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This is bbc news. welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. im tim wilcox. our top stories: novak djokovic arrives for his final appeal to stay in australia. judges are currently deciding on his deportation. all the hostages held at a texas synagogue have been released safely after being captive for ten hours. the first case of the omicron variant is officially confirmed in beijing, just three weeks before the start of the winter olympics. new zealands prime minister warns th...

This is bbc news. the headlines: the united states has warned russia that if any of the tens of thousands of its soldiers massed at the ukrainian border invade there will be grave consequences. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, and his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov are scheduled to have crucial talks in geneva. the first planeloads of aid have arrived at tongas main airport after saturdays volcanic eruption and tsunami cut the pacific island nation off from the outside world. more ...

Hear more about. interesting to see what comes out of the meeting with police. tonga �*s clean—up continues the help of foreign aid one week after the volcanic eruption and tsunami devastated the island. the united nations says tonga will depend on the emergency food supplies for some time because of the impact of last weekend �*s under c bulk and corruptible debate has been arriving from sea and air from australia, new zealand the uk and japan. we have the latest on work to connect an und...

Might be, when it will happen, and we dont know how long the eruptive sequence of events is going to take. so theres a lot of unknowns here, and what i will say is, while we didnt know that this eruption was going to occur on this scale, as far as the tsunami goes, we have sensors throughout the oceans, buoys that record when the ocean fluctuates. and those sensors are so delicate that they can tell even the matter of just a few inches of water displacement. so as soon as this eruption happened ...

This is bbc news, welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. our top stories. britain accuses russia of planning to install a pro—kremlin leader in ukraine, as fears of an invasion grow. foreign aid is distributed in tonga, with more than 80% of the population affected by last weekends volcanic eruption and tsunami, new zealand pledges more than $2 million us dollars. we have sent three navy vessels up, all of which contain water but also desalination equipment. and the acto...

The threats are quite specific and potentially quite significant, one has to imagine that he didnt assume that you were just sort of rolling to ukraine without any consequences in terms of western sanctions so whether it ultimately changes his mind is a different story but going ahead with it now doesnt make any sense so i think the secretary of state makes an important point. thank you forjoining us. if you want to know more about this story, just go to our website, where there is more analysis...

Now lets hear from two people who were caught up in the eruption. john and marian tuku—a—fu own the vak—a—loa beach resort — which has been badly damaged. this is their story. she called me to come and pick her up. shejust said she is having difficulties breathing and she said that the sea is a bit weird so since i left the house we disorder was a big ash cloud, with a volcano. we just came. since i seen the ocean. ive never seen the ocean like that in my life. the wave was already sta...

Celsius. sulfur dioxide was released in significant doses. with this particular volcano lesser amounts released. we dont expect significant planetary cooling to take place with this particular eruption. what we do expect here, of course, quite a bit of damage left in place, volcanic ash left in place. the reason thats really important right now, there is a tropical disturbance trying to form not too far away from the archipelago. low probability of formation in the immediate future, but the mode...

Welcome to bbc news. im nuala mcgovern. our top stories: new images of the russian military build—up as the us warns any incursion into ukraine will be met with a tough response. there is no doubt — let there be no doubt at all — that if putin makes this choice, russia will pay a heavy price. aid planes finally arrive in tonga after a volcanic eruption and tsunami left the country in desperate need of supplies. well bring you the latest. a catholic church report finds that former pope bene...

Of anne frank to the nazis? its nine in the morning in singapore, and 2pm in tonga, which remains virtually cut off from the rest of the world after an underwater volcano erupted on saturday, damaging an underwater communications cable. surveillance flights from australia and new zealand reported significant damage in the capital, nukualofa. tonga has a population of around 100,000, the red cross estimates that about 80% of them may have been affected. 0ur correspondent rupert wingfield hayes ha...