A zoo in the us got a special Christmas Present this year , when a critically endangered black rhino was born on christmas eve. The male calf arrived at the Potter Park Zoo in michigan, to 12 year old mother, doppsee. It is the first time a black rhino has been born there in the zoos 100 year history. They have yet to give the calf a name, but have said he is nursing well and the public will be able to see him in the new year. Now its time for a look at the weather with matt. Dry and mild conditions set to develop across the uk and experience. Wettest and windiest across scotland and Northern Ireland. Bursts of heavy rain continue east, a wet afternoon for orkney and shetland, drive across the rest of scotland and Northern Ireland but they will never be too following from rain and drizzle. Some patchy rain across england and wales, lots of cloud around, coolest in the east where winds are lightest, temperatures up to 12 degrees in the west. Gales in the western pa rt of degrees in the west. Gales in the western part of scotland as we finish the day and go into tonight, quite a windy few days. A batch of heavy rain pushing through Northern Ireland then across scotland overnight. Some of that will affect the far north of england but much of england and wales will be dry with lots of cloud around the country tonight and that breeze coming in from the south edge should be a mild night for most. Any cloud skies across eastern areas will see temperatures dropping to lower single figures was around 5 iod. Hello this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. The headlines at least 12 people have been killed after a plane crashes in kazakhstan. Dozens of survivors, including children, are being treated in hospital. Tributes are paid to a father and his two children, who drowned in a Hotel Swimming Pool in spain on christmas eve. Free hospital parking in england for some patients and visitors from april but questions over how it will be funded. The National Trust says theres been an increase in wildlife migrating to the uk because of climate change. Now on bbc news, a special programme featuring five women photographers who have offered glimpses into rarely seen lives in through the lens. Photography has the ability to shine a spotlight, giving us an insight into people and places we would never otherwise have seen. In this programme, im going to introduce you to five remarkable female photographers working today who have captured worlds that are rarely documented, exploring hidden lives around the globe. Coming up, a photographer who befriended saudi women, offering a glimpse behind the closed doors of their homes. And thejordanian american whose images revealed the lives of palestinians in gaza and the west bank through moments of dark humour. But first, lets meet elina shenshoiva. She looked at how residents of norilsk adapted to living in one of the worlds most isolated cities, 400 kilometres north of the arctic circle, where each winter the sun does not rise for two months. You have a feeling that they will appear, and norilsk is a city situated above the polar circle in russian siberia. Norilsk is a city situated above the polar circle in russian siberia. It is one of the most northern cities in the world. With a population of 180,000 people. My mother, she lived above the polar circle during her youth and she told me lots of stories about it, and i was really interested to explore, to understand how it is to live with the polar or polar day. The polar night or a polar day. And how it is actually the life, in these latitudes. I chose norilsk because it has an interesting history. It is situated in a kind of installation that isolation, because it has no ground links with other cities of russia. It is a very extreme place. For me, the main idea was to talk about the adaptation of this environment, to this climate. Almost in every building we can find a solarium and people go quite often there. It is not a luxury, it is needed. It is also very common. When there are stronger snowstorms, columns of buses are organised twice a day and workers are brought to the mines or the plants by these buses. Polar night, it comes very slowly. One moment you understand that there is no more daylight. For me, it is very important to see sun for a good mood. So for me, one moment, it started to be very hard and heavy, i felt psychologically not good. After two months i even started to have, like, this feeling, kind of a panic that the sun will never come back. Polar days are very beautiful times. People are so happy. They work, often until late, just enjoying this warm weather and beautiful golden light. It is hard, sometimes, to sleep. Because lots of people are not used to sleeping when there is daylight. It is quite contradictory, because the conditions of climate are quite extreme, but people are so friendly and so joyful, they have very wonderful sense of humour. I was surprised to meet several young people who told me that for them, norilsk, it is their zone of comfort, because they have everything, actually. They have long vacations. Good salaries. Regular salaries. But from the other side there are lots of people who are dreaming to go away from norilsk and to live in a more comfortable region. For me, photography is like a tool, like a key to go to some places, to meet certain people, and without being a photographer i could not actually be there. Elena chernyshova, whose images show what it is like to