in a televised address, mr trump said the us had killed the number one terrorist in the world. he said soleimani had been plotting imminent attacks. the iranian government said it would retaliate against what it called an act of international terrorism by the united states at a time and place of its choosing. many world leaders have said the killing of general soleimani could lead to serious consequences for regional and global security. the new south wales fire commissioner has warned saturday will be a long and difficult day for everybody as bushfires continue to burn out of control. there's been a similar warning from the fire chief in victoria, as australia faces possibly its worst day yet in a summer of wildfires. two more labour mps have announced they are joining the contest to become the next leader of their party.

after much speculation, jess phillips has confirmed she will run. on a visit to grimsby, the mp for birmingham yardley, said the party needed a leader who could take on borisjohson, and who was willing to try something different. and wigan mp lisa nandy has also joined the race and said the job should go to someone from what she called the neglected areas of labour's heartlands who could win back the trust of the party's traditional voters. political correspondent nick eardley has more. the wigan mp was another one of those people who had said over the christmas period that she was considering whether or not to stand and tonight she is confirmed, in a letter to her local paper, the wigan post, that she is indeed throwing her hat in the ring to be the next labour leader. her argument is that labour needs to focus on winning back its heartlands, areas that had voted labour for decades and stopped doing so back in december. let me just read you one

paragraph on what she says. she says, "i'm standing because i know too many people in places like we can no longer feel they have a voice in our national story." basically, she is saying that there are many parts of the country they feel disaffected with westminster politics and the best solution to that is to get someone like her, who has represented one of those areas, in to sort out that issue. i must say, jess phillips, who announced she was standing a couple of hours ago, has quite a similar argument stop she says that people have lost trust in the labour party, that's why it did so catastrophically at the election back in december, and she believes because she has that reputation for being a straight talking politician that she can fix that. she can persuade people of labour's merits and win back some of those voters who have deserted the party, although she does admit that that won't be easy. it means we have four candidates now, rachel, lisa nandy, jess phillips, we also have already had emily thornberry and clive lewis.

and now that westminster is starting to creep back into action after the christmas break i think we will see some more, so keir starmer and rebecca long—bailey likely to lodge in the next few days. now on bbc news, finland's fears for the future. an our world special from lapland, where temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on the planet. lapland is europe's great last wilderness. it stretches across norway, sweden, finland and russia, north of the arctic circle. the far north of finland is the home of the sami, europe's only indigenous people, who still live off the land. but the life of the sami people is changing. climate change is affecting the arctic more than any other part

of the earth. you can't rely on that you know how nature acts or how animals act because everything seems to be changing. the melting ice is opening up opportunities for shipping routes and there is talk of a new railway. it's the worst nightmare we are facing at the moment. which could threaten the sami people's way of life. how can you put a price target for a culture? we have come to lapland to talk to sami women about the challenges they face. nature gives if we give back. we can't just take. anna comes from a family of sami reindeer herders

who still make a living off the land. anna comes from a family of sami reindeer herders who still make a living off the land. it's the start of the calving season and anna is checking up on the reindeer with a finnish relative. the reindeer are about to give birth. these are extra feed, pellets needed for the mother reindeer so that they are in good condition. eero is the herder of this fence here.

reindeer so that they are in good condition. eero is the herder of this fence here. he's the husband of my niece. female reindeer have antlers during the winter and during the spring so that they can chase away the male ones from good food places, places where the reindeer moss is growing. these reindeer are female and they are about to give birth — some in a couple of days, some in a couple of weeks. they are so beautiful. reindeer herds roam free in lapland. but when it's calving time, anna's family fences them in to make sure the reindeer get

enough food before the calves are born. over the centuries, sami people have made a living from reindeer herding. it's still a key part of their culture. but now, fewer than 10% of them are involved in it. reindeer herding is getting much harder. normally, there would be a lot more snow on the ground in the forest at this time of the year. but the climate is changing and it's threatening the family's herd. usually, winter came in the end of october and now it can be in december. during the winter,

there can be really warm periods that get the snow to melt. winter should be approximately nine months of the year and now it's maybe six months. temperatures in the winter fluctuate a lot more than they did in the past, which is making it more difficult for reindeer to find food. usually, reindeer can dig through any amount of snow. so whether it's 2m, it can smell the reindeer moss and find itand dig it. but when the snow melts, then this food, the basic best food of reindeer, this reindeer moss, freezes, the reindeer can't dig it. they can't even smell it through the ice. that's starvation then. and starvation means that the reindeer herder has to take extra food. and, of course, then it affects the income of reindeer herder.

