also on the programme, a warmer world — the last seven years have been the hottest ever, according to new climate data. and the story of the luckiest possible escape for a pilot in los angeles. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. it's 9:00 in the morning in singapore, and noon in melbourne, where all eyes are on serbian tennis star, novak djokovic. he's back in training after a court overturned the australian government's decision to revoke his visa. but his presence at the australian open is not certain yet. the country's immigration minister is still considering whether to use his personal powers to deport djokovic. shaimaa khalil reports. within hours of today's judgment, novak djokovic posted this picture on twitter, saying he was pleased and grateful that thejudge had overturned the visa cancellation, and despite all that has happened, he wants to say and try to compete at the australian open. cheering. and this is the moment his supporters found out about his victory. he won, djokovic won! what we saw today here in the court that the australian legal system is functioning, it is evidence—based, it is aboutjustice. yeah, i'm extremely happy, as anyone, everyone - in the serbian community here. i'm very worried, but i don't want to think like that. ijust hope it will stay like this, that he will be free and he will play. it's been a battle for all of us, it's notjust about novak. obviously, we've been defending him every possible way we could, because we know he is a truthful and rightful guy. while many in attendance community think novak djokovic was unfairly treated, sounds will argue more problems will be faced by him. he will argue more problems will be faced by him.— be faced by him. he will have to face several _ be faced by him. he will have to face several times - be faced by him. he will have to face several times those . to face several times those problems. bottom line, he will have to get the vaccine but for this time, for australia he got the visa and flair went with all the best intentions. the “ubilant all the best intentions. the jubilant mood _ all the best intentions. the jubilant mood turned into chaos and confusion when it became clear whether djokovic would be allowed to stay despite the court's decision in his favour. at one point djokovic thought they caught a glimpse of him by they caught a glimpse of him by they were dispersed by police with teargas. the winner in court does not seem to have guaranteed djokovic a chance to defend his title. —— his win. the atp welcomed the court ruling, but called for greater clarity over the rules. a statement said: the series of events leading to monday's court hearing have i've been speaking to sports journalist daniel cherny in melbourne, he says there's still a chance the immigration minister could cancel his visa. everyone in australia, most australians and probably tennis fans around the world, are waiting with baited breath to see what happens, with what the immigration minister alex hawke decides to do and it really could come at any moment now. i think that would be a valid decision, given that djokovic entered the country — there is a query as to whether having prior infection is a valid reason to get in a valid exemption. in terms of what that would mean, one byproduct of having your visa revoked by the immigration minister is that i think that would actually cancel his visa for three years so effectively he would be denied from entering the country for three years which would have huge implications clearly, as he is only 3a and you'd imagine he would be playing for several more years and i suppose, if there is one tournament — novak djokovic is a global superstar — but if there is one tournament where he holds particular sway, it is here, where he has won nine times. he has dominated really for the best part of 13—14 years so the implications are enormous and this is the story that has australians talking, it has captivated the global media, but particularly being in melbourne, it is absolutely huge. indeed. daniel, just in terms of what the australian government is trying to do here because it is fair to say there has been some fair amount of confusion over the initial way that this story unfolded. what is the message that the government is trying to send on this? a good question and i suppose we will probably see depending on what happens, whether the visa gets revoked. i mean, i think broadly speaking the government has tried to get across the message that you needed to be vaccinated to get into the country and you need to have a really compelling exemption if you're not vaccinated and there's serious questions as to whether the nature of djokovic's exemption was legitimate. i think there is a separate matter of what happened when he got to melbourne airport early last week and he was unable to get in. that was more of an administrative issue and that's i think what the federal court decided yesterday, that the judge anthony kelly decided. but i think broadly speaking the government has been keen to get across that message that no—one is above the law, no—one is above the rules, and i think, if he is allowed in, there's probably an argument to say that that message has been deluded or defeated so it is really interesting. the other thing worth considering is it is against the backdrop of australia being very strong on vaccination. there's this idea of �*fortress australia' and particularly in victoria where certainly, if it is not still, it was for a long time the most locked down city in the world. victorians have struggled and have gone through a lot in the last couple of years. turning now to a story making headlines in the uk: did the people making england's covid rules