and the bafta goes to... ..0ppenheimer. cheering and applause and — it's oppenheimer's night at the baftas — it led the pack with seven gongs. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we start in the middle east, we begin in gaza, where the world health organization says the nasser hospital has ceased to function following an israeli raid. intelligence indicated hostages taken by hamas were being held there. the who said it hadn't been allowed to enter the site. meanwhile, a member of israel's

war cabinet has said the military will move into the overcrowded city of rafah unless hamas releases all hostages by the 10th of march. speaking at a conference injerusalem, benny gantz said, "the world must know, and hamas leaders must know — "if by ramadan our hostages are not home, "the fighting will continue everywhere, "to include the rafah area." it comes as refugees have continued to crowd into rafah, where around 1.5 million people are now seeking safety, close to the border with egypt. the us has repeatedly warned that any ground assault on rafah should not happen without a plan to evacuate civilians first. paul adams explained more from jerusalem: you mentioned two places in your introduction. one was nasser hospital. well, the situation there is very unclear.

the israeli troops have been in there since early thursday morning, conducting searches, arresting members of staff who they believe are associated with hamas and looking for evidence that hostages were being were being held in the hospital. they say that they are doing what they can to keep the hospital running, bringing in diesel and oxygen and helping to fix a generator. palestinian sources are saying that the hospital is absolutely on its last legs. and in fact, the head of the who has said that effectively nasser hospital has ceased to function. we've heard of people dying as a result of interruptions to power and oxygen. so at the very least, it's an extremely precarious situation in nasser hospital to the south, a little way to the south in rafah — 1.3 million people are waiting to find out when the israeli military assault will come. and today, a member of benjamin netanyahu's war cabinet, benny gantz, said that if hostages are not released by the beginning of ramadan, that is in precisely three weeks, then the israeli military assault on rafah would begin. and the white house has

demanded that that cannot begin unless those civilians are out of the way. and at the moment there is no plan to move them. that was paul adams in jerusalem for us. let's stay in the middle east: in november, we reported on the case of a young woman and her disabled brother, tala and yazid. they were trying to escape gaza, but were repeatedly turned away at the border at rafah, along with their mother and siblings. our special correspondent has been following the family's story. we came back to no electricity, no food for today. explosion she's been a constant, caring voice from within the siege. and one more day closer to my brother running out of medications and we are still here. tala abu nahla's daily life a relentless struggle, to care for her disabled brother yazeed. three times they tried

to escape rafah. like last november, when our cameraman first met them at the border. we are trying to do anything that we can to survive, because we just... i simply don't want to die at 24. they didn't get out of gaza then. drone flies overhead back home, amid the constant noise of drones overhead, tala tried to comfort yazeed. sirens and then, just a few days ago, we had news from cairo. they'd escaped to the safety of a flat in the egyptian capital. tala described the moment they left. i can't hear drones any more. i can't hear drones anymore. and i can't see... i can't... i'm sorry. i won't be hearing any bombings or any air strikes.

and that felt really surreal. but normality, even being able to boil a kettle for tea, has brought uncomfortable feelings. this is one of the hardest feelings to talk about. tala carries the memory of the people she left behind. every time i have food to eat, or i don't have to go running for water. but knowing that everything is available, it makes me feel even guilty to think about everyone in gaza, the 1.2 million people who are displaced in rafah right now. but they had to leave. yazeed's medication had run out, worsening his condition. he would have a seizure every time he heard bombing. and it gets really scary,

like, his body and his... his mind is not being able to understand everything that's going on. tala knows a world beyond gaza. she studied in the us, lived with an american family. she won a fellowship for young leaders funded by the state department. but always coming home to yazeed — here together in 2021. will she return to gaza? i don't know. how long is it going to take? but i would want to be a part of rebuilding it and healing it. i don't think... i think everyone who leaves gaza, gaza still does not leave them. the cairo sky is safe, but it's not the sky of home. fergal keane, bbc news, jerusalem.

a scholar—in—residence at the center for israeli studied the american university in washington dc — i asked him if the proposed rafah offensive is a likely scenario. i think that on one hand there are plans to enter rafah for israel and to fight hamas, the four brigades that are that are still there to try and rescue hostages and to try and target the hamas leadership. but i believe that at this point in time, this plan will not be implemented as it's used as a pressure tactic to bring hamas to agree, to compromise and to reach a hostage deal. so i think israel is using this as a pressure tactic, trying to bring hamas to compromise at this point. if it sees that within several weeks there is no progress on negotiations for a deal, then it may seriously consider this offensive.

