good afternoon. coastal residents near indonesia's anak krakatau volcano have been warned to keep away from beaches , amid fears that further eruptions and volcanic activity could trigger another tsunami. on saturday, giant waves crashed into coastal towns on the islands of sumatra and java, killing at least 280 people and injuring more than a thousand. officials have warned the death toll could rise. the sunda strait region was the worst affected — with buildings reduced to a tangled mess. rebecca henschke reports from carita, injava. rescue workers clear away the rubble ina race rescue workers clear away the rubble in a race to find survivors. today, they have only been pulling out bodies. this ocean fronting villa was full, hosting and end of year work event in this popular local tourist destination. villas like this one built right on the shore

didn't stand a chance when the huge waves hit. this, the state of the swimming pool, and the villa now. teams from the military and the search and rescue teams are here, clearing away the rubble to make way for what will be a slow rebuilding process here. across this devastated coastline, the recovery effort is under way. teams have arrived to restore power and phone lines. translation: we want to get the phone lines up against people can call their families and tell them how they are, and the situation here. presidentjoko widodo has visited, and praised the relief effort. he faced tough questions about the state of the country's tsunami warning system.

translation: we don't know for sure where the tsunami warning should have been. we need systems in place that can warn everyone. the national disaster agency confirmed today that the warning system has been broken since 2012. authorities are telling people to keep away from the beaches due to fears that ongoing activity from the anak krakatau volcano could trigger a new tsunami. all along the coast, people have come back, taking the risk to polite anything of worth from the rubble. this is what is left of this man's house and shop. translation: i do feel scared coming back, but i had to come to take what ican. i back, but i had to come to take what i can. i can't get the images of the huge waves out of my head. despite what he's gone through, he says he will rebuild his beach cafe here in the same spot. it's all we

have, he tells me. and there are many families who are still looking for their loved ones where i am now at this hospital. people are coming here through the night to try and look at lists of those that have been found amongst the injured and also amongst the dead. it's here in a place like this when you see the grief on families' faces. you get a sense of the enormous toll this disaster is taking on so many people. another disaster to hit indonesia on what has been a very difficult year here. rebecca, many thanks. rebecca henschke there, and apologies for the break—up of the picture. the queen will urge people to treat each other with respect during her annual christmas message which will be broadcast tomorrow. the comments, which have been released by buckingham palace to newspapers, are likely to be seen

as an attempt by the monarch to calm the debate over brexit. here's our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. throughout her reign, the queen has always been notably cautious whenever it's come to making a comment which could be construed as an observation about the political debate. but with the nation divided over brexit, it would be strange if the head of state, in her one personal message of the year, did not make some attempt to address people's concerns. her christmas message was recorded earlier this month at buckingham palace, when the brexit debate in parliament was at its height. in the broadcast she will say this. the context of those remarks isn't clear from what buckingham palace has released. it may be doubted whether the queen has said anything explicit about brexit, but it's clear that the palace is hoping these few words, and a reference to the need for the christmas spirit of good will to be heeded, will be construed

as an attempt by the monarch to soothe the brexit debate. nicholas witchell, bbc news. the former prime minister of pakistan, nawaz sharif, has been sent back to jail after a fresh corruption conviction. he was found guilty of having overseas property investments beyond his declared sources of income, and sentenced to seven years in prison. sharif was released on bail earlier this year, after a different corruption sentence was suspended. chris evans has bid an emotional farewell to listeners to his final radio 2 breakfast show this morning. he said it was a "sad day" as he left after nine years at the helm. evans is off to virgin radio but will be back on the bbc in the next series of strictly come dancing. our arts editor will gompertz listened in to his last show. there's flash photography in his report. singing. ta-da!

