hello. this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines: a tsunami hits indonesia causing widespread devestation. at least 168 people are dead and more than 700 injured. the death toll is expected to rise. tributes are paid to former liberal democrat leader lord ashdown, who's died at the age of 77. and flights return to normal at gatwick as police investigating the drone disruption continue to question two people. a full review of the paper is coming up a full review of the paper is coming up in a full review of the paper is coming upina a full review of the paper is coming up in a minute but first all the sporting action with richard. thank you. come the end of the season, we might look back at yesterday as one of the days that changed the destination of the premier league title. manchester city surprisingly lost 3—2 at home to crystal palace, which means liverpool will sit four points clear at the top of the premier league table on christmas day.

city's defeat wasn't the only shock of the day as chelsea were beaten by leicester. and ole gunnar solskjaer got off to the perfect start with manchester united. joe lynskey looks back....( pkg) joe lynskey looks back. this is the week manchester united found a fresh start in an old face. ole gunnar solskjaer once scored the goal that sealed the treble in ‘99. now he brings a new impact from the bench. rashford will strike and find the bottom corner. what a perfect start. it took marcus rashford three minutes to show their new—found ambition. he was part of a front line that did include paul pogba. here the world cup winner ander herrera set out to make things better. although cardiff did respond, that brought the best from united. this is the talent they have had all along. martial! beautiful move. beautiful goal. now that is what manchester united should be about. a goal and a scoreline that brought back days gone by.

a new liberated united eventually scored five for the first time in the league since the day sir alex left. we knew today we're not going to beat cardiff if this becomes a fight. so we need to get the ball down, pass it quickly, move quickly. and the third goal, i think that was just a different class. it all felt like the same routine at manchester city. when they went 1—0 up, crystal palace were 150:1 to win the game. but something extraordinary was about to fall from the sky. and that's a good hit. oh, what a goal! what a goal from andros townsend. a strike as brilliant as it was significant. palace held their nerve to win 3—2, a result that means city trail liverpool at the top by four points. but chelsea are perhaps now too far behind. they were swept away by leicester city in one flash from jamie vardy. that goal mayjust keep his

under—pressure manager, claude puel, in charge. because, in this league, it can take just one match to transform the mood. joe lynskey, bbc news. here then are all of the results from yesterday's premier league action. arsenal eased past burnley 3—1. bournemouth stopped a run of three consecutive defeats with a 2—0 win at home to brighton. and there were away wins for southampton and watford. celtic will be top of the scottish premiership at christmas, after they beat dundee 3—0 at home. aberdeen are second after a 2—0 win at hearts, while hibernian and livingston played out an entertaining 1—1 draw at easter road. ryan hardie opened the scoring for the away side, before ryan porteous nodded in the equaliser. rangers can regain second place when they play stjohnstone later. boxing now and josh warrington retained his ibf featherweight world title belt with a thrilling points win over carl frampton at the manchester arena. warrington got the better of the former champion frampton from the very first round but somehow the northern irishman managed to stay on his feet right up to the final bell.

it was always obvious though that warrington had done enough. he brought a huge following across the pennines from his home city of leeds. meanwhile in london dillian whyte knocked out dereck chisora in the battle of two british heavyweights. he had to wait until the 11th round to find the decisive blow. afterwards whyte called for a rematch with world champion anthonyjoshua who he hopes to face at wembley next year butjoshua says whyte is third on the list. just you are talking rubbish, man. talking rubbish. iam not going just you are talking rubbish, man. talking rubbish. i am not going to sit around and wait for him. they are not going to waste four months of my career waiting for him, seeing what he is doing. i haven't got time to that. my career needs to progress. weight to back the years, wait for the call, i can't do that. time is ticking. —— weight two

yea rs. there's a new team at the top of rugby union's premiership table this morning, as exeter beat saracens 31—13, replacing them at the summit. the chiefs put an end to sarries‘ 22—match unbeaten run. the hosts scored four tries to earn themselves a bonus point moving them three points above saracens in the table. elsewhere there were wins for leicester and sale. staged one of the most remarkable comebacks in pro 14 history, scoring 21 points in the final 10 minutes to deny connacht. the visitors were leading 29—12 with less than 17 minutes to play, before andrew porter burrowed over deep into injury time to snatch a 33—29 win. edinburgh got the better of glasgow and ospreys beat scarlets. to the olympia horse show in london, where britain's william whitaker won the world cup jump—off. whitaker and his horse proved to be too fast for the other riders in one of showjumpings biggest competitions. william's uncle michael finished fourth. michael van gerwen is safely through to the last 16 of the pdc

