live from london. this is bbc news. a "massive" russian attack on ukraine's power infrastructure has killed at least ten people. president zelensky says his country was targeted by 120 missiles and 90 drones. officials in northern gaza say dozens of people have been killed by an israeli strike on a residential building. rescuers are trying to reach many more trapped under the rubble. china's president xi holds his final meeting withjoe biden, and pledges to work with incoming us president, donald trump. on the frontline of climate change. pakistan's northern communities face glacial floods and landslides as temperatures rise.

we have a special report. ukraine's president zelenksy says russia has launched around 120 missiles and 90 drones in a "massive" combined air strike on his country's energy structure. at least 10 people have been killed. the foreign minister andriy sybiha described it as "one of the largest russian air attacks against peaceful cities, sleeping civilians, critical infrastructure." ukraine's energy operator announced "emergency power cuts" in the kyiv region. the bombardment also forced power cuts in two regions in the east. people in kyiv immediately made their way to underground stations to shelter from the assault. after the attack, emergency workers began examining the damage. the debris of a missile

was lifted from one residential building in the capital. also struck were mykolaiv and the black sea port of 0desa, which experienced a city—wide power cut. and neigbouring poland says it's scrambled fighter jets. in a statement, warsaw confirmed that operations by polish and allied aircraft were under way. russia's defence ministry claimed it attacked facilities that support ukraine's defence industry. president of neighbouring moldova, maia sandu, has "strongly condemned russia's massive air strikes". on his x account, president zelensky shared video from the scenes of sunday's attacks. the video was given an audio track, and is a call for more support from ukraine's allies. 0ur correspondent paul adams joined us from dnipro.

we had sirens in the early hours, and the latest information from the city was that two railway workers were killed, among five people killed across the country overnight, in what seems to have been the largest concerted russian drone and missile attack, certainly since early september. and it does seem as though the principal targets were once again ukraine's energy infrastructure. i was speaking to someone from one of the largest energy companies just a short time ago who said, it looks like they're starting again. in other words, as winter arrives and we have had the first snow here in the last few days, once again russia turns its attention to ukraine's energy infrastructure in an attempt to plunge this country into darkness during the most difficult months. so whether that is the beginning of such a campaign, we don't know.

or by fragments of both missiles and drones being intercepted overhead. none of this would be happening if russian attacks on ukraine's infrastructure were not happening. it is part of what one senses is an effort by both sides to try and maximise their positions ahead of what is widely anticipated to be some change in us policy once donald trump takes office early next year. we're seeing the russians gradually edging forward along the eastern front, and we're seeing the ukrainians clinging on to that tiny fragment of russian territory in the kursk region. everyone knows that the policy that the biden administration has pursued over the past few years could be about to change,

and change quite dramatically. president zelensky himself said just the other night that the war could be over next year. there's a feeling that things are going to change. no—one quite knows how. paul adams whojoined us earlier on from dnipro in the east of ukraine. dr hanna shelest is a security analyst and editor—in—chief at ukraine analytica. she explained how the latest attack had unfolded. we already know some of the results of what they have been targeting, the energy infrastructure again became the primary target all around ukraine. and the fact we had ten hours of nonstop drone attacks, a small amount but the shellacking was all around, it took the efforts of the air defence of ukraine. we had

three air raids during the night. the biggest was around six o'clock in the morning with the amount of very big, hundreds of missiles of different types coming from all sides of the russian federation, so we had some from the north, some from the east, some from the south, some from the black sea, all from different directions and the fact they covered the whole territory of ukraine. 50 fact they covered the whole territory of ukraine.- territory of ukraine. 50 an extensive _ territory of ukraine. so an extensive attack - territory of ukraine. so an extensive attack across i territory of ukraine. so an| extensive attack across the whole of ukraine, focusing on 0desa i know your home has been targeted. you shared images with us. talk us through, i know it is difficult to describe what is happening to your own home but talk us through what happened to it. yeah, their previous very big attack against 0desa happened on the night of thursday, with the shell heads coming to the downtown. you need to understand that 0desa downtown is a unesco protected cultural heritage so it should in no way be targeted according to the international convention signed by russia. nevertheless we had

