Land. Followed by the deadly mudslides there caused ki; er}; eli . 2353 , the warming el nino current caused that spike in 1998. Temperatures dipped for a few years after that, but in 2015 and 2016 el nino is back with record highs. But look 2017 had no heating from el nino and its in the top three hottest years. A clear sign that Greenhouse Gases are the main drivers of warming. What this is showing really is that these influences of the human activity on climate through our emissions of Greenhouse Gases are really dwarfing the natural climate processes associated with el nino. Flooding near the coasts, like this after hurricane harvey, is the most certain outcome of Climate Change, as the seas rise and the planet keeps on warming. Todays report has been a real wake up call. It really shows that Climate Change is happening and its happening now. You know, you chose that we cant keep burning coal, oil and gas, and that politicians need to stop dithering and take real action. In scotland, travellers may be wondering why theyve got snow while the world is warming, but that is just short term weather. Heatwaves in australia look more like Climate Change. Records being broken all the time. All nations except the usa are committed to tackling Climate Change. They all accept they need to do more. Lets take a look at some of the days other news. A couple in california have pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of torture, child abuse and false imprisonment. As acute as detailed horrific abuse by the couple of 13 children who were held captive at their home. Our correspondent is outside the court. And as for the surviving siblings themselves, they are said to be severely malnourished, theyre said to be suffering from cognitive impairments, and also weve heard more details about their ordeal, how they were punished, sometimes by being beaten, sometimes chained up, sometimes by being hogtied and strangled. And weve also heard that the 17 Year Old Girl who managed to get out of the window and raise the alarm by calling police, that she, at least with some of her siblings, had been plotting that escape for the last two years. Her parents face between 94 years and up to life in prison if theyre found guilty. That was james cook in california. Also making news today its been nearly two weeks since the body of six year old Zainab Ansari was found in a rubbish heap in the pakistani city of kasur. The discovery sparked violent protests in which two people died. It has now emerged that the man who killed her attacked seven other young girls in the same area of the city over the past two and a half years. 52 people have been killed in North Western kazakhstan after a bus bound for russia caught fire. Its thought the passengers were stuck when a door was blocked. Five people managed to escape. Now to some incredible pictures to share with you from australia, where two teenage boys have become the first to be rescued from the ocean by a drone. After using its camera to locate the boys, lifeguards were able to drop an inflatable rescue pod which swept the pair back to shore. New zealands prime Ministerjacinda Ardern has announced that shes pregnant. She and her partner, clarke gayford, are expecting their child injune, after which she plans take a six week break. In the last hour shes been talking about her news. Iam not i am not the first woman to multitask. Im not the first woman to work and have a baby. I know these are special circumstances, but there will be many women who will have done this well before i have. I acknowledge those women. I am about to sympathise with them a lot, as i sympathise with all women who suffered morning sickness. But i am excited, we are excited and we know together that we are going to make this work and new zealand is going to help us raise our first child. Congratulations to new zealands prime minister. The Us Government could be heading towards a shutdown on friday night, u nless congress a pproves Donald Trumps budget for 2018 or agrees to a short term funding solution. The president , meanwhile, has denied his views have changed about building a wall along the border with mexico. In the second of our reports charting a year since his inauguration, our north america editorjon sopel has travelled to the border and considers how mr trump has reshaped us Foreign Policy. If you want a symbol of the trump approach to Foreign Policy, its this the wall. We will build the wall, as sure as you are standing there tonight. We need the wall. Whats here at the moment he sees as woefully inadequate, as he tweeted about again today. We need the wall for the safety and security of our country. We need the wall to help stop the massive inflow of drugs from mexico. He wants a physical barrier sealing america from mexico literally. But its a metaphor, too, for the rest of the world America First, america protected. Up the coast from this barren border in california, it feels like another planet. 