Rock in more than forty years. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world im kasia madera. The biggest terrorist trial in french history has ended with the conviction of fourteen people for aiding islamist attacks in paris in january 2015. Seventeen people were killed in the assaults on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a jewish supermarket. Our paris corresondent Lucy Williamson reports. This trial has struggled to match the scale of the events behind it. Those in the Public Gallery today better known than those in the dock. Arriving for the verdict, surviving staff from a jewish supermarket and the magazine Charlie Hebdo the two key targets in the attacks. The harshest verdict was for ali riza polat, sentenced to 30 years for complicity in the attacks. More than a dozen others were convicted of lesser crimes. Seven were cleared of any specific link to terrorism. Translation what this decision says is that without this loose group of people around the terrorists, there is no attack, and anyone who supports terrorism even a little can be punished very severely. The men who carried out the islamist violence five years ago were all killed by police. Amedy coulibaly and brothers cherif and said kouachi killed 17 people in a three day campaign targeting journalists, jews and police officers. The satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was targeted after printing cartoons of the prophet muhammad. Those cartoons have since become the front line in a battle over freedom of speech in france. On the one hand, a symbol of the nations right to blaspheme. On the other, a lightning rod for more jihadist attacks. Two months ago, teacher samuel paty was beheaded in a suburb of paris after showing his class the cartoons during a discussion on freedom of speech. The government has proposed a new law to combat islamist extremism in france. But one survivor believes repeated islamist attacks are changing behaviour here. Translation alqaeda is waging a communications war. It wants to scare people, and its working. Cartoonists no longer want to caricature the prophet. Its self censorship. After the recent beheading of the teacher, a lot of teachers dont want to speak about secularism but freedom of expression. Todays verdict said Charlie Hebdo marked the end of a cycle of violence. Not many here think its over. Much of the terrorism has been home grown and convicting people isnt the same as convincing them. Lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. Boris johnson has urged people to keep christmas celebrations short and small to reduce the risk of spreading covid over the festive period. Despite warnings over rising infections from scientists and doctors, restrictions will still be relaxed between 23rd and 27th december but mrjohnson said people should think hard before meeting friends and family. This report from laura kuenssberg. Even sorting the tree hasnt seemed straightforward this year. Politicians gave a promise wed be able to gather together at christmas, a glimmer of light at a grim time but, along with gifts, new concern about the virus is arriving at number ten, so permission to see friends and family comes with stern new advice. We are keeping the laws the same, but we all want to send the same message. A smaller christmas is going to be a safer christmas, and a shorter christmas is a safer christmas. You are still allowing a five day period to go ahead when people from all over the country will be able to get together. Wouldnt it now be safer, clearer and perhaps braver to ditch the plans to relax the rules over christmas . We dont want to, as i say, ban christmas, to cancel it, and i think that would be, frankly, inhuman. What we are saying is that that guidance, the three households and the five days, that really should be regarded as a maximum, but we are also relying on peoples strong, strong sense of personal responsibility. Leaders around the uk have tried to stick to the same approach. There will be some limited extra freedom over the festive period in scotland, where soon 80 of people will be living under tougher restrictions, but there will be no huge knees up for mother and daughter mags and louise livingstone. We come from a really big family, so normally we have a huge christmas, loads of games, lots of drinks, lots of partying, all the kids, but this year obviously its completely different for us. The christmas relaxation of the rules will go ahead, but with a similar call for caution. I have to say, i hate with every fibre of my being standing here, trying to regulate how you spend christmas. The reality is that this christmas simply cannot be normal, but we have every reason to hope that next years will be much more normal. The picture is bleaker in wales, though, where the law is being tweaked so that only two, not three households, can get together. In carmarthen, plans are already changing. We were having three households together, but i think its just going to be us now. The numbers are increasing as well, arent they, at the moment, so that is a worry. Pressure is intense on the Health Service and, with the spread of the disease, wales is going back to a limited