a huge attack, we saw a lot of explosions in the port and downtown with several buildings on fire. my flat being completely destroyed as well. luckily i was not as under fire as the next flat in our building where people lost everything to stop we don't know if the house can be reconstructed after this. the whole street being without windows, floors, destroyed the ceiling, falling onto people, plenty with minor injuries, luckily only one person has died. that's one of the reasons people became much more careful with any type of air raid, trying not to be near windows and getting somewhere. you need to understand that in such old cities, in the downtown you don't have a sufficient amount of shelters and it is technically very difficult to do. when this attack comes in the middle of the night people don't have the opportunity to just run away. i have been sitting just after the interview with your colleagues at france 2a, and i saw some

episodes, the ceiling fell to my knees just where i have been sitting. doors were correct by the police because we couldn't get out of our flat due to the ceiling and the roof because we are the last floor, the roof just falls down and we can see the fire coming nearby. so in the fire coming nearby. so in the morning we were allowed to come and see some of the consequences of what happened. the editor in chief of ukraine analytical, an analytical journal, explaining what happened to her own home in 0desa, not in last night's missile strikes, but previously, sharing that video of the absolute devastation in her home. we have a live page monitoring what is happening in ukraine following that night of intense shelling from russia, that's all on our website. here in the uk, the government has announced it will deliver a £1 billion

boost to buses, aimed at delivering a "london—style system" nationwide. but it could also mean a rise in single fare prices outside of the capital. 0ur political correspondent, damian grammaticas, explained how the funding proposals were designed to work. this is a big investment in transport and a bit of a shift. london has always had a very integrated and reasonably well functioning system compared to other parts of the country. what the government says is that it is shifting and it's putting money in to the rest of the country, £1 billion into bus services so that they can be improved right across the country. transport secretary louise haigh was on the sunday talk shows this morning and she explained how that's going to work and how they will target it. this settlement crucially is a record level of investment, particularly for rural areas, places like devon, kent and essex that got very little under the previous government because of the way they designed their funding settlements. they pitted areas against each other, insisted on competition, and they rewarded those areas who frankly invested in the best bid writers

rather than based on need. we have designed a formula that allocates funding based on need, deprivation and bus mileage in the area so we can truly improve bus services for every corner of the country. now at the same time what is also happening is that the fares that you pay outside london are going up. so people will see increases in that. the government says that what it is looking at is a system from next year on, she said this morning, where in a year's time almost, where perhaps younger people might get discounts but those fares could rise further. so another issue doing the rounds on the sunday morning politics shows was social care. what have we heard? this is a huge issue and has been for a very long time. what you do about elderly people needing care either in their homes or in a care setting, so in a proper care home. how that is funded. past governments have grappled with this, the current government

is grappling with it. the issue there is that they haven't yet decided how to go ahead. there are huge costs involved. some talk about difficulties that the government have to decide, do they go with some huge, big royal commission consultation? liberal democrat leader sir ed davey made a big pitch, this was central to his pitch in the election, they did very well there and he was expressing his view this morning about the way forward and this is what he said. the government does need to talk cross—party, we are willing and ready to go into those negotiations. we said that in the general election. i think there are things they need to do straightaway that are actually obvious. louise haighjust then was talking about part of them, which is sorting out the vacancies, because whatever the long term solution is, we will need more carers. i think they need to be more ambitious about that. we talked about a minimum wage for carers for example. we need to professionalise this, give it a real status because it is so critical.

