the last stop of his middle east push for a new ceasefire deal. on this void, the yeas are 214 and the names are to 16, the resolution is not adopted. house republicans fail to impeach homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas, over his handling of the border crisis. but this may not be the final word. and — "citizen trump". that's the ruling of a federal court, that says the former president isn't immune from prosecution. hello, i'm caitriona perry. we begin in the middle east. israel says it's informed the families of 31 hostages held in gaza that their loved ones are dead. this as talks continue to get the remaining hostages released. hamas is believed to have given

a "positive" response to a framework proposal for a new ceasefire in gaza. the details of the deal, set out by israel, the us, qatar and egypt, have not been released. but it's reported to include a six—week truce when more israeli hostages would be exchanged for palestinian prisoners. israel and the us have both said they are reviewing hamas�*s response. meanwhile, us secretary of state antony blinken arrived in tel aviv in the past few hours where he's set to meet with israel's leaders. before departing from qatar earlier, mr blinken showed optimism that a deal was in sight. we had a serious proposal that was aimed at not simply repeating the previous agreement but expanding it. as the prime ministerjust said, i must responded tonight. we are reviewing that response now and i'll be discussing it with the government of israel tomorrow.

—— hamas. there is still a lot of work to be done but we continue to believe that an agreement is possible and indeed essential. and we will continue to work relentlessly to achieve it. following this, a senior hamas official told the bbc that the group had asked for amendments to the proposal. our middle east correspondent barbara plett—usher is injerusalem and sent us this update. this is an important development because how must receive the proposal for the truth about a week ago and now it has responded as secretary of state antony blinken is in the regent and mr blinken will be discussing it on his next stop in israel. —— hamas. before he got on the plane, in doha, he said there was still a lot of work to be done and he didn't give any detail about the hamas reply but a senior how must official spoke to the bbc any said that the group had us for a number of things including a clear timetable for the reconstruction of gaza and also the transfer of the wounded to hospitals abroad.

how must release a statement which made it pretty clear that it wants this to lead to an end to the war. the israelis have also made it clear that they do not see a temporary truce becoming a permanent ceasefire so no doubt that will be part of the continue negotiations but those who drafted this proposal, the egyptians, kotara east, americans, they do have that it leads to a lengthy ceasefire which will allow for the release of the rest of the israeli hostages, a dramatic increase, aid to gaza and will also lay the groundwork for our postwar arrangements are all eyes are going to be on mr blinken during his talks in israel. turning now to a dramatic night of political developments on capitol hill. us secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas has survived an impeachment attempt by house republicans. republicans suffered a stunning defeat, falling short of the simple majority voted needed to charge mr mayorkas with high crimes and misdemeanors forfailing to secure the us—mexico border. he is the first cabinet member in more than 150 years to face the prospect of

impeachment by the house. it comes as a bipartisan senate bill on us—mexico border security and immigration is now on the verge of collapsing. republican senators say they will kill the deal only 48 hours after it was released. the deal would have included major changes to the us asylum process, and granted the department of homeland security the authority to shut down the us—mexico border if crossings rose above 5,000 on average in a day. in return for stepped up border security, it would have provided fresh aid to ukraine and israel. president biden blamed former president donald trump for influencing members of his party. repubblica set aside, who do they serve? donald trump? american people? are they here to solve problems? orjust weaponised those problems for political purposes? i know my answer, i serve the american

people, i'm here to solve problems. let's go to capitol hill now with republican tennessee congressman tim burchett. thank you forjoining us. the house republicans effort to impeach secretary new yorkers has failed today, not all of your colleagues waiting for it, do you intend to hold the vote again? i suspect we will. i think this wasjust again? i suspect we will. i think this was just an effort to put the votes on the board to put the votes on the board to see what we are out, forks will go home and they will hear from the constituents and i suspect someone will be unhappy about this outcome and i suspect there might be one or two clamouring to get the bike back up again so i suspect it will come back again, secretary mayokas has told us at the border is behind it, it is functioning, we are keeping people out yet in the last three years, without anywhere from eight — 10 million people come over the border illegally,

i don't know any shape, former fashion where a success and the new mail, that's coming from the senate will allow up to 5000 a day for it triggers them stopping the border so, 4999 a day can come over the border and there will be no 1's stopping them. but your own republican senate, your fellow party person james republican senate, your fellow party personjames lankford who drafted that bill has actually taken a point of exception with how some of your colleagues are describing that that it's not allowing 5000 people to cross the border before the threshold, that security measure is triggered, its 5000 encounters before it must be triggered and actually the homeland security secretary will have the power to shut the border after 4000 encounters not necessarily people crossing but talking about what happened... but talking about what happened. . ._ but talking about what hauened... . ., happened... let me correct on one thing- _ happened... let me correct on