lockdown straight after christmas. Nobody wants to be ill at christmas, and none of us want to give this deadly disease to our closest family orfriends. In northern ireland, winter illness conspired with covid to fill hospitals to bursting last night, leaving ambulances queueing with patients inside for as long as 12 hours. And thats even before any of the rules are eased up. No surprise, politicians here are telling people to take care, too. Be risk aware at all times. Remember the situations and activities that help the virus spread, so keep your distance, stop your contacts with others outside your household or christmas bubble. The political decisions about christmas were never designed to create a free for all, but the worsening pattern of the disease has forced a rebrand, if not a rethink. Some families in essex today were worried about the consequences. Whats going to happen is its just going to spiral out of control again and i do think they are wrong for doing it. I think its too late now. I think people have made their plans and i think, if they come in now and change it, people are just going to do what they were planning to do. Politicians must balance the dangers from the pandemic with the real cost to so many other aspects of our lives. This year, whats meant to be a time of celebration is a time of real risk, too. Laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. Lets get some of the days other news countries all over europe are tightening restrictions as the numbers of covid cases rise steeply. Germany has started a Christmas Lockdown today festivities are limited to the smallest of family gatherings, and schools and non essential shops are closed. Slovakia is also back into lockdown as the virus spreads uncontrollably. Denmarks Prime Minister has announced a full lockdown from december 25th to january 3rd. Brazil will start a mass Coronavirus Vaccination Programme in february. President Jair Bolsonaro says the government will buy millions of doses, once regulators approve one of the new vaccines. The country reported another 70 thousand cases of covid i9 on wednesday bring the total close to seven million. The death toll in brazil is the second highest in the world. A new round of stimulus checks will be making their way to americans suffering the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. After months of stalled negotiations, congressional leaders have reached a 900 billion dollar relief package ahead of the holidays. The Uks Supreme Court has ruled that the owner of Heathrow Airport can build a third runway. It overturns an earlier legal decision to block the plan on environmental grounds. Heathrow airport has welcomed the decision but they still have to persuade a public enquiry of the case for expansion. Ransoms will not be paid for the schoolboys kidnapped from their boarding school in Northern Nigeria. Thats the message from the Regional Governor whos spoken to the bbc. He said the authorities are in contact with the Group Holding the children he described the group as a gang of well known local criminals with links to the Islamist Militant Group boko haram. More states in Northern Nigeria have ordered all schools to close following last weeks kidnapping of hundreds of pupils in Katsina State. Our nigeria correspondent mayenijones sent this report. Bring back our boys thats what these young activists plan to ask the government during their march on thursday. They are worried any delay could prove disastrous. These children could be exposed to dangers of training on the use of arms, so they can be used for further attacks in other places, and also they can be exposed to drugs. The government has come under fierce criticism for its handling of attacks. Boko harams claim of responsibility for fridays mass kidnapping shows their influence could be spreading. Boko haram doesnt usually operate in this part of nigeria, and the governor of Katsina State tried to downplay its involvement. Even though the methods being used by boko haram have been employed in this abduction, we cannot precisely say we are dealing with boko haram yet. There have been repeated comparisons between fridays kidnapping there have been repeated comparisons between fridays kidnapping and a 2014 abduction of the chibok girls. Over half of them were freed. Its unclear how the government secured their release. Some believe they paid a ransom. The authorities deny they did then, and wont entertain the thought now. I dont think the issue of ransom for money is on the table. It should not be on the table. It should not. We dont pay kidnappers money, because its an encouragement. We dont pay it. Back at the secondary school where her child was abducted, this parent is sceptical about boko harams claims. Translation i dont believe the claim by the leader of boko haram that he ordered the kidnapping of our children. We were told that they used to kill our children, and i stick to that. Were told that thieves took away our children. With schools here now closed until security improves, getting an education in north west nigeria has become precarious. Mayenijones, bbc news, katsina. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come a space stay with us on bbc news, still to come a space capsule containing the first moon rocks collected for more than a0 years has touched down in Inner Mongolia. Music. Chanting. Saddam hussein is finished because he killed our people, our women, our children. The signatures took only a few minutes, but they brought a formal end to 3. 5 years of conflict, conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives. Before an audience of world leaders, the president s of bosnia, serbia and croatia put their names to the peace agreement. The romanian border was sealed and silent today. Romania has cut itself off from the outside world in order to prevent the details of the presumed massacre in timisoara from leaking out. From sex at the white house to a trial for his political life, the lewinsky affair tonight guaranteed bill clinton his place in history as only the second president ever to be impeached. This is bbc news, the latest headlines. A court in france has convicted the accomplices of the islamist militants who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attacks in paris. Their sentences range from 4 to 30 years in prison. Britains Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has urged people to keep their christmas celebrations short and small to avoid spreading covid. But he says the relaxtion in rules on meeting up for the Festive Season will still go ahead. This week will mark two decades since the un declared an International Migrants day. In the last decade alone, the number of migrants globally rose by 51 million to an estimated 272 million in 2019. And this year migrants across the world have been hit hard byjob losses, border closures and Restricted Movement due to the coronavirus pandemic, which threatens to increase existing wealth disparities. Ive been speaking to itayi viriri, from the International Organization for migration in bangkok, about the issue. Certainly as we know, the world is been afflicted by the covid 19 pandemic which has devastated the world across borders and migrants have fought the brand of this pandemic. In countries of locked down and tried and combat the spread of this virus and migrants who look after themselves and their families have lost that income and so a total of 3 million migrants that have been stranded, especially after the borders are closed and we are talking about risks that i expect to fall by 7 from the height of 51 0 fall by 7 from the height of 540 billion, these are really significant effects from covid 19 pandemic and consider also that a lot of migrants are at the forefront of dealing with the pandemic whether through the Health Services or the Service Sector and consider really horrible statistics for example in the us a third of the nurses who have died from coronavirus are filipinos. He of the filipinos limit of 4 of the population. Seek and see the population. Seek and see the range of devastation that this pandemic has brought on migrants and obviously now the concern is whether migrants will also be included in the vaccines have been rolled out. That is particularly important as an issue we are looking at in this International Migrants day. That is the world is rolling out this massive vaccination campaigns that the migrants not be left behind. That is a devastating statistic regarding the filipino community. In terms of migrants, you always think about the numbers of people coming from north africa to europe, is that the biggest route or is there others that need to be focused on too. That isa need to be focused on too. That is a very important question because as i mentioned, there have been border closures around the world but that does not stop migration. We need to a lwa ys not stop migration. We need to always understand is that the level of desperation that people enforce peer to migrate whether their safety in economic reasons still remains in effect probably becomes Even Strongerfor a time like in effect probably becomes Even Stronger for a time like this where situation by migration to europe for example in north africa, spain is actually gone up africa, spain is actually gone up and missing migrants based out of berlin is going to issue a report on International Migrants day and show that sadly people have died this year trying to migrate and the numbers are thankfully lower than in previous years, the numbers of migrants during this have risen in places like latin america and south america and also the road from north africa to europe by spain. Entering a pandemic like this with all of the border closures, people are still desperate because of travelling where they think theyre better opportunities travelling where they think they re better opportunities of safety. British foreign secretary dominic raab, whos visiting india, has acknowledged that a post brexit free trade deal with the country could take many years. But, he said, it might come much sooner and the mutual benefits would be enormous. Mr raab met indian Prime Minister narendra modi, and also announced a new Vaccine Partnership with the country. 0ur south asia correspondent rajini Vaidya Nathan asked mr raab about brexit. 