welcome back to bbc news. let's turn to our main headlines here. a deadly fire engulfs a 12—storey hotel in a turkish ski—resort — killing 66 people and injuring over 50. the trump administration starts with a flurry of executive orders — rolling back climate policies, declaring an emergecny at the border and granting pardons for those who stormed the us capitol. the ceasefire between israel and hamas holds into a third day, with a further exchange of hostages and prisoners expected at the weekend. prince harry's legal battle against the publisher of the sun newspaper — which was due to start

this morning — has been pushed back to wednesday. the former labour deputy leader lord tom watson is also suing the company. lets catch up with the sports headlines. good afternoon, ollie. the ten—time champion novak djokovic is through to the semi—finals at the australian open after a thrilling, hard—fought victory over spain's carlos alcaraz alcaraz, who beat djokovic in both his wimbledon final triumphs, took the first set 6—4 but from that point onwards, even though both men broke each other, the serb took control, winning the next three in a match that lasted over three and half hours and finished just before one in the morning. alcaraz, was third seed in melbourne but has never made it past the quarters. djokovic will face alexander zverev in the semis. the women's champion, aryna sabalenka, will play

paula badosa in the semis after a 19th win in a row at melbourne park. the world number one, who is looking to secure a hat—trick of australian open titles, had to work really hard to battle past the 27th seed, anastasia pavlyuchenkova. she won the first set 6—2 but lost the second by the same margin and then went a break down in the third, but sabalenka turned it around to take the decider. the champions league returns this week. it's the penultimate round of matches, with qualification for the last 16 still in the balance for so many clubs. not muchjeopardy for liverpool, the only side with a 100% record, with six wins out of six. they need just one point later to guarantee direct progress to the knockout stage. if they win at home to lille and barcelona fail to beat benfica, arne slot�*s side would be sure of finishing top of the 36—team league and that should get them a kinder draw for the round of 16. i love looking at a league table in the way of, oh, if we are number one,

we probably have the most easy team to face because that is impossible to say because of this weird format — weird, i don't mean in a negative way, but a strange format we are having now. being on top may be doesn't tell you that you are the best team. being number24 it doesn't tell you that you are number 2a in terms of quality. it has a lot to do with the teams that you've faced. we want to win but not from an idea that it will probably give us the best lead—up for the rest of the campaign. a further eight fixtures in the champions league tonight, with early starts for monaco — aston villa and atalanta — sturm graz. atletico madrid in 11th, who host fourth—placed bayer leverkusen. that should be a good one. barcelona in second will look to take advantage of any slip—up

by liverpool, while dortmund could take a step towards a top—eight finish with a win at bologna if they can. magister city are at p56 tomorrow. —— manchester city. manchester city have bolstered their defensive options again, with vitor reis the second player to join the club in the space of 2a hours the deal for the 19—year—old brazilian defender was only announced early on tuesday. he's cost nearly £30 million, from palmerias. and another young defender, 20—year—old abdukodir khusanov, arrived from french side lens forjust over £33 million. both have been training with the squad, although they won't be eligible to play away at p56 tomorrow in the champions league. this year's six nations championship will mark 25 years since italy joined the tournament. and to reflect that milestone, the annual launch event took place at the colosseum in rome. the coaches and captains of the six nations posed

with the trophy within the city's iconic landmark ahead of the tournament's first match on january 31st when france take on wales. ireland are back—to—back champions and are aiming to become the first nation to win the competition three years in a row. there is a lot of belief within the group that there is also the group that there is also the feeling that we can improve still at a time and if you look at the results from autumn, some good, some not so good, same with the performances, so it feels like there is a lot of room for growth and we want to chase that down together. you can read all — chase that down together. you can read all about _ chase that down together. you can read all about the six nations preparations on the bbc sport website and app. but that is all from me for now. president trump has started his second term — as promised — with a shock—and—awe flurry of executive orders. ben chu from bbc verify has been trawling through some of them — there are 100 or so — to see what they will mean. president trump signed 26 executive orders on the day

