this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. fourteen people are found guilty in france's biggest ever terrorist trial — this is bbc world news, over islamist attacks on a jewish supermarket the headlines. and the charlie hebdo magazine. a court in france has returned despite pressure from guilty verdicts in the trial of more doctors and scientists, the uk is to allow the easing of coronavirus restrictions over than a dozen people accused of taking part in the charlie christmas — but with a warning. hebdo attacks in paris, nearly six years ago. the world health organisation has warned that europe is at a high risk we all want to send of a new wave of covid infections. the same message. germany has tightened its restrictions, but the uk a smaller christmas is going to be government says it will still allow a safer christmas, and a shorter households to mix over christmas. christmas is a safer christmas. joe biden has named pete buttigieg as his secretary of transportation. mr biden‘s former rival nigerian officials say they won't pay any ransoms for the democratic nomination for the boys kidnapped will be america's first openly gay from a boarding school in the north of the country last friday. member of a president's cabinet.

china's mission to the moon returns to earth — china says its chang—e 5 moon probe carrying a precious cargo has come back to earth — landing in the chinese region of inner mongolia. of lunar rock. it's carrying rock samples gathered from the lunar surface. they're the first to be gathered since the 19705. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world — i'm kasia madera. the biggest terrorist trial in french history has ended with the conviction of fourteen people for aiding islamist attacks in paris injanuary 2015. seventeen people were killed in the assaults on the charlie hebdo magazine and a jewish supermarket. our paris corresondent lucy williamson reports. this trial has struggled to match the scale of the events behind it. those in the public gallery today better known than those in the dock. arriving for the verdict, surviving staff from a jewish those in the public gallery today better known than those in the dock. supermarket and the magazine charlie hebdo — the two key

targets in the attacks. supermarket and the magazine charlie hebdo, the two key the harshest verdict was for ali riza polat, targets of the attacks. sentenced to 30 years for complicity in the attacks. the harshest verdict was for ali riza polat, more than a dozen others were convicted of lesser crimes. seven were cleared of any specific link to terrorism. translation: what this decision says is that without this loose group of people around the terrorists, there is no attack, and anyone who supports terrorism even a little can be punished very severely. the men who carried out the islamist violence five years ago were all killed by police. amedy coulibaly and brothers cherif and said kouachi killed 17 people in a three—day campaign targeting journalists, jews and police officers. the satirical magazine charlie hebdo was targeted after printing cartoons of the prophet muhammad. those cartoons have since become the front line in a battle over freedom of speech in france.

on the one hand, a symbol of the nation's right to blaspheme. on the other, a lightning rod for more jihadist attacks. two months ago, teacher samuel paty was beheaded in a suburb of paris after showing his class the cartoons during a discussion on freedom of speech. the government has proposed a new law to combat islamist extremism in france. but one survivor believes repeated islamist attacks are changing behaviour here. translation: al-qaeda is waging a communications war. it wants to scare people, and it's working. cartoonists no longer want to caricature the prophet. it's self—censorship. after the recent beheading of the teacher, a lot of teachers don't want to speak about secularism but freedom of expression. today's verdict said charlie hebdo marked the end of a cycle of violence.

not many here think it's over. much of the terrorism has been home—grown — and convicting people isn't the same as convincing them. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. borisjohnson has urged people to keep christmas celebrations "short" and "small" to reduce the risk of spreading covid over the festive period. despite warnings over rising infections from scientists and doctors, restrictions will still be relaxed between 23rd and 27th december — but mrjohnson said people should "think hard" before meeting friends and family. this report from laura kuenssberg. even sorting the tree hasn't seemed straightforward this year. politicians gave a promise we'd be able to gather together at christmas, a glimmer of light at a grim time but, along with gifts, new concern about the virus is arriving at number ten, so permission to see friends and family comes with stern new advice. we are keeping the laws the same, but we all want

