this is bbc news. i'm vicki young. the headlines at six. a terror investigation is launched after three people including a police officer are stabbed at manchester's victoria station. my thoughts are very much with the couple who are still being treated in hospitalfor their very serious injuries. and of course with the brave british transport police officer that was stabbed during the attack. there it is. meet ultima! signals from the nasa space probe new horizons confirm it has successfully flown past icy mass ultima thule — this is an image of the most distant object ever explored in the solar system. as we speak, right now, signals from the spacecraft are coming back across the solar system at the speed of light. they are currently about halfway back to earth. the archbishop of canterbury calls for an end to the "divisions of recent years" in his new year sermon. in russia, an eleven—month—old baby

is pulled from the rubble of a block of flats hit by an explosion. eight bodies have so far been found. jair bolsonaro, a far—right politician vowing a crackdown on crime and corruption, is sworn in as brazil's new president. good evening. police have launched a terror investigation after an incident at manchester's victoria railway station last night in which three people, including a police officer, were stabbed. a 25—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. the chief constable of greater manchester police described the incident as an "horrific attack". the victims‘ injuries have been

described as serious but not life—threatening. our correspondent danny savage reports from greater manchester police headquarters. a railway station in central manchester, just before 9pm last night. move away now. move! police restrain a man on the ground who moments earlier had been wielding a knife, attacking passers—by. a bbcjournalist was on the platform at the time and saw what happened. it's new year's eve, people have had a drink. they've probably — "it's just, it's just a fight." "it will fizzle out in the next few seconds." but then ijust heard the guy shout as part of a sentence, "allah", and i thought, that doesn't sound good. at the point i was just edging towards the tracks to jump onto the tracks he was pepper sprayed, he was tasered, theyjust kind of swarmed on him, brought him down. three people were stabbed,

one of them was a police officer, the other two were a man and woman in their 50s. the injuries are serious but not life—threatening. allahu akbar! a short time later the man was taken away from manchester victoria station by police, shouting "god is greatest" in arabic. this morning the chief constable of greater manchester police said it is being treated as a terrorist incident. we are treating this as a terrorist investigation. which is being led by counterterrorism officers with support from greater manchester police. they were working throughout the night to piece together the details of what happened and to identify the man who was arrested. manchester victoria station was closed overnight. it has now reopened, but this was obviously a very alarming and frightening incident for people there at the time. danny savage, bbc news, manchester. and danny updated us on the latest

with the investigation. what's happened this morning is that there has been a search of an address in cheetham hill in manchester. officers say they believe they have identified the man involved, they know who he is and his name and background to a certain extent. he's 25 years old and lives locally, and lives in manchester, but they won't give away any further public details about the identity of the attacker last night. but what is clear is that they are treating this as a terrorist attack. they say there is nothing to suggest that others are involved. they have good quality cctv of what happened and are, obviously, seeking witnesses as well. i think one other key factor is location of the attack, though. this was the manchester victoria station, which is adjacent to the manchester arena where the bomb attack, the suicide bomb attack happened back in 2017 at the end of that ariana grande concert

in which 22 people were killed. and police believe that location is a factor with what happened last night because many of those casualties were brought out from that concert through manchester victoria station at the time. so that is all part of the picture which they are building up, but what they are keen to stress is that this is very much a fast—moving, ongoing inquiry. they don't believe any other people are involved apart from the person they arrested last night but they are seeking to make sure that is the case as they carry out their investigations at the moment. danny savage reporting there. the american space agency, nasa, has confirmed its new horizons probe has made contact with earth — after flying past the most distant object ever explored in our solar system. the encounter — which occurred some four billion miles away — was confirmed in a radio message. the probe acquired gigabytes of photos and other observations during the pass — which will now be sent home over the coming months.

the team behind the probe have been holding a news conference in the past few hours with some early findings from the venture. here's some of what they had to say. the image that i'm about to show you is the best image of ultima that we got before the flyby, and it's ok to laugh, but it's better than the one we had yesterday. there it is. meet ultima! applause. so, in my line of work, we like to interpret even images like this, and so what can we tell you from this image? well, first, we have a better handle on the size of ultima, it is about 35 by 15 kilometres, and you can see the scale bar in miles there. secondly you can see its irregular shape, and there are two possibilities here. one is that it is bilobate,

with the upper lobe being smaller than the lower lobe, so they would be asymmetric, or it may be that these are two things that are actually in orbit around each other and just blurred together because of their proximity. tomorrow we will know which of those is the case. what a difference a day makes. ultima thule is finally revealing its secrets to us, and even though it is a pixelated blob still, it is a better pixilated blob! than the day before. and the fact that these images that we have just gotten and we are showing you today have allowed us to resolve something that was really puzzling to the scientists, because we knew, we were pretty certain that it was highly elongated, and it must be spinning, and in that kind of a situation you would expect to see brightness variations. here's an elongated object, this pen, and as you imagine the camera looking at this pen, in this dimension, in this direction, you see a lot of area, and when you flip it like that