but i don't think that it's something that will happen any time soon. they'll wait to see how hamas responds to this threat. as paul mentioned, the religious holiday of ramadan is just three weeks away. do you expect the war to continue throughout the holiday? i do see the war continuing throughout the holiday. i think that it's hamas�*s interest to have the war during ramadan, hoping that it will be able to bring to a unification of all fronts in the north from hezbollah in the west bank with an uprising, perhaps from even from israel's arab population. perhaps even from israel's arab population. that's the hamas hope. and having all these fronts united would serve hamas�*s purpose in turning this from a political or military conflict into a religious conflict between muslims and jews. and so i think that this is hamas�*s clear interest to sustain, to prolong this military confrontation,

at least until ramadan begins. now israel says that hamas has lost 18 of its 2a battalions. what are the chances of hamas leaving rafah? i think that at this point, israel should issue a call what are the chances of hamas leaving rafah? i think that at this point, israel should issue a call on the 4—6 remaining battalions to surrender. it hasn't done so. and the fighters that are in the southern part of gaza, in the rafah area are not as trained and experienced as those in the centre and the north. you know, i think that hamas, however, will fight as long as it can. and, you know, as long as there's no resolution and there's no agreement on the hostage deal which will bring to a ceasefire, i think this will continue. i don't think that there's any talk of them leaving anytime soon, although that's an option for the future. but that's not under

consideration at this point. to russia now, where the courts have sentenced dozens of mourners of alexei navalny to short prison sentences. many were arrested as they laid flowers at makeshift memorials after he died suddenly in a jail in the arctic on friday. in moscow, this was the us ambassador to russia, lynne tracey, placing flowers at the memorial, the embassy describing alexei navalny as an inspiring authority. his family has accused the russian authorities of trying to cover their tracks by refusing to hand over his body. more from our eastern europe correspondent, sarah rainsford. ever since the death of alexei navalny, russians have been leaving tributes, pausing to remember a man who dared to stand up to vladimir putin, and who died in prison for his politics. this woman describes navalny as a hero.

she says he fought for russia to be free, a democracy, she says, not a dictatorship. screaming they are strong words in a country that does this when people come to lay flowers. since alexei navalny died, several hundred people have been arrested across the country. the kremlin doesn't want sorrow turning into anger and into mass protest. so in moscow, one memorial has now been fenced off, access restricted. and up in st petersburg, men clear away the flowers so the scale of support for navalny isn't obvious. but each time, there are more people and fresh tributes. these are the last known images of navalny on a video link from prison to a court. his cheerfulness is an act of defiance in itself. he died the next day. we still don't know the cause. his mother travelled to the arctic region

to get her son's body and to find answers. so far, she has neither. navalny�*s team are accusing the authorities of hiding something. they have reason for suspicion. three years ago, the politician was poisoned with a nerve agent. the risk of returning to russia after that were always clear. and that's true for others who have spoken out as well, like vladimir kara—murza, also poisoned and then arrested for condemning the war on ukraine. his wife says the death of alexei navalny underlines the immense cost of dissent. i was horrified but not surprised because the use of political assassination as a method of dealing with opponents has been there for, well, for the entire rule of vladimir putin. navalny was putin's loudest challenger.

his sudden death leaves many questions unanswered, and it leaves a family and followers to grieve. this evening, his wife posted a single image — the caption just says, "i love you." in afghanistan, the un secretary—general has convened a meeting to discuss the ongoing humanitarian and human rights crises. it's its economy is in rapid decline — inflation is in rapid decline — inflation is fuelled by global commodity shocks and also there's still widespread hunger and marginalisation of women and girls from public life. a meeting has been boycotted by the taliban which took over just over two years ago. let's bring in the un assistant secretary—general and regional director for undp asia—pacific region. she is in kabul to assess the situation on the