and with that, chris evans signed off after almost nine years at the helm, having ta ken off after almost nine years at the helm, having taken over from late the sir terry wogan. we said, because he was such a wise guy, we said there may not ever be right time to go, but they could be wrong time to go, but they could be wrong time to go, but they could be wrong time to stay, so i'm taking the great man's advice. we really wanted to leave them laughing, because they have been a lot of tears throughout the show. hopefully always for the right reasons, but enough now. happy christmas. and there was plenty of laughter to go with the tears from the presenter. most of all, of course i would like to thank my wife natasha who... my my gravity, my compass, my guiding light. he then put his wife on who also choked up. today's godsmark is

out also choked up. today's godsmark is our chosen by noah and eli for their itiuiti. our chosen by noah and eli for their mum. 0h, our chosen by noah and eli for their mum. oh, for goodness' sake! so, this is the radio 2 breakfast studio that chris evans made his own for nine years. there is still a hint of him here, which shows all his jingles. hint of him here, which shows all hisjingles. and in a way, that gives his hint is a talent of him as a broadcaster, that he was able to transform this soundproof space into a vivid wonderful world which interviewees responded to and listeners loved. and there is no cheating with turbo charge here. listeners loved. and there is no cheating with turbo charge harem wasn't all plain sailing for him at the bbc. his then £2.2 million plus salary proved controversial when made public, there was short lived and much criticised stint as a presenter on top gear. but his

brea kfast presenter on top gear. but his breakfast show was a success. zoe ball ta kes breakfast show was a success. zoe ball takes over in the new year as he moves over to virgin radio before returning to the bbc to strut his stuff on strictly come dancing 2019. will gompertz, bbc news. the christmas getaway this year is being hampered by widespread disruption to train services, with over 300 sets of planned engineering works taking place around britain. several major towns and cities are affected including liverpool and manchester. and many services out of london to the rest of the country have been affected, as navtej johal reports. even eve n sa nta even santa would struggle on public transport today. these travellers in manchester are among the thousands braving it on a day of disruption. they are having to deal with schedule changes as festive engineering works begin to bite. we watched it on the news this morning, so we were worried because i'm here to see family from australia, and there was no problems whatsoever. my

train was fine, but i heard that victoria was affected. liverpool line street is also running reduced services throughout the week, but it is here in london such as at euston where they are bearing the brunt of the problems. no trains run from paddington until after boxing day, and none between victoria and clapham junction until the new year. rail passengers trying to get between the capital and east anglia, south wales, the midlands and north all face disruption. in total, there are 330 engineering works taking place across the country. 25,000 people will be working on the railway system over the next week, as part of a £1118 million investment across the network during christmas and new year. so why is it happening now? network rail says this is the time of year when demand is at its lowest. it expecting trains to be 50% quieter than normal. also the work it says it does now will ensure a more reliable service in the future, but that doesn't help these passengers here at london euston

today, who are facing a reduced service. the advice to passengers is to plan ahead. this is nothing like a normal monday. services will be closing down early evening, and no trains running anywhere on christmas day. boxing day, there will be a skeleton service on a very few lines. so if you can avoid it, maybe leave the travelling today to those with a sleigh. so that is the picture on the trains, but it doesn't look a great deal better on the roads today either. the aa says it expects half of all uk motorists to take to main roads and motorways today, and even though there is limited commuter traffic, around one in five of us are expected to make a leisure trip to see friends or family. the busiest time of day is likely to be around now, lunchtime, and the busiest stretch of road is expected to be the m1 northbound going up to the east midlands, around junctions

21-26. so the east midlands, around junctions 21—26. so if you want to avoid all of that and all of this, then maybe stay at home and wrap those last—minute presents instead. thank you very much indeed. christmas can be a difficult time of year for the hundreds of young people who leave council care each year — they often have no family to spend the festive period with and friends tend to be with their own loved ones. ashley john—ba ptiste, who was himself in care, reports now from wigan on one scheme that's trying to give care leavers a greater chance to celebrate. a glimpse of christmas spirit. volunteers gathering to organise a festive dinner for young people who have left the care system. we're at a location in wigan, where volunteers have come together to prepare for a christmas dinner for ca re levers. now, i grew up in care in south—east london. i never had this sort of event put on for me when i was in care, when i left care, so i'm really excited to see how this will impact the care community here in wigan.

