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year, i is between seven and nine. looking at the weather patterns into next week, the high—pressure probably declines and may tend to work a little bit south—westwards which does not sound exciting but it may have impact in that across the north of the uk it gives weather systems moving and off the atlantic bringing rain at times, probably mainly cloudy and as the wind picks up mainly cloudy and as the wind picks up next week temperatures probably between average and perhaps slightly above for the time of year. this is bbc news. the headlines at 10pm. the home secretary deploys more patrols and says there are no easy answers — as another group of migrants —— are found by border officials on the kent coast. i have made a decision today to redeploy two of the border force's largest vessels, known as cutters from abroad back to the uk. 39 people are arrested on suspicion of attempted murder — following a stabbing in west london. around the world, millions of people have been welcoming in the new year.
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in dubai a spectacular laser and firework display lit up the skyline. and these are the live pictures from athens. you can see the fireworks above the acropolis. the parthenon lit up beneath the display. the celebrations in one of the old est the celebrations in one of the oldest cities in the world. reining in greece but not sopping the fireworks. we will focus plenty more this evening on the celebrations in the world but let's go back to the situation in the channel. two border force ships are to be redeployed from overseas
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to patrol the english channel — in response to recent migrant crossings. the home secretary sajid javid's announcement comes after he met with border force and national crime agency officials — to discuss an action plan to tackle the growing number of migrants attempting to get to the uk. 12 more migrants, including a 10—year—old child — arrived on the kent coast today, bringing the total who've attempted to get here since november, to 239. this report from our chief political correspondent vicki young contains some flash photography. kent police examining a vessel bringing the latest group of migrants to the english coast. nine men, two women and a child landed here this morning. saying they were iranian nationals. almost 100 have arrived in small boats over the christmas period. the home secretary has been forced to swap his south african holiday for meetings in whitehall. promising to take personal control of the situation. when it comes to human life, clearly i want to make sure that we are doing all we can to protect people and we must remember this is one of the most treacherous stretches
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of water there is. 21 miles with people taking great risks, really putting their lives into their own hands by taking this journey. sajid javid announced he is redeploying two of the border force'a largest ships, known as cutters, from abroad, back to the uk to join other patrol vessels. the mp for dover says it is important that illegal migrants are not allowed to stay in the uk. what we need to see now is dover patrol work hand in glove with the french authorities in a new channel compact so that anyone found in the english channel in one of these unseaworthy craft, can be helped safely back to the french coast so they know there is no chance of getting into britain. those helping migrants say they should not be demonised. we have to hold on to the fact that people, however desperate they are, are our brothers and sisters in humanity.
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and that is what we need to keep reminding people about. and they are refugees unless proved otherwise. sajid javid has said in the past that deploying more patrol vessels in the english channel could encourage more migrants to make the dangerous journey because they think they will be rescued. today he said that those concerns should be put aside but those travelling from third countries such as france could not be expected to be allowed to stay in the uk. the numbers trying to cross the channel in boats like these are small in comparison to the 26,000 people claiming asylum in the uk in 2017. but political pressure has forced the home secretary to act. vicki young, bbc news. the home secretary plans will depend on the french authorities. well, our europe correspondent damian grammaticas is in calais and sent this report. we have been speaking today to
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people trying to make the crossing, twice they have tried in the last week. they paid smugglers, got on small boats, on the first occasion they say they ran out of fuel but had to come back to france. 0n the second occasion they said they even got close the uk shores and tried to call 999 seeking assistance from the coastguard and said they bought that picked them up was a french vessel who brought them all the way back to france. that could represent an illegal pushback. the reason the refugees camped outside calais say they are turning to boats is that they are turning to boats is that the security at the channel ports, the security at the channel ports, the ferry terminal and the channel tunnel, is so tight that it is now very difficult to store away a train 01’ very difficult to store away a train ora very difficult to store away a train or a lorry instead, but one thing worth pointing out as the numbers. they are still very small, those making the crossings to the uk,
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compared to other parts of europe. so those coastguard cutters have been operating in greece and then greece, where 250 so have made this crossing from france to the uk in the last month, increased have sometimes been 250 a day, an average of 80-100 at sometimes been 250 a day, an average of 80—100 at the crossing from 30 so still far pressure greater numbers. 39 people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after an argument in a shop in west london led to a man being chased and stabbed. the victim — who's in his 30s — was found with life—threatening injuries in the early hours of this morning. our correspondent, keith doyle reports. these are all policemen... the police response to a stabbing. dozens of officers arrived at a property where the suspects were believed to be at a party. those at the party refused to cooperate with the police. so were all arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. 0utside they were lined up by the police as each was arrested.
