this is bbc news. two men are arrested in manchester on suspicion of arranging the illegal movement of migrants across the channel into the uk. meanwhile the home secretary questions whether people trying to illegally crossing the channel are genuine asylum seekers. the return to work and a hike in railfares after a troubled network here. apple warning investors revenue will be lower than expected blaming the slowdown in china and customers not upgrading their phones. nasa under they are —— unveils the first clear images from the most distant object viewed by a spacecraft, ultima thule, and it's shaped like a snowman. thule, and it's shaped like a snowman. and the ten—year—old maths genius in south africa has become something of an internet sensation. and at 11:30 p.m., we will be taking a look at the papers. stay with us for that. good evening. the national crime

agency officers have in the last hour appeal they arrested a 33—year—old iranian national and 24—year—old british man in manchester under suspicion of arranging the illegal movement of migrants across the english channel into the uk. the home secretary, sajid was criticised by refugee groups when he questioned whether people in small boats were genuine asylu m people in small boats were genuine asylum seekers. more than 530 attempt at the crossing, most of them since october and more than half have made it to the coast. duncan kennedy reports. the home secretary today heading out of dover to see for himself the border force operation in the channel. sajid javid spent half an hour on board in the kind of calm

conditions that many migrants use to make their crossing. but mrjavid questioned whether those coming were actually fleeing persecution. if you are a genuine asylum seeker then why have you not sought asylum in the first safe country that you arrived in? because you know, france is not a country where anyone would argue it is not safe in any way whatsoever. but some migrant support groups say those comments from the home secretary are deeply concerning. and that these people should be treated as genuine. they also say that although more than 200 have landed since november, the numbers are minuscule in comparison to those trying to cross the mediterranean. my feeling is that it has been blown out of proportion. in the grand scheme of things, these are small numbers of people arriving from northern france. and they have their reasons for wanting to come to the uk. but although migrant numbers remain small,

we flew along the kent coast today to see just how difficult it is to patrol the english channel. this cutter will soon be one of three operating here after the home secretary ordered two more to be brought back from the med. but with so many potential landing points, migrants‘ dinghies still difficult to detect. in fact the whole of the kent coastline is more than 200 miles long and this recent surge of migrants since november has seen landings everywhere from ramsgate to lympne, a shoreline distance of more than a0 miles. there haven't been any migrants spotted making the crossing in the past 48 hours. it's not clear why, but few expect the flow to stop. a limited but determined group of people trying to make britain their home. duncan kennedy, bbc news, in kent. the migrant crossings were described

asa the migrant crossings were described as a major incident by the home secretary last week as he cut short his holiday. how much of a problem is it? there are real risks in terms ofa is it? there are real risks in terms of a threat to the uk, a major incident as the home secretary described it. the numbers are small. in the whole of 2018, 312 people in small boats were intercepted. many more intercepted trying to get into the uk in conventional ports, hidden in and vans, by criminal gangs and people traffickers. to give you some idea, in 2016, officials stopped 56,000 people trying to cross the channel clandestine leave. we know in the year to last september,

28,000 people applied for asylum in the uk and that is still far below the uk and that is still far below the number which applied back in 2002 when it was 80 4000. it is also far below the applications comparable eu countries, typically receive, in the year to lastjune, germany seeing more than 160,000 applicants, france, 108,000, italy, 100 and 2000. greece saw 40% more applicants than the uk with a fifth of our population. the uk comes 17th in terms of eu asylum applications per head so while the sight of small dinghy is trying to evade border force patrols made make people feel deeply uneasy, the impact on our country must really be described as marginal at most. rail passengers across britain have returned to work

based with their rises which have added more than £100 to some seasonal tickets. the fare hikes, which affect england, scotland and wales, come after a year of chaos on the railways, caused by strikes, extreme weather and timetable changes. fares have increased by an average of 3.1% in england and wales. in scotland, the figure is almost 3%. passenger groups and opposition parties have condemned the rise, but the transport secretary chris grayling has laid the blame with rail unions. just got on the train to cardiff, return — disgusted by the price, £4.10. it's an awful lot of money for a couple of miles. i am commuting from hertfordshire and noticed it was £26, rather than £25 and it has got to the stage now that rather than coming into london, i willjust work from home more. i regularly travel to glasgow and the price has gone up, but the service hasn't changed. it is a public transport and if the public can't afford it, what good is public transport that's unaffordable? and it's passengers in the north

