he hit an unbeaten 31 off 26 balls as south africa won by two wickets. the victory keeps them top of the test championship table — they'll now face either australia or india at lord's injune. a reminder of our top story — liverpool will end the year eight points clear at the top of the premier league after a 5—0 thrashing away at west ham. all the rest of the stories we featured, you can see the details of which on the bbc support website. so that is that for the programme. thanks for watching. that for the programme. thanks forwatching. bye—bye. three people have died off the coast of france after trying to cross the channel in a small boat to the uk. they got into difficulty off the coast of sangatte — just a few miles from calais. the government

says its supporting the french authorities. frances read reports. a rescue from deadly waters. the sea between france and england has been calm for the last few days. a false sense of security for those making the perilous journey across, boats often completely overloaded. emergency services were called to a small boat in trouble before the sun even rose this morning. they saved 45 people, but three others died. translation: unfortunately, the toll is very high. _ we've just had another person brought to us who has died. and we believe there may be more, as the beach is still being combed by helicopter and off road vehicle. we always expect the worst and it happened again today at sangatte. on land, wrapped in emergency blankets, those who survived the bitter temperatures. dame angela eagle, the uk

minister for border security, said the government was supporting the french authorities and this afternoon was among those blaming criminals for overloading people into unseaworthy vessels. translaion: there was a group of around 50 people _ who were due to take the boat, and there's another group who came on the boat. this created panic and overloaded the boat, and families were apparently separated. the english channel is the busiest shipping lane in the world. hundreds of vessels pass through it every day, dangerous even when the sea seems still. with temperatures so low, even minutes in the water can prove lethal. a un agency saying it has been the deadliest year on record. this has become all too familiar. frances read, bbc news. let s get some of the day s other news now. protests have reportedly taken place in the iranian capital's main bazaar against the government's handling of the economy.

videos posted on social media and verified by the bbc show hundreds of traders shutting their shops and joining a march in the bazaar — normally a stronghold of iran's clerical regime. votes are being counted in chad following the first parliamentary election in more than a decade. it's seen as a step closer to democracy after three years of military rule. but opposition leaders and civil society groups have dismissed the vote as a sham. one tourist has been killed and another injured in a shark attack off the egyptian red sea. officials say the attack happened in deep waters off the resort of marsa alam. the authorities have sealed off the sea area while an investigation takes place. a postmortem on the former military ruler of suriname has concluded that he died of liver failure caused by chronic alcohol consumption. the body of desi bouterse was handed over to his family. he'd been a fugitive for about a year after

being sentenced to jail. four boys aged 17 have been arrested on suspicion of murder, after an 18—year—old man was stabbed to death in derbyshire. emergency services were called to an address in ilkeston last night after reports of a stabbing. derbyshire police say the man derbyshire police say the man died on heanor road just died on heanor road just before nine o'clock. before nine o'clock. four i7—year—olds were detained four i7—year—olds were detained along with a 52—year—old man, along with a 52—year—old man, and two girls aged 15 and 16 — and two girls aged 15 and 16 — who were all arrested who were all arrested on suspicion of on suspicion of assisting an offender. all remain in custody. assisting an offender. all remain in custody. here in the uk the met here in the uk the met office has issued office has issued multiple weather warnings; multiple weather warnings; with heavy rain and snow change this year. with heavy rain and snow forecast in scotland forecast in scotland —from midnight tonight. —from midnight tonight. there are various rain, there are various rain, wind and snow warnings wind and snow warnings affecting much of the uk over affecting much of the uk over the next few days — the next few days — some which will remain in force some which will remain in force through new year's eve through new year's eve and new year's day, and new year's day, until thursday morning. until thursday morning. the world experienced an extra the world experienced an extra

41 days of dangerous 41 days of dangerous weather due to climate weather due to climate change this year. that's according to the world weather attribution service at imperial college london in the uk. it found that, as well as 2024 being the hottest year on record, the risk of extreme weather events such as heatwave, typhoons and hurricanes is increased.

an ordinary hurricane... i'm not going in a direction of saying hurricanes are easily possible, i'm just saying hurricane helene, for example, went from a category three to a category five very quickly. and you saw what it did in north carolina by the amount of rainfall that fell and the devastation that was caused, and that was climate—induced. so all of these things... and we can look right across the globe. don't look at your own country, don't look at the uk and just say, "oh, we haven't seen much of this," although storm bert did quite some damage in the welsh valleys. you've got to look globally at these things and i call it something like join the dots. and once you join those dots, you get a real, real picture of what's going on with accelerated temperatures, with fossil fuel emissions at their peak. despite what's going on in terms of renewables, etc, we're still behind. so, you know, the starting gun for mitigation was fired some time ago, and sadly we didn't

get off the blocks. and we're notjust doing it now. so, as well as the words chaos and big weather, i'd also like to use the words safety and survival, because those two words are becoming a little bit more apparent, if not at home, then certainly globally. and i think we need to be educated in terms of how to be safe in these extreme weathers. when i was at school, i did meteorology — well, not meteorology but geography, and that led me into meteorology. but it's at a very basic level. you sort of skim the surface, and a lot of the stuff you do at school wouldn't necessarily be useful. i think people would agree with this — when you leave school, there's an awful lot that is taught that, you know, you can basically throw in the bin. i'm now a believer, given climate change and what it's doing, that we have to get education of how to be safe in a dangerous world, in an increasingly dangerous world. so if that means extreme heat, and we're starting to do it to a certain degree with public information, but that has to accelerate.

