where hundreds of dinosaur foot prints were found. scientists hope to understand more about how they moved around millions of years ago. hello, i'm martine croxall. president biden says the man who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people new orleans, killing 15, and injuring at least 35, had posted videos supporting the islamic state group "mere hours" earlier. the victims were walking through bourbon street — in the central french quarter of the city — an area famed for its nightlife — in the early hours of new year's day. the fbi has identified the attacker as 42—year—old shamsud dinjabbar — a us citizen and army veteran from texas, who served in afghanistan. he was killed in a police shootout, in which two officers were injured. authorities say the attack

was an act of terrorism, and are investigating whetherjabbar had accomplises. this picture, checked by our bbc verify team, shows heavily armed officers — surrounding a pick—up truck — directly after the attack. an is flag was found in the vehicle — along with potential explosive devices. from new orleans, tom bateman reports. shamsud—dinjabbar, now the focus of an intensive fbi investigation, the man believed to be responsible for this new year's day attack. just after 3am chaos unfolds. the first signs of panic as police race to the scene. what they find, much of which is too graphic to show, is the immediate aftermath of a ramming attack. this is where the attack began. that white pick—up truck moving down this street towards the direction we are in, slowly at first, before getting to the junction here with bourbon street, this very famous thoroughfare in the historic part of new orleans.

it took a right and accelerated quickly down the street behind that police truck there. last night president biden said he was being briefed by the authorities. the law enforcement and intelligence community are continuing to look for any connections, associations, or co—conspirators. we have nothing additionally to report at this time. dozens were wounded in this attack, including two police officers hit by gunfire. police evacuated a wide area and say they found a potential explosive device in the truck, and other possible devices outside it, before they carried out controlled explosions. the fbi says the attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism. an isis flag was located on the trailer of the vehicle and the fbi is working to identify the subject's potential associations with terrorist organisations.

weapons and potential improvised explosive devices, ieds, were located in the subject's vehicle. others were located in the french quarter. investigators are scouring the scene for clues as further details emerge about shamsud—dinjabbar, including his us military background, while trying to establish who else may have been involved. tom bateman, bbc news, new orleans. our correspondent carl nasman, who's at the scene gave us the latest on the investigation. the french quarter, bourbon street, here behind me, still an active crime scene. investigators trying to put together some of the pieces here, including whether or not there were other people involved in this attack. there were some suggestions of co—conspirators. those might have come from cctv footage that appeared to show several individuals in the area where explosive devices were discovered along that street, outside of that vehicle. we understand now, though, that those individuals are no longer of interest in this case, but authorities continue to look in other locations. this is expanding now, a rental

property also in new orleans, about two miles away from where we are, where it's believed the suspect stayed and might have put together some of those explosive materials. and even in the neighbouring state in texas, the city of houston, that is where the suspect is believed to be from. authorities there are now searching his property. when it comes to new orleans the people living here, understandably, they're grieving for those 15 people that died in this attack, they're a bit uneasy. this was not the new year's celebration, of course, that they were hoping for. but even so, the city now showing signs that it's trying to get back to what it does best, which is have fun, people emerging back onto the streets again tonight, having a bit of fun, listening to music, a bit of dancing. and the next big test for new orleans will be thursday afternoon. this big sugar bowl college football game. 68,000 people expected to attend. so notjust a test of the city's mood, but also

the next test of security. let's speak to joanna cook. she is a senior project manager at the international centre for counter—terrorism in the hague, in the netherlands. welcome to the programme and thank you forjoining us. what is the procedure in declaring whether an attack is one that is motivated by terrorism? thank you for having me. it can be difficult to determine whether an attack is motivated by terrorism but in this case, the intent was declared specifically by the individual, it appears to be straightforward. he declared his intention and his support for the islamic state group and the point of declaring an attack in this way is to promote the ideology, because fear amongst the public and make their intentions well known so in this case it was

