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thanks for being with us here on bbc news. the time isjust thanks for being with us here on bbc news. the time is just past a quarter to seven. a man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was set on fire on a new york subway train on sunday. sebastian zapeta allegedly set the person's clothes alight, and then fanned the flames by waving a shirt around her. with the details, here's our north america correspondent rowan bridge. this is about 7:30am where police say this woman was apparently asleep on a subway train when someone went over to her with a lighter and set her alight. they said she was engulfed in flames within a matter of seconds in part because those flames are fanned by person holding a shirt. police became aware of what was happening and rushed to the

scene. at the moment, she hasn't been identified. it's thought she may have been a homeless person, but they are now trying to use dna and fingerprint advanced fingerprint techniques to identify who she might be. sebastian zapeta was arrested soon afterwards because he was caught on surveillance cameras and police body worn camera footage, and was recognised by some schoolchildren who alerted the authorities. he was arrested soon afterwards. and there was a court hearing today where he was charged with a number of offences, including murder one, which is the most serious murder offence you can face. that carries in the state of new york a sentence of life without parole if convicted. he also faces an arson charge in a number of other murder charges. he is due to appear in court again at the start of the new year. rowan bridge. in the uk, the national trust has warned that many of its properties are at risk from increasingly extreme weather caused by climate change. our climate editorjustin rowlatt

has been to bodnant national park, in north wales, to see the results of high winds earlier this month. storm darragh tore down more than 30 mature trees as it ripped through bodnant gardens in north wales earlier this month. this place has one of the national trust's, one of the uk's finest collections of trees. ned lomax is head gardener here at bodnant. a big fan of douglas fir up here and they've alljust come down one by one like dominoes. he says many of the lost trees are 150 years old or more. they've weathered quite a few storms, and it comes just two years after storm arwen, which caused even more damage. we're seeing storms like this far more frequently. it seems they're more severe and they come more close together as well. we used to call them once in a generation storms.

so the garden team, who have worked here for many years, remember similar storms back in the �*80s. and then these two, arwen and darragh are so close together, three years apart has really sort of knocked us sideways. and it isn'tjust the loss of important trees to the garden, clearing up the mess will cost thousands of pounds and will take months. avebury manor in wiltshire is still closed after heavy rains in january caused it to flood for the first time in 300 years. it isn't just storms that are reshaping national trust estates. this year, 2024 is set to be the hottest on record globally, but here in the uk we haven't seen the kind of record heat we got back in 2022. warm and wet! that is the hallmark of 2024's weather here in the uk, and it's another year that has seen a blurring between the seasons. so the transitions in temperature and weather between say,

winter and spring and spring and summer have become less less pronounced, says the national trust. ben mccarthy is in charge of nature conservation at the trust. generally, what we're seeing is a trend away from these big seasonal kind of triggers for nature and the ecosystems that it forms working well. but we're also seeing really strange weather patterns. for example, we had snow a few weeks ago, followed by days of kind of balmy weather in kind of the low kind of teens. and if you're an animal going into hibernation, this causes chaos to your kind of natural rhythms. the damage here at bodnant should have been cleared by the summer. the question now is what to plant in place of the lost trees. the gardeners here say the priority is trees that will be able to withstand the climate in 150 years' time. different species better able to cope with the weather extremes we can expect then.

justin rowlatt, bbc news, north wales. in west africa — senegal�*s local toymakers experienced a boom during this year's christmas festivities, and for a good reason. the bbc�*s elphas lagat reports.

senegal�*s capital, dakar, lit up with christmas lights and decorations. parents and grandparents flocked to the city's markets in a last minute rush to purchase gifts for their loved ones. our guy, the co—founder of the toy brand yiwu, was among the sellers at a bustling christmas market. she launched the business after becoming a mother herself. having a daughter made her realise there was a gap in the market for high quality toys. translation: when we had a daughter i and she started growing up a little, i we noticed that the toys available on the market didn't necessarily represent her or value her, and we didn't want to raise our daughter like that, to have her grow up lacking a certain confidence in herself because she couldn't see herself in the toys she had. yiwu dolls are decorated with african hairstyles and clothing. words are used from the widely spoken local language of wolof — a concept still new to some parents who sometimes ask for white dolls and for writing in french. translation: when we gave our daughter a black doll, _ she said it wasn't a princess. it was a long journey for her to accept the black dolls, and that says a lot about the work that still needs to be done in this area. another local producer, rashidov, is known for toys that promote senegalese culture. these include traditional wrestler dolls that come

in a wide range of skin tones. she says demand is growing, but there are challenges competing against cheaper imported products often produced to scale. translation: it's important to know that our dolls - represent a wide variety of, - let's say, people and complexities — for example, in terms of colour. we have dolls that are a bit lighter, a bit darker. - we try to make everyone feel comfortable and ensure - that all children are represented. more families are now embracing locally—made toys, that is despite economic constraints faced by producers. toy—makers say there is an opportunity to ramp up production of toys that reflect senegal�*s true cultural identity. they are optimistic that the demand for senegalese toys will remain strong, and many children are still enjoying their distinctive gifts from christmas just gone thanks to santa's elves. gifts from christmas just gone thanks to santa. elphas lagat, bbc news. it's been a difficult year for the cinema business with chains such as cineworld and odeon shutting some theatres following competition

