this is bbc news with the headlines. russia acknowledges the deaths of 63 soldiers in a ukrainian attack in the occupied donetsk region. ukraine claims hundreds were killed. a warning over the uk's national health service — senior doctors say some emergency departments are in a "complete state of crisis". the vatican says at least 65,000 people have filed past the body of the former pope benedict xvi on the first day of his lying—in—state. in scotland, three people have died after a fire broke out at a hotel in perth. thousands wait in line to pay their respects to football legend pele, as a public wake begins at his former club santos. interviewed by cbs in the us,

prince harry accuses buckingham palace of failing to defend him and his wife meghan before they stepped down as working royals. you know, the family motto is never complain, never explain, but it's just a motto. it doesn't really hold... there's a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining. through leaks. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. russia has acknowledged that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year's eve attack by ukrainian forces using himars rockets supplied by the us. the strikes destroyed a former vocational school in the donetsk region, where the soldiers are said to have

been temporarily deployed. ukraine's armed forces say the strike killed "hundreds" of russian soldiers. this is what a russian ministry of defence spokesman had to say earlier. translation: the kyiv regime | targeted a temporary deployment point used by one of the units of the russian armed forces unit in makiivka in the donetsk republic with six us—made himars rockets. russian air defences shot down two of the rockets. as a result of the impact of four rockets with high explosive warheads, 63 russian servicemen were killed. i spoke to our correspondent hugo bachega in kyiv, who says both russia and ukraine have given statements about what happened. we have a statement from the ukrainian army. they have confirmed they are behind this attack. they say, "we are still working

to determine the number of victims." this is after an earlier statement in which the armed forces said hundreds, 400 russian troops had been killed. this latest statement came after the admission by moscow that 63 soldiers had died as a result of this attack. so, the ukrainians have confirmed that they were behind this strike. this location hit was a school, apparently it had been turned into a base for russian troops in this town in the eastern donestk region. there was a lot of anger online, russian military bloggers had questioned the decision by commanders to house so many soldiers in a single location. we heard from the army spokesman in moscow, accusing ukraine of using those himars long—range rockets provided by the americans. they have been vital for the ukrainians against the russians. the sort of weaponry

that the ukrainians have been asking the west for, and particularly the us. more sophisticated kind of long—range weaponry. exactly, and we have seen in the past that the ukrainians have been using himars rockets to target russian positions. in places away from the front lines. we saw that before the ukrainians recaptured kherson back in november. and last week again the ukrainians have been targeting some locations that have been held by the russians in occupied areas away from the front line. so it seems that this is the case again. the ukrainians using these long—range weapons to target russian positions in places away from the front lines. for quite some time, they have been saying they need this kind of weapon to continue

with this counter offensive to try to take back territory that is now under russian occupation. earlier, i spoke to professor phillips 0'brien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. i asked him to tell me more about the himars rockets used by ukraine in this attack. they are a highly accurate rocket artillery system. they have taken what we think of as original artillery and put it on a rocket but put it in with terribly high accuracy. so that you can hit a building 20, 30, even over 100 miles away if you have the right ammunition. you can hit it with devastating effect. i think what we can say is what has happened here has made a massive impression because the russian defence ministry came out and confirmed there was an attack. even with the mosvka, it took days or weeks before they admitted what happened, then neverfully did.

but the chatter here was so large they had to come out and admit that something significant had happened. quite unusual for the russian defence ministry to give details about casualties like this. they are saying 63 of their troops died. they may or may not be an accurate total. but unusual that they give any sort of figure at all. they have given a very low overall casualty figure for the war so far. just thousands, i think, which is far less than i think anyone thinks russian casualties are. if they're saying 63 have been killed in this one episode, one can assume it is significantly larger than that. it would be impossible to tell right now because of the destruction of the building, at least to go from the pictures. what does this attack tell us about the state of the war at the moment? a lot of people have said now that we are deep in winter it is a very attritional phase.

there isn't much progress made by either side. it does seem to be that the ukrainians are now targeting russian troop concentrations. they have spent some time before this, earlier in the war, going with their himars against logistics, depots, trucks, vehicles. there don't seem to be a lot of vehicles around the front lines these days. now they are using the himars to go after russian troop concentrations because the russians have generated a large number of new troops through this conscription. so, i think this is an example of the kind of operation at the ukrainians are trying to do right now, as they are trying to reduce russian strength in preparation for more ukrainian operations. here in the uk, senior doctors are warning that some hospital accident and emergency departments are in a "complete state of crisis" due to the extreme pressures facing the national health service this winter.

