16—year—old brianna jai. colorado's top court rules that donald trump cannot run for president in the state. he says he'll appeal to the us supreme court. a volcano that erupted in the south—west of iceland on monday is becoming less active — that's according to the country's meteorological office. hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones, welcome to the daily global, where we'll bring you the top stories from around the world. we will strike straightaway in new york, because we will get the reaction to that breaking news that the un security council vote on that resolution trying to get some kind of deal on a pause in the fighting in gaza has been delayed yet again. that's until tomorrow.

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establishing a un monitoring mechanism, those talks are continuing. a western security council diplomats tells me that the united states and egypt are negotiating and engaging directly on what that mechanism could look like to make sure it works for all the parties. as we kind of wait and see what will happen, i think this is just showing that certainly the united states does not want to be in a position to veto a resolution and that there really is growing pressure on the security council to act, and how desperate the humanitarian catastrophe in gaza is. any sense of the mood there, i suppose, is this one a frustration that it has been delayed yet again, or optimism that there is still room to try to get something together by tomorrow? ~ . ., , ., tomorrow? well, i can tell you s-ueakin tomorrow? well, i can tell you speaking to — tomorrow? well, i can tell you speaking to diplomats - tomorrow? well, i can tell you speaking to diplomats over- tomorrow? well, i can tell you| speaking to diplomats over the tomorrow? well, i can tell you - speaking to diplomats over the last several days, there was a real feeling that the optimism had waned. this morning i was told by one diplomat after a very late of

negotiations that it would take a miracle to get the united states on board. today, we were able to ask the ambassador if she is still optimistic. the uae saying they have to be to try to see if diplomacy can work, but on the other hand, they are ready to move this resolution to about tomorrow if there isn't enough movement. so i thank you could describe the mood here as a bit of cautious optimism at this stage, but things move very quickly, so we well see what these negotiations are able to yelled. we see what these negotiations are able to elled. ~ , . ~ _, to yelled. we will be back with you as and when _ to yelled. we will be back with you as and when we _ to yelled. we will be back with you as and when we get _ to yelled. we will be back with you as and when we get any _ to yelled. we will be back with you - as and when we get any development. thank you very much for that. just to say we were seeing life pictures there just as she was finishing talking. this is the border, the

skyline over gaza. looked like there were flares in the sky, just those players seem to have died down now. we will keep across that live feed. two effectively big diplomatic push is to try to get some kind of deposit in the fighting. firstly, as we have just been talking about, that devote in new york, delayed again, tomorrow, ten a:m.. itexted that un security council resolution calls for extended humanitarian positives as well as aid corridors. meanwhile, the second effort is the fact that the leader of hamas, who you can see here is in egypt, in cairo, for talks on a potential cease—fire or pause in fighting there. this all comes after israel's president says his country is ready for another humanitarian pause. they say 20,000 people are now reported to have been killed in gaza. just to remind you, the 7th of october is when hamas attacked

israel, 1200 people were killed, 240 ta ken killed, 240 taken hostage. earlier i spoke to david makovsky, he's a former us special envoy adviser for israeli—palestinian negotiations. i think a humanitarian pause is something that all the players want. certainly, i think israel and the us would go for it if it includes a serious hostage release and, of course, prisoner release for the for the palestinians. i think 40 of the 80 remaining, i would say... excuse me, at least 40 of the hostages are considered humanitarian cases by israel. and i think if they have to pay for that, so to speak, with a few days, because they know that is time for hamas to regroup, i think they would do it. if the price is no, that it's open ended, then

i think they won't do it. so i think a pause is something that could be acceptable all around and something the us. 0k, interesting. let's move to those diplomatic efforts in egypt. qatar, of course, involved as well. we've had that signal from israel that it would be ready for another pause exchange for hostages. last time it came through those negotiations with the egyptians and with the qataris. what do you make of the state of play there? no, i think it's great that you raised it, because i think everything here is somewhat linked. i think if the pause in new york is tied to a hostage release, i think that's something that could be acceptable. and egypt is clearly involved in the hostage talks in warsaw. you know, with bill burns, the head of the cia, the prime minister of qatar, and, you know, and the israeli head of the mossad and their advisers,