you see hardly anything. we expected to see brightness variations of ultima thule over time, and we weren't seeing that. that's because the pole is almost pointing towards the spacecraft, it is almost like a propeller blade that is running around, and that explains everything, basically. we had the flyby actually occurred in the morning at about 7am, and then we had contact with the spacecraft in the evening, about nine, so we pretty much spent the whole day here, and so this one, we celebrated at night, a little after midnight, and then we went home, and then came back early in the morning, and it was this feeling like, we already celebrated, but we really haven't got that signal back from the spacecraft, so, you know, it is a little bit different feeling. i think i was probably a little bit more nervous this time. but again, we did it

again, so it's fantastic. applause. so where exactly is the lump of ice and dust known as ultima thule? our science editor david shukman has this explanation. to explain what this mission is all about, let's use our virtual studio and start with the middle of our solar system. orbiting closest to the sun are the four small rocky planets, including earth, and then further out there are four much larger planets. the best known of these is saturn, with its famous rings. and then right on the margin is tiny pluto, three billion miles away, but it turns out pluto is just one part of a massive outer zone we only started discovering in the last 20 years or so. thousands of tiny worlds and lumps of rock and ice, known as the kuiper belt.

these are objects left over after the planets were formed. one of these is known as ultima thule, and until now we've only had this artist's impression of it. but after racing from earth on a 13—yearjourney, nasa's new horizons spacecraft, the most distant exploration in human history. that was david shukman there. joining me on the line is mohamed ramy el—maarry a lecturer in planetary sciences at birbeck university in london. he's currently in maryland working on one of the collaborating teams. thank you forjoining us this evening. you could hear the excitement, just explain why they are so excitement, just explain why they are so excited about what has happened. it has been a lot of years in the waiting. you are looking at this sort of delayed gratification, as they said before, a lot of years

went into designing the mission, it launched in 2006, it flew by pluto in 2015, and it took us all so now almost four years, slightly less, to get a ultima thule, because we are at the outskirts of our solar system, almost 6 billion kilometres from earth. it is hard to comprehend, the fact that this is happening 4 billion miles away. we heard the team they're talking about the images that will come back, they ta ke the images that will come back, they take hours to get back to earth. what can we expect in the coming days and months, what can we expect to see? it is going to only get better from now on. to see? it is going to only get betterfrom now on. basically to see? it is going to only get better from now on. basically what we've shown today is the last image prior to closest approach. the upcoming images are going to be much higher resolution, around tens of metres per pixel. we will be able to infer the geological history, the surface geology, the top graffiti of

that body —— the topography of that body in much greater detail. and what does it tell us about that particular outer area of space? we are particular outer area of space? we a re interested, particular outer area of space? we are interested, why we are interested in ultima thule is that it is in this zone which has been in a deep freeze since the solar system formed around 4.6 billion years ago. it is very similar to the comets that we see in a sense, but because the comets have entered into the solar system, they have been heated by the sun and lost some of their gases and volatiles, and so the surface has been reworked and chemically altered in a sense. but what we have with ultima thule is sort of what comets would actually look like even prior to entering the solar system. we are looking at a very primordial body, the most primitive body that has ever been seen by man, and it's going to give us seen by man, and it's going to give usa seen by man, and it's going to give us a lot of information about what

weather conditions when the solar system formed, and this will be of course in combination with all of the information that we have treated so the information that we have treated so faron the information that we have treated so far on various missions to other small bodies throughout the solar system. i know we're onlyjust getting the first images back from there, but dare i ask what is the next challenge for nasa and others when it comes to this of exploration? we will be thinking as $0011 exploration? we will be thinking as 50011 as exploration? we will be thinking as soon as this is done in terms of this mission, we are really thinking about the next flyby, so there is a very big possibility that the spacecraft will continue its journey looking for a possibly flying by another kuiper belt object, breaking oui’ another kuiper belt object, breaking our own records. another kuiper belt object, breaking oui’ own records. so another kuiper belt object, breaking our own records. so that is going to be the next thing, probing the new horizons mission. then there are upcoming missions, there are ongoing missions to smaller bodies that nasa is involved with as well as those down the line, so there is currently a nasa mission to one of the near earth asteroids, and also future

