this air welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. russia acknowledges 63 of its soldiers were killed in a ukrainian attack using advanced american missiles. kyiv claims the deaths run into the hundreds. the international monetary fund warns of a tough year ahead with a global economic slowdown. we'll ask why china is set to be a drag on the global economy for the first time in many decades. also on newsday. a dire warning over the uk's national health service. some accident and emergency departments are said to be in a "complete state of crisis".

all this us at a level that most of us who work in emergency medicine have never seen before. it is dreadful, and we have chosen our words carefully, it really is a crisis out there at the moment. thousands queue to pay their respects to brazilian all this us at a level that most of us who work in emergency medicine thousands queue to pay their respects to brazilian football legend pele, as his coffin lies in state on the pitch of his former club santos. and those new year resolutions — why do we so often fail to keep them? we'll get some tips on how to stick to the good intentions. it's 7am here in singapore and 2am in moscow, where russia has announced that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year's eve attack by ukrainian forces. they were using himars rockets supplied by the us. it's the biggest death toll acknowledged by moscow for a single incident in the war, but ukraine says the strike killed

"hundreds" of russian soldiers. our correspondent hugo bachega reports from kyiv. in a town in eastern ukraine, rubble and many questions. this used to be a school, apparently turned into a base for russian soldiers. at around midnight on new year's eve, ukraine struck. how many were killed remains unclear. in moscow, the army claimed the attack was carried out with rockets supplied by the americans, but there was also a rare admission of casualties. translation: as a result | of the strike by four rockets with high explosive warheads against the temporary deployment point, 63 russian servicemen were killed. in russia, military bloggers were furious. they accused the army of failing to hide its troops and of housing them near ammunition stores. one report said the use of mobile

phones by soldiers allowed the building to be located. and here in kyiv, there were more conflicting reports. first, the military claimed that 400 russian troops had been killed, but now it says the number is still being investigated. eastern ukraine has seen some of the fiercest battles in recent weeks. the latest ukrainian attack could be one of the deadliest on russian forces since the start of the war. hugo bachega. 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 a0 years. joining me now is economist professor ann lee, author of the book, what the us can learn from china. it's wonderful to get you on the programme, professor. iwant it's wonderful to get you on the programme, professor. i want to start by asking, how worrying is this prediction for china?- start by asking, how worrying is this prediction for china? well, i'm worried that _ this prediction for china? well, i'm worried that to _ this prediction for china? well, i'm worried that to come _ this prediction for china? well, i'm worried that to come out _ this prediction for china? well, i'm worried that to come out and - this prediction for china? well, i'm worried that to come out and say i worried that to come out and say this, she must have access to some nonpublic information. because based on public information that many economists around the world has been relying on, predictions that china is going to grow between 4.5% and 5.5%, so for her to say it could be a drag and potentially be below global growth is actually very

extreme. so the only thing i can think of that would warrant such a forecast would be if she thinks there is a very high likelihood of some kind of geopolitical shock that involves china. which is not unheard of, given there have been lots of conversations about taiwan being a potential theatre. absolutely, and often when these sorts of predictions are made by institutions like the imf and the world bank, they are warning signals to the rest of the world, a way for us to interpret what the next few months might hold in terms of global growth. what kind of impact are you seeing there? well, i do agree that at least for the first quarter, there is a general consensus that global growth is going to be pretty much close to zero, given that you have the war on ukraine raging on. that china, even though they have

relaxed the covid policies, people are afraid to leave their homes. so with china relying on internal consumption to drive growth, that will most likely be delayed until later in the second quarter. the us has basically had a very rapid slowdown with all the federal reserve rate hikes, and still many people believe there are more to come. so certainly the first quarter is, you know, not something to be excited about.— excited about. worrying indeed... just to excited about. worrying indeed... just to jump _ excited about. worrying indeed... just toiump in. — excited about. worrying indeed... just to jump in, because - excited about. worrying indeed... just to jump in, because sadly - excited about. worrying indeed... just to jump in, because sadly we | just to jump in, because sadly we are running out of time for this segment, but what can people do or companies, financial institutions do, to better prepare consumers for the shocks you have just described? consumers in which arena? i mean,

i'm sure there are different concerns for, say, europe for instance... i'm sure they are facing very high inflation from energy costs. i think, very high inflation from energy costs. ithink, you know, there very high inflation from energy costs. i think, you know, there is very little they can do other than to conserve energy wherever possible. er... ithink to conserve energy wherever possible. er... i think there's probably going to be a lot of lobbying, you know, for more relief plans from the governments, given that we might be facing a very harsh winterfor a lot of that we might be facing a very harsh winter for a lot of people.— winter for a lot of people. indeed, professor lee, _ winter for a lot of people. indeed, professor lee, author _ winter for a lot of people. indeed, professor lee, author of - winter for a lot of people. indeed, professor lee, author of the - winter for a lot of people. indeed, professor lee, author of the book| professor lee, author of the book what the us can learn from china, fantastic to get your thoughts, thank you so much forjoining us. an uninterrupted stream of people have been filing past the coffin of the brazilian football legend pele which has been

