this is bbc news, the headlines... trains cancelled, schools shut and millions are told to stay home as storm eowynn batters ireland and the uk. ireland and the uk. we hearfrom one we hearfrom one of the youngest suivivors from the auschwitz concentration of the youngest suivivors from camp in poland, as the 80th anniversary of its anniversary of its liberation approaches. liberation approaches. the un has described the un has described the need for aid in gaza the need for aid in gaza as "staggering," as most palestinians returning as "staggering," as most palestinians returning to their homes following to their homes following sunday's ceasefire have sunday's ceasefire have found them destroyed. found them destroyed. health authorities in gaza health authorities in gaza estimate that 10,000 people estimate that 10,000 people are unaccounted for. the searchers have no are unaccounted for. without heavy lifting without heavy lifting equipment, gazans are forced to dig through rubble by hand, equipment, gazans are forced to dig through rubble by hand, looking for what remains looking for what remains of the missing. of the missing. fergal keane reports fergal keane reports from jerusalem. from jerusalem. the missing are here somewhere. the missing are here somewhere. at least 10,000. at least 10,000.

for the most part, for the most part, the searchers have no heavy lifting equipment. by hand, they recover the rags and fragments of broken humanity. translation: i swear it is a painful feeling. i i cried. we are humans with feeling. seeing people torn, i can't convey to you how miserable the tragedy is. remains are taken to hospitals where families can come and check. this is the courtyard of the european hospital in south gaza. clothes and bones thought to be those of 19—year—old abdul salam, awaiting the arrival of his brother to confirm. "his family still doesn't know where he is," says zaki shuqba, the boy's uncle. "they still don't know until they can confirm it." his brother, mohammed, arrives and sifts through the clothes.

in this way, the death of abdul salam was confirmed to his family. the jewellery of a dead teenage girl. her earring worn by her younger sister in her memory. aya dabeh was a cherished child.

mum lina has now seen photographs of what happened to the grave after they left, when dogs came upon it. after the ceasefire, relatives sent pictures of bones and aya's clothes. somewhere in this wilderness of rain and white plastic are the remains of a brother. rana abudakar keeps searching. to give a name to the anonymous rags and bones. an essential gesture in the face of war�*s cruelty. fergal keane, bbc news, jerusalem. days into the gaza ceasefire, the head of israel's security service has signalled that the country's focus is switching to palestinian armed groups in the occupied west bank. israeli forces have been carrying out a major military operation in and around the west bank city of jenin since tuesday. for more on this, let's speak

to roland friedrich, unrwa's director of affairs for the occupied west bank and eastjerusalem. mr friedrich, thank you for joining us. what kind of situation are you see an unfolding?— situation are you see an unfolding? situation are you see an unfoldin: ? . ~ ,, , . unfolding? thank you very much indeed for _ unfolding? thank you very much indeed for having _ unfolding? thank you very much indeed for having me. _ unfolding? thank you very much indeed for having me. we - unfolding? thank you very much indeed for having me. we are i indeed for having me. we are seeing at the moment unfortunately a further deterioration of the humanitarian and security situation in the west bank, specifically the northern west bank where israeli security forces since tuesday have been undertaking a large—scale military operation in and around jenin refugee camp. in normal time such refugee camp is home to more than 20,000 residents, it has seen escalating violence since the beginning of the war and now we have a situation where almost all residents of the camp have been displaced, have left over the past three days. we have seen more than 13 people killed

so far, reportedly a plurality of them civilian bystanders. it comes in the background of the suspension of unrwa services. we ran four schools for more than 2000 children in this camp, help service for roughly 20,000 people but given the ongoing violence we have unfortunately had to stop these services since the beginning of december and i should have been unrwa crashes since the beginning of december. there has been a cumulative effect of the situation on the ground of people in and around the camp, women and elderly, children, it is severe. women and elderly, children, it is severe-— is severe. how is aid being distributed _ is severe. how is aid being distributed to _ is severe. how is aid being distributed to those - is severe. how is aid being distributed to those who . is severe. how is aid being i distributed to those who need it if your staff is not in place?— it if your staff is not in lace? ~ ., ., 4' , place? we are working very closely with _ place? we are working very closely with a _ place? we are working very closely with a partner - closely with a partner organisation in the distribution of so—called non—food items, cash assistance, food assistance but the access to the beneficiaries as we speak injenin is very,

