this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 10. the immigration minister is to visit dover later amid mounting concern about the number of migrants crossing the channel in small boats. more than £100 million is to be spent chartering extra ferries to bring in vital supplies in the event of a no—deal brexit. named in the new year honours list — the british divers who rescued a boys football team from a cave in thailand. also on the list — alistair cook and michael palin knighted, and twiggy is made a dame. i'm very surprised, because i've done a lot of things in my life, none of which i felt were totally worthy of such recognition. but maybe the cumulative effect is one of some kind of achievement. also coming up this hour... an army officer has become the first british person to complete a solo trek across antarctica. it took captain louis rudd 56 days, and he's only the second person to cross the continent unaided. at 10:30, we take a trip back

through 2018 — a year full of adventure for the team from the travel show. hello. the immigration minister, caroline nokes, is to visit dover today, amid mounting criticism of the way the government is handling the surge in migrants crossing the channel in small boats. more than 200 people have arrived since the start of november leading the home secretary to declare a major incident. simonjones reports. almost two months after migrants started arriving in numbers, the home secretary has declared the situation a major incident. two more boats carrying 12 people were intercepted yesterday. the immigration minister caroline

nokes has been dispatched to dover. there she will meet border force officers, as well as the town's mp. he says that for too long the home office has not been taking the issue seriously enough and wants additional border force cutters in the channel. i think it is fairly clear that one is simply not enough and i think we need to ask questions — what are the two patrol craft doing in the mediterranean? would they be better placed in the english channel? so i will hopefully get to meet the immigration minister to talk to her about whether we are getting the balance right. but the home secretary has deferred an immediate decision on that. he has asked the border force to consider whether additional vessels in the channel could encourage more people to make the crossing, because they could be seen as rescue rather than patrol boats. he is set to talk to his french counterpart this weekend, but both will know that tackling the people traffickers behind the upsurge in crossings will not be quick or easy. simon jones, bbc news. 0ur correspondent caroline davies is in dover.

no sign of activity today so far i ta ke no sign of activity today so far i take it, but it has been a busy week andindeed take it, but it has been a busy week and indeed busy six weeks?m take it, but it has been a busy week and indeed busy six weeks? it has been a very busy week. we have not heard yet if there were any further migrants rescued overnight. that might come later today. since christmas day there have been more than 60 who have been intercepted trying to cross the english channel. why have those numbers being so high? 0ne argument is it could be related to brexit and it is thought the human traffickers are suggesting to potential clients now is a good time to cross because after brexit, the uk borders will be tightened. that is generally regarded as a selling technique to persuade people to go now rather than delay the decision to go later. a french mp

suggested a hard brexit could end up with more illegal migrants coming to the uk and his argument was that if there were queues outside customs, it would be easier for people to climb onto lorries and perhaps get into the uk. an argument about why there might have been a surge in the number coming across is if you look behind me, it seems relatively flat. it is not that windy or cold for december, but it is a dangerous journey, more than 20 miles from here across to france and it is one of the busiest shipping channels in the world. we know the mcrae should minister will beat border force officials today and hopefully meeting —— we gave the immigration minister will meet border force officials and the local mp who described it as a crisis. what does this designation major problem amount to in practical terms? this designation major problem amount to in practicalterms? what will be done differently? we

understand there is a gold commander put in charge and it shows that the home secretary wants to be seen to be taking action to move things forward. also, on the local mp, he said he wants to make sure the french authorities does what he describes as matching the home secretary's determination on his side. you mentioned the home secretary will speak to his french counterpart and there will be pressure on both sides to get the situation sorted. interesting to see what comes out of that. thanks. the government's spending more than £100 million to charter extra ferries to ensure the delivery of essential supplies in the event of a no—deal brexit. the plans would allow for almost 4,000 lorries a week to take goods to ports like dover, plymouth, poole, and portsmouth. the department for transport says the arrangements are an important part of its preparations — but insists the government still wants to strike a deal with brussels. let's ta ke

