this is bbc news, the headlines... tributes from across the world are being paid to the former us president and nobel peace prize winner, jimmy carter, who's died at the age of 100. president biden called him a man of principle, faith and humility, while president—elect donald trump says americans owe carter a debt of gratitude. local media in argentina report five people have been charged in connection with the death of one direction star liam payne. south korea's acting president has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's planes, following sunday's deadly crash. investigations are continuing into the cause of the incident which left 179 people dead. and coming up, we'll tell you how you might be able

to glimpse a very rare star that hasn't been visible to the naked eye for 8 decades. more now on the death of former us president, jimmy carter, at the age of 100. let me take you to the live pictures from washington, dc. there is the white house and the flag is flying at half mast. americans are waking up to the news thatjimmy carter has passed away. he won the 1976 election, achieved diplomatic success in the middle east, but was hampered at home by a failing economy. he later forged a career as an international statesman, winning the nobel peace prize for helping eradicate diseases in some of the poorest parts of the world. in 2014, president carter spoke

to the bbc�*s katty kay. i was as deeply engaged as i could possibly get, maybe excessively so. but president clinton made a noble effort. but he only started about the last, i think, six months of his administration when he was on the way out. and president 0bama made a good start in cairo

when he announced that there would be no more settlements in palestinian territory and at the 1967 borders would prevail. that was a very wonderful start. but he backed down away from that for then, for the next three years or so, untiljohn kerry came along. you had one of the few bright spots with the camp david accords in the last few decades of the middle east peace process. back then, in 1978, would you ever have thought we would have made so little progress 35 years later? no. i thought it was a foregone conclusion that we would have peace between israel and egypt permanently, which we have not. a single word of the peace treaty has ever been violated, and i thought that we would have palestinian rights guaranteed as well, because the entire international community agreed with that. has it been a failure of american policy? well, i wouldn't say... i wouldn't try to allege that other presidents have failed, but i know that

president reagan didn't take much interest in it. he dealt with it spasmodically and other things were more important to him. and most of the other presidents since then have only paid brief attention to that crucial issue. so i would say that in general, but not singling out anyone that all of the presidents could have done more to bring peace to israel, which means that you have to bring peace to the immediate neighbours as well. a year after the camp david accords 1979, the soviet union invades afghanistan. yes. again, during your presidency, there has been a lot of discussion in the last few months of whether we are returning to the cold war with russia's annexation of crimea. how is this similar and how is this different? well, i think that the taking of crimea by russia was a foregone conclusion. there's nothing that the western nations could have done to prevent putin from moving his military forces into crimea,

because the russians have always considered that crimea was part of russia. when i was president and even before that, and, and i think about 75% of the crimean people consider themselves to be part of russia. so that was no way to change that. but i think now we have the same situation that i faced when i was in the white house in christmas week, as a matter of fact, of 1979, when the soviets invaded afghanistan, i took very strong action. i withdrew, my ambassador, broke diplomatic relations with russia. i declared an embargo against russia as well. i began to arm the freedom fighters in afghanistan so they could repel the russian invaders. and i announced to brezhnev that if he went any further than he had already gone, that i would respond militarily with all the weapons

that we had at our disposal. and that was the end of the soviet invasion. i want to ask you about your book, a call to action: women, religion, violence and power. it's a thesis on how women are mistreated by religions in many instances. and i think a lot of people would immediately think of islam. but you write in the book that it's not confined to islam, that women are subjugated in many religions around the world. well, i wouldn't. . . it's notjust religions, because there are a lot of abuses of women that have nothing to do with religion. for instance, in the united states, we pay women 23% less than men for the same work. and of the fortune 500 companies, 500 only 21 have women ceos and they get about 40% less than men. and sexual abuse on university campuses is rampant, and it's very seldom reported by girls who are raped. or are their rapists punished.

and the same thing happens in the us military. so it's notjust religion, but i think that sometimes the misinterpretation of religious scriptures do give some men the assurance belief across religions. across religions? yeah, across. president carter, you also write that this and you have said that this is, you think, the most important book that you have written. i don't think it, i know it. it's the most important subject that's not addressed adequately on earth. the horrendous abuse of girls and women in every country on earth is a worse crime that's being committed against humanity, and it's almost always ignored or not addressed adequately. and my hope is that this book will at least bring attention to that subject i've just addressed this morning. as a matter of fact, a letter to all of the heads of nations in the world to send all of them a copy of the book.

