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news. c azerbaijan airlines says external interference brought down one of its planes that crashed in kazakhstan. mexico's government tests a panic button app allowing migrants to send an alert if the u.s. government tries to deport them. new analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heat waves. the climate crisis added six more weeks of extreme heat in 2024. the prime minister of nepal says there are too many tigers in his country and he wants to give some away. ♪ hello and welcome. the white house says it has seen early indications that suggest a

plane that crashed in kazakhstan this week was possibly brought down by russian air defense systems. the kremlin has so far refused to comment on reports the plane was hit by russian weaponry. azerbaijan airlines says the parliamentary result of the investigation into the incident found that there was external physical and technical interference. but the report stopped short of accusing any group or country of being responsible. the plane initially tried to land in southern russia. the head of russia's aviation authority says the plane was unable to do so because of the

ukrainian drone attack. pro-government media in azerbaijan has quoted unnamed officials, saying they believed a russian air defense missile caused plane to crash. reporter: this is the moment the plane went down. it is remarkable anyone survived. but emerging from the wreckage, some did. the flight had been diverted to kazakhstan after passengers heard bangs when it tried to land at its original destination in czechia. >> they say there were two bangs, but i only heard one. it was quite substantial. i honestly did not hear the second one, but first only some of the oxygen mask spell out, not all of them. correspondent: investigators are now asked -- examining the damage to the outside of the plane. the owner of azerbaijan airlines said it had suffered external physical and technical interference. the kremlin has refused to comment on speculation that it was mistakenly brought down by a russian air defense system. >> i would like to point out that the situation on that day and during those hours in the area around the airport was very difficult.

ukrainian military drones were carrying out terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure in the city. correspondent: in azerbaijan today, the first funerals for some of the 38 people who were killed. why they died will take time to find out and will likely be disputed. john donnison, bbc news. correspondent: a former air accident investigator told me what he thinks of things so far. >> these days there is so much imagery in social media in the news that occasionally it is possible to draw quite clear conclusions early on. the photographs we have seen in the video footage, which are many in the public domain now, clearly show damage to the aircraft which is consistent with an explosion of some kind,

almost external to but very close to the aircraft. those images, along with the other evidence, indicate very strongly that what has happened is some kind of air defense missile has exploded close to the aircraft. that has not only caused the disruption to the aircraft's skin, which is apparent in the photographs and video, but more importantly, others suggest that the flying control systems, which were hydraulic, and if they lose their hydraulic fluid, then the pilots on the flight deck -- and the flight deck lose their means of controlling the aircraft. that is an extraordinarily difficult situation from which disaster is almost leave the outcome. but occasionally we see cases, and this appears to be another of them, very similar to the sioux city crash any years ago in which the pilots managed to

maintain some degree of control of the aircraft. the video footage shows the aircraft in a series of what we would call few good maneuvers. it pitches up and then down over a period of many seconds, and fortunately, the finer maneuver, which results in the aircraft contacting the ground, i don't think it can cause a landing, but i have no doubt whatsoever that the manner in which that was achieved is that there are 29 survivors and not the loss of all onboard. anchor: a man has been charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of two people in bletchley on christmas day. a 49-year-old has been charged with two counts of attempted murder. police have confirmed that two women who died following the incident or joanne pearson and tiana grant, both from milton keene's.

a man in his late 20's and a teenage boy were also taken to the hospital with serious injuries and are said to be in stable condition. mexico's government has announced an emergency strategy to protect migrants in the united states ahead of the inauguration of president-elect donald trump next month. mr. trump has threatened to deport millions of illegal migrants, among the measures announced by the foreign minister is a mobile phone panic button which can be activated by anyone facing imminent arrest. >> in case you find yourself in a situation where the tension is imminent, you push the alert button. that sends a signal to the nearest consulate and the relatives whose contact information you sent on the app. anchor: it would connect to each way for our a day call center for mexicans abroad -- a 24 hour a day call center for mexicans abroad. staying with the subject of

immigration, it appears a rift has emerged among donald trump's supporters over the issue. u.s. media reports that recent tensions were sparked the appointment of donald trump's ai advisor, who recently made comments supporting the removal of some caps for high skilled workers. that prompted criticism from sammy in the trump support base who backed a stricter approach to immigration. for more on this, i spoke to the congressional correspondent at cbs news. >> kissell felt inevitable, that there was going to be some fracture at some point among the sphere of influencers who are aligned with donald trump, because you had these outside, nongovernmental, unelected, forceful voices in donald trump's ear, elon musk, the billionaire, vivek ramaswamy, the longtime trump ally,

one-time republican primary candidate, who are saying things that may run counter to the beliefs of donald trump's elected allies, those in the u.s. congress, those in state offices. what really caused this first profound fracture was a set of social media posts i ramaswamy -- by ramaswamy arguing that companies may be better positioned and acclimated to attract foreign workers through the immigration process instead of using u.s. workers. he made a series of cultural arguments on why he thinks people from other nations would be better situated for u.s. companies than those who live in the u.s. because of the cultural dynamics at play, among other things. that runs so very counter to what donald trump's political allies in electorate office -- elected office or arguing, that it should be america first and americans should be prioritized. you already have a bunting of heads on that issue with likely more to come, because there is

