allowing migrants to send an alert if the us government tries to deport them. new analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heatwaves — the climate crisis added six more weeks of extreme heat in 202a. the prime minister of nepal says there are too many tigers in his country, and wants to give some away. hello, 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 grozzni airport in southern russia.

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. jon donnison reports. this is the moment the plane went down. it's remarkable anyone survived. but emerging from the wreckage, some did. the flight had been diverted to kazakhstan after passengers heard bangs when it tried to land at its original destination — grozny, in chechnya. translation: they say there were two bangs, l but i only heard one. it was quite substantial. i honestly didn't hear the second one. at first only some of the oxygen masks fell out, not all of them. investigators are now

examining the damage to the outside of the plane. to the outside of the plane. the owner, azerbaijan airlines, the owner, azerbaijan airlines, said only that it had said only that it had suffered external physical suffered external physical and technical interference. and technical interference. the kremlin has again refused the kremlin has again refused to comment on speculation to comment on speculation that it was mistakenly brought that it was mistakenly brought down by a russian down by a russian air defence system. air defence system. translation: i'd like to point translation: i'd like to point out that the situation on that l out that the situation on that l day during those hours day during those hours in the area around grozny in the area around grozny airport was very difficult. airport was very difficult. ukrainian military drones ukrainian military drones were carrying out terrorist of things so far. were carrying out terrorist attacks on civilian attacks on civilian infrastructure in the city infrastructure in the city of grozny and others nearby. of grozny and others nearby. in azerbaijan today, the first in azerbaijan today, the first funerals for some of the 38 funerals for some of the 38 people who were killed. people who were killed. why they died will take time to find out and will likely be disputed. likely be disputed. jon donnison, bbc news. tim atkinson is a former air accident investigator.

he told me what he makes he told me what he makes of things so far. these days, there is so much imagery in social media

effectively lose their normal means of controlling the aircraft. and that is an extraordinarily difficult situation from which disaster is almost certainly the only outcome. but occasionally we see cases, and this appears to be another of them, very similar to the sioux city crash many years ago, in which the pilots nonetheless managed to maintain some degree of control of the aircraft. and the video footage shows the aircraft in a series of what we would call phugoid manoeuvres, so the video shows it pitching up and then down over a period of many seconds in each case. and fortunately, the final manoeuvre which results in the aircraft's contact with the ground — i don't think we can call it

a landing — but i have no doubt whatsoever that the manner in which that was achieved by the flight crew is the reason that there were 29 survivors and not the loss of all on board. some the loss of all on board. breaking news to bring yo| now. some breaking news to bring you now. a man has been charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of two people in bletchley on christmas day. 49—year—old jazz while brown has also been charged with two counts of attempted murder. police have confirmed the two women who died following the incident are joanne pearson and deanna grant, who are both from milton keynes. a man in his late 20s and a teenage boy were also taken to hospital with serious injuries and both said to be in a stable condition. just to remind you of the breaking news that was coming through in the last few minutes, a man has been charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of two people in bletchley on christmas day. jazwell brown, a9, has also

been charged with two counts of attempted murder. mexico's government has announced an emergency strategy to protect migrants in the united states, ahead of the inauguration of the president—elect, donald trump, next month. mr trump has threatened to deport millions of illegal migrants. among the measures announced by the foreign minister, juan ramon de la fuente, is a mobile phone panic button which can be activated by anyone facing imminent arrest. translation: in case you find yourself in a situation - where detention is imminent, you push the alert button. that sends a signal to the nearest consulate and to the relatives whose contact details you saved on the app. mr de la fuente said the mobile phone app would connect to a 24—hours—a—day call centre for mexicans abroad backed by a team of more than 300 us—based lawyers. more than four million mexicans live and work in the united states without a visa. to the us, and a rift appears to have emerged in the trump base over one of the president—elect�*s key election issues: immigration. us media reports that recent tensions over the issue