very difficult. it is an unclear situation with ongoing hostilities and we are doing our best to get food items, non—food items and cash assistance to the people needed, but it is not easy at the moment. humanitarian access is an area of concern.— is an area of concern. what im act is an area of concern. what impact might _ is an area of concern. what impact might this - is an area of concern. what impact might this have - is an area of concern. what impact might this have on. is an area of concern. what i impact might this have on the ceasefire reached in gaza, just quickly? ceasefire reached in gaza, 'ust cuickl ? ~ ceasefire reached in gaza, 'ust cuickl ?~ , ceasefire reached in gaza, 'ust cuickl? , ~ , quickly? we can see in the west bank a broader _ quickly? we can see in the west bank a broader escalation i quickly? we can see in the west bank a broader escalation and l bank a broader escalation and many tensions, emotions are running very high and the concern is if the situation in and around jenin escalates then it might also damage the fragile ceasefire in the gaza strip. fragile ceasefire in the gaza stri -. ., . . fragile ceasefire in the gaza stri. ., . . ., strip. roland friedrich from unrwa in _ strip. roland friedrich from unrwa in the _ strip. roland friedrich from unrwa in the occupied i strip. roland friedrich from. unrwa in the occupied west bank, thank you very much for your time on bbc news. ajudge in kenya has warned he will imprison the police chief for contempt of court on monday if he fails to show up for a third time and account for a recent string of alleged abductions. police have denied involvement,

but the disappearance of dozens of young government critics since anti—tax protests last year has provoked a public backlash. 0ur africa correspondent barbara plett usher reports. in the season of kenya's gen z protests, the town of kitengela was a flashpoint. police struck hard at demonstrators angered by tax hikes and corruption. dozens were arrested, but many around the country disappeared. they were surveilling our mobile phones. they were tracking us down. jamil�*s brother aslam was one of the protest organisers. he'd been warned to stop. both were pulled into a car outside their home, hooded and handcuffed. after that, no sign of them for 32 days. aslam tells me he was regularly beaten, his tormentor demanding to know who was funding the protests. he shows me his scars. they were held in small, dark cells, they said, in an unknown location. translation: i was very scared. when the door was opened, that

man would come in with a fibre cable and a metal rod. i was scared he'd come to beat me again or finish me off. who abducted you ? do you know who abducted you? they were heavily armed. they did the abduction in plain daylight. so, you see, the security agents said they knew what was going on. they had the tracking devices that could track down our mobile phones. i don't know if anybody is capable of doing that in this country, apart from the security agencies. others like them were captured on camera. more than 80 government critics reported missing so far. about a third still unaccounted for. people are demanding answers. the reply from the government spokesman — the state is not responsible. there's no way you can say that is only government security operations. so you might have parallel security structures that are interfering here? 0rganised security may also be part of organised crime. those who would want

to abduct anyone would do it for a certain reason. it could also be for political reasons, by the way. 0ur political detractors have really railed on this issue. they actually ran with itjust to settle political scores. but this isn't new. kenya has a history of state—sponsored abductions — especially under the authoritarian leader daniel arap moi in the 1980s and �*90s. ..are in contempt of these proceedings. there is more accountability now. the police chief has been summoned to court three times, but he hasn't shown up yet. president ruto has promised to stop the abductions, forced to respond to public outrage and to concern from western allies. kenyans are waiting to see whether the country has really moved on from its dark past.

