hello, i'm helena humphrey. the body of the late us presidentjimmy carter has arrived at his presidential library in georgia as america begins six days of funeral ceremonies to pay respect to its 39th president, who died last week at the age of 100. these are live pictures from the carter center in atlanta, where mourners are paying their respects to the president. the cortege carrying mr carter's coffin and members of his family made its first stop saturday at the georgia state capitol building in atlanta, where he served as governor during the 19705. the procession then carried on to the carter presidential center. mr carter's body will lie there in repose for the public to pay their respects over the next several days. but far from the sprawling streets of atlanta or the monuments of washington,

where his funeral will take place on thursday, mr carter's finaljourney began in the same tiny georgia town where he was born — in plains. our carl nasman is there. jimmy carter returning for the final time to his childhood home. bell tolls 39 tolls for the 39th president at his family farm, now a museum. jimmy carter was born in plains, georgia, population 500, a century ago. it's a far cry from the white house. the peanut farm had no running water or electricity. surrounded by his family, the president's motorcade left the hospital he helped build, beginning a six—day state funeral. his neighbours in plains lined the streets. his campaign headquarters here catapulted him from a relative unknown to the white house in the 19705. before that, as georgia's governor, carter shook up the south, declaring the time for racial discrimination is over.

but carter's post—presidency is what earned him the nobel peace prize in 2002. his global work promoting democracy and combating disease is headquartered here in atlanta, where his body will lay in repose for the public to pay their respects. a peanut farmer with a presidential legacy. the day's funeral proceedings ending here at the carter center in atlanta with an emotional private service among the family members ofjimmy carter here, as well as members of the carter center. but this has really been a day where the motorcade retraced the steps, almost literally, of the former president throughout his home state, beginning where he was born and raised in plains, georgia, on a small peanut farm, and then working his way through crowds of people lining streets and lining highways towards atlanta, stopping for a moment of silence, of course, at the georgia capitol, where he of course was once governor of this state. and now the public

will get their chance. they'll be filing in behind us in the carter center to see his body in repose over the next couple of days. but looking ahead, this multi—day state funeral will continue come tuesday in washington, dc. the 39th president's remains will be flown there and laid to rest for two days in the capitol rotunda, and then we'll see that national funeral take place on 9 january. that's where lawmakers, politicians, and of course presidents will be, not only the 0bamas and the clintons but also the current president and the future president. donald trump has said that he'll be here, despite some acrimony between him andjimmy carter over the years. we also know, of course, jimmy carter has been a friend and ally ofjoe biden over the years. biden as a senator was the first democrat to endorse jimmy carter back during his presidential run in 1976. it's something carter never forgot, and before he passed away, he requested that joe biden give the eulogy at that funeral.

in new orleans, people are lighting candles and laying wreaths in honour of the victims of the deadly truck attack on new year's day. a vigil has taken place on the corner of bourbon street and canal street. that is the intersection where the attack began. people have laid yellow roses to honour the 1a killed. one of the victims was 31—year—old edward pettifer from west london. he was the stepson of alexandra pettifer, who was nanny to prince william and his brother prince harry. earlier, buckingham palace announced king charles was deeply saddened. 0ur correspondent frances read reports. another victim of what the fbi says was a premeditated and evil act, edward pettifer from chelsea in london was 31, and one of 1a who died in new orleans on new year's day. he was the stepson of a former royal assistant. alexandra pettifer, known as tiggy legge—bourke before her marriage,

worked for the royal family when prince william and harry were children. she was often seen playing with the young princes, taking on nannying duties and having a long—standing relationship with the family. edward's half—brother, tom, is prince william's godson, who was a pageboy at william and catherine's wedding in 2011. palace sources have said that the king has been informed of edwards death and that he has been in touch with the family to share personal condolences. the prince of wales said that his and catherine's thoughts and prayers were with the pettifer family and all the innocent people who were tragically impacted. in a statement, edward pettifer�*s relatives said, "the entire family are devastated at the tragic news of ed's death in new orleans. he was such a wonderful son, grandson, nephew and friend to so many. we will all miss him terribly. our thoughts are with the other families who have lost theirfamily members due to this terrible attack." this is the horrifying attack that changed their lives. a pick—up truck rammed

