row this is bbc news. i'm david eades. our top stories: back on the practice courts: novak djokovic prepares for the australian tennis open but the country's immigration minister could still revoke his visa. a man in the us becomes the first person to have a heart transplant from a pig, raising hopes of a solution to the shortage of organ donors. borisjohnson refuses to comment on new claims he had a drinks party with dozens of staff during lockdown. and the bad luck, the good luck, the bad luck and the good luck: the story of survival for one pilot in los angeles.

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. novak djokovic is back in training, his visa is still valid and the prospect of a tenth australian open singles title lives on. but if it sounds like game, set and match to the serb, his court victory still doesn't guarantee he can stay and compete. the country's immigration minister, alex hawke, could use personal powers at his disposal to revoke that visa despite thejudge suggesting mr djokovic did everything he could have done to comply with the rules for entry to australia. shaimaa khalil reports from melbourne. within hours of today'sjudgement, novak djokovic posted this picture on twitter, saying he was pleased and grateful that thejudge had overturned the visa cancellation. and despite all that has happened, he wants to stay and try to compete at the australian open.

cheering and this is the moment his supporters found out about his victory. he won, djokovic won! what we saw today here in the court, that the australian legal system is functioning, it is evidence—based, it is aboutjustice. yeah, i'm extremely happy, as is anyone, everyone - in the serbian community here. djokovic�*s family welcomed the news, but remained cautious about what would happen with his visa. i'm very worried, but i don't want to think like that. i just hope that it will stay like this, that he will be free and he will play. it's been a battle for all of us, it's notjust about novak, obviously. we've been defending him every possible way we could, because we know he's a truthful and rightful guy. while many in the tennis community believe djokovic was unfairly treated, some argue that meeting

any country's vaccination rules will pose problems for him beyond australia. he would have to face several times those problems, so i think bottom line, he will have to get the vaccine. but for this time, for australia, he got the visa, and they flew in with all the best intention and having done all the works he should have done beforehand. thejubilant mood turned into chaos and confusion when it became unclear whether djokovic would be allowed to stay despite the court's decision in his favour. at one point, djokovic�*s fans thought they'd caught a glimpse of him, but they clashed with the police and were dispersed with tear gas. it's only a few days before the tournament djokovic has dominated is due to start, but his win in court doesn't seem to have guaranteed him a chance to defend his title. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, melbourne.

the president of the european parliament has died at the age of 65. he died following complications with his immune system. he had been seriously ill for the last couple of weeks. that followed a bout of pneumonia in september last year. it has developed significantly, he was an mep for 12 years, with the centre—left democratic party, and became president of the european parliament in 2019. the news just european parliament in 2019. the newsjust coming out european parliament in 2019. the news just coming out of italy, he has died, at the age of 65, from complications with his immune system. a moment of medical history to report now.

doctors in the united states have carried out the first successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human patient. be warned — the images you are about to see now of the operation are very graphic. the animal was genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being rejected. surgeons at the maryland medical center said the 57—year—old patient was doing well the experimental operation was considered the last hope of saving his life. i've been speaking to dr robert montgomery who performed the first successful transplantation using a genetically engineered pig kidney into a human, who was on life support at the time. he is also a heart transplant recipient with a genetic heart disorder. oh, it's a really big deal. it's a huge leap forward. and just explain why. well, it's really the first example of a genetically modified pig organ that's been transplanted into a living human. there's a lot of talk

and effort into avoiding the rejection of the organ, and i know that's something that in your work, you've had to focus on as well. the early signs are good, but how much confidence can be gleaned from the first two or three days that this really is going to hold? well, really, what the first two or three days does is it tells you whether the organ�*s functioning, and so far, this heart appears to be functioning pretty well, although the recipient is still receiving some additional support through a pump called ecmo, which is being gradually weaned off so that the pig heart can fully take over. right, so we do have to be realistic then about the prospects of this working? yes, i mean, what this tells us is there was no immediate rejection, which has always been the concern

with xenotra nspla ntation. in our work in september of last year, demonstrated that there was good news on that front, but there's a second wave of potential rejection that can occur at about two weeks after the transplant. so we'll be waiting to see what happens, you know, in the longer term. right, and i think that was a phase that you didn't reach with your own particular case, because it was a patient i understand who was on life support and deceased after a few days? that's correct, yes... right, ok. sorry to interrupt you there. tell me then — you are also the recipient of a heart transplant yourself, you have a genetic heart disorder. in terms of what this might mean and how many people are going to benefit from it, you must be feeling this very personally? i am, i am indeed. i mean, it's new hope for my family and other individuals who suffer from heart disease, that there will be a greater supply of organs

