more than 120 people die in afghanistan due to freezing temperatures. we'll have a special report. we've only been out here for a few minutes and eyebrows are frozen i feel like my face will fall off! imagine if you lived, day in, day out, in conditions like this. a strategic win for ukraine with reports that germany will send its leopard 2 tanks following international pressure. classified documents are found at the home of former us vice—president mike pence. his lawyer says he'll co—operate with an inquiry. new zealand has a new prime minister as chris hipkins takes over from jacinda ardern. and, over in hollywood, the fantasy film everything, everywhere all at once leads the oscar nominations with 11 nods. we'll look at what else has made the cut.

welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start with the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. ever since the taliban seized power again in 2021, millions of women and girls have lost access to education and other freedoms. the country is now facing a humanitarian crisis, with its coldest winter in a decade. temperatures are as low as minus 31 degrees celsius. the united nations estimates that 97% of afghans are living in poverty. some 20 million people are facing acute hunger. two—thirds of afghans are in need of humanitarian assistance, including clean water and sanitation, and yet the taliban is refusing to lift the ban

on female aid workers that ban was confirmed in a statement to the bbc today. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has travelled to the salang in the hindu kush to see how bad things are. a winter wonderland of aching beauty, but brutal. we are travelling through the masses of the hindu kush, through the world's second—highest road tunnel, the salang tunnel. a place of legend. it's an engineering wonder, but a death trap. especially in winter, in avalanches and accidents. the only highway rescue at this spot is sakhi mohammed, selling chains for tyres in the coldest winter

in a decade. tough stuff in threadbare clothes. translation: it gets so cold you cannot see the road. you can't walk, and the heaters in cars don't work. these are the lives people live here. it's so cold, but he said it's going to get colder still. we've been outjust for minutes and my eyebrows are frozen and my face feels like it's going to fall off. imagine if you lived day in, day out, in conditions like this. this is the only way to reach sakhi mohammed's home. there is no road. nothing is easy in this life. this is what life is like here — literally lived on the edge. even for the littlest, with little

coverfrom this biting cold. a home made of mud with the warmth of a large family. translation: i have heard people died of cold. - my kids recently got sick. some of my animals died. until now, i haven't heard people died in salang. even five—year—old jamshad helps keep them alive. he tells us how they have to carry water from the river, how his hands and feet burn in the cold, how he freezes in the wind and storms. they survive with a traditional stove and twigs. and under this red and gold blanket, charcoal burns. you can taste the fumes in this room. this year, their heating costs soared, just like

the rest of the world. translation: no aid agencies have come to help us, - not under the last government or the taliban government. an aid agency did come by this month. this family wasn't seen as needy. imagine the others. their oldest daughters didn't go to school. they couldn't afford it. 14—year—old zainab was the luckiest — she got to go, but then the taliban shut girls�* high schools. such hard lives in such harsh terrain. afghan rulers come and go. nature's power ever—present. lyse doucet, bbc news, salang. after much pressure and anticipation, there are reports in the german media

that the country will send leopard 2 battle tanks to ukraine. reports suggest olaf sholz will give the go—ahead to send 14 tanks, paving the way for poland and other european countries to also send some of their german—made leopard tanks to kyiv. analysts say this could be a game changerfor ukraine in its efforts to repel russian troops from its territory. sofia bettiza has the latest. he has been hesitant for days. but now, after mounting pressure, german chancellor olaf scholz appears to have finally given the green light. according to german media, he will send at least 14 leopard 2 tanks to kyiv. these are world—class weapons. produced in germany, they are widely seen as the best fit for ukraine. at least 16 european and nato countries have them, but until now, they weren't allowed to export them because germany had to give permission — something that caused some frustration.

the polish prime minister accused germany of acting in a way that was difficult to understand. in particular, germany. they have 350 leopard tanks operational and 200 leopard tanks in storage. why to keep them in storage? poland and the free world cannot afford not to send leopard tanks and not to send modern weapon to ukraine. in his evening address, ukrainian president zelensky thanked his european allies, but said that more needed to be done. translation: there is a lot of talk about the tanks - that we need, a lot of effort, words and promises. but it is important to see the reality. it is not about five or ten or 15 tanks. the need is greater. discussions need to end with decisions, decisions to really strengthen our defence against the terrorists.