into new year's crowds in new orleans at speed. the driver, named by the fbi as shamsud—dinjabbar, was shot dead in a gunfight with the police. families of the victims have been to where it happened this week. the former partner of reggie hunter, who was also killed, paid tribute to him. it's devastating. this is my child's father. and my son's 11 years old, so it's devastating to come and see what someone would do to other people, and they don't deserve it. the police said family liaison officers were helping edward pettifer�*s family with the process of returning his body to the uk. frances read, bbc news. the biden administration has notified the us congress of a planned $8 billion arms sale to israel. the weapons consignment, which needs approvalfrom house and senate committees, includes missiles, shells and other munitions. washington has rejected calls to suspend military backing

for israel over the number of civilians it has killed and injured in gaza. rescue workers in gaza say that the latest wave of israeli strikes killed at least 19 people, including eight children. more than 130 palestinians are reported to have been killed by israeli attacks in the past 48 hours. israel says it is targeting hamas. and in tel aviv, thousands gathered on saturday to demand the release of hostages in gaza and the resignation of benjamin netanyahu, as the family of a 19—year—old israeli army hostage featured in a video released by hamas appeal to israel's prime minister to secure her release. 0ur correspondent emir nader has more from jerusalem. tonight israeli protesters have clashed with police outside the military headquarters in tel aviv, where they've been calling on the government to strike a deal to return the hostages. it comes after hamas released a video of 19—year—old female soldier liri albag this afternoon, seen as an attempt by hamas to put pressure on the israeli government during ongoing ceasefire negotiations. the israeli president, isaac herzog, has said

that the negotiating team must remain at the table until all hostages come home. and the ministry of health in gaza has said that the past two days have been exceptionally deadly for palestinians, with over 130 having been killed in israeli air strikes, including women and children struck in a series of air strikes throughout the gaza strip. they now say that the indonesian hospital, the last functioning public hospital in northern gaza, is out of service after repeated israeli attacks on the medicalfacility. the israeli military, for their part, hasn't commented on these reports directly, but it said it has struck tens of hamas command and control centres in the past days. i've been speaking with aaron david miller, a senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace and a former us state department adviser who helped formulate us policy on the arab—israeli peace process.

so, approval depending, the weapons sale is coming just a fortnight before president biden leaves office. how do you think his support for israel will factor into his legacy? i mean, it'll be mixed. on one hand, the administration will claim, perhaps rightly, that support for the israelis has created a situation where the so—called ring of fire — iran's proxies, hamas, hezbollah, and iran itself, frankly — right now are weaker than ever. and the administration has already made it clear that they believe that part of the reason the israelis have had so much success militarily is a consequence of that support. 0n the other hand, the president's legacy in gaza is going to be one that's increasingly fraught, and people are going to continue to ask questions why the president couldn't have used the extraordinary relationship and bond and support that he's mustered and given to israel to basically change the policies of the netanyahu government on three issues. why not more humanitarian assistance, number one?

why not adopt us ideas for minimising the exponential numbers of palestinian civilians that have been killed? and finally, why hasn't he pushed the israelis harder on the issue of planning for a post—conflict gaza? so it's clearly and decidedly a mixed legacy. so on that point, i mean, there are a number of countries that have limited or paused weapons sales to israel right now, the uk one of them — of course, an ally of the united states. so do you think now is the right time to authorise a further shipment when, for example, we've beenjust hearing those reports from our correspondent that in the north, for example, there are no functioning medicalfacilities? you know, as i mentioned, the reality is the president of the united states over the last 15 months has had, on paper, extraordinary leverage. he could have conditionally restricted arms sales to israel. he could have introduced his own security council resolution