were sparked by the appointment of sriram krishnan as donald trump's ai adviser — he'd recently made comments supporting the removal of some caps for high—skilled workers. that prompted criticism from some in the trump support base, who back a stricter approach to immigration. for more on this, i spoke earlier to scott macfarlane — congressional corresponent cbs news. this all felt inevitable, that there was going to be some fracture at some point among the sphere of influencers who are aligned with donald trump. cos you had these outside, nongovernmental, unelected, forceful voices in donald trump's year — elon musk, trump's ear — elon musk, the billionaire, vivek ramaswamy, the long—time trump ally and one—time republican primary candidate — who are saying things that may run counter to the beliefs of donald trump's elected allies, those in the us congress, those in state offices. and what really caused this

first profound fracture was a set of social media posts by ramaswamy arguing that companies may be better positioned and better acclimated to attract foreign workers through the immigration process instead of using us workers. and he made a series of cultural arguments why he thinks people from other nations would be better situated for us companies than those who live in the us because of the cultural dynamics at play, among other things. that runs so very counter to what donald trump's political allies in elected office are arguing, that it should be america first, that american workers should be championed, lionised and prioritised. you already have a butting of heads on that issue, with likely more to come, because there is this frustration, if not resentment, among some of the elected officials that these non—elected outside billionaire influencers have the ear of the president—elect. and, scott, what this also

illustrates, doesn't it, is how potentially contradictory the positions are among some trump supporters? do we know how mr trump plans to manage that broadened supporter base that he has in this second term? the same way he has for eight years. he has a whole set of seemingly contradictory positions that his political base accepts. he's talked about trying to lower prices in the us for things like food and houses and consumer goods, yet he's also championing tariffs on foreign goods, which there seems to be a consensus would lead to higher prices. so he has a contradiction there, but his supporters seem not to be swayed by that. he talks about law and order, prioritising a tougher criminal justice system, yet is poised to pardon a whole set of us capitol riot insurrectionists, seemingly in contradiction, but he seems to navigate that just fine. he has a version of political

teflon that allows his base to be seemingly impenetrable no matter what contradictions he brings to the table. and, scott, we've got less than a month to the inauguration. just briefly, what will you be keeping an eye on in washington? there is this particularly narrow us house majority in the lower chamber of us congress, that president—elect trump's party has, where they can lose just one vote on anything of consequence, which means the minority party, the democrats, are going to have some outsized influence in this first two—year set of the trump term. trump's going to have to do deals with democrats to do things like keep the government open, raise the debt ceiling, pass major legislation that requires spending. that's going to come to a head almost immediately upon him taking the oath. how he navigates it, how democrats navigate it, is going to tell how this first year's going to go. he will not get everything he wants because of that narrow majority in the lower chamber.

let's take a look at some other stories around the world. nato sayt it's stepping up naval patrols in the baltic after russia was accused of deliberately cutting an undersea power cable. finnish police say a ship operating on behalf of russia dragged its anchor along the seabed, severing a link between finland and estonia. an italianjournalist has been underarrest in iran for more than a week. italy's foreign ministry says cecilia sala was detained by tehran police on 19 december. she works for the podcast company chora media. a female comedian was among several people she interviewed while in iran. italy's defence minister has called the arrest "unacceptable". a former conservative justice secretary — who's now advising the labour government — has called for more offenders to be sent to open prisons. david gauke, who's been asked to look at ways of dealing with over—crowding and re—offending in england and wales, said there should be

more focus on rehabilitation. the prime minister, sir keir starmer, has paid tribute to his brother nick, who has died aged 60. sir keir described his younger brother as a "wonderful man". a spokesman said he died peacefully on boxing day, after a fight against cancer. the prime minister had been due to go on holiday with his family on friday, but it is understood he will now stay at home. new analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heatwaves, leaving millions prone to deadly temperatures. it shows the climate crisis caused an additional six weeks of dangerously hot days in 2024, and nearly half the world's countries endured at least two months of high—risk temperatures. earlier i spole to dr kristina dahl, a scientist from climate central and asked her what areas had been worst affected. so we found that the places that are most affected by climate—driven extreme heat

