live from singapore. the headlines.. us appeals court rules that us president donald trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his election defeat. i think is well�*s chief military spokesperson has confirmed that 31 of the remaining hostages held in gaza are dead. the first picture of king charles since his cancer diagnosis. the kin: has since his cancer diagnosis. the king has now _ since his cancer diagnosis. the king has now started his treatment. live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. it's newsday. we start tonight with some developing news from the middle east. the syrian army says israel has struck a number of targets in homs province, just north of lebanon. state media said syrian air defences shot down israeli missiles.

military sources say there are several casualties and injured, with the syrian observatory for human rights putting the number of dead at four. since the war in gaza broke out in october, israel has escalated its attacks on what it says are iranian—backed militia targets. we'll have more on this story as it develops. let's turn to the us — where a federal court of appeal has ruled that donald trump does not have presidential immunity and can be prosecuted on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. the former president had argued that his executive immunity meant he should not face charges for criminal acts. but the three—judge panel rejected that claim. mr trump is expected to appeal against the ruling. our correspondent gary o'donoghue has been following the story from washington. of all the cases donald trump is facing, this is the most serious one. it deals with those accusations that he tried to overturn the 2020 election. now, he argued that he had immunity from prosecution because these were acts

he took as president. the court said that wasn't true and that he was now citizen trump, not president trump, and did not enjoy those kinds of immunities. now, donald trump's strategy has always been to try and delay these cases for as much as possible, and he will appeal to the supreme court. if he can delay things long enough so the trial doesn't take place until after november's election and he wins that election, he can make all of this just go away. the problem for him is if the trial goes ahead before the election and he is convicted, there are large numbers of voters in key marginal states who are telling the pollsters they will not vote for a convicted felon. the timing and the outcome of this case is crucial not just to this election, but to the future of american politics. i spoke earlier in the programme tojulia manchester, political correspondent for the hill. she explained,

what happens next. the case automatically, sort of, gets pushed to the supreme court and puts the supreme court in a very political position. remember, the us supreme court is not, at least in theory, supposed to be a political institution. however, we are in an election year, and they might have to rule on this going forward. but right now, we are seeing that trump's lawyers, this argument that he is immune as a former president, a former president who hasn't been convicted in the senate, for example. he is immune from any prosecution. now, that appeal, if he appeals could further delay this case, and for trump, that would be a good thing because we know that, you know, he doesn't want to be convicted encase he is convicted, he doesn't want that to happen before the election. so, right now, you know, sort of a loss for the trump team, but at the same time, if this case is delayed, that is in a way a good thing for him. if you could talk a bit more about his reelection bid there.

doesn't officially have the republic nomination sewn up due to nikki haley's refusal to concede, despite trailing significantly in the polls. how do you think he is going to spin this or to play this result for himself? yeah, i think he is going to play that is how he has played every other vehicle ask you he has tased so far, and playing at you know, saying that he is the victim of a legal and political establishment that is biased against him. so i think you are going to hear him say that going forward and really using it to gen up his base. with any normal politician, if we were to see the issue is, the legal issues that donald trump is facing, it would be a death nailfor them. however, with trump, it seems that every frame he has to pay, every slap on the rest he gets from a judge, every court date he appears at, that seems to benefit ten in the polls he appears at, that seems to benefit him in the polls with republican primary voters. now, going into the general election with independent voters, for example,

that is an entirely different story, and we can see that trump's strategy that he has had in the primary may not work with most voters. given that this case revolves around his immunity claim, what does this mean for trump's other legal cases? well, for his other legal cases, some are in specific states like in georgia and new york state. so this was a federal claimant. so we will have to see if it necessarily applies to those ——so this was a federal claim. so we will have to see if it necessarily applies to those states, but we do know there is another federal case against trump here in washington, dc, a federal case against him in terms of the mishandling of classified documents. so, it could set some precedents, but remember, the supreme court still has to hear that appeal. breaking news in washington, dc. a motion to impeach presidentjoe biden�*s top border official has failed in the us house of

