another blow to prospects of a middle east peace deal, qatar is suspending its role as a key mediator between israel and hamas. president biden invites donald trump to the white, as the handover to the new administration begins. the princess of wales attends the festival of remembrance in london, her first such appearance since being treated for cancer. we start in spain, where more than a hundred thousand people have been demonstrating on the streets of valencia over the authorities�* emergency response to devastating flash floods, which killed at least 217 people. the protesters, who include members of various civil groups and unions, are demanding accountability, with some

chanting "murderer". among their demands is the resignation of valencia's regional head, carlos mazon, who they hold responsible for the perceived mishandling of the disaster. riot police have sealed off the entrance to the city hall where there have been clashes with protesters. if clashes with protesters. we have a look now you cé see if we have a look now you can see the seen live in valencia now. as you can tell from those pictures, protesters have dispersed in the huge crowds that but there earlier but you can still see the aftermath of those larger scale protests. as i said, there were more than 100,000 people gathering for the demonstrations, voicing their anger at the way they perceive the authorities have responded to those flooded with complaints that not only was the clear up operation in the recovery process inadequate but also concerns that the authorities didn't give residents enough notice before the floods were to come. there

was a warning from the met office tab in spain so weather 0ffice tab in spain so weather forecasters had alerted to the prospect of the severe floods but a lot of the people complaining about the authorities response and the people protesting feeling real anger where voicing concerns at the authorities didn't give enough notice from themselves directly as to the imminent flooding and, as you know, the scale of the clean—up operation is vast. scale of the clean—up operation is vast. visiting a military base in valencia earlier in the day. spain's defence minister, margarita robles, said the army was now present in every town affected by the flooding. she said the armed forces would stay there as long as it was needed: translation: we are aware of what people are suffering, there are no words on these occasions, there is no consolation. but i do want them to know they can count on our armed forces, the royal guard, and we will be in valencia for as long as is necessary. on that, our correspondent

in valencia, guy hedgecoe. well, there are certainly a great deal of anger here. the protest is continuing right behind me in central valencia. although this was initially called as a silent protest, paying tribute to the many people who died in october 29, there has been a huge sense of anger in the air throughout the protest. people do, certainly in this protest, distinctive blame carlos mazon, the regional president, for mismanaging this crisis. they say that he did not respond in time when the floodwaters were already rising. he did not react quickly enough or decisively enough on the day itself. some people are also angry with central government as well, the lack of resources being rolled out, but today, at this protest, in particular,

it is carlos mazon bearing the brunt of peoples anger. and do we know how valid the protesters claims are? were the authorities really lacking in not only their response to it in terms of helping with the recovery, but also on how much notice they gave people ahead of those devastating floods? well, in terms of the notice, on the day of the floods, october 29, the national weather agency did issue an alert around 7am in the morning. the criticism of carlos mazon and his administration here in valencia is that they did not issue their own alerts, an alarm to the people of valencia's phones, warning them to stay off the streets, for example, to stay at home. they did not do that for another 12 hours or so. also it has emerged that carlos mazon was not present, for example, at a crisis meeting in the afternoon. he was having a long

lunch with a female journalist. this emerged yesterday. so there is a lot of anger over that and in terms of the response itself, other people say that the coordination between the central governments and the regional government here is not what it should have been either so they say that the central government could have been more decisive as well so there has been a lot of criticism all round. and we heard there, spain's defence minister talking about the armed forces staying as long as was necessary to help with the towns that were affected by the flooding. how much do we know about the scale of the recovery and the clear up operation that is left? well, it is enormous, still. the road surrounding valencia have meant most of them have been cleared. those cars that were turned over by the flood water, many of them have been cleared up. but the prime minister presented a 10 billion rescue package last week, an initial package to help valencia and the feeling is that the recovery here, in

terms of businesses and homes and infrastructure, is going to take months and months. qatar says its efforts to mediate to bring about a ceasefire in the israel—gaza war are "stalled". the gulf state has played a key diplomatic role in trying to bring an end to the, to prevent further loss of life, and secure the release of the remaining israeli hostages held by hamas. in the last few minutes, qatar has said it will resume mediating talks when there is �*enough seriousness to end this brutal war.�* 0ur correspondentjoe inwood sent this update before that official announcement by hamas. now, this news, if confirmed, is another severe blow to a peace process that was already dire trouble. reuters is reporting that the qataris are no longer going to maintain their mediating role in any sort of deal between hamas and the israelis.

