donald trump says he wants billionaire elon musk to lead a new us department of government efficiency along with republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy. and scientists discover an illuminating way to deter shark attacks on surfers by fixing led lights on to surfboards. welcome to newsday, i'm steve lai. a us deadline for israel to improve humanitarian aid access in gaza has expired without repercussions from washington. us ambassador to the un linda thomas—greenfield said while israel has "taken some important steps" toward addressing america's demands — their actions will be continue to be monitored. last month, us secretary

of state antony blinken gave israel an ultimatum of 30 days to ensure more aid trucks reached gaza daily or risk losing the supply of us weapons. as the deadline expired — the israeli army announced the opening of a new aid crossing into gaza, but un agencies still say israel has not done enough to meet the threshold. the deadline comes as israel's president isaac herzog is in washington, holding talks with presidentjoe biden. the bbc�*sjon donnison is following developments from jerusalem. much of gaza now looks unlivable. a month ago, america once again demanded israel take steps to reduce the number of civilian casualties. the united nations says more than 1000 people have been killed in the last 30 days, the majority, it says, were civilians. nizar needed to see with his own eyes. in the bag is the five—year—old's auntie.

his uncle, their children and nizar�*s sister khalood were also killed when israel attacked a school housing displaced families in central gaza. israel's military says it was targeting hamas. "god is all we need," cries bara, nizar�*s brother. there is food in gaza... ..if you can get your hands on it. this, the daily scramble for bread, if you can afford it. 0n gaza's northern border, this is zikim. you can see the war is not over. but israel has reopened a number of crossings to allow

aid in, as the us requested. it's not enough. america demanded that by now israel should be getting a minimum of at least 350 trucks of aid into gaza every day. but over the past month the united nations says the average has been onlyjust over a0 trucks a day. we've got this deadline set by the united states. have their demands been met? no, there is not enough aid here, there is not enough supplies. people are starving in areas. people are very hungry, they are fighting over bags of flour. for more than a year, israel has crossed most of america's red lines. much of this was done using us weapons. but in the dying days of the biden presidency and with more than 43,000 palestinian lives lost, the state department has indicated this evening it is not ready to cut off

weapons supplies to its closest ally in the middle east. jon donnison, bbc news, jerusalem. it's nearly a week since donald trump won the white house for a second time, and the president elect is shaping his administration's team to focus on the middle east. he's nominated former arkansas governor mike huckabee as us ambassador to israel when he takes office in january. israel's ambassador to the united nations welcomed that move, saying mr huckabee is a �*dearfriend'. meanwhile new york real estate developer and close friend of mr trump, stephen witkoff, has been named as his special envoy to the middle east. i spoke to former ambassador to the republic of malta and non—resident senior fellow at the atlantic council — gina abercrombie—winstanley and got her views on the passing of the us deadline without any action. it comes as a disappointment, disappointment to many who were hoping that this would be a redline that helped. now, it is one of several over

the year that the president and us leadership laid out to demand adherence to international humanitarian law, the law of armed conflict and yet, another redline has been crossed. looks like without accountability. i will so that it would have been hard as we see the sort of appointees that incoming president is going to make that even if a president biden work going to hold the redline and they are all indications that he should, recognising that before this war started, 500 trucks used to go into the gaza strip every day. so even asking for merely 350 was a decrease of what was the norm. and so, we are aware we are and it looks like it's not going to get any better

even at the new administration comes in. president biden seems powerless at this point, talking about incoming president—elect, donald trump, what does his administration mean for the civilians in gaza, the west bank and lebanon as well, with israel continuing its attacks? well, the type and identification of the nominees that he is putting forward or has said is going to put forward, make two things clear and that we know about him, president—elect trump values a great deal of wealth, people will have a cumulative great deal of wealth and values very highly loyalty. personal loyalty to him and all of the names are with her does far have that loyalty to president trump, very strong loyalty in common whether it is his selection for an basa to the united nations or department