let's take a look at stories on the new year's honours. more than 1000 people have been recognised in the new year honours list including some of the emergency workers who responded to the terror attacks in manchester and london in 2017. also honoured were the british divers who helped rescue a team of young footballers from a cave in thailand. leading figures from the worlds of showbusiness, sport and fashion are on the list. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba has more details. you want me to what? you want me to go round the world? michael palin says he's immensely grateful to receive a knighthood for services to travel, culture and geography. i'm very surprised. because i've done a lot of things in my life, none of which i felt totally worthy of such recognition. but maybe the cumulative effect is one of some kind of achievement. newsreel: the world's top fashion cover girl was taking the german city by storm. leading fashion figure lesley lawson, better known as twiggy, has been honoured for her work in the arts, charity and fashion. this honour is huge for me. i didn't expect it.

it was completely out of the blue, a shock. but the nicest shock in the world. who wouldn't want to be dame twiggy? how many of of you? 13. 13? brilliant. british divers involved in this year's thai cave rescue have received awards for their bravery and expertise. some of our team received letters a little while ago. we were asked if we would be prepared to accept some awards, which we very graciously said thank you, thank you for. it's nice for the team to be recognised. commentator: must be the happiest englishman in the british isles tonight. in the world of sport, england rugby figure bill beaumont has received a knighthood. a knighthood, too, for recordbreaking batsman alistair cooke. following the world cup, england football manager gareth southgate becomes an 0be. captain harry kane, an mbe. and made an 0be, welsh tour de france winner geraint thomas. when it comes to creatures

like otters, it's not always terribly productive... in the world of entertainment, presenter chris packham becomes a cbe for his work in nature conservation. while westworld actress thandie newton becomes an 0be for her film and charity work. as does downton abbey star jim carter, for services to drama. as in previous years, the majority of honours have gone to people who aren't in the public eye and who never expected this kind of recognition. andrea aviet has been recognised for her work campaigning against domestic abuse. it will always be there till the day i die, i'm going to continue with this cause. but, definitely, getting an award like this means the world to me, because, you know, itjust shows others. she's just one of the many people being honoured for exceptional work that's made a real difference. lizo mzimba, bbc news. new images of the volcano that erupted last week triggering

a tsunami in indonesia show the event was so powerful that it destroyed two thirds of its height and volume. more than 400 people were killed when giant waves crashed into coastal towns on the islands of sumatra and java and more than 150 are still missing. jonathan amos reports. there is little doubt because of the tsunami was a catastrophic failure on the western flank. radar satellites have pierced the ashland cloud in the area to allow researchers to see what remains of the volcanic cone. what was once a volcano reaching 340 metres high is now little more than 100 metres tall. something in the order of 160 million cubic metres of rock and ash have gone, says indonesia's centre of volcanology and geological

hazard mitigation. not all of this would have entered the sunda strait in one go, but it certainly explains the volume of sea water that must have been displaced to generate so destructive a set of waves at nearby coasts. jonathan amos, bbc news early this morning, a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern philippines — prompting a new tsunami alert. on mindanao island — at a depth of about sixty kilometres. the pacific tsunami warning centre says tsunami waves are possible along the coasts of the philippines and indonesia. egypt says it has launched operations in giza and north sinai killing 40 terrorists. the raids come a day after a roadside bomb attack on a tourist bus on its way to the pyramids near cairo —killing to the pyramids near cairo — killing three vietnamese tourists and a local tour guide. there were no immediate reports of any group saying it was behind the bombing.

laura westbrook reports. this is the aftermath of the explosion. the force of the blast shattered windows, leaving just a blackened shell. the bus, carrying mostly vietnamese tourists, had been travelling to the pyramids in giza. investigators at the scene said an improvised explosive device was hidden beside a wall, and went off as the bus drove past. prime minister mostafa madbouly visited the injured in hospital. translation: we're in touch with the vietnamese authorities. we offer our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident. he also told local media the bus deviated from the planned route, approved by security forces. the pyramids of giza are egypt's most famous landmark, with buses filled with tourists travelling there from cairo every day. tourism is a lifeline for egypt and only recently started to recover. this latest attack will have many on edge as the country prepares for more christmas celebrations next month. laura westbrook, bbc news.

