this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley with the headlines at 10pm. the rmt announces four separate 48—hour rail strikes, two of them just ten days before christmas. the mother of two young children killed in a house fire in nottingham on sunday has also died — a man is held on suspicion of murder. the un denounces the "hardening" of iran's response to nationwide protests. more than 300 people have died in anti—government demonstrations in the last two months. rescue workers in indonesia continue to search for survivors. at least 268 people have died — many of them were children whose schools collapsed around them. cristiano ronaldo is leaving manchester united with immediate effect, an abrupt end for an old trafford legend. the announcement, mutually agreed, came after he gave a tv interview, criticising the club and declaring

he had "no respect" for manager erik ten hag. the first big shock of the world cup — saudi arabia beat argentina, one of the favourites to lift the trophy. if you've just us, good evening. welcome to bbc news. rail passengers across britain are to face fresh disruption over christmas and the new year, as the rmt union announces an escalation in strike action by workers in their long running dispute aboutjobs, pay and conditions. staff at network rail and 1a train companies are due to stage a series of 48—hour strikes on the 13th and 14th and the 16th and 17th of december, and again on the 3rd and 4th and the 6th and 7th of january.

in addition, they will be an immediate ban on overtime payments from the 18th of december running into the new year. earlier, the general secretary of the rmt union, mick lynch, spoke to my colleaguejane hill. he said the talks had broken down. we can't have a situation where we're trying to negotiate a deal with their employers and with the government sitting at their shoulder. and they've not made a written proposal in that entire period of six months. and, in fact, they pulled out of a meeting yesterday where they guaranteed to me personally that they would put a written proposal on the table that we could consider today. and they cancelled that meeting with 55 minutes�* notice. and we believe that's down to the tory government, the secretary of state, who want to keep this dispute going for their own reasons, because i know, and so do the industry leaders, that there's a settlement readily available that we could write up in a couple of hours at a meeting. well, if there was a settlement readily available, wouldn't it all have been sorted?

well, there were proposals ready to go. we were ready to type them up. and then somebody cancelled the meeting with 55 minutes... 0k, what reason were you given for the cancellation? and then they cancelled the meeting. what reason did they give when they cancelled the meeting? they told me that they're not allowed to make an offer. and the only people that can stop them making an offer are this government. it's written into the contracts that the train operating companies have with the secretary of state that he is responsible for industrial relations and he sets their mandate for negotiations. and they have told me they are not allowed to make an offer to the rmt in this dispute. network rail says... so there's no offer and no progress. 0k. network rail says, "no—one can deny the precarious financial hole "the railways are in. "striking makes that hole bigger and the task of finding a resolution "ever more difficult. "we're not giving up hope, and we hope that the rmt will return "to the table with a more realistic

appreciation of the situation." are you not being realistic? we're being entirely realistic and we're at the table with network rail all of the time. they know what is needed to get a settlement, and i don't believe they're being allowed to put a settlement forward because of the department of transport�*s intransigence. they have chosen to pick a fight with railway workers, and now they're picking fights all over the economy, with nurses, with doctors, with teachers, with workers in every section of our society, because they want to suppress wages while profits are up. and there is plenty of money in this economy to have a fair distribution of wealth. and that's what this is all about. at the end of the day, they want to make working people pay for a crisis of not of their creation. our members have not had a pay rise for three years, so they've got a very direct understanding of the realistic nature of railway finances.

in that time, the train operators and others have posted profits of £500 million. they did not lose a penny during the pandemic because they are indemnified. and every time we go on strike, the department for transport writes them a check in excess of £30 million, and they make no losses whatsoever during this strike. the only people that lose out are our members who don't get paid and the travelling public who don't get trains. mick lynch of the rmt. ina in a statement, the department for transport said... the mother of two young children killed in a house fire in nottingham on sunday has also died. 28—year—old fatoumatta hydara

was taken to hospital after the fire in the family's flat in the suburb of clifton but died earlier today. her two children, who were one and three years old, were killed in the fire. a 31—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, as midlands correspondent phil mackie reports. a mother and two young daughters, three lives lost in what police have described as a horrendous crime. this was fatimah, who was three, her one—year—old sister naeemah and their mother fatoumatta hydara. the fire took hold in the early hours of sunday morning in their flat. the children were taken to hospital but didn't survive. their mother died this morning. neighbours have found it hard to take in. the kids always said hello. to me, they didn't have a hurtful bone in the body, so i don't know who would want to do this to them. the children were beautiful and it's devastating. it's not good. fatoumatta's husband and the father of both children was out of the country at the time.

he flew back yesterday and, along with relative, is being looked after by specially trained police officers. nottinghamshire police had already launched a murder investigation before the children's mother died today and detectives have been granted an extra 36 hours to question the 31—year—old man arrested in connection with their deaths. there have been many tributes, including from the gambian community in nottinghamshire and the nursery which fatimah attended, which said she loved a cuddle and was happiest with a paintbrush in her hand. the manston migrant processing centre, a holding site for people who arrive in the uk on small boats, is now cleared, says the home office. thousands of migrants had been placed in tents at the former military airfield in kent during the autumn, leading to overcrowding and outbreaks of disease. our home editor mark easton has been following developments. the fact that we are putting in the headlines the story that manston is empty of migrants tells us how far we've got, actually, from what the purpose of the facility was supposed to be. the home office is saying that the processing centre is going to operate now more as business as usual. well, it was never intended to be

a detention centre as we've seen for thousands of migrants and their children for days, weeks and sometimes for months on and. it's supposed to be somewhere that people may go just for a few hours, perhaps — 2a hours at most, the law says, five days in exceptional circumstances — but we've seen so problems there, as you say. 0vercrowding, we've seen disease, we've seen drug dealing, we had one migrant there died recently, having arrived on a boat just over a week ago. but the fact that the weather has turned for the worse, we haven't had any migrants crossing the channel now for well over a week. therefore, manston is doing what it should do. it's supposed to operate this way. after a week without any arrivals, it should be empty. but, of course, the problem hasn't really been solved. what we actually have seen is the weather stopping people arriving and we've also seen the home office expanding

the hotel accommodation, already costing nearly £6 million a day, to accommodate more people who have left manston. so the problem hasn't gone away, but the home office will have their fingers firmly crossed that the weather actually still remains a bit too choppy for more to come over in the next few weeks. mark easton. king charles has been hosting his first state visit, welcoming south africa's president cyril ramaphosa to the uk. it's hoped the visit will strengthen relations between britain and its biggest trading partner in africa. as part of the two—day trip, the king and queen consort have held a banquet at buckingham palace this evening. injusta injust a few in just a few moments, we will be joining huw edwards and the team for the 10pm news, the ten past 10pm news. i will be back at the papers. you are watching bbc news.

tonight — millions of rail passengers face severe disruption with new strike action in the lead—up to christmas. industrial action will take place in four periods in december and january — the rmt union claims a likely deal is being blocked. we have been reasonable but it is impossible to find a negotiated settlement when the dead hand of the government is presiding over and blocking a resolution. the dispute is overjobs, pay, and working conditions — the train companies say strike action will not bring about change. putting strike action on will not resolve that situation. it is actually sitting at the table and making sure that we can try and get a final agreement.