highly critical of israelis practices, or voted for somebody else�*s. he could have recognised palestinian statehood, as many countries have done —140—plus. and finally, he could have abandoned an israeli—hamas negotiating process and basically demanded, as much of the international community has, a cessation of hostilities. i think, frankly, it was beyond the emotional and political bandwidth ofjoe biden to envision anything you and i, helena, would regard as serious or sustained pressure on israel in the wake of 7 october, with hamas seizing hostages, and given the atrocities that were created in the first 2a hours as a consequence of that hamas attack. so i don't think it was ever in the cards, frankly — and certainly not now, with under two weeks to go — that this administration is going to constrain or restrict military assistance in order to leverage the israelis to change their policies. two weeks to go, as you say. there's been so much talk

these past few weeks about whether we will see a breakthrough when it comes to ceasefire negotiations. we know that those talks are ongoing once again. how do you assess those chances of a breakthrough before president biden leaves office? i mean, you're talking two weeks. even if you had a deal tomorrow, two or three days, you're talking about a limited release of hostages — probably 30 or so of the women, the elderly and men over 50, in exchange for hundreds of palestinian prisoners and a six—week ceasefire. even if you could get that deal, chances are there will be no hostage release, given how difficult it's been for hamas to identify where these hostages are, those that are living and dead, until donald trump assumes the presidency. so who knows. is it beyond the realm of possibility that benjamin netanyahu is waiting for donald trump in an effort to reward him, given the fact he is persuaded that trump will be much less restrictive of israeli military operations

than the biden administration has been? i give it a 60—110 chance, helena, that sometime in the next ten days you could have a limited agreement. us secretary of state antony blinken is traveling to south korea this weekend amid a political crisis in seoul. the us state department says mr blinken will meet senior south korean government officials to discuss ways to promote a free and prosperous indo—pacific region. he will also travel to japan, before heading to france to discuss challenges in europe and the middle east. mass demonstrations have been taking place in seoul both in support of and against the suspended president, yoon suk yeol. investigators have sought to bring yoon in for questioning over his failed bid to impose martial law but have so far been repelled by his supporters and security officers. the warrant is set to expire monday.

earlier i spoke to sung—yoon lee, a globalfellow at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. it is an extraordinary situation. in the post—20th century world order, and importantly in the post—world war ii order, no sitting president in a democracy has been arrested. but then again, no head of state in an advanced democracy has declared martial law. so this was a colossal political blunder on the part of president yoon. and now the opposition party that enjoys a supermajority in the parliament is very overzealous, according to many people, in trying to physically apprehend and humiliate the president. his fate really rests on the decisions,

the deliberations, of the supreme court — pardon me, the constitutional court of south korea, which has six months to decide whether yoon is removed from office or reinstated. so there's great political drama unfolding each day in seoul. and of course, we know that he has his security forces around him. do you see the potential of him having to be apprehended by force? well, so far it's been fortunate, a good thing, that there has been no blood spilt on the night of the martial law declaration or a couple of days ago, when hundreds of law enforcement, police and others tried to physically apprehend and arrest president yoon. but one cannot rule that out. i'm located right now within earshot of a very loud protest outside the presidential residence. it goes on all day every day, and people are getting very fired up and very passionate. those protests are very interesting, aren't they? because we've seen demonstrations both in support of him and against. ijust wonder, what is your sense about how divided

south korea is right now? well, there is great polarisation, as in many other countries around the world. but in south korea, the president has traditionally enjoyed something like an imperial presidency. there is so much concentration of power in the office of the president that one is easily moved by hubris, i think, and the vicissitudes of political fortune after one leaves the office have not been kind. there have been several presidents who have been imprisoned, one who was assassinated by a trusted aide, one who committed suicide under criminal investigation, one who was deposed by a popular uprising and so on. so, yes, it's a very vicious in many ways, political game. and we know that the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is travelling to south korea this weekend. i wonder, what do you expect from his visit? can anything change, or is this more a show of support? i think more the latter.