to send the same message. a smaller christmas is going to be a safer christmas, and a shorter christmas is a safer christmas. you are still allowing a five—day period to go ahead when people from all over the country will be able to get together. wouldn't it now be safer, clearer and perhaps braver to ditch the plans to relax the rules over christmas? we don't want to, as i say, ban christmas, to cancel it, and i think that would be, frankly, inhuman. what we are saying is that that guidance, the three households and the five days, that really should be regarded as a maximum, but we are also relying on people's strong, strong sense of personal responsibility. leaders around the uk have tried to stick to the same approach. there will be some limited extra freedom over the festive period

in scotland, where soon 80% of people will be living under tougher restrictions, but there will be no huge knees—up for mother and daughter mags and louise livingstone. we come from a really big family, so normally we have a huge christmas, loads of games, lots of drinks, lots of partying, all the kids, but this year obviously it's completely different for us. the christmas relaxation of the rules will go ahead, but with a similar call for caution. i have to say, i hate with every fibre of my being standing here, trying to regulate how you spend christmas. the reality is that this christmas simply cannot be normal, but we have every reason to hope that next year's will be much more normal. the picture is bleaker in wales, though, where the law is being tweaked so that only two, not three households, can get together. in carmarthen, plans are already changing. we were having three households together, but i think it's just going to be us now. the numbers are increasing as well, aren't they, at the moment, so that is a worry.

pressure is intense on the health service and, with the spread of the disease, wales is going back to a limited lockdown straight after christmas. nobody wants to be ill at christmas, and none of us want to give this deadly disease to our closest family orfriends. in northern ireland, winter illness conspired with covid to fill hospitals to bursting last night, leaving ambulances queueing with patients inside for as long as 12 hours. and that's even before any of the rules are eased up. no surprise, politicians here are telling people to take care, too. be risk—aware at all times. remember the situations and activities that help the virus spread, so keep your distance, stop your contacts with others outside your household or christmas bubble. the political decisions about christmas were never designed to create a free—for—all,

but the worsening pattern of the disease has forced a rebrand, if not a rethink. some families in essex today were worried about the consequences. what's going to happen is it'sjust going to spiral out of control again and i do think they are wrong for doing it. i think it's too late now. i think people have made their plans and i think, if they come in now and change it, people are just going to do what they were planning to do. politicians must balance the dangers from the pandemic with the real cost to so many other aspects of our lives. this year, what's meant to be a time of celebration is a time of real risk, too. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. countries all over europe are tightening restrictions as the numbers of covid cases rise steeply. germany started a christmas lockdown on wednesday — festivities are limited to the smallest of family gatherings. schools and nonessential shops are closed. slovakia is also back into lockdown as the virus spreads uncontrollably. denmark's prime minister has closed shops over the holidays, and announced a full lockdown

from december 25th to january third. the netherlands saw daily infections rise by more than ii—thousand, a new record. a five—week lockdown began there on tuesday. and turkey reported a record daily death toll of 240. its reported nearly two million cases, the sixth highest in the world. let's get some of the day's other news brazil will start a mass coronavirus vaccination programme in february. president jair bolsonaro says the government will buy millions of doses, once regulators approve one of the new vaccines. the country reported another 70—thousand cases of covid—i9 on wednesday bring the total close to seven million. the death toll in brazil is the second highest in the world. joe biden has officially unveiled pete buttigieg as his pick for transportation secretary, describing him as a new voice with new ideas. he said he would be key to helping

push through congress an ambitious plan to overhaul the country's infrastructure. a chinese space craft has returned to earth with the first samples from the moon in more than a0 years. the chaang—an five spent three weeks in space, sampling rocks and soil. the capsule carrying the samples gathered by the un—crewed craft touched down in the northern region of inner mongolia about five hours ago. scientists hope the samples will help them understand the structure and history of the moon. a chinese flag was planted near the capsule once it was located. joining me is a science journalist dr ken kremer. 40 a0 yea rs a0 years since america apollo since the lunar missions brought their samples home, how big a deal is what's happened with this chinese capsule. a real big deal and thank