our allies have the necessary number of tanks. zelensky sees leopard 2 tanks as a vital weapon. he says he needs 300. he is unlikely to get them. but if he were to receive even 100, that could be a turning point, and could help ukrainian soldiers break through russian lines and recapture territory this year. sofia bettiza, bbc news. elbridge colby is a former department of defense official. he explained to me why germany was reluctant to send tanks up until this point. well, it's a little bit of a mystery. i think there's actually been quite a lot of public speculation. i think the most charitable interpretation, or the most commonly proffered is that germany is very uncomfortable with having german tanks fighting russian forces on ukrainian soil and so forth. i don't think that explanation has tended to add up that much, so it is a bit of a mystery. and if scholz tomorrow,

as expected, announces the release, it will have cost a lot, politically, and in terms of perceptions of the germans, without really — with the same result, so it is a bit mystifying. is this a significant moment, do you think? i think it is significant. on the one hand, look, tanks are important, they're not everything, but main battle tanks are really important. the ukrainians are running out of the previously soviet—made ones. the leopard 2 tank is one of the most capable tanks in the world. people often talk about the american abrams, but the leopard is nothing to be sneezed at, farfrom it. and its infrastructure structure is much more readily available in central and eastern europe, and of course the russians have tanks as well. so i think the significance is linked to the perception that both the russians and the ukrainians appear to be planning offensives either later in the winter or in the spring. i would caution, on the other hand, there tends to be a little bit — sometimes it seems to me a bit too much of an emphasis. i mean, i think the signals

coming out — not only of some parts of the us government, but even the nato deputy secretary general, is that this war is probably likely to become protracted and there may be back and forth. tanks will be important for that, but i don't see it as a panacea, as a magic solution, but as one part of the way to support ukraine, and a particularly important way that europeans are taking the lead, which is really important if and as this war becomes more protracted. you mentioned that russia will be doing a very similar move in terms of preparation. how are they going to react, do you think, to these tanks being exported to ukraine? i would not expect them to react radically. battle tanks are extremely significant and imposing if you will, but they are battlefield weapons and tactical weapons, they are not weapons that would allow ukraine to strike deeply into russian territory or political targets of nuclear forces. one of the reasons i surmise that germany may have been reluctant is the fear of russian escalation and the russians certainly may have telegraphed that, in fact they have made some

statements in that effect. but i would expect this to be within the boundaries of what we've seen already, but it does look like the war is going to continue, the russians have mobilised dramatically. if anything, that tells us they are preparing for a long, hardfought conventional war and that tells us it will be bloodied, but not necessarily dramatically escalating as a result of this. let's get some of the day's other news: the president of peru has called for a national truce as thousands of protesters remain on the streets, demanding her resignation. dina boluarte said weeks of demonstrations had cost the country more than a billion dollars. around 50 people have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces. the usjustice department has filed a lawsuit against google for its dominance of the online advertising market, launching a fresh legal battle against the california—based tech giant. the case was the second federal lawsuit against google over

alleged antitrust violations and the first one since presidentjoe biden took office. google has denied it is a monopoly. scientists have set the so—called doomsday clock closer to midnight than ever before, moving its time to 90 seconds. that's ten seconds closer than it has been for the past three years. the clock is meant to illustrate how close humanity has come to the end of the world and the new time is down to threats of nuclear war, disease and climate volatility. classified documents have been found at the home of the former us vice—president mike pence in indiana during a search last week. it's the latest in a series of similar discoveries which began with an fbi raid at donald trump's mar—a—lago property in florida and has more recently seen classified files found at offices linked to current presidentjoe biden. our north america correspondent david willis has the latest. joining me now from washington dc is aram gavoor, the associate dean for academic affairs at the george washington

university. thank you forjoining us. interesting we've heard a lot of these classified documents found from people who work at the white house. how is this latest finding do you think going to influence what is going to influence what is going to influence what is going to happen with investigations elsewhere, with former president donald trump and the current presidentjoe biden? and the current president joe biden? . ~' ,, and the current president joe biden? ., ~ ., ., biden? thank you for having me on the show — biden? thank you for having me on the show. i _ biden? thank you for having me on the show. i think _ biden? thank you for having me on the show. i think the - on the show. i think the revelation of unintentional receipt, and maintenance of classified materials found in vice president mike pence's home, will figure in the calculus, with respect to special councils and and their documents against president biden and former president donald trump. the reason for thatis donald trump. the reason for that is as potentially more

government officials potentially come forth now with their own classified documents it might paint a bigger picture that this is a broader focus area and notjust localised to these two individual. i5 area and notjust localised to these two individual. is it sim -l these two individual. is it simply the _ these two individual. is it simply the case - these two individual. is it simply the case that - these two individual. is it simply the case that it's. these two individual. is it simply the case that it's hard to tell whether a document is classified or not? to to tell whether a document is classified or not?— classified or not? to tell you the truth, — classified or not? to tell you the truth, it's _ classified or not? to tell you the truth, it's not. _ classified or not? to tell you the truth, it's not. it's - classified or not? to tell you the truth, it's not. it's quite | the truth, it's not. it's quite easy to tell. they are brightly coloured, separately maintained in outer enclosure folders and at times put together in edge and taken antic stack of papers and taken antic stack of papers and supposedly could be missed but also there are distinct differences. in the instance of vice president mike pence, president trump and president biden as well.— biden as well. how do these investigations _ biden as well. how do these investigations differ? - biden as well. how do these investigations differ? in - biden as well. how do these investigations differ? in the | investigations differ? in the order of how _ investigations differ? in the order of how they _ investigations differ? in the order of how they occur, . investigations differ? in the | order of how they occur, the circumstances of president trump was pugilistic and adversarial from the sty and is an outright obstruction of