one thing- we _ happened... let me correct on one thing. we already - happened... let me correct on one thing. we already have . happened... let me correct on| one thing. we already have the power, we already sent hr to over to the senate and they have tried for the last six months chosen to do anything with it. 4999 is ok, i don't know, that doesn't sound right, if people of tennessee that i represent were overrun, overrun with fentanyl, crime, it'sjust not that it's costing this country $400 million a year to keep these people out. that bipartisan. _ keep these people out. that bipartisan, those _ keep these people out. that bipartisan, those measures would have been triggered in december with those ragged numbers that you're talking about because the seven are average there was 9743 so more than twice the point at which this measure would again but going back... this measure would again but going back---_ this measure would again but going back... so, 5000 is ok? i'm going back... so, 5000 is ok? i'm quoting — going back... so, 5000 is ok? i'm quoting from _ going back... so, 5000 is ok? i'm quoting from the _ going back... so, 5000 is ok? i'm quoting from the acting, i l i'm quoting from the acting, i don't have an opinion by going back to what happened today, three past homeland security secretaries, publicans and secretaries, publica ns and democrats secretaries, publicans and democrats and other critics have said that your charges

after secretary don't meet the constitutional threshold of high crimes and misdemeanours thatis high crimes and misdemeanours that is about policy and perhaps the person that you need to have in the dog on that is the president, another secretary. is the president, another secretary-— is the president, another secreta . , , , secretary. the president is absent as _ secretary. the president is absent as you _ secretary. the president is absent as you well - secretary. the president is absent as you well known, j secretary. the president is i absent as you well known, he claims today, adam arafat, there is a problem at the border stop ——as a matter of fact. he secretary was asked about and she was in a little bit confusion over that answer. this president is an abject failure, the last three years, we've had a 10 million people over the border, costing us 400 billion a year to keep these people out, we close schools down to hows these people, the people of new york, they put $53 million into credit cards to allow these folks to leave for free while americans are going without, its right is wrong and wrong is right and the blame, i think needs to be, we call it the unity party, you

can call it whatever but it's about bringing cheap labor into this country. somebody works on your roof involves —— and falls off, they will not sue you go after you, they will go to the emergency room and be taken care of as they should but you and i, well, you won't but i will, iwill and i, well, you won't but i will, i will pick up the tab for that and that's what the faults that are pushing this that our national chambers of commerce, that's the one about the fingers in this power for a long time, they stop having meaningful legislation that could do something. {lin meaningful legislation that could do something. on that oint, could do something. on that point. you — could do something. on that point. you are _ could do something. on that point, you are talking - could do something. on that point, you are talking about| point, you are talking about meaningful legislation, bipartisan bill was agreed in the senate, republicans in the senate and democrats were happy with that bill and everything was fine a few days ago so, why now is everything not ok with our bill? ~ , , u, our bill? well, the republican later in the — our bill? well, the republican later in the senate _ our bill? well, the republican later in the senate has - our bill? well, the republican later in the senate has pulled| later in the senate has pulled its abort as did the republicans, it was an agreed,

the only republican i know was the only republican i know was the sponsor and it was created in a, you know, in a room, in a vacuum withjust the in a, you know, in a room, in a vacuum with just the lobbyist and if you power ranking people and if you power ranking people and that simi generally is never a good idea. i think you ought to have everybody there and it's reallyjust a case of portfolios over people and that's what this is all about, it's about money, as it always is, is not about doing what's right, it's about the big boys are going to have free and cheap labor and shame on us for allowing dad and also, one of the things that hurts me most as a human is the hundred thousand children that are being sold into who knows what, nobody knows where they are, these cartels are selling these children from the sex traffics and other things.— and other things. there is a discussion _ and other things. there is a discussion to _ and other things. there is a discussion to be _ and other things. there is a discussion to be had - and other things. there is a discussion to be had aboutl and other things. there is a i discussion to be had about the cartels indeed in south america, unfortunately, we are at a time at this point and i do want to thank you

