welcome to bbc news — i'm james reynolds. our top stories: talks between the eu and the uk about a post—brexit trade deal continue overnight in brussels but a british government source warns the offer from brussels remains unacceptable. hundreds of students are feared missing in north—western nigeria after a raid by gunmen on a secondary school. the head of the un urges countries to declare climate emergencies as part of efforts to tackle global warming. and anthonyjoshua retains his world heavyweight titles after beating kubrat pulev in london. hello and welcome. talks in brussels about

a post—brexit trade deal are continuing overnight, after a british government source said the eu's offer remained unacceptable. a decision is due sometime on sunday about whether enough progress has been made to carry on negotiaions. both sides have warned that no—deal is now the most likely outcome. our political correspondent, iain watson reports. in brussels, the briefest of glimpses of the uk's chief negotiator. he is locked in talks behind closed doors with his eu counterparts to see if a deal is possible in the next 2a hours. but indications tonight are not positive. a government source told the bbc talks are continuing overnight and, as things stand, the offer on the table from the eu remains unacceptable. the mood around the talks, like the weather, is rather gloomy. in fact, the only agreement that might be reached this weekend between downing street and the eu is to halt the negotiations and move towards no deal.

downing street says, to reach agreement, the eu must recognise that the uk is now a sovereign nation. theresa may's de facto deputy when she was prime minister is urging both sides to focus on avoiding no deal. we are coming to the last knockings now, so, obviously, it is getting very tense and quite emotional. i would advise both sides to keep talking up to and if necessary beyond the final hour because, while there is talk, there is hope. and is this what no deal with the eu would look like? the ministry of defence has confirmed that four armed vessels will be ready to patrol uk waters if there is no agreement with brussels on fishing rights. but the scottish government does not want to see the ships off its shores. this uk government gunboat diplomacy is not welcome in scottish waters. we will protect our fisheries where necessary. police scotland have primacy to do that. but we won't do that by threatening our allies, our nato allies, in fact,

they are our friends and neighbours. brexit deadlines have come and gone before but this weekend's talks in brussels could finally answer the question: deal or no deal. iain watson, bbc news. our europe correspondent gavin lee has been gauging the mood in brussels. from conversations we've had in brussels today, i think the sense of optimism leading to a deal is in short supply, as one official told us, "they should call this no deal eve," given the sense this may not lead to anything tomorrow. but that said, these are people that aren't in the room, with talks still going on this evening into the night. the chief negotiators have left a short while ago, and those technical teams are still there and we have another 2a hours to go. we know both borisjohnson and ursula von der leyen, the european commission president, have said it is very likely that there'll be no deal. but it's trying to read the rooms

of that and work out, is this just part of that last minute where we will see suddenly a deal tomorrow? on the issue today that we heard from iain‘s piece, about those royal navy patrol boats, four of them suddenly being available if there is no deal next year to patrol the channel. it's been met withafairamount of european reaction. the press, particularly the french press, suggesting this is "british sabre—rattling", that this brexit war rhetoric doesn't help. but the french government are shrugging it off, really, saying, "we'll just keep calm and carry on" — using a well—used british quote. the other thing to bear in mind — we also heard from the dutch today, a dutch official suggesting this is very much aimed, the rhetoric on the patrol boats, at a british domestic audience, that they are ignoring this and hoping still that something will happen tomorrow. hundreds of students are feared missing after gunmen raided a school in north—western nigeria. the attack happened on friday night at the government science secondary school in the kankara area of katsina state. a military—led offensive to rescue the children is reportedly still underway. our news reporter and former west africa correspondent, mark lobel,

has more details on the attack. around 11:00pm friday night, gunmen on motorbikes stormed this all boys state secondary school and according to police sources fired assault rifles in the air which undoubtedly would have been terrifying, took on security guards at the school and later police that arrived. some boys escaped and jumped over fences and ran into town and then police said they brought in armed defence vehicles to drive the attackers out, and 200 of the 800 stu d e nts were accounted for, so there could be up to 600 abducted or missing and it's very worrying. a mother who had a son and a younger brother at the school said that when she turned up on saturday there was scarcity of information and terrifying conditions for everyone involved. the military said they located the attackers in a forest on saturday and a joint operation is under way