barbara plett usher, bbc news, nairobi. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

on monday, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz—birkenau. 0pened by the nazis in occupied poland in 19110 as a concentration and labour camp, it ulimately became the most notorious extermination camp. more than a million people were murdered there, the majority of them jews. the 27th january also marks holocaust memorial day to remember the six million jews killed during the second world war. lucy hockings has been speaking to tova friedman, and american author and therapist, and one of the youngest auschwitz survivors. tova survived the german extermination camp at the age ofjust six years old. originally from poland, she moved to the us with her parents. lucy started by asking tova

about her feelings as the 80th anniversary approaches. what i want the world to do is to please remember. remember us. and let it be a lesson to the world — what can happen if we are not careful, and how we can easily destroy each other if we don't stop this horrible, terrible...fury that is around the world right now. so i want the world to remember us, and to learn from it. so many of us struggle to remember things from when we were small. how much do you remember of your time there? i remember an awful lot because, as i mentioned before, i think that my mother would tell me. "yes," she said, "that smoke. yes, burning bodies." she never covered up anything.

and she said, "yes, those dogs, those german shepherds — they are trained to kill, but only if you run, so you are not going to run. you're going to stand very... you're going to stand very still." she taught me survival skills. that is an incredible gift, tova — those survival skills that your mother gave you, — but there were other things that happened in auschwitz that meant you survived when others didn't. can you tell us your story from then? well, at one time, i was beaten terribly because i couldn't stand still at roll call. these roll calls were three hours, four hours. i was five and a half — i wasn't even six — and i was beaten by this gestapo — a woman, in fact — because she didn't like that i was moving around and not standing still. and i remember my mother's eyes said to me, "hold on.

don't cry." and she said something else years — or maybe months — earlier. "don't have eye contact." so i remember as this woman was beating me, i did not look at her eyes. i looked at her forehead. i didn't make a sound. because my mother had once told me, "the more you show that they hurt you, the more pleasure they get." that was the... that was the mantra in auschwitz. don't show — don't give them the satisfaction. suffer in silence. beatings, hunger, freezing weather, being barefoot — that's a survival skill. don't let them know who you are. eye contact is something that people recognise.

don't look into anybody�*s eyes. that is an incredible survival skill for such a little girl, as well, to have learned and being taught by your mother. but what about — i understand that there was a trip for you to the gas extermination chamber, and itjust happened to be that one day that it malfunctioned. we really don't know what happened because we don't have the exact date. but i remember going there and i remember... i thought to myself, "why are people unhappy?" because i and my whole group — my whole barrack of children — were going to the gas chamber together. we were like... we were in pairs. and when we got there and we were undressed... you know, one of the ways that they dehumanise

us is undressed us. people without clothing have much less identity. we had no hair, no clothes, tattooed. and here we stood, waiting for the shower door to open. we knew what it was. everybody knew. except they gave us some kind of a small towel and said, "ok, here are your... make sure you find your clothes when you come out." did we...? were we going to come out? i don't know. it's very hard to contemplate your own death. but i remember standing there, shivering, very, very hungry. and yet, i was waiting for the door to open so we could go in because i thought, that's...

that's life. that's how it is. auschwitz survivor tova friedman. we will be marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz over the coming days. and on monday 27th january, on holocaust memorial day, lucy hockings will be presenting from auschwitz where survivors and world leaders will come together for day of commemorations. the 0scars nominations are out, with the brutalist being one of this year's most nominated films with 10 nods including best film, and best actor for adrien brody. he's hoping for a second academy award after winning in 2003 for the pianist. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. post—war america, and hungarian immigrant laszlo is trying to rebuild his life through his work as an architect. speaking rather appropriately, surrounded by the brutalist

buildings of london's barbican centre, adrien brody explains how his character's drive to create reflects his own path as an actor. it's an opportunity for me to honour my ancestral struggles — my mother and my grandparents�* hardships and loss in fleeing hungary in the �*50s and immigrating to the united states. very moving to be reminded of the details and hardships that they experienced that very much parallel the lived experience of my character. feel free to call me elizabeth. felicityjones plays felicity jones plays his felicityjones plays his wife but says it can be a struggle finding female parts like this where the character is independent and intelligent. where? oxford — to study english. i mean, i find... i've got to find someone who has some kind of, um, spunk or, you know, has some fight in them — some

