more evacuation orders are issued as huge wildfires across los angeles continue to rage —— destroying an estimated twelve thousand buildings. our neighbourhood and neighbours have been eviscerated. it's devastating to see 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 7 years —— reaching trade agreements worth 600 million pounds. a french woman whose father was convicted last month in a mass rape trial tells the bbc he should never be released from jail. i was so close to my father. you can't imagine how hurt i

felt. it is... it was a nightmare. the us supreme court appears poised to uphold a law that bans tiktok in the us over national security concerns. and everton appoint david moyes as managerfor the second and 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. overall, at least least 11 people have been killed and the number of homes and structures that have been destroyed stands at 12,000. an evacuation order for the palisades fire — one of the worst — has actually expanded to take in the suburbs of brentwood and encino, and the area that includes the getty museum. at least six fires are burning and the forecast is for more strong winds, which won't help the situation at all. president biden has

called it a "war scene". a public health emergency has been declared for the los angeles area because of the risk from smoke. california's governor has called for an investigation into how critical fire hydrants ran out of water, impeding the firefighting effort. these are live pictures from the city. a forecast of more strong winds are raising fears the blaze could raise further and a red flag warning of critical fire conditions are in place. it will make things harderfor the place. it will make things harder for the exhausted harderfor the exhausted emergency workers. harder for the exhausted emergency workers. the pictures we are showing you are from, aerial shots above los angeles but we have been looking at shots from the palisades which is the biggest fire and has spent through 21,000 acres and raised huge stretches across santa monica and malibu since tuesday. that is still only 8%

contained. to the east, firefighters have contained 3% of the 14,000 firefighters have contained 3% of the 111,000 acre eton fire. and a reminder that these fires have already killed at least 11 people and destroyed thousands of structures. there is the possibility that death toll might rise because many people are still unaccounted for. we will continue to monitor those live pictures there. helena humphrey reports from los angeles. they got out. that's what matters most. amid the ash and ruin, a hug from dad promises everything will be all right, even if this family doesn't yet know how. when the fires tore through altadena in the dead of night, daisy and keith bundled their young children into the back of the car. they had no official warning. i'm waiting to get some sort of urgency that we've got to leave because it's getting more dangerous but we didn't get anything, it was just my gut feeling that said, "we have to go." it was 1.30 in the morning

and when i saw more flames going up, i said, "we have to get out." like so many here, all this family has left is each other. the dream home they worked day and night for gone an instant. it moved so quickly. it was on a distant ridge one minute and then ten minutes later it was like right on top of us. it was crazy how fast it moved. for now, authorities are focused on the immediate crisis. california governor, gavin newsom, is calling for an independent investigation into reported water shortages that hampered firefighters' efforts. and with the hardest—hit areas still burning, president biden has warned that things could get worse before they get better. there's still a lot of people unaccounted for, we don't know where they are. i think this toll is likely to go up. whether it is significant or not, pray god it's not, but it could be. the duke and duchess of sussex have visited a fire relief centre, where they met first responders and those impacted by the fires.

forfamilies like daisy and keith's, all they can do is cling on to each other, looking for a glimmer of hope through the lingering smoke. helena humphrey, bbc news, los angeles. 0ur correspondent peter bowes is in los angeles. he's been giving us the latest developments. it's extremely difficult. and, you know, one moment there's a glimmer of hope because, and you've just been talking about the, in terms of getting these fires under of getting these fires under control, the containment control, the containment percentages, that these percentages, that these are the numbers that everyone are the numbers that everyone across the city are looking across the city are looking out for constantly. out for constantly. how much of the fire how much of the fire has been contained? has been contained? the firefighters are convinced the firefighters are convinced that it's not going to spread that it's not going to spread any further, but those numbers any further, but those numbers are still very, very low. are still very, very low. and the two big fires, and the two big fires, pacific palisades, especially, pacific palisades, especially, the first one to start last the first one to start last tuesday, is still spreading and there have been fires close tuesday, is still spreading and it's moving towards other and it's moving towards other densely populated areas. densely populated areas. brentwood, again to brentwood, again to the west of los angeles. the west of los angeles. also the san fernando valley, also the san fernando valley, which is a sprawling area which is a sprawling area to the north of hollywood to the north of hollywood and i'm right nowjust north and i'm right nowjust north