ground and engage with women and entrepreneurs to understand their challenges. thank you so much forjoining us on the programme today. as i mentioned, the taliban refusing to attend. given that would restrict the effectiveness of the meeting, what can we expect? can we expect anything concrete to come out of this meeting?— concrete to come out of this meeting? concrete to come out of this meetin: ? ~ ., _, ., meeting? well, the outcome of the meeting — meeting? well, the outcome of the meeting is _ meeting? well, the outcome of the meeting is yet _ meeting? well, the outcome of the meeting is yet to _ meeting? well, the outcome of the meeting is yet to be - meeting? well, the outcome of the meeting is yet to be seen i the meeting is yet to be seen because it's ongoing right now. i'm sure the sg and the sg's office will speak to that at the end of the sessions. it is regrettable that the de facto authorities did not attend. however, we hope that they will do so. there have been many opportunities in the future. —— there will be many opportunities in the future. the idea of the session was to have a common dialogue place and to start putting together the blocks of a road map for afghanistan's future. that afg hanistan�*s future. that future afghanistan's future. that future has to include the authorities and it has to

include the women of afghanistan. so this is the negotiated space that we hope will move things forward in a country that needs — continues to need — international assistance and the support of the international community. what can you do for those women and girls whose rights have been restricted, though? i was in different _ been restricted, though? i was in different parts _ been restricted, though? i was in different parts of— been restricted, though? i was in different parts of kabul- in different parts of kabul province talking to a lot of women who all run micro and small enterprises. and also in herra where the earthquake hit and looking at the recovery process there. i have to say, while the restrictions on girls�* education, i would put that as probably the harshest of the restrictions — there is no other country in the world where girls can�*t go to post—secondary school — however, women, in terms of

work, have found ways to move and they are exempt from these restrictions in trade and commerce and in health and in teaching. and so if i look at what undp has done, it�*s 75,000 my row and small enterprises owned by women who are supported. and they�*ve created about a million jobs just supported. and they�*ve created about a millionjobsjust in the last couple of years. so there is space. i think we�*ve got to say, as un, as international community, a lot of ngos doing amazing work. but i think it�*s driven by communities and the women themselves. this is an amazingly resilient lot. they just need the skills and capabilities to scale up, and thirdly the cash to run their businesses. i thirdly the cash to run their businesses.— thirdly the cash to run their businesses. i want to ask you about money. _ businesses. i want to ask you about money. last _ businesses. i want to ask you about money. last week, - businesses. i want to ask you about money. last week, thej about money. last week, the world bank said that it will allocate around $300 million in aid to afghanistan, which is the first time since the taliban took over the country. but how can you assure that the

money actually gets used appropriately? money actually gets used appmpriately?_ appropriately? first, it's really welcome - appropriately? first, it's really welcome news - appropriately? first, it's| really welcome news that appropriately? first, it's - really welcome news that the world bank is going to release its ida4 world bank is going to release its idaa for afghanistan and move it into development works. they will do so through partners, through the un, through ngos. and i think here, there was a lot of stalled development efforts and a lot of it can be done and will be done directly with these partners to communities so it benefits communities directly. and i think, for all of us who�*ve stayed here and continued delivering, we can do so directly. i think the information flow, the co—ordination, has to happen in constant dialogue with the international authorities. i�*m international authorities. i'm afraid we've _ international authorities. i'm afraid we've run _ internationalauthorities. i'm afraid we've run out of time. afraid we�*ve run out of time. thank you so much forjoining us on newsday. i understand

it�*s very early in the morning there. thank you so much for joining us. mil there. thank you so much for joining ve— joining us. all right. around _ joining us. all right. around the - joining us. all right. around the world i joining us. all right. | around the world and joining us. all right. - around the world and across joining us. all right. _ around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. bbc news — bringing you different story from across the uk. just two years ago, there were 34,500 northern gannett nests on this pembrokeshire rock — once the fourth—largest colony in the world. but in 12 months, bird flu wiped out more than half of grasshond�*s population. and gannets are not alone. black—headed gulls were threatened before 2021. in its first ever report trying to quantify the effects of bird flu, rspb says common and sandwich turns have also seen a catastrophic drop of 41%. we are really — catastrophic drop of 41%. - are really concerned. we don't are really concerned. we don�*t know what the future holds. the sea birds are long lived and only have one or two chicks a year. it could be another

decade before we truly know what the impact of this is, evenif what the impact of this is, even if it were to stop today. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you�*re live with bbc news. now to the remarkable story of conjoined twins who were born in senegal and live in cardiff. when they were born, doctors expected them to survive only for a few days. the girls came for a few days. the girls came for treatment in london in 2017 when they were only two, and have remained in the uk for the care and medical expertise unavailable for them at home. since then, they have defied all expectations, and now they�*re seven and thought to be they�*re seven and thought to be the only growing conjoined twins in europe. lucy owens has the story. what is it now? mariam and nay playing with their friends at man stuart primary in cardiff. their dad

