in the accident and theirfamilies. this is the scene right now at muan airport, the emergency services are sifting through the wreckage of the plane. rescuers have found two survivors. and there have been protests in the georgian capital of tibilisi after the new president — mikheil kavelashvili — was sworn in, despite weeks of rallies against his governing georgian dream party. hello. we start with south korea, where a plane has crashed on landing at an airport, and at least 177 people have been killed. the boeing 737 belonging tojeju airlines had 181 people on board, and officials say they expect most are dead. they say some passengers fell out of the fuselage during the crash at muan international airport.

two survivors have been pulled from the wreckage and taken to hospital. this is the moment the plane skidded down the runway before hitting a wall and bursting into flames. the aircraft was arriving at muan airport from bangkok. the authorities say a birdstrike may have caused the landing gear to malfunction. the airline has issued a formal apology. the local fire chief has given an update on the rescue operation at the airport. translation: we are presuming the cause of the accident to be i a bird strike or deteriorating weather conditions and the exact cause will be determined from a further forensic and joint investigation. we are doing our best to search for more survivors. as a person who has seen the site i can only say i am sad. the ceo ofjeju air has apologised for the accident, bowing deeply during a televised briefing. he said the cause of the crash was still unknown,

that the aircraft had no record of accidents and there were no early signs of malfunction. he also insisted that the airline will cooperate with investigators and make supporting the bereaved its priority. translation: firstly i bow in apology to everyone - who has cherished jeju air. above all i want to give my sincere apology and condolences to those who have lost their lives in the accident and their families. at the moment it is hard to presume the cause of the accident and we have to wait for the official investigation results from the authority. the families of the victims of the plane crash have gathered at muan airport where they listened as the names of those who died were read out. a warning some may find the following clip distressing. crying. victims' names are read out.

crying. yuna ku from bbc korean service was inside muan airport where the plane crashed and had this update. there have been 170 confirmed deaths so far and people here, yet many of them are still unidentified. so many people, mostly the families of the bereaved, are waiting here, uh, waiting for the announcement or the identification. so right now i'm standing inside the airport where also many other families of the bereaved are staying. and from far, even far away, i can hear some of the families screaming and crying as they hear the announcement of the death

of their loved ones. it is known that most of the people who are in the plane were families. even there was a youngest who was born in 2021 and there were many family members altogether. and also most of them are south korean nationals. also, there were two thai nationals as well. unfortunately, after um, the announcement of two survivors, we are not hearing any additional survivors at this moment, and it seems pretty much a low chance to expect another survivor. and they are right now staying in the hospital. luckily not very heavily damaged, however, um, they are not... they aren't doing interviews, but it is known that according to local reports, they were saying to the hospital, one of them said, um, they barely remember anything before the accident. so far the investigation has just started, so there aren't much to confirm.

but however, the authorities have been saying that they issued the first, uh, warning just before the accident. a mayday signal, uh, saying that they are in an urgent situation. and then the plane just landed without a landing gear. uh, and unfortunately, they couldn't, uh, speed down and eventually crashed to the end of the runway. that's what we know as so far. with more analysis here's our south east asia correspondentjohnathan head. there is a lot that is mysterious about the little we do know. ., . ., ., , do know. the korean authority said that there _ do know. the korean authority said that there was _ do know. the korean authority said that there was a - do know. the korean authority said that there was a bird - said that there was a bird strike. the plane gave a may day warning and there is some video published that suggest a bird might have struck one engine, there is a flame coming out of the engine. normally

this kind of thing if one engine flames out it is pretty standard procedure for pilots to go around and land normally. in this case, the plane did go around and attempt another landing from a different approach to the runway and for reasons that we are not clear on and it is not clear what kind of communications they were with fa traffic control at this stage, the plane landed at very high speed with its undercarriage retracted. it is possible there might have been some catastrophic hydraulic failure caused by that by late night bird strike. but the undercarriage is very strong and there are back—up systems that allow crews to put the system is down even with hydraulic failure. they will have to assess why the landing happened with the landing gear retracted, and why it happened at such speed. and why the plane was unable to stop and come to a halt. it was doing great speed when it shot off

the end of the 2800 metre runway. it impacted against the wall and then burst into flames. that will be the subject of the investigation. the korean investigators, the airline and the manufacturers will be involved in this investigation. they have the flight recorder, they don't yet have the voice recorder but i expect they will read truth that in time. —— they will retrieve that. this is a tragic crash and an unexpected one. there are a lot of questions. south korea has a good air safety record. it didn't 20 or 30 years ago but in recent years it has been very good indeed. it has very high quality safety structures and ray james. quality safety structures and rayjames. this is quality safety structures and ray james. this is the worst accident in korea but not the worst involving a korean