of the san fernando valley, of the san fernando valley, and there have been fires close to here, to the west and to the east as well. and extraordinary situation where you have all of these fires right across this greater sprawling city at the same time and that's a big part of the problem in terms of resources being stretched to the limit. and some political repercussions are beginning to start. we understand that maybe there was, at early stages, there was a problem with the water supply, that the fire hydrants were actually running out of water. now we have the governor of california calling for an investigation into that. and i can tell you, i've heard a lot of people talking about this, that there's a tremendous amount of anger and frustration at the way in which the fire has been dealt with, and perhaps the attitude of the authorities. to some extent, having said that, equally, i think a lot of people are understanding of the situation, that the firefighters themselves have been absolutely stretched to the limit and in many cases have simply been helpless to put individual fires,

the fires at individual houses, out because theyjust simply didn't have the resources or the time to get to everywhere. the smoke is a constant threat to people now and as you say, right across a vast area. so health officials declaring a health emergency. and i think the immediate effect of that is simplyjust to raise the awareness of people that, look, these conditions are bad. you shouldn't be jogging, you shouldn't be running, you shouldn't be exercising outside, even if you're away from the fires, that the quality of the air poses a danger to people. and clearly the hospitals will be alerted to potential problems that people might be going in with breathing issues.

san fernando valley, in that situation right now, hopefully with their cases packed and their valuables, as much as they can, and their pets, ready to get away and to know where they're going to. that's part of the procedure here. everyone has to have a plan to know where you will go when you evacuate. will it be an evacuation centre? a friend's home or a relative's home in a safer part of los angeles, and how to navigate to actually get there? it's difficult to imagine a catastrophe on this scale. and, you know, i've lived here for a long time, nearly 30 years, and lived through fires before. there was a big one in my neighbourhood five years ago. it was quite devastating, it was quite devastating, but that was one fire. but that was one fire. now we're dealing with multiple now we're dealing with multiple fires and as you say, fires and as you say, the entire neighbourhoods, the entire neighbourhoods, pacific palisades was lovely pacific palisades was lovely and i talk about it is a bit of a concrete jungle, and i talk about it in the past tense now. in the past tense now. it was a lovely village it was a lovely village like suburb of los angeles. like suburb of los angeles. you would drive west you would drive west towards the coast, towards the coast, and the centre of los angeles and the centre of los angeles

is a bit of a concrete jungle, fairly nondescript in places. but then you get further out to somewhere like pacific palisades, and it wasjust a beautiful place with with shops and restaurants and, and then, of course, a little bit further, you get to the coast. and it was a nice, thriving community. people who lived there had tended to live there for actually quite a long time. a lot of family homes there just completely flattened, leaving these people helpless, distraught. and i know to some extent what it feels like to at least think you've lost your home. it happened to me. i was amongst the lucky ones, and you might have heard the stories in the last few days of people actually getting back to their neighbourhoods, passing house after house

in natural disaster planning and management. we've seen some reporting on that. and i mean, we're talking about a really one time event in terms of it being the worst everfire in la. my experience with natural natural resource disasters or natural disaster planning is that you should try to plan for a worst case scenario. in california, there's fires and earthquakes. in britain, it's more flooding. that would be something that would have to be prepared for. but when you have these kind of events that we see more and more of with extreme weather caused by climate change, which are going to be growing, you know, to battle a fire like this, you would need 5 or 10 times as many firefighters. and the budgetsjust aren't going to be ever ready for that. so, they're going to have to look at these issues like water. but at the same time, people just have to have to start being a bit prepared for this. planners are going to have to plan a bit better, but also we start to we need

to start really tackling climate change and climate disruption, which is going to be saving money actually, in the long run compared to these billions that we are losing on these catastrophes. and you mentioned there the need to plan for the worst case scenario. it seems there's quite a lot of anger around that. perhaps there wasn't enough of that planning. is that is that your experience in the area, or do you think that they that it was the intensity of this was out, out with any kind of planning? well, some things can be planned a bit better. we're going to i'm sure that there will be changes made in a year, but some things when you have a 100 mile an hour winds whipping around, you just can't do that much about it. i did grow up in this area. i remember as a youth standing on the roof of my home with wooden shingles because northwest california, california, the western us, they have big forests and all the homes are made out of wood. it's not like most of europe and our roof, believe it or not, had wooden shingles, which is crazy. in between they've been more fire proofed and all, but i would stand on the top a couple of times with a garden