live in one of the coldest cities on earth. Sometimes culture, rather than geography, can mean certain groups are harder to reach. During 2009 and 2010, Olivia Arthur spent time in saudi arabia, photographing scenes at parties and in a beach town, away from the eyes of the religious police. They have this very strong conservative islamic influence, as well as what has come with, you know, obviously the oil money. Originally, i went to saudi arabia to teach a workshop for young women. The women i met there invited me to do houses to meet their families. Isaid, can i make a picture of you in your house, at your home . Something you are comfortable with. For some of them that they would be totally covered, others were ok to be photographed if i didnt show their faces. I started making friends. I hung out with them and threw them at other girls. I stayed in a womens hostile one night, which is kind of a fascinating place, a whole apartment block for women who study or work in the city but his family are not there. So we hung out together, i should do my work, they saw the sort of thing i was doing. They said, thats great, we would like to be in your pictures, but you cannot photograph us unless we are wearing our abayas. So i said, ok. It must have been one oclock in the morning, they all put on their abayas and niqabs. They sat around and started making a paternity party. A pretend tea party. I havent asked them to do that but in a way, we were just playing. It was fun. I took these pictures and they started playing around, this one, there is this little girl who has got a black goldfish. She stands there with her Goldfish Bowl and she says, look, my goldfish has an abaya. They were not laughing at themselves, we were just having fun. And at the end they said to me, thanks for that, that was great. We really enjoyed it. That was a great honour for me, that they would trust me and let me into their worlds and i took that very seriously and i tried to understand their desire for privacy and what that meant. What they were ok with me showing, what they want to with me showing. Sometimes i take pictures and later the girls asked me not to show theirfaces. I make prints and photographed them under a bright light. Thats great, one of them says, but cant you show a bit more of her eyes so that people can see how beautiful she is . It was a curious place, like a beach town, a little bit out ofjeddah, about half an hour away. Lots of people go there on the weekend. It is privately owned, which means the society somehow dont exist, and that for me was very confusing. The rules of Saudi Society dont exist. You can wear what you like, women can drive cars, women can ride bikes. Some women can swim in a bikini. Some women swim in an abaya, because they dont want to swim in a bikini. So this place captured a lot of the contradictions. I didnt really want to say life in this country is this way, or it is this way, it is one particular thing, because i realise it is way more complicated than that and that i didnt really have a proper insight, or i only had some glimpses. So what i tried to do was really give people my experience, just to help to explain to the viewer the stuff that was hidden, and also the kind of contradictory nature of it all. She comes up to us in a cafe. Do you want to come to a dj party . Im shocked. No, my friend tells me, it is one of those all girls parties. They have them in weddings, they are legal. At the party, the lights flickered on every five minutes to make sure nobody is misbehaving. In a way, laughing at myself for not understanding on not being able to make sense of what was going on around me sort of brings a lightness into what is, in part, quite a heavy story. That was what my experience was. It was not about women complaining about their lives. It was about, we are having fun, we are making the most of our lives in this space. It is intrusive, and these people are desperately private. But at the same time, they would be girls that you would say, sure, sure people our lives are not as bad as they think they are. Olivia arthur, whose friendships with young saudi women granted her access to private spaces whose cameras are usually shunned. Tanya beckett was born injordan and raised between that and texas. Her images offer a nuanced look at those living in the occupied territories. Finding a unique entry point into this place. Dont replicate exactly what is happening in the news. Find your way in that no one else can tell. And go deeper. I am working on a place that is one of the most hyper narrated places on earth. You look at the coverage there versus anywhere else, the coverage is vast. But i am bored by the majority of it and it doesnt represent the place but i know. And so i try to find the internet. I try to find the internet. I try to find a unique entry point into any story, and i always try to go under, over, side door, around the corner. Because i am not interested in reproducing what has already been done and said, because what is the point . It needs to be something that has more than one dimension. I had married a palestinian and i had children. Suddenly, i was not a journalist coming in and out. Palestine was home and i was the one sitting at checkpoints and experiencing this as reality, watching sometimes operatic scenes of ridiculousness and humour, to bypass orjust survive these situations. I started to look differently and think, what story do i want to tell . And