it's been confirmed that administrators have been brought in to run the music retailer hmv, which has collapsed after suffering poor sales. the store's owners say high business rates and changes in consumer behaviour are to blame. the retailer employs more than 2000 staff across the uk. administrators from kpmg say they'll try to keep all 125 stores open while they're looking for a buyer. there's a warning that women are bearing the brunt ofjob losses because of automation. the charity the rsa found women had lost almost 400,000 jobs in the public sector, banking and retail since 2011, while the best paid newjobs are going to men. technology has been replacing somejobs for years. but as robots get increasingly clever, new research suggests women are

being impacted more. jobs that involve repetitive movements in retail and other sectors are more likely to become automated. machines can help employees with their work. the royal society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce say its findings show that women are being affected. some of the areas that are being most affected by technology — administration, clerical work and retail work, these are areas where there is a lot of women's employment, so women are being adversely affected. the bad news, really, is that the jobs is that the good jobs that are being created, the high—status and high—paid jobs in technology, are predominantly going to men. so going forward, as technology accelerates, we need to think about how to ensure there are new opportunities for those women being displaced, but we also have to change the culture in technology so that more women are employed in that sector. according to its research, some of the fastest shrinking professions are retail cashiers, teaching assistants and hairdressers. meanwhile, the fastest—growing jobs over the same period include software developers and hr managers.

the rsa says the growing tech industry is known to be male—dominated, but the charity says there is still time to tackle any problems so that people, regardless of gender or age, can share in the spoils of new technology. an army officer has become the first british person to trek solo unaided across antarctica. captain lou rudd finished his mammoth 925—mile journey yesterday after 56 days. he's only the second person in history to complete the expedition without any assistance. he undertook the challenge in memory of fellow explorer and close friend henry worsley, who died from exhaustion just 30 miles short of completing the record solo crossing in 2016. virgin trains is deploying staff wearing pink hi—vis vests who are trained in conflict resolution to deal with football fans using its services. the scheme has been trialled since the start of the season, and is now being rolled out

on a more permanent basis. the company says it chose pink because it's known to have a calming effect on crowds. the headlines on bbc news: the immigration minister is to visit dover later amid mounting concern if about the number of migrants crossing the channel in small boats. if about the number of migrants crossing the channel in small boats. a course in more than £100 million is to be spent chartering extra ferries to bring in vital supplies in the event of a no—deal brexit. named in the new year honours list, the british divers who rescued a boys' football team from a cave in thailand. also on the list, alistair cook and michael palin knighted, and twiggy is made a dame. sport and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. a host of sporting greats feature

in the news years honours list, with former england cricket captain alastair cook leading the way. adam wild has the details. commentator: it is! cook's done it! he's reached his hundred! for more than a decade, alastair cook provided the foundation for english cricket. more runs, more centuries, more test matches than any other englishman. 2018 was the year cook left the international crease for the final time. fittingly, with yet another hundred. his year, his england career ends with a knighthood. he epitomises everything that an england cricketer should aspire to be. he's an ambassador for the game, he is a role model, he's a leader, and he's someone that deserves all the accolades that he's getting. 2018 was the year football so nearly came home. commentator: and it is in from harry kane again! the game's biggest prize eluded

england, but the rewards continue to come. captain harry kane becomes an mbe. his inspirational manager gareth southgate an 0be. amongst the other recipients, rugby union is well represented. and here must be the happiest englishman in the british isles tonight... former england and british and ireland's lions captain bill beaumont, now head of world rugby, becomes sir bill beaumont. absolutely delighted, surprised, and really pleased. not only for myself, but obviously my family. my wife's always supported me, got three lads who are passionate about the game of rugby, so i feel very humble about it. another former lion's captain, williejohn mcbride, receives a cbe. commentator: willie john mcbride! this is a moment to savour! while scotland legend doddie weir is awarded an 0be for services to rugby and research

into motor neurone disease. commentator: england have done it. they've made history! with england's astonishing gold medal at the commonwealth games still fresh in the memory, there is a cbe for netball superstar geva mentor. a year to remember, too, for geraint thomas. it's geraint thomas! the first welshman too win the tour de france, he won sports personality of the year. he ends an extraordinary 2018 with an 0be. adam wild, bbc news. more festive premier league football for you today, and if you're after goals, keep an eye on anfield. liverpool host arsenal in a tie that always delivers attacking football and plenty of goals. jurgen klopp‘s liverpool side are six points clear at the top of the league, and they're yet to lose this season. before all that, it's a big day in the scottish premiership, with rangers taking on celtic this lunchtime.

