with exposure to the especially with exposure to the north and west, and here too we have a weather front drifting in, bringing some heavy rain. south of that, some showers, but saturday will be quite a cloudy day anyway. the best breaks will be to the east of the hills, for example the pennines and the east of the hills in wales. but look at the temperatures, widely 10 to 13. into sunday, a bit of uncertainty about how far south rainbow travel, but it looks at the moment like it could get as far south as north wales. to the south of art, southern part of england through the midlands, looking drier and brighter with some sunshine and still mild.

this is bbc news, the headlines: president putin warns the war with ukraine will continue until russia achieves its aims. he's holding his first major news conference since the war started. the republican—led us house of representatives votes to formally authorise an impeachment inquiry into president biden. and the uk's spy agency gchq reveals its annual brainteaser for schoolchildren.

let's ta ke let's take you to belfast. can you tell us what happened today and some of the background? it relates to bloody sunday, 30th january 1970 two, one of the worst incident during the conflict in northern ireland known as the troubles and many people were killed and one of the most significant and have a conflict developed lasting from the late 19605 to the conflict developed la5ting from the late 19605 to the late 19905. 13 people were shot dead by the british army, by members of the parachute regiment at a civil rights demonstration at londonderry, the second biggest city in northern ireland in the bog5ide area, known as stronghold for irish nationalism. a5 stronghold for irish nationalism. the former soldier is known as

soldier f and his identity is not publicly known and there is an order on the court granting him anonymity and he is charged with murder in connection of two of the deaths on bloody sunday and also faces five charges of attempted murder. so i hearing has been held at londonderry to decide whether he should be sent for trial and thejudges to decide whether he should be sent for trial and the judges will this morning that indeed should happen in the districtjudge 5aid morning that indeed should happen in the districtjudge said the evidence was strong enough to send soldier f for trial at the crown court here in belfast, the capital of northern ireland. i did for that trial has not yet been fixed but that is the latest in the prosecution which began back in 2019, soldier f it has now been decided will stand trial on those two charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder.

russia's president putin has said there will be no peace in ukraine until moscow has achieved its goals. in his first major news conference since russia launched its full scale invasion nearly two years ago, mr putin insisted that the war was going well. he said russian troops were improving their positions along the frontline and there was no need to mobilise more reservists at the present time. the kremlin 5 decision to push ahead with the news conference this year is being seen as a reflection of president putin 5 growing confidence in the war. live now to dr anna matveeva — she is an expert in russian domestic politics and a senior visiting research fellow at the russia institute of king's college london. we have been keeping an eye on

president putin all morning and it seems obvious he has talked a lot initially about the war in ukraine and spent the first hour talking about it and he seemed incredibly confident. does he have reason to be and how strong is his possession at home? , , , , and how strong is his possession at home? , ,, , ., and how strong is his possession at home? , , , , . , home? this is super important. this is the major— home? this is super important. this is the major first _ home? this is super important. this is the major first appearance - home? this is super important. this is the major first appearance of - is the major first appearance of putin, this kind of marathon press conference is in the russian tradition and now this is putin calling for the first term for re—election and he needs to show he is a leader and has confidence going forward and he is confident and he is on top form and not weathering away and he has quite a lot of good news to report on ukraine. the pessimism of last year and putin has

alluded to it, now the tables have turned and putin has said that the west has delivered everything it promised to ukraine but is still not made much difference in the russian side is still prevailing and largely as achieving the objectives are to a5 achieving the objectives are to set itself. as achieving the ob'ectives are to set itself. ~ , ., as achieving the ob'ectives are to set itself. ~ ,., ., , as achieving the ob'ectives are to set itself. ~ ., , , , ., set itself. with so many russian soldiers losing _ set itself. with so many russian soldiers losing their _ set itself. with so many russian soldiers losing their lives - set itself. with so many russian soldiers losing their lives in - set itself. with so many russian soldiers losing their lives in this| soldiers losing their lives in this conflict, has he been asked any tough questions about mobilisation or how long the war will go on for? he has been asked about mobilisation and said there is no need because the half fulfilled the targets for recruitment of contract soldiers and 1500 contract soldiers are joining