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in all 39 people were ta ken into custody. earlier, police had been called when a man in his 30s was stabbed following an argument in a shop. he was treated at the scene and taken to hospital, where his injuries are described as life—threatening. the suspects then ran into a flat nearby where there was a large group of people having a party. it was here that the police made the arrest. about 50 police officers marched down the road, went into the house next door, and brought out 30, a0 people. had them all lined up against the southern belle, were interrogating them, and then they got arrested and taken away about four o'clock. the police admit making so many arrests at this early stage of an investigation is unusual. but they said because of a lack of cooperation, and the necessity to secure essential evidence, it was appropriate to bring so many people into custody at this stage. forensic teams have been
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at the scene throughout the day. two knives were found close by. those arrested are being questioned at a number of police stations around london. keith doyle, bbc news. let's lighten the mood. just under two hours until the celebrations here. new year has been celebrated around the world as we welcome in 2019. australia was among the first countries to celebrate with sydney harbour transformed into a blaze of colour. chi chi izundu has this report. three, two, one... cheering. it's already 2019 for some parts of the world. sydney was welcomed in with its biggest ever fireworks display. two hours earlier, in auckland, new zealand, it was the first major city to celebrate the new year. fireworks were launched
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from the skycity tower. north korea's celebrations included a concert in pyongyang. in scotland, preparations are still under way for the traditional hogmanay celebrations. in london, plans for tonight's fireworks started back injuly, eight tonnes will take off from 348 firing locations on barges, pontoons and the london eye. big ben, which has largely been silent for 2018, will kick off the year of 2019. now, it may be a bit quiet. butjust in a few hours 100,000 people are expected to line the embankment along the river thames, to watch the biggest fireworks display in europe. 12.5 million are expected to tune in and watch it live on their tvs. but a new year signals new change. so let's find out what people would like for 2019. so, number one, i want to lose
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weight, because this fat really needs to go. for 2019, i want to save more money. to be more happy, healthy and wise. to welcome another new great—grandchild in the spring. what i want for 2019 is for wales to win the rugby world cup, happy new year, everybody! of course, a new year brings new hopes and dreams. but for now, 2019 is going off with a bang. chi chi izundu, bbc news. people across scotland are gearing up for the biggest party night of the year. the largest hogmanay event is in edinburgh— where the city's world famous street party is a 60,000 sell—out — franz ferdinand will headline the concert in the gardens. we can speak to andrew black — who's in edinburgh for us. set the scene, how is it looking?
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what you're looking at right now is the pretty much unmistakable outline of edinburgh castle and that is where the big finale tonight is taking place. more on that shortly. the party getting well under way on princes street in central edinburgh as you can probably hear. a big screen behind us showing some of the party going on. 65,000 people will be your on princes street to see in the new year. lots of entertainment and bands playing. franz ferdinand are the headliner, the last right to play here 15 years ago when it was cancelled due to bad weather. the event tonight also a celebration of scotland's historical links with europe and that has come against the brexit backdrop this year. also a significant police presence but i have to say that everything has been
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pretty great despite some heightened concern from police about potential drone disruption after what we saw recently at gatwick airport. everything going pretty well. this evening all builds up to the massive crescendo and a fireworks display which will be launched from edinburgh castle esplanade to see in 2019. we get the traditional lament from the lone piper before launching into the fireworks display. as you can see everything going pretty well. the weather pretty great, not raining for once even though it is that when they. they are wrapped up warm and i can see that behind you. that is the place to be, princes street in edinburgh. 0ne place to be, princes street in edinburgh. one of the more anticipated celebrations. and stay with us here on bbc news. from 11pm tonight — we'll have coverage of the new year celebrations across europe —
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and then in london and edinburgh, as the uk welcomes in 2019. dojoin me for that. a nasa probe is set to make history in the early hours of tomorrow when it's due to fly past a space rock more than three—and—a—half billion miles from earth. if successful, it will be the furthest object ever visited by a space craft. the probe — called new horizons — will take a series of photos which may holds clues about the formation of the solar system. 0ur science editor, david shukman reports. (vt next) it's taken a long, dark trek through the outer reaches of the solar system but now the nasa spacecraft new horizons is on the brink of making history. about to reach the remotest world that humanity has ever ventured to. it's pure exploration. pure science and pure exploration. we're trying to understand the origin of the planets and the object that we're
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going to fly by, nicknamed ultima thule, is a frozen time capsule from the era of the birth of our planets. to explain what this mission is all about, let's use our virtual studio and start with the middle of our solar system. 0rbiting closest to the sun are the four small rocky planets, including earth. then further out, there are four much larger planets. the best known of these is saturn, with its famous rings. and then, right on the margin, there's tiny pluto. 3 billion miles away. but it turns out that pluto is just one part of a massive outer zone we only started discovering in the last 20 years or so. thousands of tiny worlds, lumps of rock and ice, known as the kuiper belt. these are objects left over after the planets were formed. one of these is known as ultima thule. and until now, we've only had this artist's impression of it. but after racing from earth on a 13 yearjourney, nasa's new horizons spacecraft is about to fly past it, the most distant exploration in human history.