there are things they need to do right up front, now, but let's get round the table and let all parties come and talk. would it make a difference - to you whether it has the badge of being a royal commission or whether it is an _ independent review? i wonder, have you had a call| yet from wes streeting to say let's get round the table? no, we haven't had a call, laura. the cross—party talks can take many forms. my only concern about a royal commission, we would back it, but we need immediate measures first and it mustn't be an excuse for long—grassing this. it needs to happen urgently, even long—term reforms could happen more quickly than a royal commission does. for this reason there are immediate things to be done that i think are no—brainers but it is still urgent to fix it. you can't have a ten—year plan for the nhs unless you have a real serious plan for social care. and it's worth saying the government agrees. transport secretary louise haigh says it's urgent it needs to be fixed but they are also

tackling some of those issues. he said about putting money into or trying to raise the pay that carers get. damian grammaticas with a round—up of the uk political stories this morning. dozens of people are reported to have been killed after israel launched numerous air strikes in both gaza and lebanon. in northern gaza a multi—storey building housing dozens of palestinians has been struck in beit lahia. the israeli military says it is investigating reports that a large number of people have been killed. officials from gaza's civil defence agency say at least 26 people were killed, with more than 50 trapped in the rubble. 0ur security correspondent frank gardner gave us the latest from jerusalem. yeah, so this does appear to be a particularly high casualty toll, it was a five—storey, multi—storey building,

a residential building, we are told, that was housing dozens of palestinian families. and this was targeted a short while ago. the local reports are saying at least 26 people have been killed with another 59 missing. so the horrific images of bodies being pulled out of the rubble, of twisted concrete and so on. we did put in a call to the israeli military about two hours ago. they say they are investigating and they will get back to us. it is part of an ongoing pattern, this, where israel is still fighting the remnants of the hamas group that led those horrific attacks in october last year israel says they are targeting using precision guided missiles various cells trying to stop hamas regrouping, and they don't feel the war will end until they have defeated hamas. but an awfully large number, a horrifically high number of civilians are getting killed in this and this does appear to be another example of that.

as you mentioned in the introduction, in the queue there were other incidents as well today, in a refugee camp where at least ten people were killed in an air strike including reportedly women and children. so there are a lot of casualties particularly in areas of gaza like jabalia among others. and that's just gaza. and you want to ask about lebanon. i do indeed. even earlier today we saw plumes of smoke in southern beirut once again. yes, so the israeli air force has been very active there. the military on the ground hasn't gone that far into lebanon. they are not doing a really big, well, it is an invasion but it's not a big one. they are concentrating their forces really inside a kind of very narrow border strip about five kilometres from the israeli lebanon border. but the air force, it is no holds barred, they are hitting

donald trump has named an oil and gas energy executive to lead his new presidential team's energy department. chris wright is considered a climate change sceptic. meanwhile, the current presidentjoe biden has met with chinese president xi jinping for the final time before he hands the keys to the white house back to donald trump. 0ur correspondent jessica parker sent this report from florida. this wasjoe biden and xijinping's last leaders' meeting. a white house official recently said that mr biden had shown that the two countries can and must manage their differences. butjoe biden�*s time to manage anything of this kind, of course, is fast running out. lots of focus now on what donald trump will do in office. and he's signalled an intention to take a tough line on beijing. meanwhile, the transition process goes on. here in west palm beach, really the hq of that, where donald trump has his mar—a—lago home. and he's announced his pick for energy secretary, an oil and gas boss called chris wright, who last year said that there

is no climate crisis. donald trump has, of course, signalled he wants to ramp up fossilfuel production. he has talked about, "drill, baby, drill", much to the alarm of climate and environmental groups given fossil fuels' role as the main driver in climate change. donald trump, of course, doesn't actually take office until january. but whether it is foreign policy or domestic policy, you are already feeling that shift in power. jessica parker in florida there. some breaking news coming from our middle east correspondent hugo bachega bringing us up—to—date, he is saying there are reports that an israeli strike in central beirut in lebanon has killed hezbollah�*s media chief, described as one of the few remaining public faces of the group. we have been watching throughout the days so far stop

