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officers say the attack is the first of its kind. and medics in gaza say six newborn babies have died from hypothermia in a fortnight. we'll bring you a special report. hello, i'm christian fraser. we are going to take you straight to tokyo, japan where the clock has just gone midnight, welcoming in the new year of 2025.
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ringing in the bell... it is the year of the snake, in the 12—year zodiac of animals. often seen as a symbol of renewal and regeneration. we could all do with a bit of that, i think. in other parts of the world the new year celebrations have come and gone — with some global leaders taking the opportunity to �*send a message�* to the outside world. while president xijinping told china, just ahead of celebrations there, that "no one can stop" unification with taiwan. russia's president putin marking 25 years in power you are hailed the �*proud' achievements of his country, warning that russia "would only move forward" in 2025. here's the celebrations in sydney. always a fireworks bonanza focused on the harbour bridge. rich this one went on for 12 minutes and this was new zealand
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with a spectacular fireworks display at the auckland sky tower. we'll bring you plenty more of those celebrations in the hours ahead as 2024 ticks to an end. across the many time zones, it will take us 26 hours for the entire world to welcome in 2025. i must warn you, it may be a rather muted affair here in the uk. there is a bad weather forecast. large parts of the uk are under yellow weather warnings. edinburgh's traditional hogmanay celebrations have been cancelled because of the strong winds they're expecting, and newcastle and blackpool have called off their outdoor celebrations. our scotland correspondent, katrina renton is in edinburgh with more on the cancellations. it's still very windy here in edinburgh, and that's the reason why
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organisers had to cancel tonight's outdoor events. the world famous street party, the live music in princes street gardens and of course, the spectacular fireworks that people look forward to every year. but it's not to be this year. this is the first time that bad weather has caused the outdoor events to be cancelled since 2006. now, 16,000 people were planning on attending the party tonight. some of them come here from all over the world, and i've met some of them in the city centre who have been telling mejust how disappointed they are. some people that have come from australia and malaysia, but also realistic that it's windy and it's still one of the best places in the world to celebrate hogmanay, whether you're inside or outside. so people putting a bright look onto it all. now there are still yellow weather warnings in scotland. now they cover the south and the central belt and that's for wind. but there's still a more serious amber warning in place in the north of scotland and that covers
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aviemore, inverness, fort william and into moray. and the most problems that we are seeing realistically today are actually in travel. some of the roads have had problems on them and the rail network has also suffered. the highland main line is closed. network rail say that's because there's so much water on the track that it's just not safe to run trains. the far north line also has got numerous problems, numerous flooding problems on it, and scotrail has had to introduce speed restrictions across much of the network. so the advice is if you're planning on going on the train, do check in advance. now we're here in edinburgh. there are, of course, other events going on in scotland this evening that haven't had to be cancelled. 0utdoor here is cancelled. indoor, of course isn't and edinburgh remains one of the best places in the world in my opinion. to celebrate new year and a happy new year to all of you when it comes.
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yes, i agree with katrina. maybe some hot water with the whiskey. we mentioned newcastle is another city that has cancelled their celebrations, we can speak now to the principal adviser for events, culture, arts and heritage at newcastle city council — jim mawdsley. iam i am sorry for you, jim. and a lot of planning goes into this. when did you take the decision? we took it this morning, we looked at it quite close last night, we knew that the forecast for winds were really high and strong. last night, though, were blowing in a favourable direction for us or any of the debris that came from the fireworks were blowing away from where the audience was an unfortunately, overnight, the forecast change so it is now forecast to blow the debris over where the audience would be stood watching the fireworks, enjoy the fireworks on new year's eve. ., , ., , eve. lots of people were hoping to stand on _ eve. lots of people were hoping to stand on the _ eve. lots of people were hoping to stand on the quayside - eve. lots of people were hoping