of homeland security, state departments, all of them have been stalwart supporters of president trump. authorities in china have pledged all—out efforts to help those injured in a deadly car attack in the south of the country. at least 35 people were killed and 43 others seriously injured, when a man drove his car into people outside a sports centre in zhuhai. a 62—year—old man has been arrested in connection to what may be china's deadliest act of random public violence in decades. 0ur china correspondent stephen mcdonnell sent this report from outside the scene but locals appear to have been organised to try to keep journalists away. people in china are in shock following events that unfolded, in front of the stadium. the complex is now closed off but normally, you can go in there and exercised our running tracks on the light and you have groups of communities dancing and this type of things but then a man in his 60s drove in their and ran down people,

according to the police, dozens of them have now died and dozens more, many more have been injured. xijinping has called on officials all over the country to try and settle community disputes to prevent this type of thing happening in the first place. i suppose what is he going to say after all? it's really an inexplicable event, according to the police, this official — the official reason they are giving is that this man was upset about a dispute with his wife after the division of his property following his divorce and for some reason, that has led him to drive into this complex and kill people.

he harmed himself, it seems with a knife and according to reports, he is now in a coma. so, all of this has been very disturbing, partly you can see why it might inflame tensions and why there might be local party officials trying to organise those who will try to stop us from reporting on this but otherwise it's the type of thing that happened unfortunately in china before, these copycat mass attacks, somebody has some sort of grievance and taking it out on complete strangers and then we have this type of thing of the government trying to stop it from happening. donald trump that in a statement the department will become potentially the

manhattan project of our time was referring to the american programme to develop the first atomic bomb. unclear exactly what form the new department will take mr trump also plans to nominate south dakota governor christie known to be his secretary of homeland security for nominate tv presenter and fox news host pete hecs debt as defence secretary for the as well as former director of national intelligence, but left to be director of the cia. to discuss these appointments i am joined by north america correspondent david willis. let's start with that elon musk pick for the incoming department of government efficiency. he is movinu government efficiency. he is moving quickly, _ government efficiency. he is moving quickly, isn't - government efficiency. he is moving quickly, isn't he? . government efficiency. he is moving quickly, isn't he? to j moving quickly, isn't he? to unveil the people that will be populating his cabinet when he returns to the white house next year. just a week after he won election, one that election. he

named elon musk who together with another entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy, somebody who competed with donald trump for the republican presidential nomination. they will head at this department of government efficiency and it is in a sense a reward for mr musk i think who became a very staunch supporter of donald trump in the latter stages of the trump campaign, didn't he? pumping millions of his own money into mr trump's millions of his own money into mrtrump�*s runfor millions of his own money into mr trump's run for office. ultimately successful run for office. according to this statement from the trump transition team, these two men will dismantle bureaucracy, cut wasteful expenditure and creates an entrepreneurial approach to government. government spending in this country is thought to amount to around $6.5 trillion a year. it

is thought best effort by mr musk and vivek ramaswamy could lead to the loss of quite a few jobs in the federal government. complicated by their very business interests i am sure will be a topic of conversation. let's move onto kristi noem. nominated for homeland security. yes kristi noem. nominated for homeland security.- kristi noem. nominated for homeland security. yes and she is a long-time _ homeland security. yes and she is a long-time hardliner- homeland security. yes and she is a long-time hardliner as - homeland security. yes and she is a long-time hardliner as far l is a long—time hardliner as far as immigration policy is concerned. she is the south dakota governor currently and with the other people looking to take on the challenge, essential challenge to be trump campaign of immigration, people like stephen miller whose appointment has not been formally announced yet but widely thought to be deputy white house chief of staff and somebody who of chorus has been seen as the architect of the controversial policy during the

first trump administration which separated thousands of migrants from their parents and the man that has been named as the man that has been named as the so—called borders are tom homan, it will represent an extremely conservative hard—won group of people devoted to that key trump strategy of limiting the amount of illegal immigration into this country. thanks. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news in the uk. a radical shake up of the post office is expected to be announced as early as wednesday. the bbc understands a plan is being finalised, which includes hundreds ofjob losses at head office, as part of a wider transformation of the whole business.