shall i help? alex and susie are siblings who were split up in care. having spent eight years without seeing each other, they were reunited at a christmas event just like this one last year. just being able to be together was really nice. christmas is, like, meant to be a time for, like, family and we — where we look down on christmas we can see a time where we didn't have much as a kid. now when we come back now, you get presents, you get food, it's good. it's a nice place to be at christmas time. it's like being at home, sort of thing. your own little family. you go home with a big bag of presents at the end. it's nice. what would christmas be like for you both without this christmas dinner? it's a really happy time of year for us two, because that's what we've missed for so long. it's normally a time for family, and that brings all the negatives back for us, i think. this is one of scores of dinners taking place across the country for care leavers.

the initiative comes from the poet and campaigner lemn sissay, who also grew up in care. christmas is not the easiest time for a lot of people who have left care, because they don't have the family round them, they're not used to getting presents. this christmas dinner is a way of letting them feel love from the community. growing up between four foster families and a care home, i know first hand the unique set of challenges confronted by many young people, when they leave care. merry christmas. and whilst it will take more on than a dinner to solve their problems, events like this at christmas, when most people are with theirfamilies, aim to give care levers a sense of home. ashleyjohn—baptiste, bbc news. that's it for now. the next national news on bbc one is a little earlier than usual at 4.35. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. good afternoon.

mauricio pochettino says it's too early to consider spurs as title contenders. they thrashed everton 6—2 at goodison park yesterday a win that was both the highest scoring match in the premier league and also kept them in touch with the top of the table. i still believe that liverpool and manchester city are the real contenders to win the premier league, and then we are there. chelsea, arsenal and manchester united are still a long way. i think it's still a long way to say if we're a real contender or not. i think it's still early. well, that result leaves tottenham just two points behind second placed manchester city. that's after city suffered a surprise 3—2 defeat at home to crystal palace. that result meant leaders liverpool maintained their four point lead at the top, jurgen klopp though isn't reading too much into the

reigning champions surprise loss. football games, it is difficult to win football games at these times. sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't work out. i cannot say more than that. they were just unlucky in those last two games and that happens from time to time. well, liverpool face newcastle on boxing day, whose manager rafael benitez says it would be a "miracle2 if his side were to avoid relegation from the premier league. benitez‘s side failed to win any of their opening ten league games, but are currently 15th in the table and five points above the relegation zone. benitez has said, "for me, it is almost clear and if we can be less than 48 hours after retaining his ibf featherweight world title with a unanimous points win over carl frampton on saturday,

josh warrington is now eyeing up a unification bout against one of the division's other belt holders. warrington has now taken his professional record to 28 wins and no defeats including six knockouts. when my back is against the war, thatis when my back is against the war, that is when i get fired up for the training sessions and everything else. another belts to go alongside this one would be lovely. it doesn't half whet my appetite. and to take the fans who have followed me through thick and thin stateside, it would be something special. there was plenty of domestic interest as the sydney thunder beat rivals sydney sixers by 21 runs in australia's big bash. jos buttler top scored for thunder, hitting 63 runs as his side went on to reach 169 for 9. steve o'keefe took the wicket of buttler, as he did with england captain joe root, who contributed just nine of those runs.

tom curran was facing his england team—mates as he top scored for the sixers with 62 runs, their total of 148 though meant they fell 22 runs short of the total they needed for victory. british number one johanna konta is confident of an upturn in fortunes next year with new coach dimitri zavialoff. konta's form dipped after reaching the the semi—finals of wimbledon in 2017 and rising to fourth in the world. she will go into the new year 37th in the rankings but feels "better equipped to deal with challenges on court" after a "very strong pre—season". that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. ministers have discussed security arrangements at aiports this morning, following last week's closure of gatwick airport after drones were sighted close to the airport's runway.