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to stand on the quayside and . to stand on the quayside and enjoy that can you transfer some it indoors?— enjoy that can you transfer some it indoors? there are alwa s some it indoors? there are always lots _ some it indoors? there are always lots going _ some it indoors? there are always lots going on - some it indoors? there are always lots going on in - always lots going on in newcastle indoors, lots of bars and restaurants, nightclubs that host a new year's eve parties and have new year's eve celebrations. the fireworks at this year were just a short 15 minute blast so people would have already made plans as to what to do before and after those fireworks celebrations so i'm sure that the party will still go on throughout until the early hours of the morning right across newcastle this year. right across newcastle this ear. ., , , ., right across newcastle this ear. , ., ., year. problems on the railway as well so _ year. problems on the railway as well so not _ year. problems on the railway as well so not easy _ year. problems on the railway as well so not easy for - year. problems on the railway as well so not easy for people j as well so not easy for people to get into the city? we as well so not easy for people to get into the city?— to get into the city? we have had to publish _ to get into the city? we have had to publish of— to get into the city? we have had to publish of the - to get into the city? we have had to publish of the metro | had to publish of the metro train system because there was a fly over. some structural problems which is the main route into the city from the south, so some problems but i believe that they have been resolved and we are very close to getting the metro trains to pluck up and running fully. ==
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pluck up and running fully. -- back u- pluck up and running fully. -- back up and — pluck up and running fully. —— back up and running. so what will happen the fireworks? when you promise that it will happen in the future? we you promise that it will happen in the future?— in the future? we have had previous — in the future? we have had previous experience - in the future? we have had previous experience of - in the future? we have had i previous experience of budget it was not a news is events but other roads were counselled where we carried over and use them as the following events —— —— it was not a new year's eve event. but up the event were cancelled and carried over. we do see whether we can keep the fireworks and hold them into the next new years but we will certainly be looking to using them for another event in the future. �* ,., , them for another event in the future. �* , ., them for another event in the future. , ., ., them for another event in the future. �* , ., ., ., future. i'm sorry for that and i wish you — future. i'm sorry for that and i wish you and _ future. i'm sorry for that and i wish you and the _ future. i'm sorry for that and i wish you and the team - future. i'm sorry for that and i wish you and the team are| i wish you and the team are happy new year.— i wish you and the team are happy new year. thanks very much, happy new year. thanks very much. happy _ happy new year. thanks very much. happy new— happy new year. thanks very much, happy new year. - ukraine's military intelligence says an unmanned sea drone has shot down a russian helicopter off the coast of occupied crimea. officials said it was a world first. the video that was published appeared to show an explosion mid air and a large splash in the sea. the claim has not yet been independently verified.
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separately, ukrainian officials say the northern town of shostka near the border with russia was hit overnight in a rocket attack. the mayor said the russians had destroyed a number of buildings and some key infrastructure. across the border in russia in the western smolensk region, a fuel and energy complex are on fire following a ukrainian drone attack. victoria vdovychenko co—runs the future of ukraine programme at the university of cambridge. she's been explaining how ukrainian military technology is helping their forces hold back russian advances. they have become the first in the while to destroy a naval target with a drain and is something that our target and minister of defence... it also sees how much the erasmus in 2024, in particular, with a focus on the year in particular —— a focus. they were produced locally and it is progressing.
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we also have important news from yesterday with the release of 189 service men who defended various power stations, snake island and of course, civilians who were captured in defending these areas. these two events were something that keeps ukrainians very positive until the end of 2024 are looking beyond for 2025. vladimir putin has sent a new year's message playing out in the different time zones in russia, he did pay to rush in a rush a rush —— russian soldiers describing them as heroes but he did not give details as to the state of the conflict. what is the early part of 2025 look like to you? it is very important how we're going to be kept and that's why the news of yesterday as we are hoping at the beginning 2035, about american aid and specific military aid is something helping us to stay online and
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on the ground family. this assistance package which helped us with the amount of 2.5 billion dollars came as ukrainian experts say quite late but at least it came and it is hoped that we will be stable for a moment to keep winter months in particular and still negotiating with new advices and of course, the newly elected president donald trump. the willingness and morale of the ukrainian military as well as civilians and tower tower defence unionists are very high and what you are looking is the defence equipment which we are trying to do —— territory defence units. they are trying to help us with that as well as other governments but at the same time, it also given eva's in civil society experts, specifically, me as ukrainian working outside of ukraine to
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help negotiate with policymakers of other comments that military aid for ukraine is something that is essential notjust is something that is essential not just for is something that is essential notjust for ukraine security but european security 2025. it will take a short break. across the world and here in the uk, you are watching bbc news.