it was also suggested that neither of those sides are acting in good faith and, adding on to that, they are also quoted as saying that, therefore, hamas political office which has been in qatar since 2012, no longer serves a purpose. this follows a report this morning from washington in which an unnamed official said that the us government was no longer happy with hamas having a political office in gaza and it had been told it needed to leave. that news delivered ten days ago. we should say that hamas told the bbc this was not true. they have not responded to these later suggestions, so what does this all mean? it means that firstly, hamas, they are going to relocate, they will have to find a different country. the most likely option seems to be turkey. there has been reports of officials spending more time there. at the start of the year the then leader went for a visit with the president there and so

there is some thought that they could find a new base there are other that has not been confirmed either. i think, more broadly, this means that these peace talks which, as i said, are already in severe trouble, going to face even more obstacles and that, of course, is bad news for people in gaza in particular, by the humanitarian situation is dire. the hostages as well, the israeli hostages, around 100 of whom are still being held in gaza. joe biden will receive president—elect donald trump at the white house on wednesday. a white house spokesperson says that, at president biden�*s invitation, the pair will meet in the oval office at 11am local time, following the republican�*s decisive victory over vice president kamala harris in the presidential election. the news comes two days after mr biden delivered a speech, in which he urged americans to "bring down the temperature" following the bitterly partisan election. he said he accepted the results of the election and appealed

for unity. the full extent of that victory has seen donald trump and his republican party inch closer to taking control of all the levers of us government. votes are still being counted in some races. but having secured the white house and the senate. republicans are also close to reaching the 218 seats needed to control the house of representatives. for the defeated democrats, the recriminations have already started. one of the most powerful politicians in washington, the former speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi, has put part of the blame for kamala harris�*s loss on president biden, suggesting that the party would have performed better if he'd left the race earlier. ms pelosi played a key role in convincing mr biden to end his re—election bid. this is some of what she had to say, in an interview with the new york times: there will be many reviews of timing and the who, what, when, why and where, as we go forward, and books will be written about it.

the fact is, she did a greatjob with the time constraint that she had. had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. kamala, i think, would still have won, but she may have been stronger having taken her case to the public sooner. 0ur correspondent in washington, anna foster gave me her thoughts on the interview by nancy if pelosi, in the new york times. what was interesting about that wider interview, she was repeatedly questioned by the journalist about what went wrong. as many senior democrats have been doing over the last few days, she wouldn't be drawn on much of it. you do sense that they want to go away and work out what did go wrong, because a lot of things that go wrong. that was the closest she got to conceding on the point of the timing. what she was being pressed

on with whether or not ifjoe biden had withdrawn from the race earlier, that would have been a different process for actually appointing kamala harris as the candidate. nancy pelosi had said before that if kamala harris had been selected through an open primary candidate with other candidates, an opportunity for everyone to put the points forward to the wider party, nancy pelosi considered that might have helped kamala harris, she said that might have made her stronger in that the race, and given her the opportunity to lay out more about herself. but with the timing, and with the way that joe biden very quickly endorsed kamala harris after he said he was stepping aside, there wasn't time for that primary contest. she spoke very warmly about kamala harris, saying that she was a great candidate. i think the democrats believe, a lot of what they said in the campaign, they said. just some of the key issues, not going hard enough

on the economy, for example. they will look back and now that those are things to be considered. those are a range of things which have contributed to a conference of defeat. it is looking like it might well be a clean sweep for the republicans. speaking of which, how does donald trump's approach to recruiting his top team, so far, looks like it compares to that of his previous presidency? is really interesting because everybody is desperate to know who he is appointing, who he is having the conversations with, and so much is happening behind closed doors at his estate in mar—a—lago in florida. there are so much speculation in the us media. when thing people seem to agree on is that many people that he worked with last time around will not be making a reappearance. you will remember he fell out with a lot of his top team, there were certain jobs that were replaced

a lot of times over. i think people are expecting to see wild card entries, elon musk has been talked about a lot, particularly as he took the phone from donald trump in a meeting with president zelensky the other day. but donald trump is cloistered away in mar—a—lago. remarkably quiet, as well. remember, the last time we saw and heard from him in public was the victory in the early hours of wednesday morning. i'm sure he has got a lot to say and we will hear it in good course, but right now everybody is desperate to hear those names, but with the exception of susie wiles, his chief of staff, nobody knows who he is going to pick. there have been suggestions that once in office, president trump will take a more aggressive approach to changing the way government works. i asked matt cohen, a senior writer at democracy docket how