placed in the middle of his former stadium in santos. many are wearing black—and—white colours of the club for which pele played for nearly two decades. the wake is taking place ahead of a private family burial. the bbc�*s james reynolds is in 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. tens of thousands of people have begun paying their respects to the former pope, benedict xvi. after his death at the weekend, his body is now lying—in—state, in st peter's basilica at the vatican. the funeral is on thursday. 0ur religion editor, aleem maqbool, is at the vatican. 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, who devoted his life to the church. aleem maqbool, bbc news, at the vatican. the british medical association says britain's health service is in a crisis and its survival is on a knife edge. it's amplified recent warnings about delays in emergency care, saying patients are dying needlessly. the royal college of emergency medicine says it's become impossible to provide the best standard of care. 0ur health 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 2004.

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. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. prince harry accuses buckingham palace of failing to defend him and his wife meghan before they stepped down as working royals, in a new tv interview.

the most ambitious, financial, and political change ever attempted has got under way with the introduction of the euro. tomorrow in holland, we're going to use money we picked up in belgium today. and then we'll be in france and it will be the same money. it's just got to be the way to go. george harrison, the former beatle, is recovering in hospital after being stabbed at his 0xfordshire home. a 33—year—old man from liverpool is being interviewed by police on suspicion of attempted murder. i think it was good. just good? no, fantastic. bell tolls.

this is newsday on the bbc. 0ur headlines. russia acknowledges 63 of its soldiers were killed in a ukrainian attack using advanced american missiles. kyiv claims the deaths run into the hundreds. the international monetary fund warns of a tough year ahead with a global economic slowdown. to thailand now, which has been one of the countries that was hardest hit by the impact of covid on its tourist industry. its large population of captive elephants has also been affected. elephants have been used to entertain tourists for decades, but the covid shutdown left their owners struggling to feed them. many visitors now view

using elephants for entertainment as unethical, forcing the industry to re—evaluate how the animals can be supported in future. jonathan head reports from thailand. there is a place in thailand where people and elephants have lived and worked together for centuries. they used to travel the country to entertain tourists. but when covid struck, they moved back here to surin, where they have been struggling to make a living. this charity is offering these elephants free health checks and medication. they often have problems with their digestive systems, says this volunteer, because of the stress of moving or because they are now getting the wrong kind of food. the sheer size of these animals makes them hugely expensive, they cost as much as a luxury car to buy, and eat hundreds of food

they cost as much as a luxury car to buy, and eat hundreds of food kilos every day, but there is another challenge to thailand's elephant economy, and that is that the tourists who sustained it for so long now have ethical concerns about all the various tricks they have been trained to perform. joy lives with three generations of elephants, descendants of animals passed down to her by her parents and grandparents. covid forced her to bring them back from the holiday island of phuket where they have been doing tourist shows. these days, she posts videos of them on social media, but the donations she gets from their online fans are never enough. she is hoping that as the tourists return, some at least will still be willing to pay to watch the elephants perform. translation: | think - there may not be as many elephant shows as they used to be because we know that some foreign

tourists think that people who keep elephants don't love them. 0r treat them badly by making them perform. so they might not want to feed the elephants or watch the show like before. everywhere we went in surin, we found people live streaming their elephants through their phones, trying to cover their costs. because there is no easy exit from this business. translation: whatever the future is, i i think we still have to keep them. . if the economy was better, or someone wanted to buy them, we might consider selling. but with the economy like this, there is no way out, we have to take care of them. there are thought to be more than 3,000 captive elephants in thailand. these are very long—lived animals. if their use as tourist entertainment is increasingly viewed as unethical, it is not clear how else

their livelihoods can be funded. jonathan head, bbc news, north—eastern thailand. the tennis legend martina navratilova has revealed she's been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer. the 18—time singles grand slam champion says her prognosis is good as both cancers have been detected early. she will start treatment in new york later this month. prince harry says the royal family has shown "absolutely no willingness to reconcile" with him and meghan markle, in a new tv interview. he also spoke of his strained relationship with king charles and prince william. 0ur royal correspondent daniella relph reports. they are the first hints of what this book will offer. the trailers from itv and cbs in america released ahead of the publication of spare

point to a bitter family fallout. id never needed to be this way. the leaking and the planting, i want a family, not an institution. they feel as if it is better to keep as somehow as the villains, they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile. i'd like to get my farther back, i would like to have my brother back. getting his father and his brother back won't be easy. the royal family presented a united front without harry and meghan this christmas, but harry has repeated his claims that the family is an institution that didn't support him, with the media set against him. in interviews done by experienced journalists, there is a sense that they may be more challenging. one of the criticisms that you have received is, ok, fine, you want to move to california and 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 plantings of stories against me and my wife. the family motto is never complain, never explain, but it isjust a motto. it is hard to see how these interviews will help a family reconciliation. prince harry has again voiced his anger, sadness and frustration, and buckingham palace has again made no comment. an assessment ofjust how damaging these new interviews will be, can be made when they are broadcast next weekend. daniela relph, bbc news. well, it's that time of year again. champagne corks have been popped, the partying stops, and now your friends, family and colleagues are starting to ask, "what's your new year's resolution?" whether it is to work out more often, save more money or quit drinking, we would have probably started the new year with a set of resolutions we are determined to keep. yet, year after year, studies have found that a large portion of those good intentions