of his inauguration, covering areas ranging from border control, designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organisations, to energy policy, withdrawing the us from the paris climate agreement, to diversity and gender, declaring that there are only two genders, male and female, and many more executive orders besides these. but what are these executive orders? well, they are a written order or directive issued by the president to the us federal government, which does not require approval of the us congress, its legislative branch. they are not explicitly mentioned in the us constitution, but authority for issuing them is accepted to derive from article two, which states that the executive power shall be vested in a president of the united states of america, and every president from george washington down has used them. presidents can revoke the executive orders of their predecessors. on his first day in office in 2021, joe biden signed an order laying the ground

for the us to rejoin the 2015 paris climate agreement, reversing an order from donald trump's first term. trump's new executive order to end birthright citizenship, automatic american citizenship granted to anyone born in the us, has already drawn a legal challenge on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. the 14th amendment of the constitution explicitly states that all persons born or naturalised in the united states are citizens of the united states. congress can also pass a law to override an executive order, although the president still has a veto over that law. in his entire first term, trump signed 220 executive orders. after a single day in office, he is already heading quite rapidly towards matching that total. let's go live to washington. let's speak to caroline hawley.

the president had promised to make our head spin from day one and it looks as if it's panning out that way. he and it looks as if it's panning out that way.— out that way. he moved a dizzying _ out that way. he moved a dizzying pace _ out that way. he moved a dizzying pace yesterday. i out that way. he moved a - dizzying pace yesterday. those executive orders signed not in the oval office at the white house behind me, but the first one is assigned in a sports arena where he held a victory rally the night before he was inaugurated. he is determined to push through with his agenda and he said the words, nothing will stand in our way. he had promised to be a dictatorfor a day and yesterday he spoke of a tide of change frankly overnight, it felt like a tsunami and... ., , tsunami and... apologies, you can see the — tsunami and... apologies, you can see the line _ tsunami and... apologies, you can see the line freezing - tsunami and... apologies, you can see the line freezing they l can see the line freezing they are to washington. apologies for that. just a reminder here, in about 25 minutes' time, we

will be answering your questions on what donald trump has laid out and what to expect, to sort of unpack that tsunami of policy statements to try to talk to our correspondence and try to find out a little bit more about what donald trump is actually planning. that is coming up in about 20 minutes' time with your questions weaved into that and we have restored the line to caroline. caroline, you were talking about the amount of executive orders in all sorts of policy areas.— executive orders in all sorts of policy areas. that's right, i of policy areas. that's right, i mean. _ of policy areas. that's right, i mean. the _ of policy areas. that's right, i mean, the breadth - of policy areas. that's right, i mean, the breadth of - of policy areas. that's right, i mean, the breadth of what of policy areas. that's right, i i mean, the breadth of what he is trying to sweep away and bring in, pretty muchjoe biden�*s entire legacy, his promotion of clean energy for example, sweeping away subsidies for electric cars, diversity and inclusion policies, all of that gone and instead as you said, were drawing again from the paris

climate change agreement after the hottest year on record —— withdrawing again. withdrawing from the who, saying the us is spending too much money on it. so this is obviously being watched with concern and alarm around the world, as leaders sort of work out how they are going to respond to a new donald trump residency, and alarm are, of course, here among many people as well who did not vote for donald trump and more than 50% of the population didn't vote, but he did win the popular vote, so he has the levers of power, he is determined to push ahead with the agenda, and the world will be trying to catch up with him. and frankly, armies of fact checkers are in newsrooms around the world and will be poring over all his words as he speaks. nothing much has happened so far today. he has had his first cabinet member

sworn in, marco rubio, the new secretary of state, but it is early days here in washington. people are plate attending celebrations and balls, so we wait to see what the rest of the day brings, matthew. thank ou, the day brings, matthew. thank you. caroline — the day brings, matthew. thank you, caroline hawley _ the day brings, matthew. thank you, caroline hawley life - the day brings, matthew. thank you, caroline hawley life or- the day brings, matthew. thank you, caroline hawley life or is i you, caroline hawley life or is there in washington. —— life for us there. one of most pressing issues facing the new us president will be the situation in the middle east. as the gaza ceasefire continues to hold for a third day, the un says aid convoys going into the territory have been free of looters. these are the latest pictures from rafah. the un says more than 900 aid trucks entered the territory on monday. hamas has confirmed it will release the next israeli hostages on saturday in exchange for palestinians held by israel. nichola jones from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies joins us. welcome to bbc news. the need