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welcome back. health officials in gaza say newborn babies are dying of hypothermia in makeshift camps for displaced palestinians. the hamas—controlled authorities said six of them had died of cold in under two weeks. israel says it's facilitating the entry of winter supplies. it doesn't allow the bbc independent access to gaza but our correspondent emir nader has worked with two freelance camera operators in gaza, who have families that have lost family members. a warning — you may find some scenes in this report upsetting. baby seela was just 20 days
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old when herfather, mahmud, couldn't wake her up. in the morning, ifound her stiff like wood. 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. sheila was seen by doctor ahmed al farah. 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. mahmud's family have been displaced over ten times throughout the war. here in moascar camp, tens of thousands of gaza's nearly 2 million displaced live on the beach, suffering from the winter and flooding from the rain and the sea,
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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. i felt heartbroken for her. because of the conditions. i did everything i couldl to keep her warm, but i couldn't manage to do so. a 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. i never thought i would give birth living in a tent in suchl
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cold and freezing conditions with water dripping on us, i water leaks into the tent, pouring down on us. - at times we had to run to escape the water. for the baby's sake. on sunday, another tragic case. abu jamal also didn't make it longer than 20 days. you touch with your hand is frozen. frozen. all eight of us, we don't have four blankets. what can i do? i see my children 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. we're all sick. 0ur 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. amir nader, bbc news, jerusalem. the un s human rights office says israel's attacks on hospitals in gaza raise
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serious concerns about war crimes, and crimes against humanity. its report examines in detail the period between the start of the conflict against hamas, and june this year. it describes a pattern of attacking, besieging and forcibly evacuating gaza's hospitals, as our correspondent imogen foulkes explains. you field report, a good 24 pages long, and it looks at not are. long, and it looks at not the immediate period. it looks at the period from october 23rd to the end ofjune of this year. and it catalogues a pattern, really, of attack, besiege, invade, evacuate hospitals in gaza by israeli forces. it says that patients have died as a result
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or even been killed. medical staff taken away detained some reports of torture there and basically that the systematic, this report claims, destruction of these hospitals has been catastrophic for the population of gaza, who basically, as you heard, you were talking to unicef just now. other of the basic elements to sustain human life are systematically been taken away. and one of these is health care. let's get some of the day's other news now. the ambulance service in wales has declared a critical a. 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 service is urging people to call 999 only for serious emergencies. officials in south korea have acknowledged the design of the runway and the landing systems at muan international airport may have contributed to sunday's fatal plane crash. almost everyone onboard thejeju airliner died after it skidded off the end of the runway following an emergency landing. it smashed into the concrete platform housing a guidance system. the boeing 737, which had remained intact until it
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hit the structure, then burst into flames. china has rebutted claims by the us that it was involved in a hack of the us treasury department. a spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry described the accusations as �*groundless and politically motivated'. officials in washington said they believed the hack had been carried out by chinese state—sponsored actors, who were able to gain access to staff workstations. now it's time for a look at today's sport with 0lly foster. wayne rooney says that plymouth will always hold a special place in his heart, he was sacked earlier today, just seven months into a three—year deal, leaving the club bottom of the championship the former manchester united
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and england striker was in charge for 25 games, and managed just five wins in that time and failing to win any of their matches away from home. it was his third stint managing a side in english football's second—tier following spells with derby and birmingham city. first team coach kevin nancekivill and club captain joe edwards will be in charge for their new year's day game at home to bristol city. it's an almost unthinkable statement from a manchester united manager, but ruben amorim says that there's every league. his gloomy outlook follows their latest defeat. 2—0 at home to newcastle united. they've lost five of their last 6 in the league, meaning that united end the year 14th in the premier league, seven points above the relegation zone, 23 points off the top of the table. . they can forget about that. the portuguese admitted that he needs to change things quickly if they're not to sink even farther down the table. the worst moments in the history of our club. and we have to accept that.
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another loss in front of our supporters, and newcastle were better. looking at the table, it does not look at all pretty. you are edging ever closer to the relegation zone. do you feel as though it might be a battle to avoid the drop? i think it is a possibility and we have to be clear with our fans so we have to change something. wolverhampton wanderers will be without their forward matheus cunha for the next two games he's been suspended and fined £80,000. he was charged with misconduct following an altercation at fulltime in their defeat to ipswich earlier this month. he's been an important player in their reveival under new boss vitor pereira, with seven points from their last three games, but cunha who admitted the charge will now miss games against nottingham forest and bristol city in the fa cup. world number one aryna sabalenka has started her season with a win.
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the belarusian, who will be defending her australian open title for a second time next month, won comfortably at the brisbane international, beating renata zarazua of mexico 6—4, 6—love. it was a tricky one, trying to see where your tennis is at. it was a tricky start but i am glad that i closed the first set and in the second set, it felt like whatever i would do would work for me. i am really happy with the first win of the season. novak djokovic comfortably reached the second round in brisbane. the top seed and 24—time grand slam winner beat australian wild—card entry rinky hijikata, 6—3, 6—3. . this was in straight sets. djokovic will next face frenchman gael monfils for a place in the quarterfinals and he's looking forward to being joined soon by his new coach andy murray. he targets an 11th australian open title. we spoke before the match.
