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live from london, this is bbc news. medics in gaza say six newborn babies have died from hypothermia in a two—week period. south korea'sjeju air says it will "strengthen" safety measures after one of its planes crashed on sunday killing almost everyone on board. forecasts of severe weather have prompted flood alerts in the scottish highlands — and the cancellation of edinburgh's famous new year hogmanay events. and it's arise, sir gareth and sir stephen — former england football manager gareth southgate — and actor stephen fry — are among those recognised in the new year's honours list.
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and heavy rain. there are hundreds of thousands of gazans living in tents in the gaza strip and we have heard from civil defence forces this morning, the first responders who say that whilst last night was a relatively quiet night in terms of air strikes, they received many calls from families living in tents saying they have been flooded or destroyed. the humanitarian agencies including the united nations are calling for israel to allow more aid into the gaza strip saying there is a dire need for those goods. they say they do continue to facilitate they do continue to facilitate the delivery and transfer of aid into the gaza strip. the report you are about to see has a warning just to say it does contain some distressing themes. baby seela was just 20 days old when herfather, mahmoud, couldn't wake her. translation: in the morning i found her stiff like wood. -
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i took her to the hospital and they told me, "your daughter has been dead for an hour due to the cold." i have no clothes, no food, no drink. only god knows our condition. seela was seen by doctor ahmed al farra. translation: she suffered from severe hypothermia, leading - to the cessation of vital signs, cardiac arrest, and eventually death. yesterday as well, two cases were brought in. one was a three—day old baby and the other was less than a month old. the cause of this is life in the tents. mahmoud's family have been displaced over ten times throughout the war. here in mawasi camp, tens of thousands of gaza's nearly two million displaced live on the beach, suffering from the winter and flooding from the rain and the sea, with almost no infrastructure and a lack of food. amid heavy restrictions by israel on aid deliveries to gaza, says the united nations. israel denies it restricts aid.
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translation: i felt heartbroken for her| because of the conditions. i did everything i could to keep her warm, - but i couldn't manage to do so. without a phone, the family doesn't have a single photo of seela when she was alive. only three weeks of memories and little seela's clothes. translation: i never thought i would give birth living in - a tent in such cold - and freezing conditions with water dripping on us. water leaks i into the tent, pouring down on us. at times we have to run to escape the water- for the baby's sake. on sunday, another tragic case. babyjamah also didn't make it longer than 20 days. translation: touch with your hand, he is frozen. _ frozen. all eight of us, we don't have four blankets. what can i do? i see my children
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dying in front of me. my children are dying in front of me. injust over a week, six babies in gaza have died from the cold weather, local health officials have said. under the sound of israeli drones above, mahmoud carried seela's lifeless body to a makeshift graveyard. translation: we're all sick. our chests hurt and we have colds from the cold and rain. if we didn't die from the war, we're dying from the cold. as the winter cold becomes more harsh and merciless, another preventable death in gaza, where the youngest are suffering most from the cruelties of war. some of the very upsetting testimonies of families in gaza who feel powerless and unable to keep their children warm. the united nations is saying
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that they estimate around i million people in gaza don't have adequate protection for winter and without improvement in the situation many are predicting that this wave of preventable deaths in gaza because of the cold will sadly continue. live injerusalem, continue. live in jerusalem, thank continue. live injerusalem, thank you. the us treasury says it's been hacked by chinese state—sponsored actors, gaining access to staff workstations. a spokesperson said unclassified documents were also compromised in the attack earlier this month. the treasury said the compromised service had been taken offline and there's no indication the hackers have continued to access its information. beijing has denied involvement in the hacking. a chinese embassy spokesperson said: "china firmly opposes the us's smear attacks against china without any factual basis. during his meeting with president biden in lima this year, president xijinping said that there is no evidence that supports the irrational claim of the so—called
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cyberattacks from china." the statement went on to say, "the us needs to stop using cyber security to smear and slander china, and stop spreading all kinds of disinformation about the so—called chinese hacking threats." the ambulance service in wales has declared a critical incident — after an increase in demand caused significant delays. the nhs trust said that at one stage, hundreds of calls were waiting to be answered and ambulances were left queuing outside hospitals. the whole health and social care system does plan for winter because we know it's going to be pressured. but what we have seen in the last 24—48 hours is an acute accumulation of much of those pressures and perhaps more of it coming together than was initially foreseen. we've got plans in place across the nhs to manage surges in activity but the pressure we saw yesterday, across the whole of the urgent
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and emergency care pathway, led to that acute situation where we were unable to respond as quickly as we wanted to and that's why we declared a critical incident, to call on partners for assistance. flood warnings are in force for parts of northern scotland and edinburgh's world famous new year celebrations have already been cancelled. amber and yellow warnings for rain, snow and high winds are still in place in many other areas. let's speak now to our scotland correspondent. not the start to 2025 many people were hoping for. exactly that. you can see how windy it is here, it has been very heavy rain here this morning as well, although we are getting a little bit of respite from that at the moment. but as you can see the conditions are not good and thatis conditions are not good and that is why organisers here had to cancel the outdoor events, the world famous street party,
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the world famous street party, the concert in princes street gardens that was due to be headlined by texas of scottish rock band of course. and of course, those spectacular fireworks that bring in the bells every year. but sadly not this year. the last time that this year. the last time that this happened when the outdoor events were cancelled because of adverse weather was back in 2006. so it isn't something that happens very often. and of course there is a massive disappointment but organisers here have done this with a heavy heart. you can see how difficult it would be today to be preparing in these conditions, and of course safety has to come first. it looks like the weather will have actually cleared up quite significantly by midnight tonight. but the problem is today. and if you look at where we are just now, you today. and if you look at where we arejust now, you can today. and if you look at where we are just now, you can see that it we are just now, you can see thatitis we are just now, you can see that it is not ideal. i've been in the city centre and i've been talking to people who come here from all over the world to
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see in hogmanay and to be here for hogmanay, and to see in the new year, i've met people from australia, malaysia who came here, and of course they are disappointed. but of course also understanding, and the thing i have been able to cheer them up with is that here in scotland is, in my opinion, the best place to spend hogmanay. and you don't need to be outside to enjoy it. there are plenty of things to do inside, too. the indoor events that were organised for edinburgh's hogmanay are still going ahead. so there is plenty to do and plenty to enjoy butjust of course keeping safe and that street party, the thing people do look forward to and do come from all over the world to be involved in, is not going ahead. . ., ., ., ahead. katrina renton that we mentioned _ ahead. katrina renton that we mentioned these _ ahead. katrina renton that we mentioned these weather - ahead. katrina renton that we | mentioned these weather alerts are notjust in scotland, there are notjust in scotland, there are other areas affected? i
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think we have lost contact, may be the wind and the rain has got into the communications with catriona renton. we have a live page up and running on the bbc news website with the latest on these weather warnings. as i mentioned, edinburgh's fireworks have been cancelled but also elsewhere blackpool have cancelled theirs and london, which of course is the very big one in the uk, the fireworks boss says the big enemy is the wind, but they do still think that it will go ahead. confident was the word, but it would go ahead in london. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.
