which have killed at least eleven people. new evacuations have been issued in the area of the palisades fire as it continues to burn. a french woman whose father was convicted last month in a mass rape trial that caused widespread shock says he should never be released from jail. caroline believes that her father also drugged and abused her — and has spoken to the bbc in her first broadcast interview since the trial. a major search is under way for two sisters who were last seen in aberdeen city centre on tuesday. eliza and henrietta hoostee�*s brother has told the bbc they seemed "fine" in the days running up to their disappearance. the us supreme court appears poised to uphold a law that bans tiktok in the us over national security concerns unless its china—based parent company sells the platform ahead of a 19january deadline.

let's return to our top story and those fires in los angeles, fire crews are continuing to battle six blazes that have torn through los angeles, leaving thousands of people without homes and power. at least 11 people have been killed— and officials fear that number will rise. there are at least five fires still raging across the city and it's surrounding area — and any progress in containing them is very limited. we understand that the palisades fire is only 8% contained. palisades fire is only 896 contained.— palisades fire is only 896 contained. ~ ., ~ ., contained. when we talk about the containment _ contained. when we talk about the containment of _ contained. when we talk about the containment of these - the containment of these enormous fires, we are talking about the area around which an effective barrier has been created to stop the fire from spreading. we believe that only 8% of the largest fire, there

palisades fire has been contained. this is a fire that is in the malibu, santa monica area. we are monitoring this live shot that we have. it is the night time now they are. it is the middle of the night. it is the middle of the night. it is about 530 local time. we know that a curfew is in place. we know that there are at least five of those fires raging and we are looking at the largest one at the moment. california's governor, gavin newsom, has called for an investigation into how water shortages have hampered firefighting efforts. 0ne one of the air as it has been badly affected by the fires is the palisades area. that is the area that we are monitoring

night. we've come for a morning walk today down what is basically the local high street in pacific palisades. this is the bank. cash machine, bank of america. here's where you'd come and get your petrol. just totally gutted. everywhere, there's signs of things people have had to leave behind. a little note on this car here just says, "key melted in shell station." it is really hard to comprehend how life is ever going to get back to normal here. and here's the local supermarket where you come and do your shopping, grab a trolley. you can see all the shelves where the food would have been. still wearing this mask because, whether you can see or not, the air is still thick

with toxic fumes and it stings your eyes and it tastes awful. and you can see why people are comparing it to a war zone. i don't want to diminish the horror of a war zone, but that's what this feels like, just without, thankfully, without the mass death. but it's really the only way to try to describe it. harlan boll has been telling the bbc of his escape from the wildfire that destroyed his altadena home. most of his trove of entertainment industry memorabilia, including from stars like bob hope and angela lansbury, was also lost in the eaton fire. he spoke to our chief presenter caitriona perry who began by asking him what he did when the fire started rolling in. fortunately for me, i started packing up some things. my house was a pretty popular house in the neighbourhood, it had a lot

of hollywood memorabilia from bob hope, carol channing, gerry herman, angela lansbury and a number of others. and they often used the house as their own homes for the media in order to stay at home with, they didn't want to use their own homes, so they used mine. the neighbours often joked it was the celebrity home. i think i was very lucky i started getting things out early. i lost a lot of the memorabilia but i managed to get a great deal out. i felt for my neighbours who held out maybe too long. and some of them only got out with the shirts on their backs. i got out with five shirts, four pairs of pants and three shoes. my next—door neighbour's house is completely intact, nothing wrong with it, and yet every other house on the block is gone. it's hard to explain. i'm happy for them,

it'sjust everything it hits, it is levelled. there is no resemblance whatsoever to anything identifiable existing, except the fireplace. i'm really proud of my neighbours because they have all grouped together, supporting each other, calling each other. our church, which was only three blocks away, is completely levelled. every church except one on a block of churches has just disappeared. we're having services this sunday afternoon. again, i'm one of the lucky ones because — it's odd to say this way — last year, one of my colleagues passed away and the family called me and said, would i like to use her house. it is furnished, it has everything i need and my priority was to get my life back on track.