because each year about 6,000 people in the us die waiting for a transplant. so this could end that shortage. but are you saying that we could get to the point where you might say to a patient, "yes, we've got a transplant for you," and it won't matter if it's a pig heart or a human heart? well, that's a long way off, but, yes, i believe that that will be the case, but we're talking about maybe ten years from now before that sort of scenario would be realistic. and what is it about pigs — i mean, what is it that makes them so compatible, i suppose, with humans? yeah, well, there are many things. first of all, the organs are about the same size as human organs, and there's also the fact that they're plentiful, they're used as a food source, they're used

for valves and pharmaceuticals, so there's good acceptance by the public for the use of pig organs. that's not the case with primate organs, which are actually closer to human. i do have to ask you, you'll know, there are plenty of people who would have a moral, ethical perhaps issue with this sort of operation. what do you say to them? i mean, i think if you're in the shoes of the person who's going to die waiting for an organ, you would understand that this is a really important thing. you were certainly in that situation, and thank you very much indeed for sharing your expertise with us, doctor robert montgomery. for most people, "bring your own booze" is a pretty clear message. and that is what was on the invitation sent out to around a hundred people to a gathering at downing street in may 2020 when a covid lockdown was still in place. the invitation was issued by a senior member of boris johnson's staff and it's thought around 30 attended,

including the prime minister and his wife. the latest revelation follows a barrage of criticism mrjohnson has faced over alleged parties in government offices during covid lockdowns. our political editor laura kuenssberg has the latest. the principle private secretary's job is in the shadows, organising the lives of the public and powerful. martin reynolds�* role was not, you may think, to organise a party during a lockdown. an invite leaked to itv news from behind the black door sent to around 100 of number ten's staff. the prime minister today declining to get into the details of any such socialising. all of that, as you know, is the subject of a proper investigation by sue grey. so have you already been interviewed by sue grey, and if not, do you object to her questioning you again about this? all that is subject for an investigation by sue grey. remember back then, in the horror of spring 2020, the rules were

strict and clear — you could spend time outdoors with people you lived with or with only one other person. and yet, in the building where the rules were being made, a plan was formed for a gathering in downing street's garden on may 20,2020. i'm told around 30 people attended, including, according to two eyewitnesses, the prime minister and his wife, with a long table set out in the garden for drinks and snacks. and there was surprise and concern among some staff at the plan. eyebrows more than raised at the e—mail invite sent out by martin reynolds in black and white. messages sent between staff and shown tonight to the bbc that some were well aware of the problem. one wrote at the time: another said: all a number ten spokesperson would say tonight was:

for weeks, the prime minister's had to defend himself from a deluge of goings—on in downing street. he said again and again nothing went wrong. i have been repeatedly assured, since these allegations emerged, that there was no party and that...and that no covid rules were broken, and that is what i have been repeatedly assured. but for labour's deputy, this latest set of claims is a step too far. i think he should go. i mean, there is no excuses, and it will come as no surprise that i don't think boris johnson is up for thejob, but more importantly, i think he's lost the confidence of the british public now with his lies, his deceit and his breaking of his own rules. labour shouldn't hold its breath for that, but borisjohnson just can't shake off claims about his own behaviour during lockdown and the conduct of those right by his side. laura kuenssberg,

bbc news, westminster. the interior ministry of kazakhstan says 9,900 people have been detained during the protests in the country last week. the president had described those protests as an attempted coup. troops from russia are currently in the country to restore order, and today, president putin said kazakhstan had been targeted by international terrorism. our correspondent, steve rosenberg, is in kazakhstan�*s largest city, almaty, and sent this report. driving into almaty, you see immediately this is a city on guard. we passed through several army checkpoints. they've been set up to prevent more attacks. in the city centre, reminders of the violence the authorities now say was an attempted coup. almaty last week. what had started as peaceful

protests over fuel prices... ..in another part of kazakhstan were suddenly looking like war. translation: these bandits were controlled by terrorists. j for the level of organisation here, it must have been a criminal group that planned it in advance. dozens of people were killed. thousands have since been detained. there's still a lot of confusion about who was behind this violence. authorities blame terrorists and bandits. some here talk about a power struggle in the ruling elite. but one thing is clear — that to stay in power, the president of kazakhstan had to call on a foreign power for help, and that's russia. enter the russian military. on paper, russian troops here are peacekeepers, deployed to kazakhstan as part of a collective security

alliance of former soviet states, the csto. but most of the soldiers are russian, the kremlin keen to demonstrate its regional power. addressing csto colleagues, president putin made events fit his wider narrative. translation: we understand the events in kazakhstan - won't be the last attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of our countries. the measures taken by the csto show we will not allow destabilisation at home and for so—called colour revolutions to take place. after the violence in almaty, there are mixed feelings here about the arrival of russian troops. "i welcome the russians coming," this man says. "they'll put a stop to it." "we should be able to cope ourselves," she says. "then again, without outside help, there could be civil war."