world darts championship. the world number one beat germany's max hopp 4—1 at alexandra palace in london. van gerwen has won the tournament twice before, in 2014 and then again in 2017. and finally, fans of spanish club real betis gave hundreds of local children an extra special christmas gift during their game yesterday. responding to a pre—match appeal, they threw thousands of teddy bears and other soft toys from the stands. the toys were gathered up before the second half and will be distributed to disadvantaged families in the region. what a lovely gesture that is. that is all this but for now. now on bbc news, it is the papers. —— all the sport for now. hello and welcome to our sunday morning paper review.

with me are claire cohen, women's editor at the telegraph, and james rampton, features writer for the independent. thank you for being with us. let's take a look at the front pages. the death of lord ashdown features on the front of the sunday times. the paper has paid tribute to him saying he made the liberal democrats a formidable force. the sunday express leads with the chaos at gatwick, with the front page featuring a photo of the couple being questioned by police. that's in sussex. that couple also feature in the mail on sunday, with a rather more blunt headline: "are these the morons who ruined christmas? " ministers are reportedly scrambling to initiate measures to protect the uk against similar drone attacks in the future. that's in the sunday telegraph. the sunday mirror also goes with the disruption at gatwick, and shows a photo of the couple who are in custody

over the drone chaos. the observer celebrates the life of lord ashdown. its lead is about the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, who said he would continue to pursue brexit if his party won a snap general election. there we are. the flavour of the front pages. let's start off with the observer, and they have a picture of lord ashdown. the former lib dem leader paddy ashdown dies at the age of 77. it was quite a shock. although he said he had bladder cancer. yes, but only in october and it was sadly very quick. some lovely pictures and tributes in the papers to date, including in the observer and a lovely spread of him in the marines. warm and heartfelt tributes and you get the feeling that he was somebody... the famous picture of him with tony blair and john major,

which the mail on sunday have pictured. something cutting across the rivalries. he had a better political fight with john major but actually he had a huge number of friends in the political establishment and beyond. and a different type of politician. a rounded man with an incredibly varied life. a soldier, diplomat. he had an incredible life. he didn't just go from a policy unit to the house of commons and he was the youngest commander of the sbs and he was unemployed for a while. he worked in a sheepskin coat manufacturers. he was a diplomat, a spy' manufacturers. he was a diplomat, a spy, he spoke fluent mandarin. how many politicians these days have that hinterland? i also say that he

stood for something very rare these days. you look at someone like boris johnson and you think it is all about him and his own career. with paddy ashdown, and john major, who was a bitter rival, but he pointed it out, it was a sense of duty and integrity. both my parents knew him. my mum worked for the lib dems in the house of lords, in the wet's office, and she said he was a remarkable man, full of energy and really dynamic. my dad wrote a report for the lib dems on press freedom and he said, presenting it to lord ashdown, he was the sharpest politician he ever met. my dad is a lawyer and very forensic in these things and he was extremely impressed by him. i think we all were. without sending to put —— without sounding too sentimental, i wish more politicians like this. as far from the bullingdon club as we can get. instead of smashing up pipes, he would be saving bosnia or something like that. he wasn't in it

for personal gain and we could do with more politicians like that. words like principle and conviction coming through. i was really impressed byjohn coming through. i was really impressed by john major's coming through. i was really impressed byjohn major's tribute. he was an opponent in politics but a valued friend in real life. notjust a good politician but a really good human being, which is something to aspire to. and when he steps down, he didn'tjust go to the countryside and put up his feet. he was involved in the forefront of politics with the lib dems and into bosnia right up the lib dems and into bosnia right up until last year. a friend of mine was a diplomat in sarajevo when he was a diplomat in sarajevo when he was the leader of the mission there and he said he was extraordinary little by saying this last night, that he volunteered to go to the front line. bob stuart said that as well. he said even generals don't go to the front line but he was so brave and dynamic that he did think that less that politicians would be scared of. the mail on sunday saying they don't make them like paddy anymore, which is reflecting what you are saying. it is a shame he never really held a ministerial

