A huge fire at an office and restaurant complex in indias Financial Capital mumbai has killed at least 1a people and injured several others. Were getting reports of a fire in a multi storey apartment block in new york. The Emergency Services have reported at least 15 people injured and an unconfirmed number of deaths after the blaze in the bronx. The american broadcaster cbs is reporting 6 people have died. The fires said to have taken place towards the northern end of prospect avenue which stretches up near bronx zoo. Local media say the fire erupted shortly before 7 00 in the evening local time on the third floor of the five story building. These are the latest pictures which havejust come into us. A witness from a neighbouring building described the scene. The fire trucks were not here yet, all the smoke was coming out. They we re all the smoke was coming out. They were not even here yet. There were people on the fire escape already trying to get down, that is how fast it was moving. Screaming, that is how we could tell it was trouble, people were screaming, help, fire. That was the beginning and the end of it. I dont know whats going on, i feel it is too much right now. It is overwhelming. It is overwhelming. We can hear now from the mayor of new york, bill de blasio. We are here at the scene of an unspeakable tragedy. The middle of the holiday season, it is a time when families are together. Tonight, there are families in the bronx who have been torn apart. This is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in the city in at least a quarter of a century. This will rank as one of the worst losses of life from fire in many, many years. At this moment, based on preliminary information, and there will be more information coming in, but based on the information now, im very sorry to report that 12 new yorkers are dead including one child as young as one year old. There are four people critically injured who are fighting for their lives. Other serious injuries as well. Thank god, because of fdnys quick response, based on information we have now, at least 12 people were rescued and will survive but the search of the building continues. And even though it is horrible to report that 12 are dead, we might lose others as well. That was the mayor of new york, bill de blasio. Lets take a look at some pictures which came into us a short time ago. You can see fire crews working on the exterior of the building, and many more fire crews assembled there at the ground. This is in the bronx area of new york city. As well as that information we got from the now, bill de blasio, the fire commissioner has in speaking. From the mayor. He says various people have died on the floors of that building, ranging from one year olds to 15 years old. He went on to say that this tragedy was without question historic and its magnitude. You can see from the pictures of the fire crews working on the outside of the building that there isnt that much damage on the outside. It does seem to have in predominantly on the inside of that apartment block. We know from the mayor that it has taken 12 lives in the bronx in new york city. Our other breaking news story this sour, a large fire at an office and restau ra nt com plex sour, a large fire at an office and restaurant complex in the Financial Capital of india, mumbai, has killed at least 14 people and injured several others. This hour. The blaze in a building at the kamala mills compound, is reported to have broken out in a restaurant and spread quickly. The complex housed a collection of derelict former Industrial Buildings until a few years ago, but has been transformed into a hub of upscale restaurants and offices. We are following both of those stories over the next half hour, and we will bring you any of dates that we will bring you any of dates that we get. Bring you any updates. The former world footballer of the year, george weah, has won the liberian president ial election. Mr weah played for a string of high profile clubs, including ac milan, chelsea and manchester city. He entered politics after his retirement in 2002, and will succeed Ellen Johnson sirleaf africas first elected female president. From monrovia, umaru fofana reports. Hundreds of jubilant supporters of george weah took to the streets minutes after the Electoral Commission had announced the results. The percentage of the cdc, 61. 5 for the cdc. 38. 5 for the united party. Minutes later, the liberian e good singing and dancing and the blaring of deafening car horns. President elect weir tweeted this message both foreign and domestic observers have praised the conduct of the election. They say it is a marked improvement on the way the first one was run in october. Hardly anybody is surprised that is weahs victory, but the margin is stunning. This is third time lucky for a man used to winning trophies, who found it hard to win this, the biggest award of his life. It has become possible through controversial alliances. The first president in waiting is the ex wife of a convicted criminal. As a football in the nineteen nineties, wea h a football in the nineteen nineties, weah won trophies in italy and france. He was the first, and remains the only african, to remake to be named fifa world footballer of the year. He takes over from ellenjohnson sirleaf, of the year. He takes over from Ellen Johnson sirleaf, the first elected female leader on the continent. Liberia has recovered from a long and bloody civil war, but is still struggling with poverty and corruption. Now, africas oldest independent republic has become its first to elect their former footballer as president. We arejust going we are just going to go back to one of those breaking news stories we are following this hour. That is the fire in mumbai which has killed 14 people so far, and injured several others. The majority of those killed, we understand from the news wires, were women attending a Birthday Party at a rooftop restau ra nt. Birthday party at a rooftop restaurant. This was in a fairly upscale area in mumbais financial district, full of restaurant and