and i hope that within their own countries they will see we can do something about this problem. there's been a development in the investigation into the death of the one direction star liam payne. people have been charged with supplying drugs. five people have been charged in connection with his death according to reports from argentina. you'll remember the singer died, aged 31, afterfalling from a third floor balcony at a hotel in buenos aires in october. with me is our news correspondent tom symonds. what is this new development? it's quite significant. it's a lengthy, detailed statement from the prosecutor's office in buenos aires having carried out a two or three month investigation involving 800 hours of video footage, phones being seized and forensically

search, a postmortem into liam payne's body, and what they have come back with is five charges against five individuals. roger norris is regarded as a friend of liam payne by the prosecutor. gilda martin, hotel manager... and... are charged with manslaughter for failing to look after liam payne despite the fact that he is intoxicated. and to other individuals who worked at the hotel are accused of selling the singer drugs. it is said that... by the prosecutor that liam payne took a taxi to a man's hotel to buy drugs of him. the prosecutor said that

liam payne fell from the balcony thinking he was just trying to leave the room and sadly died after hitting his head against the cement support below. we haven't had any statements, apart from a defence saying that he didn't sell drugs... clearly there is interest in this case because of the love the liam payne around the world. let's return now to south korea's worst aviation disaster in decades. acting president choi sang—mok has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operation system. it comes a day after a jay—ju air plane crashed after landing at muan international airport, killing all but two of the 181 people on board. some reports say the pilot told air traffic control that the aircraft had suffered a bird strike.

0ur seoul correspondentjean mackenzie is at the scene. lots of questions. are we any closer to answers? absolutely. where we _ closer to answers? absolutely. where we are _ closer to answers? absolutely. where we are right _ closer to answers? absolutely. where we are right now- closer to answers? absolutely. where we are right now is - where we are right now is actually in the terminal building. and this has become home for the bereaved families who are literally coming out here, sleeping in these yellow p°p�*up here, sleeping in these yellow pop—up tents behind me, they're having all their meals provided by volunteers and government workers. 0ne by volunteers and government workers. one of the reasons why they do not want to leave this building is because they want answers. they are desperate for answers. they are desperate for answers. but as you point out those answers are just not coming. it could be months and months before we learn about what happened in this crash. because the two black book recorders are coming, but one of them is damaged and investigators say it could take a long time to retrieve the

data. one reason why the relatives cannot go home is because they are waiting for the body is to be released. some people are having to go and give dna samples to identify the victims. the recovery process is quite difficult and complex. this was a catastrophic crash. it difficult and complex. this was a catastrophic crash.— a catastrophic crash. it does seem they _ a catastrophic crash. it does seem they are _ a catastrophic crash. it does seem they are becoming - a catastrophic crash. it does i seem they are becoming more angry as well as upset at the lack of information.— lack of information. that's absolutely _ lack of information. that's absolutely what _ lack of information. that's absolutely what is - lack of information. that's - absolutely what is happening. i've spent quite a lot of time over the last two days and i have really felt a shift in the mood. yesterday, of course, it was still... everyone was in shock because the news was raw and people were emotional and exhausted. but today it has really shifted. people are angry or stop as i said, they

have turned their anger on these forensic investigators for taking too long to recover the bodies, for not being able to see the bodies of their loved ones. but the sense that i really get is that because we don't know what caused this crash, there are no answers, the families don't know who to blame and don't know who to be angry with. so the immediate, in theirface thing angry with. so the immediate, in their face thing they can be angry with right now are the investigators doing the work. thank you very much. i should say we do have a live page up and running with the latest from south korea. 2025 is likely to be a pivotal year for the war in ukraine, with russia continuing to make advances on the battlefield, and president—elect donald trump soon to take office promising to finish the war. it is a time of great uncertainty for the country — and opinion polls suggest that more ukrainians may be looking for an end to the fighting.