very explicit and straightforward. the procedure for declaring an attack can be more difficult encase us for an ideological attend is not overtly stated by the perpetrator.- overtly stated by the --eretrator. ~ . , ., , perpetrator. what similarities or differences _ perpetrator. what similarities or differences can _ perpetrator. what similarities or differences can be - perpetrator. what similarities or differences can be drawn i perpetrator. what similarities| or differences can be drawn in this case, in new orleans, and other incidents which have been claimed by or attributed to the islamic state group?— claimed by or attributed to the islamic state group? there are a few instances _ islamic state group? there are a few instances that _ islamic state group? there are a few instances that came - islamic state group? there are a few instances that came to l a few instances that came to mind and the first one in the case of the us was from a few years back, a live shooter was conducting a life shooting by a military veteran at the fort hood base and there had been instances in the past of military veterans conducting attacks inspired by islamic state but the type of weapon choice by the perpetrator, using the vehicle as well as guns, multiple types of weapons

used also raised similarities. the 2015 paris attack came to mind, there were multiple types of weapons used. i also thought about the via killer attacks used in nice in 2016, the westminster bridge attack, a vehicle was used followed by a knife attack but the point of theseis knife attack but the point of these is that they share similar types of weapons. a vehicle which is very easy to access, a very simple type of weapon to use. and it's one that does not raise a lot of eyebrows or concerns from authorities, it's a weapon that can be used by almost anyone with very little suspicion raised. ~ . with very little suspicion raised. . ., , ., raised. what caution needs to be exercised _ raised. what caution needs to be exercised when _ raised. what caution needs to be exercised when looking - raised. what caution needs to be exercised when looking for comparisons, for similarities, the authorities in the united states are now having to deal

with the other attack in las vegas just a few hours after the one that happened in new orleans? figs the one that happened in new orleans? �* , . ., ., orleans? as we have heard law enforcement _ orleans? as we have heard law enforcement talk _ orleans? as we have heard law enforcement talk more - orleans? as we have heard law enforcement talk more about l orleans? as we have heard law. enforcement talk more about the case, they were discussing multiple perpetrators and the types of questions they should be asking are things like were multiple people involved? were multiple people involved? were multiple different types of attacks linked? is it a correlated attack, for example? but i think more importantly as well they also have to consider where there are other people with knowledge of the attack in advance of this? particularly when multiple people have knowledge about a forthcoming attack or plot they are more likely to be found by the authorities, the chance of leaking of a plot becomes more prominent and i think there will be questions about what is this individual supported or assisted in any way, whether thatis assisted in any way, whether that is the development of the improvised explosive devices, discussing the plot and intended targets and so forth

and whether in fact the attack in las vegas with the tesla truck and trump armour was perpetrated by the same actor or a related group of actors? joanna, thank you forjoining us. meanwhile, in las vegas, authorties are investigating whether an explosion — which destroyed a tesla cybertruck outside the foyer of the city's trump hotel — is linked to the vehicle attack in new orleans just a few hours earlier. it had been rented from the same carsharing company as the pickup used in new orleans — but from a different office. the company, turo, has said neither renter appeared to have a criminal record, which would have identified them as a security threat. a spokesman said they were actively working with the authorities as the investigation continues. the driver of the truck which burst into flames in las vegas was killed — and seven other people were injured. our north america correspondent peter bowes has the latest. this eyewitness video shows the tesla cybertruck engulfed in flames after exploding

outside the trump international hotel in las vegas. smoke was seen coming from the electric vehicle shortly after it stopped by the hotel glass entrance early on new year's day. it had been carrying fuel canisters and large fireworks. when a 2024 tesla cybertruck pulled into the area of the trump international hotel, very quickly thereafter that the driver, who was the sole occupant of the truck, we saw what looked like maybe some sort of smoke, and then the truck exploded. the driver was killed and seven other people suffered minor injuries. the blast happened hours after the vehicle attack in new orleans, raising the question of a possible connection. we believe this is an isolated incident. we do not believe there are folks out there supporting this or helping this, and we don't believe there is any other danger to the community right now.