suchlike. Restaurants. We can now speak to a columnist for the times of india. Shejoins me from the buyer. Can you tell us any more about what has happened here . Actually, duncan, iam not on about what has happened here . Actually, duncan, i am not on the ground. But from what i gather from what i have been hearing, exactly what i have been hearing, exactly what you have said in your report, it was a rooftop restaurant and what i would like to point out is that this was that kamala mills, aid dig Entertainment Complex in what to what used to be a former industrial area. It has been converted into this huge area of skyscrapers and towers, entertainment spaces, restau ra nts. Ka mala towers, entertainment spaces, restaurants. Kamala mills has been the latest complex to get all the newest restaurants. All the chains are trying to go there. Permission was granted for a rooftop restaurant and it is really a tragedy that this thing has happened so soon. As you know, this was the christmas and new year season, so there were parties all the time, and restaurant owners, ifi all the time, and restaurant owners, if i may say so, have in less than careful about observing safety measures. They pack in more people than they should. There have been disastrous fires in other parts of the city. Because of carelessness, in terms of the storage of gas cylinders. And because of air conditioning ducts, using things like plastic and bamboo, they are disasters waiting to happen and u nfortu nately disasters waiting to happen and unfortunately they are no longer waiting, they are actually happening. And all of these young people have lost their lives, which i think is a terrible thing to wake up i think is a terrible thing to wake up to. Yes, obviously we do not know the cause of this particular fire yet. My understanding is that it happened just after midnight local time. How busy wood that building, those restaurants, e at that time . It would need very busy, normally there are rules about how long you can keep a restaurant open, but at this time, there has been, you know, a relaxing of the rules. Until very recently mumbai had a law very recently mumbai had a law very recently mumbai had a law very recently mumbai passed a law allowing shops to open 21w. It would very year busy at this time. Stay with us. For the moment, we will leave it there. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making the news. Officials in alabama have formally certified Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of the States Senate race. Thats despite attempts by his defeated republican rival, roy moore, to stop his certification going ahead. Mr moore filed a last minute lawsuit to challenge the result, alleging voterfraud, but a judge denied the request. Roy moore, Whose Campaign had been plagued by allegations of sexual misconduct, lost narrowly. His lawyers said thered been a higher than expected turnout. But state officials were emphatic that they found no evidence of fraud. I dont think theres any doubt from the minds of anybody here in this room or anyone within the sound of my voice, that there was ever a question about whether or not the state of alabama conducts honest and fair and safe and secure elections, that question has been eliminated from anyones thought and mind, period. In venezuela, hundreds of people have been protesting in the poorer parts of caracas against a shortage of promised pork a key ingredient for traditional christmas meals. President maduro has accused portugal of sabotaging deliveries as jon ironmonger reports. Venezuelans are starving. Rocketing food prices and spare space it is is have stoked frustrations amongst the poon have stoked frustrations amongst the poor. Now, a shortage of pork, a traditional dish at christmas time, has led to angry protests in caracas. Hundreds took to the streets, accusing the socialist resident, nicolas maduro, of reneging on a promise to provide them with subsidised meat. Translation we are hungry, the people are hungry, there is a famine. The government says the food is with the local Food Supply Committee but we have been waiting for mac months. It should be handed out every 15 days, as they say, but it doesnt arrive. The authorities have come to say that we are the opposition. We are not the opposition. We are not the opposition. We are protesting for food because at this stage it has been three months they have not sold us been three months they have not sold usa been three months they have not sold us a box. The pork protests are an escalation of unrest during the holiday period, as a result of fuel rationing and widespread power cuts. Under pressure to give answers, president madeira took to state tv to blame portugal. President maduro. Translation they sabotaged us. Maduro. Translation they sabotaged us. Ican maduro. Translation they sabotaged us. I can name a country. Logical. It was all arranged, we bought all the pork that was in venezuela, so we had to import and i gave the order and signed the orders. But they went after the Bank Accounts and after the giant shipments of food that came. The portuguese government has denied sabotaged, and the company says caracas still owes more than 50 million for pork deliveries made in 2016. Once the richest country in south america, venezuela has been crippled wife or yea rs of recession venezuela has been crippled wife or years of recession after a collapse in the value of oil, its greatest export. Crime is commonplace. On tuesday, 28 people were arrested for looting. Critics blame the worsening crisis on rampant corruption and economic mismanagement i maduros leftist government. By maduros. Stay with us on bbc world news. Still to come, the pub, the pay packet and the power of social media. How one man was reunited with his missing money. The most ambitious financial and political change ever attempted has got under way with the introduction of the euro. Tomorrow in holland, we will use money we picked up in belgium today, and then we will be in france and we will use the same money. It has just got to be the way to go. George