far he thought mr trump would go this time. thanks for having me. you know, i think, one _ thanks for having me. you know, i think, one thing _ thanks for having me. you know, i think, one thing to _ thanks for having me. you know, i think, one thing to note - i think, one thing to note with, you know, trump's plan and he is talking about this a lot to replaceable servants and other appointees with people who are loyal to him. and he tried to do this last time it was in october of 2020 so we did not have a lot of time. so basically, with doing this at the outset, it is going to give him, you know, plenty of opportunity to carry out exactly what is talked about, punishing his opponents and replacing a federal workforce with people who are loyal to him. . ., with people who are loyal to him. ., ., ., , him. he said a lot of things, hasn't he? _ him. he said a lot of things, hasn't he? we _ him. he said a lot of things, hasn't he? we have - him. he said a lot of things, hasn't he? we have had - him. he said a lot of things, hasn't he? we have had a i him. he said a lot of things, | hasn't he? we have had a lot him. he said a lot of things, - hasn't he? we have had a lot of rhetoric around mass deportations. how feasible do you think those are in the cold hard light of day when actually

running the country? you know, it is hard to _ running the country? you know, it is hard to say _ running the country? you know, it is hard to say for _ running the country? you know, it is hard to say for sure - running the country? you know, it is hard to say for sure how - it is hard to say for sure how feasible it is. like you said, he says a lot of things. but at the very least, we have to take matters word. you know, we can'tjust matters word. you know, we can't just say that he is matters word. you know, we can'tjust say that he is going to do these things and, you know, maybe you will, maybe he won't. the only way to kind of keep the presidency in check is using the guide rails of democracy, the courts and what not to challenge him when he is really testing the bounds of what he can and can't do. it is really hard to say but i think, you know, the least that we can do is taken at face value when he says these things. find do is taken at face value when he says these things. and wikis uuardrails he says these things. and wikis guardrails of— he says these things. and wikis guardrails of democracy - he says these things. and wikis guardrails of democracy that i guardrails of democracy that you mentioned, how much legislative scope is there for him to make any radical changes?— him to make any radical chances? changes? welcome as you mentioned _ changes? welcome as you mentioned before, - changes? welcome as you mentioned before, the - mentioned before, the republicans to end up taking the house of representatives,

he will have a lot. with the republicans in control of all three chambers, of power, that really kind of leaves him with a lot of room to kind of do what he wants and i think, you know, one point to make, it wasn'tjust know, one point to make, it wasn't just two years know, one point to make, it wasn'tjust two years ago that the narrative was that the republicans are in disarray. the former house speaker kevin mccarthy, you know, couldn't get elected by his own party to lead. there are countless elections before he was replaced and now we are seeing the republican party that is extremely unified and they are about to take all three chambers of government so, you know, i think, chambers of government so, you know, ithink, given chambers of government so, you know, i think, given that, chambers of government so, you know, ithink, given that, it should be pretty easy for him to use... to sort of persuade congress to pass the legislative bills that he wants to sign. legislative bills that he wants to sin. ~ �* ., legislative bills that he wants

tosiin.~ �* ., ;;:: to sign. we've got about 30 seconds or— to sign. we've got about 30 seconds or so _ to sign. we've got about 30 seconds or so left. - to sign. we've got about 30 seconds or so left. donald l seconds or so left. donald trump will of course be the first president to take off as well several criminal cases against them are pending. what you think will happen to that? can you see a sitting president being sentenced convicted? being sentenced convicted ? definitely being sentenced convicted? definitely not. the federal cases, you know, all legal experts kind of say, even the doj experts kind of say, even the do] have said they are going to wind down and once he takes over and appoints people in the doj they will make that go away. in the same with the state cases. it is not as easy but it is very hard and especially with the recent supreme court ruling about sitting presidents it is going to be very hard for him to be convicted of anything, even stuff that happened before he took office for the second time. ~ ., took office for the second time. a, ., ., took office for the second time. ., ., , ., time. matt cohen, a senior writer at— time. matt cohen, a senior writer at democracy - time. matt cohen, a senior| writer at democracy docket. now it's time for a look at today's sport.