some venues after competition from streaming services. but bosses say there maybe signs of a recovery. jo black reports. where else would you want to explore the magical world of all is that on the magical world of all is that on the big screen? magical blockbusters like wicked are why we flock to movie theatres. you're greeni lam. but with recent headlines about closures, is that cinematic spell beginning to fade? people are watching from home, streaming and all that stuff. so that's why they are closing, probably. i don't think it's too expensive, it's a nice day out. obviously you've got the few hours of the cinema as well. we usually then go and have a little wander around the areas around there as well, so it gives us a day out. all those nostalgic memories i of going to the cinema as a kid,

i i think they come flooding backi when you go to a proper cinema. in recent years, cinema has found itself in its own dramatic plot. hit hard by the pandemic, the popularity of streaming, the cost of living crisis and the hollywood writers' strike, last year, one of the biggest chains, cineworld, went into administration and is now restructuring its business. this odeon in kettering has been here since the �*90s, but will soon be demolished following unsuccessful negotiations over its lease. it's a loss for the whole community. there's all sorts of groups that make use of it. it's very popular and unfortunately it won't be with us for much longer. and that's a major disaster. figures show the number of cinemas in the uk has fallen. in 2020, there were 878 venues, down to 825 three years later. ticket sales are also down on pre—pandemic levels. but here is the plot twist — admissions are now starting to creep back up. hopefully we're over the worst of it in terms of site closures. there's always been an ebb and flow of sites closing and sites opening and sites being refurbished,

but i think we're back to something like a stable base of cinemas, and what we'll see into �*25 and �*26 is those admissions climbing across broadly the same network of cinemas. many operators, like the royal in sutton coldfield, which only opened six months ago, believe creating an experience for cinema goers is the future of this industry. a comfy seat, artisan food and perhaps an alcoholic drink alongside a film. i wish i had $1 million. this event, a showing of festive favourite it's a wonderful life, drawing a near sell—out crowd on a weekday. we do appreciate, you know, our competitors within the city centre, they've got the big, massive 13 screens, but if we can make this into a community cinema, a nice feel, we think that the customers will continue to come through the door. it seems cinema is undergoing its own remake, with many hoping it remains a big hit. jo black, bbc news.

i'll be back in a few minutes, but first here is stav with a rather. hello there. the weather for christmas week has been pretty benign. high pressure has brought light winds, a lot of cloud, some mist and fog and also some drizzle. subtle changes as we head into the weekend. we start to lose the influence of this area of high pressure and begin to pick up more of an atlantic influence, which should mean there should be more breeze and see a bit more sunshine. but we've still got this weather front straddling the north and west of scotland. that'll bring further rain through this evening and overnight. elsewhere, again, there's a lot of cloud around, some mist and fog, some drizzle too. but where skies are clear, then it will turn quite chilly — temperatures getting down to i or 2 degrees. for most though, holding up to between 5—9 celsius. so, into the first part of the weekend, for saturday, we're losing the influence of that area of high pressure, picking up more of a westerly breeze for scotland and northern ireland.

so initially, it'll be grey with outbreaks of rain. that weather front sinks southwards and tends to fizzle out as it pushes into the higher pressure. but we should see more sunshine for scotland and northern ireland into the afternoon. a few blustery showers in the north—west. for most, though, again, it's another rather grey day, i think, with limited sunshine, maybe some spots of drizzle and again feeling cool, particularly where you have the mist and the cloud. through saturday night, we should start to see the breeze picking up further. that should break up the clouds a bit more. so, greater chance of seeing clearer spells to start sunday morning, but it will be quite chilly under clearer skies, turning wetter and windier across scotland. that's because we've got a very active weather front on sunday lying across the north of the uk. you'll see more isobars on the chart, so it will be breezy, and that will help break up the clouds even further. so i think sunday, a better chance of seeing more sunshine, even across england and wales. but it will be blustery and very wet across scotland, particularly northern and western areas. temperature—wise, 9—11 degrees, so we're still above par for the time of year. and then as we move into monday,

the run—up to new year's eve, it looks very unsettled — wet and windy weather in the north with some hill snow. and then around new year's day, we could be seeing this deeper area of low pressure. it could bring some stormy and wet weather to the uk. and then, as it continues to pull away into the first few days of january 2025, it opens the floodgates to some colder air from the north. so there could be some disruption around the new year period, so stay tuned to the forecast. things are set to turn colder but brighter, with some wintry showers into early january. live from london, this is bbc news. azerbaijan airlines says "external interference" brought down one of its planes that crashed in kazakhstan. one of the last functioning

hospitals in northern gaza has been forcibly evacuated by the israeli military. a nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest—ever approach to the sun. and the prime minister of nepal says there are too many tigers in his country and wants to give some away. hello and welcome — i'm luxmy gopal. azerbaijan airlines says that the preliminary results of the investigation into the plane crash in kazakhstan found there was "external physical and technical interference". but the report stopped short of accusing any group or country of being responsible. the plane had originally tried to land at grozny airport in southern russia. the head of russia's aviation authority says the plane was unable to do so because of a ukrainian drone attack. pro—government media in azerbaijan has quoted

un—named officials, saying they believed a russian air defence missile caused the plane to crash.