tend to be in tropical areas — countries like barbados, for example, or trinidad, whereas the effects were were somewhat less in places like europe. and how easy is it to accurately obtain this data and get a real sense of how many deaths that these heat waves are causing? yeah, that's a great question because this is a branch of science called attribution science that has really just developed within the past 20 years or so. so it's only in the last few years that we've really been able to say with confidence whether a particular heat wave or a particular stretch of hot days or extreme rainfall can be attributed to climate change. and to do this work, we basically have to use a climate model to compare the temperatures that we actually experienced with what we would have experienced in a world without any human caused climate change. and so it's definitely intense scientific work, but it's becoming more and more

possible year by year. and is there anything that can be done to help save lives, given that we have this knowledge? there's a lot that can be done. so heat is often called the silent killer because it doesn't attract the same amount of attention as, say, a big wildfire or a major hurricane that's incredibly destructive and obviously dangerous to human life in the moment. but extreme heat actually kills many, many people every year, more than any other type of extreme weather in places like the united states, at least. and there's a lot that we can do to prevent those deaths. things like making sure that people have access to a cooling shelter that they can get to safely, making sure that people understand that extreme heat can be fatal. making sure that our medical professionals are on the lookout for an increase in emergency room visits when there's a heat wave. so all of those things can help our communities to adapt to extreme heat.

around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

thanks for being with us here on bbc news. now it's time for a look at today's sport with jane dougall. we start with football, and there are two matches in the premier league, and it's approaching full—time in one of them. after 83 minutes, it's 0—0 at the amex in the match between brighton and brentford, despite multiple chances for the home side. the other match between arsenal and ipswich, the second half is just getting under way. arsenal are beating ipswich 1—0 at the emirates. kai havertz tapping in from close quarters.

we'll keep you up—to—date with both of those matches. manchester united head coach ruben amorim says he won't be protected from the sack if he fails to produce a winning team just because it was expensive to bring him to old trafford. he was booed at the final whistle of the 2—0 defeat by wolves at molineux on boxing day, leaving united 14th in the league. however, sources inside the club say there is support for amorim despite his poor start. five defeats in his first ten games is the worst record of any new united manager since the 1930s. the manager of manchester united cannot be never, no matter what, comfortable. and i know the reason that i am in. so i know if we don't win, regardless if they pay it out or not, i know that every manager is in danger and i like that. i like that because that is the, ourjob. so i understand the question and you can say that i am here a month ahead for trainings but we

are not winning. so i have that, that is a reality and i'm quite comfortable with that. a late flurry of wickets has given australia control of the boxing day test in melbourne, with india more than 300 runs behind after day two. replying to the home side's first innings score of 474, built on the back of steve smith's 34th test century. india started well, but a chaotic run out and the wicket of virat kohli started a mini collapse in which the tourists lost three batters for just six runs. it left them in trouble at 164 for five. it was celebrated particularly by australian teenager sam konstas, who was barged into by kohli when he was batting on debut yesterday, leading to a fine for the indian player. meanwhile at the close of play on day two in centurion in the opening test between south africa and pakistan, debutant fast bowler corbin bosch,

batting at number nine, hit an attacking 81 not out to take south africa to a 90—run first—innings lead. pakistan finished the day on 88—3 in their second innnings, trailing by two runs with seven wickets remaining. iga swiatek has said she feared losing herfans after her positive doping case earlier this year. the five—time grand slam champion failed an out—of—competition drug test in august, but tennis' integrity unit accepted her explanation that the result was unintentional and caused by the contamination of a different substance she was taking to help jet lag and sleeping issues. swiatek accepted a one—month suspension in november. overall the reaction in poland basically... because mostly what i read it has been pretty supportive and i really appreciate that because i failed in my swing, and nobody knew why it wasn't so easy.