sense of defiance is so key. so when i read the script, it was an absolute no—brainer. they do not want us here. who do you mean? the people here. they do not want us here. the relationships in the film might be intimate and personal, but they're set against a backdrop that is epic in so many ways — not least the film's length. it clocks in at over 3.5 hours. are audiences potentially going to be put off by something of this immense length? for me, i think the length of a movie is similar to the length of a book. you know, a double album, you know, painting with a big canvas. and at the end of the day, especially because the film has an intermission, you know, it's only 100 minutes on each side, so it's not so bad. the film gathered ten 0scar nominations, including a best actor nod for adrien brody. even before they were announced, brody said how thankful he was for the recognition the film has gained. i did not realise these images were still available, much less of any consequence.

i'm just really grateful and, um, i'm very appreciative of having had a chance to flourish in a work that i've dedicated a life towards. when that is received with respect and appreciation, it's very rewarding. in just over a month's time, adrien brody will find out whether he's won a second best actor oscar and whether the film has won best picture. lizo mzimba, bbc news. let's return to the impact of storm eowyn pass parts of ireland and the uk. this is whitehaven on the cumbrian coast where you can see there is very, very high c stage ——

see searches as part of a weather alert for northern ireland and parts of scotland. the children's charity barnardo's has opened its archives to a camera crew for the first time, to reveal the history of fostering in the uk. the charity, which has run fostering services since the victorian era, hopes sharing the historic images will highlight the current shorage of carers, and encourage more people to come forward. 0ur reporter tim muffett went to take a look. so this is the barnardo's archive. the records of the children who have been in our care. it's the records for about half a million children. we really have a collection that shows, really, social welfare throughout the last 150 years.

when thomas barnardo moved from dublin to london in 1866, cholera had left thousands of children orphaned in the city. so impactful... we've been given rare access to the archives of the charity he set up, which still bears his name. here we have the story of william crook. he's aged 16 and four foot ten, which gives you an indication of malnutrition that was happening in the area of east london. you also get william's own voice in a statement about why he was coming into the charity's care, and about the help that he might have needed. why is that unusual? it's just actually very unusual for us to have the voice of the children in the victorian period. now, peter, what would you like santa claus to bring you? i would like santa claus| to bring me my mother. this footage is from 1933. as well as setting up residential homes for children, barnardo also played a key role in the concept of fostering or boarding out, as it was first

known, which began in 1886. so that was really placing children in the community with families that would be able to provide them with care. he called it a hopeful experiment. within years, it had really started to flourish, which carries right through to our work today. oh, how are you, are you all right? 0h, pretty good. nice to see you, you 0k? 0wen is one of more than a0 children fostered by charles and diane hubbard. there's a shortage of foster carers, so we looked into it, went through the process, went to all the meetings and everything. and we decided we could do it, didn't we? yeah. she genuinely made it feel like i was part of a family. she wouldn't treat me any different than she would to her own son. so it was like, when you're in that environment, not only helps you as a person do everything, but it makes you feel so much more comfortable and you don't realise you're in care. you don't realise you're with a foster family. it's one in1 million, isn't it?

it's amazing. thanks. thank you. wow, that's amazing to hear. he's only saying all. that because we still give him food parcels! charles and diane have recently been awarded an mbe for their services to fostering. very proud. because we made a difference to children's lives, haven't we? yeah. when they've come to stay with us, yeah. it's amazing. charles, diane and owen have been invited to barnardo's to see the charity's archives themselves. if you think about it, it's lovely, isn't it? you're remembering people from the past. given that you've lived in foster care, do you feel some kind of connection? yeah. it's nice, you know. being alone isn't. you'd like to think that somewhere up there, they'll be looking down and happy that someone's finally reading about them, what they went through, how they looked, so they can get their story to other people to help other kids. my parents didn't keep