and abbas kamel, the head of egyptian intelligence. now, clearly, hamas' game is obvious. they want to use the hostage deal to say end the war and israel saying no. and so it could be that hamas is trying to lobby egypt towards its position. that's what i assume. now, remember, these two hamas guys in doha are not the deciders. the deciders are sinwar, who's in, you know, in an underground tunnel in khan younis or somewhere in southern gaza. but they are, you know, lobbying on his behalf, i'm sure. so it's all trying to impact these warsaw negotiations about what is the price for the release of another round. but i don't think it's the the final round, but it's a big round that i think israel and the arabs would like to see done either this week or next week. interesting. can i just lastly ask you about the language from the us? of course, we know the key

relationship between the us and israel and this language about moving towards a less intensive phase in the fighting and pushing israel towards that. is that something that you therefore expect to see in the weeks ahead? it's a great question. it's this question of is it going from high intensity to lower intensity? ifeel if, you know, that israel in theory, would like to go from high intensity to low intensity and release over, you know, i don't know, 300,000 reservists that they've kept now for 70 plus days, but they want to achieve their goals of the high intensity before going. the prime minister, unlike the other parts of the government that, you know, doesn't want to hear those words about lower intensity because it suggests like a lower resolve, you know, to destroy, to topple hamas from power. so his view is, well, let's see what the story is by, you know,

towards the end of january. and but he doesn't want to be locked himself in, so to speak, that israel's talks are going in the new phase. and so there's, i think, a difference within israel, and what the israelis of all sides don't want is they don't want to give hamas the sense that if theyjust hang on in the fighting, somehow it's going to go to a lower gear. so israel wants to maintain its resolve to see the mission through. and the prime minister's belief is the way to do that is is to abolish any hints that by the end of next month, israel is changing gears to a more lower intensity conflict. thank you to david for that. in the uk, two teenagers have been found guilty of murdering 16—year—old brianna ghey in a park near warrington in february. the girl and boy, who were 15

at the time, stabbed her 28 times. they cannot be named for legal reasons. in a statement prosecutors said it was "one of the most distressing cases the crown prosecution service has had to deal with". here's our north of england correspondent, judith moritz. brianna ghey�*s family described her as a ball of energy, funny, brave and one of a kind. the 16—year—old was also transgender, though, they say, that did not define her. she was fearless to be whoever she wanted to be. she wanted to identify as a female and she wanted to wear girl's school uniform and yeah, shejust did it. it wasn't a hurdle at all for her. but not everyone wished brianna well. she was targeted as a murder victim by two teenagers who wrote out a plan to stab her in the back and in the stomach. brianna was lured from her home. she thought she was going to meet herfriend, a 15—year—old girl. but when she got off this bus, that girl had brought a boy

of the same age along, too. the group ended up at this park near warrington. it was the middle of saturday afternoon, broad daylight, and there were lots of people walking their dogs. they saw the teenagers walking along this path and hanging around some steps. the exact detail of what happened next is where accounts differed in court. the boy said he had left the others sitting on this bench and then went to the toilet behind some trees, when he saw the girl stabbing brianna. the girl said she had left the group to go and stretch her legs and it was the boy who knifed her. no matter who used the knife, both teenagers are guilty of murder. the children ran off across these fields, leaving brianna with 28 wounds. her parents were in court for the verdicts. their grief is visibly raw. to know how scared my usually fearless child must have been... when she was alone in that park with someone that she called her friend,

will haunt me forever. prior to the trial, i had moments where i felt sorry for the defendants, because they had ruined their own lives, as well as ours. but now, knowing the true nature and seeing neither display an ounce of remorse for what they have done to brianna, i have lost all sympathy. the identities of the children have been protected during the trial due to their age. the court heard disturbing detail about their fascination with dark subjects, including torture. they had a real thirst for death and for murder. the two of them were quite depraved in terms of the conversations they were having. i think it was brianna's availability or accessibility that led to her being a victim on that day. we believe that there were others, possibly, who it would have been, had it not been brianna. the lgbtq+ community mourned brianna's death at a series of vigils.