we have to be educated in terms of what to do when we see these — so, for example, in a flood situation, not to drive your car into a flooded road. artificial intelligence is being used in more and more walks of life, including the justice system where there are hopes it could make the law less expensive and more accessible. a seniorjudge overseeing the use of ai in courts in england and wales, has predicted it could help deliver swift and cheap justice to the most disadvantaged in society. our legal correspondent dominic casciani reports. every day in our courts, witnesses swear to tell the truth, and it takes a skilled barrister to pull at the threads of lies. that costs time and money. but is all that about to change, thanks to artificial intelligence? the caseworker will subsequently... ai now helps advisers find the key legal points in their client's story that could help them win their case. we can actuallyjust spend a couple of minutes going through and redacting the the client's personal information, then ultimately upload it onto an ai model that

can come back and give us all that information, and it'll usually shoot it back in about. . . maybe ten to 15 minutes. so it saves us hours�* worth of time. big law firms are already using ai tools, but the judge overseeing guidance in the field says they could, in fact, benefit the poorest. when people have claims which they can't resolve, it creates a huge economic loss to our society. and so we in the justice system really do want to find ways in which we can resolve people's problems more quickly and at lower cost. and so i think artificial intelligence in time will be one of those tools that we will use. so how far could ai go? this is a demonstration of courtroom software. the tool listens to the witness. it then compares what they say to other evidence, and it aims to spot inconsistencies or lies quicker than a barrister could. so will my learned friends soon be all out of a job? the truth is, the technologies

we're looking at here will enable one lawyer or two lawyers to do the job of ten or 20. it's going to massively change access to justice, and massively reduce down legal costs. judges are backing ai, but want strict controls. they want the courtroom focused on real people, with technology helping in a human drama. dominic casciani, bbc news. let's catch up with the weather. hello there. the weather is starting to change now. it's going to take a turn for the worse, though, as we head into the new year. the weather, then, very different from what we had over christmas, where we were dominated more by high pressure, mist and some fog — that's getting squeezed away, mind you. that weather front, though, continuing to bring some rain into scotland, and as we head further into the night, that rain is going to turn more widespread across the northern half of the country and bring with it some heavier rain and some snow for caithness

and sutherland as we hit the colder air. elsewhere, looking dry, variable cloud, minimum temperatures 5—6 degrees. but the focus of the bad weather through monday and tuesday is going to be in scotland from the central belt northwards. combination of some heavy rain but also some snow leading to some flooding and some travel disruption. now, we start wet in many parts of scotland on monday morning. the worst of that wet weather the worst of that wet weather moves away, we'll see moves away, we'll see some patchy rain heading some patchy rain heading into southern scotland, into southern scotland, northern ireland, the far north northern ireland, the far north of england, where it could be of england, where it could be very windy in the northern pennines. very windy in the northern pennines. some stronger winds further some stronger winds further south, helping to break up south, helping to break up the cloud, give us some the cloud, give us some sunshine and lift temperatures sunshine and lift temperatures close to double figures, close to double figures, although it will become although it will become drier in northern scotland. drier in northern scotland. the air is quite a bit colder here, and as we head overnight and into new year's eve, snow falling in northern and into new year's eve, the next area of low pressure the next area of low pressure is going to hit the same sort is going to hit the same sort ofareas, bringing more ofareas, bringing more heavy rain to scotland. heavy rain to scotland. another wet start to another wet start to the day on tuesday. the day on tuesday. the worst of the rain does the worst of the rain does move through, and we see move through, and we see a band of rain sweeping a band of rain sweeping across northern ireland, across northern ireland, into england and wales this into england and wales this time, with some stronger winds. time, with some stronger winds. particularly windy across this particularly windy across this part of the country, part of the country,

and we may well find some more and we may well find some more snow falling in northern scotland, particularly for the northern isles. that's going to bring some disruption here. it is cold in northern scotland, but elsewhere, it's going to be mild for new year's eve, temperatures 11—12 degrees. and then we get another area of low pressure, this one a bit deeper, and it's tracking over more of the uk. so it's going to bring more disruption more widely, i think, for new year's day. we're going to have some very windy weather for england and wales, and for wales in particular, some heavy rain leading to flooding. further north, some heavy snow for northern ireland, scotland and developing in northern england, likely to bring some problems as the day progresses. and that wild weather will continue overnight before the low pressure clears away by thursday, allowing arctic air to come sweeping down across the country and dropping the temperatures.

live from london, this is bbc news. a plane carrying 181 people has crashed on landing at muan airport in south korea, killing all but two of those on board. the new pro—russian president of georgia has been sworn in, drawing large protests in the capital, tbilisi.

palestinian authorities say seven people have been killed in an israeli strike on a hospital in gaza city. hello, i'm... welcome to bbc news with me lukwesa burak. a period of national mourning has begun in south korea after a plane carrying 181 people crashed, killing all the passengers on board. only two people — who were flight crew — survived after the aircraft burst into flames. the flight from thailand, operated byjeju air, was landing when it skidded off the runway and hit a wall at muan international airport in the south—west. authorities say a bird strike may have caused the disaster. our correspondent, jean mackenzie, sent this report. i should warn you, there are some distressing images from the start.

this, the terrifying moment the plane lands at speed