of england who sometimes did not know when a train would arrive last year who feel angry, as well as commuters on govia thameslink. listen to what andy pays annually to commute to london. the season ticket is £4,800 including the underground. new timetables were also botched here last spring. i'm really disappointed. we have a clear recommendation from the transport select committee that passengers who are caught up in the timetabling chaos should have their fares frozen, not increased. the 3% rise means an annual season ticket from bradford to leeds will cost £32 more. someone commuting from leading into london will pay an extra £140. cancellations and long delays across the network have hit a 17 year high and that is like a fare rise this year is harder to swallow.

figures show the railway generated £19 billion in one year and nearly 10 billion of that came from tickets. the government put in almost £7 billion. the total amount spent was around £19 billion. train companies spent £11 billion on wages and trains and nearly £7 billion was spent by network rail which is responsible for maintaining tracks and stations. the government says it is happy for fares to rise in line with a lower index of inflation if the unions agree that rail workers' wages should also go up at a lower rate. i don't want to see fares go up any more than they have to. the reality is costs are rising fast and the biggest factor is wage increases. i'd like to see the unions and frankly the labour party accept that wage rises should be lower and as a result fare rises should be lower. 0ur fares are already the highest in europe. it is a tax on commuters and people who have to use the railway because there is no other

way of getting around. in the long term, itjust drives some people away from public transport. that's not good. the rmt union says it is scandalous that the government is blaming rail workers. train companies say 98% of tickets goes back into running the railways so other money can upgrade the network. tom burridge, bbc news. apple warning investors revenue will be lower than expected blaming the slowdown in china and customers not upgrading their phones. let's speak to our correspondence was in san francisco. a bit of a shock for investors and apple. yes, certainly. apple investors aren't used to this kind of news. it's been many years since apple has struggled to please their investors but this

letter today that came outjust after two o'clock local time has really sent a bit of a shock wave to those investors who are been so well rewarded by apple over the years. in short, the letter from the chief executive, tim cook, warned that several factors mean they will have a very difficult quarter when they next report their earnings and that means about $5 billion less in global revenue. the reasons for that we re global revenue. the reasons for that were numerous. 0ne global revenue. the reasons for that were numerous. one of them was simply people are upgrading their iphone is less than the iphone is the most profitable product that apple has silat has a big knock—on effect. he also said there were supply chain issues affecting some of their other products that were performing well. they simply couldn't get them out to consumers quickly enough but the most significant thing is china. their sales in china have fallen off a cliff and they blame the economic atmosphere globally for that and

blame increased tensions between the us and china over trade is trickling down to consumers in china so that people are simply going into apple stores and shopping on line for apple products less and said it underestimated all those factors which is why it's given investors this bad news. the bottom line is, apple needs to find a new product. well, a new product perhaps all what some analysts are telling me, they need to continue to diversify their product so rather than relying on the iphone as it has done for the last ten years, to bring its money, apple is now being expected to do a lot more and to be fair to them, they have managed to start building business in the last couple of yea rs, business in the last couple of years, in particular services, so buying things like music, and video film and so forth. products like the apple watch are slowly becoming sources of profit. it about doing more perhaps rather than relying on

one single product, the iphone, because most analysts will tell you this era of the smartphone boom is coming to an end. there is not much innovation left to be made in the smartphone as a product. so apple has to be a bit more inventive. a police sergeant who was injured in a suspected terror attack in manchester on new year's eve has said "instinct took over". sergeant lee valentine was one of three people injured in the knife attack at victoria station. greater manchester police have said they're "increasingly confident" the man who carried out the attack acted alone. 0ur correspondent fiona trott was at victoria station for us. sergeant lee valentine was stabbed in the shoulder and is now recovering at home. his chief constable has described him and his colleagues as heroes, and here's why. we had no idea what we were running towards when we heard the screams, said lee valentine. when we saw the man wielding a knife, instinct took over.