every day and he also mentioned the defence economy that the manufacturing sector has grown phenomenally so they can produce weapons and also have allies who are prepared to supply more arms. so he was basically saying it is a question of sovereignty for russia and the question of national security and he also called what is happening a tragedy between two nations. he also said it is like civil war and he also said that we want peace and we are striving for peace and want to return to political mean5 peace and want to return to political means with the west is not ready. political means with the west is not read . ~ . . political means with the west is not read .~ . ., , political means with the west is not read. . ., , ready. what about the economy was much like everywhere _ ready. what about the economy was much like everywhere else - ready. what about the economy was much like everywhere else there - ready. what about the economy was much like everywhere else there is i ready. what about the economy was | much like everywhere else there is a cost of living crisis in russia and did he address more generally what

is happening with the economy? he: said that we have been quite surprised that we had drop—off of more than 2% in gdp la5t surprised that we had drop—off of more than 2% in gdp last year and this year it is projected at 3.5% growth. these are national government figures but also our confirm quite a lot by imf and other data observation that the russian economy is on a projection of growth. it also has debt—to—gdp ratio in european nations and unemployment is under 3% and he says inflation targets are the but income levels are growing and the most important thing we have real investment growth and growth in manufacturing. he also mentioned

that territories controlled by russia, internationally recognised borders of ukraine have started to pay tax into the russian project so they are notjust pay tax into the russian project so they are not just a pay tax into the russian project so they are notjust a barton. —— annette barton —— a net burden. the republican—led us house of representatives has voted in favour of launching a formal impeachment inquiry into the president, joe biden. republican lawmakers accuse the president of bribery and corruption — alleging when he was vice president he benefited from the business dealings of his son, hunter biden. the president has described the inquiry as a baseless political stunt, and said the republicans

were focused on attacking him with lies. live now to cbs news correspondentjarred hill in new york. we have seen over the past couple of months already that these republican committees in the us house of representatives have been investigating president biden and his family in relation to these business dealings. this formal inquiry allows them to have more teeth to the investigation and give them more power to subpoena witne55e5 them more power to subpoena witnesses and documents and they say the white house a stonewall their investigation. this is mostly a procedural step. flan investigation. this is mostly a procedural step.— investigation. this is mostly a procedural step. can we ask about donald trump. — procedural step. can we ask about donald trump, what _ procedural step. can we ask about donald trump, what is _ procedural step. can we ask about donald trump, what is happening | procedural step. can we ask about. donald trump, what is happening with his federal trial? fine

donald trump, what is happening with his federal trial?— his federal trial? one of the many trials he is — his federal trial? one of the many trials he is facing _ his federal trial? one of the many trials he is facing right _ his federal trial? one of the many trials he is facing right now - his federal trial? one of the many trials he is facing right now is - trials he is facing right now is potentially on hold because that is another court now taking a look at one of the claims from former president trump the us constitution has absolute immunity for him for criminal prosecutions and there is the acquisition he try to overturn election results in 2020. the court will look at this and depending on how long it takes for them to make a decision on whether or not he is absolved of these investigations that trial might be delayed. a5 of now it is set to start in early march but we will have to see how quickly the court can make the decision. they say they will try to fast—track the decision but how fast has yet to be seen.

around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. all the university people sit and stroke and talk to him. he normally 5it5 stroke and talk to him. he normally sits there with his doctor friend pie who is missing him and pining for him. special to the lady that bred him special to me and the people that like to see them here. sign might i have not seen the dock. we have been working here since monday morning and have seen mall arts and geese but not sure duck. —— mallards. he is not here and it is nice to see him every day and be around him. for

nice to see him every day and be around him-— nice to see him every day and be around him. ., ., , ., , ., around him. for more stories, head to the bbc— around him. for more stories, head to the bbc news _ around him. for more stories, head to the bbc news website. _ a nurse who drugged patients for an easy shift has been sentenced to a ea5y shift has been sentenced to a prison sentence, 54—year—old catherine hudson who worked in the blackpool hospital when she used an iron prescribed drug to sedate to patients between february 2017 and november 2018. patients between february 2017 and november2018. her patients between february 2017 and november 2018. her colleague charlotte wilmot was also sentenced to three years for conspiring with hudson and encouraging her to sedate the patient. the two also admit stealing prescription only drugs. she has been sentenced to seven

