Paraic O'Brien , Foreign Affairs Correspondent

US President-elect Donald Trump says he’s a “smart guy”, but one of his latest tweets – about China “stealing” a US Navy research drone from international waters – betrayed, at best, a lack of care about spelling.

The US president-elect Donald Trump has again dismissed any suggestions that Russia tried to swing the election in his favour. President Obama warned of retaliation against any attempt to interfere with the integrity of the poll, saying Vladimir Putin was “well aware” of his feelings.

The globe-trotting boss of a giant energy firm with substantial interests in Russia is in line to become America’s next secretary of State, as Donald Trump named Exxon-Mobil chief Rex Tillerson as his choice.

The row over alleged Russian “interference” in the US presidential elections is showing no sign of abating. While Barack Obama has ordered a full investigation, a call that is backed by a bi-partisan group of senators, President-elect Donald Trump has dismissed the claims as “ridiculous”.

A sadly more familiar tragedy continues to unfold in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Rebels today withdrew from the old city, allowing government forces to move in. But tens of thousands of civilians are still trapped in the remaining rebel-held areas – the rebels now virtually admitting defeat and calling for a five-day ceasefire to…

“Those who refuse to leave nicely will be destroyed”. That was the grim warning today from the Russian Foreign Minister to Syrian rebels and residents remaining in East Aleppo.

To Syria now, where fighting has again intensified around the city of Aleppo. Government forces have attempted to drive deeper into opposition- held areas close to the old city, while rebels have fired mortar shells – killing two Russian nurses working in a battlefield hospital.

If Richmond is a Remain stronghold, Romford, on the other side of the capital, was very much part of the Leave tide in June.

Basildon in Essex is the ultimate political bellwether town, having voted for the winning party at each General Election since it became a constituency in 1974. Earlier this year it set the trend for the country once again, as it voted to leave the EU. The film maker in this report is CJ Clarke.   …

He’s a 62 year old French MP whose campaign slogan vowed to slash half a million public sector jobs over the next five years. This is former prime minister Francois Fillon, the man most likely to become the centre right’s presidential candidate, after winning a landslide in this weekend’s primary.

In Aleppo the airstrikes continue – a whole family is killed in the east of the city by a barrel bomb while at least eight children die in government held west Aleppo after a school was hit by rebel shelling.

All hospitals in Eastern Aleppo have been reportedly forced to close after the relentless bombing of the besieged half of the city. This leaves an estimated 300,000 residents without medical care. We have footage from inside the paediatric hospital there.

British Transport Police say six men and one woman were killed in yesterday’s tram crash in south London. The tram derailed as it took a corner at speed. The driver, who was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, has been released on bail.

For this group of boxers, losing is the name of the game. Welcome to the strange world of the journeyman boxer.

Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud is named by a French official as the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, while two brothers from Molenbeek are at the centre of the police investigation.