crowds of supporters and opponents gather outside president yoon seok—youl�*s home in south korea. investigators insist they'll execute an arrest warrant against the former president before the january six deadline. welcome to news day. happy new year, wherever you're tuning in from. it's midday here in singapore on the first day of 2025, but there's still new year's celebrations gearing up and winding down. parts of eastern canada and south and central america are welcoming in the new year. first, let's take a quick look at the rest of the world and how they ushered in the new year. the world welcomes 2025, fire

workers from the top of auckland's sky tower, new zealand's largest city one of the first to see in the new year. the city's harbour bridge the focal point of its 2025 welcome party. in tokyo's takutai temple, crowds line up to ring in the new year by striking the temple bell. cheering happy new year! as the clock struck midnight in hong kong, fireworks illuminated the sky above the victoria harbour. beijing held its huge annual gala to start the new year. taiwan welcomed 2025 with an impressive fireworks display, using all 500m of taipei 101. midnight in india was marked by a firework display in mumbai.

in the uae, fireworks are set off from the world's tallest building, the burj khalifa in dubai. and in new york, the times square ball makes its way to the top of its pole, ready for the big apple's curtain to rise on 2025. nickjohnson, bbc news. last few hours, tens of thousands in london brought in the new year, as a massive fireworks display erupted around the historic elizabeth tower in westminster, also known as big ben. that's despite bad weather causing other new year's events across the country to be cancelled. here's a bird's—eye view of the scene showing the colourful spectacle that welcomed in 2025. just before that, paris rang in the new year in spectacularfashion. millions

of people from all around the world flock to see the city of lights every year in france during this festive time. people lined the streets and toasted to a new year in the magnetic city. the united states is now less than an hour away from 2025. and fireworks are expected in new york city, where the ball will drop in times square when the clock strikes i2. times square when the clock strikes 12. this is how the scene looks at the moment. these pictures of times square where you can see all the lights lit up as festive gaters gather in times square to welcome in the new year. we'll have more on that in the hours ahead on news. ——on ahead on news. --on bbc ahead on news. ——on bbc news. let's get you up ——0n bbc news. let's get you up to speed with other news stories. south korea says initial data has been extracted from the voice recorder on the jer from the voice recorder on the jeju aeroplane that crashed on sunday, killing 179 people. the

voice recorder or black box could give key insight into what went wrong. 0fficials now say they have also identified all 179 bodies of those who perished in the crash. the authorities have now acknowledged the design of the runway and the landing systems at muan international airport may have contributed to the disaster. almost everyone died when it skidded off the runway following the emergency landing and it smashed into the concrete platform housing a guidance system. the boeing 737 had remained intact until it hit the structure, and then burst into flames. some aviation experts have described that as an accident waiting to happen. we have heard from the ceo ofjeju air, the main thrust of his press conference in seoul was really to reach out to the families of those

killed in the crash, to say that his company would help with funerals, it's going to come up with some sort of compensation package for the families. it's the first time we heard from the ceo since he came out and made an apology on sunday. he was also reaching out to the korean public, saying this is a safe airline, we have good training, we'll strengthen our training, strengthen our safety checks. trying to rescue the reputation of this airline after the terrible disaster. what we didn't hear from him is anything about the investigation. that's not surprising, because the investigation is just getting under way. what we do know today is a team has arrived from the united states, from the ntsb, the national transportation safety board, from the faa, the federal aviation administration, and from boeing, the company that manufactured the aircraft involved in this crash. a team of seven, they have arrived in south korea, we have seen them out on the field, in the crash

site, inspecting the site behind me. but the focus of the investigation won't be here, it's on what are called the black box flight recorders inside the plane. those have been recovered. there's a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder. and what is recorded on those two devices they'll have to retrieve the data and analyse it, and that's really going to be how they're going to find out what happened. what were the things that led to this? just in the last few minutes of this flight, as it came in here, so many things going wrong, and leading to this terrible disaster. sonia brown is a senior lecturer in the aerospace design at the university of new south wales. what's the biggest question you have? i think the biggest question that i have about what happened is — if this was a bird strike, and took out one engine, how could this have potentially impacted all of these other systems? this was — what we saw