0n the outskirts of la is the high tech Pharmaceutical Company zencore, one of many in the area. This is the entire staff. This is how many of them were born in the us. This is how many have parents who were born in the us. The owner, himself ofjordanian origin, says the president S Immigration policies are self defeating. Were competing against china and india and europe. If we cant bring in the best from everywhere, were not going to win anymore. When you think of these american industries, we dont function without the ability to get the best talent from the world and, well, that meanS Immigration. America cant just disentangle itself from the rest of the world and its long standing commitments, whether it be trade with the people who live on the other side of this wall, whether it be nato commitments, the pacific, orfighting isis, or Donald Trumps long standing ambition of bringing peace between the israelis and the palestinians. Just along from here, they are working out what sort of wall to build. The inspiration for it are the concrete sections of the separation barrier that israel has built. When donald trump visited the region last may, he made a point of being evenhanded, pleasing israelis with his visit to the western wall, satisfying palestinians by going to bethlehem. But he enraged the arab world when last month he announced he wanted to recognisejerusalem as israels capital and move the us embassy there. This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do. Palestinians were horrified and showed their disgust by burning us flags. One year on, no ones any clearer about what the trump peace plan will look like. A reinforced wall might stop Illegal Immigrants scurrying across the border from mexico, but its not going to do much to stop an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile fired from north korea. That countrys Nuclear Tests have provided donald trump with his greatest Foreign Policy challenge, a challenge hes met in his own, inimitable way. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself, and for his regime. They will be met with fire and fury. But here, the tough talk may be working. Yes, the provocative Nuclear Tests have continued, but have slowed down. Tougher sanctions have been agreed, and north korea has reopened a line of communications to the south, and its athletes will now participate in the forthcoming Winter Olympics. Is that the trump effect . Donald trump had almost seemed to hope that the world would leave america alone, but thats not how it works when you are us president. The world has a habit of intruding. And even the sturdiest wall and the most trenchant America First slogan can only protect you from so much. Jon sopel, bbc news, on the us mexico border. So, we heard jon talk about north korea being the president s greatest Foreign Policy challenge. I asked duncan innes ker, an analyst at the economists intelligence unit, what he thought of the president s strategy. Certainly 0bama when he was handing over power to trump did list north korea as being the challenge to watch and i think it has turned out that way. I think when it comes to the trump administrations policy with regards to north korea, theres been a lot to welcome. The tough approach towards china really has resulted in some big significant shifts in the way china reacts to north korea. Sanctions have been toughened, of course thats partly in response to increased aggression from north korea in terms of more testing. But the real problem is that essentially trumps actions are coming too late in the game. North korea essentially already has nuclear capabilities. It has shown that it nuclear capabilities. It has shown thatitisif nuclear capabilities. It has shown that it is if not fully on the way to getting icbm capability, it is almost there. And the real challenge for trump is that there doesnt really seem to be a brute to walk north korea back from this situation route. So what we are likely to end up with is the us accommodation ofa end up with is the us accommodation of a nuclear career, rather than north korea abandoning the programme entirely, which is surely the ultimate goal. You mentioned china. In terms of the relationship between the us and china now, on the campaign trail donald trump made a lot about how powerful chinese in terms of trade. What you think about how he is now in cementing his campaign promises, or not, may that be the case . I think is early days, frankly, as far as the china trade iow frankly, as far as the china trade row is going. It was a big thing during the campaign and there were hints that trump would impose a raft of high sanctions across the board on imports from china. Fortunately that hasnt happened, but we are seeing a number of investigations Going Forward that are likely to result in actions by the Us Administration in the next month or two. He has been holding back from those with the name with the aim of getting china to support its policy on north korea, but i think 2018 will be the year when we start to see the us is getting tough on china, in terms of imposing tariffs. Youre watching newsday on the bbc. Still to come on the programme how do you use photography to try to prevent a Catastrophic Nuclear war . We talk to prize winning sim chi yin about her work capturing images of missile sites. Also on the programme a flight to remember. A couple of air stewards get a surprise blessing while in the air over chile. Day one of Operation Desert Storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attacks since the second world war. Tobacco is americas oldest industry, and its one of its biggest, but the industry is nervous of this report. This may tend to make people want to stop smoking cigarettes. There is not a street that is unaffected. Huge parts of kobe were simply demolished as buildings crashed into one another. This woman said shed been given no help and no advice by the authorities. She stood outside the ruins of her business. Tens of thousands of black children in south africa have taken advantage of laws, passed by the countrys new multiracial government, and enrolled at formerly white schools. Tonight sees the 9,610th performance of her long running play, the mousetrap. When they heard of her death today, the management considered whether to cancel tonights performance, but Agatha Christie would have been the last person to want such a thing. This is newsday on the bbc. Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore. Im kasia madera in london. Our top stories the year 2017 was among the hottest years recorded on earth, according to us scientists even without the el nino effect. In the us, republicans and democrats battle to agree to legislation to avert a Government Shutdown as fridays deadline looms. Lets take a look at some front pages from around the world. The japan times has a front page story on that news that the rival koreas have agreed to form their first unified olympic team and have their athletes parade together. The times says its the most prominent step towards rapprochement since the two countries recently began exploring cooperation following a year of heightened tension over the norths Nuclear Weapons programme. The china daily focuses on some strong Economic Data that shows growth beating forecasts to reach 6. 9 in 2017. The paper says it marks the first acceleration since 2010 despite financial regulatory tightening and measures against pollution. And the Straits Times here in singapore reports that higher paid professionals and managers will be entitled to improved employment terms. It will mean that the executives will have rights to paid sick leave and compensation for wrongful dismissals under the proposed changes to the law. Now, what stories are sparking discussions online . Sharanjit, the newly engaged royal couple have caught peoples attention online. And hundreds of people have greeted prince harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle at Cardiff Castle on theirfirst official visit to wales. The royal couple arrived to huge cheers and after meeting members of the public theyjoined a festival celebrating welsh culture inside the castle. The couple, who are due to marry in may, are on a tour of uk cities to introduce meghan to her new home. I think we will be seeing a lot more of them. So as we heard earlier this week north and south korea will march together, under a single flag, at the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in south korea. Now in a rare interview two north korean athletes have spoken to the bbcs korean service. They hope to qualify for the winter paralympics via a para world cup beginning this weekend in germany. And good luck to them. Donald trump calls north koreas leader little rocket man and kimjong un has mocked a tweet by the us president boasting about the size of his nuclear button, calling it a spasm of a lunatic. But this war of words between the two leaders downplays the horrifying destructive power of Nuclear Weapons. Thats the theme behind a series of images by singapore artist sim chi yin. Shes been named 2017s Nobel Peace Prize photographer and spoke to me earlier about why she chose Nuclear Missile sites for her main subject. The main thing in this project is that i wanted to create land skip pictures and paint them. One is from north korea and the other is from the us and the idea is to ask people to think about how we judge countries for having Nuclear Weapons and who gets to have what and to get people to reflect on the horrifying situation that we are in. We sometimes forget that the Nuclear Issue is with us still, not merely a cold war relic. And particularly with the north korean tests in recent months. How did you even go about getting some of these shots . Presumably, access to north korean sites is non existent. I knew i could not get into north korea to photograph the sites so i spoke to nuclear academics who study maps, satellite maps about its Nuclear Test Site and munitions bases were. I plotted a map on the chinese side of the border and drove to places on the chinese side that were closest to these points. I photographed from 120 kilometres away. We are looking at some of the shots right now. Taking a look at one particular photo, very much a different experience in the us where you did get access to some sites. You have some incredible intimate shots of. Looking at one of the titan 2 missile. This was shot in arizona. It used to be a command control centre but it is now a museum. It was the largest missile the us ever made, about 30 metres high. It is in the middle of the desert in arizona and in the us we applied for permission to get into these sites and we were able to climb into missile silos, get into radar facilities and photograph them. You talked about how you wanted to put these pictures next each other. Here is a pair of pictures that we can look at. It is hard to tell which is north korea and which is the us. That was an intrinsic part of the project, you say, to show how similar both sides seem. What i found fascinating were the visual and historical parallels between the countries. They are very different but the history of it. The history of Nuclear Weapons is being repeated in away. The us was the first country to have this technology and north korea is the only country in the 21st century to have tested it. I was surprised at how many parallels there were. The pope has married two flight attendants aboard the papal plane during a flight over chile. The couple, who were married in a Civil Service because an earthquake had damaged their church 2010, approached the pontiff to ask if he would bless their wedding and he went one better. 0ur religion editor Martin Bashir has the story. Theyd walked up the aisle on many occasions, but never in church. Flight attendants paula ruiz and carlos elorriga married in a civil ceremony because their church in santiago had been destroyed by an earthquake eight years ago. And so they asked the pope if he would bless their union. But pope francis, who wrote ab