you for having me on, it hasn't been donein you for having me on, it hasn't been done in a0 years, china is only the third country in the world to accomplish this task and want to get back to the moon and so come with the chinese have demonstrated is a great deal of technology, great advance in the technological capabilities to be able to do this is only the third country. so, it is a fantastic achievement that they've landed rovers on the moon in the event orbiters in the broadest sample back just landed on event orbiters in the broadest sample backjust landed on earth about five hours ago and they've landed the capsule and so, the next thing would be to bring it back to a receiving facility and open it up in the up to get about two kilograms or so. the up to get about two kilograms or so. is that a lot? explain in what can you learn from these samples? yes, you can do a lot. from the pharmaceutical industry. you can do a tremendous amount of a very small amount of material and so, they do

not need tonnes of material to do a lot of science. it's very interesting because there from a different spot where the soviet union went and also they believe is a younger spot, around a billion yea rs old instead a younger spot, around a billion years old instead of three to a billion years old. we will learn a lot about the evolution of the solar system lot about the evolution of the solar syste m fro m lot about the evolution of the solar system from these samples. and we need to get different samples from different time periods to fill in that gap of our knowledge of the earth moon system and how the solar system formed. you've been at the space centre setting up for lunch tomorrow and what was the move there like that china was the country to achieve something so incredible like this and do you think there's going to be cooperation between the nations when it comes to learning what we can from the samples?” nations when it comes to learning what we can from the samples? i can tell there's a lot of people that are very interested in going back to

the moon. as a teenager when he first lent to the moon and we should never have stopped going back to the moon and now the united states after project artemis under the current administration with administrators that are pushing hard for that we saw the second stage of the moon rocket for the artemis one mission which will be an unmanned mission going to the moon, circling around the moon towards the end of next year. samples came back from the moon today in the us rocket that's going to take people back to the moon, we saw a portion of that arrive at the kennedy space centre and yes, that is tremendous excitement and alpine new administration will continue on that path and i can say that europe has a big involvement in that european space agency in their building part of the orion capsule to sin people and european astronauts are going to be part of that and it is very international we have the international space station and a

japanese astronaut on that and on the next crew mission, it's good to be european astronauts from france, i believe. a lot of international cooperation and that is what we need to cut the cost. in your enthusiasm is contagious. bring them to speak with you. the website, i think it is worthy of a plug, thank you very much. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: nigerian officials say they won't pay any ransoms for the boys kidnapped from a boarding school in the north of the country last friday. music. chanting. saddam hussein is finished because he killed our people, our women, our children. the signatures took only a few minutes, but they brought a formal end to 3.5 years of conflict, conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives.

before an audience of world leaders, the presidents of bosnia, serbia and croatia put their names to the peace agreement. the romanian border was sealed and silent today. romania has cut itself off from the outside world in order to prevent the details of the presumed massacre in timisoara from leaking out. from sex at the white house to a trial for his political life, the lewinsky affair tonight guaranteed bill clinton his place in history as only the second president ever to be impeached. this is bbc news, the latest headlines. a court in france has convicted the accomplices of the islamist militants who carried out the charlie hebdo attacks in paris. their sentences range from a

to 30 years in prison. britain's prime minister boris johnson has urged people to keep their christmas celebrations ‘short and small‘ to avoid spreading covid. but he says the relaxtion in rules on meeting up for the festive season will still go ahead. this week will mark two decades since the un declared an international migrants day. in the last decade alone, the number of migrants globally rose by 51 million — to an estimated 272 million in 2019. and this year — migrants across the world have been hit hard byjob losses, border closures and restricted movement due to the coronavirus pandemic, which threatens to increase existing wealth disparities. let's speak to itayi viriri, from the international organization for migration — who joins us from bangkok. has been an incredibly difficult

