the problem is now woman was vehicle from which the woman was rescued in dramatic fashion this morning. canada's prime minister, justin trudeau, is to step down after nine years in office amid slumping polls and political scandals. and the golden globe goes to... demi moore! the veteran actress wins her first when i was chief prosecutor for major award at the golden globes. on bbc london... head on. and coming up on sportsday later keir starmer defends his record in the hour on bbc news — on tackling grooming gangs, after scathing attacks from the world's can nottingham forest continue richest man, elon musk. a phenomenal season? we'll get the latest from molineux and... ahead of their game at wolves. demi moore! and coming up on sportsday later hello. in the hour on bbc news — after a weekend of appalling weather we'll get the latest from molineux conditions with heavy snow ahead of their game at wolves. or icy rain falling across much of the uk, three yellow weather warnings for snow and ice remain in place. hundreds of schools were closed today and there were continuing problems on the roads and railways, with air travel also disrupted. 00:00:58,629 --> 2147483051:37:14,029 but for other areas, as the 2147483051:37:14,029 --> 4294966103:13:29,429 weather's turned a little milder,

of great glen this morning, a place hit hard by the heavy rainfall overnight. how are you? oh, my gosh. how are you feeling? i'm good. that's fifth time. fifth time you've changed clothes?! and this is the man being hailed as a hero. he owns the now flooded pub next to where the rescue took place. what was going through your head? because that was a potentially very dangerous thing to do. i wasjust thinking, like, get that person out from there. that's what i was thinking only. so i thought nothing. i thoughtjust to grab. if you stay there another 15, 20 minutes,

she would die or she would pass away. she said that if you hadn't rescued her, another 15, 20 minutes later, she might have died? her, another15, 20 minutes later, she might have died?— the woman, who's asked to remain anonymous, says she's now fine and has thanked jemmy and other local residents for their help. were you scared? not at all. absolutely no fear. fearless. no, i've got no fear. no. were you even thinking? absolutely not. i was just thinking to get that person out from the car. absolutely no fear. i didn't feel my body if it was cold. frozen. frosty. no. completely zero. leicestershire fire and rescue service declared a major incident across the county and rutland today, and says it's rescued dozens of people caught out by the flooding. in excess of 200 calls in fire control, and every appliance across the county was out at some point throughout the day. point throughout the day responding to various different incidents from vehicles in flooded water, flooded properties, rising water levels. leicestershire is one of the places hit hardest by the weather over the last 2a hours, but there's been disruption across the midlands to roads and railways.

dozens of schools have been closed across the region, and nearly 100 flood warnings still remain in place across the east midlands. the advice from the authorities has been to avoid driving through floodwater and to check routes before travelling. i love a chicken sandwich... with many vehicles unable to cope in this weather, some have chosen to be creative, like this paddleboarder in a supermarket car park. for communities in the north of england and wales, it's another day of heavy snowfall that's been causing disruption. danny savage has more from north yorkshire. after more than 2a hours of heavy snowfall, it was tough out on the pennine hills today. on a b road above wharfedale, some cars struggled to get through, so we all got out and pushed him up... ..which then allowed the gritter to finally come through. lots of high roads were in a similar

state across a wide area of northern england and southern scotland. spare a thought, though, for hill farmers. michael was crisscrossing the valleys around malham today, feeding his flock, most of which are expected to lamb next month. he was rescuing some of them from drift too. quite rough, really. very cold, very rough, and while the wind has gone up, it makes it a lot worse, obviously, because it's blowing the snow into drifts, and then the sheep are under the drifts and you've got to get them out. so have you been digging your sheep out? several this morning. that's all of them we've seen, so that was ok. found those, so they've got into the feed bag — we feed them hay and everything — and they should be ok now. and this is perhaps the main problem now on high ground in the pennines — drifting. this is about five or six feet deep. it blocked roads, obviously, but it also ends up with animals underneath. this is where some of the sheep belonging to michael had to be dug out from earlier. elsewhere, hundreds of schools

were closed because of the snow. lancashire, yorkshire and north east scotland were worst affected. manchester airport has been closed, open, closed again and reopened in the last 2a hours. there still could be some delays due to planes being in the wrong place. back in malham, the focus was on keeping warm. simon was getting through with his log deliveries. yeah, you know, you've got to try your best to fulfil your orders if you can, but sometimes, it can be a bit challenging. yeah, about there somewhere, stuart... and his customers were grateful. we still have two or three days' supply left, so if simon hadn't got to us today, we would have been starting to sweat by the end of the week, you know! the snow isn't likely to go anywhere for a good few days. freezing temperatures are forecast here until the weekend. since some of the worst affected areas would have had nearly 36 hours of snowfall up until this morning, although it has been cleared down here in the lower lying areas, there