hose, watering that down so it wouldn't catch fire. and when the winds are whipping at 100 miles an hour, sometimes they could be coming from the north or northeast one minute, the next minute the southeast. there's just not much you can do about that. and you've heard about people saying, wow, it was on another ridge ten minutes ago, and then it's by my house. and this is means a fire can jump miles and you just can't plan for that. and so you have to cut the fire department and the city planners a bit of slack there. let s get some of the day's other news now. ukraine's president says two wounded north korean soldiers have been captured in russia's kursk 0blast. volodymyr zelensky said the two men were in custody and receiving medical assistance. the ukraine government released a video claiming to show the two wounded men, but did not provide evidence that they were north korean. south africa's president has insisted that he will revitalise the african national congress, after the party lost its majority in general elections in may. the anc — which led south africa out of apartheid — has seen its popularity dwindle, mainly due

to corruption scandals and a faltering economy. it now leads a coalition government. lebanon s prime minister — who's visiting syria — has said the two countries will work together to secure their land borders resove any disputes. najib mikati met syria's new de facto leader, ahmed al—sharaa. it's the first official trip to syria by a lebanese leader since the start of the syrian civil war. the uk chancellor, rachel reeves, has defended her visit to china today — saying it is "squarely in our national interest" to deliver growth, and that agreements reached in beijing would be worth £600 million to the uk over the next five years. her trip has been overshadowed by a 16 year high in uk borrowing costs and a fall in the value of the pound, with some conservatives saying she's "fled" to beijing. 0ur china correspondent laura bicker reports. she may be here to do business but she is facing

criticism, she's fleeing heavy economic burden is at home. at the british made brompton bike shop in beijing, she defended her visit. growth is the number one mission of this government, to make our country better off, that's why i'm in china to unlock tangible benefits for british businesses, exporting and trading around the world. this is a major relationship reset, the first meeting between a uk chancellor and her chinese counterpart in seven years. china's economy is too tantalising to turn down amid the uk's economic woes. the us and eu have posed huge tariffs on these electric vehicles but the uk has not. it will please beijing if london does not follow donald trump's lead. but the chancellor will know there are risks that come with this new partnership. rachel reeves keeps

using the word pragmatic, what she says she's trying to do is to balance the uk's economic needs with its security concerns. but that brings up some serious issues because china will bristle at the mention of any human rights concerns, at the mention of allegations that its supporting russia's war in ukraine and allegations that it's spying in the uk. it seems the meetings went well. the total value of what we have agreed today is worth £600 million over the next five years for the uk economy. the uk imports more than twice as many goods from china than it sends here. this relationship is not one of economic equals. but the chancellor for now is betting on beijing, in that hope that it will eventually make britain better off. now it's time for a look at today's sport. with mark edwards. well, it's the oldest cup

competition in the world and there's a full fixture list of fa cup 3rd round ties in england on saturday, but there was no fairytale upset for 11th tier accrington stanley who were beaten 4—0 by liverpool. arne slot�*s premier league leaders enjoyed a comfortable afternoon at anfield — goals from diogojota, captain for the day trent alexander arnold, jayden danns and federico chiesa — the italian completing the scoring with a long—range drive — his first for liverpool following his august arrival from juventus. he is getting fitter and fitter and today was a good first step, although, don't get carried away because we played a league 2 team. i like the way they played but it's a good first step for him, good next step for him in what we want to see from him. three other matches completed already. fellow top flight side wolves will also bejoining liverpool in the next round. leicester macro are currently

for— two up at home to queens park rangers. currently meanwhile, later on saturday, could there be an upset brewing in manchester, as city host salford of league two? just five miles separates the clubs, with salford run by a host of former manchester united players to add some extra spice, who would just love to upset their neighbours, in this historic first meeting of the two clubs. i've been living in salford the last eight years. so while we play against my neighbourhood, so my hometown, i would say no hometown, you know my where i'm living. and the last six games, six clean sheets, six victories. so huge respect for them. what they do, the intensity. yeah, take it seriously. of course like always we have been in this club since i arrived.