airline. a korean airliner was shot down by the soviet union in 1983, i believe that is the worst accident involving a korean airline. although the airline is a low—cost carrier and quite new, it has only been operating for 20 years, its safety record has been almost unblemished. it had an incident in 2007 where there were some injuries. 0ther low—cost carriers in this region, particularly in indonesia, have had significant questions raid that it might raised about their safety culture. their ability to hire good pilots. up till now i haven't heard any questions over this airline and so there is nothing to suggest at this stage there was any failure at an official level or in the culture of the airline. the investigation hopefully will reveal what the factors were that caused this terrible

accident and what lessons can be learnt from it. former airline captain barry eustance gave us his analysis on what we know about the incident so far. the images and the video i've seen show an aeroplane that's clearly under control. that is to say, the... as it's coming out on the landing roll, the wings are level, the nose attitude is high. which would you would expect in a gear up landing. and it clearly the landing gear has not been extended. it looks like the leading edge slats have not been extended or the or the flaps. the trailing edge flaps. the thrust reversers looked like they have been deployed. and so there is a question of here is why wasn't the gear extended? and i would suggest either that there's been a significant hydraulic failure and that...

reporting. . .alongside the reporting of bird strike activity might suggest that in this case, there's either a single or late double engine flameout, which caused them to basically go for a landing with the gear up because of time limitations. and it's not without, it's not without precedent. you'll remember that the incident on the hudson where they had a bird strike incident in an airbus a320. um, they had exactly this sort of situation occurring where they had a double flameout and had to make an immediate landing. in that case, it was in the hudson. it's early days at the moment in the incident inquiry. i don't necessarily want to speculate about what i think the cause was, but it's possible they may have had some kind of double engine flame out, which caused them not to extend the gear, but to go for an orderly landing as far as they could see. it looks to me that the speed at which they were proceeding down the runway was almost, uh, take off speed. so it's a very high speed. and why would that have been?

why would it have been so fast? is that because of the wheels weren't down and because the flaps on the wings weren't up? yeah, well, by extending the flaps, you increase the wing area that allows you to slow the aeroplane down to achieve the same amount of lift. if those haven't been deployed and you don't have wheel braking, first of all, from an aerodynamic point of view, if you can't extend the flaps and the leading edge slats, you're going to have to come in faster to maintain the same amount of lift to keep you airborne. so you've got a faster approach. you've then got no limited retardation devices on the runway. you've got no wheels, no brakes, nothing to slow you down. the reversers again, if there's limited engine power, the reversers are going to be effectively useless. so it was very high speed which would extend.... it's a900 zero foot runway. it looks like he hit a bank at the end which had the instrument landing system localiser system on it. so i think whatever happened, they were they got

they were, they got it into a controlled situation onto the runway but very high speed. and at that point, with no retardation, they were in the hands of the gods. and how long does it take to manually try and get the wheels down? well, after the hudson incident, the training and i've done this in, i've had engine failures coming out of laguardia to replicate the hudson incident. so i've had that in the simulator... is basically to focus on the approach and landing to get the thing down in one piece on a safe piece of, of, of land or if necessary, river. um, to and it looks like they did a very good job of getting the aeroplane onto the runway with the wings level in with, with an appropriate attitude, engine, uh, pitch attitude on the aircraft to try and give it the very best chance of, of, of making a successful approach. but with that high speed,

really, it's anybody�*s guess how long you've got. all the all the calculations for performance and landing performance are based upon normal retardation devices. you won't get many performance documents that will tell you how much runway you're going to use when you've got your wheels up and you've got no flaps or slats. and that's unquestionably what they had here. yes, we heard earlier from the south korean transport official saying that there had been a warning, a bird strike warning from air traffic control, and that then about two minutes later, the pilot gave a mayday, and then the air traffic control gave permission for the plane to land from an opposite direction. and this was just from an air transport from a south korean transport official earlier. would that have been, how would that have been in terms of they were given this warning and then that would mean that they wouldn't be able to land. would that be the incidence? well, the it's the question of where they were in the in. what phase of landing

they were at when that was given, they actually got down to a50ft and 140 knots, which is a half decent approach speed. then they climbed to 600ft and went up to 158 knots. have encountered... it's speculative, isn't it, at this stage, but there was a bird strike warning. it's reported that the bird had impacted one of the wings, which would be consistent with a bird strike. and the issues with bird strike is you can't predict where these birds are going to be. that was the case with the sullenberg incident coming out of laguardia of new york that resulted in the hudson accident. um, suddenly you've got a flock of birds and they can they if ingested into the engines, they can cause an engine to flame out. um, so and certainly the looking at this and looking at the video and looking at the speeds and looking at the configuration of the aeroplane with no leading edge slats, no flaps, no gear down, it suggests that whatever happened left them with very little time

indeed to make a normal approach, ie to extend gear to restart engines. because restarting engines takes quite a lot of time. and if actually you are just descending now, they kept the flying speed up, but they had to do it without the normal, um, aerodynamic devices that would have allowed them to slow down. so the speculation here must be that there was something, whatever happened, and a bird strike is clearly high on the agenda of probabilities, whatever happened, it caused this crew to take very expeditious action to get the aeroplane ...at the image i'm looking at at the moment, they were in an orderly. they were in an orderly, uh, upright position when they landed on the runway. so the crew were in control at that phase. and i think that's probably what they were focusing on.