after my case information was released, i was scared that most of people were going to turn their back on me. but i felt the support and it was great. despite very foggy conditions, "val dancer" emerged as the winner of the welsh grand national at chepstow. the mel rowley trained eight to one shot, ridden by charlie hammond, held on in the final stages to outlast "jubilee express" in second and "i will do it", in third. and that's all the sport for now. jane, thank you. one of the last functioning hospitals in northern gaza has been forcibly evacuated by the israeli military. the kamal adwan hospital has been under siege by the idf for weeks. staff say air strikes overnight which targeted the area killed 50 people. israel has not commented on the evacuation. the bbc has been talking

to those who witnessed the operation. translation: guys, we are talking to you from inside i the hospital as we are coming down to the courtyard. the army is inside the hospital. we hope everyone will be safe. if we are lucky, we will get back to you and talk to you again, god willing for the best. please forgive us if we have wronged anyone and pray for us. i'm the paramedic at kamal adwan hospital, walid al—badri. translation: the occupation army is now besieging - kamal adwan hospital and is asking dr hussam abu safiya to bring patients down to the hospital's courtyard. in 15 minutes from now, the army will enter the hospital. this is the message verbatim which dr hussam hasjust received from the occupation army. 0ur correspondent, shaimaa khalil, sent this report from jerusalem. we've heard from medical staff, who say that, as you mentioned, they were given very, very short time to evacuate the hospital — both the patients and the medical staff — and that israeli soldiers went into the hospital and evacuated the rest. we're unsure where the patients and the medical staff had gone.

we also heard reports from the medical staff inside the hospital that some people were taken in the courtyard and told to strip, to take off their clothes, in very, very cold conditions. we haven't heard a comment from the israeli military about that. 0ne concerning point is that we're unaware, or we're not sure, where the patients and the medical staff are being taken after the evacuation of the hospital. there has been a statement by an israeli military official earlier, a couple of days earlier, that there is an intention to take some of the patients and evacuate them to another hospital, the indonesian hospital. the problem with that is that the indonesian hospital itself has been evacuated and itself has been the site of shelling and bombardment, and so it is essentially hollowed out as a medicalfacility. medical staff tell us that you've got people in icu, patients in a coma who need

acute medical attention — they need oxygen, for example, they need medication. and the hospital, the indonesian hospital, is not equipped. this comes after hours, from what we've heard from dr hussam, who's the head of the kamal adwan hospital, he said that overnight, there'd been shelling in the vicinity of the hospital and in the building opposite it, and that resulted in the death of dozens of people — around 50 or so — but also major destruction around the hospital. the israeli military said they're unaware of that and that they're looking into it. nepal's prime minister, kp sharma 0li, says his country has too many tigers and that they're a threat to humans. more than 30 people were killed by tigers between 2019 and 2023. he says nepal should be giving them to other countries as gifts. 0ur correspondent navin singh khadka told me more about the plans for so—called "tiger diplomacy". it was always an issue,

but the thing is, when i talk to people on the ground — say, the community forestry people — they say that it is increasingly becoming more and more serious, because more and more tigers are there now, so the confrontation and all those kind of things. so, yes, the casualties also going up, and then also the cattle being attacked or losses of agriculture, people having to migrate elsewhere — the host of issues. political leaders are bringing it up now because they are also under pressure. i can imagine there's political pressure on that. now, this would seem on the surface a conservation success story, because these are endangered animals. but it shows that there are downsides, doesn't it? yes, so if you spoke to conservationists, for example, they would definitely say, and also by and large, it is a success story.

but the thing is, again, it has all these things come along, and the question is, how do you manage them? and when i talk to experts, they say there are measures, but it is not easy to implement, for example, even the idea of gifting tigers. so, who is going to take them? we've been hearing this. other senior officials also have talked about giving tigers to zoos, for example — it's not happened yet. how exactly would they do it? the tiger diplomacy actually is still to kick off, so it remains to be seen how they will do it, and then in the meantime, we are seeing problematic tigers, for example. around 20 tigers are now taken away from the habitat and kept in captivity. so the worry is, will there be more such tigers? and how can they sustain those enclosures in captivity? it is costly, you see. so all these things come together when you talk about conservation. stay with us here on bbc news.

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.

this is bbc news. the headlines — down one of its planes that crashed in kazakhstan. azerbaijian airlines says "external interference" brought down one of its planes that crashed in kazakhstan. mexico's government tests a "panic button" app allowing migrants to send an alert if the us government tries to deport them. one of the last functioning hospitals in northern gaza has been forcibly evacuated by the israeli military. germany's parliament is dissolved ahead of elections set for february. a nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest—ever approach to the sun. now on bbc news, the firing line.

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