for iran's top military commander and other officials killed by a us drone strike. crowds chanted "death to america" as qasem soleimani's coffin travelled through iraqi cities on its way to iran. in the capital baghdad rockets landed near the us embassy. the premier of new south wales warns that australia is in what she called "unchartered territory" after the worst night of bushfires since they started two months ago. temperatures have nudged 50 degrees celsius in some parts with winds spreading the fires and making their paths even more unpredictable. the death toll from the new year flooding in indonesia hasjumped to 60 with fears growing about the possibility of more torrential rain. tens of thousands in jakarta are still unable to return to their waterlogged homes after some of the worst flooding in years hit the enormous capital region. councils in england have urged the courts to impose biggerfines

to tackle the growing problem of fly—tipping. the local government association says there were more than a million offences last year, but only 5% of fines were above £1000. richard galpin reports. this cctv footage captures the moment a lorry starts illegally dumping huge amounts of waste in the middle of the night. the premises of a small company, used by the fly—tippers to get rid of the rubbish. in recent years, fly—tipping has been getting steadily worse, blighting the environment, causing pollution and threatening public health and wildlife. it tends to be businesses trying to avoid paying the costs of disposal. of course, the rural areas tend to be the areas that are particularly badly affected, private landowners or public land. people will find quiet places to dump sometimes quite large loads. fly—tipping in england was at a comparative low ofjust

over 700,000 incidents back in financial year 2012—13. but by 2018, there had been a sharp rise to more than a million incidents, putting local councils under more pressure. that's because they're involved in clearing up and investigating the incidents, but to their frustration say too many fly—tippers are getting away with light fines when they should face heavy punishment. richard galpin, bbc news. now on bbc news, our world: fighting for lapland. lapland is europe's great last wilderness. it stretches across norway, sweden, finland and russia, way above 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. it's the start of the calving season and anna is checking up on the reindeer with eero, 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. 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. calls reindeer 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, it gets... 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 we just 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, ellen is a northern sami handicraft master. she is 84 years old. 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 that it will 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 are 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. 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 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 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 when 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. 0ne 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.

good morning. once again there will be some sunny breaks across parts of the country through today, but for many of you it's going to be a fairly cloudy day like yesterday, bringing just the odd, fleeting shower in the west. the breeze, starting to pick up, signs of something much windier next week. but with that light wind through the night and into the morning, clearest of the skies across eastern areas, this is where they could be a touch of frost around. further west, cloud too thick, the win coming thick, the wind coming in from the south—west and a fairly mild start here. we will see fleeting,

light showers in the west and more persistent rain in the hebrides, spreading into the highlands to 0rkney and shetland, introducing milder weather here compared with yesterday. and the breeze will be picking up elsewhere, but for the best of the breaks, east, wales, the midlands, best favoured. same to the north—east of mainland scotland and across the board, cloudy sunshine, temperatures around eight to 12 degrees. we finish today with heavy rain in the north of scotland. that clears away. other than a few showers in the west, most will have a dry and mild night to take us through sunday night into monday. of course, the return to work for many after the christmas break, but look what is waiting in the wings, whether it is set to return to very lively into next week. a pretty active jet stream blowing across the atlantic and each little dip in this jet stream will see subsequent areas of low pressure develop. the first one spreads northwards across iceland as we go through into monday, spreading its weather fronts southwards and eastwards into the uk and ireland and with it, strong to gale force winds. the wettest weather to begin with is across ireland on monday

morning, spreading into much of scotland during the day, into wales, western part of england during the afternoon. many parts of central and eastern england will stay dry throughout monday and there could be some spells of hazy sunshine at times and brighter weather to finish with in northern ireland. temperatures across the board roughly around nine to 11 degrees once more. but as we head into monday night, an even more potent area of low pressure will start to arrive from the north. this one, much larger as well so the extent of the stronger winds will be greater and a very windy day across the board. best of any dry weather to the south and east, a few showers here and there. winds could cause travel disruption and they will be bringing in exceptionally mild air picking at 15 celsius around the moray firth. 15 degrees around ireland and the north—east of wales. even though we have the mild air, it may not feel like it because of the wind and they

could be pretty disruptive. stay tuned to the forecast.

welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: rockets land near the us embassy in the iraqi capital — just hours after thousands across the countryjoined a funeral procession for assassinated iranian general qasem soleimani. australia suffers one of the worst bushfire days of the season as temperatures nudge 50 celsius and strong winds whip up the flames.