rising covid cases and a severe flu outbreak are being blamed for adding to demand for services, which were already stretched. a number of hospitals have declared critical incidents, meaning they cannot function as usual. correspondent catherine burns reports. welcome to nhs winter. ambulances lined up outside hospitals, patients waiting in corridors. now there are calls for the government to declare a national major incident. but is this year different to normal? well, a&e figures are worse than at any time since records started in 200a. one in ten patients who need admitting is waiting over 12 hours for a bed. it's undeniable that the nhs is under extreme pressure. 18% more people have turned up to a&e departments in england in the last six weeks compared to the same time last year. 9,500 people are in hospital with covid. that's more than doubled recently.

add on to that almost 4,000 with flu, another sharp increase. this means that i3% of hospital beds are being used for covid and flu patients. we know that for every 82 patients who wait for more than six hours in an emergency department, there's one associated death. now, at the moment, in many emergency departments, we're lucky if we even see a patient within six hours, let alone get them admitted to hospital within that time. the royal college of emergency medicine claims between 300 and 500 people a week are dying because of these delays. nhs england, though, insists there's no evidence for that. it says there are several complicated reasons why we're seeing higher death rates than usual coming out of a pandemic. we have got some people who are having to wait much longer than either we or they would want, and that is uncomfortable for everybody in the nhs, which is why nhs staff are working as hard as they possibly can. you've said you're deeply

uncomfortable with the level of care that some patients are getting right now, but yourjob is nhs england's chief strategy officer. what is your strategy for fixing this? there is a very clear plan. recover services, get back to delivering the long—term plan and transform the nhs for the future. and all this comes with more strike action planned by nhs workers this month. catherine burns, bbc news. earlier, i spoke to matthew taylor, chief executive of nhs confederation, which represents and speaks for the nhs in england, wales and northern ireland. he described how bad the current situation was. i think it's as bad as it has ever been, that is what leaders i speak to say to me, people who have been working in the health service for 20 and even 30 years say they have never been in a winter as bad as this. the reality is that the nhs is fragile, and it is fragile because there is a gap between the demand that is made on our service and the capacity

we have to meet that demand, and when you are fragile it doesn't take much for things to become very difficult, and that's what has happened with the growth of flu, with the growth of covid. so it is a very difficult situation. we have got to be honest with the public about the situation that we face. we've got to be clear in the messages we give the public about how they should best use the national health service, and also, as you said, we have got to do something about the threat of industrial action because we cannot injanuary, which is our busiest month, on top of all of this take four more days of industrial action. you talk there about being honest. the royal college of emergency medicine, you heard in the report, they are saying somewhere between 300 and 500 people are dying each week as a result of delays and problems with emergency care. they are warning against any attempt to discredit that figure. do you recognise that figure? i think we can argue about particular figures and methodologies.

what i don't think we can argue about is that there is high levels of patient risk and higher levels of patient harm than we would like to see and we are not able to provide the level of care we want to provide and chris hopson from nhs england himself may have disputed the figures but doesn't dispute the fact that we are not able to provide the level of care we want to provide. that is the reality and we have to talk firstly about what we have to do to get a through the next few weeks, and then we have to have a conversation about how it is we can avoid going into next winter and is fragile a state as we've entered this one. when you talk about patient harm, it is more than that, it's patient death, that's what is happening, people are dying who should not be dying. it's very difficult to imagine that that isn't the case, when you see how long it is taking four ambulances to reach people and you see how long people are waiting in hospital. thousands of people have begun paying their respects to the former pope, benedict xvi.

following his death at the weekend, his body is now lying—in—state in st peter's basilica at the vatican. mourners will be able to file past the casket before the funeral on thursday. 0ur religion editor aleem maqbool reports. at dawn, the late pope was moved from the monastery in the vatican where he died, for the short, solemn private procession to st peter's basilica. # santa maria...# there he was, taken through the nave to be placed in front of the altar. 0utside, while the ceremony was taking place, thousands had formed a queue that snaked around st peter's square. these were among the first allowed in through the doors to pay their respects. in just the first five hours, vatican police say 40,000 people filed past benedict xvi,

and they came from all over the catholic world. it's just one of those once in a lifetime moments where you kind of feel more and more emotional as you get closer to viewing, you know, the pope's body and realise the impact that he's had, i guess, on everybody. so there was a kind of a sombre mood as the walk progressed. what was that moment like for you when you were paying respects? that moment, i feel so honoured because pope benedict was a servant of god. we honour him. we follow his example. there's been much discussion about the failings of pope benedict, particularly in dealing with abuse perpetrators. but those here today were focused on paying tribute to a man they felt was a great theologian, and who dedicated his life to the church. aleem maqbool, bbc news, at the vatican. now to scotland, where three people have died after a fire at a hotel in perth. guests at the building

in the centre of the city were evacuated shortly after 5am. 0ur scotland correspondent james shaw has more. around 5am this morning, flames burst from a window at the new county hotel. the fire is burning fiercely but appears to be confined to the second floor. video captured by another eyewitness shows the scale of the emergency response — 21 ambulance crews and around 60 firefighters. 0ur firefighters worked extremely hard in a very complex and challenging environment to prevent the further spread of fire and damage where possible. after the blaze had been put out, firefighters discovered three bodies. a dog also died in the fire. no other guests in the hotel were seriously injured. from those that were evacuated, i can confirm that the 11 people were given treatment by the scottish ambulance service but did not require hospitalisation.