are still plenty around, you don't need to go too high to find those road still blocked by snow drifts, and some isolated farmhouses and communities still cut off. going forward, the main problem over the next few days, the forecast is to be extremely cold, sunny during the day, clear at night. temperatures in some weather apps is or —10 on wednesday and thursday night, later in the week, so the extreme cold will be the problem. the main event is over, but the effects will be felt for several days, clive. indeed. all right, danny, thanks for that. canada's prime minister, justin trudeau, is to step down after nine years in office. he's been under pressure in recent months, with his liberal party slumping in the polls amid a cost of living crisis and political scandals. he'll stay on as caretaker leader until a successor is found, with a general election due later this year. here's sarah smith. ten years ago, justin trudeau was considered a breath of fresh canadian air as he was swept to power on a wave of what was then dubbed trudeaumania.

you want a government with a vision and an agenda for this country that is positive and ambitious and hopeful. well, my friends, i promise you tonight that i will lead that government. young, good—looking and glamorous, he was inevitably compared to then—president 0bama, and was equally popular. but after a decade of living in the prime minister's residence, he emerged from it today to announce he is leaving. i intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust nationwide competitive process. justin trudeau signed successful trade deals during donald trump's first presidential term, but now the president—elect is threatening to impose crippling 25% tariffs on canadian imports.

after rushing to mar—a—lago to placate mr trump, justin trudeau had little to show for his efforts. when his finance minister resigned, saying canada needs to push back harder against american economic nationalism, his fate was sealed. ijust i just thought i'd ijust thought i'd show our friends in the us and the uk how canada brings it. 0nce confidently boasting that canada could challenge america — in sporting contests, at least — he has now been levelled by an early spat with donald trump. it is not all about donald trump, of course. canadians are also deeply unhappy about the high cost of living and inflation, about immigration and about housing shortages, all issues, of course, which are deeply familiar and which have been leading to the downfall of different incumbent governments and leaders around the world, but it has not been helped by justin trudeau being mocked by donald trump, who has beenjoking recently about canada being

america's 51st state, and referring derisively to justin trudeau as governor, ratherthan derisively to justin trudeau as governor, rather than prime minister. 0r governor, rather than prime minister. or rather humiliating. and he will stay in power until a successor is chosen, which could be in late march. thank you, sarah smith in washington. here, the prime minister has defended his record on tackling grooming gangs operating in the uk when he was the director of public prosecutions. it comes after calls from opposition parties for a national inquiry and scathing criticism on social media from the tech billionaire elon musk. sir keir starmer accused the far right of spreading "poison", lies and misinformation because they were "desperate for attention". in the last few minutes, the home secretary has said the government will be establishing a victims and survivors panel to advise on wider workaround child sexual exploitation and abuse. here's chris mason. it will be the fastest to 100 mph... the world's richest man, elon musk,

the billionaire entrepreneur. rockets, electric cars, tesla, and he owns the social media site x too. mr musk is a businessman with a growing drive for politics, and a growing drive for politics, and a growing habit of claiming the british government, the prime minister, is incompetent. he accused keir starmer of being complicit in the rape of britain, and that he should go. he called the home office ministerjess phillips a rape genocide apologist, and today, he conducted a survey on x about whether the people of america should liberate the people of britain from their tyrannical government. now, listen to the prime minister's indignant is, his anger in defending his record as director of public prosecutions. he says he challenged those who ignored the victims. when i was chief prosecutor for five years, i tackled that head on, and when i left office, we had the highest number of child sexual abuse cases being prosecuted on record.