me, couldn't keep me, didn't want to keep me. abandoned as a baby, jean—shefali was just one month old when she was moved into a barnardo's home. two years later, she was placed with a foster family who cared for her until she was 17. just used to say i'm anglo—indian. outside of the family unit, people used to say to me, you know, "where do you come from?" 0r "go back to your own country." it was at a time in the '50s when there was a lot of prejudice. and my foster mother, really, she didn't know quite how to handle it. i didn't have a narrative of my family, and i didn't have a narrative of how come i was fostered. anyone who's been cared for or fostered through barnardo's can access files the charity has on them, as can their descendants. in some places, it was quite hard to read. it told me about who my parents were. it told me their names,

i actually had a name. these records mean so much to so many of us, actually finding out the truth, even if i didn't like some of those truths. making sure that cultural identity is respected and cared for. jean—shefali is now an ambassador for barnardo's, and offers advice on fostering or adopting children from different cultural backgrounds. barnardo's, you know, have improved in that area greatly. becoming a foster carer is a big decision. placements don't always work out. but the shortage of volunteers is of huge concern to many. it means thatjust like 150 years ago, too many children today are missing out on a loving home. tim muffett, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith—lucas. storm eowyn is moving its way in from the west and it's going to bring a very windy day

wherever you are today, especially so across northern parts of the uk. various warnings in force, including two red warnings from the met office across parts of northern ireland, central and southern scotland. also red warnings for the isle of man, too. here is this area of low pressure associated with the storm system — it's been deepening rapidly. lots of isobars, particularly on the southern edge of that area of low pressure, so the strongest winds tracking across the republic of ireland, northern ireland, into central and southern scotland — it's here that we've got the red warnings in force. widespread gusts — 80mph, 90mph, we could see 100mph or more. in fact, we've already had a 114mph gust in the republic of ireland. but more widely, away from the red warnings, also amber warnings — they last longer. there could be gusts over the hills and around the coasts of 80mph or 90mph, so severe disruption likely right across the northern half of the uk. for england and wales, after the morning's rain clears away towards the east, we're left with sunshine, but

still windy conditions here — gusts of aomph, 50mph widely. more than that over higher ground. still windy but not quite as windy as this morning across northern ireland. 40mph to perhaps 80mph for many of us — this is the gusts of wind we're likely to see. now that is in relative shelter — in exposure, they will be stronger than that. it will not be warm, with temperatures around 6—9 degrees when you add on the wind chill. heavy rain also across parts of scotland lasting through to the evening. snowfall over higher ground — could be 25 centimetres, in fact. blizzard conditions for a time across parts of scotland. 0vernight tonight, some wet weather across parts of southern england, and a cold night with temperatures falling to freezing or a bit below that, we are likely to see some icy stretches taking us through to saturday morning. saturday thankfully a little quieter, the centre of storm eowyn has moved off to the north—east by this stage, still a bit of rain across parts of south—east england which should clear through the day. gales still expected across parts of northern and western scotland, perhaps first thing for northern ireland, too, but for most thankfully a much

quieter and less windy day. more rain in the west later on, and feeling chilly — only around 6 or 7 degrees. more outbreaks of rain on the way for sunday, but thankfully the winds will not be as strong and as disruptive and dangerous as they are out there today.

live from london, this is bbc news. collasped walls and trees on the railway, storm eowyn continue to batter ireland and the uk, bringing record gust of of 114mph. a red �*danger to life' warning is in force across the large part of the island of ireland, the isle of man, and parts of scotland, with flood alerts around much of the uk. in the republic of ireland over 700,000 people without power and it is just over 700,000 people without power and it isjust over 100,000 in northern ireland, so lots of people waking up this morning without electricity. this people waking up this morning without electricity.— without electricity. this is the scene _ without electricity. this is the scene in _ without electricity. this is the scene in northern i without electricity. this is i the scene in northern ireland, many people are being urged to stay—at—home. we'll bring you all

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