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uk, it was discovered that mariam�*s heart was too weak for the complex surgery, and the decision was made not to separate them. i decision was made not to separate them.— separate them. i can't - i can't allow _ separate them. i can't - i can't allow myself - separate them. i can't - i can't allow myself to. .. l can�*t allow myself to... let the doctor listen to your heart. mariam and nay share one pair of legs, one pelvis, and each has a spinal cord and heart. they have regular check—ups at the children�*s hospital for wales. the children's hospital for wales. ~ ., the children's hospital for wales. ., . ., , the children's hospital for wales. ., . ., i, wales. what you can clearly see here are two — wales. what you can clearly see here are two spines. _ wales. what you can clearly see here are two spines. so - wales. what you can clearly see here are two spines. so this - wales. what you can clearly see here are two spines. so this is l here are two spines. so this is illustrated approximate place of where they are joined. what of where they are “oined. what does everybody _ of where they are joined. what does everybody say _ of where they are joined. what does everybody say when - of where they are joined. what does everybody say when they stand — does everybody say when they stand for — does everybody say when they stand for the girls? oh, does everybody say when they stand for the girls?— stand for the girls? oh, you look tall! — stand for the girls? oh, you look tall! now, _ stand for the girls? oh, you look tall! now, the - stand for the girls? oh, you look tall! now, the girls - look tall! now, the girls continue _ look tall! now, the girls continue to _ look tall! now, the girls continue to surprise - look tall! now, the girls - continue to surprise everyone around them. at school, they spend time in a standing frame to get them used to being upright hope that one day they may walk. upright hope that one day they

ma walk. f upright hope that one day they ma walk. j ., ., may walk. they're going to live. may walk. they're going to live- how _ may walk. they're going to live. how long? _ may walk. they're going to live. how long? i— may walk. they're going to live. how long? i don't- may walk. they're going to i live. how long? i don't know. may walk. they're going to - live. how long? i don't know. i live. how long? idon�*t know. i don�*t want to know, now. i don�*t want to know, now. i don�*t want to know. i just concentrate on the present and celebrating life. meanwhile, at least 53 people have died in an ambush in papua new guinea�*s remote highlands region. the victims were shot dead during a dispute between two tribes. the highlands area has long struggled with violence, but these killings are believed to be the worst in years. the film oppenheimer has swept the board at the baftas in london — winning seven awards including best film, director, and leading actor for cillian murphy. the surreal comedy poor things also took home five awards, with emma stone winning leading actress. our culture editor katie razzall was there: how many movie stars can you fit into a photo opportunity? bafta had the brits and americans embracing, and the irish out in force.

for one night only, london was a who�*s who of the movie world, with the president of bafta, the prince of wales, attending his most high—profile royal engagement since his wife�*s operation and the king�*s cancer diagnosis. this red carpet is heaving with the kind of star power only the biggest night of the british film calendar can deliver — a night to celebrate talent on screen and behind the camera, here in britain and across the world. it is no exaggeration to say this room has in it the greatest actors in the world. inside the royal festival hall, master of ceremonies david tennant got down to business. right, let�*s give out some baftas! a night of laughter but also emotion, particularly when da�*vinejoy randolph picked up best supporting actress for playing mary lamb, a bereaved mother and school cook in the holdovers. there have been countless marys throughout history who have never got a chance to wear beautiful gowns and stand on this stage here in london.

best actress went to emma stone for poor things. the frankenstein—style fantasy walked away with five awards in all. i reallyjust want to thank my mom. she is the best person i know in the whole world. she inspires me every single day. and stone beat, amongst others, margot robbie — barbie, the biggest—grossing movie of the year, was entirely snipped at the baftas. bradley cooper�*s maestro and martin scorsese�*s killers of the flower moon also walked away with nothing. the zone of interest. instead, a british film in german about the holocaust triumphed. the zone of interest picked up three awards, including outstanding british film and film not in english. cillian murphy. acclaimed director christopher nolan has never won a bafta. his film about the father of the atomic bomb now has seven. cillian murphy as best actor, robert downeer, best supporting actor, and nolan himself — best director.