representatives. republicans accuse homeland security secretary of in failing to enforce immigration policies allowing for a record number of illegal border crossings in recent months. he has dubbed the claims as false accusations. democrats say the effort to them peace and is politically motivated ahead of november's presidential election where immigration will be a key issue. in the end for republicans voted against the motion. —— four republicans voted against the motion. back to the middle east. israel's chief military spokesperson says thirty—one of the remaining hostages held in gaza are dead. rear admiral daniel hagari said theirfamilies had been informed. israel has previously said 136 hostages were held in gaza. the israeli government has faced growing pressure to make the release of the hostages its main priority. us secretary of state antony blinken has arrived in tel aviv — the latest stop on his fifth trip to the middle east since the war began. earlier on tuesday,

secretary blinken was in doha. along with the qatari prime minister, he confirmed hamas has given a "positive" response to a proposed ceasefire with israel. here's a little of his statement. we had meetings already on this trip in riyadh and cairo, and now today in doha, focused on ensuring as well that we can use any pies to continue to build up plans for that day after in gaza, security, humanitarian reconstruction, governance, all bringing real challenges with them, but that is exactly why we are and need to be focused on them now. we are also determined to use any ties to continue to pay the diplomatic path forward to a just and lasting peace and security for at the region. following this, a senior hamas official told the bbc that the group had asked for amendments to the proposal. our middle east correspondent barbara plett—usher is injerusalem and sent

us this update. this is an important development because hamas received the proposal for the truce about a week ago, and now it has responded just as the secretary of state, antony blinken, is in the region and mr blinken will be discussing it on his next stop in israel. and before he got on the plane, while he was still in doha, he said there was still a lot of work to be done. and he didn't give any detail about the hamas reply. but a senior hamas official spoke to the bbc and he said that the group had asked for a number of things, including a clear timetable for the reconstruction of gaza and also the transfer of the wounded to hospitals abroad. and hamas released a statement which made it pretty clear that it wants this to lead to an end to the war. now, the israelis have also made it clear that they do not see a temporary truce becoming a permanent cease fire. so no doubt that will be part of the continuing negotiations. but those who draughted this proposal, the egyptians, the qataris, the americans, they do hope that it

leads to a lengthy cease fire which will allow for the release of the rest of the israeli hostages. a dramatic increase in aid to gaza and will also lay the groundwork for a post—war arrangement. so all eyes are going to be on mr blinken during his talks in israel. the bbc�*s state department correspondent tom bateman is following the story from washington. he shared his analysis on what these developments could mean for secretary blinken�*s visit to the region. the key point here is that the americans are getting increasingly squeezed in the region, and that is going to add to the pressure they put on mr netanyahu to try and take a deal as quickly as possible. why is that happening? it's because american bases are now increasingly being attacked. we saw the steps of the three american soldiers last week and the us response in the region. it is all leading to exactly that thing president biden said he didn't want in the region, an escalation, while they protect israel to carry on in gaza, and with that huge

level of bombardment. so the regional issue now is adding to the pressure i think that will add to what mr blinken is saying to mr netanyahu to take a deal, but it may be that this very difficult bridges that so far haven't been crossed are still too wide, the gap is still too wide to cross. king charles has been seen for the first time after revealing he has cancer. he travelled by helicopter from buckingham palace to sandringham, the royal estate in norfolk, with the queen, this afternoon. before he left, he met prince harry, who'd flew in from california today — their first face to face meeting since the king's coronation in may. our royal correspondent daniela relph reports. a first image of the king since news of his cancer diagnosis was made public. being driven into buckingham palace with his wife, queen camilla, after beginning his treatment in a london hospital. this afternoon, the couple headed by helicopter to the sandringham estate in norfolk, where the king will spend time resting