that was occupied pleasures. There had been a wedding, unlisted, there was a woman who had come in in a Wedding Dress and had the Wedding Party because she had not been given permission to access gaza because of the blockade. And so i went and found her. She was not there. The husband was. He started telling me about his love story. He described finding her in the tunnel. I ran to her, i kissed her, it was like a bollywood movie. And then he paused and he said the most sobering, sombre thing. He said, you know, no matter what they do to us, we will always find a way to live, to love, to laugh. We didnt make it in time, they were going to their favourite spot, there were some roman ruins, it is an area settlers often try to come to discourage them. And they say that they love to go specifically to that spot for that reason, and that they looked at yoga as in a resistance. The parkour boys, they lived in one of the refugee camps and the things that they could do, it was beautiful. Flying, deftly using these walls ugly as a springboard of freedom. It was his remark on absurdity in this place. He lit a cigarette and turned. He knew the joke that was being implied and he was playing at it. And its wonderful. In the middle east, humour is just as prevalent, and ethnic humour is it allows you surprising places. Whether you are dealing withjews, armenians, lebanese, black humour is very endemic to the region as a survival coping mechanism. So i succeed if it leaves you just slightly doubting your assumptions. I was born injordan and raised in texas. That is where my critique of mainstream journalism came from. Going betweenjordan and texas. How the news was presented and received was very different. I went from going from how do you survive this, what is your take on it . There is black humour is something more obvious, i wanted something more personal, and how it occupies their minds to circumvent this reality and also simultaneously refused to let suffering be the definition of their existence. Taniela, who found that dark humour allowed her into surprising places. In 1973, powers the rosaries was a teacher when general Augusto Pinochet overthrew the chilean government and established a dictatorship. Although targeted by the police, she defied the curfew to document marginalised communities persecuted by the regime. This brutal military way of activity, you work in metaphors, you work differently, and a way to avoid them, you know . At the end of the regime, with the coup, i had to stop my teaching at schools which was my work at the time. I had to work like a freelance photographer. In those days there werent many women photographers. You had to be very brave to do that. Things were complicated because of the curfew. And the time of how you could work. I had very young children, and a baby. The only way to do my things was to start investigating the street by myself. It was a way also to do sort of political resistance, but it was very scary because the police was always after hours. That experience helped me a lot to move around and do sort out places to work, sort of, alibis, you know . And confronting the police that was heavy on us, you know, photographers in the street. Of course my house had been searched. So i knew what you had to hide and how, you know. Adams apple was a long essay, it took me four years to finish it. I was very interested in prostitution in general. I met a male prostitute, you know, transvestites. They were extremely keen on photography. They loved it. And that was fantastic, how they received me. In the first thing i did was meet the mother of two of them. I got very close to her, in fact i dedicate the whole work to her, we made a book, you know after four years, a book that of course was censored. The subject was like the underground, you know, my friend claudia, we went with them south to escape persecution. We stayed with them in the proper they were working out. We stayed with them in the brothel where they were working in a city called calca. Thats what we recorded, constantly, you know . Their lives, their experience in the beginning of the dictatorship and how badly they were treated, the ones that survived, even. So, we i felt very close to them and we were really good friends. You know, ive been in touch with the of this project. With the survivors of this project. Which in fact is a very tragic situation, since most of them died of aids. It was a very tragic experience for the whole community. You know, i have to show people or make people learn how to look. The margin is where power looks differently. Paz, for whom geography was a form of political resistance. Magnum photographer, dianas work is intensely personal. Her mother took her to the us without telling her father. Diana found him in armenia 20 years later capturing the reunion in picture. My mum woke me up and everything was packed. We had a tiny suitcase with us, my brother and i. And my mother said take all of your important things and we left. We never said goodbye to my father. My moms solution to forget him was simple. She cut his image out of every photograph in ourfamily album. Those holes made it harder for me to forget him. I often wondered what it would have been like to have a father. I still do. My work is often about my own family, about the past, about memory. This project is one of the first projects that really inspired me to look inwards. To start exploring my own family history. My parents