from washington's point of view — although no reasonable, responsible statesman can say so — this is a most unwelcome development in terms of us interests, because president yoon been very pro—us and pro—japan, trying to mend fences with japan, korea's former colonial master, which is not always very popular among a large segment of the korean population. so what comes next, with the new trump presidency in the united states and perhaps the removal of president yoon from office and another snap election, and the emergence at the election of a slightly less pro—trilateral cooperation between the us, south korea and japan kind of heads of state — this is all very murky and unsettling for the us. here in the us, tens of millions of people are bracing for extreme winter weather. weather officials say some parts of the country could see the heaviest snowfall

in more than a decade. the states of kentucky and virginia have each declared a state of emergency as a severe winter storm brings snow, freezing rain and ice. temperatures in some areas of the us could drop to as low as minus 18 degrees celsius. more than 60 million people are reportedly affected by weather warnings. and in the uk, the met office has issued yellow and amber warnings across much of the country due to the risk of heavy snow and freezing rain. bristol airport has reopened after it suspended operations, but warns that delays to flights are still possible. the national grid says power cuts have affected parts of birmingham, bristol and cardiff. new york will shortly become the first us city to charge drivers a fee for entering its centre. the so—called congestion pricing will apply from sunday at 9:00am local time to 9:00pm, then from 5:00am in the morning until 9:00pm in the evening on weekdays. car drivers will now be charged $9, or £7.25, to enter parts of manhattan. there are higher fees for trucks, with tourist buses paying the most.

the scheme aims to raise billions of dollars for the public transport network while discouraging people from using their cars. the incoming president and prominent new yorker donald trump says he strongly disagrees with the plan. but it has got many backers too, among them rachael fauss, a senior policy advisor at the sustainable transport advocacy group reinvent albany. she spoke with me a little earlier. rachel, very good to have you with us there in new york. so the congestion zone comes into force at midnight local time, in that very area where you are right now. just walk us through how it'll work. so, starting at midnight, drivers into the central business district of manhattan in cars are going to be charged $9 during the peak hours of the day. that's going to be reduced by 75% to $2.25 overnight.

and that funding raised from the toll is going to go directly into the mass transit system to support the subways, buses, and commuter rails in new york city. we all know how busy the streets of new york can be. do you have any indication at the moment how much this could actually reduce traffic? yes, i think the projections are it's going to reduce traffic congestion 7%, up to 10%. this toll is going to phase in over the next six years, up to $15, and obviously the higher the toll, the more congestion reduction is going to be. but right now, we have some of the slowest speeds in the country. we have vehicles that travel at around seven mph. so anything would be an improvement over seven mph. there are some suburban communities, perhaps people who live in areas where they're not particularly well connected when it comes to public transport, and they say they're concerned this will punish them, that they don't have other ways of getting into the city, particularly for their jobs, for example.

what do you say to them? there's a lot of options for people that actually mean that not everybody has to pay the full toll. if you are a disabled person, so you have no other choice but to drive, you actually will be exempt from the toll. and if you are also a low—income person, you will be exempt. so the toll is impacting the people who can afford it the most, and by and by and large, 85% of people who work in the manhattan central business district take mass transit. so it's a very small percentage of people who do not. in general, they are much more wealthy and are more likely to be able to afford it. and for those drivers, the speeds are going to improve, and they're going to have a more pleasant commute. i'm sure you've heard that president—elect donald trump has said that when he comes into office, he has vowed to nix it. are you concerned that this

could be short—lived? so a federaljudge in newjersey has just rejected an attempt to stop it before it even started. so it reached federal judges, who have ruled on the congestion pricing, have all been ruling in favour of the programme. it makes it even more difficult for a trump administration to prevent it from happening, because inevitably it'll go to court again, and it'll be even harderfor him to stop it when there's court precedent upholding this programme by federaljudges. and just in terms of that congestion charge of $9 for cars, for example, just talk us through how that will be reinvested. will that also help boost the existing public transport network? absolutely, so the goal is to raise $15 billion over a number of years. it could be 15 or more years. and that revenue will be invested 80% in the subway system and then 10% each in the commuter rail systems and also the buses.