with a bird strike, for example, was one engine presumably be taken out, but these aircraft are designed and built and multiple election —— levels of redundancy and we would still have expected the landing gear to deploy even with one engine out, and the flaps and spoilers still be able to deploy if it was simply one engine out from a bird strike. the runway itself is also come into question with its design with that structure at the ends of the runway which the aeroplane slid into. is it normal to have something at the end of the runway? i do want to note it's not at the end of the runway, it's at a distance, that does technically meet requirements. it was unfortunate it was such a hard structure. the instrumentation that was there could have been there with potentially a softer structure, and would have

resulted in less lives lost, potentially. to me the key issue in this particular incident is the aircraft did not have any of the systems deployed that would help it slow down. it really did not slow down much at all during its belly landing along the runway and hit that structure off the end of the runway. and to understand why those bits of equipment weren't deployed to slow down the aircraft, that's what the black boxes will tell us, won't it? that's what we're really looking towards in this investigation. the flight data recorder will tell us things like was the landing gear attempted to be deployed? were the flaps mention to be deployed? the flaps are meant to be deployed in the air, and the spoilers while the aircraft was on the runway. were they attempted and didn't work, were the systems giving alarms and saying they wouldn't

work, were somehow both hydraulics down causing issues, which i believe is unlikely based on the fact it was a smooth landing with seemingly good flight control. how long do you think it will be until we understand what happened to this plane? the international standard for a preliminary investigation is actually one month. so we expect them to have some of that data out by around 29 january. however the final report is expected after one year. that's where we'll have some full picture about this incident. but i would expect in a month we'll have a lot more information than now, just a couple of days after the incident. staying with south korea, but turning now to the political situation in the country. on tuesday, a south korean

court issued an arrest warrant for suspended president yoon seok—youl, prompting his hundreds of supporters to gather outside his private residence. investigators requested the warrant after yoon�*s failure to appearfor questioning over his declaration of martial law for a third time. all of the senior advisors in the presidential office have offered their resignation to the acting president, choi sang—mok. none of the resignations were accepted when they were offered to yoon seok—youl, and it's unclear if they will be accepted this time around. we have an honorary professor in korean studies at australian national university. all eyes are on the presidential residence at the moment. it's new year's day, but the arrest warrant was issued by the court yesterday. and arrest has to be taking place within seven days.

and we see from the live stream that there's protests against yoon, supporting yoon�*s impeachment, and there's yoon supporters gathering around his house too. but the yoon seok—youl�*s team strategy for the investigation by the joint investigation team seems to be not based on the rule of law. probably on the rule — rule by law — because they know how to evade the investigation. also a separate case under the constitutional court to see whether yoon�*s martial law last month was constitutional or not. so there's two separate processes going on at the same time. one is the joint investigation about the crimes of insurrection, and whether yoon�*s act was abuse of power. and secondly there's a separate case on the constitutional court that is to judge

the impeachment motion passed by the national assembly. but yoon�*s team's strategy is to deny and refuse anything on the investigation by the corruption investigation office, police and the defence, but to reply and delay the process by the constitutional court. so we don't know. it seems to be a very long and worse december the south korean population has seen. it's less than a month, martial law was on three december, within a month, these things are happening really, really fast. so, we have to see. the important thing is the opposition sees this move by yoon�*s legal team as a self—denier, he know that yoon seok—youl himself, he impeached the last president eight years ago. now he's the subject of the investigation

and subject for the impeachment. we have to remember most people in south korea, 70% of the south korean population, is in favour of his impeachment, but he's refusing all the legal measures and lawful measures against him. so we'll to have see. it includes this arrest warrant. what do you think will happen? there's a deadline of six january for this arrest warrant. that's the time constraint in place. do you think he'll be addressed before then? i was watching the live stream. actually the arrest is imminent. i think it will happen today or tomorrow. don't mess with koreans, they run things very fast. but there's a great ramification for korea's democracy in the next few days. there's already discussions about constitutional reform and judicialjustice and there's too much power in the presidential office. and there's also talks about, you know, changing from single—term five years to double four—year terms.