justice taking place and it has played out in the public domain and the choice of the president to utilise public domain and in the courts as well. the circumstances are president biden appears to be materials that he kept from his time in vice—president and potentially in the senate. he was a little delayed in informing the justice department and archives of this and put the attorney general in a bit of a spot we felt it appropriate to appoint a special counsel for that investigation.— investigation. now, vice-president - investigation. now, vice-president p, l investigation. now, - vice-president p, according investigation. now, _ vice-president p, according to vice—president p, according to the letter sent last wednesday and then dated last monday, january 12 in response to the media coverage, and the various documents of president biden decided to do an audit of his own materials and hired outside counsel and there are several

items identified as classified. and further investigation continues and i'm sure we'll find out more in the next few days come. thank you for joining us. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we look at which films are up for the biggest honour in hollywood — an academy award. and it looks set to be a big year for the blockbuster. the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman schoolteacher. all of them are believed to have been killed. by the evening, tahrir square, the heart of official cairo, was in the hands of the demonstrators. they were using the word revolution. the earthquake - singled out buildings and brought them down in seconds. _

tonight, the search for any survivors has an increasing| desperation about it as the hours pass. l the new government is firmly in control of the entire republic of uganda. survivors of the auschwitz concentration camp have been commemorating the 40th anniversary of their liberation. they toured the huts, gas chambers and crematoria and relived their horrifying experiences. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines. more than 120 people have died in afghanistan due to freezing temperatures. there's been a strategic win for ukraine with reports that germany will send it leopard 2 tanks following international pressure.

chris hipkins has been sworn in as new zealand's new prime minister, after the shock resignation of jacinda ardern last week, who said she didn't have enough in the tank to continue in thejob. mr hipkins was sworn in at government house in wellington, alongside carmel sepuloni, who becomes the country's first pasifika deputy prime minister. mr hipkins�* labour party will face a general election in october. our correspondent phil mercer hast the latest. it is widely acknowledged chris hipkins lacks the charisma, star power ofjacinda ardern. in 2017 ,when she was 37, jacinda ardern was the youngest female head of government in the world, and for the next four or five years it was a pretty wild political ride not only forjacinda ardern but the people of new zealand as well, navigating the christchurch mosque attacks in 2090, the white island volcanic eruption and the pandemic, that the government

in new zealand imposed some pretty harsh measures, in order to keep new zealanders safe. so jacinda ardern is heading to the exit, chris hipkins is promising a ministerial reshuffle and a reset of various policies. he has described inflation as a global pandemic, so we do expect as new hipkins labour government to be concentrating on those cost of living pressures that have caused so much dismay to new zealanders, inflation in new zealand stubbornly above 7%. and he has an election to face this year in october, how are his party, the labour party doing in the polls? if you believe the opinion polls, not very well. those snapshots of voter opinion are suggesting the labour party is slipping behind the conservative opposition, so this

promises to be a big year for chris hipkins, he is, of course, a man with very big shoes to fill, following the exit ofjacinda ardern. but to help him navigate the next nine months or so towards that general election, he isjoined by carmel sepuloni, the first deputy prime minister of pacific descent, in new zealand. new zealand has a history of some pretty talented and proud indigenous maori politicians, but carmel sepuloni is breaking new ground, in terms of new zealand's relationship with its pacific islands neighbours. phil mercer. angela bassett has made history as the first marvel cinematic universe star to be nominated for an acting oscar for her "black panther: wakanda forever" role as queen ramona. blockbuster films are often missing in the nominations, but this year, wakanda forever

was not the only big earning project to feature. here's the bbc�*s lizo mzimba. it does not look good. she's right. in fact, it looks great. everything everywhere all at once, a mind—bending, universe—hopping fantasy, leads with 11 nominations, including michelle yeoh, the first ever woman who identifies as asian, to be nominated for best actress. just behind with nine nominations, the german war drama all quiet on the western front. now, if i've done something to you, just tell me what i've done to you. and on what's been a spectacular day for irish cinema, the dark comedy the banshees of inisherin. a quarter of today's acting nominations have gone to irish performers, including banshees' colin farrell and brendan gleeson. sit somewhere else. he must be somewhere behind us. films that have helped a soaring box office in 2022 have also been recognised. top gun: maverick has a best film nomination,