there have been occasional plumes of smoke from israel as israel hit in those southern areas of beirut. we are getting reports that one of those israeli air strikes has killed the hezbollah media chief, one of the few remaining public faces of the group. the attack hit the headquarters. no immediate reaction from hezbollah or the israeli defense forces but we will keep an eye on those developing situations in lebanon and also in gaza as well. let's turn to pakistan — a country at the forefront of the impacts of climate change. in the north, approximately 118,000 people are in areas deemed high—risk, due to the threats of glacial floods and landslides. the conditions, worsening as temperatures warm, are forcing entire communities to relocate. 0ur pakistan correspondent caroline davies has visited the northern pakistan—administered region of gilgit—baltistan

and sent this report. forbiddingly beautiful. ice—laden, precarious. here in pakistan—administered gilgit—baltistan, jagged glaciers, blackened by soil, number over 7000. they are under threat. researchers say they have seen the weather become more extreme, more unpredictable. and that doesn'tjust have an impact on these incredible glaciers, but on the whole environment. and as the landscape changes, so, too, do the shape of people's lives. this is what happens when a glacial lake bursts. tearing the ground beneath your feet — entire valleys. homes now rubble.

this was komal�*s home. now all that's left — a sheer cliff. beneath this place there was our home. there were a lot of trees, gardens, and it was a whole green place. the spot komal�*s family lived in for generations, clawed away into the valley in minutes. she is still traumatised by what happened. people running out of their home, some people taking their stuff from their home. they were trying, because they were not sure of, will anyone come to us, will anyone save us? what do you feel now when you stand here, looking out across this valley? i remember my childhood memories. the time i have spent here.

and now i can see the plain areas, the barren places, it hurts. it makes me feel sad. komal�*s home was known to be at risk two years before the flood. they were not moved by the government. the family said they had nowhere to go. the glacier that caused this disruption is just upstream. coated in dust and soil, it's still melting. you can see up ahead shisper glacier, the dark patch on the horizon. that is the source of the water from 2022. now, researchers had seen that the glacier had started moving forward because of temperature changes and it led to the buildup of a body of water, a lake. that lake burst, and it was that water that came cascading down the valley. there are more areas in this valley also known to be at risk. climate change has increased the intensity and frequency of these disasters

across the region. so hasanabad, there is a new glacier starting, damaging infrastructure across this stream where the population and infrastructure, roads, hydro power stations — everything are at high risk of this glacier. this pattern is repeated throughout this region. more than 118,000 people are estimated by the aga khan development network to be living in high—risk areas. this was the village of badswat. homes, a school, livelihoods, repeatedly flooded. years after the glacial lake burst, parts are still underwater. it's now considered impossible to live even on its edges. the whole village is being relocated. but trying to find land that is safe and has access to water isn't easy. driving through these valleys,

you can see how many people live close to the rivers and streams that the glaciers feed into. that's because their livelihoods depend on it, but it's also making them vulnerable. i can say that after five or ten years it will be very difficult for us to even survive. year by year, we are facing more and more disasters. so we cannot stop these events because this is a global issue. and locally, we cannot do for this thing. what we can do is we can just mitigate or we canjust get prepared the people to face such events. a drill for potential destruction. the village of passu holds these evacuation exercises several times a year. they know if a flood hits, roads will be blocked and it could take days for anyone from outside to reach them.

volunteers learn everything from first—aid, emergency river crossings if bridges are swept away, and high mountain rescue. why did you want to be a volunteer, to help people and help with the rescue? because i love living in the mountains and working in the society, working for the society. so we are, like, we are living here, we have grown up here, so it's our responsibility. ijaz has been a volunteer for the last 20 years. unfortunately, if a flood is coming, if it's a heavy flood, we can't do anything. we are we a re totally we are totally in the wash—out. but if there is small floods, obviously we can help people to survive, to get away from the flood areas. the uk is more than