the police have sealed off a large part of the centre of the city. that disruption is likely to continue for some time to come. the 2nd of january is a public holiday in scotland, but the tranquillity of the day has been shattered by this tragic fire. the investigation into it is onlyjust beginning. the names of those who died will not be revealed until they have been formally identified and loved ones have been told. james shaw, bbc news, perth. two british nationals are confirmed to have died in a helicopter crash in australia. the foreign office says it's supporting the family of the two britons. they died in a mid—air collision involving two helicopters near seaworld on australia's gold coast. queensland police say initial investigations suggest the crash happened as one helicopter was taking off and the other was landing.

two other people are also known to have died. sport, and for a full round—up from the bbc sport centre, here's gavin. we start in brazil where mourners are paying their respects to pele, who's lying in state at the football ground of his former club santos. the three—time world cup winner died at the age of 82 last week. mourners are expected to descend on the coastal city of santos across 24 hours. these were the first into the stadium. with some having slept outside overnight. as the public files past the coffin, which is at the centre of the fooball pitch, guests are gathering for a public wake — they include fifa president gianni infantino and pele's family. a funeral procession will take place through the city's streets ahead of tuesday's burial. tomorrow, after the wake, there will be a possession through the streets

of santos which is expected to pass by the house where his mother still lives at the age of 100. —— a procession. before going to the cemetery, which he picked themselves, it's in the guinness book of records, a vertical cemetery, it stands tall, and pele will be up on the ninth floor there with a view of the stadium at santos that he graced for so long. he picked it himself. he said, it's a last resting place with peace and tranquillity. and his sister, she was talking about the last conversation she had with her brother and said, he went in peace. that some comfort as well to millions of fans all around the world. martina navratilova says she'll fight with all she's got after being diagnosed with throat and breast cancer. the nine—time wimbledon singles champion, who previously had breast cancer in 2010, will start treatment

in new york later this month. navratilova, who's 66, says both cancers have been caught at an early stage. she's called it a double whammy which is serious, but fixable, and she's hoping for a favourable outcome. to this evening's only match in the premier league, and liverpool missed the opportunity to gain valuable ground on the top four. they were beaten by brentford. jurgen klopp's side were made to pay for defensive errors. an ibrahim konate own goal, and yoan wissa's header had brentford two up at half—time. liverpool pulled one back, and seemingly had the better run of play in the second half until bryan mbeumo sealed the win for the west london side in the last ten minutes. 3—1 the final score. brentford are now unbeaten in six games — their best run in the top flight for more than 80 years. they're up to 7th. liverpool stay in 6th. next to scotland, where rangers were two minutes away from winning the old firm derby and closing the gap to celtic at the top of the premiership to six points. but a late equaliser at ibrox denied the home side a crucial win, rangers were 2—1 up with two minutes

to go when kyogo furuhashi salvaged a point. it means celtic remain nine points clear of their rivals. that's all the sport for now. we'll have more for you on the bbc news channel later on. a quick update on the wake for pele. people paying their respects, as you heard. brazil's president lula who has just been re—elected heard. brazil's president lula who hasjust been re—elected is heard. brazil's president lula who has just been re—elected is going to attend the wake on tuesday. the new president of brazil will be at the wake in santos, where thousands of people are paying their final respects to the brazilian football legend. the country's president, we have heard in a statement from the presidency, will be attending tomorrow, tuesday.

prince harry has spoken of what he described as "betrayal by buckingham palace" in preview footage for a forthcoming interview ahead of the release of his memoir, spare. speaking with cbs 60 minutes correspondent anderson cooper, he accused palace officials of failing to defend him and his wife meghan, before they stepped down as working royals. one of the criticisms that you have received is that, "0k fine, you want to move to california, you want to step back from the institutional role — why be so public?" you say you tried to do this privately. and every single time i've tried to do it privately, there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife. you know, the family motto is never complain, never explain, but it's just a motto. it doesn't really hold... there's a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining. being done in, through leaks. through leaks. they will feed, or have a conversation with the correspondence conversation with the correspondent and that correspondent will literally be spoon fed

