from being deported by trump's administration — by announcing an app that connects those facing arrest with consulates and lawyers. and a nasa spacecraft makes history by surviving the closest—ever approach to the sun. hello, i'm helena humphrey. the white house says it's seen early indications that suggest an azerbaijani airlines passengerjet, that crashed on christmas day killing dozens of people, was possibly brought down by russian air defence systems. the airline itself says initial results of an investigation suggest the cause was some kind of "external interfence." 38 people were killed when the plane came down, two miles short of the runway at aktau airport, in western kazakhstan. the aircraft originally tried to land at grozny airport in southern russia — but witnesses say there

was an explosion before the plane was diverted. 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. the owner, azerbaijan airlines, said only that it had suffered external physical and technical interference. the kremlin has again refused

to comment on speculation that it was mistakenly brought down by a russian air defence system. translation: i'd like to point out that the situation on that l day during those hours in the area around grozny airport was very difficult. ukrainian military drones were carrying out terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure in the city of grozny and others nearby. in azerbaijan today, the first funerals for some of the 38 people who were killed. why they died will take time to find out, and will likely be disputed. jon donnison, bbc news. tom bateman gave me an update on what the white house had to say about the incident. john kirb , say about the incident. john kirby. the — say about the incident. john kirby, the spokesman, - say about the incident. jrvm kirby, the spokesman, was say about the incident. jrr�*i�*i kirby, the spokesman, was asked directly about it during a

press briefing today. the first point to make was he was asked are you basing your assessments on what caused this on more than the information that is in the public domain, particularly those pictures we've just seen there of the fuse alleged puncture marks on it and he said yes, suggesting i think obviously they have other channels of information we are not party to those in epic and that he then said that their assessment is that the early indications was to point to the possibility that it was brought down by russian air defence systems. that then takes you to the russian account. we've heard from the aviation regulator there saying they described a complex situation over grozny airport at the time saying there was a dense fog but also they claimed they were ukrainian drone attacks taking place and that is why they were telling civilian aircraft to divert so already we have fairly disputed circumstances but certainly some of the aviation experts who have looked at those pictures suggesting the damages consistent with what you would

expect from a surface to air missile exploding nearly aircraft. ~ ., ., aircraft. washington has also now offered _ aircraft. washington has also now offered its _ aircraft. washington has also now offered its assistance i aircraft. washington has also now offered its assistance in | now offered its assistance in this investigation.— this investigation. that's ri . ht. this investigation. that's right- john _ this investigation. that's right. john kirby - this investigation. that's right. john kirby said - this investigation. that's. right. john kirby said they would offer any assistance the us could bring to this joint investigation bound by kazakhstan and azerbaijan. whether or not that will be taken up remains to be seen but as to the other part of this investigation, what they are looking at i think very closely will be the accounts of the survivors because extraordinarily a number of people survived the crash. they have reported hearing a loud explosions coming from at the time. as for the kremlin, they've been asked about these two days in a row now and the spokesman there saying only that they will comment on those reports that this could have been caused by russian air defences only after the joint investigation has been completed. tom bateman there. the world health organization says the israeli army has put the last

major health facility in northern gaza out of service stop on friday didn't israeli military forcibly —— the israel defence forces said it targeted palestinian fighters but the gaza public health ministry said the idf indiscriminately bent down hospital facilities. our correspondence show mohammed hello is in palestine. we've heard from medical staff, who say that, as you mentioned, they were given very, very short time to evacuate the hospital — he said that the ministry lost contact with some of the health staff, the medical staff, and that some others were taken into questioning in a nearby building. he also added that some of the patients were in serious conditions and were taken to the in nearby hospital but the problem is this hospital itself was evacuated and bombarded a few days ago so you can't really call it a hospital, it is a shelter but

there is no electrically, no generators, no water, no oxygen so it is unclear how these patients in certain situations are going to be caught cared for. —— cared for. earlier, the bbc were told that people were given 15 minutes to move medical staff and patients, some of whom were in ventilators, into the courtyard and we heard testimony from medical staff that they were told to take their clothes off told to take their clothes off to be searched. there is a video of a group of men reportedly in the vicinity of the hospital walking, not wearing any clothes, in their undergarments, holding their clothes and raising their hands up clothes and raising their hands up in a completely destroyed neighbourhood with tanks nearby. 50 people were killed. just before the evacuation, hours before the evacuation, 50 people were killed, five of them at medical staff. we were told that by the director of the comal allied one hospital who said they were by the —— there was bombardment in a building near the hospital. you could see in the video there