so we're looking everything from buying new subway cars, improving the signals to make trains speed up, accessibility improvements to ensure that many more stations have elevators. so every penny raised by congestion pricing is going to get invested directly into the transit system. let's turn to some other important news around the world. (tx 00v)eight people have died and more than a dozen more are injured after a fire broke out at an indoor vegetable market in northern china. the fire in zhang—jiakou has now been put out and is now being investigated. zhang—jiakou was one of the chinese cities that hosted the winter olympics in 2022. an award—winning cartoonist has resigned from the washington post after the newspaper refused to publish a satirical cartoon of its billionaire owner, jeff bezos. ann telnaes depicted the amazon boss and other tech billionaires on their knees presenting bags of cash to a statue of president—elect donald trump. the washington post said it rejected the cartoon because it was repetitive,

and not for political reasons. talks to form a two—party coalition in austria have ended, and chancellor karl nehammer has announced he will resign in the coming days. he said his austrian people's party and the social democratic party failed to agree on key issues. the talks follow september's election, which was won by a eurosceptic, pro—russian party whom the other parties excluded from the negotiations. us presidentjoe biden has awarded the presidential medal of freedom, america's highest civilian honour, to 19 people at the white house. it was a glitzy line—up, so we can't mention everyone, but here are some of those who were honoured. anna wintour, who has served as editor—in—chief of vogue magazine since 1998. the retired la lakers basketball player magicjohnson also received the award. u2 frontman bono adds the medal of freedom to several civilian honours, including an honorary knighthood. the former us secretary of state and democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton received cheers from the crowd as she was awarded the medal, as was the actor and parkinson's campaigner michaelj fox, best known for playing marty mcfly in the back to the future movies.

and, at 85, ralph lauren is the first fashion designer to receive the medal of freedom. there's more on all the other recipients on the bbc news app and our website. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. snow has been falling across parts of the uk. it has been causing disruption, some icy conditions as well, and i think the problems will go on into sunday. so met office amber warnings remain in force. those warnings have been covering parts of wales, into the midlands and also northern england. and i think it is northern england that will bear the brunt of the snowfall as we head through daylight hours on sunday. through the first part of the morning, still some snow falling across high ground, north wales, the north midlands. could see 30cm in total for some higher ground here. at lower levels, perhaps turning back to sleet and rain in places.

but that snow continuing to fall across northern england, remaining very cold here as we start the day. milder, you'll notice, down to the south—west. 12 degrees there in plymouth. now, as we go through the day, where we have that mild air in the south, it'll be rain that falls from the sky. quite windy, particularly around the coasts. some really heavy rain setting in once again across parts of wales through the afternoon. snow will continue to affect parts of northern england, particularly over higher ground, maybe more like rain at low levels. some snow into the eastern side of northern ireland, southern and eastern parts of scotland. staying very cold across the northern half of the uk. much milderfurther south — 12 or 13 degrees. as we head through sunday night, this whole weather system just swirls away eastwards. some further snowfall likely across parts of southern scotland, northern england, perhaps down into wales and the midlands. 0n the back edge of that weather system, frequent snow showers pushing into some northern areas. another cold night. holding onto some milder conditions first thing on monday across the south—east corner. but, as this weather system swings away, it'll take rain with it.

behind it, we will start to see some brighter skies developing out towards the west, albeit with a fair few wintry showers. and, with the winds coming down from the north, we will all be back into the cold air through monday afternoon. temperatures by 3:00pm on monday around 2—5 degrees across most parts of the uk. and once that cold air sets in, it will be with us for quite some time. 0ur area of low pressure swirling away eastwards. northerly winds, snow showers in that northerly flow. it may be that we see further weather systems pushing in from the south and west, giving some rain, sleet and snow at times. but certainly a cold week ahead, and there will be some wintry showers.

voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. crashing it's february 202a. local authorities are storming a building in the outskirts of umunya, southeastern nigeria. 0n the surface, it's just an average health clinic, but a much darker reality hides behind its walls.

adaobi — not her real name — was brought here by her boyfriend's brother, and not allowed to leave. she was six months pregnant. the truth, as adaobi would soon find out, was that once she gave birth, her baby would be taken from her. tricked and trapped, she found herself caught up in a surreal scam that has taken hold in nigeria. let me tell you, without mincing words, cryptic pregnancy cannot exist without child trafficking. there's enormous pressure to have children in nigeria.