tonight at 10pm — the kremlin says scores of russian servicemen have been killed after a missile strike in eastern ukraine. the attack was on a military base but ukrainian forces claim hundreds of russian soldiers may have died. we'll have the latest. also on the programme... a dire warning over the uk's national health service with some emergency departments found to be in a "complete state of crisis". it really is a crisis at the moment. the vatican says at least 65 thousand people have filed past the body of the former pope, benedict the sixteenth, 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. "betrayal by silence" says prince harry as tells cbs in america that buckingham palace failed 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. in leaks. through leaks. however, the ukrainian armed forces had earlier claimed as many as 400

welcome to bbc news. russia has announced that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year's eve attack by ukrainian forces using himars rocket launchers 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. it's the highest number of deaths acknowledged by moscow in a single incident since the war began. but ukraine claims 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 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.

we spoke to our correspondent hugo bachega in kyiv, who says both russia and ukraine have now given statements about the attack. we had a statement from the ukrainian army. they confirmed they were 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 donetsk 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. we spoke to the director of the international affairs programme at the university of new haven in connecticut. the ministry of defence in moscow does not usually acknowledge losses. here, they are both acknowledging a loss and giving a pretty high number. usually we would double or treble that number, so if this is something in the order of 200 dead, even 150, that is an enormous loss for russia, a one—time loss, one of the biggest in the war so far. we are hearing about bloggers in russia pointing the finger

at the authorities for having such a concentration of troops there. but how would the ukrainian forces know, obviously the himars rocket launchers are doing impressive things for them, how would they know exactly what to hit? there are a number of ways they might know. shared intelligence from the united states, satellite intelligence. they might know from drone reconnaissance. human intelligence, spies or recon forces out there. but we have seen reports that what happened here might have been that they had tracked a ukrainian cell phone signal from these undisciplined conscripts that are using regular cell phones. we have seen this happen before in the war, so a hype ability in the war, so a high probability that's how they did it. that would be extraordinary. these himars launchers,

provided by the us, is that making the difference at the moment or is it the fact that now they also know how to use these things? they have been trained up and they are much more ready to go? we have seen a lot more use of them in the past month or so. that tracks with the increased training levels we have seen. the idea that the initially trained ukrainian crew can train other ukrainians, so you can see a multiplication effect so you have crews that can work in shifts with more himars vehicles in the field. let's not get away from the fact it is pretty grim, a lot of deaths, under any circumstances this is pretty awful. is it the sort of hit, matthew, that might change the russian or ukrainian approach to the war itself? i think you really have to think of this as being something that's going to have a psychological effect. in many cases, kinetic operations are designed to create psychological effects in enemy troops and decision—makers. in the end, that's going to be the biggest effect here.

word of mouth will get around to the other conscripts that it's not safe to sleep in these buildings. whether that's true or not, rumoured that armaments were stored in the basement of the building. so rumours will get around that your commanders are stupid. all of this will play into whether or not people are willing to be conscripted, whether there are protests in russia, and whether they follow orders and how they will fight on the ground. that is the biggest effect of this. 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. the 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. to scotland now, 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 afterfive in the morning. 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 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. january 2nd 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. tens of thousands of people have been 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 until 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 paying tribute to a man they felt was a great theologian, and who dedicated his life to the church.

it's been a year of great economic turbulence, soaring inflation and the energy crisis in the uk. the international monetary fund has warned that the year ahead will be tougher still. 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 the latter 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 direr. why? because on top of everything else, they get hit by high interest rates and by the appreciation of the dollar. for those economies that have

high levels of debt, this is a devastation. brazilians have begun to say their farewells to the football legend pele as a 24—hour wake takes place in the stadium of his former club, santos. his coffin has been placed in the middle of the pitch forfans and dignitaries to pay their respects ahead of a private family burial on tuesday. the funeral procession drove through santos before dawn, with large crowds lining the streets. president lula of brazil will attend the wake on tuesday in his first engagement since regaining the presidency on sunday. pele died last thursday aged 82. 0ur correspondent, james reynolds, gave us the latest from santos. we have been keeping an eye on the line of mourners filtering behind us, and they have been going at quite a clip since ten o'clock in the morning. it has been a highly organised and apparently very effective event, and people are queueing up,