and now, he says... 50 cases being prosecuted on record. and now, he says...— and now, he says... so this government _ and now, he says... so this government will _ and now, he says... so this government will get - and now, he says... so this government will get on - and now, he says... so this| government will get on with and now, he says... so this - government will get on with the job of protecting victims, but what i won't tolerate is this discussion and debate based on lies without calling it out. what i won't tolerate is politicians jumping calling it out. what i won't tolerate is politiciansjumping on the bandwagon, simply to get attention. when those politicians sat in government for 1h long years. tweeting, talking, but not doing anything about it. now so desperate for attention that they are amplifying what the far right is saying. at the heart of this row are victims —— vulnerable, young, often white girls exploited, abused, sometimes raped by men predominantly of pakistani descent. but there is something else going on here too, a perception that there was never enough of a public reckoning for the

horrific crimes committed, that collectively society underplayed the monstrosity of what happened. there have been, though, local inquiries and a national one too. campaigners tell me the government should make the changes already recommended. we've got those recommendations, we've got that blueprint, and the government now need to get on and do it. we cannot allow any more delays. i understand why people are asking for more inquiries, because they are angry, and they want action and they want accountability, but it's already out there. the conservatives insist a public inquiry is necessary, and are angry the prime minister accuse them of amplifying the far right. it is not far right to raise these issues — it is not far right to raise these issues it— it is not far right to raise these issues it is_ it is not far right to raise these issues. it is a matter of really important _ issues. it is a matter of really important public concern. we owe it to the _ important public concern. we owe it to the victims to get to the bottom of this, _ to the victims to get to the bottom of this, and — to the victims to get to the bottom of this, and i'm really disappointed and angered by what keir starmer tried to _ and angered by what keir starmer tried to do — and angered by what keir starmer tried to do this morning by smearing people _ tried to do this morning by smearing people who — tried to do this morning by smearing people who are raising these important issues. take _

important issues. take over, elon! elon— take over, elon! elon musk- take over, elon! elon musk has . take over, elon! - elon musk has provoked take over, elon! _ elon musk has provoked the first big political row of the year, and he has onlyjust getting started. in a fortnight, donald trump will once again be america's president, and mr musk will be working for him. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. more from chris in a moment, but as well as the national inquiry into child sexual abuse, which included an investigation into grooming gangs, there have been other local inquiries, including in rotherham in south yorkshire, where at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by men of pakistani heritage. in telford in shropshire, there were more than 1,000 girls abused by gangs of men over decades, and the evidence was ignored. and last year, 0ldham council called for a public inquiry into grooming, but was told to commission a local review instead, as in rotherham and telford.

ed thomas has more from 0ldham. for decades, grooming gangs and the failures of those meant to protect children have shamed towns and 0ldham is no different. and i'm answering that directly because i want that... it's divided local politics. you haven't answered the question. apologies by the council and police have come and gone, and... for that i am truly sorry. but still, many here believe the full story is yet to be told. i think it's all been covered up. and will we ever get to know the truth? do you feel like there's more still to be heard? oh, 100%, yeah. it has been looked into in 0ldham, hasn't it? no, not as far as i'm concerned. as a mother and a grandmother. no. it's been swept under the carpet for years. do you support a national inquiry? 100%. why is that? because it's disgraceful. in 2022, an independent report found that greater manchester police

and 0ldham councilfailed to protect children from grooming and sexual exploitation. this report heard from one child who was abused at the age of 12. she went to 0ldham police station to report being sexually assaulted. this was in october 2006, but she was told to go away and come back when she was not drunk. the report also found there was no evidence of a cover up. those that are spreading lies and misinformation... for six years independent councillor, brian hoban, has led calls for a national public inquiry into what happened in 0ldham. and he's still waiting. it's important in my time because we've got people in this town that are survivors, that have been through horrendous crimes, that have been through horrendous situations, and they deserve justice. they need their voices heard and they need answers, and they need people brought to book. in 0ldham from 2009 to 2010, most alleged offenders identified by gmp were british men of pakistani

and bangladeshi heritage, but eastern european and white british men were also accused of abuse. and as a british pakistani man, when you hear that grooming gangs 0ldham and calls for a national inquiry, what do you want to happen? i want them locked up, not to be seen around on the streets because the danger to children. it's not only, you know, asian pakistanis. because i know myself that, you know, i wouldn't never do that in my life. it's really disgusting. gmp is still investigating the abuse in 0ldham, but pressure is now building across the country to look again at grooming gangs and ask how so many young lives were ruined. ed thomas, bbc news. back to chris mason. the home secretary yvette cooper has been on herfeetin secretary yvette cooper has been on her feet in the house of commons. what she said? we have a statement from her in the past 30 minutes in