the number of reindeer herders is decreasing in finland. over the last 20 years, it's declined by almost half. now, there are fewer than 5,000. many find it difficult to cope with the huge amount of unpredictability in reindeer herding posed by the changing climate. you can't rely on what you used to know about winter, how winters are. you can't rely on that you know how nature acts or how animals are, because everything seems to be changing. people that live from the nature, sami people over here, have adapted and adapted over decades, almost over centuries, i'd say. life here has always changed.

but then we are reaching the point where these changes are not such things that you can add up to. people don't feel safe anymore and that starts to affect their mental health. 100km from anna's reindeer, in the far north—eastern corner of finland, close to the russian border, heini lives in a very remote house. the nearest supermarket is 90km away. most sami people in northern lapland live in places like this and they are very much connected to their natural environment. we built this house ourselves and i think log house itself is eco—friendly. we heat the house with wood,

but we do have running water and electricity, like in any other house. we are no eco—warriors, we are just ordinary people who wants to do our best. in early spring, heini and herfamily drink birchjuice. she usually starts tapping the trees in may. but this year, for the first time, the juice was ready in april. we get winter very late. it can be december that we get permanent snow. for instance, this february, spring comes very early so we have shorter winters. here are photos of my family.

here are my grandmothers. and here is my great—grandfather. he is ice fishing here. he's doing traditional ice fishing. heini is an artisan. she makes a living by teaching traditional sami handicrafts. what i'm making here is a saamcic. it's a married women's hat. when women get married, she will have this crown for herself. it is as a crown. the saamcic is the most difficult handicraft that i ever tried, and this is truly, truly very difficult handicraft.

traditionally, every woman did handicrafts, but not this one, because this was special. only some handicraft masters were doing this. heini uses reindeer skin to make shoes. but more rain in the summer has affected her ability to produce them. here are my latest. ijust made this ready, these we were waiting for years in our shed for me to make these ready. this, i made these for myself. they're a little more fancy. the reindeerfur shoes. and these are already too small for my children. here is how we do it. we just... we skin the reindeer legs. and then wejust put them to dry like this. and this is how it should be. but here, we can see moulded ones. it tells us that the summers

are more wet than those are used to be. five hours‘ drive to the west, close to the norwegian and swedish borders, alen is a northern sami handicraft master. she is 84 years old and she's visiting her niece to make traditional sami clothes with her.

climate change is damaging traditional sami livelihoods. but that's not the only threat. as temperatures rise and the sea ice melts, there's now the opportunity for a shipping route to open through the arctic. and plans are being developed for a railway to be built across lapland, threatening to cut through reindeer herding territory.

finland's ministry of transport favours the route from rovaniemi, the capital of finnish lapland, along the shore of lake inari, and terminating in kirkenes in norway. supporters say the railway will boost lapland's economy but the finnish government says no decision has been made on the construction of the railway or its routeing. but the sami parliament is fiercely opposed to the plans. an arctic railway through rovaniemi to kirkenes, through our very heartlands of three different sami language groups in finland would be such infrastructure which will be the end to the sami culture. we live from the nature and it will cut the reindeer grazing

areas into two. there will be more forest logging, for example. it will be transporting oil and gas products from norway and russia. it will bring the mining industry to the sami homeland area in finland. it's the worst nightmare we are facing at the moment, a concrete one. of course, climate change is another one. but it's not as concrete as the arctic railway. heini, the handicrafter, who lives close to the russian border, has found out that a proposal for the arctic railway has been included in the development plan for finnish lapland. those plans i have seen. so it seems like it would go straight through our house. and my opinion is it

would be a genocide. if the plans for the railway are approved, it's likely that heini would be forced to move. it's a painful reminder of the past. heini is a skolt sami. many of her people were forced leave their ancestral homes in russia and resettle in finland in 1944. all these kind of mining plans are our big nightmare here. yeah, we're very afraid of those. that is why skolt samis had to move after the second world war. nazis did want to have this nickel mining in petsamo. we are only few. in finland, skolt samis are around 600. and everyone has kind of tried to work to maintain the culture, keep the language alive.