at the height of the pandemic also break them? well, borisjohnson is refusing to say whether he attended a drinks gathering at downing street in may 2020 in contravention of the rules at that time. several of those invited have told the bbc they were taken aback by an email from the prime minister's private secretary asking dozens of staff to �*bring their own booze' to what were called �*socially—distanced drinks' in the downing street garden. at the time most social mixing was banned. laura kuenssberg has the latest. the principle private secretary's job is in the shadows, organising the lives of the public and powerful. martin reynolds' role was not, you may think, to organise a party during a lockdown. an invite leaked to itv news from behind the black door sent to around 100 of number ten's staff. the prime minister today declining to get into the details of any such socialising. all of that, as you know, is the subject of a proper investigation by sue grey. so have you already been interviewed by sue grey, and if not, do you object to her questioning you again about this? all of that is subject to an investigation by sue grey. remember back then, in the horror of spring 2020, the rules were stict and clear. you could spend time outdoors with people you lived with or with only one other person. and yet, in the building where the rules were being made, a plan was formed for a gathering in downing street's garden on may the 20th 2020. i'm told around 30 people attended, including, according to two eyewitnesses, the prime minister and his wife, with a long table set out in the garden for drinks and snacks. and there was surprise and concern among some staff at the plan. eyebrows more than raised at the e—mail invited sent out by martin reynolds in black—and—white. messages sent between staff and showing tonight to the bbc, that some were well aware of the problem. one wrote at the time... another said... all number ten spokesperson would say tonight was... for weeks, the prime minister has had to defend himself from a deluge of goings—on in downing street. he said again and again nothing went wrong. i have been repeatedly assured, since these allegations emerged, that there was no party and that no covid rules and that is what i have been repeatedly assured. for myanmar�*s ousted civilian leader an "affront to justice" and renewed a call for her release. aung san suu kyi was convicted for the illegal possession and import of walkie—talkies and breaking covid—i9 rules. the former leader was first convicted in december, and given a sentence of two years. doctors in the united states have carried out the first successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human patient. the animal was genetically modified to reduce the chance of the tranplanted organ being rejected. surgeons at the university of maryland medical centre said the 57—year—old patient, david bennett, was doing well and the heart appeared to be working normally. the past seven years have been the hottest on record, according to the eu's copernicus climate change service, which said they were the warmest by a clear margin since 1850. last year was the fifth—warmest year, with record—breaking heat in some regions and levels of carbon dioxide and methane hit new heights. our climate editor, justin rowlatt, examines the data. what a way to see in the new year. almost 1,000 homes were destroyed and tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate as some of the worst wildfires ever seen in colorado swept across the state. coming down this road, the ditches and things, and the trees, they are all up in flames, like, there are embers everywhere. it looks like 2022 is set to continue the trend of extreme weather we saw last year. extreme events are likely to become more intense and more frequent, and we saw many examples of that. within 2021, there were the devastating floods in central europe that we saw injuly and also the extreme heatwave that we saw across the world injune in canada and injuly in sicily. these latest temperature figures confirm that europe experienced its hottest summer on record. the global data collected by european satellites shows 2021 was the fifth hottest year ever recorded, and — no surprise here — the concentration of warming gases in the atmosphere is continuing to rise, with record levels of both carbon dioxide and methane. the direction of travel is inescapable. just look how temperatures have risen since the beginning of the industrial revolution 170 years ago. that, of course, is when the world began to burn fossil fuels on a really massive scale, and now look at the last seven years. these latest figures show they were the hottest seven years ever recorded, an average of 1.2 degrees centigrade above pre—industrial levels. and the bad news is, a temporary cooling event in the pacific ocean actually lowered temperatures very marginally last year. that will soon pass, so don't expect any let—up in the warming trend in the years to come. it sometimes feels, when we've got complex, big problems like this, that there's very little we can do as individuals, but we do have a choice. we can make changes to our lifestyle to reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions, whether that's reducing the amount of meat and dairy that we eat, travelling less by flying or, you know, not taking the car as much and walking and cycling instead. the pact agreed by world leaders at the international climate conference in glasgow in november aims to do just that — to cut global emissions. today's confirmation of rising global temperatures is another reminder ofjust how urgent that action is. justin rowlatt, bbc news. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: a lucky escape — the us pilot who crash—landed on a railway line as a commuter train approached but lived to tell the tale. 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 america's oldest industry, and it's 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. l huge parts of kobe were simplyl demolished as buildings crashed into one another. this woman said she'd been given no help _ and no advice - by the authorities. she stood outside the ruins of her business. j tens of thousands of black children in south africa have taken advantage of laws, passed by the country's 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 tonight's performance, but agatha christie would have been the last person to want such a thing. this is newsday on the bbc. our headlines: novak djokovic is back in traininig after a court overturned his visa cancellation but australia's immigration minister could still decide to deport him. claims of another lockdown party at downing street — borisjohnson refuses to answer whether he attended drinks with dozens of his staff. investigators in new york are investigating the apartment fire, and deaths have been resigned — just revised from 17 and he says resigned — just revised from 17 and he says that resigned — just revised from 17 and he says that an resigned — just revised from 17 and he says that an open resigned — just revised from 17 and he says that an open door may have allowed that smoke to spread more quickly. let's turn to kazakhstan now, where the president has described the protests last week in which dozens are reported to have died as an attempted coup. troops from russia are currently in the country to restore order and president putin said kazakhstan had been targeted by international terrorism. amid a crackdown on protests, the us state department has called on the authorties to rescind an order for security forces to shoot without warning. our correspondent, steve rosenberg, is in kazakhstan�*s largest city, almaty, and sent this report. driving into almaty, you see immediately this is a city on guard. we passed through several army checkpoints. they've been set up to prevent more attacks. in the city centre, reminders of the violence the authorities now say was an attempted coup. almaty last week. what had started as peaceful protests over fuel prices... ..in another part of kazakhstan were suddenly looking like war. translation: these bandits were controlled by terrorists. j for the level of organisation here, it must have been a criminal group that planned it in advance. dozens of people were killed. thousands have since been detained. there's still a lot of confusion about who was behind this violence. authorities blame terrorists and bandits. some here talk about a power struggle in the ruling elite. but one thing is clear — that to stay in power, the president of kazakhstan had to call on a foreign power for help, and that's russia. enter the russian military. on paper, russian troops here are peacekeepers, deployed to kazakhstan as part of a collective security alliance of former soviet states, the csto. but most of the soldiers are russian, the kremlin keen to demonstrate its regional power. addressing csto colleagues, president putin made events fit his wider narrative. translation: we understand the events in kazakhstan won't be the last attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of our countries. the measures taken by the csto show we will not allow destabilisation at home and for so—called colour revolutions to take place. after the violence in almaty, there are mixed feelings here about the arrival of russian troops. "i welcome the russians coming", this man says. "they'll put a stop to it". "we should be able to cope ourselves," she says. "then again, without outside help, there could be civil war." what happened in kazakhstan has left this country and its people in shock and in fear at what comes next. steve rosenberg, bbc news, almaty. one of the uk's greatest ever fossil finds has been revealed — the skeleton of a 10—metre—long sea predator, rather like a huge prehistoric dolphin, that lived 250 million years ago. it was discovered poking through the mud at rutland water nature reserve in leceistershire. jonah fisher has more. last february, on a bank of mud in a midlands reservoir, joe davis made an extraordinary discovery. we were relandscaping some islands on the rutland water nature reserve there to improve it for bird habitats. and i looked down, ijust saw this series of ridges in the mud and thought, that looks different, there's something there that's different. and it had organic features almost where it connects onto the rib. so, yeah, that's when we thought we need to call somebody and find out. a team of experts was quickly dispatched. joe hadn't found a dinosaur, but it was an ichthyosaur — a monstrous, air—breathing sea reptile, also known as a sea dragon, that swam about 180 million years ago. back then, rutland and most of the midlands was under water, covered by a warm, shallow sea. what makes this particular sea dragon so special is its size and condition. this is a backbone, so it's part of the spine, and this is one of more than 150 individual vertebrae in this entire skeleton. so, this individual is not only the most complete ichthyosaur skeleton ever found, the biggest one ever found here in the uk, incredible at ten metres long. but it's actually the biggest prehistoric reptile skeleton ever found here as well, the most complete skeleton. very gently back. 0k. the huge ichthyosaur has now been removed from the reservoir bed. the skull block on its own weighed almost a ton. having lain in the mud undisturbed for nearly 200 million years, the rutland sea dragon is one of britain's