this is bbc news. the headlines at two. rescue workers continue the search for survivors of the tsunami in indonesia, more than 370 people are now known to have died. there are fears the death toll could rise, with warnings of more deadly waves triggered by volcanic eruptions. ministers discuss security arrangements at airports following the drone activity that led to the closure of gatwick. thousands of rail passengers face disruption over christmas because of major engineering works. respect and understanding, the queen uses her christmas speech to deliver a message of goodwill to all. chris evans bids a festive farewell to listeners as he hosts his final radio 2 breakfast show. # i #isaya # i say a little prayerfor # i say a little prayer for you # i say a little prayerfor you #. and from aretha franklin,

to ken dodd and tessa jowell — in half an hour, we celebrate the lives of those we lost this year, that's in review 2018: we remember. good afternoon. indonesia's disaster agency now say at least 373 people were killed, and a further 128 are still missing, following the volcanic eruption and tsunami that swept through sunda strait on saturday. more than m00 people have been injured. thousands of people who live on the islands of java and sumatra have been forced to evacuate to higher ground as the tsunami hit coastal areas. in the last few hours, there have been more eruptions from the anak krakatau volcano, fuelling fears of another tsunami. rebecca henschke reports. rescue workers clear away the rubble

in a race to find survivors. but today, they have only been pulling out bodies. this ocean fronting villa was full, hosting an 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 again, so people can call their families and tell them how they are,

and about the situation here. presidentjoko widodo has visited, and praised the relief effort. but he faced tough questions about the state of the country's tsunami warning system, and vowed to do better. translation: we don't know yet for sure where the source of the tsunami was, it's still be checked. in the future the relevant agencies will provide detection equipment. systems that can give a warning to everyone. the national disaster agency confirming today that the country's tsunami detection buoys system has been broken since 2012. authorities are telling people to now 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 pull out 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 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. aid workers are assisting national agencies in locating survivors, earlier, kathy mueller from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies told us about the rescue efforts. it's a big operation. there's a wide area of land that has been impacted by this tsunami. basically, the entire west coast ofjava has been impacted. there are a lot of areas that have still not been reached. we have just heard from our teams on the ground with the indonesian red cross

that they have been alerted to a community of about 800 people who are stuck and have not received any sort of aid since the tsunami struck. the teams are on their way there now. they are bringing them basic needs, things like blankets, tarpaulins and clean water to be able to drink, along with some volunteers who are trained in first aid to be able to treat anyone who is injured. these are the sorts of things that we are coming up against. it is a wide, wide area that needs to be reached and it's going to take some time before every area is touched. we have heard from other disasters in the past, miracles where people have survived weeks in the rubble of an earthquake or a tsunami for that matter. people can survive quite a long time without food, as long as they have water they have a better chance of surviving.

it is the rainy season here so there's always the possibility that if someone is trapped, the rain is trickling through and they are able to take the rain drops of water that are coming through. then of course we do have teams, and we're not alone. we're working alongside the government responders to try and reach anyone who may still be trapped. that was cathy mueller. 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 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 lime 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. there are 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 ems 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 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 ems 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 mi 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. that is the travel expert, simon

calder speaking to me a little earlier. ministers have discussed security arrangements following last week's closure of gatwick airport after drones were sighted close to the airport's runway. the discussions took place in a conference this morning hosted by the transport secretary as our correspondent lisa hampele explained to me earlier. the transport secretary, chris grayling, and other members of the cabinet were there too. there was the home secretary, the security minister, the aviation minister, and they were talking to representatives from sussex police and from gatwick airport. they talked about the initial response and they also talked about what happened yesterday, when a senior police officer in charge of the investigation was asked an off—the—cuff, is it true that possibly there weren't any drones and he said that is a possibility. and now they've said today, the police told the ministers that that was a miscommunication from the police and that yes, it absolutely did happen.

there were 200 sightings and they say 67 of those they took statements from, they were people who were passengers, airport staff and police officers themselves who had made sightings. they've also talked about preventative systems at gatwick and what's 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 of what's legal and what isn't legal. you'd think anybody would know that you shouldn't fly drones around airports, but they say a lot of the public may not be aware of what is right and what isn't. and the investigation is continuing. we know they are doing house—to—house enquiries and there's a forensic examination of the broken drone that was found by the perimeter fence. 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 care as it drives away. the dog, named snoop by staff at a vets, is being cared for at boarding kennels. four men who arrested on cargo ship in the thames estuary have appeared in court, charged with affray. the grande tayma left nigeria two weeks ago. the group were detained after police boarded the ship on friday following reports that the crew had been threatened. around 3000 people have been evacuated from an apartment building in sydney after residents heard a ‘loud crack‘. police say, the newly opened 0pal tower had moved "i 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 entry 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 headlines on bbc news: rescue workers continue the search for survivors of the tsunami in indonesia. more than 370 people are now known to have died. thousands of rail passengers face disruption over christmas because of major engineering works. ministers discuss security arrangements at airports following the drone activity that led to the closure of gatwick. christmas can be a difficult time of year for young people who've recently left ca re.