a couple in their 50s were also stabbed hand man is due to be released from hospital soon and his partner will continue to be treated for stomach and facial injuries. we know that the 25—year—old man who was arrested on suspicion of adapted murder was detained under the mental health act. today greater manchester police said he was likely to remain in a secure mental facility for several months. the suspect‘s family have released a statement saying their thoughts and prayers were with those who were injured and it was important for the police investigation to take its course and for any speculation to be avoided. tonight, greater manchester police say they're continuing to examine computers and phones as part of their investigation. they're also trying to establish if anybody else encouraged the attacker. by the time they are 10 years old, children in britain have eaten their way through an entire childhood's worth of sugar. that's according to research by public health england which is urging parents to take action and cut back on their children's sugar intake to tackle obesity.

children over the age of four should have no more than the equivalent of five to seven cubes a day depending on their age, that's the recommended amount. but in reality they're consuming almost double that, an average of around 13 cubes a day. 0ur correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. putting away the christmas treats. kara says her boys have a healthy diet, but she hasn't completely banned them from eating sugary snacks. but today's report says that by the time children are ten, they have consumed the recommended sugar intake for an 18—year—old, and that has shocked her. it's frightening. it is the hidden sugar that's probably doing it, because you're not scrutinising every product your child is eating. you have to be strict, because if they could open the cupboard now, there's biscuits in the cupboard, but they know and they will ask.

so they had some yesterday. we don't stop them, but they know they can only have one or two, and not every single day. we love sugary things! public health england is warning that families need to look more closely at what they're buying and cut back on sugar by choosing healthier versions of the foods they eat. cutting that breakfast cereal down to a lower sugar breakfast cereal will save 50 cubes of sugar. that's a lot. these things add up and you can make a real change to your child's diet and to their health in the future. so what is the main source of sugar in children's diets? well, 6% comes from yoghurt. 8% from breakfast cereals. but 10% still comes from fizzy drinks and the main culprit are these, 14% comes from children eating chocolate and sweets. there's already a levy on sugary soft drinks, but now public health england have said if manufacturers don't reduce sugar enough in food, there might be a case

for a so—called pudding tax on puddings, yoghurts, cereals and chocolate. but the food industry says it will not work. it has also addressed the issue of sugar being added to baby food. the government announced it wants to look at baby food. the industry is working with them to do that. there is a wide range of baby foods available. some of them are sweet and some of them are not. we need to see what the size of the issue is and then the industry will respond. just how to help people cut back on sugar is still being heavily debated. but what is clear from those eating it is just how irresistible it can be. you can stop yourself, can you? what do you say to yourself? i don't say anything, just don't look at it. once i look at it, i eat it. once you look at it, you eat it? yeah. only... depends if it's mine. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. 0ur our top stories: two men arrested in

manchester for arranging the illegal movements of migrants across the channel into the eu. rail passengers face a fare hike of 3% despite one year of delays and cancellations. shares in apple fall as the ceo warns revenue will be lower than expected, blaming a slowdown in china. now, let's take a look at some of the front pages. we will review them with katie balls and henry merits after the weather at 11:30pm —— manse. basso released images of the most distant planet in the solar system, taken by the new horizons probe, showing the icy world known as ultime thule, it is hoped information and data gathered from the distant world will explain how planets were formed, as david

shukman explains. power is green. mission control running through checks that confirm this incredible venture has worked. this is right where we predicted. flying right beside the most distant worlds ever explored. we have a healthy spacecraft. the relief of decades of planning paying off, and the scientist is proud of giving us a view never possible before. helping us understand the origins of our solar system. what this spacecraft and this team accomplished is unprecedented. here is where we were just a couple of days ago. this was humanity's best image of ultime thule. well, that image of ultime thule. well, that image is so 2018. meet ultime thule!