you have to just focus on what's in front of you — expand your vision, you start losing it, crying, thinking about what you lost. if you just focus on what needs to be taken care of... just as we are talking to you, we're looking at some of the images you sent us of your lovely home there but as you say, you got out yourself safely. i don't want to upset you by mentioning this but i believe your poor cat didn't...? yeah. cleo, i got him in a container and i drove off because he was in a container already. my other half somehow didn't realise the bottom latch wasn't latched fully and cleo freaked out and pushed his way out and went back into the house. and in the dark, late at night, ash and smoke everywhere, power out, house completely dark, he spent 45 minutes looking, trying to find where

he was hiding and he couldn't find a flashlight, i had the flashlight. so i've been contacting animal rescue, they haven't found any cats yet, they've only found dogs. apparently the pasadena humane society has discovered over 300 animals, we're going to go down tomorrow and see if by any chance cleo is one of them. we left the doors open in case he wanted to get out. hopefully, you'll be reunited. your home was quite an old one, as many in the area are, 100 years old. it would have been 100 years old this year. oh, my gosh. is it surprising to you that the fire could have spread so fast and so far? honestly, when we saw the burning, i panicked a little, probably more than anyone else, and thank goodness in many ways. and we drove away at one

point because we thought the fire was out. we drove down into pasadena so we could get our phones to work. and as we drove back, we realised the fire had popped back up closer. at that point, when it hit the first homes on the ridge ahead of us, we realised the danger we were in. i honestly, still, part of me thought there is no way the fire will make it this far. it not only made it to our house, it made it two blocks beyond ours. i went out there yesterday, made it past the police barricades just to check things out. and a number of homes that were gone was just unexplainable. there are many still on fire. it was like a bomb had just completely levelled the entire area. a couple of homes here and there survived.

the neighbours have been great. i understand that looters have been a problem. they're calling people whose homes are still there, and they're being asked if they are planning on staying around, if not, they will add them to the watch list, which is a scam. they are just trying to find out who's not going to be home. that's the negative side. the positive side is the neighbourhood, which has always been supportive of each other, we have been to everybody�*s homes, there is no home, i don't think, i hadn't been in within a block, or perhaps two or three. we visited each other, we went to parties, children's births, whatever, showers. we all knew each other. 0ne unfortunate, wonderful couple had just moved in a few months ago and we just met them and their little daughter

three months ago and that house is gone. he was talking about his home in altadena where the fire is raging. that is going to live pictures of la. this is the really big fire that is near the coast. this fire is continuing to rage. i can tell you that this is the largest of the many fires, numerous fires across los angeles. this is one that we understand is listed as being 8% contained. this means that fire crews have established barriers around 8% of the fire's perimeter. given the scale of this particular

blaze, this is the palisades blaze. covering bad malibu, santa monica area. it is an absolutely huge area that it is covering stop to think about it being only 8% contained and barriers established around 8% of this fire. you get an understanding of the magnitude and the scale of these fires across la and also why there is just so much destruction. we believe that around 10,000 homes and buildings have been destroyed. we see row upon row, street upon street absolutely raised to the ground. of course, much more on our website as well as we continue to monitor what is happening in the united states, in california, in la. contrast

that to what is happening in the uk. temperatures in a hamlet in northern scotland dropped to —18.9c on friday — the uk's coldest january night in 15 years. it is the coldest january overnight temperature since 2010, when they dropped below —15c several times at locations across the uk, including —22.3c on 8 january in altna harra. across the uk — temperatures were widely around “4 to —10c on saturday morning, with some freezing fog in parts of the midlands and eastern england. it was the biggest rape trial in french history. gisele pelicot waived her right to anonymity and became a global icon.

dominque pelicot was found guilty of drugging and raping his wife, and inviting 50 men into their home to abuse her while she slept. gisele's daughter, caroline darian, stood alongside her mother in court and told herfather that he would "die alone like a dog." caroline believes that her father also drugged and abused her. she's spoken to the bbc in herfirst broadcast interview since the trial. anna collinson has more. i don't really remember the father that i thought he was. i looked straight to the criminal, to the sexual criminal he is. caroline darian received a phone call from her mother in november 2020 that changed her life forever. she's been speaking to the bbc�*s emma barnett. it was like an earthquake or like a tsunami in my own living room. caroline's father,

dominic pelicot, had been drugging and raping her mother for over a decade and had encouraged dozens of other men to abuse her, too. i was so close from my father. you can't imagine how hurts it is. you know, it was a nightmare. that nightmare became even darker when police told caroline they'd found semi—naked pictures of her on her father's laptop. and i was shown two pictures of me totally unconscious. with the pants, which is not mine. so, you know, i was in shock. as the world watched france's largest rape trial unfold, she hoped herfather would finally admit he'd sexually abused her.