met in university in armenia. My mother had just turned 21. Its strange to look at images of them together. They look so happy. So in love. All i ever knew was her disappointment. I was born in russia at a time when the soviet union collapsed and my family, like a lot of russians, became desperate overnight. My mom wanted something more for my life. She always did. She didnt have a relationship, she didnt have a family beyond my brother and i. And we left. I never thought we wouldnt see my dad again, never thought we wouldnt see my friends again, we just left. And it took me two decades to go back. So this is a suitcase that my grandfather put together of things that he had collected over the last 20 years while we were missing. So theres a shirt from my brothers future wedding. Dozens of returned letters. A newspaper clipping. Its called missing point, and its as we were taken to america by our mum and he doesnt know where, and if there is anyone who knows anything, to come forward to him. I wanted to find my father, and i was separated from him when i was seven. Almost 20 years later, i wanted as an adult to know who this man was. Ijust happened to be in armenia, my brother was with me and i rememberfinding his house. And we said, we were his kids and he said he didnt believe us. This was one of those days where i felt really lucky to be around my dad. We were on a boat and we were paddling together, he was teaching me. He feels close but then all of a sudden hes gone. Collaborative photography gives way to better storytelling. I learned this with my father. The collaboration started not so much that he is going to take pictures, hes going to write, its more like hes going to think with me. Not everything was one story or one truth. And you have two parents, its the basic, isnt it . When you are not given out outcome you are always trying to make up for it. When i look at my dad, i think that he is the exact person i needed in my life or relationship has really become one of love. Diana markosian on finding her father and really finding their relationship. Redefining their relationship. And thats all from through the lens from london. To see the rest of the series, go to bbc. Com throughthelens. Another grey day across much of the uk today. Wettest and windiest compared with recent days will be further north. Scotland and Northern Ireland have seen some very heavy rain this morning, through the afternoon, it will turn lighter and patchy. After a bright start in orkney and shetland, heavy rain at the end of the day. A strong wind across the north and west. Patchy rain moving eastwards across england and wales, some breaks in the cloud, so some and wales, some breaks in the cloud, so some of you will see sunshine, most are staying cloudy. Coolest in the east where they wind is light, in the west, temperatures ten or 12 degrees. In the north of scotland, the wind could get up to 60 mph, especially early afternoon. This evening and overnight, it will stay windy across scotland and Northern Ireland. Furthering a time is working with ritz. Some rain in northern england, but dry weather to come, the fair bit of cloud, some brea ks come, the fair bit of cloud, some breaks here and there. Temperatures may drop down into single figures, but for most, 559, mild to start saturday morning. Into the side of the week the weather fronts will come at the north and west. This High Pressure will start to extend a little bit more in england and wales. And we are into a longer speu wales. And we are into a longer spell of drier weather than we have had for a while. Lots of cloud, some brea ks had for a while. Lots of cloud, some breaks here and there, some breaks in the east of scotland, the south and east of Northern Ireland, hazy sunshine. In the west of scotland and north of Northern Ireland, outbreaks of rain, persistent across the highlands. All of us in double figures, 10 13. It will be milder on sunday. The air is coming from the north west of africa, so temperatures higher than they should be for the time of year. After a cloudy saturday, a greater chance of some sunday sunshine. If you are planning a walk, this is the day to do it. Sunny breaks in scotland and Northern Ireland, one or two showers, but the main chance of showers, but the main chance of showers across the highlands or islands. Any shelter here, 111 15 possible, same in the north of Northern Ireland and temperatures are still in double figures. The temperatures will drop, cooler air into the start of next week, but the emphasis will stay on largely dry conditions. A greater chance of some fog patches as we go into the night on new years eve, but for the vast majority, if you have any celebrations outside, the good news is that most places will be dry. This is bbc news, im joanna gosling. The headlines at midday. At least 12 people are killed, after a plane crashes in kazakhstan. Dozens of survivors, including children are being treated in hospital. Everyone started screaming, kids were crying and the lights were on in the plane, but there was no sound. Lady hale, who is about to retire as the president of the uk supreme court, voices concern about the effect of the reduction in resources on the Justice System in england and wales. Tributes are paid to a father and his 2 children, who drowned in a Hotel Swimming Pool in spain on christmas eve. Free hospital parking in england for some patients and visitors from april, but questions are raised over