office. that's not a politician, very able and intelligent. incredibly able. and we knew the huge success he had by the lib dems in the 1997 election, taking them from near extinction to a growing political force in the from near extinction to a growing politicalforce in the uk, the mail on sunday said. he was round the tables, discussing a possible coalition with tony blair back then. it isa coalition with tony blair back then. it is a shame he never held office, as you say. people talk about him as the greatest foreign secretary we never had. he was talking to tony blair about a cabinet post, but unfortunately for the lib dems in 1997, labour had a landslide. and how many politicians say they could kill you with their bare hands and really could? he could kill you with one eyebrow, being in the sbs. and he was offered northern ireland secretary by gordon brown but ming campbell didn't want him tojoin. he was the greatest politician who didn't serve high office and that is a great shame. lord ashdown, who has sadly died at the age of 77. let's go on to our next newspaper, which is the sunday times, i think. yes.

the telegraph, actually. the fear of drone copycats the telegraph, actually. the fear of drone co pycats after the telegraph, actually. the fear of drone copycats after the chaos we have seen at gatwick in the last few days. the scramble to stop fresh drone chaos by copycats. i suppose thatis drone chaos by copycats. i suppose that is a worry. this idea is out there, other people might copy it. exactly. the first word that likes you it scramble because it has been three days of chaos when we haven't known what to do, who is doing it and how to tackle it, rather than stopping it from happening in the first place perhaps. there is a real worry that this paralysis of our second biggest airport, costing the economy no doubt a lot, and fears of co pycats. economy no doubt a lot, and fears of copycats. we economy no doubt a lot, and fears of co pycats. we have economy no doubt a lot, and fears of copycats. we have seen it in a letter way over the years with laser pens and things that have happened at airports. then other people have gone on to do it. what about the angerfrom passengers gone on to do it. what about the anger from passengers who were stranded? anger from passengers who were stranded ? why didn't anger from passengers who were stranded? why didn't the authorities have better anti—drone defence

technology in place? there are going to be at lots of arms pointing at chris grayling. and he is so loved asa minister chris grayling. and he is so loved as a minister already by rail users and transport users! he is a highly popular man! particularly when then you fare increases come in. more daggers in his direction because there are suggestions that he delayed regulation over drones. and this drone detecting technology can jam the connection between the drone and its operator perhaps wasn't approved in time. no wonder they are all having sleepless nights. that is right. there was a report in 2016 that authorities were worried that his hezbollah were using drone attacks and they have used that in syria and iraq and they have dropped bombs. a very senior head of

counterterrorism at scotland yard criticises the government for being way too slow in acting. he says why wasn't it caught within six hours of the first attack? it took them a couple of days to realise the severity of this, the government, and there will definitely be questions about that. i mentioned chris grayling and i will probably get his name right eventually! he seems to be very slow off the mark. there will be a sense that this government is so obsessed with brexit that it is sucking all the airout of the brexit that it is sucking all the air out of the room and other things are slipping through the net and they are missing the ball so often because they are fixated with brexit. i think we have been complacent over drones. we have looked at them as something useful to do away with enemies in far—flung places conveniently but they have ignored the fact that this technology with more commercial and military drones being made than ever, it was going to be used by forces without good intentions. good point. and the sunday times has got the al-qaeda terror group returning to target airliners. and this is a

different kind of threat. al-qaeda is resurgent and seeking to carry out new terrorist atrocities against airlines and airports, according to ben wallace, the security minister. what do you think of that? very scary. he is very well connected as the security minister, and he is saying, and he uses colourful language, while isis became the latest terrorist boy band, al-qaeda have just reorganised and they were just dominant and they have militarised bombs and they use drones to attack airlines. for some reason they seem to be a prestige target. that was the sense ever since 9/11 that al-qaeda are fixated with the idea that airlines are an emblem of capitalism for them. there isa emblem of capitalism for them. there is a sense in which they sum up the way western capitalists get around the world and if they can capitalise on that, as i did on my macro, they

see it as a massive win. —— as they did on 9/11. and there was this attack against an airline in 2017 at the point is they never really went away. they have a new generation of leaders. a reorganisation of al-anda, as you say. and they mention drones, plotting to use drones and blow up key targets. so we can see drones having wider repercussions. the other element of this is president trump withdrawing the us troops from syria. experts are saying that will be another breeding ground for terrorists. if there are fewer us troops to crack down on potential terrorists, they will have the opportunity to fester and form new groups to attack us in the west, which is also extremely alarming. let's go to brexit, never far from our thoughts. i thought you would never ask! even at christmas.