and hopefully we can do a good game and make the three victories in a row. a long time didn't happen. david moyes is back at goodison park, after being appointed everton manager for the second time, 12 years after his last very succesful stint there. he lead everton for more than 500 games between 2002 and 2013, guiding the club to four european campaigns and the 2009 fa cup final before taking over from alex ferguson at manchester united. he has since had two spells at west ham, which included winning the europa conference league in 2023, but has been out of work since leaving the hammers at the end of last season. gael monfils made history by becoming the oldest winner of an atp tour singles title with victory at the asb classic in auckland. at 38 years and four months old, monfils takes the record from swiss great roger federer who was 38 years and two months old when he won the basel title in 2019. france's monfils beat belgium's zizou bergs 6—3 6—4 in the final to claim his 13th tour—level title.

the world number 52, who won his first title in 2005, will now travel to melbourne for the australian 0pen, which starts on sunday. felix auger—aliassime s australian open preparations are bubbling along nicely as he claimed his sixth atp tour title with a win at the adelaide international. the canadian 5th seed was taken the distance by sebastian korda, who was competing in his first tournament since undergoing elbow surgery last october. augier aliasme though powering through the decider to take the match 6—3 3—6 6—1. 0n the women's side, madison keys upset top seed and world number seven jessica pegula to win the event for a second time in a major confidence—boost ahead of the opening grand slam of the year. seeing off her american compatriot 6—3, 4—6, 6—1 for a ninth wta crown. and that's all the sport for now. let's head to the supreme court in washington now — where the future of tiktok

in the us hangs by a thread. justices have indicated that they will support banning the social media app over national security concerns — unless it severs ties with its chinese parent company, bytedance, before a deadline of the 19th of january. representatives from tiktok appeared before the court on friday — as the us government argued 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, however, is critical of the ban saying he could negotiate a �*political resolution' to keep the app legal once he takes office. let's speak to technology and national security program director at the center for a new american security, vivek chilukrui. thank you for being with us. which way do you think the supreme court is leaning on this? i supreme court is leaning on this? ~ , , supreme court is leaning on this? ~ ,, this? i think this case speaks to the broader— this? i think this case speaks to the broader issue - this? i think this case speaks to the broader issue of - this? i think this case speaks to the broader issue of the l this? i think this case speaks| to the broader issue of the us government trying to balance,

struggling to balance the tension between our open society and the ways foreign adversaries are taking advantage of our open platforms, including social media, to advance their own interests and undermine the united states. if you listen to arguments yesterday, the justices are grappling seriously with it but it seems that all the justices are quite sceptical or express some measurable scepticism that the tiktok position, which is purely a free—speech case, the government has overstepped and i suspect the supreme court will uphold the lower court �*s ruling and side with the us congress and the administration, i think they will be reluctant to step to theirjudgment with 80% of members of congress, quite an extraordinary bipartisan show of support for this legislation, will substitute

theirjudgment with that and theirjudgment with that and the national security arguments advanced by the us government. remind us what those main arguments are, from the side of people who think it is a threat to national security. i people who think it is a threat to national security.— to national security. i think what is important - to national security. i think what is important people i what is important people understand is you hear people say all social media companies are collecting a tonne of data on people, which is true. the particular issue here is tiktok is subject to chinese law. if the us government were to go to instagram or its parent company meta or google and say, give us data on your users, they could go to the courts and say, what is your justification? go to the courts and say, what is yourjustification? in china thatis is yourjustification? in china that is not the case. there are security laws in china that compel companies to hand over that data. what does that mean? tiktok is used by 170 million americans, over half of the population. they are collecting