0ur defence correspondent, jonathan beale, reports from dnipro in eastern ukraine. this is where some of the fiercest fighting has been taking place. on the eastern front. this drone footage shows ukrainian forces still resisting. they are slowly being surrounded. nearby, a mortar team has been slow at trying to slow the russian advance. not your average soldiers. a group of nonconformist friends. they call themselves anarchists. we meet at a safe house in a respite from the fighting. they know donald trump wants to bring an end to the fighting. the question, after nearly three years of fighting, can they really carry on? would you prefer to start negotiating, or would you prefer to keep

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casualties including killed and injured. it is the sheer scale of those casualties that is prompting those questions as to how long this can go on for. there are signs of war fatigue. this charity says that in to national donations are drying up. signs that the public are war weary. as a theatre, they pause to remember the dead. but there are also looking for humanity in abnormal times. 0pinion polls suggest increasing support for negotiations. translation: , ., ., ,, translation: there is no easy answer. translation: there is no easy answer- a _ translation: there is no easy answer. a lot _ translation: there is no easy answer. a lot of _ translation: there is no easy answer. a lot of our _ translation: there is no easy answer. a lot of our soldiers - answer. a lot of our soldiers have been killed. i want the war to end. translation: ., ., , translation: unfortunately there are a — translation: unfortunately there are a few— translation: unfortunately there are a few of— translation: unfortunately

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to kids in belarus now and why can't they see santa claus? there is not much choice there now. it looks like that it is just the russian santa clause thatis just the russian santa clause that is going to bring the presents. and that is the called grandpa frost, tradition russian santa claus figure who usually brings presents to the kids. why it happened this year, obviously good question, i spoke to someone in the region and they told me that it didn't happen overnight. it is a built up that is happening against everything that is produced in the west. we can see some headlines now from the russian media. that paper is and independent paperfunded by

independent people who give their money to keep the freedom of press going in the country. and they speak about the band and the second headline is from the same independent media and they say that santa claus and western things are now banned. and we can also see a message which was sent to russian head teachers from the schools that according to the city sources it is not allowed to use all those western symbols as they call them during the celebrations. why now? and what does it tell us, looking at the wider picture? it basically tells us that the iron curtain is back. as you mentioned iron from the region, when the soviet union collapsed my parents were trying to find

the bbc, and we started to see a totally different picture of the world which honestly had a stunning differently to the world that we were seeing on the television. what is also interesting is that a couple of days earlier, the russian and belarusian media showed a short media clip where santa claus is being killed and they will... we will not show the clip here... but what is interesting we can see the end of that clip where we can see the russian grandpa frost who is talking to a person the russian military uniform, and he asked him is it

done, and he replies yes the target is destroyed, and the christmas spirit figure says yes that's right we don't need anything foreign in the sky. that is the message that is being spread in the region. let's hope the kids to at least get their presence this year. astronomers are eagerly awaiting a celestial event that only happens about every 80 years. our science editor rebecca morelle has this report. in bannau brycheiniog, also known as the brecon beacons, astronomers are scanning the skies. they're eagerly awaiting a once in a lifetime event to see a celestial explosion, revealing a star that's normally too faint for us to see. so i've got the telescope pointed at corona borealis, and that's the constellation that this star is in. the star she's looking for is called t coronae borealis or t cor borfor short. t cor bor is dim? t cor bor is dim at the minute.

so it's about magnitudes ten normally. and that is well below what you can see with the naked eye. but that could all be about to change. every 80 years or so, t cor bor is predicted to light up the sky, but not for long. it's only going to be visible to the naked eye for a couple of days. of course, if you've got a small pair of binoculars or a small telescope, you'll be able to see it for a little bit longer because you've got that magnifying tool. but i do think that its short stint in the sky makes it really special. t cor bor is actually two stars orbiting around each other, a small white dwarf which is a dead star, and a much larger red giant. the white dwarf has an immense gravitational pull, and it's consistently dragging material away from the red giant. over time, this material builds up until it explodes, releasing a huge amount of energy, and this makes t cor bor briefly appear much brighter in the night sky. the last time this happened was in 1946, when michael woodman was 15.