greatest ever fossil finds. jonah fisher, bbc news. a massive trove of artefacts detailing pre—world war 2 eastern european jewish life has gone online. it's the largest collection of yiddish language materials in the world. the unveiling is seen as a milestone in the preservation ofjewish history. it's been brought about by digitising millions of items held in physical archives in lithuania and new york. before we go, ijust want to bring you the story of a pilot in los angeles who crash landed on a railway line as a commuter train approached. as our correspondent sophie long reports, it turned out to be a very lucky escape. the moment disaster was averted. this remarkable bodycam footage shows the moment lapd officers pulled a pilot to safety without a second to spare. go, go, go, go! horn blares. the plane had taken off from the runway at whiteman airport adjacent to the metro line just minutes earlier. but it crash—landed onto the tracks at this busy level crossing. police officers were at the scene in moments, but then an ominous sound created instant panic — that of a train fast approaching. in a city where street corners are frequently turned into film sets, people here struggled to believe that what they were seeing was actually real. there was a huge sense of panic. a lot of the bystanders were frustrated. they were frustrated, maybe, with the length of time it took to get him out. we didn't expect the train to still keep coming, so a lot of people were frustrated with that. it's out of this world. it's like something in a movie, that you would see in a hollywood movie. despite the flying debris, no one on the ground was injured. the pilot was the only person in the plane. his identity has not yet been released. all that's known about him is that he was lucky enough to cheat death not once, but twice in ten minutes. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. what an astonishing story that was indeed! a lucky escape, not once, but twice! that's all for now. stay with bbc world news. hello. after a fairly grey, drizzly sort of day on monday, more places will see the sunshine on tuesday. clearer air is working its way south across the uk behind this cold front here, which is only slowly pushing southwards. so we've still got quite a lot of cloud around. the cloud and drizzle will slowly clear southwards through the day, so a reappearance of sunshine from the north, but some of us will hold onto the cloudy drizzly conditions all day in the far south. so we start off with quite a contrast in temperature, mild towards the south, but temperatures a few degrees either side of freezing first thing for scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england as well. this is how tuesday is looking then, you can see the clearer skies for much of the uk, as this band of cloud and drizzly patchy rain sink south. a bit of mist and murk particularly around and hills for southern england and south wales too, lasting all day. but mild here, 10—11 celsius, in the clearer, sunny skies, between about 6—9 celsius, a few showers just rattling in across the north and west of scotland. through tuesday evening and overnight now into wednesday, eventually, we will lose that cold front, that band of cloud and drizzle from the south. so clearer skies for all as we move on into wednesday morning. breezy in the north and milderair here, double figures overnight. but further south, we are likely to see a frost to start your wednesday morning. so moving through wednesday, then, once we have lost that cold front, we've got high—pressure building really across the uk, so that's going to bring a lot of dry and settled weather, but a change in temperature because this milder air is coming in from the southwest around the top side of that high—pressure, so moving into northern parts of the uk. further south, we're sitting under the colder air. so, really, from mid—week onwards, we've got a bit of a split. it's mild and breezy in the north, whereas further south, colder with some fog patches that could linger for quite a time. that's how wednesday looks, then we've got the cloudier, breezier conditions across parts of scotland in particular. fog patches further south, it will slowly clear away, and then a lot of dry and sunny weather. we've always got that bit more cloud and a few showers in the far northwest. here, 11 degrees for stornoway, and about 7 degrees or so for london. and a few places could struggle where we keep that fog. through the day on thursday, some of that fog could be quite extensive and slow to clear across parts of england and wales too. breezy and cloudy in the far northwest, plenty of sunshine elsewhere, but we could see those lingering fog patches all day for a few areas. bye— bye. this is bbc news. we will have the news and headlines at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. hello. welcome to the media show. we have reached the one—year anniversary of the storming of the capitol in washington, dc. it was a pivotal moment for america and for its media. we have seen some us journalists criticised for overemphasising its importance, of obsessing about it. others say journalists in the us have not found a way of describing the significance of what happened and are giving too much space to the idea that the us election was stolen. let's explore these issues and many more with five guests. david folkenflik, national public radio. chris walker, a tech journalist based here in the uk. robert costa is from the washington post. susan ferrechio is chief congressional correspondent at the washington examiner. susan, i wonder for our viewers who do not know your publication, tell us more about it. we are a news website in a magazine based in washington, dc.