in between treatment. it's a place those who work with him say he finds solace and happiness. before he left london, there was a family visitor to host. straight from the airport to see his father, the duke of sussex is back in the uk, flying in from his home in california. he spent around 45 minutes in clarence house with the king who'd phoned him to tell him of his cancer diagnosis. but there are no plans for prince harry to meet up with his brother, the prince of wales. it's understood there is nothing in the diary. the focus instead has been on harry and his father. the two had not seen each other since the coronation. with the king clearing his diary and focusing on his cancer treatment, royal duties are now for the widerfamily. princess anne carried out an investiture at windsor castle this morning. she already has one of the busiest royal diaries. she then travelled to nottingham for some scheduled engagements there. with the queen, the prince of wales and the duke and duchess of edinburgh, she is likely to have to take on more public duties to support the king

while he's unwell. princess anne said nothing about the cancer diagnosis, but earlier the prime minister offered his support to the royal family. like everyone else, shocked and sad and just all our thoughts are with him and his family. thankfully, this has been caught early and now everyone will be wishing him that he gets the treatment that he needs and makes a full recovery. the king will now rely heavily on the support of his family, both privately and publicly. last friday, the queen opened a new support centre for cancer patients and their families at a hospital in north london. she came here already knowing of her husband's diagnosis. that visit last week must have been incredibly challenging on a personal level for the queen. can't imagine how difficult last week must have been for her, knowing that life was changing and had been turned upside down. but what happens quite quickly

after a cancer diagnosis is that a treatment path emerges. with his family on christmas day at sandringham. the king is now back here, for the time being out of the public eye, to concentrate on his recovery. i'm joined now by arun azad, a medical oncologist at the peter maccallum cancer centre in melbourne. what does this news tell us about the importance of getting checked out — especially for men in the older age bracket? it isa it is a pleasure. thank you. yes, i think this really surprising and shocking news about king charles i think being says that's cancer does not discriminate and can affect everyone in society whether they are a member of the royal family or not. and i think that is, you know, on a personal level it's obviously very sad for king charles and for his

family, but one of the positives that can emerge from hearing about a cancer diagnosis in a public figure is that it creates awareness about the importance of patients, particularly older men who are reluctant to go to their doctors to have symptoms and problems checked out to actually make the time to invest in their current health and be proactive about doing the best for their house. having these discussions are important and part of that awareness. what are some specific symptoms that we should be looking out for. obviously we are not aware of the specifics of the diagnosis here, but, you know, in terms of symptoms and that area, urological cancers are cancers of the urinary tract, particularly looking for changes in urinary symptoms in older patients, particularly older patients, particularly older men, if they are passing urine more frequently, getting up urine more frequently, getting up at night, having any difficulty passing urine or

having pain or blood. these are the sort of symptoms they —— particularly men who are experiencing in a notice of change that they should go see their general practitioner for an additional —— for an initial assessment and work it out. fine assessment and work it out. one high-profile _ assessment and work it out. one high—profile individual is diagnosed with cancer, do you see an uptick in patients going to get checked out? we see an uptick in patients going to get checked out?— see an uptick in patients going to get checked out? we do. we definitely do. _ to get checked out? we do. we definitely do. i— to get checked out? we do. we definitely do. i think _ to get checked out? we do. we definitely do. i think it - to get checked out? we do. we definitely do. i think it does - definitely do. i think it does create awareness in the community. we see that certainly in women with breast cancer, high—profile celebrities have had it. we definitely see an increase in women undergoing mammograms and screenings for breast cancer. i have seen that in australia. there was an awareness campaign around testicular cancer a few years back, and that led to a couple of patients being referred to me and said had just, because of that awareness campaign, data self examination and found a lump and ended up being diagnosed at testicular

cancer. so we definitely do see this, but these types of news in a public figure certainly can create awareness and raise awareness in a community about the importance of monitoring ourselves and getting checked out when needed.— ourselves and getting checked out when needed. thank you so much for speaking _ out when needed. thank you so much for speaking with - out when needed. thank you so much for speaking with us - out when needed. thank you so | much for speaking with us today and sharing your insights. a medical oncologist at the peter mccallum centre in melbourne. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news here in the uk... the metropolitan police have released new images of abdul shokoor ezedi — the man wanted in connection with a corrosive liquid attack in clapham last week. police have tracked mr ezedi moving from near southwark bridge in central london towards victoria embankment. people in bristol have been queuing to sign up with a new nhs dentist practice for a second day. the police had to intervene