as does the only movie that outperformed it at the box office, avatar: the way of water, and that matters to the oscars. a huge proportion of their revenue comes from the tv rights to the ceremony, and with audiences for awards shows plummeting in recent years, they know they need to try to get people watching again. pinocchio, you shouldn't lie! of course, a nomination still carries huge cultural cache. former best picture and best director winner guillermo del toro says today's nomination for best animated film for pinocchio means as much to him as his previous ones. iam not lying! what does an oscar nomination mean? is it still the gold standard? in practical terms, it puts a lot of eyes on your movie. people that didn't see it before, now they see it, because it's nominated. if you win, the same thing, and it is undoubtedly the golden standard. # keep me close...#. one final factor that

could also help boost ratings, best song nominations for rihanna for black panther: wakanda forever and lady gaga for top gun: maverick. it means we could see two of music's stars performing on the big night. lizo mzimba, bbc news. i've been speaking to april reign, creator of oscars so white and senior advisor of media and entertainment for gauge.ai and she gave me her reaction to the nominations. we are happy to see acra one has finally received a best chris nomination, as a best actress nominee and first nominee. disappointing we are

still talking about race in 2023. ~ ., ., ~ still talking about race in 2023. ., ~ 2023. what do you think has led u . 2023. what do you think has led u- to 2023. what do you think has led up to these _ 2023. what do you think has led up to these events, _ 2023. what do you think has led up to these events, first - 2023. what do you think has led up to these events, first for - up to these events, first for an asian woman to be nominated in that category as best actress but it is still progress, what events have triggered this? i progress, what events have triggered this?— progress, what events have triggered this? i think that it is 'ust a triggered this? i think that it isjust a matter _ triggered this? i think that it isjust a matter of _ triggered this? i think that it isjust a matter of time, - is just a matter of time, unfortunately think still aren't happening enough, so we can look at the fact that we are seeing more people with colour nominated across the board, and various categories including actor and actress but we can also say the academy is lagging behind, let's remember the academy of motion pictures arts and scientists, the run oscar still don't require their membership to view films before they vote and if that is the case what we're talking about is a popularity contest among the majority of oscar voters, who are white men.-

who are white men. and do you think that is — who are white men. and do you think that is where _ who are white men. and do you think that is where the - think that is where the solution lies, academy, is that where the accountability needs to be? i where the accountability needs to be? ~ ., , ., ., to be? i think that is one of several solutions _ to be? i think that is one of several solutions we - to be? i think that is one of several solutions we need l to be? i think that is one ofl several solutions we need to investigate, every few years the academy comes up with some that comes up with something that comes up with something that looks like windrow dressing, but loopholes are big enough you can drive a truck through. to me, if you are not watching the films, you should be able to vote to say which one is better than another. enough time to tell you about the jacket that has turned up in a vintage store in northern england believed to be made by indigenous canadians and believed to date back to the 18005. believed to date back to the 1800s. that's enough from us for now. you can reach me on my socials, on instagram and twitter — i'm @bbcvishalasp.

hello. tuesday brought some huge temperature contrasts across the uk. it was —9 in oxfordshire in the morning and then 16 degrees in the afternoon in aberdeen. but i think over the next few days, the temperatures will balance out a little bit more — it'll be closer to the seasonal norm. we'll also lose the frosts in the south of the country where, recently, it has been very cold, and here's an example in the south of the uk. those temperatures won't be quite so low overnight as we head into next week. ok, let's get into the forecast, then. here's wednesday's weather map, and a cold front is moving across the country, introducing a little bit of rain early in the morning across northern parts of the uk through scotland and northern ireland. little bits and pieces of rain and murky conditions further south as well. there will be a touch of frost first thing anywhere from east anglia through the southeast down towards the west country, but the vast majority of us will have temperatures above freezing first thing. also the possibility of some mist and fog in the midlands, west country, possibly

east anglia as well for a time. so, let's have a look at the forecast, then, for wednesday. here's that weather front as it moves from the north southwards, perhaps reaching northern wales, the peak district, early in the afternoon — lincolnshire, too. behind it, the skies actually clear, so some sunshine later in the day for belfastjust before sunset. belfast, glasgow, ten degrees here. then notice that weather front sinks southwards and there will be some rain towards the rush hour, i think, in the south of the country, and then eventually clearing the kent coast late wednesday evening. thursday, we've got an area of high pressure building across the uk nosing in, and that spells a lot of sunny weather — it really is going to be a fine day for many of us on thursday. a little on the cool side, i think, on the north sea coast, so with that northerly breeze, perhaps one or two showers, i think beautiful weather out towards the west and those temperatures close to the norm for the time of the year — around nine in belfast,

not far off that elsewhere across the country. then the outlook as we head into the weekend, you can see temperatures actually recovering to around double figures as we head towards sunday, and we're talking about generally dry weather. that's it from me, bye—bye.

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