the newport schoolboy had stayed up late waiting for his dad to come home. so i looked out of my bedroom window and there, in the ring of the corona borealis, the second star down was bright, very bright. i thought, well, i've never seen that like that before. the following morning i thought, well, i will get in touch with the astronomer royal. the astronomer royal wrote back and told him, remarkably, that he was the first person in the uk to have seen this. the star spotter became a star himself for a while, with a flurry of media interest and an interview on bbc radio. it did give me some notoriety, that's the word. and they used to say, "cor, he's the chap who saw the star." so who do you think that is? who do you think that is? michael woodman is now 94. there are four generations of his family. seeing t cor bor again will put him in an exclusive club ofjust one.

we're all looking at the skies again. and not not only me, but the whole world, apparently. but if i see it, how many other people have seen it? i will be the only one who has seen it twice. i got to keep breathing. t coronae borealis, which you can't see with the naked eye, is about here. it's going to be noticeable when it when it erupts. i think there'll be a, there'll be a, you know, a bright point. so for stargazers, are there any early signs that t cor bor is about to ignite into brightness? it seems that in the past this has dimmed a little bit before it's actually erupted. and there are signs that maybe at the moment it'sjust dipping a little bit in brightness. so maybe that's a hint that it's getting close to its eruption. there have been a few false alarms that t cor bor was ready to erupt, but for now, astronomers will have to keep watching and waiting. the celestial fireworks will be worth it when they finally arrive. rebecca morelle, bbc news, bannau brycheiniog.

the number one chess player, magnus carlsen, has said he'll return to the world rapid and blitz chess championships in new york, after the sport's governing body agreed to relax the dress code. the norwegian walked out on friday when he was told he couldn't wear jeans. the president of the international chess federation said he'd decided to try out giving officials more flexibility in judgements about attire. carlsen will now return for the blitz championship which starts on tuesday. he's said he'll be wearing jeans. let me take you to hawaii, where the kilauea volcano continues to erupt. one of the world's most active volcanoes, it sprang back into life a week ago, spewing columns of lava 80 metres above hawaii. enormous fissures have appeared

on the flanks of kilauea, on hawaii's big island, spraying jets of molten rock into the air. first signs of rain pushing into northern ireland and southern scotland, very windy across the tops of the trans pennine routes. to the south of that we have some brightness and temperature is around nine or 11 degrees. colder conditions in the final north—east of scotland. it's overnight and i'm tonight and into the first half of new year's eve that we see this relentless heavy rain continued to push into scotland and that means the rainfall totals are going to start to head up.

there is an amber weather warning stretching from inverness down to for william. here we could see the possibility of flooding and travel disruption on a very, very busy travel day. that amber weather warning remains in force to throughout new year's eve as that heavy rain continues to push its way steadily south into the north of england. still feeding in plenty of wet weather across scotland. to the south of that slightly slight quite a story largely fine and dry. if you are heading out towards midnight it looks likely that the heaviest of rain is going to be across northern england and parts of north wales. it will be relatively mild with it, windy but the wind direction coming from the south—west. so as we move towards new year's day will be able to split the country into two. a band of heavy rain and strong gale force winds moving their way steadily south. behind it the wind direction changing to a northerly, some of those showers will turn

wintry in nature and it's going to be noticeably colder but they will be some sunshine. a windy day for all, the strongest of the winds with that heavy rain as it moves through east anglia and down through east anglia and down through the kent coast. here we might see double figures but noticeably colder across the country. and that colder theme is going to stay with us as we head through thursday and into friday. at least we got some sunshine, but it will feel cold when you factor in the direction of the wind. so, our week ahead, heavy rain and snow strong winds, is that winds through from new year's day on which it turns colder and crisper.

live from london. this is bbc news. tributes are being paid to the former us president and nobel peace prize winner, jimmy carter, who's died at the age of 100. the world health organisation warns the gaza health system is under severe threat, after two facilities were attacked and raided. reports from argentina say that five people have been charged in connection with the death of one direction star, liam payne. and a british teenager has handed himself in to the authorities in dubai to begin a one—year prison sentence, for having a sexual relationship with a 17—year—old girl.

hello, i'm nicky schiller. tributes are being paid from around the world to the former us president and nobel peace prize winner, jimmy carter, who's died at the age of 100. he was the peanut farmer who became the most powerful man in the world, serving one term as president from 1977 to 1981. he is the longest—lived american leader. as president he brokered a landmark peace accord between egypt and israel. but was hampered at home by a failing economy and a disastrous attempt to free american hostages seized in iran. in later life he became a tireless worker for peace,