yearfor has been an incredibly difficult year for so has been an incredibly difficult yearfor so many has been an incredibly difficult year for so many people has been an incredibly difficult yearfor so many people but has been an incredibly difficult year for so many people but migrants absolutely at the forefront. tell us about some the issues that they have had to deal with. thank you very much. yes, certainly as we know, they've been afflicted by the covid—19 pandemic which has devastated the world across borders and migrants of this pandemic, obviously, countries of locked down to try and stem the spread of this virus and migrants who are obviously intermittent sees, they look after themselves and their families and of loss that income and so, up to 3 million migrants that have been stranded after the borders were closed and what i expected to fall by 7% from the height of 5a0

billion, so these are the significant effects from covid—19 pandemic and consider also that a lot of migrants are at the forefront of doing with pandemic, whether through the health services the service sector and consider the really horrible statistics that for example in the us, a third of the nurses who have died from coronavirus are filipinos. although filipinos filipino sonic a% of the population. so, you can see the range of devastation that this pandemic is right on migrants and obviously now the concern is whether 01’ obviously now the concern is whether or not migrants will also be included, it is an issue that we are looking at for this international migrants. that the world is rolling out this massive vaccination campaign that migrants might be left behind. that is a devastating statistic that you mentioned regarding the filipino community when it comes to the roots we think

about in terms of migrants, it's about in terms of migrants, it's about the numbers of people coming from north africa to europe, is that the biggest route or are there others that need to be focused on as well. that's important question because there's been border closures around the world but that doesn't stop migration. we need does understand is that the level of desperation that people, the forces people to migrate it is for their safety or for people to migrate it is for their safety orfor economic people to migrate it is for their safety or for economic reasons, still remains, it becomes even more stronger during a time like this and looking get the migration to europe for example from north africa, for the canary for example from north africa, for the ca nary islands, for example from north africa, for the canary islands, as gone up and missing migrants which is based on berlin is to issue a report on migrants day showing that sadly, 3000 people have actually died so

far this year trying to migrate and what we have seen is while the numbers are thankfully lower than previous years, the number of migrants dying during migration have actually risen in places like latin america, south america and as i mentioned, the road from north africa to spain. so, the reality is that if during a pandemic like this with all the border closures, people still desperate enough because of the circumstances to travel to where they think the opportunities for safety is. @ of international migrant statements on the 18th, thank you. ransoms will not be paid for the schoolboys kidnapped from their boarding school in northern nigeria. that's the message from the regional governor who's spoken to the bbc. he said the authorities are in contact with the group holding the children —— he described the group as a gang of well—known local criminals —— with links to the islamist militant group boko haram.

more states in northern nigeria have ordered all schools to close following last week's kidnapping of hundreds of pupils in katsina state. 0ur nigeria correspondent mayeni jones sent this report. bring back our boys — that's what these young activists plan to ask the government during their march on thursday. they are worried any delay could prove disastrous. these children could be exposed to dangers of training on the use of arms, so they can be used for further attacks in other places, and also they can be exposed to drugs. the government has come under fierce criticism for its handling of attacks. boko haram's claim of responsibility for friday's mass kidnapping shows their influence could be spreading. boko haram doesn't usually operate in this part of nigeria, and the governor of katsina state tried to downplay its involvement. even though the methods being used by boko haram have been

employed in this abduction, we cannot precisely say we are dealing with boko haram yet. there have been repeated comparisons between friday's kidnapping and a 201a abduction of the chibok girls. over half of them were freed. it's unclear how the government secured their release. some believe they paid a ransom. the authorities deny they did then, and won't entertain the thought now. i don't think the issue of ransom for money is on the table. it should not be on the table. it should not. we don't pay kidnappers money, because it's an encouragement. we don't pay it. back at the secondary school where her child was abducted, this parent is sceptical about boko haram's claims. translation: i don't believe the claim by the leader of boko haram that he ordered