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we are communicating daily, so i am excited to have him in my team and in my corner. for 20 plus years, he has been across the net and for the first ever on the same side of the court, so it should be fun in melbourne. nick kyrgios continued his comeback but couldn't get past the first round in brisbane. the australian has spent 18 months out of the atp tour due to wrist and knee injuries and he looked in decent shape. however, he was beaten by frenchman giovanni mpetshi perricard. each set went to a tie—break and he lost 2—1. kyrgios said he was left in throbbing pain. that's all for now. they were hollywood's most famous husband and wife team, the top tier a—listers who became known as �*brangelina'. now, eight years after
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their initial separation, brad pitt and angelina jolie have finally reached a divorce settlement. a lawyer for the actress confirmed the pair had "come to a deal". there's been no public comment so far from brad's lawyers. david lister is one of the top divorce lawyers in the uk. i asked him, why this parting of ways had taken so long to complete. there were so many issues for them to resolve. they've got they're getting a divorce. when they cited irreconcilable differences, a forgive me. they've got six children between them and a complete web of business and, uh, acting, um, resources that they need to apportion. so what goes into the process when they're so financially independent as these two are? how do you work out who gets what? basically, both parties need to give financial disclosure to one another.
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it's then subject to scrutiny. making sure that no one's telling fibs or missing documents. then you'll have expert evidence to look at income streams, valuation, tax issues. and as i explained to my clients, the concept is like a jigsaw. you want the complete pieces and then a few layers behind and underneath it. forgive me. and then you work out whether the picture is enough to then work out what's available and how you divide it. what i understand that it's complicated, but given they were wealthy when they came into the marriage, you are well would you not have expected a pre—nup arrangement to see off a protracted divorce settlement like this? well, prenups are becoming progressively more attractive, and the us leads the way, quite frankly. um, they're like an instruction manual for what would happen when the mire hits the fan in matrimonial life. i would have expected them to have done it. but moreover, these two will have been advised to babylon by their professional advisers because they're sophisticated artistes with a whole raft of people behind them dealing with their tax and their contractual and legal issues. and i am really surprised that
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it's taken eight years. the new year honours list 2025 in the uk has been released. they are awarded annually by the king to people — from all walks of life — recognised for their contributions to uk public life. among those leading the list is former england to manager gareth southgate and the actor stephen fry awarded for his work on mental health awareness and the environment.— and the environment. plenty more on _ and the environment. plenty more on the _ and the environment. plenty more on the bbc _ and the environment. plenty more on the bbc website. i and the environment. plenty - more on the bbc website. you're watching bbc news. hello.
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good afternoon. some severe weather for many of us as we prepare to welcome in the new year, including still an amber weather warning issued by the met office, valid until 5:00 this afternoon for heavy rain across a parts of the grampians and the highlands, there could potentially be some more flooding. the situation has been improving here, but there will still be some more showers within the area, the heaviest of the rain having tracked further southwards. and wherever you are across the uk tonight it is going to be very blustery. so let's take a look at the picture as the clock chimes midnight. some wintriness across the higher ground, especially of northern scotland. watch out for some icy stretches here and it's very windy across the central belt, southern scotland, northern england. this is where we're expecting the heaviest of the rain to be across north wales into the north midlands. further south it's largely dry, plenty of cloud but very blustery. gusts of wind across the southern half of the uk of up to 45 to 50 miles an hour potentially, and then into new year's day itself. and that rain continues to track its way further southwards, wet and windy across the far south, some sunshine emerging further north. it does stay rather windy. we start to draw down a northerly wind and there
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will be some wintriness over the pennines and over the cumbrian fells. two against more wintry showers feeding into scotland. temperatures for many, especially towards the south, dropping off as the day wears on. so the rain clears towards the south. as we head through wednesday night and into thursday, we draw down a northerly wind, and that's going to allow this arctic air to spill its way further southwards. so very cold. feeling day on thursday and we'll start off with a widespread frost. many of our temperatures below freezing. watch out for some icy stretches too, especially where we've seen recent rain. while many of us will stay dry and there will be some sunshine around, it will be feeling very cold throughout and there'll be the risk of some wintry showers running down these north sea facing coast into northern parts of northern ireland and of course, across northern scotland too. temperatures not getting much past 2 to 5 c north to south, but in exposure to that brisk northerly wind, it's going to feel even colder than that, as if it's below freezing. we see a slight shift in wind direction as we head into friday. more of a north westerly, so the chance of some wintry showers for northern ireland and down through the cheshire northwest scotland. but for many of us, again, it's dry, with some sunshine and certainly still feeling
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very cold by.
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now on bbc news, we look at single parents exploring the option of living together to cope with the cost of living in �*it takes a village'. this is the house i grew up in. notjust me. also my brother and sister. you guys cuddled up on the sofa. we then had to get a new sofa,
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because you put your foot through it. and for a few years, my mum's best friend and her daughter lived with us, too. hello. we might be on film! 0h, hi! my mum called it the single mum's mansion, but others call it a �*mum—une'. it was two adults looking after four children. and you divide and conquer. it was just so lovely for me to be in something again. it was great that we had each other. and just like my mum, many single parents around the world are choosing to live together. these gave me the possibility also to be kind of seen as a parent, _ as someone who knows| what i'm going through. it's really a healing space.
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the famous scooter loop. i have wonderful memories of my childhood,

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