years and two months in prison. the father and step uncle of the girl who died in woking, herfather and his partner and their uncle had left the country for pakistan and had returned in september and charged with her murder and causing or allowing the death of a child. they denied both charges. this allowing the death of a child. they denied both charges.— allowing the death of a child. they denied both charges. this was a plea heafina denied both charges. this was a plea hearin: at denied both charges. this was a plea hearing at the _ denied both charges. this was a plea hearing at the old _ denied both charges. this was a plea hearing at the old bailey _ denied both charges. this was a plea hearing at the old bailey and - hearing at the old bailey and first—time that they had been able to answer the charges they face. all three phase two charges, one the murder of the girl on around the ith of august this year and the second

more complicated charge called causing or allowing the of a child which amounts to an accusation that while they were living in the same house and were aware that she was at risk did not prevent harm that was close to her. two of the men appeared side by side from belmarsh prison and another by video link. each of them answered not guilty to both charges so the father and stepmother of sara sharif have all denied murdering her and of allowing and causing her death. the trial date is set for september next year

although it may shift and this case will come back to the old bailey at the end of january. an extraordinary story now — and an appeals court in australia has cleared a woman of murdering her four children. the judges ruled that the evidence used to convict kathleen folbigg — who spent twenty years in prison — was not reliable. the case has been described as one

of australia's greatest miscarriages ofjustice. of australia's greatest she made this statement outside court i'm gratefulfor the huge efforts of my friends and family, my legal team, scientific professionals and concerned individuals. the time this has taken and seeing today's result has cost many people a lot, notjust financially but emotionally. for almost a quarter of a century, i have faced disbelief and hostility. i suffered abuse in all its forms. i hoped and prayed that one day i would be able to stand here with my name cleared. it has been an incredible journey for kathleen folbigg. once upon a time, described as the most hated women in australia and australia's worst female serial killer. now, today, judges in the appeal court here in new south wales have said that the evidence upon which her conviction was based 20 years ago was not reliable. kathleen folbigg was convicted in 2003 of killing her children and, at the time, the prosecution alleged that those toddlers and babies had been smothered, but earlier this year, there was a landmark inquiry that said that the children quite possibly could have died of natural causes because of a rare genetic condition. injune, kathleen folbigg was released from prison and pardoned by the new south wales state government here in australia and today we have perhaps the final

legal chapter in this story in that appeal courtjudges have officially overturned those convictions. every year, gchq releases a codebreaking challenge aimed at testing our problem—solving skills. this year's challenge is aimed at children aged from 11 to 18... and features a variety of puzzles including codebreaking and maths. hello, my name's anne keast—butler, and i'm the director of gchq. today, it is a real privilege to set you a very special festive challenge with our christmas card. lateral thinking... they're looking out for who can think outside the box. ingenuity... interesting. it's notjust like a normal maths

question, it's different. and perseverance. it's quite difficult but i think we can all do it. all are being tested here. we have been granted rare access to the manchester base of gchq - the uk'5 intelligent security and cyber agency. since 2015, it's included a brainteaser on its christmas cards. for the third year running, it's also set a festive mind—bending challenge for school pupils. how are you finding it? very difficult. as well as students from sale high school, also having a go is 100—year—old betty webb. scarborough, sirius and sticky. betty worked at bletchley park during world war ii, as part of the top—secret team that cracked nazi codes. it took a certain type of brain to deal with it, bearing in mind that all the messages were in groups of five letters or five figures.

it changed the course of history. absolutely, yes. we don't know exactly how much it shortened the war but clearly it was two to three years. these clocks show a four—letter word, can you work it out? this could well be a letter cipher. big clue from betty. that's when numbers relate to a letter in the alphabet. what breaks but cannot fall, can leap but never crawl. can be seized but never gripped. often present, never skipped ? quite cryptic, isn't it?

maybe if i get a strong gin and tonic, i'll have to work something out. is that the key to cracking a code? a strong gin and tonic. pass. you have five minutes to go — five minutes. when it comes to recruitment, gchq has been widening the net. for example, it's keen for neurodiverse candidates to apply for jobs. so people with conditions like autism, adhd or dyslexia. it believes different ways of thinking are key to keeping the uk 5afe. foreign language skills are also highly valued. one question we do get asked a lot in school is, "why do i need to learn a language?" this really promotes the need for languages in the global community that we live in and just the cognitive skills it brings with them as well. betty's ability to speak german was key to her posting at bletchley park.