they have discovered a strange shape which scientists think looks like a snowman. they have even produced this image to make the point about this image to make the point about this rock left over from the birth of the solar system. back when the mission was launched, hardly anything was known about the outer reaches of the solar system. it was an extraordinary gamble trying to get there. it is almost impossible to grasp how far the spacecraft new horizons has travelled, but 13 is ago it began a long trek across the solar system, leaving earth in january 2006, to fly past planets including mars, jupiter, saturn. and then in 2015 it made it all the way out to pluto 3 billion miles away. before racing on for another billion miles to ultime thule, reaching it on new year's day, skimming past, but still able to capture the images we are now starting to see. there is

a lot that is surprising about this tiny world. made up of two pieces of rock joined together. so tiny world. made up of two pieces of rockjoined together. so this may be the first glimpse of how the planets we re the first glimpse of how the planets were eventually built. 0ne lump binding to another over millions of yea rs. binding to another over millions of years. this shape informs our models of planetary formation. you can see that they are clearly two separate objects that have come together. so it is pretty exciting to see that. when new horizons flew past pluto it revealed a world more active than anyone expected. now this latest encounter has produced something even more profound, a snapshot of what it took to make planets like our own. let's have a look at some of the other top stories. emergency crews have been called to a property in curtain on new year's day,

detectives say they believe they know the identities of the victims and are not looking to anyone else in connection with the fire. six people have been killed in a train accident in denmark, on the great belt bridge, which links two islands, after a freight train blew off in islands, after a freight train blew offina islands, after a freight train blew off in a heavy storm, hitting a passenger train travelling to cope and hagen. 16 others were injured. a woman has died after falling 150 metres from ben nevis on new year's day —— copenhagen. she is the second person to have died in recent weeks. thejohn person to have died in recent weeks. the john lewis partnership person to have died in recent weeks. thejohn lewis partnership — the retail chain which ownsjohn lewis and waitrose, saw an 11% rise in sales in 2018 compared with one year earlier. the department store saw strong sales on christmas eve as customers bought last—minute gifts. in the previous weeks, sales across the partnership fell 5% compared to

2017. now, president trump has said the us government could be shut down for a long time as the ongoing row about the mexico border wall wombles on. a meeting called by the president to discuss how to fund the war broke without agreement. i spoke with our reporter anthony zurcher, who said the shutdown could have in implications for government workers. we are reaching the point where they will start missing paycheques and i will start missing paycheques and i will have a real effect on the people who are living close to the bone financially speaking. but i think what you're going to see first and foremost is democrat in the house of representatives passed some legislation and that could reopen the government and all but the department of homeland security for the rest of the year. the senate will then have to decide whether they want to approve it or continue to negotiate. if they do approve it it is up to donald trump to sign it. it sounds like donald trump is not going to sign anything that does not give him his wall funding. when you are give him his wall funding. when you a re left give him his wall funding. when you are left a real estate magnet as

president, you get a longer discussion of the intricacies of paying for a wall rather than details of the negotiating position it seems. all right. no-one wants to own a shutdown. people who have been labelled with perhaps being responsible for shutdowns in the past have had enormous problems, and whipping off course of the republican congress during the time of bill clinton. who owns this shutdown at the moment? well, if you look at polls, the american public by and large views this as a shutdown of donald trump's making, that might be in part because donald trump last month said it would be his shutdown, he said he would own it, that border security and building his border wall was a high enough priority for him that he was willing to shut down the government. and that was in keeping with things he said in the last year or two, where he set a shutdown wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. so i think the public is taking him at

his word here. but they also generally do not support construction of a border wall. they don't see it as a sound use of money. so any blame or fallout from the shutdown will come on donald trump's shoulders. the reality however is he is close to his base of support anyway right now. and his political base likes the wall and they like him. they have shown in they like him. they have shown in the past they won't be deterred by any kind of permutations in public policy debates, or things donald trump says or does. so i don't think you can expect to see a precipitous drop in donald trump's public support because of this. anthony zurcher reporting. a ten—year—old boy in south africa is causing a stir in the world of maths. he has an ability to work out huge sums in his head. now his arithmetic is turning him into a social media sensation. welcome to maths. class is in session. at this farm school, the pupils are hard at work perfecting their maths skills. but there's one who stands out.