what happened in kazakhstan has left this country and its people in shock and in fear at what comes next. steve rosenberg, bbc news, almaty. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: a story of extraordinary luck, bad and good. the us pilot who survived more than just a plane crash. day one of operation desert storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attacks since the second world war. tobacco is america's oldest industry, and it's one of its biggest. but the industry is nervous of this report. this may tend to make people want to stop smoking cigarettes. there is not a street that is unaffected. l huge parts of kobe - were simply demolished as buildings— crashed into one another.

this woman said - she'd been given no help and no advice - by the authorities. she stood outside - the ruins of her business. tens of thousands of black children in south africa have taken advantage of laws, passed by the country's new multiracial government, and enrolled at formerly white schools. tonight sees the 9,610th performance of her long—running play, the mousetrap. when they heard of her death today, the management considered whether to cancel tonight's performance, but agatha christie would have been the last person to want such a thing. this is bbc world news. our main story: an anxious wait for novak djokovic as australia's immigration minister considers revoking his visa ahead of the australian open. let's stay with that story now. the premier of victoria, danielandrews, hasjust said

the case was now in the federal government's hands. the issue of who gets into the country and their vaccination status is not a matter for state governments. i don't issue visas, the commonwealth government does that. this is a very active process, as you know there was a court ruling last evening, whether that is appealed, it is a matter for the commonwealth government, whether the immigration minister uses his quite extraordinary powers, that is a matter for him. i don't want to offer any further comment than that because you couldn't get a more active process. but of course i stand by my comments and our record reflects that we have not sought to, in fact quite the opposite, we have not sought to convince the commonwealth government to allow anyone in, quite the opposite. victoria hand it very much to the federal government. ben rothenberg hosts the tennis podcast, no challenges remaining. i asked him what new information he had unearthed

on djokovic's route of getting to australia. yeah, djokovic is basically — amassing a timeline of what djokovic has been up to for the last month raises a bunch more questions as to how he got here and whether he was doing things the right way. most recently found one of the forms released by the courts yesterday, which was this australian travel declaration, in which djokovic was warned to be honest under penalty of — you know, penalties for misstating things on that form. and he said he had not travelled to any other countries in the previous 1a days, he checked the "no" box for that question, which was not correct, because djokovic had travelled between serbia and spain in that window. he also is raising more questions with his story about having a positive test on 16 december, which is — a couple of days before he was at other events in public, including one large event with a bunch of kids, all not wearing masks, and that would have been the day after djokovic received a positive pcr test on his timeline. so there's certainly a lot more

questions for him to answer once he finally faces the media here in melbourne. this is anything but straightforward for something that should be straightforward. so where does that leave us, do you think, and what sort of chance is there that djokovic's dream of being there for the open might still be thwarted? in tennis terms, the ball is very much in the court of alex hawke, who is the minister for immigration here in the australian federal government, and he has the authority to review and revoke djokovic's visa, pretty much unilaterally, in a non—reviewable process. the thing with djokovic's visa getting cancelled in the first place and then that cancellation getting overturned by the courts was that he won his appeal solely on procedural grounds, not on the grounds or the merits that he had the right paperwork to get into australia. his paperwork would still not be sufficient according to federal government guidelines. so if they do choose to review it again anew, you would assume djokovic would lose that appeal. he really only won the first

appeal on procedural grounds, he wasn't given enough chance to contact support and assistance in the wee hours of the morning, and that would certainly be something they could avoid if there were political will to engage the review process. right. i appreciate, ben, you are not a political correspondent, you are very much a sports correspondent. but we have just heard there the premier of victoria, from the labor party, saying "actually, we wouldn't have him, this is for the federal government, which is the liberal party, it is for them to deal with". and we have elections coming up. it is hard to avoid all about, isn't it? absolutely. there is very clearly, as soon as djokovic announced that he was coming here with an exemption, politicians were sort of lining up with a djokovic pinata, trying to look tough on him as someone who was getting around the rules. and so different politicians don't want to be seen, all of them pretty much don't want to be seen as giving djokovic any sort of leeway or cushion. he is someone who it's very politically attractive to be tough on, and probably demonised, fairly or unfairly. and i don't know if he is out of the woods just yet. new york officials have pledged their support for those affected by a deadly apartment fire in the community of the brox on sunday.