elon musk, the boss of tesla, posted on x to clarify the cause of the inferno. the police said questions remained, given that the explosion involved a tesla vehicle outside a trump hotel. elon musk is a close ally of the president elect, who is a part owner of the hotel. president biden said the intelligence community was investigating the explosion, but he added that so far there was nothing to report on a possible connection with the attack in new orleans. peter bowes, bbc news. three days of national mourning have been declared in montenegro after a gunman killed 12 people, including two children, in a series of shootings in a town in the south of the country. police have issued this picture of the suspect — who they've identified as aleksander martinovic, who was 45 years old.

he took his own life after the shootings. police say he had been drinking heavily before becoming involved in an argument at a bar. he later returned with a weapon and opened fire, with the bar's owner among the dead. he then killed further victims, including members of his and the bar owner's family, at three other locations. several other people suffered life—threatening injuries in his attack. montenegro's prime minister says he will take steps to tighten his country's laws on gun ownership. south korean police say the chief executive ofjeju air has been banned from leaving the country. south korean police say they've raided muan airport and the offices ofjeju air in the capital seoul as they continue their investigation into sunday's deadly plane crash. this follows a police raid of muan airport and the airline's offices local media say a warrant was issued to the airline on charges

of professional negligence resulting in death. 179 people were killed when the passengerjet crash—landed and slid into a wall, bursting into flames. many questions remain unanswered and investigators are looking at whether a bird strike or weather conditions were responsible. investigators have started the process of extracting data from the plane's black box. aviation expert geoffrey thomas explained why these flight and voice recorders are so important. the two black boxes are absolutely critical to most investigations and especially this investigation. there are two black boxes which for the viewers, are actually orange or red. one is the cockpit voice recorder which records the last two hours of conversation and the digital flight data recorder is the heartbeat of the aeroplane and monitors basically every major system on the aircraft. and that has a capacity of up to 25 hours of recording. the cockpit voice recorder as you suggest, that has been downloaded and they are now working on the transcript of that and we expect that

to be released within the next day or so. the digital flight data recorder was damaged and that has been flown to the united states to washington, dc to the national transportation safety board offices in washington to be processed there by the experts in the us. but they are critical to the investigation. because sadly, as we know, the pilots and most, all of the passengers perished in this crash so what went on in the cockpit will be pivotal to this investigation. we know there was a bird strike but we don't know how badly damaged the aircraft and its engines were from that but the very big focus now will be on understanding what the pilots did, what pressure they were under, what systems were failing and how they reacted to the situation and what drove

their decision—making. how carefully do these black boxes have to be handled? you are trying to preserve as much information as possible? they are made of very sturdy staff and as part of the certification of a black box they have to withstand a force of ssoogs, that is units of gravitational force. and they also must be able to withstand temperatures of 2000 fahrenheit, 1100 celsius for a period of one hour so they are basically indestructible. especially the central memory units in the inside and the back of the black box can look as if it has been bashed about but the memory un its, there are three different layers of protection and they are virtually indestructible.

let's show you these live pictures from south korean capital seoul, where people are supporterts of the impeached preseident are holding a rally. yoon suk yeol, has said he'll "fight to the end", after an arrest warrant was issued in his name. a defiant statement from mr yoon was distributed to crowds of his supporters outside his seoul residence on wednesday. he's remained inside the presidential compound since being removed from power over his short—lived imposition of martial law in early december. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

officials in india have removed hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste from a chemical factory in bhopal — which was the scene of one of the world's deadliest gas leaks, a0 years ago. thousands of people died after poisonous fumes leaked from the union carbide factory in 1984. the site was closed — but toxic material had remained there, with claims it was polluting ground water in nearby areas. it could still take months before the waste is finally treated and destroyed. health officials in gaza say at least 11 palestinians have been killed in an israeli air strike on a tent camp in al—mawasi, a designated humanitarian zone in the south of the territory. local media say the hamas police chief was among the dead, as were women and children. there's been no comment from the israeli military on the attack but the idf has previously accused hamas operatives of hiding among displaced civilians. conditions in the area have been deteriorating as temperatures drop. our middle east correspondent yolande knell updated me on the situation. the israeli military has struck in the area of al—mawasi before when it