harrison, the former beatle, is recovering in hospital after being stabbed at his oxfordshire home. A 33 year old man from liverpool is being interviewed by police on suspicion of attempted murder. I think it was good. You. Just good . No, fantastic thats better. This is bbc world news. The latest headlines at least 12 people have died including a young child after a fire ata including a young child after a fire at a multi storey apartment block in the bronx in new york. And a huge fire ina the bronx in new york. And a huge fire in a high rise building in indias Financial Capital mumbai has injured several people. Thousands of people have marched through cities in peru to protest the pardoning of former president Alberto Fujimori. They accused the current president of granting the pardon in exchange for Political Support from a party led by mr fujimoris daughter. Bill hayton reports. These protesters thought ex president Alberto Fujimori would spend at least another decade in jail but his convictions for corruption and for ordering the killing of opponents have now been quashed and that is what brought thousands onto the streets. Translation they gave a just sentence to Alberto Fujimori and he hasnt fulfilled it. Who is he . We all deserve justice. We were calm, but now Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has betrayed us. Lets get rid of him. Last week, president kuczynski celebrated after surviving an Impeachment Vote despite admitting taking money from the brazilian company, odebrecht while a government minister. The company has admitted paying millions of dollars in bribes to officials in several countries, including peru, to secure contracts. However, president kuczynski says he was only paid legitimate consulting fees. On thursday, he was interviewed for four hours by prosecutors investigating the case. They also interviewed kuczynskis main rival, the leader of the Majority Party in parliament, keiko fujimori, daughter of the former president. She was the driving forcde behind the Impeachment Vote. But her party split and the move failed. Two days later, her father was pardoned. On the streets, protesters assumed a deal was done and blamed the entire political class. The man at the centre of the anger, fujimori himself, remains in hospital, seriously ill according to his doctor. His future and that of the country are once again intertwined. Bitter cold continues to blanket the Northern United States and canada as forecasters warn the deep freeze will continue into the start of 2018. New record lows have been set including 36. 6 degrees celsius in new hampshires mount washington. Officials say parts of canada are colder than the north pole or mars. Further disruption is expected in many parts of the uk. The aea said conditions were appalling for drivers of passengers at Stansted Airport have complained about the airports response. Hanging around for a flight longer than you expected. Its not much fun, especially when the queues are just getting longer and you find out your flight is now notjust delayed, its cancelled. More than 12 hours after sarahs flight to stockholm was meant to take off from stansted, sarah was still here and will now fly tomorrow. I only found out literally i think it was three hours after my flight was supposed to leave that it was cancelled. And there was no boards to tell us that it was delayed or anything so it was literally like going backwards and forwards between the one person who was there, kind of thing. Ijust ended up lining up for like ten hours to try to get a new flight did you get any sleep at all . No. I think ive been awake 25 hours now. You only need to head to social media to get an idea of the frustration some people here felt last night. One person tweeted it was a shambles, another posted a picture of people sleeping on seats. Stansted airport says it has cleared the backlog of stranded passengers and things are returning to normal. They say there still could be delays because of the weather. And the weather has been causing problems elsewhere, too. In the cairngorms, three climbers had to be rescued after getting lost in blizzard conditions. The rescue took five hours. The wintry weather is not going away as we are being told to make sure our vehicles are safe for the road. Check your tyres, make sure youve got some good tread and they are well inflated, that should keep you safe on the road, because they keep you gripped to the road, after all. And pack accordingly, so have your own winter breakdown kit with plenty of spare warm and dry clothing, a flask, some snacks, a shovel and certainly a fully charged mobile phone. Today in inverness, people were enjoying the snow but there is more on the way for scotland and the met office is warning that tonight could be the coldest night of the year. Apple has issued an apology to iphone users after admitting it deliberately slowed down their older model phones to help deal with weaker batteries. The company said it would never intentionally shorten the life of any apple product and said it would offer replacement batteries at a discounted price. Earlier Technology ExpertCharlie Brown told me what he thought of the tech giants move. What was quite interesting was the groundswell of anger from customers grew so large that apple had to respond. I dont believe apple had to issue an apology for what they did, but rather the way they did it. Not telling your customer these days what you are doing in the background is a real no no, especially when you are making a product so many of us rely on, day to day, hour to hour. The apology was well received and i think the 30 for replacing your battery will be fantastic. Iphone customers will be able to extend the life of their batteries. I think you will see other manufacturers responding in kind before long. Their hand was forced, wasnt it . It was actually some tech experts who worked out it was the batteries causing the problem . Correct. What we saw was that every time apple did a software update, when the changes to peoples operating structure occurred, there would