but he's always denied it. i'm convinced that he raped me. yes. the only difference between my mum and me, i don't have any evidence like she did. gisele pelicot has been hailed as a feminist icon, while her ex—husband, along with dozens of other men, is in prison, including for the indecent images he took of his daughter caroline. he was always a sexual pervert. always. always. there's no way you can wake up there's no way you can wake up in the morning saying, "0k, in the morning saying, "0k, i'm going to drug my i'm going to drug my wife for rape her". wife for rape her". he should die in prison. he should die in prison. he is a dangerous man. he is a dangerous man. he is dangerous. he is dangerous. i'm dominique's daughter. caroline is now caroline is now working to raise working to raise awareness about awareness about chemical submission, chemical submission, where drugs or alcohol where drugs or alcohol are used to assault victims. are used to assault victims. she says she will she says she will never see pelicot never see pelicot again or call him dad. again or call him dad. i don't want to think that i don't want to think that i'm dominique's daughter.

i want to be proud of our of the rest of our family. i think we all have a responsibility to speak up. you can watch the full interview,'pelicot trial — the daughter's story�* — on monday at 7pm on bbc 2 or on the iplayer. and if you've been affected by any

of a set of triplets. now, they were last seen at 2.00 in the morning on tuesday. of course, now we're well into saturday morning. we've seen some police officers in the last few minutes walking along the banks here of the very icy river. i don't know if you can see the chunks of ice floating on the surface of the water. that gives you an idea ofjust how bitterly cold it is here. and with those sisters having been gone for such a long time now, we are hoping for some updates about their safety and that they are, we hope, still safe and well. but of course people but of course people are searching. are searching. there is this enormous there is this enormous search yesterday search yesterday with the police divers with the police divers looking in the river dee looking in the river dee and in the land around about. and in the land around about. there are a lot of industrial there are a lot of industrial henrietta could be now. units in this area of units in this area of aberdeen, and people have been aberdeen, and people have been asked to check their cctv asked to check their cctv footage, and drivers footage, and drivers have been asked have been asked to check their dash cam footage to check their dash cam footage in case there are any clues in case there are any clues to where elisa and to where elisa and

henrietta could be now. and as we said, they were last seen here at around 2:00 in the morning of tuesday. now, the women are triplets. they are originally from a small village in eastern hungary. the bbc has spoken to their sister, edith. she said that she spoke to the women on new year's eve and that they seemed happy and cheerful, and their brother joseph has also spoken to the bbc, and he said that their mother spoke to them on saturday for a a0 minute long conversation, and that there was nothing out of the ordinary that came up. now, yesterday, police told us that extensive inquiries were continuing to try and find the women. as i said, businesses, drivers, anyone with any sort of footage that might have been filmed in the early hours of tuesday morning or indeed after that. they are hoping people will get in touch with them. it's unusual, we've heard for these ladies to be out at this time of night and of course, concern growing.

but police have said that at this stage there is nothing to suggest anything suspicious has happened. the us supreme court appears poised to uphold a law that bans tiktok in the us over national security concerns unless its china—based parent company sells the platform ahead of a 19january deadline. representatives from tiktok appeared before the court on friday, as the us government argued that without a sale, the app could be used as a tool for spying and political manipulation by the chinese government. an official decision by the court is due in the next few days. president—elect donald trump is critical of the ban saying he could negotiate a �*political resolution�* to keep the app legal once he takes office. earlier i spoke to dr eleanor drage, who is a senior research fellow at the university of cambridge and co—host of the good robot podcast on whether the app could be

used as a means for spying and political manipulation. this narrative has been around for a very long time, and it's part of what we call the ai arms race, which is a fabricated narrative that the us has been pushing for many years to boost their sinophobic rhetoric. so, they're pretty anti—china, they always have been. there is no evidence to suggest that china is doing more damage now with cyber security issues than it has ever been in the past. but the reason why trump has had this u—turn is possibly

we're also not quite as concerned about bytedance, which is tiktok�*s parent company, which was at one point thought to be a rival to 0penai, which is thejewel in silicon valley's ai crown. so today, instead, trump is saying, well, actually, i love tiktok and i'm a big tiktok star, so let's keep tiktok. and actually, perhaps what he's trying to do is create some political leverage and say, well, the supreme court may be against tiktok, but i will be the saviour. and when the ban comes in, which would be the 19th, that would be the day after he comes in as president. so he could potentially be tiktok�*s saviour and redeem tiktok on behalf of the youth population, which he now believes tiktok was very important for getting that audience to him.