it will turn out to be a great thing at the end of the day, president yoon is going, an impeachment motion is cited, but these things are really happening fast. in the next few months, we'll see if yoon is still staying in power or new election for a new president. thanks very much. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

as we mentioned at the top of the hour, puerto rico has ushered in the new year in darkness, after much of the island suffer a power blackout. luma energy said that fully restoring service would take between 2a and 48 hours.

between 24 and 48 hours. presidentjoe biden says that the us will offerfederal the us will offer federal assistance to the island. in 2024, puerto rico witnessed two blackouts. injune, 350,000 were left without power as temperatures climbed. and 700,000 people were left without electricity in august, after hurricane earnesto. the incoming governor of puerto rico says the country's energy system is failing its citizens. now for more on this, i'm joined by ramon luis nieves. he'sjoining us by candlelight. it's been quite depressing for all of us, who were expecting to have meetings with our family, family reunions, and we are all in the dark here. right now, i'm in my wife's parents�* house with herfamily, but i visited my mother, she's in the dark too.

these are very frustrating situation. we are very proud of our christmas season which really starts in november and ends mid—january. so, this is a special occasion for us. and we're quite frustrated that in the last day of 2024, we have evidence of how critical our energy situation is right now. and ramon, i understand you chaired the energy committee in the puerto rico senate. what's the root cause of the energy troubles that puerto rico seems to be having? puerto rico's an energy sector — it was controlled for more than 70 years by a near monopoly. it's the electrical power authority. it's a government—run

utility, still is. and operate for 70 years. however, in the last few decades, it became affected by responsible financial practices. so carrying more than $9 billion in debt with its bond holders. and aside from that, while it wasn't carrying massive debt, it started spending less and less money on maintenance of the capital works and infrastructure. that's really the root cause of the problem. after that, as we know, in 2017, we suffered

from a major hurricane, hurricane maria, that destroyed most of puerto rico's energy grid. and the question is, after hurricane maria, president trump in 2020 appropriated $20 billion, between $15 billion and $20 billion for the reconstruction of the grid. that was back in 2020. and since then, we have — puerto rico has not seen any improvement, even though the government has the money, to reconstruct, rebuild the grid. it has not done it. so we're still with basically the same situation as we were before maria, and that's the main reason why we're having so many problems with blackouts. it could get worse. however, i must stress that the governor—elect has convened a committee which i'm a part of that committee, to deliver to her recommendations of how to fix

the problems that are critical in an energy sector. we hope to do so within the next few days. now, to china next, where president xijinping has used his new year's speech to try and assert confidence that beijing can make an economic transition and resist foreign pressure. he said the nation's economy is on an upwards trajectory and insists that no—one can stop reunification with taiwan. it comes just weeks before donald trump takes office in the united states with the president—elect vowing more tariffs to punish what he calls unfair trade practices by china. ushering in 25 years of power as russia's leader, president vladimir putin told russians the country will move forward with confidence in 2025, during his new year address. mr putin paid tribute to the soldiers fighting in the war in ukraine, calling them true heroes. meanwhile in ukraine, president volodymyr zelensky says his country will do all it can to end the war with moscow in 2025, and halt what he called

russian aggression. standing in front of the iconic mother ukraine monument in kyiv, he also said that ukraine would need to fight next year to bolster its position both militarily and ahead of any talks to end russia's three—year invasion. for more on this, i'm joined by mick ryan. he served as a strategist in the pentagon. he gave me his outlook on where the war in ukraine could go in the coming year. they're vulnerable, but so are the russians. the russians have lost an enormous number of soldiers for the ground they've taken in the last few months. in many respects, they have accelerated operations in the hope they can project in the minds of the trump administration a peace deal is necessary now. that's not the case, but they want western politicians to believe that. and talking about the us and its involvement here,