let's get more now from our correspondent lisa hampele. what has emerged from this meeting? the conference call was led by the transport secretary chris grayling, and other members of the cabinet we re and other members of the cabinet were there as well. there was the home secretary, the security minister, the aviation minister, and they were talking to representatives from the police and gatwick airport. they talked about the initial response. they talked about what happened yesterday when a senior police officer in charge of the investigation, he was asked off the cuff is it true that possibly there weren't any donors? he said, it is a possibility. now they have said today, the police told the ministers thatis today, the police told the ministers that is was a miscommunication from the police and it did happen. there we re the police and it did happen. there were 200 sightings and they say 67 of those, they took statements from

and they were people who were passengers, airport staff and police officers themselves who had these sightings. they've also talked about preventative systems at gatwick and what is happening there. and what could happen at airports around britain, to try to stop any copycat incidents. they've been talking about that. and also about whether the public needs to be more aware on what is legal and illegal. you shouldn't fly drones around airports but they say a lot of the public may not be quite aware of what is right and what isn't. the investigation is continuing. they are doing house—to—house enquiries and also there are forensic examination of there are forensic examination of the broken drone found by the fans. thank you. drivers are being warned delays on the roads today as motorists set off on christmas journeys. meanwhile, thousands of rail passengers travelling over the christmas period will face disruption because of planned engineering work as travel presenter

simon calder explained to me earlier. demand for rail services is half what it is at normal times and therefore, because they want to inconvenience the minimum number of people, they always close over christmas. there are no trains whatsoever on christmas day in the country. this year they seem to be going on quite a lot longer than they normally do. many key lines won't be opening until the new year. they are deploying 25,000 people, and spending £1118 million over christmas and new year. the idea is we will have more reliable, faster services with more capacity. that is the plan. where is the disruption worst? i'm going to do a countdown. maybe in fourth place, london euston and the west coast mainline which includes the milton keynes area. a lot going on in cheshire, north wales. but that line from london to birmingham, manchester, liverpool and scotland, lots of delays due to

the hs2 work mostly, high speed 2 line. then third place, london paddington. been over to both those stations this morning. completely shut down and it will be reopening on thursday but then closing again on the 30th of december, this is all to do with the overrunning crossrail project, that will affect services to south wales and the west of england as well as the cotswolds. made more complicated by a strike by south western railways guards on thursday. second place, it would be top except there's a diversion route, this is victoria to clapham junction. the second busiest station in britain. busiest for interchanges and on the main london, gatwick, brighton line. even that is closing into the new year, you can travel by london bridge instead. at top place by a mile, there used to be an old saying that east anglia was cut off on three

sides by the sea, and on the fourth by british rail. i'm afraid that has come back. you've got the main greater anglia line, norwich, ipswich, colchester to london, you've got a catch a train to ingatestone, get on a bus to newbury park which is on one of the outer reaches of the central line of the london underground and try your luck from there. that is going to continue right through to the new year as well. i shouldn't laugh because anybody cut off like that, it's no laughing matterfor them. that's the situation on the railways. what about on the roads? it is peak christmas eve busy right now. as you say, half the motorists are going to be taking main roads or motorways, with lunchtime the worst. in terms of the worst roads, the m1 between junction 21, leicester, and 26, nottingham, that has been singled out as the worst. but the m40, the m5, m6 and our old friend the m25 are all

likely to see quite a lot of congestion. that will ease as the afternoon draws on. four men who arrested on cargo ship in the thames estuary have appeared in court charged with affray. the grande tema left nigeria two weeks ago. the group were detained after police boarded the ship on friday following reports that the crew had been threatened. the rspca has released cctv footage of a man abandoning a dog from a car in stoke on trent. the charity is trying to trace a man in the car who is seen unclipping the dog's lead before running back to the vehicle and leaving last monday evening. the distressed staffordshire bull terrier chases the car as it drives away. the dog, named snoop by staff at a vets, is being cared for at boarding kennels. around 3,000 people have been

evacuated from an apartment building in sydney after residents heard a "loud crack". police say the newly opened opal tower had moved "1 to 2 millimetres". residents are now preparing to spend christmas eve, in an evacuation centre, as an emergency operation takes place, to determine the extent of the damage. fire and rescue, specialists, ambulance, paramedics and public works engineers will be making enrtry to level ten to investigate the cause of the crack and to determine whether the building is safe to inhabit, or if any further remediation works are required. the news agenda over the last few months has been dominated by the twists and turns of brexit. reality check correspondent chris morris has been getting to the bottom of the technicaljargon. today he takes a look at the irish border backstop you may have heard about the backstop.