this frustration if not resentment among some of the elected officials that these nonelected outside billionaire influencers have the ear of the president-elect. anchor: what this also illustrates is how potentially contradictory the positions are among some trump supporters. do we know how mr. trump plans to manage the broader supporter base that he has in this second term? >> the same way he has for eight years. he has a whole set of seemingly contradictory positions that his base accepts. he has talked about trying to lower prices in the u.s., things like food and housing and consumer goods, yet he is also champing -- championing tariffs on foreign goods. seems to be a consensus it would lead to higher prices, so he has a contradiction, but his supporters seem not to be swayed by that. he talks about law and order,

prioritizing a tougher criminal justice system, yet is poised to pardon a whole set u.s. capitol riot insurrectionists, seemingly a contradiction, but he seems to navigate that just fine. he has a version of political teflon that allows his base to be seemingly impenetrable may matter what contradictions he brings to the table. anchor: we've got less than a month to the inauguration. briefly, what will you be keeping an eye on in washington? >> there is this particularly narrow u.s. house majority, the lower chamber of the u.s. congress, that president-elect trump's party has, where they can lose just one vote on anything of consequence, which means the minority party, the democrats are going to have outsize influence in the first two years set of the trump term. he's going to have to do things with democrats like keep the government open, raise the debt ceiling, passed major legislation that requires spending. that is going to come

almost immediately after taking the oath. how democrats navigate it is going to tell how this first year is going to go. he will not get everything he wants because of that narrow majority in the lower chamber. anchor: let's turn to the middle east now, one of the last punching hospitals in northern gaza has been subtly evacuated by the israeli military. the hospital has been under siege i the idf for weeks. staff say airstrikes overnight which targeted the area killed 50 people. the head of the hospital's nursing department told the bbc the army gave them only a 15 minute warning to evacuate before the israeli army entered the hospital and removed any patients that remained. israel has not commented on the evacuation. our colleagues at bbc arabic have been talking to those who witnessed the operation. >> we are talking to you from inside the hospital as we are coming down to the courtyard. the army is inside.

we hope everyone will be safe. if lucky, we will talk to you again, god willing for the best. please forgive me if we have wronged anyone and pray for us. i am a paramedic at the hospital. the occupation army is now besieging the hospital and is asking one doctor to bring patients to the hospital's courtyard. in 58 minutes from now, the army will enter the hospital. this is a message verbatim which the doctor has just received from the occupation army. anchor: someone witnesses speaking to our colleagues. our correspondence at this report from jerusalem. >> we have heard from medical staff who say that, as you mentioned, they were given very short time to evacuate the hospital, both the patient's and the medical staff, and that israeli soldiers went into the hospital and evacuated.

the rest were unsure where the medical staff had gone. we have also heard reports from inside the hospital that some of the people were taken in the courtyard and told to take off their clothes in very cold conditions. we have not heard a comment from the israeli military about that. one concerning point is that we are unaware or unsure where the patient's and the medical staff are being taken after the evacuation of the hospital. there has been a statement by israeli military official -- there is an intention to take the patients and evacuate them and take them to another hospital, the indonesian hospital. the problem is the hospital itself has been evacuated and has been the site of shelling and bombardment. it is essentially hollowed out as a medical facility. medical staff tell us that you've got people in the icu, patients in a coma who need

acute medical attention. they need oxygen, for example. they need medication. the indonesian hospital is not equipped. this comes after hours from what we have heard from the head of the hospital. he said that overnight they had been shelling in the vicinity of the hospital and in the building opposite of it, and that resulted in the death of dozens of people, around 50 or so, but also major distraction around the hospital. the israeli military said they are unaware of that and are looking into it. anchor: correspondent reporting from jerusalem. let's turn to the u.s. a man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was set on fire on a new york subway on sunday. sebastian zepeda allegedly set the person's clothes alight and then find -- fanned the flames by waving a shirt around her. our american correspondent has more. reporter: this was around 7:30

in the morning when police say this woman was asleep on a subway train and person went over to her with a light and set her alight. she was engulfed in flames in a matter of seconds that is -- in part because the flames were found by a person pulling the shirt. they used a firing wisher to try to put out the flames, but sadly the woman died at the scene. at the moment, she has not been identified. it is not she may have been a homeless person, but they are now trying to use dna and fingerprints to identify who she might be. sebastian zapeta was arrested soon afterwards because he was caught on surveillance cameras and police body worn camera footage and was recognized by some schoolchildren who alerted the authorities. he was arrested soon afterwards. there was a court hearing today where he was charged with a number of offenses, including murder 1, the most serious murder offense you can face.

that carries a sentence of life without parole if convicted. he also faces an arson charge and a number of other murder charges. he is due to appear in court again at the start of the new year. upon -- anchor: on to politics, germany's president has as expected to dissolve parliament after the collapse of the governing coalition in november. the announcement clears the way for elections in february to decide who will lead europe's largest economy. michaela kushner's chief political editor with deutsche welle. she explained the pulling may show germany with the sharpest movement to the right in decades. >> there is a sense that the conservatives you see could very well take over once again, but it too will need a coalition. it would mean a shift to the right, but it would not mean a shift to the extreme right.