under the move, 115 loss—making branches wholly owned by the post office could also be closed. the nhs will start offering an "improved" stop smoking pill to tens of thousands of people in england who want to quit cigarettes. nhs england says varenicline, a daily tablet given over a few months, is more effective than nicotine replacement gum or patches. it works by reducing cravings and blocking nicotine's effect on the brain, while also helping with withdrawal symptoms. sir keir starmer�*s former chief of staff, sue gray, will not be taking up her post as the prime minister's envoy to the nations and regions. she was appointed to the newly—created position after stepping down from her role in downing street. sue gray said then, that she risked becoming a distraction, after a series of negative headlines about her pay. you're live with bbc news. a russian doctor is facing five and a half years injail after a patient reported her for comments on the war against ukraine. nadezhda buyanova, a paediatrician, was reported to police by the mother of a seven—year—old boy she'd

been treating, who claimed she'd made negative remarks about the boy's father, a russian soldier. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg reports. you might have thought this was a dangerous criminal — handcuffed, locked in a cage. but dr nadezhda buyanova was on trial for spreading fake news about the russian army. in effect, for criticising russia's war in ukraine. "it's absurd," nadezhda tells me. "i can't get my head around what's happening to me." there's been huge interest in this case. huge concern, too, about how it would end for the 68—year—old paediatrician. so the verdict was announced a few moments ago — a prison sentence of 5.5 years for comments allegedly made about the war in ukraine. it shows, i think, that for russia now, a war abroad is fuelling repression at home. nadezhda buyanova worked at this moscow clinic.

there, a patient�*s mother claimed the doctor told her russian soldiers in ukraine were legitimate targets. the mother, whose ex—husband had been killed fighting in ukraine, recorded an emotional video and then wrote to the police. a denunciation. it led to the doctor's arrest, trial and conviction. "the sentence is monstrously harsh," the doctor's lawyer, 0skar cherdzhiyev, tells me. "even given what's happening in russia today, "we didn't expect this." but last month, a moscow nurse, 0lga menshikh, was sentenced to eight years in prison on the same charge. that was for two anti—war posts on social media. as for nadezhda buyanova, she's been a children's doctor for a0 years. now, she's a prisoner.

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. the un secretary general has warned world leaders we are facing the final countdown to limit global temperature rises. it comes as a new report shows carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a new high this year, with experts saying there's no sign of the use of fossil fuels peaking. as the united nations climate change conference continues in baku, british prime minister sir keir starmer says he wants the uk to be on the front line in addressing climate change, committing the uk to reduce carbon emissions by 81% within a decade. meanwhile the heads of the international monetary fund and the world bank say they'll work with the incoming trump administration to continue to provide financing to developing countries hit by climate change. it's thought donald trump may withdraw the us from the paris climate agreement for a second time when he takes office. professor mark howden is director of the institute for climate, energy

& disaster solutions at the australian national university. i asked him what the incoming trump presidency might mean for global climate goals. it's hard to see anything positive coming out of it in the sense of driving forward ambition, i think it will impact negatively in terms of the negotiation, climate negotiations taking out a momentum and increasing uncertainty in relation to those negotiations falling pulling back on investment in technologies which the world needs to do this transition much more effectively and i think what it does is give a green light to those countries who might want to sit on the fence or say no to climate action. a lot of talk about climate financing in this years cop meeting, why is it so difficult to turn talk into action? a lot of countries are hurting in terms of economy so it's hard to find dollars for domestic spending,

let alone expenditure for things such as climate finance and yet, we are all part of this global problem so we'll need to be part of the global solution and so, the argument for additional finance can — from developed countries is quite strong and the quantum of that is much larger than what has been contributed to date. developing nations have been pointing out the hypocrisy of those developed nations saying that they benefited from the industrial revolution and because of a lot of this climate change and have a point, don't they? they do and historical emissions are an important part of the discussion by when we look at many of those emitting countries, they are on a steep decline in terms of their emissions so those emissions are going down quite considerably, emissions particular going up in economies in transition and in some developing countries as well so, it's a mixed story and one of the really important