we weren't allowed to talk about anything we were doing. for me, it was an opportunity to meet people i would otherwise not have met. i had not been to university or anything like that. you must feel really proud you were there. absolutely. yes, i mean, a chance in a million, really. i always used to do the code word in the telegraph. i haven't done it lately. i'm too busy. 0k, everyone. yourtime is up. how was it? when you first look at it, it's quite daunting. you have no idea what all these things are. after working a few of them out, it gets easier. i think it's interesting to see the type of work that gchq employees have to do every day. it looks really fun to work with this type of stuff. . it doesn't look like as boring | as some otherjobs could be. think differently, stick with it and what seems like mi55ion impossible can become mi55ion accomplished. tim muffett, bbc news. back to moscow and what we are seeing is president putin giving one

of his first full—scale new5 of his first full—scale news conferences since the invasion of ukraine. he has been going for many hours and this is a press conference were not only the media but the public can ask questions and they also receive questions people e—mailed and i think we had a few million according to the kremlin, questions for mr putin and what is seen as significant biomonitoring team as he spent the first hour talking about ukraine and he said there will be no peace in ukraine until moscow has achieved its goals and he also talked about what is happening on the front line and said russian troops are improving their position quite significantly and no need to mobilise more service at the time which has been quite a controversial issue in russia because there's been such heavy lo55 because there's been such heavy loss of life russian forces. we are watching the on going press

conference as he takes questions from the media and the public. hello again. after a cloudy start with patchy, light rain in england and wales, it will brighten up, bar one or two showers. but the cloud and drizzle will be slow to clear from the southeast. it's courtesy of these two weather fronts continuing the journey southwards and eastwards. isobars telling there own story, that we got windy conditions across the north and west. the wind coming in from a westerly direction, blowing and shower —— the wind coming in from a westerly direction, blowing in showers

to western scotland and northern ireland. we could see are not isolated showers in wales and the southwest through the afternoon with the cloud 5lowe5t to clear in east anglia and kent. these are the temperatures, 7 celsius to about 9 celsius in the east but into double figures in the west. as we head through the evening and overnight, there will be patchy mist and fog forming across some parts of england and it's going to be cold enough for a touch of frost in the southeast and also the northeast of england tonight but generally it will be a cold night. high pressure is still in charge of our weather but around the top of it tomorrow we have a weather front coming in and it's still going to be windy across the northwest and the north of scotland. here's our weather front coming in, inducing rain in the north, a bit more cloud and western areas with spots of drizzle, push further ea5t under the clear skies, there will be some sunny spells but it will still be cooler, 7 celsius 8 celsius in eastern england, 12 in belfast. at the weekend, we return to some yellow and amber on the charts, indicating the temperature is going to rise a touch. on saturday, we've still got this

ridge of high pressure clinging on. it's going to be a windy day, especially with exposure in the north and west and we've got a weather front drifting in, bringing in heavy rain. south of that, there will be some showers but saturday is going to be quite a cloudy day anyway. the best breaks will be to the east of the hills, the pennines and also the east of the hills in wales but temperatures widely ten celsius to 13 celsius. sunday, a little uncertainty into how far south as rains go to travel but it looks like it could get as far south as south wales. for southern parts of england and the midlands, is looking drier and brighter with some sunshine and still mild.

what are you and routine hospital treatment. but ambulance service leaders are still warning that winter pressures are starting to hit the nhs, with patients at risk of dangerous delays. there's ambulances parked out there today. there's no bed5. also on the programme this lunchtime... in the last hour, the bank of england has decided to keep interest rates where they are, 5.25%. russia's president putin holds his first major news conference since the invasion of ukraine.

when you first look at it, it's daunting. and a christmas challenge for schoolchildren — can they crack the code—breaking tests set by the uk spy agency, gchq? and coming up on bbc news... england's bowlers toil in mumbai, as india capitalise on a batting—friendly surface, passing 400 on day one of their one—off test match. good afternoon. ambulance leaders are warning that winter pressures are already starting to hit the nhs in england, with patients put at risk of dangerous delays. but the latest figures — out this morning — do show a slight improvement in both ambulance response times and waits for accident and emergency care, compared to this time last year. there's also been a drop in the number of patients waiting for routine hospital treatment.