missions such as lucy to the so—called trojan small bodies that are in the same orbit byjupiter, and there is a mission looking at the first iron rich, where we know of the only iron rich asteroid in oui’ of the only iron rich asteroid in our solar system that could have been a remnant of the core of our planet that did not fully materialise. it is fascinating stuff. thank you very much indeed. thank you for speaking to us, mohamed ramy el—maarry, lecturer in planetary sciences at birkbeck couegein planetary sciences at birkbeck college in london. thank you for having me. now the latest headlines on bbc news. a terror investigation is launched after three people including a police officer are stabbed at manchester's victoria station. signals from the nasa space probe new horizons confirm it has successfully flown past icy mass

ultima thule, the most distant object every explored in the solar system the archbishop of canterbury calls for an end to the "divisions of recent years" in his new year sermon. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's sarah. thank you very much. we start with leicester city. leicester city won the first premier league match of the year, they beat everton1—nil at goodison park. jamie vardy was the matchwinner with a goal in the second half. leicester up to 7th in the table after a really good run of festive fixtures —

they've taken 9 points from a possible 12. two other premier league matches today. arsenal beat fulham 4—1 at the emirates — decent response from the home side after that drubbing against liverpool. and spurs are well on top against cardiff. they're 3—0 up approaching half time. spurs will go back second if they win, which it looks like they will. there was a cracking match in the championship as nottingham forest beat leaders leeds 4—2. the visitors had gone down to ten men in the first half but they looked to be on for a remarkable turnaround when they went 2—1 in front. but forest struck a leveller through jack colback‘s second goal of the game, and then went in front when daryl murphy headed in from this corner. leeds eventually tired and conceded a fourth late on, but they are still top of the league after promotion rivals norwich and west brom both dropped points. all today's results from across the divisions are on the bbc sport website. andy murray started 2019 with a win in australia but says

he doesn't know how much longer he'll be able to compete. last year was virtually a write—off following hip surgery. he beat australianjames duckworth in straight sets in the first round of the brisbane international but revealed just how hard his rehab has been. it is not easy to sum up in one sentence or one it is not easy to sum up in one sentence 01’ one answer. it is not easy to sum up in one sentence or one answer. it has been really ha rd 18 sentence or one answer. it has been really hard 18 months, a lot of ups and downs. it was trickyjust a kind of get back on the court competing again, so i'm happy i'm back out here again. i want to try and enjoy it as much as i can, and just try and enjoy playing tennis as long as ican. i and enjoy playing tennis as long as i can. i don't know how much longer it's going to last, but we'll see. the british number 1 johanna konta was also in action in brisbane, she beat the former us open winner sloane stephens in straight sets. konta's had a difficult 12 months, but now has a new coach and says she's trying to create something new and better in 2019. two greats of the game faced off in perth earlier as roger federer came out on top against serena williams in a mixed

doubles match at the hopman cup. this was the first time they had played against each other in a tournament. federer and belinda bencic, representing switzerland, are the defending champions and they beat williams and her us teamate frances tiafoe in straight sets. federer says it was an honour to play against serena, and this is what she thought. it's something that as we grew up together, really, just watching and having an opportunity after all these years, we've actually never done this, so it was super cool that we get to do it at such a pinnacle point in both of our careers, so for me it was super cool, i wanted to ta ke me it was super cool, i wanted to take pictures, and i wanted to bring my take pictures, and i wanted to bring b take pictures, and i wanted to bring my baby out, i was way too excited! but it was really fun. she certainly enjoy that, didn't she? geraint thomas and chris froome are both going to focus on the tour de france this year. froome isn't going to defend his

giro d'italia title in may, conserving his energy for a tilt at a record—equalling fifth tour title in france injuly. that means he'll go head to head with fellow team sky rider thomas again, who won the tour for the first time last year, despite froome being team leader. the japanese kickboxer who was floored by floyd mayweather on new year's eve says he "underestimated" the former five weight world champion. tenshin nasakawa also admitted he had concerns before the exhibition boxing match. mayweather came out of retirement at 41 and earned a mere £7 million for 140 seconds' work — nasakawa was knocked down three times in the first round and the 20 year old ended the bout in tears. that's all the sport for now. thank you very much, sarah. the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby,

has called for an end to what he called the "divisions of recent yea rs." in his new year message, he says the uk is "wonderfully more diverse" than it used to be — yet people are disagreeing on many things and are struggling to disagree well. our religon editor martin bashir reports. can i make you a cup of coffee? for his new year's message, the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, didn't venture far. this is the kitchen at his london residence in lambeth palace. a home that he shares each year with around 20 young people who commit themselves to ten months of prayer, study and community service. they have an extraordinary range of backgrounds, cultures and opinions. they live together, cook together, volunteer with charities together, and, because they are human, they clash together. named after a benedictine monk who became archbishop of canterbury at the end of the 11th century, the community of st anselm is an attempt to challenge whatjustin welby says is increasing division and rancour in british society. we disagree on many things