to give them the best chance. it is extraordinary that two people were pulled alive from the wreckage, isn't it? i understand that they were at the back of the aircraft. yeah, there were two crew members. it looks from the, the imagery that they hit this bank at the end of the runway, which is massively unfortunate. a lot of airfields, those, those localiser aerials would not be on a bank. they would just be frangible and would have just disintegrated on impact. but that's the way it is at some airfields. it's 9000ft it's not a short runway. it's a good long runway. but certainly the speeds i've seen this aeroplane coming down, it was travelling. . .. it was travelling at near take—off speeds. in myjudgment, based upon the videos i've seen, it hit the bank, went over the top. and at that point i think that's when the carnage occurred.

we have just heard through that 179 people were killed. all passengers and crew were accounted for. hundred and 79 died and two members of the crew were rescued from the record. 175 passengers on board so we know that all of those passengers were killed in that crash. forflight passengers were killed in that crash. for flight staff in total and we know that two of those flight staff have been killed and two were rescued and taken to hospital. let's turn our attention to georgia now. hundreds of people are protesting in tbilisi as the new president of georgia, mikheil kavelashvili has been sworn in, despite weeks of rallies against his governing georgian dream party, and the election results. the former manchester city footballer is a hardline critic of the west and the 4 main opposition groups have rejected him and boycotted parliament. they insist that the elections held in october were rigged. on saturday, thousands of protesters in georgia formed

a human chain in the capital, tbilisi, to mark a month of daily pro—europe demonstrations. similar rallies have been held in other towns and cities across the country. mass protests have gripped georgia since the government said it would delay eu accession talks until 2028. the outgoing president, has left the presidential palace after making a defiant speech to supporters. she said she remained the legitimate officeholder. translation: six years ago. i swore allegiance to you on the constitution. and this allegiance will not change. wherever i am, in the palace or outside the palace, i will come out of here to you, and i will be with you. legitimacy comes from one source. and that source is you. and where there is no trust of the people, there will be no legitimacy. the new president mikheil kavelashvili addressed parliament

after being sworn in. transltion: georgia has faced numerous storms over the centuries and our people, having endured many hardships, have achieved what once seemed impossible in their quest to protect their homeland and dignity. they have fought tirelessly against the world's largest empires and countless enemies for millennia, surviving and preserving the values upon which our nation was built. everyone knows we are one of the most distinctive and historic nations whose formation began in ancient times. 0ur correspondent reyhan demytrie is in uzbekistan and had this update on georgia. there were these two parallel situations taking place. 0ne inside the parliament where mikheil kavelashvili was sworn in as the country's next president. outside the presidential palace in central tbilisi

where the outgoing president addressed her supporters. they gathered this morning outside this palace, presidential palace. she said she was leaving the palace but she would remain with people. she considers herself as the only legitimate leader, president in georgia. because both she and the opposition have claimed repeatedly that 0ctober parliamentary elections in the country were stolen. therefore they do not recognise the legitimacy of the parliament that nominated and voted and today inaugurated mikheil kavelashvili as the next president. i think the next question is will there be international recognition of mikheil kavelashvili as georgia's president? will he get congratulations from the european union, united states, two days ago

the united states government imposed sanctions against the most powerful man in georgia. he is the founder of the ruling party, georgian dream. very strict sanctions, asset freezes and so on. in a statement the us state department said sanctions are being imposed for undermining democratic and euro atlantic future of georgia for the benefit of the russian federation. that is why we have seen so many people coming out to the streets to protest as they believe the current government in georgia is tilting away from the european union and moving georgia closer to russia. thank you. azerbaijani president ilham aliyev says that the passenger plane that crashed in kazakhstan, killing 38 people, had been damaged due to shooting from the ground in russia. that's according to azerbaijan state television. president aliyev said he regretted that "some

circles" in russia had tried to hush up the truth about the crash of the azerbaijan airlines plane, by sowing false narratives about the causes of the crash. russian president vladimir putin yesterday apologies for what the kremlin called a �*tragic incident�* after russian air defences were fired against ukrainian drones. three people have died after trying to cross the english channel this morning — according to the french authorities. firefighters and law enforcement were deployed in a rescue operation after several dozen people ended up in the water off the coast of sangatte near calais. the recovered bodies were transported by the french navy helicopter. four people were taken to hospital. it brings the number of deaths from channel crossings to 75 this year. almost 1,500 people have made the crossing in the past four days. the mp for the pas de calais region pierre—henri dumont said: "any attempt to cross the channel in this way is very, very dangerous — but at this time of year,