and if we have to fight against this kind of international greed, it takes too much of our time and energy away. everything is only measured by money. but how can you put a price tag for our culture? back in inari, anna is getting ready to go ice fishing. we are trying to put the last hooks in. anna does fishing all year round. and she takes great pride in supplying her family and friends with fresh fish.

now the bait is in the hook. so the weight takes the bait down there in a good depth and this is how it stays. the stick stays there because this is holding or however big pike there will be. and then, well, tomorrow morning i will come and check if there is movement in there. 20 years ago, the lake would freeze over by the end of october. last year, anna had to wait until the middle of december before she could to go on the ice. and the ice starts melting earlier than it used to in the spring, making it increasingly

dangerous to fish. the new conditions, of course, the people need to learn again, to get to know them. so some people drown when learning. and that's, of course, a tragedy every time it happens. sami people are the people of winter. if the winter disappears, it would be really strange, really hard to continue on the cycle of the year that doesn't have the real cycle. if the fishermen will adapt, then maybe the fish won't adapt to warming waters. so my biggest fear is that fish will disappear. one fall, one winter,

the nets will start being empty. anna believes that reindeer herding and fishing wouldn't survive if the arctic railway is built and new mines open up in the area. what is the reason for these building plans? it is the greed of people. big companies want to give more profits to their shareholders. we need to be and we have to be active in this fight to save our world, to save our reindeers, to save our clean drinking water and where the fish can live and this... itisa... it's a trade of, like, both ways.

nature gives if we give back. we can't just take. will climate change destroy the forests and the lakes in europe's last great wilderness? willa new industrial railway wipe out sami culture or will it bring jobs and an economic boom to northern lapland ? we don't know. for now, the questions remain unanswered.

hello there. despite some strong winds in the far north of scotland, friday was a better day in terms of sunshine across the country. and you can see this from this weather watcher picture in betchworth, surrey — hardly a cloud in the sky. now, those clear skies by day, they have stayed with us through the night so that means a chilly start to our saturday morning, particularly in the south—east — something we have not had for a time — and there could even be light, patchy frost. little bit milder further north and west — that's because there has been more of a breeze and more cloud around. and that is because these weather fronts are trying to push in across the top of the high. still running the risk of a few scattered showers. but high pressure really is the dominant feature for most of us for the start of the weekend, and that means the best of the sunshine will be in sheltered

eastern areas as well. thicker cloud out to the west — thick enough for the odd spot or two of drizzle — and more persistent rain likely up into the far north—west. here, we keep more of a breeze. and in terms of the feel of the weather, maybe 8—10 degrees. that's down a touch on where we have been, but still not too bad for this time of year. now, as we move out to saturday into sunday, the high pressure is going to drift its way a little bit further east. these weather fronts continue to creep in across the top of the high, the isobars squeezed together, the winds strengthen. but at least the winds are coming from a milder south—westerly. that's going to continue to feed in a lot of cloud across west—faci ng coasts. a rather murky afternoon here, and maybe the cloud again thick enough for some drizzle with more persistent rain pushing into the far north—west and the winds are likely to strengthen further. but in terms of the feel of things, 9—12 degrees. the best of the sunshine again looks likely to be across eastern and south east england. but as we move into the new working week when things start to get back to business as usual, we have to look to the jet stream

to see what is going to happen with the forecast. and it looks as though the jet will strengthen. a strong, fast—moving jet means low pressure is being driven across the uk. so not one, as we start off at the beginning of the week, but another one waiting out in the wings. plenty of isobars on the charts as well, so this means that things are going to turn pretty unsettled. so if you have got plans outside, please bear in mind gales, maybe severe gales, in the north for a time on tuesday, and some of that rain could be quite heavy at times as well.

this is bbc world news. i'm simon pusey. our top stories: president trump defends the killing of iran's top military commander in an airstrike. the us says general qasem soleimani was actively plotting an attack and their decision saved hundreds of american lives. we took action last night to stop a war, we did not take action to start a war. as iran vows revenge, tens of thousands of iranians take to the streets in protest. in other news: safe at last. relief as the australian navy rescues 1,000 people who'd been trapped on the coast by bush fires.