snaking outside the stadium here, and they have their chance to go through one of two lanes. vips get perhaps rather quicker access. normal people walk past, some of them wearing those black and white jerseys of santos, the only brazilian club that pele played for before he went to new york cosmos. i saw one person in a cosmosjersey, representing that final part of pele's sporting career. others have been wearing the distinctive gold and yellow jersey made so famous by pele. this city only has 450,000 people, it is very likely we wouldn't have heard of it were it not for pele, were it not for the fact that at the age of 15 he was sent here for a trial. he stayed on for many years, and he decided this is the place he wanted to be remembered. long live the king, of course, and thank you for mentioning cosmos because i missed that out earlier in the report. obviously, a very big moment also to come, we understand, james, if president lula does arrive on the scene.

yes, he would be the second president to visit, if you count the fact that gianni infantino is the president of the international football federation, fifa. mr infantino, we saw him a little earlier at the head of the delegation in the vip lane. of course, we would expect president lula who has just retaken the presidency to pay his respects here as well. lula is a figure from politics, not of national unity in the way pele was, but he might feel he inherits that mantle of elder statesman, albeit from a political point of view, not the national point of view that pele seemed to represent. there were people on all sides of politics in brazil who may not have been able to agree on anything at all but were able to agree that no one was better than pele, he won three world cups, maradona won one, messi won one. detectives in northern ireland are investigating alleged abuse and unlawful adoptions at institutions for unmarried mothers during the last century.

so far, 80 people have made statements, some of which contain allegations that they were moved across the irish border illegally. 0ur correspondent, chris page, has been hearing some of their stories. i was born to be neglected, i was born to be neglected and that was by every authority figure that came into my life. the girls was something that had to be dealt with. they were a problem, and we were the embodiment of theirsin. for decades these institutions across ireland were symbols of shame. becoming pregnant outside marriage was regarded as a moral disgrace. women and girls were often sent to do exhausting work in laundries. the legacy is generations of trauma. and i went to the wee school down behind it. up here creggan, st mary's chapel. i lived with a foster family about three streets away from there. marie's experience in londonderry in the 19605 shows how fostering was open to abuse.

she says a woman went to a children's home and asked this. "there's a girl there and her wee brother, can i have them?" like we were buy one, get one free items. she was getting paid to look after us, but we were doing all the housework. and mentally, she was torturing me. she would lock me in a coal shed and that. when marie was 18 she became pregnant and was sent across the irish border to an institution in dublin. one moment stands out in her memory. when i was going to see my son after he was born and i was brought back into the home, the nun�*s telling me that i couldn't cuddle him and i couldn't kiss him, that he wasn't mine. mark was one of the children born into the system. he was moved from northern ireland to the republic of ireland as a baby. he found out who his birth was after she died.

kathleen maguire had been searching for mark using the name she had given him. when kathleen would come looking for a paul anthony maguire he didn't exist. my name was now mark mccollum. so this is the way the systems were set up to keep people apart. nobody would actually say we are going to stop you, we are going to prevent you, but they put up so many barricades and brick walls, almost to thwart you and to deter you, to make it as difficult so you would just go, i'm going to give up. the devolved government in belfast had commissioned an investigation, but a political crisis has put ministers out of power. one of the inquiry�*s designers is concerned by delays. i'm very disappointed at the slowness in the process. the actual taking of people from their birth mothers without any knowledge of where they were going, it is one of the greatest scandals of our time. officials say there has been significant progress and an inquiry panel will be recruited this month.

survivors want answers and action from the church and state. you know, we need the momentum and their willingness to push this forward. if it's not going to come from stormont it has to come from westminster. what would you like the outcome of this whole process to be? accountability — that they put their hands up and they say, "yes, this should never have happened." 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 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. 0ur royal correspondent daniela relph explained why prince harry is giving an interview now. it's the publicity ahead

of the release of his memoir spare on january 10th. these are the two big television interviews he is doing to promote that book. so you would have to think the teasers and trailers we have had for the big interviews give us a sense of what will be in the book. the themes are very much what we have heard already, the idea that the institution was against him, that there has been this bitter family fallout, and that the media was also against both him and his wife meghan and there has been manipulation on that front from buckingham palace. the themes are the same, the language is very direct, very emotive in the way he speaks particularly about his family, but there is a glimpse of light in one of the trailers. for itv in the uk, harry talked about wanting his father and brother back. what does that mean? not quite sure. what do they think about that? again, not sure. but a hint that he would like something different in the future. he may well like that, but every time you publicly state how awful the palace has been, it gets that much harder for those