the house of commons acknowledging the house of commons acknowledging the scale of the depravity of these crimes and also the breadth of the failings. not least the fear from so many for so long that speaking out would be deemed to be racist. and she said she would bring what she described as a new impetus and action to try to deliver some of the recommendations set out in that national report that concluded a couple of years ago. she said she would make it mandatory to report abuse making it a an offence to fail to report or cover up child sexual abuse. she will assure that the police take allegations around this much more seriously and there will be more measures to come in the coming weeks about the growing problem of online abuse. the conservatives though are continuing to maintain their argument that there should be a full public inquiry and that the national inquiry and that the national inquiry of a few years ago was too narrow in its scope and they say

that they will push for a vote so that they will push for a vote so that mps get a say on whether such an inquiry should happen. chris mason, thank _ an inquiry should happen. chris mason, thank you. _ the time is 18.19. our top story this evening: dozens rescued and major incidents declared as uk grapples with floods, snow and ice. and still to come... why more and more humpback whales are being seen off the english coast? coming up on sporstday in the next 15 minutes on bbc news — a big statement in big air to start 2025. mia brookes makes it back to back wins in the world cup series. 15—year—old ellie on and on. and the popular bbc drama, will meet the real midwives of popular. the government is promising to cut the number of nhs patients in england who are waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment. it wants to slash the numbers by nearly half a million by the end of march next year.

ministers say better patient choice, greater use of the private sector and more access to local testing and treatment centres. hugh pym has been talking to patients. that's all right. this is what the government wants to see. a lot more of dedicated local nhs diagnostic centres for scans and tests. this morning, gavin was in for a chest scan, following up on a long term condition. you may breathe normally. it's close to home and he didn't need to go to a normal hospital. the waiting is almost non—existent. i came here for my scan. i waited, filled in the paperwork. less than ten minutes, i was in and out. turn left down the corridors here. centres like this will move to 12 hours a day, seven days a week. having sites like this where patients can almost have ring fenced capacity so that they don't get cancelled, is absolutely vital. the prime minister's plan also involves more

surgical hubs like this one, just for planned operations. you're getting people back out and back home pretty quickly as well, aren't you, which is fantastic from their point of view. the overall waiting list for planned treatment in england was rising steadily. it's now at 7.5 million. the government wants to reduce those waiting for more than 18 weeks, seen here in red. so the target is 92% of patients to be seen or treated within 18 weeks by the end of labour's first term. right now it's below 60%, and there's now an interim target of 65% within 18 weeks by march next year. philip wants to see action, not statistics. he's waited nine years for a knee replacement and also needs spinal and ankle operations. as the waiting continues, his quality of life gets worse. it's just frustrating. if, uh, if i didn't force myself,

if i didn't have the type of character that i've got, uh, i'd just sit in a chair and do nothing all day because it's too painful to move around, basically. and what about emergency departments under strain week in, week out? in opposition, laboursaid it would hit more than one nhs target over the course of a parliament. now you are focusing on one planned treatment. where does that leave a&e? is it being downplayed? i will never accept that prioritising waiting lists must come at the expense of the other things that the nhs must do, whether it's a&e, whether it's cancer and heart cases as well. so, you know, we can walk and chew gum here and we're going to do that. we are starting. the plan involves more appointments and more operations, but hitting the waiting list target will still be a tall order. hugh pym, bbc news. the treasury minister tulip siddiq has referred herself to the independent adviser on ministerial standards after being named in a bangladeshi corruption investigation. sir keir starmer says he has

confidence in ms siddiq, who as economic secretary, is responsible for tackling corruption in uk financial markets. ms siddiq insists she's done nothing wrong, asjoe pike reports. what is the background to this? well her aunt is shakehasseena who until august last year was prime minister of bangladesh who fled the country amidst a violent and deadly anti—government protest. many people believe that she was a despot. the allegations facing tulip siddiq the uk government minister come in two parts, part one is the claim already investigating by bangladeshi authorities that she helped broker a deal between her aunt and anime putin before she was mp for the that the minister was at that meeting in 2013 and she is always insisted that she was there in a personal capacity. also notable that the allegations were first raised by a political rival of her aunt. the

second part of the allegation which was seen in newspapers recently is allegations around homes and flats in central london. tulip siddiq has lived in various properties which are or were owned by people with links to her political party including a flat in central london which labour could was gifted to the minister is an act of gratitude to her parents. and the ft newspaper said the businessman gifting her that that has links to her aunt although the labour source points out it would be linked, it would be wrong to link tulip siddiq to these political organisations for that the prime minister said she was right to your affairs after the ethics watchdog and the conservative say that there are questions to answer. i think the move today is an effort to try to resolve this issue which has been hanging over the government for a number of weeks. it is also awkward, ironic of course that the minister now forced to deny financial corruption is also the uk government minister tasked with tackling it.