with the military, airforce and police but so far security guards were injured but no reports of any student casualties. astonishing numbers. what has been the reaction and who is behind it? the president, who is coincidentally 200 kilometres away from the school, on holiday in his home state, has condemned and asked for an audit of who was at the school. issued a statement and said that they strongly condemn the cowardly attack on the innocent children and prayers are with the families of the students, the authorities and the injured. who is responsible? no—one has claimed responsibility but two theories and the more likely is that in this state violent bandits kidnap people for ransom and that happened earlier in the week and a businessman i spoke to said usually a poor area of the country you may have individual negotiations with some of the parents and maybe asking for as much as $10,000 per student down to $100 per student and the other theory is islamist militants but they don't normally operate in that area.

there is a history school kidnappings in that country? yes, security is a major concern and the president is under increasing pressure to sort it out and two weeks ago, 43 farmers were suddenly and brutally killed. in that area over the last ten years, 36,000 people have been killed, 2 million displaced and 5 years ago in the small town of chibok, 276 girls were taken from the dormitories and there was a worldwide campaign to release them, including the likes of michelle 0bama and malala yousafzai to get them back and about 100 are still missing, 6.5 years on and the reason they were taken by boko haram, the militant islamist group because they wanted to see the end of western education. but this incident is different from the west of the country is different from the

north—east of the country. for more on the situation in nigeria — go to the bbc news website. there's full background and analysis. just go to bbc.com/news and follow the links. world leaders have been urged to declare a climate emergency, after dire predictions of ‘catastrophic‘ global warming. the secretary general of the united nations has told a climate change virtual summit that more ambitious targets are necessary to cut emissions. china announced further measures by 2030, including a boost in capacity of wind and solar power. here's our chief environment correspondent, justin rowlatt. it is my great pleasure to be able to introduce one of the co—hosts of today's climate... there was none of the pomp and circumstance you'd expect of a meeting of dozens of world leaders. this was an entirely virtual summit. to set their own targets... mrjohnson opened in

characteristic style. we are doing this. not because we are hairshirt—wearing tree—hugging mung bean—munching eco freaks, and i have got nothing against any of those categories, the mung beans are probably delicious... he described climate change is a greater threat than covid—19, and said that going green made economic as well as ecological sense. climate change is the biggest threat to humanity right now. only those countries promising substantial commitment to cut carbon got to speak. there were more than 70 of them, including china, the eu, india and japan. join the dots. it's happening... short films highlighted the risks our planet faces. let's be very clear about this. it is going to get much worse. even the pope made

an appearance. so why is nothing happening? it was an impressive show, but environmental campaigners said there were precious few genuinely new pledges to be seen, and there were some notable absentees. australia, brazil, russia and saudi arabia were among the nations which were not invited to address the conference. some of the world's most vulnerable nations said fighting climate change was a moral imperative. i would like to believe that the major emitters are not capable of what would in essence be close to climate genocide. i would like to believe that we are visible and indispensable for them. today's conference marks the start of a crucial year for global climate action. the uk will be hosting a climate conference in glasgow in november 2021.

the hope is the entire world will raise its carbon—cutting game by then. justin rowlatt, bbc news. earlier i spoke to james shaw, new zealand's minister for climate change and i asked him why his country's emissions are still rising and is one of the worst in the world for wealthy nations. over the course of the last three decades we simply have not put in place sufficient policies to bend the curve of our missions downwards as our population and economy has grown. that is what we were spending much of the first term of our government on, mirroring some legislation that the uk put in place about ten years ago so we have a climate commission who next year will provide us with advice on how to stay within that 1.5 degrees threshold. you say that but there

is an organisation that rates your contributions as insufficient. and if every country did that, the world would be warming up to three degrees. that is right. they have been critical for a long time and that is why as soon as we established our commission at the end of last year i asked for them to provide us with advice on what our nationally determined contribution would need to be in order to be consistent with 1.5 degrees. we expect that draft advice to come through at the beginning of february and final advice in may and we will review our nationally determined contribution of the back of that once we receive that advice. that sounds like a long time frame for an emergency. we want to make sure it is grounded in science and because it has taken new zealand a bit of time to get rolling and because we have only had the commission up and running since the end of last year it unfortunately just takes that amount of time.