and we are struggling with how to disagree well. turn on the television, read the news, and you see a lot that could tempt you to despair. quoting the gospel ofjohn, the archbishop said thatjesus chose community over conflict, hope over despair, and he says that we should do the same in 2019. hope lies in our capacity to approach this new year in a spirit of openness towards each other. that will involve choosing to see ourselves as neighbours, as fellow citizens, as communities, each with something to contribute. and he acknowledged how challenging this will be in the current political climate. with the struggles and divisions of recent years, that will not be easy. but that difficult work is part of the joy and blessing

of being a community. whether it's the 20 people here or millions of us, i wish all of us a happy, and more importantly hope—filled, new year. martin bashir, bbc news, at lambeth palace. within the last hour the new president of brazil, jair bolsonaro, has been sworn into office in a ceremony in the capital, brasilia. crowds of supporters gathered to witness the auguration of country's first far—right leader since the end of military rule in the 1980s. bolsonaro has pledged to relax gun laws, roll back brazilian bureaucracy and tackle crime and corruption. in his first address as president, he thanked the people of brazil for choosing him. translation: today i'm here. i feel strong. i feel touched,

translation: today i'm here. i feel strong. ifeel touched, and i thank god for my life and i thank brazilians for entrusting me with the honour and the mission of governing brazil in these times of challenge and hope. i'm going to govern with you. in this solemn moment, i would like to call on all of the congresspeople to restore and make brazil rise again out of corruption, and of criminality, out of economic irresponsibility, and out of ideological submission. we have ahead of us a unique opportunity to rebuild our country and to restore hope to our fellow citizens. i am sure that there will be enormous challenges ahead of us, but if we listen to what people say, we will be successful, and we will achieve our objectives. north korea's leader kimjong un has

given a new year address in which he says the country is still commited to giving up nuclear weapons — and that he is prepared to meet again "at any time" with us president donald trump. there's been little progress on north korea's denuclearisation since the two leaders held their historic meeting on the issue injune. laura bicker reports. this new year offers a tantalising prospect for south koreans. for decades, this nation, technically still at war with its neighbour, has simply longed for peace. but a year of talks between north and south and the united states has meant some are now daring to hope, could 2019 be the year that dream is achieved? there's been little progress on north korea's denuclearisation since the two leaders held their historic meeting translation: i think because of the atmosphere kimjong—un is hesitant right now but i hope he comes and meets with our president and tours around seoul.

just a few miles away, pyongyang celebrated new year with more than its usual flair, a glitzy midnight show, despite being under strict economic sanctions. the north‘s leader kim jong—un was also upbeat and rewarded those watching his speech from washington and seoul by renewing his commitment to denuclearisation. translation: we have proclaimed that we will no longer make nuclear weapons. we will not use them or spread them. but then came the warning. translation: i am always ready to sit down again with the us president at any time and will make efforts to produce an outcome that the international community would welcome. however, if the us miscalculates our people's patience, forces something upon us and pursues sanctions and pressure without keeping a promise made in front of the world, we have no option but to explore a new path in order to protect our sovereignty and achieve peace in the korean peninsula. the deal reached in singapore injune was so vague that neither side can agree on what was agreed.

north korea believes it has held up its side of the bargain by not testing any new missiles and destroying one test site. but since then talks have stalled between the two sides. in his speech, kimjong—un pointed to the hope and optimism in both south and north korea that they can forge a path towards peace. his message to the united states is we can have that relationship too, but the ball is now in the trump administration's court, and, unless they act, 2019 might not be as peaceful as everyone here hopes. laura bicker, bbc news. inafew in a few minutes' time we will be joined by bbc one's viewers for a full round—up of the day's news with ben brown. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. good evening. christmas was

dominated by dry, mild weather, but it came at a price, the crisp new year. temperatures struggling. behind this front we kept the cloud and drizzle the south west, and that will continue through the night to night, but behind the frontal system, clearer skies. the exception is along the east coast with the northerly winds driving a little more cloud. that will prevent temperatures from falling below freezing, but further west with those clearing skies we will see temperatures just below freezing and a touch of light frost first thing on wednesday morning. so if you are up on wednesday morning. so if you are up and off back to work, it will be a cold and frosty start, but hopefully a sparkling one, lots of sunshine particularly the further west you are, and the risk of an isolated shower of north sea coasts and a noticeably cooler feel right across the country, 3—7 degrees, the overall high. the high pressure stays with us, but some subtle