congressman forjoining us on bbc news, thank you very much. it's been my pleasure, thank you so much. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at an interesting story out of the uk. scientists discovered a unique species of flying reptile that lived 168—million years ago on the isle of skye. it's called a pterosaur, and its wings, shoulders, legs and backbone were found in a rock on a beach. it's the second time a pterosaur has been found on skye. liz martin—silverstone from the university of bristol was involved in identifying the creature. today, we have just today, we havejust named today, we have just named a today, we havejust named a new flying reptiles was at the same time as a dinosaur and we've named a new species which we are really excited about. we've never seen before. we didn't expect to necessarily find on

sky, this group was mostly limited to china. this is roughly what the pterosaur is thought to have looked like. it likely had a wing—span of up to 1.5 meters. that's nearly five feet. you're live with bbc news. former president donald trump does not have presidential immunity and can be prosecuted on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. that's what a us court has unanimously ruled on tuesday after mr trump claimed he was immune from criminal charges for acts he said fell within his duties as president. it's a setback for mr trump, but a win for special council jack smith, who charged the former president with conspiring to overturn president biden's victory in the 2020 election, and committing fraud to stay in office. the three—judge appeals court panel wrote:

adding that he has the same defenses that any other defendant would have. mr trump says that without the immunity, the presidency would lose its power and prestige. our washington correspondent gary o'donoghue has more. of all the cases donald trump is facing, this is the most serious one. it deals with those accusations that he tried to overturn the 2020 election. now, he argued that he had immunity from prosecution because these were acts he took as president. the court said that wasn't true and that he was now citizen trump, not president trump, and did not enjoy those kinds of immunities. now, donald trump's strategy has always been to try and delay these cases for as much as possible, and he will appeal to the supreme court. if he can delay things long enough so the trial doesn't take place until after november's election and he wins that election, he can make all of this just go away. the problem for him is if the trial goes ahead before the election and he is convicted, there are large numbers of voters in key marginal states who are telling

the pollsters they will not vote for a convicted felon. the timing and the outcome of this case is crucial not just to this election, but to the future of american politics. the trial could still be delayed for weeks, if not months, if the case ends up before the us supreme court. mr trump has until february 12 to file an appeal which his campaign said he will do. with me now is temidayo aganga—williams, who is a partner at selendy gay legal firm, and former counsel for the house january 6th committee. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. what is the principle of immunity that president trump was trying to claim? while it was trying to claim? while it was china claims any action that he engaged in that was within the outer limits of presidential power that he should be immune for presidential criminal persecution is for ever, once he leaves, the ten year as the

us president is not subject to any further review by any prosecutors and frankly, by anyone else. he prosecutors and frankly, by anyone else-— prosecutors and frankly, by anyone else. he is saying that is complete — anyone else. he is saying that is complete immunity. - anyone else. he is saying that is complete immunity. why. anyone else. he is saying that. is complete immunity. why has the court will _ is complete immunity. why has the court will do _ is complete immunity. why has the court will do that _ is complete immunity. why has the court will do that is - is complete immunity. why has the court will do that is not - the court will do that is not the court will do that is not the case after the fight? what the case after the fight? what the court ruled _ the case after the fight? what the court ruled today - the case after the fight? what the court ruled today was, - the case after the fight? what the court ruled today was, i i the court ruled today was, i mean, frankly a complete loss for the former president. what the court looked at and methodologically went through all of his and said why he was wrong, they looked first at historically what do people think about immunity when the founding fathers wrote the us constitution? and what they said is that they did not, looking at the text, expect to be providing immunity to the former president. what the frankly the founders are worried about was that we would be a country in the us of not kings but of men. and the that if a former president had full immunity that anything he did, he could answer to no—one and that looks a lot more like a king than a presidents of the court went through his first argument and another one had to do with his former impeachment.

he was impeached as related to january six, trumps legal team argued that the only way could be prosecuted is that if it was impeached which would mean the house charged him and he was found he was convicted which means two—thirds of the us and would have to convict them, here, there were 53 out of 60 senators voted three short of conviction, the court said that is not what the text says. what's really important he was at the court looked at conservative principles and interpretation. meaning textualism, what are the words actually mean, regionalism, what do the founding fathers who wrote these words, what they intend them to mean? is all very conservative principles in the us system and that's what this opinion really relies on which i think will make more comfortable for those on the republican side. president trump's legal team, former president trump legal team had argued that sometimes presidents have to do things while in office they might have to order the assassination of someone, the have to send