information to write the story. and at the bottom of it they will say that they have reached out to buckingham palace for comment. but the whole story is buckingham palace commenting. so, when we're being told for the last six years we can't put a statement out to protect you, but you do it for other members of the family. there comes a point where silence is betrayal. for more on this earlier, i spoke with royal correspondent daniela relph. it is effectively more of the same in the terms of the themes that we heard in these trailers. more details about the bitter family fallout. a lack of trust at the machinery within the royal household. and accusing the media of being against harry and his wife. and being manipulated by buckingham palace. he has spoken directly and personally in the language he has used. in the trailer released here by itv,

he talks about wanting his father and brother back, as he puts it. so perhaps a glint of light there in terms of, perhaps a more positive future. when you look at these trailers and thinkg about interviews to come, ahead of the release of his book, it is hard to see how this plays into any kind of family reconciliation. so all of these interviews, both of these interviews, are to sort of preview the publication of his book called spare. i guess the palace and royalfamily will be nervously awaiting publication of that book, and it is fairly long and probably pretty detailed. i think they will be, no doubt about that. their public position is very clear. no comments at the moment. let's see if that stands once the book has been published on january 10th. if there are factual accuracies or any bombshells, maybe they will choose to say something. i think their position, as it usually is, is to say nothing and let this play out.

we've just come to the end of a year of great economic turbulence, particularly with energy instability caused by the war in ukraine and soaring inflation elsewhere. now the international monetary fund has warned that the year ahead will be tougher still. it notes that the three big economies — the united states, the european union and china — are slowing down simultaneously, with china likely to be a drag on global growth for the first time in 40 years. speaking to face the nation on cbs, the imf managing director kristalina georgieva explained why much of the rest of the world would suffer too. when we look at the emerging markets and developing economies, there the picture is even more dire. why? because on top of everything else, they get hit by high interest rates and by the appreciation of the dollar. forthose and by the appreciation of the dollar. for those economies that have high levels of debt, this is

devastation. officials in ukraine say the suspect behind the removal of a mural by the british artist banksy could face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty. this was the mural before it disappeared. it showed a woman in a dressing gown on a battered chair, wearing a gas mask and carrying a fire extinguisher. this is the same location in the town of hostomel now. ukraine's interior ministry says the thieves tried to transport the graffiti using wooden boards but were caught by police. 0k, much more throughout the evening on bbc news. thank you very much indeed for watching.

hello there. today has been a largely dry day with more sunshine around, but it's also been colder. as we head into tomorrow, the weather's going to look and feel very different. temperatures will be higher, the winds will be stronger. and we've got more cloud and some rain coming in as well. this was the window of calmer weather that we've been in. but if we look out in the atlantic, all this cloud is massing and this is where our weather's coming from. a few weather fronts will bring not just thicker cloud, but some rain in from the atlantic, more visible, some stronger winds. but the winds are coming all the way from the azores, hence those higher temperatures before that cloud and rain. we've got clearer skies at the moment and it will be cold with an early frost. temperatures perhaps below freezing just briefly across the midlands

and east anglia, and then temperatures recover later as we see the cloud coming in, the winds picking up and this rain arriving, which will turn to snow over higher parts of scotland as we engage what's left of that colder air across this part of the country. elsewhere, though, those temperatures will be rising by the morning and we've got a cloudy, wet start for many places, some snowjust for a while over higher parts of scotland. that first band of rain moves through, may become a bit drier, but only briefly. but there's more rain coming in more widely from the west. the winds will be strengthening as well. gets particularly windy across wales and the southwest and here will get some heavier rain over the hills. but because it's the south—westerly wind, it's going to be milder than today. temperatures in double figures for many, a little bit chillier still across parts of scotland, perhaps, but there's more rain to come in scotland. that's the main concern here, given how wet it's been recently, could be some further local flooding and travel disruption. western and central parts of scotland through the day and into the night could get as much as two inches of rain.

we're all going to keep some rain going through the evening and into the night as these weather fronts continue to push their way across the uk. most of those should be out of the way by the time we get to wednesday and we're left with a run of west of south—westerly winds. some sunshine perhaps, but also some showers, particularly for the western side of the uk. perhaps more sunshine arriving across the east midlands, across east anglia and the south east of england. but it will be quite windy through the day across much of england and wales. not so much for scotland and northern ireland. nine degrees in the central belt of scotland and 14 in the southeast.

this is bbc world news, the headlines... russia has acknowledged the deaths of 63 soldiers in a ukrainian attack in the occupied donetsk region on new year's eve. kyiv claims hundreds were killed in the strikes on a building where russian forces were stationed. senior doctors in the uk are warning that some hospital accident and emergency departments are in a "complete state of crisis" due to the extreme pressures facing the national health service this winter. a number of hospitals have declared critical incidents. three people have died after fire broke out at a hotel in perth in scotland. emergency services — including 21 ambulance crews and nine fire trucks — were called to the incident. the vatican says at least 65,000 people have filed past the body of the former

pope, benedict xvi, on the first day of his lying—in—state.