this is bbc news, i'm reeta chakrabarti. the headlines at three: 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. and coming up in half an hour, stephen sackur looks back at some of the programme's stand—out interviews of 2018. 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 kathy 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. 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. more now on our top story — officials in indonesia have confirmed at least 373 people have died following a tsunami

this weekend. we can now speak to margarettha siregar, humanitarian and emergency affairs director at wahana visi indonesia. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. just described to us the situation on the ground, and what people are most in need of. today, oui’ people are most in need of. today, our team finally managed to go to the furthest area, the village, it was very badly hit by the tsunami. the situation is quite bad diet because the access, the road access is now blocked by the mud due to the heavy rain scene today, that happened in the morning. it makes it a big challenge for all the help is all the supporters that work in the

operation. were you able to get food and supplies to the people? right now, we are still assessing the villages and the affected areas. our team actually already started to support medical. 0ne actually already started to support medical. one of our staff was actually in the area during the tsunami and she was fortunately survived and has helped to start the public evacuate people and give first aid to the injured people. and they also try to move patients to a safe area. the government, they have come and deployed a lot of aid and relief items to the area.

i was very fortunate that your colleague was spared. in terms of the aid, what it is that your organisation specialised in? is at the moment of supplies, first aid? we are focusing on child well—being, especially during an emergency response. right now, we are deploying to the area and hopefully it will come tonight. also we are supporting and we are assessing the local market and that we computer locally the relief items that we need by the committee affected, such as hygiene kits and shelter kits and also children kits and other relief items that are required. we also

support the community by assessing their water and sanitation situation. and right now, the committee already report was that there was an issue with the well because of the tsunami and we are providing, we are trying to get some of the access to water to the community. we will have to leave it there. thank you forjoining us. 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. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc

sport centre, here's hugh. good afternoon. arsenal midfielder henrikh mkhitaryan has been ruled out for up to six weeks with a broken foot. the armenia international has fractured a metatarsal in his right foot. mkhitaryan was subbed at half—time during the carabao cup quarter—final loss to tottenham and missed the premier league win over burnley. arsenal are away at brighton on boxing day. 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 li—point lead at the top, jurgen klopp though isn't reading too much into the reigning champions surprise loss. but none had the most difficult

summer period, not danger signing players. it is just because they players. it is just because they play people four world cup, playing so far is more than impressive. that is the situation. a lot of teams are in whatever you call the title race. well, liverpool face newcastle on boxing day, whose manager rafael benitez says it would be a ‘miracle' if his side were to avoid relegation from the premier league. benitez‘s side failed to win any of their opening 10 league games, but are currently 15th in the table and 5 points above the relegation zone. benitez has said "for me, it is almost clear and if we can be better than three teams, it will be another miracle." 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. these big nights that get me up for

it. when i am the underdog on my backis it. when i am the underdog on my back is against the wall, that is when i get fired up for the training sessions. another belt to go alongside this one would be lovely, all the boys, they whet my appetite and to the fans that have followed me through thick and thin stateside for a crazy way date would be something special. —— weigh day. there was plenty of domestic interest as the sydney thunder beat rivals sydney sixers by 21 runs in australia's big bash. josh buttler top scored for thunder, hitting 63 runs as his side went on to reach 169 for 9. steve 0'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. i will be back in the next hour. ministers have been discussing security arrangements at airports this morning following last week's drone sightings at gatwick airport. officers say the investigation remains active after the release without charge of a couple from crawley. despite earlier saying sightings may have been mistaken, 67 reports made by the public, passengers, airport officials and police officers

are being investigated. a reward of £60,000 has been offered for information. 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. four men who were 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. blood donors are being urged to keep their appointments before christmas.

the service is warning failure to arrive on time, or turn up at all, could hit blood stocks over the critical festive period. caroline davies reports. it's not only the shops that are busy in oxford street today. a few paces away, so are the beds at the re—opened blood donor centre. one of the first through the door is ian, who has been donating for nearly 50 years. i believe this is my 160th. and he's seen what blood donation can do. in 2003 his son was hit by a drunk driver. he was very much on the borderline, but he beat the odds, you know. yeah, itjust made me want to do that much more. cheering them on from the sidelines are hannah and her motherjulie. i've got cystic fibrosis, and then i was put on a waiting list for a heart and double lung transplant. luckily i got my transplant, but also i needed to have blood transfusions to make that happen as well. we were waiting for the call and you don't know if that call is going to come. we didn't think she would make it. well, it's the gift of life. it is.

it's the gift of life, blood or organs, it is the gift of life. on his first donation, izzy. it's like a little pinch. it doesn't hurt at all. it's like an injection, basically. there's obviously a need for people of black and ethnic groups to give blood, there's a shortage. i thought why not come down on christmas and give blood. fewer than 1% of londoners give blood, and there's a push to encourage more black and ethnic minority donors, particularly to help sickle cell patients, like six—year—old angel. injune she turned blue and was struggling to breathe. she was rushed to hospital. she had to have an emergency blood transfusion, which basically saved her life. if it wasn't for the kindness of an unknown blood donor she wouldn't be alive today. and for all of those who do donate, angel has a message. thank you. caroline davies, bbc london news. 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? because 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.

but if they can't, or if there is a delay, that is when the backstop comes in. it is legal 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. 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—ra! and with that, chris evans signed off for the last time as host of britain's most popular radio show. he took it over in 2010, from a broadcaster who was an inspiration to him, the late sir terry wogan. he said, because he was such a wise guy, he said that there may not ever be a right time to go, but there could be a wrong time to stay, so i'm taking the great man's advice. and the kind of show we wanted to do today is we really wanted to leave them laughing, not, you know, crying, because there have been a lot of tears throughout the show. hopefully always for the right reasons, but enough now. happy christmas, everyone. 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... my gravity, my compass, my guiding light. he then put his wife on air, who also choked up. today's gobsmackers are chosen by noah and eli evans for their mum, tash. oh, for goodness' sake! so, this is the radio 2 breakfast show studio that chris evans made his own for nine years. he might have gone but there is still a hint of him here, in the shape of this cart deck which played all his well known jingles. wonderful day, wonderful week, this is london, tarzan yell and all the rest of it. and in a way, that gives a hint of his talent as a broadcaster, that he was able to transform this quite dull soundproof space into a vivid, wonderful world which interviewees responded to and listeners loved. and there's no cheaty turbo charging here.

it wasn't all plain sailing for him at the bbc. his then £2.2 million plus salary proved controversial when made public. and then there there was short lived and much criticised stint as a presenter on top gear. there's all that power right to the back of your head. but his high energy, good humoured breakfast show was a success. zoe ball will take it 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. now it's time for a

look at the weather. it looks like beanie. i did not see the long bit with the pom—pom. anyway, santa is on his way. he will have to navigate through the fog later on today because it is going to be turning quite foggy across parts of the uk, especially where it is clear right now. the south—west has been overcast, relatively mild, but through the course of this evening, foggy and mild in the west. towards the east and central areas, yorkshire, east anglia, this area here will get some fog. the north—east and eastern scotland will be pretty frosty first thing in the morning on christmas day. here the summary for christmas day, a patch of frost and fog. a lot of dry weather, maybe some drizzle here and

there and you can see a pretty cloudy day. the best chance of some sunshine, the north—east, eastern scotland, maybe some sunny spells in wales. in the west of the country, a mild christmas day. 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.