0ne one of the great things that ive been able to talk through the Prime Minister today and with the Foreign Ministry yesterday was the, if you like, the road map, the milestones deepening our trade in the interest of both indian and british businesses and consumers. Of course, free trade negotiations are a haggle, both sides have to. If you look at the joint mutual benefits over a ten or 20 or 30 year period, not just benefits over a ten or 20 or 30 year period, notjust over two 01 year period, notjust over two or three months, they are enormous. Freetrade agreement with india will not hope happen overnight, could take as long asa overnight, could take as long as a decade. Freetrade agreement is important in their milestones to reaching that and sometimes it can take as long as you suggested but i think with political will and my sense of the uk site and also on the indian side, there is the political will with the right leadership on both sides, thatis right leadership on both sides, that is both there, we can work much quicker than that. Lets move the issue of democratic values. International human rights are gravely concerned that indian policies have put minority groups, especially muslims, under increasing pressure. We are talking about brutal crackdowns against the government critics. Arbitrary detentions, internet shutdowns, increased Media Censorship and a decline in press freedom. How much does that concern you . think the big picture context is that india is the biggest democracy in the world and has a vibrant culture of debate, protest a nd a vibrant culture of debate, protest and what we have seen recently in many ways as an example to the world, of course, there are cases of human rights issues and we know about them, it reported to me, they have desperate constituencies with us. I had a candid conversation with officials in the Indian Government and i spoke to them this week and equally, we recognise that we have a democratic depth and breath of india is pretty much unrivaled in this region and i think it is important to set it against that context. A Chinese Space craft has returned to earth with the first samples from the moon in more than 40 yea rs. The chaang uh five spent three weeks in space, sampling rocks and soil. The capsule carrying the samples gathered by the un crewed craft touched down in the Northern Region of Inner Mongolia about five hours ago. Scientists hope the samples will help them understand the structure and history of the moon. Ive been speaking to science journalist dr ken kremerfor his reaction. It isa it is a real big deal because it has not been done in 40 yea rs. It has not been done in 40 years. China is only the third country in the world to accomplish this task and we wa nt to accomplish this task and we want to get back to the moon and so, with the chinese have demonstrated is a great deal of technology, a great advance and Technological Capabilities to be able to do this is only the third country. So, does a fantastic achievement for the chinese, lending rivers on the moon and are they part a sample back that just landed on moon and are they part a sample back thatjust landed on earth five hours ago and theyve located the capsule in the next thing would be to bring it back toa thing would be to bring it back to a receiving facility and open it up and up to get about two or so. Is that a lot, explain and what can you learn from these samples . Yes, you can doa from these samples . Yes, you can do a lot. I am a chemist. From the pharmaceutical industry, in fact. You can do a tremendous amount of the low amount of material. They do not need tonnes of material to do a lot of science. These tools are also very interesting because they are from a different spot where apollo went and the lunar probe from the soviet union went and it is a younger spot, may be a billion years old than three or 4 billion years old. Its a learning a lot about the evolution of the solar system from the samples. Learned a lot from the samples. Learned a lot from apollo but their earlier samples meant to give different samples meant to give different samples from different time periods to fill in that gap of our knowledge of the earth moon system and how the solar system formed. Youve been at the Kennedy Space centre sitting for lunch tomorrow, was the mood there like that china was the country to achieve something so incredible like this and cooperation between the different nations when it comes to learning will be can from the samples. There are many people interested in going back to the moon. As a team is we first went to the moon and we first went to the moon and we should have never stopped going to the moon. So, the United States is project artemis with the Current Administration and we are pushing hard for that. Axis of the second stage of the moon rocket and one of the Unmanned Missions going to the moon, circling around the moon, rounding into next year. So, yeahit rounding into next year. So, yeah it is a lot of excitement and samples came back from the moon today in the us rocket thatis moon today in the us rocket that is going to take people back to the moon, we saw a portion of that arrive at the Kennedy Space centre today. So, tremendous excitement we have the new