hours or so to get people back on. so more impacts from this new named storm, but, interesting, tomorrow, the weather warnings across the uk are not for rain, they are for wind, and that is what will cause any problems tomorrow potentially is the wind, but also watch out forflooding in some parts of the country, too. an emerging online trend is fuelling illegal and anti—social behaviour with off—road bikes and quads in the uk. one police force told the bbc of a �*plague to society�* from dinger culture — where vehicles are stolen from this culture — where vehicles are stolen and driven recklessly for hits and likes on social media. jim connolly went out on patrol with cleveland police which saw over 6000 calls from the public about these vehicles in just the past year. revving

up and down the country, communities are being terrorised by gangs on illegal off—road bikes and quads. and the police are warning an emerging new trend on social media is fuelling the problem. riders provoke the authorities, and getting likes on places like tiktok is what it is all about. tiktok told us it does not allow videos that promote breaking the law, and it removes those that do. the company says this is an issue across social media. last year, across the uk, nearly 211,000 bikes were stolen. often these vehicles are used anti—socially. a real problem in places like teesside. one thing high on senior officers' minds are self—styled dingers. they steal bikes to ride in an anti—social, illegal and dangerous way, often with showing off on social media in mind. they are very much like a community bike, so they will pass it from one individual to another individual.

so, a real plague to society. yeah, this car park and the field here. chris says his family's dream of a quiet life has been destroyed by off—road bikes, cars, and anti—social behaviour. you can see anything from 8 to 15 on a bad night. it scares my daughter because she has autism. we wanted the lovely, peaceful life. we wanted to wake up in the morning, look out the window and see the field and everything else. it's like hell living round here. cleveland police insist anti—social behaviour is a priority. we have been invited along to see what they are doing about it. they will target addresses of rival gangs and cause damage. it's generally over drugs. we saw burnt out bikes, broken fences, and then, a quad came bombing down the pavement. there he is there. to the right. but he swerved down a side road

when he saw us coming. what are we looking for, chris? yeah, he was going quite fast. to be fair, quads aren't very stable at speed. if he goes around a corner at a0 mph, there is a very high chance of it flipping over. what's really striking there is that the quad bike was going down the pavement, pitch black, no lights. if a pedestrian had come out, he would have been injured, potentially killed if it had hit him. in this case, he got away. but cleveland police seized more than 500 bikes last year. and for some, this was their fate. jim connolly, bbc news. that's it for me, my colleague kristin is over there, can you hear them? stay with us. hello there. good evening. it's a very stormy period of weather and we're seeing the second named storm in just a few days. storm jocelyn follows hot on the heels of storm isha, hampering the clear—up.

we've seen heavy downpours of rain move eastwards today along with strengthening winds. and here goes that deep area of low pressure just passing to the north of scotland, following the same track as isha. perhaps the wind gusts not as severe for most, but with the trees, the structures having been weakened from the previous storm and the ground pretty saturated, there will still be some strong impacts. much of the north and the west of scotland, towards exposed coasts in particular, underneath a met office amber weather warning until 8am tomorrow morning for gusts of wind of up to 75—80 mph. gusts towards irish sea coasts of up to 65 mph. widely, 40—50 mph gusts, even to low levels and away from the coast. so a very windy night all in all, but it will be mild. dry towards the south, blustery showers, torrential downpours at times further north across scotland. so still a very windy start to the day. in fact, much of the north of the uk throughout the day tomorrow is covered by a lower level yellow weather warning for the strength of the wind still. there'll be some blustery showers blowing across scotland, down through wales, and towards the end of the day,

we'll see this area of cloud just creep into south—west england. some patchy rain on that. temperatures not quite as high as on tuesday, but still mild for the time of year, with double figures for most. but it will be turning milder still as this warm frontjust creeps its way further northwards and eastwards as we head through thursday. again, a tight squeeze on the isobars. it will be windy, but not as windy as on tuesday, with further downpours of rain across northern ireland, north—west england and into western scotland too. possibly some of that rain a little wintry over the tops of the hills before the milder air digs in. highs of 13 degrees celsius for many. there will be more rainfall, of course, across western scotland. it's here where we'll see the ground pretty saturated. another 100 millimetres of rainfall, perhaps, by the time we get to the end of the week here. also north—west england, some high rainfall totals. so, while wind is the main concern, rain could also be a problem by the time we get to the end of the week. and there are some flood warnings in force. as we head through friday, it's a bit more settled. it will be turning cooler by night,

particularly towards the north and the east, as we head through the week. some more rainfall for many, particularly in the north and west, over the weekend. bye— bye. hello, i'm christian fraser. and this is the context.

is she a threat to you? no, no. and i don't care if you say so, let her do whatever she wants. it doesn't matter. i can just say that there's never been a movement like this — make america great again — in the history of our country. chaos follows him, and we can't be a country in disarray and have a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos — because we won't survive it. people are been coming in to vote throughout the day here. - we should get an indication later tonight what the numbers - are stacking up to be. if it's a win for donald trump, well, he could have it all- wrapped up by the end of today. the first in the nation primary. but is this the last stand for the trump challengers? welcome to our special programme this evening. we will bring you all the news from new hampshire — just under five hours of voting to go — and we will be in north virginia this evening for the official start of president biden�*s re—election campaign. a stellar panel of guests with us tonight — miles taylor,

formerly chief of staff in donald trump's homeland security team, the former lieutenant governor of florida jennifer carroll,