we will be working hard to ensure that we have completed well in advance of the meeting in glasgow next year. no country is doing this in isolation. the chinese used to say that the west had your industrial revolution and got rich and they have the right to be rich as well. china has made promises but they do not want to be told to stop developing. how do you speak to them? this is true of all countries, notjust china, it is as true of new zealand as it is of china. the point that the uk have managed to demonstrate over the course of recent years is that it is entirely possible to decouple your economic activity from emissions growth. for a long time the united kingdom was one of the fastest growing economies in the g7 and at the same time managed to reduce its emissions quite substantially. i think that that shows it can be done and that all countries can do that. looking at something practical, can new zealand follow the eu ‘s lead of cutting

emissions by a further 42— 48% in the next decade? i don't want to get ahead of our scientists on the climate change commission but what we know is that what is true of new zealand is as true of much of the world which is that if we are to have any hope at all of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels then we must cut global c02 emissions in half in the next ten years by 2030. i would anticipate that you know, i will wait to see the advice but i anticipate our numbers would mirror that in some way. how would, how will climate change affect new zealand in particular? we are already experiencing more frequent and more severe drought and our hotter seasons and we are also experiencing more frequent and severe storms throughout the year and the nature of those storms is changing as well.

we're starting see the sea level rise increasing coastal erosion in the country is waking up to the fact that we will have to adapt to the effects of climate change that are already locked in and i think that will increase the sense of urgency with which people say we need to get on with cutting our emissions in the atmosphere. this is bbc news, our headlines: talks about a post—brexit trade deal between the uk and the eu are continuing through the night in brussels. in nigeria, hundreds of students are feared missing after gunmen on motorbikes raided a secondary school in katsina state in the north—west of the country. virgin galactic attempted a milestone test flight of its rocket—powered tourist plane on saturday, marking the first crewed flight of its reusable unity vehicle. it took off from the purpose—built commercial spaceport in new mexico but the flight did not reach space as planned after the ‘onboa rd computer that monitors the rocket motor, lost connection.‘ the pilots

were however able to fly back to base and land safely. now this does of course come off the back of elon musk‘s spacex starship test flightjust days ago — which despite spectacularly exploding on landing was still a huge success. to discuss this and what the future holds for space tourism, i'm joined by science and health journalist, christopher wanjek who authored: ‘spacefarers: how humans will settle the moon, mars, and beyond.‘ it's a pleasure to see you. for virgin and elon musk, is failure and option? no, not at this point to how close are they to getting that idea of space tourists up and running? we're just about there, close, virgin galactic will bounce right back within a year, they arejust right back within a year, they are just playing it safe right now, remember, they u nfortu nately lost a test now, remember, they

unfortunately lost a test pilot backin unfortunately lost a test pilot back in 2014, they don't want to ta ke back in 2014, they don't want to take any risks and hurt anyone else, but in one year they will be back and ready for business, i am they will be back and ready for business, iam pretty they will be back and ready for business, i am pretty sure, they will be back and ready for business, iam pretty sure, and elon musk is having spectacular success elon musk is having spectacular success after elon musk is having spectacular su ccess after su ccess . elon musk is having spectacular success after success. how elon musk is having spectacular success after success. how has it happened that space exploration has moved these private companies when we all grew up with stories of national space programmes, russian and american? itjust made sense. i know people had expectations but i think they we re expectations but i think they were unrealistic expectations backin were unrealistic expectations back in the late 60s, we landed on the moon in 1969 and figured we would be on mars next, but it was really expensive, really dangerous, and it takes a lot of technological buildup to make these things possible, and commercial interest has really accelerated that, so we are at accelerated that, so we are at a point now where instead of governments giving money to military contractors to get us into space, business to business is now making money, seeing that it is profitable