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to south korea now. and the latest on the fatal crash. the chief executive ofjeju air — has given a news conference — where he said he was "committed to strengthening the compa ny�*s safety and maintenance procedures". it follows sunday's crash which killed 179 passengers and crew. four of the victims�* bodies now have been released — and today theirfamilies will begin the funerals, which will last around three days — but most are still waiting. muan international airport is to remain closed for another week, as investigations continue into the cause. translation: i'm sorry but l there are five people who have not been identified yet. they need more precise testing for results and i've heard it is due to various reasons. for those five, we will try our best and deliver the results before the end of the day. david learmountjoins me now — a former raf pilot and the consulting editor at flight global. thank you forjoining us. experts from the us and birmingham have arrived in south korea. how difficult is
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this investigation going to be? well, all investigations are difficult and they are taken very seriously. you've got to separate out the speculation or the natural tendency, even of investigators, to sort of make up investigators, to sort of make up their minds to what looks as if it happened. they have just got to look at the data. at the moment, we do know what the outcome is, a lot of people died and we saw it happen on the video. there are a lot of things we really need to know. something went wrong with the aeroplane. there have been stories of bird strike, even the pilot reported that the aircraft had received a bird strike and it looks as if it damaged one of the engines and possibly both, but one of them definitely. what we don't know is why the pilot either was forced to or decided to land on the runway that he chose with
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no flap deployed which means he landed very, very fast with no undercarriage which meant he had no brakes. and very little directional control. so this is crucial to what happened and why it happened. and that's what we have got to find out. it's interesting, thejeju ceo also said a second plane faced landing issues with landing gear on monday and was forced to return to seoul airport. the casing of the landing gear was slightly open. on that landing gear, can pilots manually deployed the landing gear was mike i assume the question is why that wasn't done as well. i don't think we are talking about an don't think we are talking aboutan ordinary don't think we are talking about an ordinary landing gear problem, a sort of occasional one like the one you have just described. this pilot was clearly in a great hurry to get
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the aircraft on the ground for safety reasons. we don't know why there was such urgency. there is even the possibility that the urgency was such in his mind that he simply didn't put the gear down, it's not that he couldn't, that he didn't. that's why we really need to know this. we need to know what went wrong. if the gear was jammed or something like that, yes, there are manual ways of getting it down, but they can, you know, they are not guaranteed to work depending on what the reason for the undercarriage fault was. but one of the things which normally, if you have undercarriage problems, do you manage to get it, well, you normally take some time to try and get it down, try and get it resolved. but no time was taken here. the pilot committed himself to a landing without
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gear with no delay whatsoever. so there were no precautions. he didn't fly over the control tower is pilots very often do and ask for a visual report from the outside as to whether there is any damage that could be seen. that sort of thing was not done. the pilot went straight into a landing and we want to know why he felt he was forced to do that.— forced to do that. david learmount, _ forced to do that. david learmount, thank - forced to do that. david learmount, thank you i forced to do that. david i learmount, thank you very forced to do that. david - learmount, thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. they were the hollywood power couple with the nickname brangelina. well, now, eight years after they separated, brad pitt and angelina jolie have reached a divorce settlement. a lawyer for the actress confirmed the pair had managed to "come to a deal". so far, his lawyers have not publicly commented. the couple married in 2014 and have six children. let's speak to showbiz journalistjeanne wolf, who joins us from los angeles. finally — what took so long?
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it's been a very emotional and complicated divorce settlement, eight years is a very long time and a big toll on the children and a big toll on the children and the couple involved. they have tried very hard not to let too many details been known about what goes on, what went on in that marriage, this statement now is strictly from her lawyer, as you mentioned. brad pitt's site has made no comment. it has been very complicated, very emotional. six children involved. we look at them, here are two of the most beautiful, talented, famous, extraordinary people in the world. so we think that their divorce is going to be different than any other human divorce. but it's not true. there is eight years of toll on the kids, eight years of the toll on them, eight years were if you go to
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