meet sibahle zwan. called the human calculator, he's just ten years old. anyone who knows the answer? sibahle? 540. translation: i'm the best at maths in the whole school. when people see me, they ask me to do sums for them to test how good i am. and they are surprised when i give the answers right. some people even give me money for doing difficult numbers. i give that money to my mother, and that makes me happy. he was discovered when a local policeman filmed him. 250 times 11? 2,750. at home, his mother may not be able to help him with his homework, but she is his biggest fan. we always dream big, most of the time. with me, i wish everything that could go well for him.

i want him to explore. he loves challenges. 78... and so we put him to the test. times... 550. 42,900,000. what? how did you do that? after a professional assessment, he is deemed a gifted child, but that brings other challenges. he becomes bored easily and needs unconventional teaching methods in order to thrive. professor belinda huntley runs the wits siyanqoba maths olympiad programme. and she wants sibahle tojoin her class and compete with some of the best minds in the world. if he isn't enriched now, he's just going to dissolve into the rest of the masses. he's just going to be expected just to keep up with the curriculum. and now admitted to the geniuses programme, young sibahle finally has a chance at a bright future. two giant panda cubs born in china

have begun their winning in the new year. the male cubs have been practising drinking milk and a p pa re ntly practising drinking milk and a ppa re ntly wa kes practising drinking milk and apparently wakes up as soon as his milk is brought to him. the female is said to be less inclined to behave and hasn't fully mastered the skills of drinking milk, but they have learnt to eat bamboo and bamboo shoots. and both are said to be immensely popular with fair visitors to their breeding reserve. any excuse to put pandas on the telly. now, here is the weather news. hello. that is the christmas and new year festivities done for another year. now we find ourselves in a

relatively quiet, but relatively chilly spell of january weather. remember the mild air that was blowing in in december? it is sitting in the atlantic. at the moment we are not able to bring it in our direction because of this area of high pressure parked across the british isles. this high blocking the progress of mild air but also blocking the progress of atla ntic but also blocking the progress of atlantic weather systems. so lots of dry weather few than —— through the next few days, often cloudy, with sunshine at times, and if you have clear skies overhead at night there is likely to be some frost and potentially freezing fog as well. so a bit ofa potentially freezing fog as well. so a bit of a mishmash of weather. that's what we see on thursday. there will be cloudy areas, there will be foggy areas through the morning and sunni areas too. and as we get into the afternoon i am hopeful we will see the cloud breaking up —— sunny. very light winds, but temperatures really struggling, 4— seven in most places. not quite as cold in the north—west.

here, we have something of an atla ntic here, we have something of an atlantic influence. thursday night into friday, with light wind, we will see fog patches and more clear skies overhead, meaning a cold night for many. notice the blue colours on the chart. these are town and city values. in the countryside it might be colder than that. if you are looking for unsettled weather, you can find out across the south—east of europe, snow at low levels here on friday. but back home, you guessed it, still high pressure in charge. very light winds, especially around the centre of the high. so any fog patches in the midlands, southern england, they could be slow to clear on friday. it is a dry day with sunshine and patchy cloud as well. temperatures really struggling, particularly in the fog for any length of time. looking ahead to saturday, by this stage most likely with the sunshine in eastern scotland, out west, more cloud. if you squint at the temperatures, well, maybe they can nudge upwards a little bit. as we

move into the second half of the weekend, high pressure is still in charge, but it might retreat southwards enough to allow this frontal system into northern areas and that will sink southwards during the day on sunday. nothing much more than a band of cloud, maybe the odd spot of rain. to the north of it, more sunshine, and temperatures between five and nine degrees, not far where they should be at this time of year. this is how mundane looks. some large areas of cloud, potentially fog patches too, should see some spells of sunshine. then again temperatures a little bit higher, particularly in western areas. now as we head into the middle part of next week it may be that high pressure does retreat southwards. more of a see a little rain and in this weather set up we would temporarily at