and that is what is driving innovation. what is the most impressive innovation you have seen from these companies? elon musk has done an amazing job at lowering the access to space, the cost of the access to space. it was traditionally around $20,000 each kilogram, he has brought it down to $2000 a kilogram, a factor of ten, that's amazing right there, strictly by innovation and using capitalistic ideas to make more efficient launches, that's very impressive. let's look at space tourism, and began a few years back with billionaires, potentially millionaires next, and my most important question is when are you and i going to get to go 7 you and i going to get to go up? i think it is close. you and i going to get to go up? ithink it is close. is billionaires to millionaires and now the rest of us may be. virgin galactic might give demo give us a taste of space, and i

think something else very exciting coming down the line, in this decade, probably within a couple of years, these expandable habitats being built 110w expandable habitats being built now by another billionaire, and he is offering an expandable habitats floating around in space by itself that you can rent for 60 days for $60 million. i'm going to have to doa million. i'm going to have to do a few more shifts until i get the. thank you so much. authorities in austria say they‘ve disrupted a neo— nazi network, seizing large quantities of weapons intended for arming a planned right— wing terror militia in germany. aruna eyengar has this report. heavy duty armoury — austrian police working with german authorities seized more than 70 automatic and semi—automatic weapons, along with hand grenades, explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition. some had already been packed for transport to germany,

to build up a right—wing militia unit. police say this is a massive hit against far—right networks in europe. translation: the weapons you see here are only a tiny part of those seized. they were intended for the far—right wing scene in germany, in connection with the austrian neo—nazi scene, in order to possibly build an armed militia. this is still being investigated at this stage. the discovery came during an investigation into drug trafficking between germany and austria. this uncovered links to far right extremist groups who buy weapons with money from the narcotics trade. translation: this case also shows that criminals not only act in one business area but they also use war and weapons on one side and drugs on the other. it is on a big scale and there are extremists on both sides. it could be left—wing or, like in this case, right—wing extremists.

five people have been arrested in austria and two others in germany. among them a 53—year—old austrian. police say the group built up the weapons cash with the goal of attacking society, democracy and basic freedoms. aruna iyengar, bbc news. italy has now seen more coronavirus—related deaths than anywhere else in europe. 64,036 deaths have been recorded — slightly worse than the uk. the italian government has imposed tight restrictions over the christmas holiday period, affecting travel between the regions. people also won't be allowed to leave their home towns on key dates, including christmas day. germany is facing the prospect of tougher restrictions from the middle of next week, as the country's reported covid—19 death toll continues to rise. chancellor angela merkel and state leaders are due to hold talks on the situation on sunday. reports say they'll consider ordering shops, schools and day care centres to close

from wednesday. dozens of people have been arrested in paris, demonstrators were rallying against the proposed security role four law for the third weekend. the bill will disallow photographs or films of police officers, and it comes despite the government agreeing to rewrite the provision as a result of the widespread backlash against it. boxing — and britain's anthony joshua has retained his three world heavyweight titles with victory over the bulgarian kubrat pulev in a fight at wembley arena in london. joshua knocked pulev out in the ninth round. tom grey, associate editor with the boxing magazine the ring was hugely impressed with the defending champion. i have seen a few people actually quite critical of joshua's performance. well, he won almost every round. i think they gave pulev one round. floored him four times and got a knockout with a spectacular punch in the ninth round. so if you are being critical about that performance then

it goes shows you the expectations that are on joshua at the minute. there was a small crowd allowed to attend. that is one of the first times we have seen people in a sporting arena in the recent months. how might that have influenced the evening? i think for both fighters it is an advantage because they are accustomed to having crowd support, particularlyjoshua because he's at home. let's face it, there wouldn't have been many pulev fans there. butjoshua would have been happy to hear his name ringing out around the arena — it's a sense of normality, even though we're in farfrom normal times. tom, turning to the subject of great negotiations of our time — it has taken nine months for the uk and the eu to reach a deal — they still have not done it. will it take just as long... laughs.. ..for anthonyjoshua and tyson fury, the other heavyweight champion, to negotiate their own fight? well, i'm confident, as confident as i've been that the fight is going to happen in 2021. we're at a stage now where the fans aren't going to accept anything less.