was a drone, a quad copter that was a drone, a quad copter that was dropping explosives on that building. the idf have told us they were unaware of any medical staff who were killed and that they are looking into the reports but they also said they were conducting an operation in the area near the hospital that they called a hamas stronghold. if you look at the area around the hospital, the vicinity around the hospital, the destruction is nearly complete. buildings are nearly raised to the ground, is rubble everywhere stop these are neighbourhoods that have in now experiencing relentless bombardment and shelling for weeks and weeks, since that military campaign in october, by the israeli military, who say they are going after hamas, trying for them not to regroup in the area. the medical officials have told us that the comal allied one —— khamal al—adwa, it wasn't just a hospital, allied one —— khamal al—adwa, it wasn'tjust a hospital, it offered people help that they were going to get better and

now that hope has gone. a prominent italian journalist has been under arrest in iran for a week. cecilia sala left rome for iran with a valid visa and here she is reporting from tehran days before her arrest. she had been due to fly back to rome on december 20 ten phone went silent on the 19th. no media confirmation by uranian officials but her podcast company leaves she was held in solitary confinement in iran's notorious evin prison. we are weeks away from donald trump as mike inauguration as president but an emergency strategy is being applied to protect migrants here in the us by mexico. as us registered to put millions of migrants, juan

ramon de la fuente announced an app ramon de la fuente announced an app called panic mode button and the mobile app will connect to a 20 hour a day, backed by... 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. for more on this state of migrant rights in the us, i have been speaking with mary meg mccarthy, the executive director of the national immigrantjustice centre. the immigrant justice centre. the abbeys immigrantjustice centre. the abbeys are still being tested by the mexican government but i just wondered what is your reaction to this and specifically the events that prompted its creation in the first place. i prompted its creation in the first place-— first place. i think we can raise first place. i think we can praise the _ first place. i think we can praise the create -- - first place. i think we can | praise the create -- trays first place. i think we can - praise the create -- trays the praise the create —— trays the creation of this app to what we have heard from the second trump administration that is

preparing to come into office as of january preparing to come into office as ofjanuary 20. preparing to come into office as of january 20. we expect a swift and cruel deportation tactics, workplace and neighbourhood raised and immigration detention expansion. really designed to create a media spectacle that will dehumanise and criminalise our immigrant neighbours, friends, family members and co—workers who are stripping away the limited protections people have to live and work in the united states without fear of being targeted, detained and exiled from their loved ones. the development such as this application really reflects the fair within —— the fear within the immigrant trump's promises of mass debilitation. under the trump administration, members of ourfamily, friends,

of our family, friends, colleagues, people at of ourfamily, friends, colleagues, people at work, i going to be at risk. it seems that this new administration fundamentally thinks immigrants shouldn't be here. find fundamentally thinks immigrants shouldn't be here.— shouldn't be here. and the app reportedly _ shouldn't be here. and the app reportedly will _ shouldn't be here. and the app reportedly will have _ shouldn't be here. and the app reportedly will have a - shouldn't be here. and the app reportedly will have a feature, | reportedly will have a feature, a panic button feature, which will essentially allow users to contact relatives as well as the nearest mexican consulate if detention is deemed imminent. i wonder how effective you think something like that will be given what we know about the way that us immigration authorities typically operate.- immigration authorities typically operate. what we do know from — typically operate. what we do know from the _ typically operate. what we do know from the national- know from the national immigrantjustice centre is immigrant justice centre is years immigrantjustice centre is years of work with individuals you've been detained is that they are really isolated once detained and it is very hard for them to secure an attorney before they are deported or to make contact with loved ones to get the necessary documents to prove that they may be here legally and has status and

shouldn't even be in detention or much less deported. we have found us citizens in immigration detention. so, this app, immigration detention. so, this app, hopefully, would alert others to the potential to fact that this person is now being arrested in detained. and they could get immediate help. and this has led to a response like this has led to a response like this from the mexican consulate, so people can find their loved ones, give them the help they need, give them the documentation of the evidence necessary to prove that they shouldn't be subjected to this cruel and inhumane and criminalisation of an individual. us president—elect donald trump has asked the supreme court to pause a law that would ban tiktok the day before his inauguration on the 20th of january if it is not sold bates

chinese owner bytedance. in light of the novelty and difficulty of the case, trump says the court should consider extending the deadline to grant more breathing space and give trump the ability to pursue a solution. a man has been charged with the 1535 00:13:18,743