this is an incredible honour, being back home, getting this from bafta, in the festival hall, where my mum and dad used to drag me to make me have some culture. michaelj fox, diagnosed with parkinson�*s disease 30 years ago, got a standing ovation. it can change your day, it can change your outlook, sometimes even change your life. in a surprise appearance, he handed out the biggest award — best film. oppenheimer. oppenheimer�*s night to celebrate, a night which may just be repeated in the oscars in three weeks. katie razzall, bbc news. that�*s it for the show. thanks for watching. hello there. sunday started the day on quite a wet note for large areas of england, but it was tibenham in norfolk that was the wettest place in the country with 31 millimetres of rain. once that cleared, most of the uk had some decent spells of sunshine and it was an exceptionally mild day. the highest temperature, in hampshire�*s gosport, was 17 celsius. that�*s eight degrees celsius above average for this time

of the year. it�*ll stay pretty mild as well as we go through the next few hours. a band of rain crosses scotland and northern ireland. the rain heavy for a time, but it won�*t last very long. eventually, we�*ll start to see that rain encroaching in across parts of northern england and wales as we start off monday morning. a mild and frost—free start to the day, temperatures typically around seven or eight degrees. now, through the rest of monday, this band of rain reaches east anglia, southeast england, but very weak. just an odd patch of rain left over and a stripe of cloud. further north—westwards, a ridge of high pressure follows. so for most of the uk, again, we�*re looking at some fairly lengthy spells of sunshine, a few showers for western scotland. it�*ll turn a bit cloudier in northern ireland, but i suspect the cloud�*s going to be quite high

through the afternoon, so still staying dry and bright. now, for the middle part of the week, we�*ve got further weather systems coming in off the atlantic, so it will be quite wet and windy at times. tuesday, the wettest weather through the morning will be across scotland and northern ireland. again, a weather front here bringing some fairly heavy rain, but again, not lasting too long. the weather front moves its way southwards and eastwards while weakening, with a mixture of sunshine and showers following to scotland and northern ireland through the afternoon, so that�*s probably why we�*ll see some of the best of the sunshine. there�*ll be some bright weather, though, for central and eastern england and it will be another very mild day. it then turns a lot windier through wednesday, gusts of wind reaching 50 or 60 miles an hour for northern scotland. quite windy for wales and western england, some heavy rain here as well. over the hills of wales and western england, we could see around 50—odd millimetres of rain, and that will be enough to bring some renewed concerns

that we could see some further localised surface water flooding. it stays mild again, but the mild weather won�*t last much longer because we swap those mild southwesterly winds for cooler north—westerly winds through thursday and into friday, and that will really drop the temperatures back close to average for the time of year. so thursday, some wet weather moves its way eastwards. quite a windy day. as the rain clears, we�*ll see lots of showers moving in, and in the colder air, some of those showers will start to fall as snow across the hills in the north, particularly above 300 metres elevation, although you could see a bit of sleet or hail lower down.

planet economy gets a —— china�*s economy gets a boost from lunar new year spending which surged past pre—covid levels. and asia�*s biggest air show. we�*ll look at efforts to make the industry more

sustainable. hi there. welcome to asia business report. let�*s start this morning in china and some signs of recovery in the world�*s second biggest economy. tourism spending over this month�*s lunar new yearjumping by 50% to almost $90 billion — surpassing pre—covid levels according to government data. china�*s markets have also just reopened for the first time in more than a week. but we also saw the country�*s central bank keeping a key interest rate on hold over the weekend. a chief analyst at online trading broker age, analyst at online trading brokerage, gtc, and he analyst at online trading broker age, gtc, and he gave me his sense of the data.— his sense of the data. pretty much what _ his sense of the data. pretty much what we've _ his sense of the data. pretty much what we've seen - his sense of the data. pretty much what we've seen is - his sense of the data. pretty l much what we've seen is since much what we�*ve seen is since the chinese economy did reopen following what was pretty much three years of lockdown, we have seen underwhelming data. this data regarding the increased tourism spending — yes, it looks like it is

hitting the right path as