yesterday to control the crowd of those wanting to register. the dentists' union says it's a "perfect snippet" of the situation nationwide. eight million people on means—tested benefits are now receiving their final cost—of—living payment, to help with high prices and bills. the 299 pound payment will go directly into bank accounts of those eligible, before the 22nd of february, without the need to make a claim. you're live with bbc news. fox corp, walt disney's espn and warner bros discovery said they will come together to launch a sports streaming service later this year — in a bid to capture younger fans. the media companies will form a joint venture to create a new service from their broad portfolio

of sports rights, which span the national football league, the national basketball league, major league baseball, fifa world cup and college competitions. the package of programming that would include television channels, as well as sports content that is streamed. it's one year on from turkey's deadliest earthquake. more than 53,000 people were killed in the south—east of the country. our correspondent anna foster reported from southern turkey in the aftermath of the quake. right next how the pre—done the gel. marking the moment the earthquake struck. it was punctuated by outbursts of anger towards the turkish government for what they say is its lack of action to re—house the homeless. now the rubble is going,

the scars are clear to see. the city of antakya is a wasteland. more than 200,000 buildings were destroyed by the earthquake. and the work to clear and rebuild is still going on, even now. not everyone is able to move on. abu mustapha often returns to the place where he used to live. he managed to save his three youngest children, but when their home fell, he lost sight of his teenage daughters, salma and salwa. "i told her, salma, get up, there's an earthquake. everybody woke up. we got out from the building gate here.

i had my other children, lama and mustapha, with me, and i stood right here." now they are missing. for months, he has searched hospitals and cemeteries. when everything he owned was destroyed, the few pictures he had left of his girls became even more precious. "my wife passed away 14 days before the earthquake. every time i go through difficult times, i go to her because i know where her grave is, but i don't know where my daughters' graves are, so i come here." so much of this place was destroyed that even now, after a year of solid work, they still have not managed to clear away all of the destruction. now, hundreds of thousands of people left this area altogether, but for those who stayed, the difficulties are still all around them every day, and the vast majority still don't have proper homes to live in. tents and container villages should have been temporary solutions. now, they are bedded in, more permanent than was ever intended.

less than a quarter of the promised new homes have been built. antakya's old city had stood strong for centuries. it may never recover. but its people have vowed to. 13—year—old zaliha remembers the night her life was saved. frightened and exhausted, the first rescue team who arrived said she was beyond help. but then, mersin city's fire department came and pulled her out. today, they are back together, reunited in the same city. there are thanks and hugs, and memories of how lucky their family was. across southern turkey, daily life remains a battle for the earthquake survivors who stayed here, and the last year hasn't dulled their pain or their suffering.

anna foster, bbc news, antakya. the families of thousands of children in england who were harmed after their mothers were given a drug to treat epilepsy while they were pregnant — should receive urgent financial help. that's the verdict of a report by the patient safety watchdog which is being published in the coming hours after people affected have fought for decades to get help. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. there was people in the health authority that knew about all of this and i wasn't told. why did it take for me to have four children before somebody said, "that child looks like it's got sodium valproate syndrome" ? it felt like cheese wire that i was running around my groin. a handful of the thousands of women who've been fighting forjustice, some for a0 years, after medical treatments went badly wrong. i first filmed with andy seven years ago. hello. it's sophie!

how lovely to see you. he's now 25 but will never live independently. he has severe learning disabilities and autism caused by the epilepsy drug sodium valproate that his mum emma was on when she was pregnant. oh, you did drama today? i was the big bad wolf today. i am the big bad wolf! andy is one of an estimated 20,000 children in the uk harmed. tomorrow the first redress scheme in england, proposing financial help for them will be published, but his mum emma is sceptical. this isjust a proposal. i know that there's going to be years until this actually comes into fruition and then for me to try and trust these people, to actually believe that this is going to be until andy dies. the scheme also recommends help for the 10,000 women in england harmed by pelvic mesh used to treat incontinence and prolapse, but which left some women like sadie