administration will continue on that path and i can say europe has a big involvement in that European Space agency they are building pa rt space agency they are building part of the orion capsule this sin people and so european astronauts are going to be part of that and it is very international we have the International Space station and as the japanese astronaut on that and the next crew mission is going to be a european astronaut from france, i believe. So, theres a lot of International Cooperation that so we need to cut the costs. Hard not to get excited when you talk to some as enthusiastic as that. The Legendary British actor sir ian mckellen is among the latest to receive the anti Coronavirus Vaccine in the uk. The star, whos 81, is known for both his theatre and film roles, including blockbuster movies such as x men, the hobbit and the lord of the rings franchise. He said he looked forward to one day hugging people again, starting with the doctor and staff at the London Hospital where he received the jab. And he was optimistic about the future for the arts. This is the first on the theatres have been closed. During shakespeares theatres have been closed. During sha kespeares lifetime because of the bubonic plague, the theatres were shut off and for yea rs the theatres were shut off and for years at the time and during one of those breaks, shakespeare not able to act, wrote three plays, if any cleopatra, mcbeth and thats what he did with his lockdown and so that to be an inspiration. And, during the war, theatres closed, particularly in london, during the blitz. But we spring back. Receiving the Coronavirus Vaccine. I am on social media. You can reach me on twitter im bbckasiamadera. Hello there. On wednesday, we saw a pretty deep area of low pressure sweep up from the south to bring rain and gales, particularly to western areas. Today, though, its looking a bit quieter. Were in between weather systems, so we should see a good deal of sunshine around. Itll stay quite breezy too, though, not quite as windy as it has been. So thats wednesdays low pushing away to the north of the uk. This feature will come in during thursday night. And in between, weve got a good slice of drier weather. Therell be a few showers around this morning, mind you, across southern and western areas, plenty of sunshine across eastern scotland, central and eastern england, areas here staying dry all day. 0ut west, well see further showers and the clouds will tend to build up here through the afternoon, and the outbreaks of rain will start to arrive across northern ireland, along with strengthening winds. Itll be quite fresh across northern and eastern areas, 9 10 celsius around average, but it will be turning quite milderfurther west as this band of rain and stronger winds starts to spread across the country as we head through thursday night. Followed by further areas of cloud and showers to the south and west, and itll be turning very mild across the south, lows overnight 12 13 celsius. And after a chilly start in the north, itll be turning milder there too. Now this is the pressure chart for friday and you can see were back to very unsettled weather, this active weather front with lots of isobars on the chart, meaning wet and windy weather moving our way. So well start off a little brightness across the north east england, northeast scotland, but generally a rather cloudy, misty, murky day with some patchy drizzle across the east, heavy rain across western areas, chances of flooding for southwest england and south wales, areas which have seen lots of rain already. And itll be a windy day, those gusts showing 30 40 mph for many, particularly across southern and western coasts. With our winds coming in from the south, its going to be a very mild day for the time of year, highs of 13 15 celsius, for example, in parts of northeast wales. Low pressure sticks around as we head on into the weekend. Itll send bands of showers into the northern and western areas. But there will be some sunshine around too. Youll notice the mild air starts to get replaced with those bluer tinges, so itll be cooling down through the weekend. So a sunshine and showers weekend, most showers across western areas. And then, itll be cooling down, and thatll be particularly noticeable as we head through sunday. This is bbc news, the headlines. The biggest terrorist trial in french history has ended with the conviction of fourteen people for aiding islamist attacks in paris in january 2015. Seventeen people were killed in the assaults on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a jewish supermarket. The uk Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has urged people to keep christmas celebrations short and small to reduce the risk of spreading covid over the festive period. Despite warnings over rising infections from scientists and doctors, restrictions will still be relaxed between 23rd and 27th december. A Chinese Space craft has returned to earth with the first samples from the moon in more than 40 years. The chaang uh five spent three weeks in space, sampling rocks and soil. The capsule carrying the samples touched down in the Northern Region of Inner Mongolia earlier today