doubling its spending on humanitarian aid for people affected by the civil war in sudan. the new aid commitment of more than £100 million will go towards food, shelter and education for more than a million people and those who have fled to neighbouring countries. to remind you of the breaking news we heard earlier from the middle east, from lebanon. this is according to our middle east correspondent hugo bachega who is letting us know there are reports that an israeli air strike on central beirut has killed hezbollah�*s media chief, mohammed afif. these were reports that the strike was apparently carried out in a neighbourhood that is a central part of the lebanese capital, and not in a hezbollah stronghold in the southern suburbs of beirut. mohammed have thief is described as one

of the few remaining public faces of the hezbollah group. —— mohammed afif. there has been a reaction from hezbollah or from the israel defense force. we are keeping a cross that developing story. that's the latest from our middle east correspondent. stay with us here on bbc news. hello again. we've already started to see some snow falling over the higher ground of scotland through this morning. that's going to continue as we go through the next few days. that's the scene in the highlands at the moment. you can see snow—topped mountains, and those snow showers continuing to feed in during the afternoon. showery rain across much of northern ireland, into parts of northern england, wales, eventually the midlands as well. further south and east a little bit drier, some brighter skies here. a bit of sunshine, too, for parts of eastern scotland, north—east england. but chilly, or cold, really, across scotland, 4 or 5 degrees here. 9 or 10 celsius further south. now, tonight, the area of showery rain will continue to spread to the south—east but with clear skies across northern england,

scotland, there is going to be a hard frost. temperatures down to —5, maybe —8 degrees celsius. the coldest night of the autumn so far. and with those snow showers continuing to feed across the far north of scotland, the risk of some ice as well. but into monday, we are keeping an eye on this area of low pressure moving in from the atlantic. it contains milder air with rain but the problem is when that bumps into the colder air and that's when we are going to see the risk of some snow monday night into tuesday. but during monday day there will be further snow showers into northern scotland. plenty of dry and sunny weather to these northern and eastern areas before the cloud and the rain spreads in from the south—west containing that mild air. 13 degrees in plymouth on monday afternoon, whereas further north, temperatures barely above freezing. then it's monday night, as that rain, as you can see, moves further north and eastwards, a spread of snow over higher ground of northern ireland, but in particular the south pennines, into north wales, the north midlands eventually into the early part

of tuesday morning. 1—3 centimetres, even down to some low levels as well, but 5—10 centimetres over the higher ground. this is likely to cause some disruption to your tuesday morning as that continues to spread to the south—east. there will be a mixture of rain, some sleet around the edge of this area of snow but it could well bring a bit of falling snow for some in eastern areas on tuesday. but then during tuesday this northerly wind continuing to bring in some snow showers and the very cold air. a very cold week to come, temperatures 4, 5 degrees celsius at the best. widespread night—time frosts as well with further wintry showers. bye— bye.

this is bbc news. on sunday with laura kuenssberg this morning, the transport secretary louise haigh has been defending the government's decision to increase the £2 bus fare cap despite criticism from the public. she was also quizzed on when labour will be unveiling its full plans for social care. let's have a listen to that interview.

the e2 fare cap was due to finish on the 31st of december. that was the funding settlement i inherited and the budget settlement that was agreed by the previous government. so we stepped in to protect the cap at £3, which means that for rural routes in particular, where the bus fares could have leapt back up to 13 or £14 in some instances, we're keeping it at much lower at £3. but crucially for fares in cities where previously the fare might have been even less than £2, we're setting it so that operators can't raise fares in line more than in line with inflation, so we wouldn't expect all fares to rise to £3. that is a maximum amount. what's really important, though, about this settlement today is that we're improving reliability and frequency of services for lots of rural areas. they don't have a bus at all, or they don't have one that turns up before 9 am or after 5 pm. this unprecedented level of funding, particularly into rural areas, will vastly improve services, their reliability and frequency. but protecting the cap, as you

put it, means increasing fares for lots of people. and one of our viewers has been in touch.