things there is thatjust because other countries i've gone through essentially a dirty fossil fuel development phase does not mean everyone has to do that, we have the technologies and the government assistance that economics that can actually enable people to go through a green development phase having much lower footprint and getting all the benefits from that development. these meetings go on for another ten or so days, what will you be looking out from these cop meetings? i think a general progress would be a good start. one of the things that's come out already is agreement on aspect of the carbon trading so how we assess the quality of carbon credits for global trading purposes so that the positive. even though criticisms are various aspects of that being rushed through and possibly not take

into account the verified ability and sustainability of those carbon credits. i think there will be some movement on additional finance for climate finance for emission reduction adaptation and loss and damage, we will see some country stepping up ambition and so has said that they would step up on that as you've just noted and i think we will also see significant discussion about climate adaptation and how to measure that and promote that because it's very clear that we are facing significant climate change already. we will have plenty more coverage of cop in the days ahead. shark attacks have always been a worry for surfers around the world. but a university in australia may have found a solution, by adding bright lights to surfboards. laura ryan from macquarie university in sydney spent nearly 500 hours towing illuminated seal—shaped foam decoys around mossel

bay in south africa — a popular area for great whites. she found that vertical stripes of light confused the sharks enough to stop them thinking the decoys were prey. for more on this i'm joined now by laura herself. how did you come up with this idea to attach lights to a surfboard?— idea to attach lights to a surfboard? . ., ., surfboard? thanks for having me. surfboard? thanks for having me- what — surfboard? thanks for having me. what we _ surfboard? thanks for having me. what we have _ surfboard? thanks for having me. what we have been - surfboard? thanks for having l me. what we have been doing surfboard? thanks for having . me. what we have been doing is looking at this idea that humans potentially look like a great weight food source, a seal. great whites will hunt for seals by patrolling below them and looking up. so using them and looking up. so using the silhouette to find their potential pray and changing the silhouette, we thought we could stop this behaviour and prevent them biting humans. i

stop this behaviour and prevent them biting humans.— stop this behaviour and prevent them biting humans. i suppose a silhouette mimics _ them biting humans. i suppose a silhouette mimics a _ them biting humans. i suppose a silhouette mimics a surfer - silhouette mimics a surfer paddling his arms on a surfboard, is that right? it is shown that _ surfboard, is that right? it is shown that the _ surfboard, is that right? it 3 shown that the silhouette of a seal, surfer and even a person swimming is a really hard and very similar when you think about a shark visual system. what is it about the lights and the stripes that deter sharks? what the stripes are doing is breaking up the silhouette. instead of creating a seal shape silhouette, it creates kind of shorter and wider silhouettes than a dozen along a narrow silhouette. it is the white shark no longer perceives the silhouette as potential pray. i5 the silhouette as potential ra . , the silhouette as potential ra _ , ., , , ., the silhouette as potential ra., ., ., pray. is it easy to attach the li . hts pray. is it easy to attach the lights and — pray. is it easy to attach the lights and you _ pray. is it easy to attach the lights and you think - pray. is it easy to attach the lights and you think it - pray. is it easy to attach the lights and you think it will. pray. is it easy to attach the | lights and you think it will be something easy to adopt for servers? ~ ., something easy to adopt for servers? ~ . ., , servers? we are actually in the rocess servers? we are actually in the process now — servers? we are actually in the process now of _ servers? we are actually in the

process now of trying - servers? we are actually in the process now of trying to - servers? we are actually in the process now of trying to take i process now of trying to take the led lighting from the decoys and making a prototype that will be useful for servers. 0bviously that will be useful for servers. obviously i make them to withstand a couple of nudges in case a shark comes near but now we are trying to make them lighter and more usable for servers and other watercraft users as well.— servers and other watercraft users as well. have you spoken to surfers? _ users as well. have you spoken to surfers? is — users as well. have you spoken to surfers? is it _ users as well. have you spoken to surfers? is it something - users as well. have you spoken to surfers? is it something of. to surfers? is it something of big concern to them? are they open to this idea?— open to this idea? being a surfer myself _ open to this idea? being a surfer myself i _ open to this idea? being a surfer myself i can - open to this idea? being a surfer myself i can answerj open to this idea? being a - surfer myself i can answer this one for you. with surfing you want every wave, the next wave to be best wave so it is important to integrate the technology in a way that we're not going to affect the surfing experience and it is that peace of mind to a product like this can bring to a surfer. the ability to take shock protection into your own hands.