differences, drifting a little further to the south—east, meaning that the winds circling around that high, keeping the northerly up along the east coast, but further west we start to pick up a return to a south—westerly, slightly milder perhaps a little less cold as we go through the latter stages of the week. thursday morning will start off with clear skies and a frosty start through the spine of the country. the risk of a few isolated showers along that kent coast, but the best of the sunshine further inland. add to the west, the south—westerly flow driving a little more cloud across cornwall, and maybe west facing coast of scotland as well. elsewhere, three to five celsius. thursday night through to friday, we could see the potential for some fog, some of it freezing in places, maybe down towards parts of south west england as well. it is also going to turn bitterly cold thursday night into friday, a widespread hard frost not out of the

question, so again it is going to be a shock to the system if you are a point of early enough. but friday will see a good deal of dry weather with some sunshine, a little less cold but a bit more cloud to start off the weekend. police launch a terror investigation after the stabbing of three people last night at manchester's victoria railway station. a 25—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. last night we experienced a horrific attack on people simply out to enjoy the new year's eve celebrations in manchester. three, two, one... go, new horizons! nasa scientists celebrate after successfully exploring the most distant world yet in the solar system. rescue teams in russia pull an 11—month—old baby from the rubble of a block of flats destroyed by an explosion. the controversial right wing populist jair bolsonaro is sworn in as brazil's new president. and a victory for andy murray

in australia but he's not sure how much longer he can play top—class tennis. good evening. police have launched a terror investigation after the stabbing of three people last night at manchester's victoria railway station, one of them a police officer. a 25—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. the victims‘ injuries are said to be serious but not life—threatening. the prime minister said her thoughts were with them and praised the response of the emergency services. our correspondent danny savage is in manchester for us tonight.

danny. there is little doubt that what happened here last night would have been terrifying for anybody who witnessed it. a knife attack, carried out on people passing through this station. but because of what the attacker is alleged to have said, both during and after the incident, it means that police are now treating this as a terrorism investigation. a railway station in central manchester, just before 9pm last night. move away now. move! police restrain a man on the ground who moments earlier had been wielding a knife, attacking passers—by. a bbcjournalist was on the platform at the time and saw what happened. it's new year's eve, people have had a drink. they've probably — "it's just, it's just a fight." "it will fizzle out in the next few seconds." but then ijust heard the guy shout as part of a sentence, "allah", and i thought,

that doesn't sound good. at the point i was just edging towards the tracks to jump onto the tracks he was pepper sprayed, he was tasered, theyjust kind of swarmed on him, brought him down. three people were stabbed, one of them was a police officer, the other two were a man and woman in their 50s. the injuries are serious but not life—threatening. allahu akbar! a short time later the man was taken away from manchester victoria station by police, shouting "god is greatest" in arabic. chief constable of greater manchester police said it is being treated as a terrorist incident. we are treating this as a terrorist investigation. which is being led by counterterrorism officers with support from greater manchester police. they were working throughout the night to piece together the details of what happened

and to identify the man who was arrested. the same time, they announced they we re the same time, they announced they were searching a property in the cheetham hill area of the city, where police now stand guard. the city's mayor is trying to reassure people. manchester is strong, it is united. we will not allow anybody to divide us. we will continue to work closely with colleagues in the government and other public services over the coming days. but as i say, people should not be unduly alarmed. we would ask people to remain vigilant. but we believe this has all the hallmarks, and appears to be an isolated incident. the injured policeman is now at home. but the couple attacked here last night are likely to be in hospitalfor some time. police say the location of the attack may be a factor as well.

victoria station is adjacent to the manchester arena, where 22 people we re manchester arena, where 22 people were killed by a suicide bomber back in 2017. many hundreds of other people were injured at that time. reading between the lines of what the police have been saying today, they don't seem to believe that the incident that happened here last night isjust incident that happened here last night is just a coincidence. incident that happened here last night isjust a coincidence. danny, thank you very much indeed. danny savage reporting. a nasa spacecraft has flown past the most distant world ever studied in our solar system — some four billon miles away. there were celebrations from scientists at mission control when confirmation came through that the new horizons probe had achieved the historic fly—by of the mysterious, icy world known as ultima thule. the probe has taken pictures of it that will be sent back to earth over the coming months. our science correspondent palab ghosh reports. ten, nine, eight, seven, six... it's not the new year they're counting in, but the arrival of nasa's new horizons spacecraft. one! go, new horizons! it's just arrived at the most distant object that humanity has ever explored.