it is even more deadly. 0ur rescue teams are very good and can get to the area very fast, but at this time of year, with the temperature of the water dropping, spending even a few minutes in the water can be deadly." with more on this i'm joined from the bbc newsroom by our correspondent, frances read. details are onlyjust starting to become clear that this is what we know so far. the government department in france that deals with maritime affairs says this happened around 6am local time, about 5am uk time. it the coastguard managed to rescue 45 people who given medical treatment, often for hypothermia. but that three people were found unconscious and died. in the past few days more than 1100 people have arrived in the uk in small boats. that is hundreds a day over the christmas period, because there have been exceptionally calm conditions at sea, despite the foggy conditions that we have seen in the uk and on the channel over

the uk and on the channel over the past few days, that is seen as favourable conditions for people who want to try to make that crossing to do so. later stats show more than 36,000 people have arrived in the uk in small bites over the course of this year, that is up 24% —— in small boats. the channel between england and france is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the entire world. it sees hundreds of vessels across three. even when the conditions are calm it is still incredibly dangerous. at this time of year, with the temperatures dipping solo, even minutes in the water can be incredibly deadly, in incredibly quickly. the home office says it is a way but has not given more comment. it previously said it wants to end all small boat crossings and wanted to dismantle the business models

of people smuggling gangs. it said it is a new trend of overcrowding in boats and so if you are the same number of people, so another worrying trend it seems at the moment. and a reminder of our top story, south korea's acting president has declared a period national mourning after a plane crashed on a landing at an airport, killing at least 179 people. two people have survived they were members of the crew and have been taken to hospital. that is all from me for the moment. thank you for watching. hello there. there's been some more mist and fog around this morning, most of it across central southern england. east anglia, the midlands, parts of south wales too. but the good news is it's not as extensive as it was yesterday, and it should lift and clear much more readily as

the westerly wind picks up. so sunny spells developing. for most of us it's dry, but it's windy. it's really quite wet across parts of northwest scotland, with rainjust feeding in from the atlantic here. some of it pushing further eastwards into parts of aberdeenshire as we head through the afternoon. further south for northern ireland, central southern scotland and down into northern england, it's dry. here's that brightness across england and wales developing as the westerly wind picks up. and of course it's a lot milder here than it was yesterday underneath all of that mist and fog. now overnight tonight, the rain for northwest scotland is going to push further eastwards again. it will be heavy and persistent, turning to snow over the hills. further south it is largely dry, mixture of cloud and some clearer spells and generally a mild start to the day tomorrow. now the rain could cause some issues in scotland on monday and tuesday, the rainfall totals will really start to rack up. it will be relentless and there will be added snow as well. and then as the snow melts, it will just add to those rainfall totals. there could be some localised

flooding and of course some travel disruption. bearing in mind that tuesday is new year's eve, lots of people out and about, of course. but on monday then there'll still be some wintry over the hills of the far north. all of this set to sink further southwards across central southern areas of scotland, into the central belt and across northern ireland and northern england. windy conditions, particularly over the pennines. mixture of brighter spells and some cloud further south, but here it should stay dry for many parts of england and wales. but then new year's eve brings a deep area of low pressure swinging in from the west, so it's going to be very unsettled. it will be very blustery, with a brisk westerly to south—westerly wind, rain sinking further southwards across many parts of england and wales, continuing across northern and western scotland, again wintry over the hills. it's still mild on tuesday, but as we head through new year's day that is about to change. we'll start to see colder air sink down from the north with northerly winds. there will be some brightness around, but the risk of some wintry showers over the hills.

so for the end of the first week of january, it's looking a lot colder, bye—bye.

this is bbc news, the headlines... more than 170 people have been killed in a plane crash at an airport in south korea. thejeju airflight from bangkok had 181 passengers on board when it came off the runway at muan airport, crashed into a wall,

and burst into flames. the cause is still being investigated, but officials believe a collision with birds and poor weather may be to blame. rescuers have found two survivors. the ceo ofjeju airlines has apologised to the victims and their families. there have been protests in georgia after the new president — mikheil kavelashvili — was sworn in. the former manchester city footballer is a hardline critic of the west — and the four main opposition groups have rejected him and boycotted parliament. they insist that the elections held in october were rigged. three people have died after trying to cross the english channel this morning. firefighters and law enforcement were deployed in a rescue operation after several dozen people ended up in the water off the coast of sangatte near calais. now on bbc news — time to look back at the year in sport.