troops to war, people can be killed, etc and they were concerned that these things could come back on a president and individual when there were no longer president. 50. and individual when there were no longer president.— and individual when there were no longer president. so, he was aruauin no longer president. so, he was arguing there — no longer president. so, he was arguing there might _ no longer president. so, he was arguing there might be - no longer president. so, he was arguing there might be a - arguing there might be a chilling effect that the president should be free to act without concern but what the court says is that that is not what people have been doing, people have thought about the legality of their actions, for example, president nixon when he left office after watergate, he left office after watergate, he got a pardon and because everyone thought he could be prosecuted which means throughout american history, people have been operating under the expectation that if i go too far, i could be prosecuted, they brought up other examples like mamas of congress, they have been prosecuted in the us for actions that relate to their duties. they brought up federal judges for example, they haven't prosecuted for doing illegal actions and in all these very importantjobs, these very important jobs, legislating these very importantjobs, legislating the judiciary, they operate without concerns of a chilling effect. another there

are limitations of the power but that is a required limitation because again, we are a country of laws. you describe _ are a country of laws. you describe this _ are a country of laws. you describe this as _ are a country of laws. you describe this as the - are a country of laws. you describe this as the big i are a country of laws. you describe this as the big loss for the former president, what happens next? does he have any options open to him? his options _ options open to him? his options right _ options open to him? h 3 options right now are whether he appeals further which i think he expected he will do that. frankly, is likely to go directly to the supreme court, here, it was a 3—judge panel, the broader court has more judges, he could go and seek further review of the entire court, the reason why he is unlikely to do that is because this 3—judge panel has made it harderfor him to have this 3—judge panel has made it harder for him to have what's called a state meaning the lower the trial court right now is not allowed to proceed and they have said in a matter of six days that they will send this case back to the trial judge and they can go and have the trial after donald trump. his only way to stop that is to go to the supreme court and ask them to either take the case on

and to stay the case in the interim. they will require for the stay, five justices to standard. it all requires for justices to accept the case for further review so the big question now is, what do they do? do they take the case for more upon the review? or do they do what's called the nice cert? they could read this opinion and say, they got a fully correct and decided they will not hear the case and send it back to the trial court. 50 it back to the trial court. so this is not _ it back to the trial court. so this is not the last we've heard of this by any stretch. thank you so much for filling us in there, temidayo aganga—williams. thank you for joining us on bbc news. tuesday marked one year since a 7.8—magnitude earthquake rocked turkey and north—western syria. the disaster claimed more than 59,000 lives, 53,000 of them in turkey. millions of people were left homeless. survivors held a pre—dawn vigil in the remnants of antakya city. many at the vigil are angry at the turkish government, saying there's been a lack of action to rehouse the homeless. that's an accusation president erdogan denies. he attended commemorations in kahramanmaras —

the quake's epi—centre. our correspondent anna foster returned to southern turkey sent this report. now the rubble is going, the scars are clear to see. the city of antakya is a wasteland. more than 200,000 buildings were destroyed by the earthquake. and the work to clear and rebuild is still going on, even now. not everyone is able to move on. abu mustapha often returns to the place where he used to live. he managed to save his three youngest children, but when their home fell, he lost sight of his teenage daughters, salma and salwa.

translation: itold her, salma, get up, there's an earthquake. i everybody woke up. we got out from the building gate here. i had my other children, lama and mustapha, with me, and i stood right here. now they are missing. for months, he has searched hospitals and cemeteries. when everything he owned was destroyed, the few pictures he had left of his girls became even more precious. translation: my wife passed away 14 days i before the earthquake. every time i go through difficult times, i go to her because i know where her grave is, but i don't know where my daughters' graves are, so i come here. so much of this place was destroyed that even now, after a year of solid work, they still have not managed to clear away all

of the destruction. now, hundreds of thousands of people left this area altogether, but for those who stayed, the difficulties are still all around them every day, and the vast majority still don't have proper homes to live in. tents and container villages should have been temporary solutions. now, they are bedded in, more permanent than was ever intended. less than a quarter of the promised new homes have been built. antakya's old city had stood strong for centuries. it may never recover. but its people have vowed to. 13—year—old zaliha remembers the night her life was saved. frightened and exhausted, the first rescue team who arrived said she was beyond help. but then, mersin city's fire department came and pulled her out. today, they are back together, reunited in the same city. there are thanks and hugs, and memories of how lucky theirfamily was.

across southern turkey, daily life remains a battle for the earthquake survivors who stayed here, and the last year hasn't dulled their pain or their suffering. anna foster, bbc news, antakya. king charles was seen for the first time after revealing his cancer diagnosis. our royal correspondent daniela relph reports. a first image of the king since news of his cancer diagnosis was made public. being driven into buckingham palace with his wife, queen camilla, after beginning his treatment in a london hospital. this afternoon, the couple headed by helicopter to the sandringham estate in norfolk, where the king will spend time resting in between treatment. it's a place those who work with him say he finds solace and happiness.