all right, james. calm down. i know you are excited about brexit. jeremy corbyn facing a furious labour backlash over brexit support. jeremy corbyn, the man who can do no right in my eyes. he is like a striker who has got an open goal and the ball comes towards him and he not only misses the ball, he pulls over flat on his face. this is one of the worst governments i can ever remember. labour should be 20 points ahead. if they didn't have such a terrible leader, they would be. many, many labour supporters are pro—remain, particularly young people, who are the people who swept into power with the help of momentum. students and young voters we re momentum. students and young voters were reenergised by jeremy momentum. students and young voters were reenergised byjeremy corbyn. although many labour voters are not

leave supporters. yes, but the labour party members who joined leave supporters. yes, but the labour party members whojoined up in the hundreds of thousands a couple of years ago, including my own children, were energised by jeremy corbyn's appeal to the idealistic nature of young people, and so many of them are remain supported and he has this 1970s fixated with the eu being a capitalist club. he is fixated with the idea that the eu can stop government is intervening in industry. that is what he is really worried about. is interventionist policy, renationalising the industries, is what he is really focused on. if and when he gets to power, that is what he wants to do and he believes the eu will block that and that is why he is a brexiteer. and you mentioned young people and the story says they are starting to feel betrayed by him. a lot of young members on social media this morning saying they voted for jeremy corbyn twice but they can't back him if there is going to be a labour manifesto offering brexit. and theresa may, according to the sunday times, saying, well, it is reported that she hopes to steal her deal and go on to 2021 and she has already said she will not face the

next election. as soon as a leader says that, the momentum dries up and support ebbs away and eyes turned to the success. lame duck springs to mind. not dead. yes, just sleeping, like the dead parrot. it seems like theresa may will be the exception to this rule. she will fight on for nine months until the next election, we are told by her team, and with jeremy corbyn losing a bit of support potentially, she is talking about a fresh —looking cabinet with the majority being under the age of 50, which is young in politics these days. philip hammond, chris grayling, liam fox, they are the old guard who she could see off in preparation for 2021. a bit of positive pr spin for theresa may this morning. my fear for her is that it sounds like misses that your's notaries quote when she said she would go on and on, and not only

the whole country but tory mps quaked at the prospect. she had already gone the full monty of extremist belief in her own righteousness and i think if mrs may feels she can do no wrong and she can get the brexit deal through, tory mps will be put off by that. after all, she promised them tory mps will be put off by that. afterall, she promised them in tory mps will be put off by that. after all, she promised them in a vote of no confidence just last week, that she would go after brexit, so they might be using the word betrayed quite a lot. and nobody can doubt her resilience to cling on as well. that is true. the sunday times have got a new lottery bonanza for the transgender lobby. the national lottery accused of breaking its ban on political funding because it has given a large ground to a second controversial transgender lobbying group. what do you make of that? it is an interesting story, story of two parts. they have £500 million to give out every year, and traditionally they have given a lot

to do areas like women's funding and older people, which the story suggests is now in decline. it has beenin suggests is now in decline. it has been ina suggests is now in decline. it has been in a news over a couple of weeks were given significant amounts of money to organisations like mermaids, the transgender group, and now to stone wall. nobody objects to money being given to services and supporting services for lgbt, but it is when you are giving money to the influences, rather than the supporting services. and these are groups that a lot of trans people have a problem with themselves. they don't think it should be this one—sided agenda that should be pushed. the row is really over the national lottery which shouldn't be giving nationalfunding national lottery which shouldn't be giving national funding and national lottery which shouldn't be giving nationalfunding and i think arguably it is. the sunday times have also got this inside. lamenting the rise of everest. climbing everest is like visiting the taj mahal, it is that easy, that common.