within it to come out and say, ok, let's settle this. absolutely right. once again today, buckingham palace has taken a stance of no comment on the details in these trailers, not saying anything at all. but it is going to get harder and harder for there to be any kind of family reconciliation, and harry is hinting he may want that in this particular interview. just two interviews, and then the book comes out and we all move on? well, don't hold your breath, i wouldn't think. there has been a suggestion that meghan may do her own book and story as well, and they are involved in other television projects over the coming months. interesting on a point of difference for this interview, so far we have had oprah winfrey and netflix, which has been very much harry and meghan�*s story, their version of events, explaining how they feel and what they feel happened to them. this time you have two experienced journalists conducting the interviews.

will they be more robust and challenging and will they get something different out of harry? we will see when they broadcast next weekend. papers in a moment. hello there. it was a drier, sunnier, but colder start to the new week. the pattern changes again, though, for tuesday because we've got weather fronts coming in from the atlantic, stronger winds — you can see more icicles on the chart — but milder air is coming in from the west as well. so despite more cloud, some rain, it is going to be milder. we're going to find some rain continuing to work its way eastwards across many parts of the uk during tuesday, maybe seeing some sunshine in the far north of scotland, some heavier rain over the hills, particularly in wales, the south west of england, and here it could be quite windy as well. strengthening south—westerly winds bringing in milder air, temperatures — double figures for many of us, a bit chillier in scotland, perhaps.

here we're going to see more rain and given how wet it's been recently, that could lead to some further local flooding and travel disruption. western and central parts of scotland seeing perhaps two inches of rain during the day and into the night as well. these weather fronts continuing to pile in rain across much of the country during tuesday night. wednesday, most of that rain should be out of the way. we're left with a run of west to south—westerly winds bringing some sunshine, perhaps not that much, but also some showers as well, particularly coming into western parts of the uk. the winds will strengthen again across england and wales. temperatures, though, getting up to 14 degrees in the southeast and perhaps nine degrees in the central belt of scotland. so it's mild air really on wednesday. heading from wednesday and into thursday, we've still got that run of westerly winds, the westerly winds probably easing, and then we've got a weather front arriving in from the atlantic. a few showers ahead of that here and there and then we'll see this rain developing in northern ireland heading up towards the borders into northern parts of england. a lot of uncertainty about where that rain

is going to develop, but it looks like it's still going to be a mild day. temperatures, double figures for england and wales and perhaps six to nine degrees for scotland and northern ireland. once that weather front does arrive, it could develop into an area of low pressure more as it leaves the uk, and then that weather front will take some rain down across england and wales to clear away from south eastern areas on friday to be followed by some sunshine ahead of increasing cloud coming in from the west and yet more rain beginning to arrive. very unsettled pattern over the week ahead. temperatures ahead of that could be six to eight degrees for the eastern side of the uk. so a bit chillier perhaps to end the week. but we saw the cloud increasing from the atlantic. this weather system is going to bring rain eastwards overnight into the start of the weekend. some heavier bursts of rain to push away towards the eastern side of the uk, to be followed of course by some sunshine, but quite a lot of showers coming in to northern ireland later on in the day. these are the temperatures — six degrees in glasgow,

ten degrees in london. that's still a little above the average, though, really for this time of the year. for the outlook, we're going to be left with low pressure sitting to the northwest of the uk, and around it we've got bands of rain followed by showers. you can see a lot of isobars on the chart — it'll be quite windy as well. now, not particularly cold air that's coming our way, a tuck of colder air perhaps later on. the milder conditions are certainly running into france and across iberia on that westerly wind, but low pressure for the outlook means it's going to remain changeable. we've got showers mainly, perhaps some spells of rain from time to time, some sunshine. and whilst the air gets a little bit colder, we've still got temperatures of six to 11 degrees. goodbye.

this is bbc news, the headlines... russia has acknowledged the deaths of 63 servicemen 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 soldiers 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