they're set to have a new president, a returning president, donald trump, in the white house in just a few weeks�* time. his support for ukraine may not be the same asjoe biden�*s was. does that pose a big problem for president zelensky? we're not really sure. we haven't seen a dedicated plan from the incoming administration. we've seen the special ukraine russia co—ordinator appointed. we know what he wrote about, coercing russia and ukraine into some kind of ceasefire. it will depend on donald trump's views and how he can convince putin to step back from some of the hard—line positions keeping everything he has and seeking to take over more of ukraine. do you see that as being the key to the conflict? a path that donald trump decides to take? well, i think it will be an important determiner. but ukraine isn't going to give up just because donald trump decides they should. in some respects, we should

bear in mind a bad peace would be a much worse outcome than no peace at all. so, president zelensky, i think, rightly is posturing his country to fight on at least in the short term to ensure that they can give themselves the best chance of a just and enduring peace when negotiations do occur. the president of the ivory coast has announced that french troops will withdraw from the west african country in 2025. he said the move was a reflection of the modernisation of the country's armed forces. ivory coast is home to the biggest remaining contingent of french troops in west africa. police in new york have named the woman who was killed after being set alight on a subway train. 57—year—old debrina kawam from newjersey was attacked with a lighter while he was asleep. a man has been charged with her murder and

arson. eight years after their initial separation, brad pitt and angelina jolie have finally reached a divorce settlement. there's been ongoing legal disputes involving their children and a french vineyard they bought together. we're less than 30 minutes away from midnight in new york city, where millions of people are expected to attend the ball drop. let's check in with live images. you can see the ball in prime position ready to drop in half an hour's time. there's going to be some performances as well in times square, rita ora and kerry underwood are expected to perform in new york. this is a tradition that dates back 114 years and this ball we were just looking at

features 12,000 — well, weighs 12,000 pounds and is made up of 2,500 crystals. as you can imagine, security is a big concern in new york city with that many people on the ground, in the streets. there's thousands of cameras present as well as the new york police department and federal agencies as well, all monitoring celebrations which we'll cover for you. celebrations which we'll cover foryou. in celebrations which we'll cover for you. in the meantime, thanks for your company on news day. bye for now. hello there. we've got more strong winds, heavy rain and some snow as we head into the new year. the heavy rain has moved away from scotland, but it's moved further south, and it's across this part of northwest england that we have an amber rain warning from the met office. 100mm of rain in the hills — likely to be flooding and travel disruption. there's our band of rain in the morning. and on the rain end, particularly south of it, some very gusty winds arriving, particularly so in the southwest and coastal areas. north of the rain band

the winds won't be as strong, but it's getting colder. there'll be some snow and ice to start the day in northern scotland. through the morning this heavy rain and squally winds will push down into southern england. then things calm down for a while. another band of rain and hill snow moves southwards across scotland towards northern ireland, later into northern england. sunshine and snow showers continue in northern scotland and we're getting a northerly wind. it's not going to be as strong as the southwesterly wind ahead of the rain, but it is going to be introducing colder air. last of any mild areas across southernmost parts of england. but it'll be a wet end to the day. that weather front does clear away. and then we introduce this arctic air right the way across the whole of the country. temperatures will be dropping. a widespread frost for thursday morning. could be some icy patches following any overnight showers as well. most of the snow showers on thursday are going to be across northern scotland. a few wintry showers for northern ireland, near the west coast of wales, more especially along some of these north sea coasts, but for large parts

of the country it's going to be dry and sunny. certainly going to feel a lot colder everywhere, but away from those north sea coasts at least the winds are not going to be particularly strong. but we're going to stay in that colder air as we head towards the end of the week. and there'll be some more snow showers across the north and northeast of scotland. a few more wintry showers for northern ireland, perhaps towards the north wales, and a few showers getting close to those north sea coasts. but again, many places on friday will be dry and sunny. and again it's cold — temperatures in scotland struggling to get above freezing. things could get very interesting later in the weekend. this low pressure threatening to bring some wet weather into the cold air on sunday. but ahead of that on saturday, that weather front across the north may well bring some rain, sleet and snow to scotland. one or two wintry showers further south. some patches of fog for northern parts of the uk. the winds are going to be quite light. it is going to feel cold as we head into the weekend. again, highs of only around three to five celsius.

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