it is a baseball term really, so what does it have to do with brexit? think in terms of the safety net and you get the general idea. the backstop is key to talks over the future of the irish border after brexit. why? this line between the irish republic and northern ireland will be the only land border between the uk and the european union. that matters for trade because in theory there should be checks on stuff crossing the border after brexit. but no—one wants new inspections at the border, they'd bring back memories of 30 years of conflict in northern ireland. checkpoints could become a target. the uk and the eu hope to agree a trade relationship in the future that keeps the border as open as it is now. if they can't, or if there is a delay, that is when the backstop comes in. it is illegal guarantee to avoid a hard border under all circumstances. the trouble is the uk and the eu don't see eye

to eye on how the backstop should work. the uk says the eu's version could undermine the union between northern ireland and great britain. the eu says the uk's plan could damage the integrity of its economic area, the single market. for both sides, these are really important principles so they are looking for a compromise before time runs out. the backstop has to be part of the withdrawal agreement that needs to be signed before brexit is due to happen in march 2019. without a backstop, there will be no brexit deal at all. the christmas carol silent night is celebrating its 200th birthday. the carol was first performed in austria in the village of oberndorf near salzburg on christmas eve 1818, after a priestjoseph mohr asked a school teacher and organist, franz gruber to set his words to music.

bethany bell reports from salzburg. # stille nacht # heilige nacht it's one of the world's favourite christmas carols. silent night, or stille nacht as it's known in german. oh, i think it's the best christmas song ever. it's familiar, we learned it when we were a child, and everyone sings it. the carol is 200 years old this christmas and it comes from austria. this is where silent night was first sung, on christmas eve 1818 in the village of oberndorf near salzburg. the original church doesn't exist any more. it was badly damaged by floods at the end of the 19th—century and had to be demolished. this little chapel was built in place. a priest called joseph mohr wrote the words. he asked franz xaver gruber, a school teacher and an organist, to compose the melody.

according to legend, the church organ had broken down, damaged by mice chewing at the bellows, so they had to sing it with this guitar. but historians believe that the mice and the broken organ are probablyjust a myth. it was, with the guitar, more people friendly and with an instrument which was very common outside, of course, the church. you can take the guitar wherever you go and therefore also the song itself was known very quick all around the world. silent night quickly spread across europe and on to the united states. it was sung across the trenches during the first world war. and for many people, it's simply the carol which means christmas. a familiar landmark is sporting some unfamilar headwear

for the festive season. a santa hat has been placed on the angel of the north in gateshead. drivers on the a1 first spotted the seasonal addition to the anthony gormley sculpture early this morning. it's not yet clear who put it there, or how they did it, but it's been met with positive reception from travellers who've been stopping to take pictures the weather now with tomasz schafernaker. no snow this christmas but if you want it a little festive we've got the next best thing in northern parts of the country, some frost around and also some fog will be forming across parts of england during the course of this evening and overnight. it could prove troublesome first thing in the morning. could be very thick indeed. a lot of cloud across the south—west of the british isles right now. in the north, we've got more sunshine but it is very cold here, temperatures in some areas below freezing during the day, a huge contrast between the north and the south of the country

where it is a lot balmier here in cornwall. tonight, as we edge towards christmas, and the fog forms across northern england, the midlands, east anglia, the south—east as well, the london area will be affected by some fog too. again, a big contrast in the temperature. clearer skies and frost in scotland and the north—east of england. not the case elsewhere. the forecast for the big day itself, patchy frost and fog around, not necessarily in the same place. it will be a mostly dry day though.