. the game added significance. we just have to approach the game how we always do which is to look at our own way of working, respect that rangers are good team. some very good results this year. like i say, we'll give them the respect they deserve and look to focus on our own game and look to play well and get the win. there was a big win for northampton in rugby union's premiership last night. they beat leaders exeter by 31 points to 28 at franklin gardens — both sides picked up bonus points, but it was this interception and try from northampton's cobus reinach that secured his side the win. next to a big shock at the pdc world darts championship. reigning champion rob cross knocked out by world number 90 luke humphries. cross was two sets to nil up at ally pally, but humphries won the next four to book a quarter—final against michael smith. that is all the sport for now. i

will have more in the next hour. thank you very much, holly hamilton. this year marks the one hundredth year since the first british women won the vote. and it was more than a hundred years ago, that the dick kerr ladies played their first game of football, going on to become the most successful women's football team ever, playing in front of record crowds. but it's likely you've never heard of them, because in the 1920s, women were banned by the football association. jayne mccubbin has to been find out more about their impact. why is it that nobody knows their name? you tell me, because they're the best that has ever been. this is the story of the dick kerr ladies and this, this is where the story starts. 100 years ago, this was a munitions

factory in preston and home to a group of women who loved football. on christmas day in 1917, they played their first game at the preston north end ground, deepdale. 10,000 came to watch and their following quickly grew. they started it as a patriotic thing to raise money for wounded soldiers during the first world war, but, on top of that, they became the best that there was as well. anywhere, in the world, ever. they played 833 games and lost only 28. they raised over £10 million for charity in today's money, and none of this was just novelty — they could really play. just look at the numbers watching here. this was football good enough to draw the crowds? absolutely. the biggest crowd that came to see them was on boxing day 1920, when 53,000 people turned up to watch them at goodison park, everton, and there were between 10,000 and 14,000 locked out,

couldn't get in. infact, in 1921, over 900,000 people came to watch the dick kerr ladies play, the very year the fa decided to ban women's football. they expressed their strong opinion that the game of football was unsuitable for females and shouldn't be encouraged, but the girls themselves thought it was because they were getting bigger crowds than some of the men. alice kell, lily parr and others — these are the names that would almost certainly be forgotten, were it not for one woman's mission to keep their place in history. we should know their names, yeah. we talk about kelly holmes, paula radcliffe and jessica ennis—hill and we have sports personality of the year. i was watching the other week thinking, we should have a team of the century and it should be the dick kerr ladies. the team continued to play, defying the ban until 1965. in ‘71, the ban was lifted.

today, a new team is linked to preston north end, but they can only dream of the success that the dick kerr ladies achieved back then, but we almost forgot. can you imagine 53,000 at a women's match today? no. god no. that begs the question, where would women's football be today if the fa had not...? i genuinely believe that it would be on a par with the men's game, if it had carried on going, yeah. scary thought. you do not think we are going to have to wait another hundred years, do you? not 100 years, i wouldn't have thought, no. i don't know how long it will take, but not 100 years. among gail's prized possessions, the boots worn by players, the medals they won. and that is the championship of the world medal. "to gail, these are the only treasures in my life. i pass them on to you for safekeeping." it is not my story, it is not anybody‘s story, it is their story, and their story needs to be told because it is about them.

they should be legends. siberia may be the last place you'd expect to be a high—tech hub, but with cheap power, conditions in the remote russian region are ideal for crypto—currency mining. 0ur moscow correspondent sarah rainsford travelled to irkutsk to find out more. when there, she discovered some surprising characters involved in mining for the virtual currency bitcoins, russian grandmothers. meet marina, a babushka who mines for bitcoins on her siberian porch. "here's the machines that make a noise and make me money", she tells me. as those machines whir and mine for virtual currency, marina has been converting that to real cash to top up her pension.