it is clearly a piece of cake to climb everest! i am sure you have done it, haven't you? i don't like to boast about my achievements but i did itjust last week. don't to boast about my achievements but i did it just last week. don't tell anyone because i am extremely modest! 803 people have done it this year including tv presenters ben fogel and anna middleton. year including tv presenters ben fogel and anna middletonlj year including tv presenters ben fogel and anna middleton. i thought you were going to say ben brown!m was too easy for ben brown. he said he would only do the difficult north face and not this easy route with the fixed rate. i take the point that the elite climbers are saying it isjust that the elite climbers are saying it is just high that the elite climbers are saying it isjust high altitude tourism. you can get wi—fi at base camp so you can tweet your followers. instagram. herel you can tweet your followers. instagram. here i am at base camp. it is something people take off the bucket list if they happen to have 100 grand. i think the sense of it being, when edmund hillary did it 65 years ago, and the sherpa, that it was the peak of man's achievement,

of human achievement, sorry. and now, gosh, ben fogel can do it. how easyis now, gosh, ben fogel can do it. how easy is that? the story uses the phrase of trophy hunters and there isa phrase of trophy hunters and there is a real safety concern because the tourism groups and their objective is to get to the summit but the truth of the matter is there is a wea k truth of the matter is there is a weak window every year when you can safely do it and come down again, which is when most people lose their lives. so there is only one week a year when it is safe? in march. these trophy hunter tourism companies are pushing people to the summit because that is what they have paid £100,000 for but it might not be safe. there is an element that i sympathise with witches that nepal is a very poor country and these guys will come here and spend 100 grand in our country. that is money we cannot turn up noses at. the greatest human achievement is being undervalued by tv presenter is

going up in their flip—flops and board shorts. and it is pushing people to take more risks and increasing numbers of people are doing it without gas, for instance. they are making it more touristy.|j blame the tv presenters. it is always the tv presenters! it will be always the tv presenters! it will be a reality tv show soon. their new dating show. love everest. i a reality tv show soon. their new dating show. love everest. lam going to copyright that idea! what about a review of the papers at the top? i'm not sure you could hear us. 0r top? i'm not sure you could hear us. orsee top? i'm not sure you could hear us. or see us. but that could be a good thing! thank you for being with us. that is it from the papers for now. you can see it on our website seven days a week. and if you missed the programme, you can see it later on bbc iplayer. thank you to james and

claire and goodbye from us. hello. as we see the weekend coming toa hello. as we see the weekend coming to a close, and moving into the christmas week, the weather promises to become increasingly settled. however we can't promise you sparkling blue skies or anything in the way of a white christmas. it is looking rather grey and the high pressure is trapping a lot of cloud. some rain in the south—west tomorrow. the only significant rain in the week ahead. it is all about this area of high pressure building. light winds but gloomy skies. for the remainder of today, a lot of cloud across england and wales. northern england and northern ireland looking brighter through the afternoon. scotland will still get the best of the sunshine. temperatures are struggling somewhat

after a frosty start. mild in the south. 1a in london with gloomy skies. the rain focusing on the south—west by the end of the afternoon but searching again into southern counties of england for a time through the evening and into south wales. generally you will notice clearer skies pushing further south by the end of the night. on christmas eve morning, we could see an extensive frost. a little bit of white in our weather story for the week ahead but certainly not snow. quite chilly to start christmas eve apart from quite chilly to start christmas eve apartfrom in quite chilly to start christmas eve apart from in the far south—west whether cloud and the rain will be around. it will continue to peter out through the day with this guy is a little bit more overcast here. we —— the skies a bit more overcast. it will feel mild with temperatures in the south five or 6 degrees down. that band of cloud will surge north again for christmas day which will make things grey and not white. it is really just make things grey and not white. it is reallyjust the remnants of a

weather front so nothing significant in the way of rain. just drizzle around the coast, misty and murky over the hills, and sheltered eastern areas are most favoured for sunshine on christmas day, from the moray firth, to the pennines and the far south—east of england. and for the remainder of christmas week, a lot of dry weather, but the prospect is looking very cloudy and grey. this is bbc news. i'm ben brown. the headlines at 10. a tsunami hits indonesia, causing widespread disruption. at least 168 people are dead and more than 700 injured. the death toll is expected to rise. tributes are paid to former liberal democrat leader lord ashdown, who's died at the age of 77. flights return to normal at gatwick as police investigating the drone disruption continue to question two people. the us government shut down set to run through christmas as the battle over the border wall with mexico continues.

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