says it is going after hamas ministry confirming that one of those killed was the director general of police in gaza. he was killed along with his deputy. the statement accuses israel by killing police officers which assess are part of a civil force, of spreading chaos. what we have seen in the past year is that israel has appeared to target hamas police saying that this is a part of its strategy, that it is determined both to defeat the hamas ability in terms of military in gaza but also its ability to govern in the gaza strip. this strike being in al—mawasi, this is an area that is crammed with displaced people, they have come from the gaza strip and conditions have been increasingly desperate in the past few weeks,

we have had wintry weather, very wet and rainy, there are people are struggling in these flimsy tents in which they are living. this morning a bbc cameraman was filming the funeral of three boys killed in the strike and their father said to us they were aged between 7 and 13 years old and he said they could hear a noise overhead in the early hours of the morning just before the bombing. as you said, we still have not had official commentary from the israeli military on this case. fossilised bones aren't the only way of studying dinosaurs. preserved footprints can also offer an insight into their lives. now some of the biggest trackways ever found in the uk have been discovered in oxfordshire and scientists are hoping it'll help them understand even more about how dinosaurs moved around. our science editor rebecca morelle has more.

thumping. following in the footsteps of a jurassic giant. this is where a dinosaur walked 166 million years ago, its footprints revealing the comings and goings of a prehistoric world. but it wasn't alone. different trackways crisscross this entire site. they were discovered on the floor of a limestone quarry in oxfordshire by one of the workers. so i was basically clearing the clay and i was hitting a hump. so, like this here? yeah, yeah. as it turned out, it was this front bit i was hitting and i thought it was just an abnormality in the ground. but then it got to another about three metres long, it was hump again. and then another three metres, hump again. and when i got out and examined it, it looked like footprints. and the weird thing about it was, when you sit there, it was like, i'm the first person to see them. yeah, it was a bit... yeah, a bit of a tingling

moment, really. over the summer, scientists, students and volunteers joined the dig. they discovered about 200 footprints, some stretching for 150 metres, making it the largest tracksite ever found in the uk and one of the biggest in the world. this is the first trackway that was discovered here. it was made by a sauropod, a huge long—necked dinosaur, but the team quickly realised it wasn't the only one, and they found footprints from two more sauropods, as well as from a smaller, meat—eating two—legged dinosaur called a megalosaur, and they think that there are plenty more of these waiting to be discovered here. the area was once a tropical lagoon, and the tracks were made as the dinosaurs walked across the mud. but something happened that stopped the footprints from being washed away, possibly a storm that covered them up with sediment, perfectly preserving them. so the really lovely thing about a dinosaur

footprint, particularly if you have a trackway, is that it is a snapshot in the life of the animal. you can learn things about how that animal moved. you can learn how fast it was moving. you can learn exactly what the environment that it was living in was like. so, tracks give us a whole different set of information that you can't get from the bone fossil record. we're coming up to a dinosaur crossroads. what you have here are footprints from a sauropod, and you can actually see as it pressed down into the mud how it created this ridge here. there is also a footprint from a smaller, two—legged, meat—eating dinosaur called a megalosaur. and it was moving in this direction. the question is, which one walked through here first? and scientists think it was the sauropod, because you can see how the smaller megalosaur footprints slightly crushed down this ridge as it was walking through. at the oxford university museum of natural history, a megalosaurus specimen is one of the world's most important fossils.