this simulation shows the mission's target. it's called ultima thule. 4 billion miles away, it's one of the building blocks that planets are made from. we're here to tell you that last night, overnight, the united states spacecraft new horizons conducted the farthest exploration in the history of humankind and did so spectacularly. thousands of operations on board the spacecraft had to work correctly in order for us to be able to tell you this, and now we know that it all did. so far, the spacecraft has only sent back low resolution pictures. but over the coming days, the images will become increasingly clearer. nasa confirmed that the spacecraft had acquired gigabytes of photos, the latest of which they released today. and it's ok to laugh, but it's better than the one we had yesterday. there it is! meet ultima! ultima thule seems to be peanut—shaped.

what a difference a day makes! and ultima thule is finally revealing its secrets to us, and even though it is a pixelated blob still, it's a better pixelated blob! and this analysis suggests it might be rotating like a propeller. new horizons has flown towards the edge of our solar system, sending back these spectacular images of pluto on its way. these are real images of one of the solar system's most distant worlds. and very soon we'll be able to see ultima thule in such incredible detail. and then, the team hopes that new horizons will be able to journey even further out. pallab ghosh, bbc news. two people have died in separate stabbings in london. a man thought to be in his 30s was killed outside a party in park lane. two other men and a women were also treated for stab wounds.

it's undertood the men were working as security staff. meanwhile, in camberwell in south london, a 34—year—old man has been arrested after a woman was fatally stabbed. the victim, in her early 30s, was found in a house early this morning. rescue workers in russia have pulled a baby boy from the rubble of an apartment block that collapsed in a suspected gas explosion yesterday. the baby, who is 11 months old, survived despite subzero temperatures overnight. he has frostbite and head and leg injuries. at least eight people died when the building collapsed in the city of magnitogorsk — and many are still unaccounted for. our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford reports. rescuers are calling this a new year miracle. the moment they reached baby ivan, clinging to life beneath the rubble of his home. he'd lain trapped and injured here for over 30 hours. the emergency team shouts to hurry

as the baby boy is first checked by a medic and then bundled off to hospital with fractures and frostbite. translation: one of the rescuers heard a child crying. after that, we stopped all our equipment to make sure, and listened. but when we said quiet, the baby went quiet, too. it was when we said, "where are you?", that the child started to cry again in response. teams have been searching the ruins ever since an explosion on new year's eve. this is all that remains of almost 50 apartments. officials suspect the blast was caused by a gas leak. poor maintenance and fatal explosions are all too common here. last night, president putin himself flew in in a show of support. he was briefed by emergency teams in their tent headquarters. they are working around the clock here, but they've only found a handful of survivors. for some, rescue came too late.

the bitter cold is an extra danger. at night, the temperature drops to —20 or lower. finding baby ivan beneath all of this has given the rescue teams fresh hope, though doctors say his condition is very serious. they plan to fly to moscow for specialist care as, at the scene, the search for the survivors goes on. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. eight people have been rescued in france after spending the night trapped on a funfair ride more than 160ft in the air. firefighters made several attempts to help after the ride, in the western city of rennes, malfunctioned, but their ladders were too short. eventually a helicopter was brought in to winch people down. the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, has called for an end to what he called the "divisions of recent years" in his new year sermon, he says the uk is wonderfully more diverse than it used to be —

and yet he says people are disagreeing on many things and are struggling to disagree well. our religon editor martin bashir reports. can i make you a cup of coffee? for his new year's message the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, didn't venture far. this is the kitchen at his london residence in lambeth palace. a home that he shares each year with around 20 young people who commit themselves to ten months of prayer, study and community service. they have an extraordinary range of backgrounds, cultures and opinions. they live together, cook together, volunteer with charities together, and, because they are human, they clash together. named after a benedictine monk who became archbishop of canterbury at the end of the 11th century, the community of st anselm is an attempt to challenge whatjustin welby says is increasing division and rancour

in british society. we disagree on many things and we are struggling with how to disagree well. turn on the television, read the news, and you see a lot that could tempt you to despair. quoting the gospel ofjohn, the archbishop said thatjesus chose community over conflict, hope over despair, and he says that we should do the same in 2019. hope lies in our capacity to approach this new year in a spirit of openness towards each other. that will involve choosing to see ourselves as neighbours, as fellow citizens, as communities, each with something to contribute. and he acknowledged how challenging this will be in the current political climate. with the struggles and divisions of recent years, that will not be easy. but that difficult work is part of the joy and blessing