with debilitating injuries. in december, i went into hospital. i was suicidal. the pain got too much. i couldn't manage it. i'm not able to be the mum that i need to be. my 15—year—old son has had to undress me to help me into bed because the pain has been too much. the proposal by the patient safety commissioner is for a two stage redress scheme — an interim payment due next year for those directly harmed. £20,000 for victims of mesh, and 100,000 for sodium valproate, followed by a main scheme offering further financial and non—financial help, tailored to families' needs. the commissioner has compared the number of children harmed by sodium valproate to thalidomide, the most notorious birth defect story in history. this is a scandal that's bigger than thalidomide. people have been campaigning for this for decades. and she told us that ministers must now listen and introduce the redress scheme.

if the patients still don't have their voices heard, then it really shows that there's a callous disregard for the pain and the suffering that all of these patients and families have experienced. but the government in england is yet to confirm whether it will accept the scheme to give financial redress to families like these who have suffered for so many years. sophie hutchinson, bbc news. yeah? hmm. before we go — i want to show you a unique piece of history. it's a 2,000 year old scroll — that once belonged tojulius caesar's father—in—law. it was carbonised and preserved after the volcano mount vesuvius erupted in 79 ad. but now — thanks to ai — we have been able to read a segment for the very first time. thank you for your company and your undies day. goodbye for now. cash on newsday.

—— on newsday. hello there. the weather is changing, it's getting colder and that's going to bring the risk of some snow to some parts of the country. now, on tuesday, the temperatures were 14 degrees in surrey ahead of that weather front, which is taking rain down into the english channel. and following on from that, we've got the colder air moving down from the north. and we've seen some wintry showers falling in scotland. could well be a covering of snow in many places here, particularly in the northwest. but there's a danger there may well be some snow falling in the central belt of scotland early in the morning, too. now, increasingly, those wintry showers will become confined to northern scotland. the rest of scotland seeing sunny spells developing. so too northern ireland, and for much of england and wales, although in the south it still could be quite cloudy, still a bit of rain through the english channel not far away from the south coast of england. here, it's going to be colder than it was on tuesday, but it's going to be much less windy. typical temperatures are going to be six or seven degrees. so a chillier day. and into that colder air, that weather front that's in the channel is going to get swept northwards by this big

area of low pressure that's moving into the colder air. and that's going to give us the risk of some snow. and these are the temperatures we've got first thing on thursday morning. so, frosty start, particularly in scotland and northern parts of england. in the south, it's a little milder. we're going to have rain across southern parts of england and wales heading into the midlands, but as that weather moves northwards into that colder block of air, so we're going to find some sleet and snow falling as well. now, we still have this yellow warning out from the met office. the area has changed a bit, so we're seeing snow less likely in the midlands. there's snow extending into northern ireland. whilst there be some snow to low levels, it's mainly over the hills with significant falls over the higher hills, which will bring some disruption. we've still got that snow continuing into the evening across northern england, northern ireland and heading into southern most parts of scotland. another band of wet weather coming into the south of england before midnight. and low pressure is going to spin its way across the uk to end the week, and that's going to bring this mixture of rain, sleet and snow.

but we never remove that block of colder air in scotland. so we're going to find snow developing more widely away from the east coast. there'll be some more snow in the northern pennines for a while as well. cold easterly wind in scotland will keep temperatures four or five degrees at best. further south, it will be milder. we're more likely to have some rain, which could be on the heavy side.

the crisis at snap. shares in the social media firm are plunging in after hours trading.. we look into what's driving the sell—off. plus.. is canada losing its cool? why fewer permanent residents are applying for canadian citizenship, and some have even begun to leave the country. hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm steve lai. we begin with snap because shares of the social media firm are down more than 30% in afterhours trading. the snapchat owner missed wall street estimates for quarterly revenue, as it continues to struggle with competition from much larger rivals like meta and alphabet, which grab a much larger share of digital advertising. the disappointing earnings announcement comes a day after snap announced it would lay off 10—% of its staff.. the 528 employees who were

sacked join the ranks of a much larger group of tech workers across the industry who've