this is bbc world news, the headlines... the frontrunner to become the next speaker of the us house of representatives has said he now has enough support to win. kevin mccarthy said he was confident he will secure a majority of votes during friday evening. meanwhile, president biden is marking the second anniversary of the attack with a ceremony at the white house. a minute's silence was held at the capitol building earlier in the day. ukraine says russia is continuing to carry out attacks — despite declaring a ceasefire for the orthodox christmas. president putin ordered the 36—hour pause, but a regional governor in eastern ukraine says russian forces are failing to implement it. there have been more claims and allegations about the royal family that have been leaked from prince harry's

autobiography, spare. kensington palace and buckingham palace have both said they will not comment. at 10pm, clive myrie be here with a full round—up of the day's news. first — extreme conservation: turkey. i am michaela strachan, a wildlife presenter who is passionate about conservation. my work has taken me all over the world and in that time i have seen huge changes, many due to climate change. in extreme conservation we meet inspirational people who have dedicated their lives to protecting the natural world. i am in turkey. this country's stunning forest are facing devastating losses.

but it is notjust the trees that need saving, it is also the creatures. i am meeting the remarkable people trying to save honeybees. you are a bee whisperer. and those building the brown bears a safe to room. this is extreme conservation turkey. turkey is huge, a vast and evaded country stretching over 1500km. turkey is surrounded by water on three sides, the mediterranean sea, the black sea and the aegean sea and in the east at is mountainous and rugged and all that influences the climate and different ways.

it is a country that is so rich in natural diversity, its sweeping pine forest one of its key assets. as temperatures rise these forests are being destroyed by wildfires, getting ever more intense. i start myjourney on the western coast, a short bus ride from the coastal town of bodrum with thick pine forests stretch all the way to the beaches. like so many places around the world summers here have got hotter and drier and recently they have had horrendous forest fires that have completely changed the landscape. all of this used to be green

forest and now look at it. here, an area bigger than 100 football fields was wiped out in days. these most recent fires were more ferocious than any wildfire turkey has ever seen before. hussain is one of many thousands of people who have lost almost everything in the fire.

people rely on these forests to make a living, not from the trees themselves but from the creatures that live in them. these trees are vital to the survival of one of the most important insects on the planet, an insect you might not immediately associate with forests. the honeybee. stroll down a street in the region and you can see how central honey is to the economy. this is the honey that is unique to this area, not flower honey, it is pine honey, produced from pine trees and almost all the pine honey in the world comes from this little corner of turkey. i have never tried pine honey so i am looking forward to this. apparently it taste very different.

that is so good. it tastes woody and almost spicy. pine honey is not made by a bee alone, a small grub has a big role to play. i am meeting yonca tokbas, a bee expert, to find out more about these intriguing insects and how they contribute to making pine honey. she has dedicated herself to preserving the bee way of life even running marathons. what a beautiful forest. you get the smell and the sound of the forest. this is the bug.

that tiny thing. it is taking the sap and creating this liquid and that is what the bee is taking from the pine tree. this tiny animal that you have difficulty seeing is the magic creator of the whole process. more than half the essential grubs were wiped out by the fires. if you do not have the insects you do not have food for bees and you do not have pine honey. with natural food sources dwindling and many hives destroyed, yonca warns some honey producers are putting too much pressure on the remaining bees. we encourage them not to feed them

chemicals are unnatural sugars to produce more than they can. we are exploiting. exactly. this man comes from a long line of bee farmers and bees are not just a source of income but a way of life. they clearly know you. you are a bee whisperer. his traditional methods to look after his 10 million bees. look at that. his way is simple, he believes

the bees should be left to do it naturally, collecting nectar from the wild and return it to the hive to make honey. this is not the optimum production method. intensively farmed bees just come out of the hives and drink sugar water and then go back into produce. they do not travel around the ecosystem as they should pollinating plants including our fruit and vegetables. he said they get unhealthy and die sooner. this is a point of honey naturally produced and it really does taste delicious. it is interesting how we are all familiar with battery farming and exploiting chickens for eggs and meat but how many of us have thought about the exploitation

of bees with intense beekeeping and the damage that is doing. it seems to me the extreme conservation for bees is to go back to basics, back to this traditional way of beekeeping. the recovery of the pine forests is crucial and until then these bees have limited resources to survive. what are the main things people need to understand about bees for future conservation? plant some of the flowers they love, it is a food resource for them. this is the amount of honey that a bee can produce in a lifetime. just in that, do not waste it. finding out a bee producesjust 1/12

of a teaspoon of honey has made me think about how much we use. for yonca she is determined to save the bees by inspiring the next generation. the youth is amazing, much more aware than we are and they are working on trying to help nature more than a generation. when we think of forestry think of that importance to fight climate change but they are equally important for biodiversity, so much of our wildlife lives and thrives in a forest. as we have seen with the honeybee and that tiny bug it would not survive if it was not for all these trees, a precious ecosystem that desperately needs protecting.

continuing myjourney of extreme conservation i am in the mountains of east turkey. i have travelled 11100 kilometres from the aegean coast to the armenian border. in winter this area is popularfor skiing but it is mainly a farming region. over time lots of fun is had been filled for pasture leaving just a patchwork of trees behind. but i am here as this is home to turkey's majestic migrating brown bear. naturally the bears would live in these mountains in spring and summer and when food becomes harder to find an autumn some of them travel over 100 kilometres to the black syrian when they fatten

up and come back to hibernate for winter. this natural pattern of behaviour has now been disrupted. researchers emrah coban and aysegul 0neren have been observing the bears for a decade and dedicated their lives to protecting them. i am joining them in the hope of getting a glimpse of these magnificent creatures. hi. you're listening for the bears? we are searching for the signal of one of the bears. they have been collecting detailed data to understand human activity is impacting the migration habits of the bears. the forest they live in has become fragmented, dramatically

changing their behaviour. we are here before dusk to increase our chances of seeing them. and we are in luck. this has been a really exciting, we have seen seven bears come out this forest including two camps but the only reason we are seeing so many of them together is because they are on their way to this, the dump site and they are going there to feed. the bears are here to scavenge. some of the forest had been overtaken by urban development so they are forced to feed on our rubbish.

oh my word. look at them, so many. 18. is that what you counted? this is really depressing. you can see the cub even. for me it is exciting to see bears but not like this, this is really sad. he is too much food, they are trying to eat leftover but many times they eat plastic. the young cubs copy the adults and so learn that the scavenging behaviour. the campus are learning to eat in the garbage. walking off with a whole bag of rubbish. some bears are very fat and lazy because they are not moving too much.

this is a really sad sight and it is all—too—familiar across the world as habitats are being destroyed wild animals for two come into build—up areas to find food. a massive problem that needs a massive solution. the team has come up with an ambitious plan to lure bears away from the dump. they want to create a new travel route for the bears taking existing patches of forest they are planting 11 million trees to fill in the gaps. this forested route will stretch over 160 kilometres right up to the georgian border. creating turkey's first

wildlife corridor. they hope it will entice the bears to migrate once again. this is perfect for bears, thick forest but then it just stops and then as this vast expanse of nothing and the next forest is 1a kilometres away so this habitat has become really fragmented. the bears have a big role to play in this ecosystem, they keep the balance amongst the animals that roam these forests, the lynx and wolves and even rabbits. we all have a kind of silent agreement with each other, if you take out one species we could think about the health of the agreement would not exist any more. we are tracking along their route looking for any clues to show

at least some of them are still trying to make the journey. look. this is footprints. this is rubbing trees. this is where they come and rub. some hairs and scratching. i can see. some bears scratch but almost bears like this. that must be great to see. this is the sort of information emrah and aysegul have been painstakingly collecting for ten years. this is like our eyes in the forest. they have installed around 50 of these cameras which up to document the natural behaviour of the animals and their

relationships with each other and they have also column some with gps trackers to map how they move around in this patchwork of forest and see where they are running into trouble. this is the bear movement, it has recorded every hour. we have the information of their movement and behaviour, the time they are spending in the forest. it tells us the at these animals need more space to move and go further. also in the way are the pastures cleared for farming.

these aren't planned to be planted. the data shows some of the braver bears move between forest and hope more tree cover will encourage others to migrate. the initial trees in the project were planted only a few months ago.

i am joining this man to plant some of the first saplings in the area. i have played a tiny part of a huge and exciting project. it will take years before it is finished but wouldn't it be amazing to come back here and see this whole area forested, full of bears and lynx and wolves and so much other wildlife that become an incredibly precious ecosystem. only when the wildlife is roaming freely in the forest and can find food and nature can this dump be

safely shut off to bears. 20 years later i hope everywhere as trees not open area like this. and it bears do not eat the trash just their food. and hanging around here and having fun being in the real wildlife. we hope so. during my time here i have met incredible individuals fighting to protect the creatures living alongside them. desperately trying to manage the delicate balance between people and nature. rewilding the finest voting time but it also takes care and consideration of all its inhabitants. big or small. we have pushed so much of our wildlife into unsustainable pockets and lost whole ecosystems already.

climate change and our insatiable appetite for development has destroyed so many habitats and it is up to us to try and find ways to recreate them. what they are doing here in turkey is ambitious but if it works hopefully it will be an inspiration for other projects around the world. hello. it's been a mild, wet and windy start to 2023,

and that trend will continue really for most of us for the next 5—10 days. here's the weekend's powerful area of low pressure pushing strong—to—gale—force winds in, and rain. that clears out the way and then the next area of low pressure rushes in to replace it, so all the time keeping that mostly mild atlantic flow, but as they clear away, at times we will find some colder air tucking in. so it's never too far away from the far north of the uk, but for the majority, i think, the theme this week, as you can see, is further outbreaks of wet and windy weather, not just this weekend but into next week as well. so through the weekend, some of the wettest weather in the west, but we will all see some rain, perhaps 40mm, and by the end of next week we could have up to 100mm falling in the west, but, as i say, for all parts, you can see it's looking unsettled, it's looking wet. so for the weekend, it remains mild for most of us, blustery winds but some rain or some showers. initially, the rain giving, as i say, quite a concern for flooding across wales and the southwest.

as that slowly eases away, it is replaced by brighter skies but showers. as the low pressure closes in, we see the winds pushing up again and we're going to have large waves around our coasts. we've got a full moon and we've got those strong to gale—force winds coming in, so 6—7—metre waves. temperatures 7—8, about average for the time of year. that low pressure is closer by to our shores come sunday so the winds escalate further. weather fronts close by into the south and west, so it is a very unsettled—looking picture. showers or longer spells of rain, and those showers will be heavy with squally winds and some hail with them, thunder and lightning. the tops of this hills, a bit of snow too and, as i say, we've got those strong winds to boot. so it will probably feel a little bit fresher on sunday, temperatures closer to where they should be for early january. and then as we move from sunday into monday, we pick up a bit of a northwesterly for a time, so there could be a wintry element on the tops of the hills.

again, nothing unusualforjanuary, and fewer showers as we push towards the afternoon, and that's because we've got a little ridge of high pressure building in ahead of the next weather system. the winds not quite as strong for most of us later monday, just the north and east. then the next area of low pressure rushes in, and as that rain comes into that cold air, we could see a spell of snow, particularly over the hills in the north, possibly at lower levels for parts of scotland, but for the majority it's more wet weather, it's more mild weather, it's more windy weather. look at the temperatures in the south — 12s and 13s, but if we do see that snow, obviously a little bit cooler further north. that cold air is close by. so the devil is going to be in the detail of these weather fronts and exactly how far north they go and how quickly, but on tuesday into wednesday, the showers take over with that northwesterly wind once again. so a slightly fresher element coming in, the chance of some of those showers being a bit wintry over the hills. but again, it's january. 7—10 celsius — again, just a smidgen above average but then, as we move towards thursday, we've got more wet

weather moving in. so it is, as i say, the same real weather script with weather system after weather system moving through, keeping most rather unsettled. still that chilly air, as i say, across the northern half of the country. but the detail could change so please do stay tuned if you have plans, but for most, i think, that concern with flooding, with more rain on saturated ground and spells of strong wind as well as those very large waves through the coming weekend.

silence from the palace as prince harry makes more sensational claims. from seeing the queen on her deathbed to how he found out his mother had died. little is off the table, but he insists he still wants reconciliation. i want reconcilliatioin. but first there needs to be some accountability. the truth supposedly at the moment is that there is only one side to this story, right? but there's two sides to every story. and i need tonight over his claim to have killed 25 taliban fighters in afghanistan, apparently describing them as chess pieces.

he's giving a wrong impression when he makes