be a massive spike on google for people searching slow iphone. That told us, hang on a second, somethings going on here. It didnt take too long for these programmers to debunk what was happening. Do you think well see more transparency from apple now, now that they have had to back down on this issue . Well, getting an apology out of apple traditionally has not been that forthcoming for other issues. I think this is more part of a more transparent apple that we are going to see. If you go back ten years or so to when the iphone was launched, or even before that, when we all had ipods, we might have owned one apple product. Today we have an iphone, a laptop, an ipad, so the bet that apple is taking with its customers to keep them happy is much larger. So it needs to focus on maintaining that relationship and keeping it positive, and i think the apology today is a step in the right direction. The immense power of social media was once again in evidence at christmas when a welder from london left his christmas wage packet in a pub. Chi chi izundu takes up the story. This is the story of a welder, a pub, and lost wage packet. Last thursday, after a few hundred people had been here at the alexandra pub celebrating their christmas parties, at the end of the night a small brown envelopes stuffed with cash was spotted on the floor. The only reason i realised it was a wage packet was because i used to get paid in a similar packet when i first came to the country. All they had was the name mariusz and £600. Landlord mick and his wife posted a picture on twitter. That was retweeted by authorjk rowling and then hundreds of thousands around the world joined in the search. We did not find him straightaway and a couple of celebrities retweeted it and it went bonkers. My phone was like a fridge buzzing we were getting messages from all over the world, so much interest trying to find this guy, people contacting asking if we found him. From canada and america and australia, everywhere. And then what happened . Lo and behold, yesterday, he walked in the door and said hello, im mariusz and i believe youve got my money it was like the biggest anti climax in history, he just wandered in he said, i think youve got my money. Mariusz explained he took out his phone to take pictures of his Christmas Party and that is probably when his wage slip fell from his pocket and under this chair, and he did not notice until about a day later. He had not seen the social media posts, it was his son who alerted him to them and he may have kept the loss quiet from his wife to have, as he called it, a stress free christmas he came in yesterday and got it. In a show of gratitude, he gave nobby a generous tip. Friday starts with a number of wintry weather warnings from the met office covering many parts of the british isles. We have very specific concerns about the amount of snow that is likely to fall across the Higher Ground of england. Into an already cool atmosphere, it will eventually bring quite a bit of moisture from the atlantic. And as that moisture falls into a pretty chilly atmosphere, so there will be a ready conversion of some of the rain into significant snowfall. Here we see the extent of it, around about seven oclock in the morning on friday. And anywhere really from the central belt of scotland down towards the Higher Ground of northern england, we will see lying snow accumulating. Ahead of it, some of the lighter rain will be falling onto pretty treacherous surfaces. So, there are warnings about ice. But over the high ground of the pennines, we may find up to 15 centimetres of snow. Further south, it is one of those mornings. That rain will again be falling onto some pretty cold surfaces. Risk of ice even across the southern counties of england. As the morning wears on, we find the bulk of that moisture moving out into the north sea. Following on behind, just the northern portion of that front lingering for a time, enhancing the snowfall across the Southern Uplands of scotland and the top end of the pennines. As that system moves away, it makes room for another set of weather fronts to work in, particularly across the southern half of the british isles, as we get into the first part of saturday. A wet and windy combination gradually clearing away. Youll notice the northern portion of the weather front eventually pushes up across the heart of scotland, with more snow to come. Chilly here, as you can well imagine. Further south, the temperatures rebounding. The sort of values we have seen of late. Even as far ahead as new years eve, another combination from another little system of some wet and windy weather. A great deal of mobility. Nothing hanging around for any great length of time. If you happen to have plans for seeing in the new year, it will be a chilly start to the new year, no doubt about it. Further south, passing showers, perhaps. Given the strength of the wind we are showing eight degrees, but it may feel a good deal cooler than that. So, what news for the start of the new year . Well, i suspect you have already guessed. Yes. More weather fronts coming in from the atlantic, more wet and windy weather to come. Hello. This is bbc news. The latest headlines. At least 12 people are dead, including a young child, after a fire at a multi storey apartment block in the bronx, new york. Four others are critically injured. The cause of the blaze, which began on the first floor and rapidly spread to the second and third floors, is not yet known. A huge fire in a high rise building in indias Financial Capital, mumbai, has killed at least 1a people and injured several others. The fire in a building at the kamala mills compound is reported to have broken out in a restaurant, then engulfed nearby offices. And a formerfootballer, george weah, has won a convincing victory in liberias president ial election. His win paves the way for the first democratic transfer of power in the west african nation since 19114. His supporters have been celebrating on the streets of the capital, monrovia. Now on bbc news, its time for a programme to mark the 20th