before he left london, there was a family visitor to host. straight from the airport to see his father, the duke of sussex is back in the uk, flying in from his home in california. he spent around 45 minutes in clarence house with the king who'd phoned him to tell him of his cancer diagnosis. but there are no plans for prince harry to meet up with his brother, the prince of wales. it's understood there is nothing in the diary. the focus instead has been on harry and his father. the two had not seen each other since the coronation. with the king clearing his diary and focusing on his cancer treatment, royal duties are now for the widerfamily. princess anne carried out an investiture at windsor castle this morning. she already has one of the busiest royal diaries. she then travelled to nottingham for some scheduled engagements there. with the queen, the prince of wales and the duke and duchess of edinburgh, she is likely to have to take on more public duties to support the king while he's unwell. princess anne said nothing

about the cancer diagnosis, but earlier the prime minister offered his support to the royal family. like everyone else, shocked and sad and just all our thoughts are with him and his family. thankfully, this has been caught early and now everyone will be wishing him that he gets the treatment that he needs and makes a full recovery. the king will now rely heavily on the support of his family, both privately and publicly. last friday, the queen opened a new support centre for cancer patients and their families at a hospital in north london. she came here already knowing of her husband's diagnosis. that visit last week must have been incredibly challenging on a personal level for the queen. can't imagine how difficult last week must have been for her, knowing that life was changing and had been turned upside down. but what happens quite quickly after a cancer diagnosis is that a treatment

path emerges. with his family on christmas day at sandringham. the king is now back here, for the time being out of the public eye, to concentrate on his recovery. hello there. the weather is changing, its getting colder and that's going to bring the risk of some snow to some parts of the country. now, on tuesday, the temperatures were 14 degrees in surrey ahead of that weather front, which is taking rain down into the english channel. and following on from that, we've got the colder air moving down from the north. and we've seen some wintry showers falling in scotland. could well be a covering of snow in many places here, particularly in the northwest. but there's a danger there may well be some snow falling in the central belt of scotland early in the morning, too. now, increasingly, those wintry showers will become confined to northern scotland. the rest of scotland seeing sunny spells developing.

so too northern ireland, and for much of england and wales, although in the south it still could be quite cloudy, still a bit of rain through the english channel not far away from the south coast of england. here, it's going to be colder than it was on tuesday, but it's going to be much less windy. typical temperatures are going to be six or seven degrees. so a chillier day. and into that colder air, that weather front that's in the channel is going to get swept northwards by this big area of low pressure that's moving into the colder air. and that's going to give us the risk of some snow. and these are the temperatures we've got first thing on thursday morning. so, frosty start, particularly in scotland and northern parts of england. in the south, it's a little milder. we're going to have rain across southern parts of england and wales heading into the midlands, but as that weather moves northwards into that colder block of air, so we're going to find some sleet and snow falling as well. now, we still have this yellow warning out from the met office. the area has changed a bit, so we're seeing snow less likely in the midlands. there's snow extending into northern ireland. while there be some snow to low

levels, it's mainly over the hills with significant falls over the higher hills, which will bring some disruption. we've still got that snow continuing into the evening across northern england, northern ireland and heading into southern most parts of scotland. another band of wet weather coming into the south of england before midnight. and low pressure is going to spin its way across the uk to end the week, and that's going to bring this mixture of rain, sleet and snow. but we never remove that block of colder air in scotland. so we're going to find snow developing more widely away from the east coast. there'll be some more snow in the northern pennines for a while as well. cold easterly wind in scotland will keep temperatures four or five degrees at best. further south, it will be milder. we're more likely to have some rain, which could be on the heavy side.

the crisis at snap — shares in the social media firm are plunging after after—hours trading. we look into what's driving the sell—off. is canada losing its cool? why fewer permanent residents are applying for canadian citizenship, and some have even begun to leave the country. hello, and welcome to asia business report. we begin with snap — shares in the social media firm are down more than 30% in after—hours trading. the snapchat owner missed wall street estimates for quarterly revenue as it continues to struggle with competition from much larger rivals like meta and alphabet, which grab a much larger share of digital advertising. the disappointing earnings announcement comes after snap announced it would lay off 10% of its staff. the 528 employees sacked join

a much larger group of tech workers across the industry who've lost their jobs