both guys now are coming off of excellent knockout wins, or stoppage wins, and this is the time to get it done. it is the biggest fight in british boxing history. it's got all the marbles and the glamour division. ring magazine championship at stake, wbc, wba, ibf, wbo. you know, two opposing personalities, two different styles — it is an absolutely fantastic fight and nothing in the sport, certainly in the heavyweight division — nothing equals that. when i grew up mike tyson was a household name, even among non—boxing fans. anthonyjoshua and tyson fury, these holders of pieces of the crown, are they well—known enough outside the sport now? yes i think that both of them are transcending the sport. they are really the faces of boxing. you have canelo alvarez and i could go on and on and on but the heavyweight division brings something very special — it's very special for the sport.

it is top of the tree so certainly at the minute, the fight can't get any bigger at the minute. what happens when you marinate it for too long, is someone loses and it ends up losing the lustre that it once had. it is time now to get it on, i think. both promoters — which is key here — i men the promoters have got a rivalry, in terms of frank warren and eddie hearn, they've got as much of a rivalry almost as what as joshua and fury have. getting the fight, it has been tricky up till now but i think everyone wants it. the fans, the teams, the world wants to see it. the pioneering black country music star charlie pride has died from coronavirus complications. he was 86. he became the bestselling performerfor rca became the bestselling performer for rca records after elvis presley. he was conducted into the country music hall of fame in the year 2000. dolly parkin said she was heartbroken, calling him one of her oldest and dearest friends.

tuesday with bbc world news. ——do staying. hello there. it's quite chilly for a while overnight. temperatures could be close to freezing for a while before the weather then starts to change. we've got all this cloud coming in from the atlantic, replacing the clearer skies. and the main driver is an area of low pressure and these weather fronts. and they will bring some rain into western areas and then that rain will move northwards and eastwards through the day and the winds pick up too. as we get the wetter weather arriving in northern ireland, wales and the south—west, temperatures here will be much higher by morning, but with some clear skies ahead of that, away from the north—east of scotland, it will be quite a bit chillier. as we head through the morning though, this cloud will quickly move northwards and eastwards and it will bring with it some outbreaks of rain. some heavier rain moving northwards through the midlands into northern england, into scotland, some more rain coming

into the south—west and wales, and then we see sunshine and showers arriving into northern ireland. stronger winds actually on sunday, particularly strong around coastal areas, drawing in mild air. double—figure temperatures for most. it could make 14 in the south—west but cooler again, i think, for scotland and the north—east of england, where we will have some rain during the evening and that could be quite heavy for a while. this band of rain then sweeps eastwards through the midlands, into eastern england and then the showers follow on behind. it should be pretty mild, actually, overnight as that when the system moves away, we still got low pressure to the north—west of the uk and that will continue to fit in some blustery winds and some further showers as well. so a sort of day of sunshine and showers, i think, for many places on monday. could be some longer spells of rain coming northwards across scotland. most of the showers down the western side of england and wales, some moving through the english channel. somewhat drier weather though, i think, for the midlands and eastern areas of england. temperatures though still on the mild side. we've got those blustery south to south—west winds so 10—13 really sums it up on monday. moving quickly into tuesday, the winds will not be as strong on tuesday. there will be still

some showers around, southern and western areas in particular. they probably will become fewer during the afternoon and many places will be turning dry. those temperatures still good for the time of year, around 9—11 degrees. it is a very unsettled week ahead and wednesday could see a return of wet and windy weatherfor a while, and then things calm down a bit on thursday. we get some sunshine and just one or two showers. goodbye.

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the headlines: talks about a post—brexit trade deal between the uk and the eu are continuing through the night in brussels. a decision is due sometime on sunday about whether enough progress has been made to carry on negotiaions or abandon them, leaving the uk on course to leave the eu without a deal. nigeria's military says it has located the hideout used by gunmen who are reported to have carried out a raid on a school in the north—west of the country. hundreds of students are missing in katsina state after attackers arrived on motorbikes and started shooting, causing the students to flee. on the fifth anniversary of the paris climate agreement, the un secretary general has urged a group of 70 world leaders attending a virtual summit to declare what he called a ‘climate emergency‘ after predictions of catastrophic global warming. a number of important countries did not attend.