location data, your search history and all this may seem innocuous enough but i don't think it should. the issue is that this data is a massive treasure trove of information that they can use in the future, potentially in compromising ways of young people or any adults using the 3pp people or any adults using the app now go on to prominent national security positions and let say they have been searching for compromising things or have been in places that a lot of people want to know and in theory the chinese government could use it against them. iii government could use it against them. , , . , them. if it is effectively banned. _ them. if it is effectively banned, what - them. if it is effectively banned, what would . them. if it is effectively| banned, what would you them. if it is effectively - banned, what would you think will happen? with an underground version of it come out? how would it play out? the bill has been _ out? how would it play out? tue: bill has been called out? how would it play out? tte: bill has been called a band but it's important to remember that byte dance is choosing to bat itself. the bill requires a divestiture of tiktok bite dance. it is choosing not to divest tiktok. the chinese

government have said they do not support its allegedly private independent company bytedance spinning of tiktok. what will happen is app stores like google and the apple app store will not host tiktok so it will not be upgraded and it will become inoperable and degrading its capabilities. they will face stiff penalties. there is a possibility people could access it through something called side—loading on their phone but that introduces other problems. people could use a vpns to access it but i think the app will be difficult to access in the united states afterjanuary 19. ., ~ the united states afterjanuary 19. . ~ , ., huge wildfires across the los angeles area have now destroyed an estimated 12,000 buildings and forced the evacuation of more than 140,000 people.

these are live pictures come into us now. as firefighters struggle to contain the blazes, forecasters say the return of strong winds during saturday and sunday could whip up flames further, in an area that hasn't seen rain for eight months. at least 11 people are known to have been killed since the blazes broke out on tuesday. earlier, a mandatory evacuation warning was implemented for the palisades fire for areas to the east of where it is burning. included in the warnings are the suburbs of brentwood and encino. also under warnings are the exclusive calabasas area, home to the kardashians, and parts of malibu. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. we start to see some subtle changes to the weather this weekend, though for moust

of us, it will remain quite cold, further sharp overnight frosts, but slowly, we will see weather fronts pushing in off the atlantic and that'll bring a little bit of rain and hill snow to scotland, northern ireland. there will be some sunshine around and by the end of the weekend it will be turning less cold initially across scotland and northern ireland, then across all areas into next week. we've got this area of high pressure building in across the country. this is the weather front bringing more cloud with some rain, sleet and snow to northern ireland, western scotland, perhaps north—west england and northern wales. it will tend to fizzle out as we head through this evening, leaving a legacy of fog and low cloud across northern ireland, western scotland but clearer skies for central and eastern england. eastern scotland, again, a cold one to come with a hard frost. could be down to —15 celsius across the north—east of scotland, may be not quite as cold as what we had on friday night. however, still a chilly start to the day, a widespread frost across central, northern eastern areas, a lot of sunshine for sunday with cloud towards western fringes where here it

will be less cold. temperatures beginning to climb here, another cold day to come further east. sunday night, under clearer skies across the midlands, southern and eastern england, a frost developing. further north and west as we pick up more cloud and a breeze off the atlantic, it will be a frost free night, we will start to see the snow and ice melting here as it will be milder but another one to come for large parts of england and wales. monday, a cold, frosty start for the midlands, eastern england, but sunshine here. further north and west, cloudierskies, breezy and there will be outbreaks of rain and it will be rain with these sorts of temperatures, nine to 13 degrees. a lot milder than what we've had for the last week. another chilly day to come for the midlands and eastern england with sunshine, but less cold. high pressure sits across france bringing us fairly brisk south—westerly winds, some weather fronts grazing northern and western areas, but all the while we will be drawing up this milder air from the south or south—west

on a brisk south—westerly breeze. a lot milderfor the upcoming week, certainly across scotland and northern ireland, double figures here, and with high—pressure nearby it will stay sunny with a bit of mist and fog around. take care.

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in parts of los angeles worst—hit by wildfires which have left at least 11 people dead. new evacuations have been issued in the pacific palisades area as it continues to burn. 0ur neighbourhood and neighbours have been eviscerated. it's devastating to see people's lives and livelihoods completely wiped out. rachel reeves has become the most senior official from the uk to visit china for 7 years. the chancellor has announced trade agreements with beijing worth £600 million to the uk over the next five years. a french woman whose father was convicted last month in a mass rape trial says he should never be released from jail. caroleen darian — the daughter of gisele pelicot — spoke to the bbc in her first broadcast interview since the trial. hello. let's return to our top story and those fires in los

angeles, where the authorities have declared a local health