the death toll was revised slightly down but several people remain in a critical condition in hospital. tanya dendrinos reports. it's the deadliest apartment fire in new york city in more than three decades. nine adults and eight children perished in the twin parks complex on sunday, with victims found on every floor of the 19—storey block. it's devastating, it's heartbreaking, i've cried a lot because i think about children, a 3—year—old, a 11—year—old that lost their life to this devastating fire. it's painful. we've not experienced anything like this in new york city in 30 years, and itjust reminds me that life is so precious. those precious lives were remembered on monday as a community stood together in its grief. we visited every school in the area where the children, our young scholars lost their lives. something that we heard universally about each child

that we lost is how much they smiled, how much they brought life to the school. this was the scene as heavy smoke poured from the building. nearby residents who did all they could to help recounted their horror. it was chaos, it was a lot of people fighting for their life, you know, it was a lot of people trying to get out, exit the building and they couldn't because there was just a lot of smoke, there was a lot of fire coming from the second floor all the way to the top floor. investigators believe a malfunctioning heater caused the devastating blaze, and are looking into a possible maintenance issue with a door that failed to close when the fire broke out, allowing the smoke to spread. we're going to get through this moment, and we're going to get through it together, and this tragedy is not going to define us, it is going to show our resiliency as we help the families through this. a strong statement as this city tries to comprehend how this tragedy could happen. tanya dendrinos, bbc news.

there's often a very fine line between bad luck and good luck. and one pilot in los angeles has just lived through the extremes of both — twice. as our correspondent sophie long reports. the moment disaster was averted. this remarkable bodycam footage shows the moment lapd officers pulled a pilot to safety without a second to spare. go, go, go, go! horn blares. the plane had taken off from the runway at whiteman airport adjacent to the metro line just minutes earlier. but it crash—landed onto the tracks at this busy level crossing. police officers were at the scene in moments, but then an ominous sound created instant panic — that of a train fast approaching.

in a city where street corners are frequently turned into film sets, people here struggled to believe that what they were seeing was actually real. there was a huge sense of panic. a lot of the bystanders were frustrated. they were frustrated, maybe, with the length of time it took to get him out. we didn't expect the train to still keep coming, so a lot of people were frustrated with that. it's out of this world. it's like something in a movie, that you would see in a hollywood movie. despite the flying debris, no one on the ground was injured. the pilot was the only person in the plane. his identity has not yet been released. all that's known about him is that he was lucky enough to cheat death not once, but twice in ten minutes. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. ido want i do want to bring you some breaking news, the president of the euro parliament david sassoli has died after a short

illness. he had been receiving treatment in hospital since late december following complications related to his immune system. he was 65. that is bbc news. —— european parliament. hello. tuesday will bring us a bit of a day of mixed fortunes. still quite cloudy and drizzly in the south, but clearer and brighter air will move in from the north. after a fairly grey, drizzly sort of day on monday, more places will see the sunshine on tuesday. clearer air is working its way south across the uk behind this cold front here, which is only slowly pushing southwards. so we've still got quite a lot of cloud around. the cloud and drizzle will slowly clear southwards through the day, so a reappearance of sunshine from the north, but some of us will hold onto the cloudy drizzly conditions all day in the far south. so we start off with quite a contrast in temperature, mild towards the south, but temperatures a few degrees either side of freezing first thing for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england as well.

this is how tuesday is looking then — you can see the clearer skies for much of the uk as this band of cloud and drizzly patchy rain sink south. a bit of mist and murk particularly around coasts and hills for southern england and south wales too, lasting all day. but mild here, 10—11 celsius, in the clearer, sunny skies, between about 6—9 celsius, a few showers just rattling in across the north and west of scotland. through tuesday evening and overnight now into wednesday, eventually, we will lose that cold front, that band of cloud and drizzle from the south. so clearer skies for all as we move on into wednesday morning. breezy in the north and milderair here, double figures overnight. but further south, we are likely to see a frost to start your wednesday morning. so moving through wednesday, then, once we have lost that cold front, we've got high pressure building really across the uk, so that's going to bring a lot of dry and settled weather. but a change in temperature because this milder air is coming in from the south—west around the top side of that high pressure, so moving into northern parts of the uk. further south, we're sitting under the colder air. so, really, from mid—week onwards, we've got a bit of a split. it's mild and breezy in the north, whereas further south, colder with some fog patches that could linger for quite a time. that's how wednesday looks,

then we've got the cloudier, breezier conditions across parts of scotland in particular. fog patches further south, it will slowly clear away, and then a lot of dry and sunny weather. we've always got that bit more cloud and a few showers in the far north—west. here, 11 degrees for stornoway, and about 7 degrees or so for london. and a few places could struggle where we keep that fog. through the day on thursday, some of that fog could be quite extensive and slow to clear across parts of england and wales too. breezy and cloudy in the far north—west, plenty of sunshine elsewhere, but we could see those lingering fog patches all day for a few areas. bye— bye.

this is bbc news, the headlines: novak djokovic is back in training ahead of the australian open after winning his appeal against being denied entry. but the country's immigration minister still has the power to revoke his visa. doctors in the us have carried out the first successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human. the animal was genetically modified to reduce the risk of the organ being rejected. a breakthrough would raise hopes of a solution to the shortage of organ donors. the president of the european council and has died. the 65—year—old italian had been seriously ill in hospital for more than two weeks, due to a dysfunction of his immune system. he was elected president in 2019.