is absolutely obvious, so what are going to be your priorities?— are going to be your priorities? are going to be your riorities? . , . priorities? thanks very much for our priorities? thanks very much for your time _ priorities? thanks very much for your time today. - priorities? thanks very much for your time today. of - priorities? thanks very much i for your time today. of course, as you outlined, the needs are catastrophic for the people in gaza. we are talking about 2 million people who have been struggling and clinging to survival now for the best part of 15 months, so in this moment, the priorities from our side, from the international federation of red cross and red crescent, is really to get in as much emergency and critical aid as we can and we are focusing on health care, medical supplies, focusing on health care, medicalsupplies, medicines focusing on health care, medical supplies, medicines and shelter, just even the most basic of items like a blanket are really critical right now. it's our colleagues at the palestine red crescent that are on the ground and are already responding and have been throughout the whole of the last nightmare of the previous 15 months, and now they are also putting a lot of their efforts onto the medical care and the emergency response for

the people who are desperately trying to find their way through the next phase of this emergency. because although the ceasefire provide some level of relief and some level of a moments for people to catch their breath, the reality of people in gaza is that they don't have anywhere to live. more than 70% of homes have been damaged or destroyed so we are now working with the palestine red crescent and our volunteers and staff on the ground there to try to provide as much support as we can in this difficult moment.- as much support as we can in this difficult moment. yes, aid aaencies this difficult moment. yes, aid agencies will _ this difficult moment. yes, aid agencies will want _ this difficult moment. yes, aid agencies will want to - this difficult moment. yes, aid agencies will want to flood - this difficult moment. yes, aid agencies will want to flood the j agencies will want to flood the area with all manner of help and in terms of the obvious dangers, i mentioned looters because we have seen aid deliveries being looted in recent months, but you also have unexploded ordinance. how dangerous will it be? you have unexploded ordinance. how dangerous will it be?— dangerous will it be? you are riaht, dangerous will it be? you are right. this — dangerous will it be? you are right. this is _ dangerous will it be? you are right, this is an _ dangerous will it be? you are right, this is an aid _ dangerous will it be? you are right, this is an aid operation| right, this is an aid operation fraught with obstacles and challenges not only from the logistical point of view of the physical movement of aid at the

border and relaxing those restrictions we hope will continue and become more freeing for us as we go through the ceasefire process, but also on the other side. once aid arrives in gaza, we are in a situation where there are barely any functioning roads and the warehouses we would have used to store aid have been destroyed and there is no electricity supply and still a massive shortage of fuel, so all of these challenges, combined with those you outlined, are presenting something of a real big moment for us as the sector, but nothing more important than the challenges faced by the people of gaza themselves.— of gaza themselves. obviously thin . s of gaza themselves. obviously things like _ of gaza themselves. obviously things like food, _ of gaza themselves. obviously things like food, shelter, - things like food, shelter, medicines are the absolute priority, but i suppose in the short or medium term, although psychological issues, trauma, there will be an awful lot of help needed in that area. there absolutely _ help needed in that area. there absolutely is, _ help needed in that area. there absolutely is, and _ help needed in that area. there absolutely is, and that - help needed in that area. there absolutely is, and that is - help needed in that area. there absolutely is, and that is such l absolutely is, and that is such an important point because there are obviously many people

who are injured and wounded and dealing with the chronic health conditions they already have in the absence of any proper, functioning medical service, and we come up with the palestine red crescent, are running medical health services, ambulances and setting up a field hospital but what is also happening to the community is the wounds that are not so visible and the trauma and the psychological damage that has also been done to people throughout the last 15 months. to that end, we are focusing on providing that kind of psychological support and safe spaces for people to be able to try to process and grieve and come together at this moment, as the long road to recovery begins.— to recovery begins. nicola jones, thank _ to recovery begins. nicola jones, thank you - to recovery begins. nicola jones, thank you for - to recovery begins. nicola | jones, thank you for taking time to speak to us. perhaps we will talk again in the coming weeks. it has been reported that keir starmer, the uk prime minister, has told benjamin netanyahu that the peace process should lead to a

palestinian state. interesting that, because of course donald trump's new ambassador to the middle east, to the region, talking in recent days about how he did not believe in a two state solution so a completely opposite take their from the uk prime minister, saying the peace process should lead to a palestinian state. around the world and across the uk, you are watching bbc news.

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