the police considered whether the murder was motivated by her gender identity, but the case was not built around that as a motive. there was never, ever any evidence of brianna being bullied, and i think what was really hard was that she was portrayed in the media as a victim, and she did not live her life as a victim. she was someone that was loud and proud and confident in who she was. brianna's family say they want that positivity to be what she is known for, that all they ever wanted was for her to be happy and for the world to remember her as the life force she was. judith moritz, bbc news. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. the government has welcomed official figures showing that the rate of inflation has fallen by more than was expected. the rate , as measured by the consumer prices index , was at three—point—nine

percent last month. it's the lowest level for more than two years. 0ur economics editor faisal islam has more. up... november's inflation number was 3.9% — a lot lower than expected — but it's made up of different sectors going in different directions. food inflation is less than it was, but still growing at 9.2%. furniture prices are growing at a more stable 2.3%, well down on a year ago. transport prices, including fuel and second—hand cars are negative, down 1.5% on last year, and household bills are down 3.4%. both of those last two are a bigger share of the inflation basket than food. the only way that we can make life better for families who are working very hard and feeling that they are in a cost—of—living crisis, the likes of which they haven't seen for many, many years, is to get the economy growing sustainably. you're live with bbc news. let's turn now to the us where in colorado, the supreme court has ruled that donald trump cannot run for president next

year in the state. it ruled that the former president was ineligible due to his involvement in the capitol riots onjanuary 6th, 2021. mr trump says he'll appeal. here's our north america correspondentjohn sudworth. music plays. # proud to be an american... 0n the campaign trail following the ruling, president trump made no direct reference to the legal shockwave now reverberating through america's political system, but the significance is hard to overstate. the colorado supreme court itself spoke of the magnitude and weight of the case and the need to decide without fear or favour before going on to rule by majority decision that president trump is disqualified from holding the office of president. the landmark case was brought by six voters in colorado, some of them republicans, and although it removes mr trump from the primary ballot in that state only, the political ramifications

are far wider. these six individuals, i cannot overstate how courageous they are, to bring a lawsuit like this and to bring it out and basically say that the united states constitution stands for the fact that this country is a rule of law country, and that is what they believed in. crowd chants. the case centred on the former president's actions on 6th janary 2021 when his supporters stormed the us capitol and an arcane section of the 14th amendment to the us constitution dating back to the civil war which bars insurrectionists from holding office. with similar cases, some already rejected, others ongoing, in other parts of the us, all of this is almost certain to end up here at the us supreme court, putting the ninejudges, three of them trump appointees, at the heart of this country's partisan politics. with comments attacking migrants...

they're destroying the blood of our country, that's what they're doing, they�* re destroying our country. they don't like it when i say that and i never read mein kampf. they said, oh, hitler said that in a much different way. and rallying his base, with a narrative of his own victimhood. we are headed into an era in which the government is deciding which candidates are worthy of being voted for or against. that's not our system, that's against our republic, that's against our american values, it just goes against very basic democratic principles. the 2024 campaign, already set to be a major test of the institutions of us democracy, just got messier. john sudworth, bbc news, washington. rick pil—des — the sudler family professor of constitutional law at new york university school of law gave us some clarity

on constitution laws. well, it's not totally unforeseen, though. it still is something of a surprise. a number of state courts had been asked to do the same thing up till now. all of them had declined to do so for various reasons. so this is the first time a state court has ruled that former president trump is disqualified from office from running for the presidency again. so there's two points. i just want to spend a bit of time focusing on the issue of whether insurrection does apply to president donald trump and whether he was involved as sufficiently or not. and secondly, whether this whole area of law applies to the president or presidential candidates at all. so let's deal with the first one first. they ruled that donald trump was sufficiently involved in what was an insurrection and therefore he can't stand. is that right? yes, that's correct. i mean, there are two separate questions there, as you suggested.