they often have no family to spend the festive period with and friends tend to be with their own loved ones. 0ur reporter ashleyjohn—baptiste, who himself grew up in care, has been to north—west england where volunteers are busy making plans for care—leavers to celebrate the big day together. 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, or 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

eventjust 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 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. you are chatting to people, i rememberthat, it is you are chatting to people, i remember that, it is 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. wigan council is working alongside the foundation to help the dinner. volunteers from the staff, the council, local groups and individuals donating gifts. 0ur young people who are leaving ca re 0ur young people who are leaving care in wigan being supported nafta by the council? here, i think we have the good relationship with care leavers. and i do feel that we take oui’ leavers. and i do feel that we take our corporate parental responsibility very seriously.

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. you make your own little family and you create your own atmosphere. i feel like i belong. ashleyjohn—baptiste, bbc news. 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. 0ur 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 over from the late sir terry wogan. we said, because he was such a wise guy, we said there may not ever be right time to go, but there could be wrong time to stay, so i'm taking the great man's advice. we really wanted to leave them laughing, because there 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 gravity, my compass, my guiding light. he then put his wife on air,

who also choked up. today's songs are 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 in all his jingles. and in a way, that gives a hint of his talent 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's no cheating with turbo charge here. it 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 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. a familiar landmark is sporting some unfamiliar 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 countdown to christmas is almost over and all around the world people are preparing for the big day. there's sure to be plenty of last minute shopping. many will be on the move — hoping to spend time with loved ones — and quite a bit of food and drink is likely to be consumed. tim allman has more.

christmas can be celebrated in so many different ways. but this, at first glance, doesn't look particularly festive. in parts of bavaria, they've been doing this for thousands of years. it's called perchten. people dressing up as monsters to try and scare away the winter. these moves can be described as pretty frightening as well. "we are dancing to ward off the evil winter ghosts", said this monster. now this is more like it. dozens upon dozens of father christmases. in fact around 2000 of them, taking part in a charity race in moscow. they were raising money for local hospices and it seems that conditions weren't as difficult as some had feared. translation: awesome, the weather is beautiful. i actually thought it would be much worse. they said the temperature would be —30. when you run, you feel hot and very happy.

super! when you think of christmas you may well think of lights, lots and lots of lights. this park in croatia certainly won't disappoint. there's around 4 million of them. the childhood dream of a local man who grew up in poverty but couldn't afford christmas decorations. he's more than made up for it now. and if you happen to be waiting for a train at prague's main station, this may have helped while away the hours. an annual christmas mass that takes place in the main hall every year. the orchestra and choir, amateurs and professionals, celebrating this special time. and not a monster in sight! tim allman, bbc news. what a lovely scene.

here's the weather 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. a little bit of sunshine on the way too. the weather is very settled because we have high pressure, it is dominating the whole of the weather across western parts of europe. here is christmas day itself. you can see a lot of cloud across the country but there will be some breaks, maybe for newcastle, maybe liverpool, towns and cities also in wales could get some sunshine. and mild. a mild christmas day across western parts of the uk. a little bit colder towards the east. but whereever you are, it certainly isn't going to be that cold. so, wednesday, boxing day, we have a weather front affecting the north of the country. this means perhaps a little bit more cloud and some spots of rain in western and northern scotland. to the south of that, again, i think variable amounts of cloud and sunshine. your best bet for some sunshine on boxing day, i think the southern counties here. it could end up being a very pleasant day for places like southampton, portsmouth, london. the further north you are, the more likely you are to hang on to the cloud.

the outlook through thursday and into friday, it stays relatively mild. again, variable amounts of cloud. light winds. there's always going to be a chance of some frost and fog. so then, let's summarise christmas week. patchy fog on the way, there will be a touch of frost and some sunshine. bye— bye. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. rescue teams are trying to reach remote parts of the indonesian coast, where it's feared there are more victims of a deadly tsunami. officials say more than 370 people have died. there are warnings that eruptions at the volcanic island of anak krakatoa could trigger further deadly waves. delays on the roads and disruption for rail passengers is expected as people head home for the festive period. ministers discuss security

arrangements at airports following the drone activity that led to the closure of gatwick. respect and understanding — the queen uses her christmas speech to deliver a message of goodwill to all. now on bbc news — stephen hawking, aretha franklin, tessa jowell and ken dodd — just a few of those who left us this year, and whose lives are celebrated in review 2018: we remember oh, it's doddy. hiya, doddy. # happiness, happiness. # the greatest gift that i possess. i always go up on the stage and think, "mind you, what a beautiful day." what a beautiful day for doing this. what a beautiful day for bouncing up and down in a big barrel of blancmange.

how tickled i am by all this goodwill. what about you, missus? have you been tickled by goodwill? there was a showbusiness ken dodd, a thinking ken dodd, and hopefully there's an amusing ken dodd. i hope so anyway. # happiness! happiness! she sings there was television on and there was the group and freddie. they said, "what do you like more of spain?"