that is a key point. and it would be a party that would most likely need a coalition partner to work with. we could see the social democrat party of chancellor olaf scholz back again, but it would likely be as a junior partner. the question is whether it will be the social democrats or the greens. there is a concern that the far-right alternative were germany could have a strong showing as well, after it did in regional elections last year. anchor: new analysis shows fossil fuels are supercharging heat waves, leaving millions prone to deadly temperatures. it shows the climate crisis caused an additional six weeks of dangerously hot days in 2024, and nearly half the world's countries endured at least two months of high-risk temperatures.

earlier i spoke to a scientist from climate central and asked her which areas had been worst affected. >> we found that the places that are most affected by climate driven extreme heat tent to be in tropical areas, countries like barbados or trinidad, whereas the effects were somewhat less in places like europe. anchor: how easy is it to accurately obtain this data and get a real sense of how many deaths these heat waves are causing? >> that is a great question, because this is a branch of science called attribution science that has really just developed within the past 24 years or so. it is only in the last few years that we have been able to say with confidence whether a particular heatwave or a particular stretch of hot days or extreme rainfall can be attributed to climate change. to do this work, we basically

have to use a climate model to compare the temperatures that we actually experienced with what we would have experienced in a world without any human caused climate change. it is definitely intense scientific work, but it is becoming more and more possible year-by-year. anchor: is there anything they can be done to help save lives, given that we have this knowledge? >> there is a lot that can be done. heat is often called the silent killer because it does not attract the same amount of attention as a big wildfire or a major hurricane that is incredibly destructive and dangerous to human life in the moment, but extreme heat actually kills many people every year, more than any other type of extreme weather, in places like the united states, at least, and there is a lot we can do to prevent those deaths, things like making sure people have access to a cooling shelter that they can get to safely, making sure that people

understand that extreme heat can be fatal, making sure that medical professionals are on the lookout for an increase in emergency room visits when there is a heat wave. all of those things can help our communities adapt. anchor: now for some exciting space news, a nasa space probe has made history by flying closer to the sound than any other aircraft -- spacecraft. the parkers a look probe -- the parker solar probe was out of communication with nasa for three days after coming within 600 kilometers of the sun's surface and facing temperatures of up to 1000 degrees celsius. the aim of the probe is to gather data on the sun to help forecast space weather events that could affect life on earth. reporter: it seems like science fiction, sending an unproved spacecraft to the sun. nasa's parker solar probe was

designed to withstand its scorching heat, but could it? nasa has now confirmed it has. the spacecraft sent a beacon signal indicating that it survived the closest ever approach to the sun. >> we have never had a human made object so close to the sun. also, we had to not melt. that is why parker has this heat shield that holds the instruments at room temperature and keeps the heat of the sun away. these are amazing feats, so it is so amazing that we are so close at really getting to measure in detail this material up close. reporter: lift off of the mighty delta 4 heavy rocket. reporter: there have been many heavy missions to study the sun, but there is so much more we can learn, especially about the sun's shimmering atmosphere, which we can see from earth during a total solar eclipse. >> this new data from this very incredibly close approach of the sun, just touching the surface

of that corona, is going to hopefully give us lots more information about exactly what is going on in our beautiful, beautiful son that heats up and gives us light. reporter: close-up, the sun's magnetic field twists and lifts its explosive service. -- surface. it is hoped that the solar probe will shed light on the processes that make this happen and how the cellular turbulence -- the solar turbulence affects us on earth. but we will have to wait until the first of january until we see the initial data. anchor: nepal's prime minister says it's country has too many tigers and they are a threat to humans. more than 30 people were killed by tigers between 2019 and 2020 three. >> it was always an issue, but the thing is, when i talk to people on the ground, say, the community forestry people, they say that it is increasingly

becoming more and more serious because more and more tigers are there now, so there's confrontation and all those kind of things. casualties are also going up, and also the cattle being attacked or losses of arab culture, people having to migrate elsewhere, a host of issues. political leaders are kind of bringing it up now because they are also under pressure. anchor: i can imagine. this would seem on the surface a conservation success story, because these are endangered animals. but it shows there are downsides, doesn't it? >> yes. if you spoke to conservationists, they would definitely say it. and also, by and large, it is a success story. but the thing is, it has all these things come along, and the question is, how do you manage them?

when i talk to experts, they say there are measures, but it is not easy to implement. even the idea of gifting tigers, for example, who is going to take them? we have been hearing this. other senior officials have talked about gifting tigers to zoos, for example. it has not happened yet. how will they do it? the tiger diplomacy is still to kick off, so it remains to be seen how they will do it. in the meantime, we are seeing problematic tigers. around 20 tigers have been taken away from their habitat and kept in captivity. how can they sustain those enclosures in captivity? it is costly. all these things come together when you talk about conservation. anchor: plenty more still to come. stay with us on bbc news. ♪

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