quickly, about 20 seconds left, what should we know about sharks? they get a lot of bad rap from the sort of instances of attacking humans. hopefully the work we — of attacking humans. hopefully the work we have _ of attacking humans. hopefully the work we have been - of attacking humans. hopefully the work we have been doing i of attacking humans. hopefully| the work we have been doing in trying to understand the sensory systems of sharks can sort of help us understand their behaviour and maybe take away the fear at least understand it. and with this understanding, we can come up with these new ways to protect both humans and sharks and other animals we share the water with.— other animals we share the water with. ., ,, , ., , . water with. thank you very much for our water with. thank you very much for yourtime- — water with. thank you very much for your time. we _ water with. thank you very much for your time. we will _ water with. thank you very much for your time. we will have - water with. thank you very much for your time. we will have to i for your time. we will have to leave it there. thanks for your company. business today is next. hello there. so far this week, it's generally not been as gloomy. there was some sunshine around for many places on tuesday, but some parts of northern ireland and southwest scotland stayed misty and murky all day. that fog is lifting as cloud comes in, lifting temperatures in the northwest but ahead of it with clearer skies in england and wales away from the southeast, it's going to be cold to start

wednesday, temperatures close to freezing in places and a few mist and fog patches in northern england, the midlands towards the west country, too. those will lift through the morning, sunshine developing. it looks quite cloudy for western scotland, a bit damp to cloud for northern ireland, moving over the irish sea into north west england and north wales, but further south and east we'll hang on to some sunshine — not a bad day. temperatures generally 11 degrees, i think, for england and wales. milder further north, typically 13 in scotland and northern ireland. those atlantic winds bringing in the cloud will push southwards behind that weak weather front overnight — that weather front bringing a little rain first thing in the far southeast. but following on from that much more cloud, so it's not going to be as cold to start on thursday. but sunshine, i think, is going to be harder to find. and in the far north of scotland, there could even be a few spots of rain returning here as well. temperatures going to be evening out because there's more cloud around, so typically 12, maybe 13 degrees.

so quite mild, i think, on thursday. high pressure with us at the moment — starting to shrink away a little bit on friday. some stronger winds coming in ahead of this weather front, which will bring some rain into the northwest later on friday. stronger winds ahead of that, mind you. further south, though, we've got lighter winds. there could be some mist and fog patches lifting to give some sunshine, but temperatures across southern parts of england and the midlands, parts of wales, 9—10 degrees. it'll be milder further north with those stronger atlantic winds. and that weather front bringing the rain in the northwest scoots southwards. not much rain on it at all, i think, on saturday, showers following, and then on sunday we could see another spell of rain developing and that'll push its way eastwards, mainly across northern areas. but as it clears away, the wind direction changes and we draw in some colder air. so some big changes on the way. i think through the rest of this week, we're likely to find more cloud around before we see a spell of wet weather over the weekend. but then as that clears away and things turn colder, we're likely to find some snow in parts of scotland.

elon musk heads to the white house as the us president elect taps on the billionaire to head a new efficiency department. nvidia teams up with softbank to power a 5g network as it hosts a two—day summit.

hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. us president—elect donald trump has confirmed tech billionaire, elon musk, will lead a government efficiency department. former republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy will also be in charge of the department, with trump saying their leadership will pave the way to dismantle government bureaucracy and slash excess regulation. elon musk became a key ally to trump during his campaign, reportedly spending well over $100 million to help the republican win. tech analyst weighs in on what the appointment in particular means for us businesses. i think that you have seen with what elon musk has been able to do with tesla and twitter and is really about trying to streamline the operations and i think we are in need of that in the us and there has been a lot of polarisation in the us. whatever we can do to help streamline that so we can focus

on growth and opportunities makes a lot of sense.