one is whetherjanuary 6th and what happened at the capitol constitutes an insurrection. that's a legal issue. and then secondly, whether president trump himself engaged in that insurrection and the colorado court and we should say this was a 4 to three decision. so there were divisions. but the colorado court concluded that the answer was yes to both of those questions. what about this argument that this bit of the constitution shouldn't apply to presidential candidates at all? yes. so the lower court in colorado had decided that this provision in the us constitution doesn't apply to presidential candidates or to the presidency. the court here rejected that. i don't believe any of the dissents took issue with that part of the decision. so and i would not expect that, honestly, to be a majorfocal point when this goes to the supreme court. 0k. let's talk about that move to the supreme court. i'm not going to ask

you to guess what what happens, butjust talk us through the process of what's going to happen now. yeah. so right now, president trump could not appear on the primary ballot in colorado. the primary is coming up in 2024, fairly soon in legal time. but the lower court said its decision will be held in abeyance if a cert petition is filed with the supreme court by by early january. there's no doubt that petition will be filed. i also have almost no doubt that the supreme court will agree to hear this case. we can't be in a situation in which president trump can be on the ballot in some states and not in other states. assuming he wins the nomination of the republican party, the country clearly needs a uniform answer to this question. only the supreme court can provide that. so although i doubt the supreme court wants to be in the middle of an issue like this with all the political ramifications, i really don't think

the court has any choice except to hear the case. interesting. say it doesn't, and then you do get different decisions in different states. presumably the election could still happen. it could still go ahead. it would just be pretty unsatisfactory and pretty untidy. yes, it would. it would be a pretty bizarre circumstance in which one of the two major candidates, again, assuming former president trump gets the republican nomination, is able to be on the ballot in some states and not other states in the general election. it's...| find it really very hard to imagine that we will end up in that situation. that's why i think it's almost certain the supreme court will get involved here. the election could go forward, but it would, i think, it would hardly look like an election with a lot of sort of integrity. let's say if you had this crazy quilt pattern of someone beating on the ballot in some states and not others. a prominent british businessman who was kidnapped

in ecuador has been released from captivity. colin armstrong was abducted on saturday from a farm he owned near the city of guayaquil. mr armstrong is the president of ecuadorean agriculture firm agripac and former honorary consul in the ecuadoran port city. he is now with the police and authorities in ecuador. let's turn to iceland — where the dramatic volcano eruption is calming, after days of lava spewing hundreds of metres into the sky from a crack in the earth that's now several kilometres long. the area is a volcanic and seismic hot—spot — not far from the capital, reykyavik. experts say the eruption could last weeks — or maybe even months. from just outside the exclusion zone, our correspondent sofia bettiza sent this report.

iceland volcano still active this morning. 0vernight, glowing rivers of lava continued to flow. the eruption may now have peaked, but mother nature isn't done wreaking havocjust yet. in daylight, this was the scene, and the fear now that fumes from the volcano are quickly making their way towards the capital, just 25 miles away. this is as close as we could get to the volcano before the authorities stopped us. 0vernight, more live i has continued to flow. this is something that is very difficult to predict, which is why the authorities are warning people to stay away from this area for their safety. to stay away from this area for their safety-— to stay away from this area for their safety. tourists inside the exclusion zone _ their safety. tourists inside the exclusion zone are _ their safety. tourists inside the exclusion zone are now- their safety. tourists inside the exclusion zone are now closed, j exclusion zone are now closed, including the famous blue lagoon