two films have won big at the golden globes, the musical thriller, emilia perez, which tells the story of a mexican drug lord who changes gender, won four prizes, and the brutalist, about a holocaust survivor trying to succeed in america, took three awards. emma vardy, has more from los angeles. known as hollywood's biggest party, plenty of a—listers were out to dazzle on the red carpet. demi moore. yo! but the biggest cheer of the night was for the hollywood comeback of demi moore, winning herfirst ever major award with best actress for her role in the substance, a satirical horror about beauty and ageing. i'm just in shock right now. i've been doing this a long time, like over 45 years, and this is the first time i've ever won anything as an actor. um, and i'mjust so humbled and so grateful.

the brutalist. taking the top drama prize, the film about a holocaust survivor remaking his life in america, which also picked up best director and the best actor award for adrien brody. conclave. peter trunk, a british writer, took away a golden globe for conclave. peter straughan from gateshead winning best screenplay. i am just one pure ball of gratitude squeezed into a borrowed tux. thank you so much. amelia perez. but it was the unusual musical about a mexican drug lord changing gender that had some of the biggest successes of the night. amelia perez and its transgender star, karla sofia gascon, accepted one of its four film awards with an emotional speech about the trans experience. you come and maybe put us injail. you can beat us up. but you never can take away our soul, our existence, our identity.

wicked. audiences have been flocking to wicked after much love for it as a stage show, but it only won one of its nominated categories, picking up box office achievement. a win here can give a film or an actor some momentum in the long awards season, which peaks in march at the oscars. but the oscars can be fickle, and a golden globe is no guarantee of 0scars glory. baby reindeer. in the tv categories, baby reindeer, the british drama about stalking and sexual abuse, picked up two awards. its creator, richard gadd, called for more of life's darker tales to make it onto screen. and all the weird, idiosyncratic struggles we go through on a daily basis are just as worthy of being committed to screen as any. so, commissioners, streamers, when you're totting up the numbers and putting together the budgets for this year, remember to keep some back for the little person to tell their story. thank you so much. a night of some surprises provided plenty to celebrate and debate at the after parties. emma vardy, bbc news, los angeles.

over the past few days, humpback whales have been spotted off the english coast. some of the sightings have been spectacular, and they're becoming increasingly frequent in the uk. but why? charlote gallagher has that story. one of the most spectacular sights in nature. oh, my god! spectacular. she's doing it for us. a humpback whale breaching out of the water close to the cornish coast. whale watchers have been flocking to the area since the mammal was spotted. dan abbott is one of them. as soon as i hear about a humpback sighting in cornwall, i've pretty much already packed my car and and head down. it's worth all the effort. it's worth freezing your toes off all day long for those few seconds of seeing the animal. but there's something really special about seeing that species here in the uk and and especially in more recent years when there's

been much more sightings around the coastline. you're still lucky to see a whale in british waters, but sightings are becoming more common, like here off the coast of east sussex. it's partly down to climate change and warming seas, but also a happier reason. humpback whales are a good news story. most populations, not all, are undergoing recovery after whaling stopped, and most likely there are just more whales out there and there are more whales passing by british coasts. so these sightings might be more frequent, but they don't get any less breathtaking. charlotte gallagher, bbc news. time for a look at the weather, here's matt. it might have been the weather that attracted them, you never know! whether it has been heavy snow or flooding it has been causing disruption but that system is now

moving off toward scandinavia but leaves us with cold air for the rest of the week. we could see some the lowest temperatures of the winter yet by night. sharp overnight frost and still risk in places of some snow and ice. also tonight we have got some sleet and snow in northern ireland which will push through parts of wales overnight towards the south—west and some in southern england. so the far north of scotland could wake up to some snow tomorrow. temperature not as low tonight. 0verall more sunshine tomorrow but in scotland we start off with some snow showers in the north which will move south through the day further up northern ireland and north—west england and wales and parts of midlands still some sleet and snow flurries could push on but more of us will be dry. temperatures feeling well below freezing. the wind slowly easing a little as we go

through the night and into wednesday morning. clearskies through the night and into wednesday morning. clear skies for many and if anything temperatures could drop further especially across the south. a cold night to come tuesday night into wednesday morning. barely anyone waking up frost free. there could be some fog in parts of the midlands on wednesday morning. still some wintry showers around the north and the west.