hello from the bbc sport centre. thanks we're starting with football and a record run of defeats for pep guardiola who's manchester city side lost at brighton in the premier league today — theirfourth game in a row — the worst losing streak in pep's illustrious managerial career. it's also the first time city have lost four consecutive matches for nearly two decades. erling haaland had put them in front midway through the first half. but brighton held had the better second half, joao pedro with the equalizer and matt 0'riley back from injury — got the winner. we were not able today to sustained a new sky one, two, and after that you are solid and after that you are solid and you can make the right moment to score goals so... it could not happen and, yeah, thatis could not happen and, yeah, that is sad. we will have a short break and come back again. earlier, wolves managed theirfirst league win of the season against fellow strugglers southampton, who now swap places with wolves at the bottom of the table. matheus cunha set up their first goal inside two minutes and then scored their second,

a 25 yard stunner which eases the pressure on manager gary o'neill. played a lot better than we have today as well. we have been on the wrong end so it was a gritty performance, you know. we had to move a few things around at half—time. managed to get a bit more pressure on the second half. get a lot of the games and southampton are an awkward side to play against especially when you're down the bottom and under bit of pressure in front of your home fans. they dominate the ball and we had to be patient but the second half, thought were excellent. managed to get good pressure and looked a real threat. so these are the day's premier league results. and one game ongoing — that's at anfield where liverpool are leading aston villa which means if it stays like this, liverpool will extend their lead at the top of the table to five points and increase manager arne slot�*s already impressive stats. there was an extraordinary game of rugby union

at the allianz twickenham and heart breakfor, who suffered a rare defeat to australia. the game was tight and topsy turvy throughout. where at one point england were leading by 12 points only to go behind again and trail by ten points. then when maro itoje scored a try in the 78th—minute try to go 37—35 ahead, the home team seemed set for success. but then in the final play of the match, four minutes into the red, the wallabies found space and replacement wing maxjorgensen dived in front of the stunned stands to snatch a very late 42 points to 37 victory. there were so much excitement about what we are doing and belief in what we are doing and, of course, there are frustrations and there are going to be, you know, some people who are very frustrated at the result tonight in parts of the performance. that is almost feel for us for next week and how we can get better and be in the best place we can possibly be to take on south africa. possibly be to take on south africa.

so there's confirmation of australia's victory over england. meanwhile, argentina beat italy 50 points to 18. los pumas scored seven tries for a record win over the italians. france are currently in action againstjapan. they've been playing forjust over five minutes its 5—0 to france currently the fairy tale for english golfer paul waring is still on at the abu dhabi championship. the world number 229 has managed to hold on to his lead over the star—studded field going into the final round at yas links on sunday. waring stunned the sport with the lowest 36 hole score in european tour history and despite carding a less impressive, one over par in his third round. he's still leading by a shot. there's much more on our website including live updates of the first t20 between england and west indies in barbados. the queen is to miss

remembrance events in london this weekend, after failing to fully recover from a chest infection in time. a statement from buckingham palace said the decision was also made to protect others from any potential risk. however, catherine, princess of wales will be attending sundays' remembrance event as she continues her recovery from cancer. and this evening she has been the festival of remembrance, a commemorative concert, alongside her husband the prince of wales. here they are with the duke and duchess of gloucester at the royal albert hall in london. as for the queen, she hopes to return to public duties early next week. remembrance sunday is held in the uk as a day to commemorate the contribution of british and commonwealth military servicemen and women in the two world wars and later conflicts. charlotte gallagher reports. the queen at last year's remembrance day service. it's an important event for the royal family, honouring the contribution

of the uk and commonwealth armed forces. but the queen will miss the commemorations and the royal british legion event. buckingham palace say: it is understood her condition has not worsened, but she was concerned about passing on any lingering infection to others. the queen more than anyone is aware of the importance of remembrance sunday, she is the the daughter of a much—decorated war veteran. she has grown up with the army. she has had the army

around her all her life. she is very much part of a sort of forces family. for her, it is a central day. she will be thinking of people who have fell in the second world war with her father. she will want to be there. because she is unwell, this will have been taken. because she is unwell she will not have taken this decision lightly. the queen who is 77, fell ill after a long haul trip to australia and samoa with the king. it has been confirmed that the princess of wales will be at events this weekend, as she slowly returns to public duties, following cancer treatment. earlier the prince of wales said it had been the hardest year of his wife, adding that he was so proud of his wife and fought for the way they have handled things. it has been a difficult and upsetting year for the royals, who like millions have faced serious illness