the kidnapping of our children. we were told that they used to kill our children, and i stick to that. were told that thieves took away our children. with schools here now closed until security improves, getting an education in north—west nigeria has become precarious. mayenijones, bbc news, katsina. british foreign secretary dominic raab, who's visiting india, has acknowledged that a post brexit free—trade deal with the country could take many years. but, he said, it might come much sooner and the mutual benefits would be "enormous". mr raab met indian prime minister narendra modi, and also announced a new vaccine partnership with the country. 0ur south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan asked mr raab about brexit. 0n the great things that i've been able to talk through through the prime minister today in the foreign ministry yesterday was if you like the road map, liberalising and deepening our trade in both england

and british businesses, of course, free trade negotiations are always a haggle we expect both sides for that to ta ke haggle we expect both sides for that to take place. in looking at the joint mutual benefits between the 20 and 30 year period, they norm is. free—trade agreement happen overnight and could take as long as long as a decade. a free-trade agreement is important and milestones to reaching that sometimes it can take as long as you suggested but with political will and on the uk site in the indian side, there is a political bill with the right political leadership that i know was there, we can afford much quicker than that. let's move forward to democratic values. international human rights are gravely concerns that indian government policies have put minority groups, especially muslims under increasing pressure. we're talking about brutal crackdowns against government critics. arbitrary detentions, internet

shutdowns, increased media censorship and a decline and press freedom. how much does that concern you? i think the big picture context as indy is the biggest democracy in the world and it a vibrant culture debate and we have seen that recently. and in many ways, it is an example to the world. of course, there are always cases of human rights issues and you know about them, they got mr constituents and i had a candid conversation with the officials and i've spoken to them about this week but equally, we realise that the democratic depth and breadth of india is premature and breadth of india is premature and reverent in this region. and it has that context. speaking tour corresponded. lots more on our website and will be back in the next few moments. thank you for watching.

goodbye. hello there. on wednesday, we saw a pretty deep area of low pressure sweep up from the south to bring rain and gales, particularly to western areas. today, though, it's looking a bit quieter. we're in between weather systems, so we should see a good deal of sunshine around. it'll stay quite breezy too, though, not quite as windy as it has been. so that's wednesday's low pushing away to the north of the uk. this feature will come in during thursday night. and in between, we've got a good slice of drier weather. there'll be a few showers around this morning, mind you, across southern and western areas, plenty of sunshine across eastern scotland, central and eastern england, areas here staying dry all day. 0ut west, we'll see further showers and the clouds will tend to build up here through the afternoon, and the outbreaks of rain will start to arrive across northern ireland,

along with strengthening winds. it'll be quite fresh across northern and eastern areas, 9—10 celsius around average, but it will be turning quite milder further west as this band of rain and stronger winds starts to spread across the country as we head through thursday night. followed by further areas of cloud and showers to the south and west, and it'll be turning very mild across the south, lows overnight 12—13 celsius. and after a chilly start in the north, it'll be turning milder there too. now this is the pressure chart for friday — and you can see we're back to very unsettled weather, this active weather front with lots of isobars on the chart, meaning wet and windy weather moving our way. so we'll start off a little brightness across the north east england, northeast scotland, but generally a rather cloudy, misty, murky day with some patchy drizzle across the east, heavy rain across western areas, chances of flooding for southwest england and south wales, areas which have seen lots of rain already. and it'll be a windy day, those gusts showing 30—a0 mph for many, particularly across southern

and western coasts. with our winds coming in from the south, it's going to be a very mild day for the time of year, highs of 13—15 celsius, for example, in parts of northeast wales. low pressure sticks around as we head on into the weekend. it'll send bands of showers into the northern and western areas. but there will be some sunshine around too. you'll notice the mild air starts to get replaced with those bluer tinges, so it'll be cooling down through the weekend. so a sunshine and showers weekend, most showers across western areas. and then, it'll be cooling down, and that'll be 00:28:32,499 --> 2147483051:51:00,965 particularly noticeable 2147483051:51:00,965 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 as we head through sunday.