tend to end in disappointment. so why is that, and are there little tricks to make those goals stick? well, for more on this, we can speak now to micah goldwater, cognitive scientist and senior lecturer at the university of sydney's school of psychology. great to get you on the programme. in the first instance, why do people fail to keep to their new year's resolutions? it happens to all of us, doesn't it?— resolutions? it happens to all of us, doesn't it? yes, and thank you for having — us, doesn't it? yes, and thank you for having me- _ us, doesn't it? yes, and thank you for having me. there _ us, doesn't it? yes, and thank you for having me. there are _ us, doesn't it? yes, and thank you for having me. there are a - us, doesn't it? yes, and thank you for having me. there are a few - for having me. there are a few different factors why people fail. 0ften different factors why people fail. often because we tend to think about this in the wrong way. we think it's all about willpower, right? this in the wrong way. we think it's allabout willpower, right? 0k, this in the wrong way. we think it's allabout willpower, right? ok, i haven't been strong enough, and now in january haven't been strong enough, and now injanuary i'm going to have slipped on my will power switch and suddenly i can do all these things. but actually the reason we haven't been doing these things in the past isn't because of willpower, it's because there are lots of barriers you have

recognised as barriers in your regular routine, right? if you want to go to the gym four times a week for an hour to go to the gym four times a week foran hourand a to go to the gym four times a week for an hour and a half each time or whatever, you already have that much time to spare in your week, do you? everyone's time is totally full, right? it's all these little things that get in the way. i'm going to go to work, but it turns out after work i'm really tired then i have a routine to pick up groceries or whatever... so we don't want to do these things, and then we meet this resistance when you are trying to do them because of these aspects of your life get in the way. this them because of these aspects of your life get in the way.— your life get in the way. as you oint your life get in the way. as you point out. _ your life get in the way. as you point out, there _ your life get in the way. as you point out, there are _ your life get in the way. as you point out, there are these - your life get in the way. as you i point out, there are these things, it's basically life that gets in the weight of these good intentions, so what are some of the key tricks to ensuring that we do try and keep those resolutions? 0r ensuring that we do try and keep those resolutions? or is it not worth having resolutions at all?

well, it can be worthwhile... some things we think might be helpful is not worry too much about new year's day exactly, right? the end of the year is a great time to reflect on your past year, what you would like to improve, but it doesn't mean you have to start the new thing right away. what you might actually want to do is spend a couple of months thinking about all these little barriers and what you do about them. if you jump right in, it's probably going to fail. if you think, 0k, going to fail. if you think, ok, this is going to be complicated... right? maybe you take january and february to start think about when you can bring new things into your routine and perhaps wait until march 1st to get going. the idea that you have to do it immediately might be the problem, when you have time to really want to plan everything out, the concrete steps... there were many concrete steps to make it work. more than you realise.—

more than you realise. super sensible advice. _ more than you realise. super sensible advice. are - more than you realise. super sensible advice. are there i more than you realise. super- sensible advice. are there certain types of resolutions that have a higher rate of success than others? right, so it's easier to do new positive things than to cut out things you might want to cut out, right? it's much harder to say, i'm going to stop doing this. easier to say, i'm going to start doing this. what can replace something else? a colleague of mine used to have lots of problems biting his nails. he realised, 0k, of problems biting his nails. he realised, ok, i can'tjust stop but maybe i should do something else with my hands, he got a squeeze ball and now maybe he squeezes that too much, but the degree to which that's not really an issue, a public social faux pas in the way that biting your nails in the middle of the meeting is. the positive, a new thing to do... .,. , is. the positive, a new thing to do... , �* , ., is. the positive, a new thing to do... �* , do... exactly, i'm so sorry to cut ou off do... exactly, i'm so sorry to cut you off but _ do... exactly, i'm so sorry to cut you off but that _ do... exactly, i'm so sorry to cut you off but that brings _ do... exactly, i'm so sorry to cut you off but that brings us - do... exactly, i'm so sorry to cut you off but that brings us to - do... exactly, i'm so sorry to cut you off but that brings us to the |

you off but that brings us to the end of the programme. thank you so much and i hope all of us keep our new year's resolutions. that's it for now. thank you for watching. 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. at 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 isobars, 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 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, in 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 or 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 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 in perth in scotland. emergency services, including 21 ambulance crews and nine fire trucks, were called to the incident. thousands have waited in line to pay their respects to brazilian football legend pele,

who's lying in state at the ground of his former club, santos.