and uncertainty. just before a recap of our headlines. officials in italy are introducing a daily cap on the number of tourists allowed to visit the ancient roman city of pompeii. from next week, officials will almost halve the number of daily visitors to try to protect its fragile heritage and encourage people to explore other attractions. last year, a record four million people visited— with daily crowds as high as 36,000. the new limit follows attempts by other italian cities, including venice and rome, to control tourist numbers. headlines on the way. stay with us here on bbc news. good evening. it has for the majority been a cloudy, grey

but mostly dry day again. there's a little bit of sunshine across north—eastern parts of england, and i do think sunday has a better chance of seeing some brighter weather with more showers around. and that's because we have change starting to take place. but you can see on the satellite picture from earlier today, where we had the breaks in the cloud, scotland, north—eastern parts of england, and so it's here where we're likely to see a touch of frost as we go through the night. elsewhere, i think it's just going to stay quite grey, misty and foggy over the hills. but here's the change, or at least the start of the change. a weather front starting to move in to bring some showery rain. so, notjust this drizzly weather that we've had recently. this is more significant rain. but again it doesn't look as if it'll bring a great deal. but for most of us, it keeps the temperatures up overnight under that blanket of cloud. now, because we're introducing weather fronts tomorrow, there's a better chance of some brightness, even ahead of this weather front. not lots of sunshine, but perhaps a little bit brighter for the services in the morning across southern and eastern areas in particular. but the big breaks in the cloud, the best sunshine

will be through the afternoon across northern ireland and scotland, as that weather front continues to make its way southwards and eastwards. and i do think as well, because we're changing our wind direction, it won't feel as chilly as it has done in recent days, even across the cloudier parts of england and wales. and here, too, we will see that clearer air arriving, but probably not until monday, when we'll see more abundant sunshine because that weather front has to move through. so, as we start monday, still quite a bit of cloud hanging around through cornwall and the channel islands, and then it clears away and it does look drier and brighter. a bit of a nippy northerly breeze coming down the north sea coast, and temperatures will be a degree or two lower than sunday, but i do think the sunshine will compensate, so it will feel pleasant enough. and light winds for the majority under our area of high pressure. but there are a couple of flies in the ointment, one of them comes later tuesday into wednesday, working its way we think down the north sea, so bringing rather more cloud and breeze, a chilly breeze back in across east anglia, in the south—east and probably overnight and into wednesday. some rain, but for most after a chilly start and probably a bit more frost around into next week

and some morning fog. low level fog, it does look like another dry bright day. good spells of sunshine on tuesday, but it might be some more rain, as i say, in the south on wednesday and then in the north into thursday. as ever, there's more on the website.

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more than 100,000 peope are protesting in the spanish city of valencia over the emergency response to flash floods which killed more than 200 people. they're calling for the regional head carlos mazon to resign, saying his administration was unprepared for the disaster. qatar says its efforts to mediate to bring about a ceasefire in the israel—gaza war are stalled. the gulf state has played a key diplomatic role in trying to bring an end to the conflict and secure the release of the remaining israeli hostages held by hamas. the white house says joe biden will receive president—elect donald trump at the white house on wednesday. it follows mr trump's decisive victory over vice president kamala harris in tuesday's election. president biden has urged americans to bring down the temperature. that's following the bitterly partisan election campaign. let me take you back

live to spain. this is the aftermath of a protest we have been seeing. a protest has been taking place over the emergency response to the devastating floods which have killed at least 217 people. various civil groups and unions have been taing part in the protest in central valencia. people were expressing their anger at the response by the authorities. esperanza cervera is a citizen of the catarroja municipality, where the clean—up is very much still under way. she explains the reasons behind the people's level of anger. we are angry because nobody expected this tragedy. on tuesday in the morning, we only had orange alarm, so it was for rain,

not for flood. so, people were doing their normal lives. and at midday, they advised, they changed to red alarm. and we think it was too late because everybody was working and doing, going shopping and doing their lives. and it was... we think that... ..we don't have enough time to take care. so it was a problem. the alarm arrived very late, and people were doing their lives. that was a resident in catarroja explaining the level

of anger in spain to the response of the authorities to the flooding. the european union's foreign policy chief has tried to reassure ukraine of europe's unwavering support, days after donald trump's election victory cast uncertainty over its war effort. josep borrell has been in kyiv meeting ukraine's foreign minister, the first top eu official to visit since the outcome of the us election became clear. support from western allies has been key to ukraine's ability to defend itself against russia's much larger and better—equipped forces. this is what he said at the joint press conference. the clear purpose of this visit is to stress european union support to ukraine. this support