megalosaurus was the first dinosaur ever named anywhere in the world. so this exact fossil, this is the real one in my hands, this fossil started all of the last 200 years of dinosaur science. the whole animal would have been between six and nine metres in length. and in life, this animal would have had these impressive serrated teeth all the way along its jaw bone. these were agile, carnivorous predators. they were the largest predatory dinosaurs in thejurassic period in britain. the future fate of the trackways hasn't yet been decided. the quarrying will go on here for several years. but palaeontologists think there are more footprints. echoes of our prehistoric past just waiting to be discovered. rebecca morelle, bbc news, oxfordshire. let's remind you of our main

story, the ongoing investigation in new orleans after the attack on new year's day in which multiple people were killed. 15, in fact, 35 people injured after a man driving a pick—up truck sped into large crowds in the french quarter of the city. he has been identified as shamsud—din jabbar and the authorities believe he was acting with accomplices. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. some proper winter weather is now with us over the next few days, but it could cause us a few issues here and there. certainly much colder for all, but a bit more sunshine through today and tomorrow. frost and ice will be the main risk through the night and into the morning rush hour, but potentialfor some disruptive snowfall this weekend, as i'll show you shortly. now, the reason for the change is that we've now got air flooding down from the north all the way from the arctic. the blue colours indicating that colder air in place for all of us this afternoon.

many, dry and sunny. a few sleet and snow flurries in northern ireland, a covering of snow, maybe, in the north york moors and further snow showers in the north of scotland. but as i said, for most, dry but much colder than we've been used to. 1—5 celsius on the thermometers, it's going to feel colder in the wind and marked wind chill with a subzero feel out there for most through this afternoon. now into tonight, the chill returns, of course, more widely. risk of frost and ice, especially slippery conditions where we see sleet and snow push across scotland, later into northern ireland and the far north of england. with clear skies, when they happen in between, down to —5 in the grampians and the highlands, maybe —5, —6 through some rural parts of southern england and south wales, where it will be a sunny day on friday. a bit more cloud elsewhere. a few showers around and rain and sleet along the coast in north wales, north west england, northern ireland, a bit of snow over the hills. most snow in northern scotland, but still, for many, a dry and bright afternoon — at least not as windy as today. so the wind chill won't be quite as marked, but some will stay subzero throughout. frost and ice again an issue for saturday morning, as well as some dense freezing fog. a bright start for many,

a few showers in the north and west of scotland, again wintry in nature, but cloud amounts will increase from the west through the day. that will suppress the rise in temperature and later on, as this weather system comes in, we could see some snowfall briefly for southern england and south wales before it turns back to rain. and this is the key to the weekend — what happens with this area of low pressure? the northern edge will see some snowfall, on the southern edge, we will see some rain. potentially some disruptive snowfall in the hills of northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland — could see as much as a foot of snow in places — but there will be some big contrasts. so this is why it will be crucial to where that low pressure goes. low single figure temperatures in the north, double figure temperatures in the south. sojust to sum up, this is how it looks through the weekend into the start of next week. mainly rain across the south of england and wales. there's that snowfall for a time before it turns back to rain, with a risk of flooding in northern england and north wales and then snowfall quite widely on sunday in scotland. take care.

this is bbc news. the headlines: a huge investigation is under way in new orleans — where 15 people have been killed in a vehicle attack. the suspect, who was shot dead, had posted videos supporting the islamic state group. snow and ice warnings are coming into force later for parts of england, scotland and northern ireland, following severe flooding in some areas overnight. the latest nhs figure shows the proportion of patients being diagnosed with cancer, at an early stage, has risen

to its highest level. ava nti west coast says it will run a limited service today due to rmt�*s strike action, affecting services between london, the north of england and scotland. an annual charity sea swim event in east yorkshire has been called off due to sewage overflow. but the firefighters stepped in to help. more now on our main story — the investigation into the attack in new orleans, in which 15 people were killed. the area where the attack took place — around bourbon street, one of the busiest roads in the city — remains closed off, but is likely to be re—opened today. the fbi has confirmed it believes there was a terrorist element to the attack — and while the main suspect was shot dead by police, there could have been several other people involved. properties have been searched in several areas. cbs correspondent nicole valdes updated me on the attack and investigation.

well, sadly, 15 people lost their lives here on bourbon street.