of being a community. whether it is the 20 people here or millions of us, i wish all of us a happy, and more importantly hope filled, new year. martin bashir, bbc news, at lambeth palace. the right—wing populist, jair bolsonaro, has been sworn—in as the new president of brazil. he's promising a crackdown on corruption and violent crime, and vowed to revive brazil's flagging economy. but mr bolsonaro is a deeply divisive figure, whose homophobic and misogynistic comments have angered many. our south america correspondent, katy watson is live in the country's capital brasilia. with mr bolsonaro now sworn in, he has been giving his acceptance speech. in it, he talked about the huge challenges that lay ahead, saying it was a new chapter for

brazil. this is a man who was a relative unknown, despite the fact he has been a politician for nearly 30 years. but his political rise has been like no other. itjust goes to show how determined brazilians were in wanting a change at the top. a historic day for brazil, one that even bolsonaro and his fans probably never expected could happen. but he made it, and for the next four years, this will be the man in charge of latin america's biggest economy. a man who's promised to lead brazil down a very different political path to that of his predecessors. thousands came to see mr bolsonaro take power. dressed in the colours of the brazilian flag, they shouted support for the man they call a legend. after 13 years of a very corrupt government in brazil, so now we have a hope that with bolsonaro, he will clean up. he wants to unite families, not divide. we are not black, white, poor or rich, we are a nation. jair bolsonaro campaigned

as an outsider, promising to drain the swamp of corrupt politicians. for several years now, the political establishment has been mired in corruption scandals. brazilians are fed up. much like donald trump, a man he openly admires, bolsonaro says he wants to make brazil great again, to rule the country with an iron fist. for people in this crowd, bolsonaro represents change, a fresh start for brazilian politics. but his fiery rhetoric during the campaign means many people are worried, especially from brazil's minority groups, about what the next four years will mean for their future. for the country's many indigenous communities, bolsonaro represents a huge threat. he has made it clear he supports the powerful and lucrative farming industry, and said he won't give a centimetre more land to the indigenous once

he's in power. translation: we are left worried whether he will try and finish us off or give us the land we deserve. he supports landowners, they are more valuable to him than we are. mr bolsonaro certainly marks a new political direction for brazil, but how the country will fare with this far—right firebrand in power is uncertain. katy watson, bbc news, in brasilia. andy murray has made a winning start to 2019, but says he's not sure how much longer he'll be able to continue playing top—level tennis. he was speaking after he made it through to the second round of the brisbane international. it was his first competitive match after months spent recovering from hip surgery. andy swiss reports. he's back, but for how much longer? few are as keen to forget 2018 as andy murray. he spent most of it out injured, and his first match since september raised as many questions as answers. on the plus side, there were flashes of his familiar brilliance. murray might have slipped to 240 in the world rankings,

but he was far too good for his opponent, james duckworth. but he admitted his long—standing hip problem is still causing discomfort. and after a straight sets win, a question about his recent injury battle left him close to tears. it's been a really hard 18 months, a lot of ups and downs. you know, trickyjust to kind of get back on the court competing again. so, i'm happy i'm back out here again. i want to try and enjoy it as much as i can. yeah, just try and enjoy playing tennis as long as i can. i don't know how much longer it's going to last, but we'll see. an emotional day, then, for one of british sport's biggest stars. murray will hope this combat will last. but a reminder, perhaps, to enjoy his talent while we can. andy swiss, bbc news. football, and in the premier league, third—placed tottenham are 3—0 up at cardiff,

with the second halfjust under way. earlier, arsenal beat fulham 4—1. and leicester took all three points against everton at goodison park after a 58th—minute goal from jamie vardy. everton, who haven't won in their past four home games, are still tenth in the table, while leicester move into seventh place. we're back with the late news at 10.35. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. the time isjust the time is just coming up to ten to seven. more now on one of our main stories — and signals from the nasa space probe new horizons confirm it has successfully flown past icy mass ultima thule — the most distant object every explored in the solar system. we have heard a news conference from

nasa scientists in the last couple of hours. the image that i'm about to show you is the best image of ultima that we got before the flyby, and it's ok to laugh, but it's better than the one we had yesterday. there it is. meet ultima! applause so, in my line of work, we like to interpret even images like this, and so what can we tell you from this image? well, first, we have a better handle on the size of ultima, it is about 35 by 15 kilometres, and you can see the scale bar in miles there. secondly you can see its irregular shape, and there are two possibilities here. one is that it is bilobate, with the upper lobe being smaller than the lower lobe, so they would be asymmetric, or it may be that these are two things that are actually in orbit

around each other and just blurred together because of their proximity. tomorrow we will know which of those is the case. what a difference a day makes. ultima thule is finally revealing its secrets to us, and even though it is a pixelated blob still, it is a better pixilated blob than the day before! and the fact that these images that we have just gotten and we are showing you today have allowed us to resolve something that was really puzzling to the scientists, because we knew, we were pretty certain that it was highly elongated, and it must be spinning, and in that kind of a situation you would expect to see brightness variations. here's an elongated object, this pen, and as you imagine the camera looking at this pen, in this dimension, in this direction, you see a lot of area, and when you flip it like that you see hardly anything. we expected to see brightness variations of ultima thule over

