welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. russia acknowledges 63 of its soldiers died in a ukrainian attack in donetsk. kyiv claims the actual number is in the hundreds. the international monetary fund warns that 2023 is going to be a tough year as economies around the globe slow down. thousands queue to pay their respects to brazilian football legend pele, as he lies in state at his former club santos. the uk's national health service in crisis, as accident and emergency departments come under impossible strain. and the future for thousands of thai elephants hangs in the balance, as the world turns away from performing animals.

hello and welcome to the programme. 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. and hugo gave us an update from kyiv and explained the significance of this assault. its quite significant because of the extent of the losses. moscow decided it couldn't stay silent and had to acknowledge the attack. it is also significant because it could suggest a new strategy by the ukrainians. up to now, ukraine has used the long—range rockets supplied by the americans to target russia's military logistics and supply lines. but in recent weeks they have been attacking bases and troop concentrations. since the ukrainians we captured curtain town in the front lines haven't changed and the ukrainians have been saying the weather conditions need to improve so

they could take back territory. the latest attacks could give a suggestion of where this counter offensive is likely to go next. 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. 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. earlier, i spoke to economist professor ann lee, author of the book what the us can learn from china. i asked her how worrying the imf�*s comments are for china. well, i'm worried that for her to come out and say this, she must have access to some non—public information. because, based on public information that many economists around the world have 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. and 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. worrying indeed... 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. ithink, you know, there is very little they can do other than 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 winter for a lot of people. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. a legend of women's tennis, martina navratilova, has been diagnosed with both throat and breast cancer, but says her prognosis is good. the 18—time grand slam singles champion, who's 66, will start treatment in new york later this month. two senegalese opposition mps

have each been handed six—month jail sentences after they physically assaulted a pregnant colleague from the ruling party. the incident occurred during a budget row in parliament last month. the two were found guilty of slapping and kicking amy ndiaye in the stomach. two of the four people who died after a mid—air collision involving two helicopters were british. the accident happened 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. 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. one of those who's been at the stadium to pay his respects is the head of fifa, gianni infantino,

who's called for countries across the world to name one of their football stadiums after pele. we pay tribute to him by being here. by asking all the federations now to pay a minute of silence and tribute to pele, but we are also going to ask every country in the world to name one of their football stadiums with the name of pele. because in 50 years, in 100 from now, when children are asking, "who was pele?", well, they need to remember him all over the world in a place where you score goals. 0ur south america correspondent katy watson was also at the stadium in santos. people have been queueing here since dawn and they will be queueing throughout the night. it has been a really hot day in santos, it is peak summer here, but that has not put people off, and the queues have been getting bigger and bigger outside.

now i've seen people here, they've been crying, they have been clapping, people have even been getting on the ground and worshipping pele. the casket is open, there is a brazilian flag draped over it. i think there's a sense of reflection here. certainly, people have travelled from across brazil, young and old, people who remembered him playing but also parents, grandparents bringing children because they want to show the importance of pele, notjust for football but for brazil and brazilian culture, too. i spoke to one person who said that it is not pele who has died, it is edson, which was his real name, pele will endure. another one said that we don't have a monarchy but pele was our king. and i think thatjust shows how important pele was and still is for so many brazilians. now, after 2a hours of a wake, the coffin will then be paraded through the city of santos, followed by a family burial later on tuesday.

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. it 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 better to keep us somehow as the villains, they have shown absolutely no willingness to reconcile. i'd like to get my father 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 new 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.

you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. back where it belongs — the looted egyptian treasure that's been returned to cairo. 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 says 63 of its soldiers died in a ukrainian attack in donetsk — the biggest death toll acknowledged by moscow for a single incident in the war. but ukraine says the strike killed hundreds of russian soldiers. and thousands continue to queue to see pele lying in state, ahead of his funeral on tuesday. 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 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. 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. 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 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: i 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. or 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 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. an ancient egyptian sarcophagus that was looted 15 years ago has been returned to cairo.

the so—called green coffin is nearly three metres long and dates back more than 2,000 years. it had recently been on display at a museum in texas. it's one of thousands of items recovered by the egyptian authorities. the bbc�*s tim allman reports. ancient, mysterious, and now finally back home. the green coffin predates christ, a brightly painted wooden sarcophagus belonging to an egyptian priest. it's from the country's late dynastic period which spanned the 7th to the 4h century bc, its return a significant source of cultural and national pride. translation: recovering this sarcophagus and bringing - it back to the country is a new step in the success of the foreign ministry to protect egypt's national heritage. it is a reflection of the spirit of cooperation between egypt and the united states. the green coffin has

been on quite a journey. it was looted from the abu sir necropolis north of cairo in 2008. smuggled by a global art trafficking network, its first destination was germany, then it was taken to the us, a collector loaning it to a museum in houston in 2013. and all those air miles have taken quite a toll. translation: a big part of | the sarcophagus unfortunately is in bad shape as a result of being smuggled illegally. we plan to take it to the egyptian museum to conduct something like first aid, some meticulous restoration. this is only one of nearly 30,000 smuggled artefacts recovered over the last ten years and there are believed to be many more still out there. the green coffin is back home, but the hunt for egypt's stolen treasure goes on. tim allman, bbc news.

that's all for now, stay with bbc news. hello. tuesday is going to be a wet and windy day right across the uk. we will have had some clear skies and even a touch of frost earlier on in the night across northern and eastern areas of the country, but the rain bearing clouds and this weather system are racing in our direction, racing in our direction, you can see that clear gap here, the clearer skies earlier on. and really over the next 2a to 48 hours and beyond, we will see very mild air spreading all the way from the azores, from the subtropics in fact, so temperatures could reach the mid—teens in the south of the country. so here is the forecast then. by 3am, rain across western areas, still clear for a time with a touch of frost further east, but a big temperature contrast across the uk,

and then watch how that weather front or actually multiple weather fronts spread across the country through the morning into the afternoon, temporarily some mountain snow there in scotland. it's not going to be raining all the time, i think the rain will come and go. in fact, there could even be a little bit of brightness to the east of the pennines for a time, but it won't last for very long. temperatures widely into double figures across england, wales and northern ireland, a bit colder the other side of the weather front in northern scotland, and then more of the same through the course of tuesday evening and really quite blustery around coasts, 40, maybe even 50 miles an hour. and i think most of the rain will fall around south—western and western parts of scotland, perhaps central areas as well, could be 50mm of rain here, perhaps some local disruption to transport. now, here is wednesday, we are still in the wake of that area of low pressure, a lot of isobars there, and wednesday really will be a very blustery day. here are the gusts in the morning, perhaps in excess of 50 miles an hour around some coastalareas, blustery inland, but again not

raining all the time. on wednesday, we are forecasting sunshine and showers, but the showers will be moving swiftly on because of that strong wind. and look at the temperatures — 15 in london, my goodness, we are injanuary, 10 degrees expected in glasgow. and then the rest of the week, just multiple weather systems barrel across the atlantic and head towards us, but it does look as though friday might actually bring some decent weather, sort of a gap in between the weather systems. but look how mild it is in the south, temperatures relatively mild in the north as well. that's it from me, bye—bye.

this is bbc news, will have the headlines and all the main stories at the top of the hour as news days continues straight after hardtalk. —— news day. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur and today i'm in beautiful northern california to meet the man once described by henry kissinger as the most dangerous in america. in 1971, that man, my guest daniel ellsberg, leaked the so called pentagon papers. he exposed decades of us government lies about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg.