this is bbc news. i'm monika plaha. our top stories: lisa marie presley, the musician and only daughter of elvis presley, dies aged 5a after suffering cardiac arrest. president biden faces tough questions from reporters after a second set of classified records are found, this time in his garage. classified material next to your corvette — what were you thinking? my corvette's in a locked garage, 0k, so it's not like it was sitting out on the street. ukraine says heavy fighting with russian forces continues in the eastern town of soledar with a senior defence official calling the situation there �*very difficult�*. as more storms are forecast

to hit california, the human cost of the floods becomes apparent. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. lisa marie presley, the musician and only daughter of elvis presley, has died in california. the 54—year—old singer—songwriter is believed to have suffered a cardiac arrest. when she attended the golden globe awards. peter bowes is following events from los angeles. we heard some hours ago that she had been taken to hospital. she lived in the los angeles suburb of calabasas, just on the outskirts of the city, and she was, according to multiple reports, she was found unconscious at her home.

paramedics were called and an attempt was made to save her life, to get her heart going again, and we know from priscilla presley, her mother, who put a message into social media a couple of hours ago that she had been taken to hospital and she was asking at that time for people's prayers. but, as i say, we now hear tragically that she has died. the only daughter of elvis presley. and as you say, we saw her just a couple of days ago here in los angeles at the golden globe awards, posing for photographs with priscilla presley and austin butler, the actor who plays elvis in the latest film, the new film about elvis presley. so this is terribly sad news. lisa marie presley of course a successful singer and songwriter in her own right. she was married several times,

including for a short period of time to michaeljackson. i know people had very fond thoughts of her and been hoping for the best, and this will come as a terrible shock at such a young age to so many people. let's speak to eric alpe, a publicist and music commentator who joins us from toronto. hi. thank you very much for joining me. she was an icon, wasn't she? her dad one of the most famous men in the world, but she herself also leaves behind a very special legacy of her own. , . ., ,., behind a very special legacy of her own. , . ., ., , her own. yes, and also a very famous mother, _ her own. yes, and also a very famous mother, priscilla - her own. yes, and also a very i famous mother, priscilla ended up famous mother, priscilla ended up in several comedies in the 19805 up in several comedies in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming a pretty big hollywood star, but having that presley name open up having that presley name open up a lot of doors for her, certainly, enclose a lot of doors. it wasn't easy obviously being the only daughter of elvis presley, ease of ——

easily one of the most famous people that this will have ever seen that might —— that this world have ever seen, really successful her first album called to whom it may concern, that was released in 2003, went gold, selling over 500,000 copies in america, and she stated she had several mountains to climb trying to achieve a musical career, the first is that people have to stop gawking at her and treat herfor stop gawking at her and treat her for what she was, a singer first, and the second thing is that kind of overbearing thought that she is always going to be the daughter of elvis presley, she is going to look like him, she will sound like him, and i think when you are the offspring of somebody as famous as elvis is, it is always going to have to make your own mark. she was able to do it for a long period of time as well. �* , ., , ., as well. and i believe that you met her on — as well. and i believe that you met her on two _ as well. and i believe that you met her on two occasions. - as well. and i believe that you i met her on two occasions. what was she like when you met her,

and you have any fond memories? yeah, she was very, very cool, i have to say. i work in the music industry as a publicist so i met a lot of big—name musicians and celebrity, you can see it in her eyes when she was meeting people that everybody knew that she knew who she was. sometimes you just can't get over the fact that it is her, it is somebody that in america you have read about for five decades, you've seen her grow up in front of your eyes, you've seen her in the tabloid and the mainstream press of her several marriages to michael jackson and nicholas cage, you have watched her become a mother, and only recently she wrote a very harrowing essay about the suicide of her son back in 2020. but you can see kind of all of that in her eyes

and in her manner, but she was and in her manner, but she was a very, very cool person, very down—to—earth, love meeting her fans and knew exactly who she was, and it was never going to be easy, but she did her best for sure. £31 be easy, but she did her best for sure-— for sure. of course. some lovely words _ for sure. of course. some lovely words there. - for sure. of course. some lovely words there. and . for sure. of course. some lovely words there. and it j for sure. of course. some - lovely words there. and it was just on tuesday, wasn't it, when she was at the golden globes with her mum, celebrating the biotech film on her father that essentially marked his legacy.- her father that essentially marked his legacy. yeah, and that is the — marked his legacy. yeah, and that is the strangest - marked his legacy. yeah, and that is the strangest thing. i that is the strangest thing. you don't expect to see somebody on television that they passed away. but the last number of years she has been working with baz luhrmann, the director of the elvis film, doing promotion, doing media, spreading the good word that this was an absolute astonishing movie for music fans and elvis fans and fans of drama alike. so she was certainly proud of the work that austin who played elvis did, she was proud of her

father's legacy in there, certainly change the perception of his character and what he meant to america. so she was immensely proud of the film and loved it. she said that after watching the film for the first time she had to take a breather for a couple of days because it hit her so hard. so sad news, especially when most of america was watching the golden globes and around the world only to find out that the said use happened tonight.- find out that the said use happened tonight. find out that the said use ha ened toniaht. . , .,, happened tonight. yeah, she was really taken _ happened tonight. yeah, she was really taken back _ happened tonight. yeah, she was really taken back by _ happened tonight. yeah, she was really taken back by austin's - really taken back by austin's performance there. thank you very much for your time here on bbc news. very much for your time here on bbc newe— bbc news. thank you so much for havin: bbc news. thank you so much for having me- _ bbc news. thank you so much for having me. talk— bbc news. thank you so much for having me. talk soon. _ in none of —— other news now. the us attorney general has appointed a special counsel to investigate whether joe biden broke the law in his handling of classified records from his time as vice president. it comes after a second set of documents was found in a garage at mr biden's home in delaware.

a first batch had been discovered earlier in his former office at a washington think tank. here's our north america editor sarah smith. after admitting he was keeping classified documents at his delaware home, stored in the garage alongside his vintage sports car, president biden has a lot of explaining to do. classified material next to your corvette — what were you thinking?! my corvette's in a locked garage, ok, so it's not like it's sitting out in the street. people know i take classified documents and classified materials seriously. i also said we are cooperating fully and completely withhe— justice department's review. earlier this week, we learned that classified documents had been found in a washington office mr biden used after leaving the vice presidency in 2017. that prompted his lawyers to search his residence in wilmington, where a small number of documents were found, and immediately turned over to thejustice department. wholly different, says the white house, to the hundreds of classified documents uncovered when the fbi raided former president trump's florida home last year. president biden condemned

trump's actions then as "totally irresponsible". not once, but now we're finding in two different locations, classified information just out there in the open. anotherfaux pas by the biden administration, but treating the law differently based upon your political beliefs. america's top lawyer, the us attorney general, has to be seen to apply the law equally. he has already appointed one special counsel to investigate mr trump's actions. today, he appointed another, to look at mr biden's retention of documents. the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. the white house insists that the case of the biden documents is nowhere near as serious as the trump document saga, but parallels keep emerging. classified material being stored at home and now a special counsel

being appointed to investigate. that means this story will now drag on for months, and could well overshadow any plans president biden had to announce soon that he was running for president again in 202a. the white house says it is confident a thorough review will show the documents were inadvertently misplaced, and were handed over as soon as they were discovered. sarah smith, bbc news, washington. well, earlier, i spoke to aruna viswanatha, a senior reporter in the wall streetjournal�*s washington bureau. in terms of legally, we don't yet know. what we know is only what's unfolded this week. we understand that his aides found a set of classified documents at his think tank, and then again, a little bit later in his garage, but that is not what is supposed to happen. once you leave office, even if you are the vice president, you are supposed to leave

all of the classified documents within a secure facility and not take them with you to your office or to your garage. but they did turn these things over pretty quickly, alerted thejustice department who is now investigating, and so thejustice department will have to determine, and this new special counsel will have to determine, did anyone commit crimes in sort of taking these documents out and keeping them outside of secure facilities? politically, though, that is clearly a bigger deal right now. after months of former president trump being under investigation for a similar mishandling of classified information and president biden criticising him for that, he has somewhat of a similar scenario here. and, aruna, you mentioned donald trump there, so, inevitably, president biden is going to be compared to donald trump for keeping classified documents after leaving office. so if you could just give

a brief explanation on how the two situations actually compare? sure. i mean, they compare at a very high level in the sense that they both had potentially classified materials at their homes after they left office. where they differ is in the quantity — when the fbi went to search his — former president trump's property in florida, they found dozens of boxes with hundreds of classified and other government documents that had supposed to have been turned over. former president trump's lawyers had even told the justice department they had turned all of these over, and so there was questions there about whether they were misleading authorities and why they had hung onto them after they said they had turned them over. with president biden, at least what we know so far is that he has cooperated, and that means a lot when you are talking about potential criminal liability. stay with us on bbc news.

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when they heard of her death today, the management considered whether to cancel tonight's performance, but agatha christie would have been the last person to want such a thing. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: lisa marie presley — the musician and only daughter of elvis presley — has died aged 5a after suffering a cardiac arrest. the usjustice department has appointed a special counsel to investigatejoe biden's handling of classified documents from when he was vice president. a russian mercenary group fighting in ukraine claims to have found the body of one of two uk aid workers who have been reported missing.

they were last seen heading to the town of soledar in the east of the country. soledar is currently the scene of fierce fighting — along with the neighbouring town of bakhmut. the bbc�*s james waterhouse, who's in kyiv, gave us his assessment of the situation. the town of soledar and nearby bakhmut, a city, have become the focal points on the eastern front of ukraine. it is an area where contract soldiers, a private army called the wagner group, is doing the bulk of russia's fighting and they are throwing everything at the town of soledar and bakhmut to try and achieve some immediate gain. we're in a phase of this conflict where they are throwing everything at it, at a huge human cost. and i wouldn't be surprised to see ukraine make some kind of tactical retreat to wait for russian forces to exhaust themselves, if you like. for now, kyiv is adamant the defensive lines are holding and they say the wagner group are putting some of their best soldiers into soledar to try and make more immediate gains. the russians are claiming that it has control, but there are, as ever, conflicting reports in terms

of the military significance. i wouldn't place too much on soledar. this is about a propaganda trophy for vladimir putin to present to critics back inside russia. the direction of the war i don't think will be influenced greatly by what we are seeing in the east. but the fighting is fierce and the human cost is great. cyclones continue to batter the us state of california with the tragic stories behind the headlines beginning to emerge. they include that of 5—year—old kyle doan, who has been missing since floodwaters swept him away, just minutes after he reassured his mother that they just needed to "be calm". at least 19 people are now known to have been killed by the flooding and mud slides which began in late december. 0ur correspondent james clayton reports. a brief lull in the rain in northern california has allowed authorities to assess the damage from successive storms. a search had been under way for kyle, a five—year—old boy living in sonoma. he liked people.

he liked to dance. he was very outgoing, active. on monday, the floods submerged the car he and his mother were in as she drove him back from school. rescuers were able to get to his mother, but kyle was swept out into the water. and my wife just happened to be closer to them. and when she was able to reach out to the rope that they were able to have and the flow of my son was farther down and they saw him. he was face up. he was floating face up. it's hard to process. elsewhere, a 43—year—old woman, daphne fontenot, was found dead in her car after floodwaters submerged her vehicle. in san francisco, some of the city's homeless have been living through relentless rain. we're at a flyover here. and as you can see, it gives a little bit of shelter to people who were living on the streets. but even here, it's been raining so much that a lot of ground water has swept in. and we've been told that some of the tents here were flooded over night.

the flood water came up to morris's tent. was this bit here was flooded last night? yeah, the centre island here. the water was coming over the top. so these are your clothes here? yeah. yes. and are they 0k? are they dry? all wet. ashley has been sleeping rough and says she's used to her tent flooding now. has your tent been flooded at all? yes, it has. terrible. everything has to go most of the time. it's not raining at the moment, but there's more rain forecast here for friday and the weekend as the city and those who don't have homes brace for yet more flooding. james clayton, bbc news, san francisco. police in romania have raided more properties as part of their investigation into the social media personality andrew tate. now you may not have heard of him but if you've got teenagers — especially boys — they almost certainly will have.

the self—proclaimed misogynist has a loyal following on social media— despite being banned from facebook, instagram, tiktok and youtube. some british schools are so worried about influence that they're devoting entire lessons to trying to counteract his views. our special correspondent lucy manning reports andrew tate is in a romanian jail, but he still sits in the minds of british teenagers. why is it that andrew tate has had so much impact? at the st dunstan's college, they don't ignore the problem. the online influencer had millions of followers, but views he admits are misogynistic. he's been arrested as part of a rape and human trafficking investigation — allegations he denies. what is it about his videos that give the perception of them being so popular? because at first, seemingly, his most videos he might have, like, a funnyjoke at the beginning, but as you watch more and more of his videos, his radical views develop and it kind of like seeps into your mind. another reason it's -

so successful is because it's controversial, so it _ will invoke a reaction and make people angry, which will then make them more likely- to, like, talk about it. someone who, like, dresses really well, has lots of money, lots of cars, and he brings that into his videos a lot, and he kind of like connects that with his views. if they see loads of views, it's something they are going to click on because they want to be with the crowd. just raise your hands if you were aware of| andrew tate before all this happened. i so you are all aware. most of you, almost i everyone in the class. 0k. even those who have reported them as offensive can't escape them. with andrew tate videos, i got one of him and i put �*it makes me uncomfortable.�* like, i don�*t want to see it again. i�*m not interested. and i still get them. like, i got one yesterday. some people would say you just need to ignore the views of andrew tate. yeah, i absolutely hear that, but the reality is that these young, vulnerable teenagers with the growing minds are in that space, and they are listening to people like andrew tate and it's having a hugely negative impact

on their outlook on life. so how to tackle the views not just of andrew tate but others who have moved into the online space? the government points to proposed new laws to tighten the age restrictions on those looking at harmful content online, but it�*s clear tech companies, schools and parents all have a role to play. and parents are grappling with the consequences. simon wondering about the messages his son has taken away. it wasn�*tjust, you know, him talking about it. he was actually taking the stance of andrew tate with the way andrew tate sits. isaid, you know, "why are you doing this?" he says, "well, dad, this guy, he�*s rich, he�*s famous — what�*s not to like about him?" with kids, we�*ve always taken the approach that you set right from wrong. it�*s ok to express your masculinity, but don�*t do it in an obnoxious and misogynistic way. a conversation that

many are now hoping. lucy manning, bbc news. a swedish mining company says it�*s found europe�*s largest deposit of rare earth elements in northern lapland. it contains at least1 million tonnes of the minerals which are needed in various high tech products. europe is mostly dependent on china for these rare elements. tim allman reports. close to the arctic circle in the far north of sweden lies the city of kiruna. they�*ve been mining iron ore here for more than a century, but now they�*ve found something else. this computer—generated map shows the existing mine. buried nearby, and named after a famous swedish scientist, is the per geijer deposit, previously undiscovered. tons and tons of rare earth elements, or rees. what we can see today is by far the largest deposit of rees in europe — totally vital for our transformation from combustion engines

to electric engines. there are more than a dozen so—called rare earth elements which have proven to be incredibly useful to the modern world. amongst other things, they have been vital to the development of wind turbines, smart phones and electric cars. but the problem facing europe is, until now, the main source of rees has been in china. this discovery could change all that. nominations for one of the music industry�*s biggest annual events — the brit awards — have been announced, with the former 0ne direction star harry styles and indie rock duo wet leg emerging as front runners. here�*s our music correspondent mark savage. close observers have noticed the absence of women in close observers have noticed the absence of women in the

prestigious artist of the year category. # holdin�* me back # gravity�*s holdin�* me back # i want you to hold out the palm of your hand...# gravity can�*t hold him back. harry styles had the biggest selling single and album of last year, and now he is up forfour brit awards, including song of the year... # as it was...# ..for as it was. # hey, you, over there # on a chaise lounge in your underwear...# —— # on a chaise longue in your underwear...# also picking up four nominations are wet leg, the isle of wight band who burst onto the scene 18 months ago with the hit single chaise longue. we started the band and we just thought we would get to go to a few festivals, so to go to the brits and to be nominated, it'sjust... it's a bit more than we bargained for. # if i was an astronaut, i i'd be floating in midair...# sam ryder makes history. he�*s the only eurovision act ever to be nominated for best newcomer. that�*s bonkers. i truly had no idea about that. sometimes, like, the stats

and facts and figures pass me by but i didn�*t know that one. that�*s bonkers. that�*s amazing! # ijust can't explain...# but a year after the brits got rid of gendered prize categories, women are entirely missing from the best artist prize, with acts like stormzy and george ezra taking all the slots. 0rganisers say female artists and female fronted bands do account for 42% of the overall nominations, with acts like cat burns up for multiple awards. the winners will be announced at a star—studded ceremony on saturday, 11 february. mark savage, bbc news. you can reach me on twitter —

i�*m @monikaplaha. hello then. week two of january 2023 has been another wet one and in fact we are starting to see the signs of that out to the west. there�*s been some localised flooding. this was carmarthenshire thursday afternoon and through north—west england and parts of wales, some areas have already exceeded their monthly average rainfall totals and we�*re not even halfway through the month yet. now thursday�*s low pressure continues to pull away. this little ridge of high pressure builds and quiet thing down for friday until the end of the day. more wet weather waiting in the wings. so we�*ll start off with a northerly wind driving in some showers on exposed coasts here.

a narrow band of showery rain into northern ireland, south—west scotland, north—west england. but elsewhere we will still see blustery winds, but some sunny spells coming through and pleasant enough, mostly dry, with temperatures peaking between six and 11 degrees. but as we move out of friday into the early hours of saturday morning, we�*ll start to see more wet weather. and unfortunately, the heaviest of the rain is likely to push across those areas that have already exceeded the monthly rainfall totals. so that mightjust exacerbate any potential flooding so that a frontal system is going to move away and then a trail of showers tucks in behind. so it�*s a wet start for england, wales, for northern ireland, southern scotland. the rain pushes off to the north, say a trail of showers packs in along north and west facing coasts. but there will be some sunny spells into the afternoon. still mild in the south—east with 12 degrees, but somewhat cooler conditions starting to kick in now across the far north. and that is going to be the tone into the third week of january. so from sunday onwards, noticeably colder. we will start to see some frost and we haven�*t seen those so far this year.

and yes, any precipitation may well turn wintry because we�*re going to see that northerly flow. and with any little weather fronts moving into that cold air, some of those showers could turn wintry even at lower levels. so you need to keep abreast of the forecast over the next few days. on sunday, we�*ll see some showers, rain, sleet and snow along north and west facing coasts and noticeably colder afternoon just a couple of degrees above freezing in scotland, highs of seven degrees further south. cooler with further wintry showers to come monday into tuesday. take care.

this is bbc news. the headlines: lisa marie presley, the musician and only daughter of elvis presley, has died after being taken to hospital in los angeles having suffered a cardiac arrest. she was 5a. she was last seen in public attending the golden globe awards on tuesday. the usjustice department has appointed a special counsel to investigate joe biden�*s handling of classified documents. he told reporters that a second batch of papers had been found in the garage of his delaware home. mr biden said he would cooperate fully with the counsel�*s investigation. ukraine�*s military says heavy fighting continues in the largely destroyed eastern town of soledar

near bakhmut.