time, and we weren't seeing that. that's because the pole is almost pointing towards the spacecraft, it is almost like a propeller blade that is running around, and that explains everything, basically. what is striking home with me is that we can build a spacecraft on earth and sent it out billions of miles away from paris and it sends us miles away from paris and it sends us back this wonderful data that we get to look at and learn more about out get to look at and learn more about our ruraland get to look at and learn more about our rural and solar system. and long after that power is so much less than we can't turn around and communicate to earth, that will keep going on and on. that is a bit of all of us on that spacecraft that willjust continue. after we are long gone here are earth. applause we were screaming buy at 32,000

miles an hour, we took a series of images along the pathway, but the spacecraft only had time to capture one row and so unless the frames we re one row and so unless the frames were perfectly centred on the target were perfectly centred on the target we will have missed part or potentially all of it. because it is a stretch goal, we wanted to try it, and we hope it worked out and we will find out somewhat later. but the images that have start to come down this year will already reveal the basic structure and we will start to write our first scientific paper next week. we wanted to give you a feeling of what was like to be in the mission. the first person to report was the communications lead. we kept our eyes on him and as soon as he started smiling, we knew things were going well. it took awhile for him to report, but then

we went to the other lead and he reported that the recorder had the right amount of data he expected. we also went to the propulsion lead, he said the time pressures look good and we went around the subsystems, the power, everybody reporting green status, and it was a thrill. and then the cheers erupted in the mission operations centre, it was an amazing experience. we had the flyby actually occurred in the morning at about 7am, and then we had contact with the spacecraft in the evening, about nine, so we pretty much spent the whole day here, and so this one, we celebrated at night, a little after midnight, and then we went home, and then came back early in the morning, and it was this feeling like, we already celebrated, but we really haven't got that signal back from the spacecraft, so, you know, it is a little bit different feeling. i think i was probably a little bit more nervous this time. but again, we did it

again, so it's fantastic. applause nasa scientists there, much more on that story throughout the evening. we will be back at 7pm, but first the weather with louise. christmas was dominated by dry and cloudy weather, but temperatures now struggling between six and 7 degrees. most was behind this front, we kept the cloud and some drizzle into the south—west, that will continue through the night tonight. behind that frontal system, some clearer skies. the exception is a lwa ys clearer skies. the exception is always along the east coast with the northerly wind driving in some more cloud and the risk of some isolated showers. that will prevent temperatures from falling below freezing, but further west with

clear skies, we will see temperatures just below freezing and a touch of light frost first thing on wednesday morning. if you are back to work, it will be cold and frosty to start, lots of sunshine, particularly further west. again, the northerly breeze will drive in more cloud, the risk of an isolated shower off north sea coasts, and a cooler fuel across the country, 3—7 degrees the high. high pressure stays with us, with subtle differences through the latter stages of the week. it will drift to the south—east and that means that the south—east and that means that the wind circuiting around the high, we always keep the northerly along the east coast, but further west, we pick upa the east coast, but further west, we pick up a returns weight to a south—westerly, a slightly milder source, so perhaps less cold as we go through the latter stages of the week. thursday morning will start off with clear skies and a frosty start through the spine of the country. the risk of some isolated

showers along the kent coast, but the best of the sunshine will be further inland. to the west, the south—westerly wind will drive more cloud across cornwall, northern ireland and the west of scotland. not quite as cold here, but elsewhere, 3—5 celsius. thursday through to friday, we could see the potential of some fog, some freezing in places. in western scotland and may be down towards part of south—west england as well. it will also turn bitterly cold on thursday night into friday, a widespread hard frost, not out of the question. so again, it will be a shock to the system if you are up only. friday will see a good deal of dry weather with some sunshine, less cold, but some more cloud to start the weekend. this is bbc news. the headlines at seven. a terror investigation is launched after three people including a police officer are stabbed at manchester's victoria station. my thoughts are very much with the couple who are still being treated in hospitalfor their very serious injuries. and of course with the brave british transport police officer

that was stabbed during the attack. there it is. meet ultima! four billion miles away and the most distant space object ever explored — a nasa space probe gets an image of ultima thule. jair bolsonaro, a far—right politician vowing a crackdown on crime and corruption, is sworn in as brazil's new president. in russia, an eleven—month—old baby is pulled from the rubble of a block of flats hit by an explosion — eight bodies have so far been found.