spy' including the famous blue lagoon spy, but the volcano itself has become an attraction for visitors from around the world. terrifying but beautiful _ from around the world. terrifying but beautiful at _ from around the world. terrifying but beautiful at the _ from around the world. terrifying but beautiful at the same - from around the world. terrifying but beautiful at the same time. l but beautiful at the same time. totally— but beautiful at the same time. totally mother nature itself, that's why it feels so tiny tiny just feel human, you do anything in front of this nature. human, you do anything in front of this nature-— this nature. iceland's volcano exerts this nature. iceland's volcano exnerts say _ this nature. iceland's volcano experts say that _ this nature. iceland's volcano experts say that the - this nature. iceland's volcano experts say that the eruption | this nature. iceland's volcano - experts say that the eruption could continue for weeks, possibly even months. which means nearly 4000 people will live in this small icelandic fishing town, likely to be spending christmas away from home. extraordinary images there from iceland. i went to take you back now to gaza, this is the live

feed we have, of course, these pictures going from the south of israel looking over the night sky there in gaza. we did see some flares flying over a short time ago, but as for those diplomatic efforts to try to get some sort of pause in the fighting, well, there are two going on, negotiations in egypt, but also in new york. un security council, we were expecting a vote on some form of resolution to try and get a pause in the fighting, but, in the last hour or so, we have now heard that there will be a delay, tomorrow, ten a:m., the united nations will try and vote. keep up with all the latest details there as he can see on the life page on the website. forthe he can see on the life page on the website. for the moment, he can see on the life page on the website. forthe moment, i'm lewis vaughanjones. this is bbc news. goodbye. —— on the live page. hello again. we're still in for some windy weather all the way into the run—up to christmas day itself. but maybe the strongest of the winds will be happening overnight tonight

and continuing into thursday — and this is where we've got the greatest risk of some travel disruption. now, the winds have been picking up today and managing to punch a few holes in the cloud. but if i show you the satellite picture — you can see the extent of the cloud that's streaming in from the atlantic — and is continuing to bring some rain and drizzle mainly to western hills and coast. those strengthening westerly winds are drawing in mild air, mind you, around the top of that area of high pressure. but it's that deep low that's moving away from iceland that'll track to the north of scotland, and then, into scandinavia that will really strengthen the winds around it — and that's been named storm pia by the danish weather service. so overnight tonight, the winds continuing to strengthen. it'll be a noisy night, particularly in this heavy rain in scotland — that will move down into northern england and northern ireland. replaced by squally showers, slight change in the wind direction, the air gets a bit colder in scotland. but elsewhere, those temperatures not changing very much from what we've seen during the afternoon. but it will be a windy day everywhere on thursday, the strongest of the winds further

north. we could see higher gusts over into the east of high ground, and the top gusts of 70—80mph in the north and northeast of scotland, so very windy here. now, we still have this cloud and increasingly patchy rain that'll move southwards to southern england. it'll be replaced by sunshine, but streams of squally showers coming in, and some wintriness over the hills in scotland. things are turning a little bit colder here, but we've still got that milder air across the far south — temperatures 12—13 celsius. now, as the storm tracks further into scandinavia, we get this surge of stronger winds just for a while down those north sea coasts. we still have that weather front there, and that's the boundary between this milder air that's trying to push back northwards across the uk, and the colder air that's still particularly in scotland. and along that boundary, we've got this area of rain here.

now south of it, in the milder air, there's still a lot of cloud, but maybe some sunshine. in the colder air, mainly in scotland, there'll be some showers. wintry over the hills, but to lower levels across the far northeast, the northern isles, where it's particularly cold. milder elsewhere, but not quite as windy on friday.

this is bbc news, the headlines... the un vote on a pause in the fighting in gaza has been delayed yet again.

it's now due to take place at 10am tomorrow, new york time. the irish government is taking the uk to court over plans to change investigations into the northern ireland conflict and an eight—year—old british schoolgirl makes history winning the european chess championships. let's get the latest on the israel—gaza war. we'll look at the situation on the ground in gaza. israeli strikes in rafah, in the south, close to a hospital. heavy street fighting has also been reported in the nearby city of khan younis. the israeli army says it's carried out strikes against more than 300 targets in the past 24 hours. our special correspondent fergal keane reports. the boy lies on the body of his father.