thousands of protesters have delayed the congress of the far—right party, alternative for germany, that's expected to come second in next month's general election. the demonstrators blocked several roads near the town of riesa, preventing afd delegates from reaching the venue. the meeting is due to confirm the party's leader, alice weidel, as its candidate for chancellor. the draft version of the manifesto includes an exit from the euro and a tough immigration policy. a lynx captured near kingussie in the cairngorms national park in scotland on friday has died overnight, according to the royal zoological society of scotland. the wild cat was one of four, released illegally, which have been caught in the same area in recent days. the society said it was "reasonably confident" there were no other lynx on the loose in the area. inquiries are continuing to find out how they came to be there.

the actor and tv presenter warwick davis is to receive this year's bafta fellowship — the british academy's highest honour. the surrey—born actor is known for appearing in the harry potter and star wars film series. he said he was accepting the award in honour of everyone living with dwarfism or any form of difference — and added "our uniqueness can be our greatest asset". now before we go — can you imagine being at your school assembly and this happenening 7 yes, this is music superstar ed sheeran walking into an assembly at a school in cardiff. he sang his 2017 number one hit �*shape of you�* to the delight of the hundreds of pupils. it�*s part of his new foundation to promote the teaching of music in schools.

britain is pushing people towards working in tech and finance _ towards working in tech and finance. but there is so much amazing _ finance. but there is so much amazing music and film made in wales — amazing music and film made in wales it — amazing music and film made in wales. it doesn't happen unless you say— wales. it doesn't happen unless you say you want to do it. ed sheeran _ you say you want to do it. sheeran at you say you want to do it. er. sheeran at her school in the uk. let�*s return to los angeles — where firefighters are still battling to contain the devastating wildfires. these timelapse pictures — shot overnight — show that despite all the efforts to deal with them — some of the major fires are simply refusing to be stopped. as you can see the fire is ferociously spreading.

we start to see some subtle changes to the weather, it will remained colder, sharp overnight frost, slowly, we will see whether front pushing off in the atlantic. by by the end of the weekend it will be turning less cold. for this afternoon, a bit of rain moving into scotland, northwest england and wales, that could fall temporarily as a bit of snow over higher ground. there will be a legacy of fog and low cloud over western scotland. still a really cold day for most of us, temperatures up to four celsius but less cold in northern ireland, west wales and southwest england, temperatures here up to six celsius. it is going to be a chilly

start to the day. a lot of sunshine for sunday with a little bit of cloud towards western fringes, where he will be less cold. tench is beginning to climb. of cold a further ease. as we head through sunday night, clear skies across the midlands and eastern england. we like to see a frost developing further north as we get more cloud and reason of the atlantic. it is going to be a frosty night and we will start to see the snow and ice melting as it will be milder. it will be a lot cold night for england and wales. further north, it is a different story, cloudy skies and breezy. they will be outbreaks of rain. the thames will be nine to 13 degrees, a lot milder than what we have had the week. another chilly data can in the north—east.

we are going to be doing at this milder airfrom the we are going to be doing at this milder air from the south. there will be a south—westerly breeze. it long milder in the coming week particular across scotland and northern ireland. it will stay sunny with a bit of mist and fog around.

live from london. this is bbc news. more evacuation orders are issued as huge wildfires across los angeles continue to rage — destroying

an estimated 12,000 buildings. 0ur neighbourhood and our neighbours have been eviscerated. it�*s really devastating to see generations of people�*s lives and livelihoods completely wiped out. as firefighters struggle to contain the blaze, strong winds forecast for saturday and sunday could whip up flames further. president biden has called it a �*war scene.�* rachel reeves has become the most senior official from the uk to visit china for seven years — reaching trade agreements with beijing worth £600 million. and in sport, everton appoint david moyes as manager for the second time. hello. in los angeles, firefighters are still battling to contain the devastating wildfires and there�*s no real sign yet that they�*re turning the corner. here are the key developments this hour.

0verall, at least least 11 people have been killed and the number of homes and structures that have been