it's no wonder she takes care of the things. she's travelled all over europe on the money. translation: they said to me, "marina, why don't you buy some mining machines?" i said "ok", and i don't regret it. the machines paid for themselves in eight or nine months. and marina's been putting the hot air from the machines to good use. "you can dry the washing here and make dry tomatoes, like in italy", she says. "the dried pumpkin is pretty tasty too." and she's not the only miner in irkutsk. you might not immediately think of siberia as a high—tech hub, but the conditions here are ideal for mining bitcoins. there's cheap power from a hydroelectric plantjust up the river here, and there's the harsh climate itself, it can drop to minus 40 here in the depths of winter —

perfect for cooling all those mining machines. that's why when yuri's karaoke bar was struggling, his family got into bitcoins in a big way. they are cryptocurrency pioneers here. that includes yuri's mum, valeria. irkutsk, it's a crypto capital of russia. for this business, you don't need to be a great specialist because it's an easy system. you only put your computers on electricity and the internet. valeria's miner is here at the family farm. there are gaps in the racks now, where clients removed their machines when the bitcoin's value crashed, but valeria hasn't abandoned her dream. translation: i want some money i've earned myself, and i want a lot of money. when the bitcoin is worthi million, like my son says, then i'll be able to leave my grandchildren a very large inheritance.

it is a dream drawn big here, of a new gold rush, this one for virtual cash, and the babushkas of siberia are leading the charge. sarah rainsford, bbc news, irkutsk. royal mail has apologised after a stamp design it planned to issue, commemorating the d—day landings in france 75 years ago showed the wrong image. the design in fact showed us troops landing in what was dutch new guinea, today's indonesia, thousands of kilometres from france. the stamp was supposed to show the normandy landings and was due to be released as part of a best of british collection. a small spanish town has once again become the scene of a giant food fight, part of an annual celebration that dates back to roman times when social roles were reversed for a day. kathryn armstrong has more. all geared up and ready for battle. these men might look like extras

on the set of a film but they are about to take part in an important tradition stretching back hundreds of years. and as far as traditions go, this is one of the messier ones. the battle of els enfarinats takes place every year in the small town of ibi in spain's alicante region as part of a religious festival. the main weapons of choice, flour, eggs and fire extinguishers. during the mock skirmish, a coup is staged, and new ridiculous laws are declared, with fines for anyone who flouts them. thankfully, order is finally restored by the opposing side but not before a firework or two is thrown into the mix. at the end of the day, any money connected is donated to charity. then all that's left is to figure out how to wash all that egg and flour out. kathryn armstrong, bbc news. quite an interesting way to spend a

saturday. hello, it's brightening up from the north behind the weather front that has brought drizzle through the morning. behind the weather front, it looks like mostly dry weather will prevail, notjust today but indeed for much of the rest of 2018. any rain we have will be light and patchy, mostly in the north. this is today's rain, courtesy of low pressure. we also have a weakening weather front sinking southwards, so it is bringing drizzle to southern parts of england and wales, but that is all but dying out. the rain is leaving scotland and the northern isles and then the sky brighter in the afternoon. drierfor most. the winds will take a little longer to ease down. they have been blustery this morning. but again, nothing exceptional for december. they will take the edge off temperatures, which have been high for the time of year. they will remain in double figures — 11—13 in southern areas, because of all that cloud around.

we should see brightness in northern ireland as well as northern england and north wales. but as we go through the rest of the afternoon, you can see the next weather front approaching off towards the west. it should hold at bay until evening time for northern ireland. these are our temperatures. through this evening and overnight, it will turn chilly quite quickly in eastern areas with a touch of frost and possibly patchy fog if you're travelling. overnight, that will lift temperatures and deposit fog on the hilltops. by morning, very mild across southern and western areas areas and, for many, grey and damp and misty again. although the rain clears, we keep a lot of cloud on sunday. the best chance of brightness will be the eastern side of the hills. across the east of wales, north—east england and scotland. still relatively mild.