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new horizons is exploring ultima thule a billion miles further away than pluto, for a total distance of 4 billion miles. forget 1990s dial—up modem internet speeds, we're going to be downloading data from the spacecraft at one kilobit per second. over the next almost two years. now, the great thing about such a slow data transmission rate is that it's almost the gift that keeps on giving. every week or so we will get new images back from the spacecraft and we're going to learn new things for the next two years. three years ago the same spacecraft flew past pluto and revealed something entirely unexpected. that it's far more active than anyone realised. it may even have an ocean beneath the surface. so now the discoveries about an even more distant world to be made in the coming hours may be just as surprising. david shukman, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. the home secretary deploys
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more patrols and says there are no easy answers as another group of migrants — are found by border officials on the kent coast. 39 people are arrested on suspicion of attempted murder — following a stabbing in west london. huge crowds gather around the world to welcome in the new year. here's dubai with a spectacular laser and firework display rescuers in russia are searching the rubble after an explosion devastated an apartment block — killing at least four people. it happened at around 6am local time — and is thought to have ripped through the first floor — then collapsing the seven storeys above. officials in the city of magnitogorsk say a gas leak was behind the blast. about a0 people are missing — in subzero temperatures. 0ur moscow correspondent, sarah rainsford, reports. all the rescue teams have been
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searching for signs of life after a massive explosion. this pile of bricks, metal and concrete is all thatis bricks, metal and concrete is all that is left of nearly 50 apartments. it is a public holiday here and most residents would have been sleeping. it is feared the dozens are now buried. 0fficials been sleeping. it is feared the dozens are now buried. officials say the explosion was caused by a gas lea k the explosion was caused by a gas leak which sliced a whole section from the ten story tower block. those who made it out alive are still reeling. everything collapsed. i look through the window with smoke rising. the rescuers pulled us to leave. i was asleep and woke up from the feeling i was falling down. the wall was missing and i woke up in the street, my mother screaming and
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my son crying. as the scale of the disaster became clear the russian president flew to the scene. in a freezing tent that is now an official headquarters officials share of the grim details. it is in the character of our people. despite the character of our people. despite the holidays it is today necessary to recall the dead and the injured. the school is now a shelter for those evacuated from sections of the tower block still standing. locals have been sending supplies although it is now wait to see in the new year. seems like this are all too common. 0ver a0 fatal gas explosions in russian homes last year alone. finding any more survivors from this is now a race against time and the elements with the temperature of —18 and falling. some breaking news in
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the newsroom from manchester. police say they are responding to an incident at manchester victoria station. a tweet from a producer at victoria station who said, just been very close to the most terrifying thing. a man stabbed in manchester victoria station on the tram platform. he had a very long kitchen knife. totally shaken. police have confirmed they are dealing with an incident and we will bring you more detail on that as and when we get it. ‘70s pop star, jimmy 0smond, has had a stroke while performing in pantomime at the birmingham hippodrome. he was taken to hospital after last thursday's performance of peter pan —— where he was playing captain hook. earlier our arts and entertainment correspondent colin paterson explained jimmy 0smond has performed in a panto a number of times over the years. he was captain hook in peter pan at
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the birmingham have old problem. two days after christmas he was on stage and not feeling well but fenny says performance. afterwards he went to hospital, driven to hospital in birmingham where he found out he had had a stroke. information we have given at this time is that he is going to rest our late in the new year. we don't have any update on his condition. he is the youngest person ever to have number one single in the uk. christmas number 11972, long—haired lover from liverpool. in his production of peter pan he was speaking 0smonds songs and adapting them to peter pan, so it was the long—haired lover from neverland. you get the idea. and he was singing 0smonds songs for the big climax of the shore. he is a mainstay of entertainment in the uk, donein mainstay of entertainment in the uk, done in seven different pantomimes and that to do many shows next
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summer, playing butlins in february. he competed on masterchef recently, coming runner—up, so a very familiar face to many in britain and this will be shocking news especially to the families and obtained by him over the last week in birmingham. we are told the pantomime is going ahead with his understudy taking on the role and darren day had finished playing captain hook any northampton pantomime so he has hotfooted across the country and is rehearsing for the country and is rehearsing for the role and is taking over at the end of the week but the important thing is we believejimmy 0smond is recovering from the stroke. now it's time for a look at the weather. good evening. as we head into the new year at the weather set to change significantly and the changes are coming down from the north. for most of us, we're in this cloudy but
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mild stream but behind the week whether, cold air coming down. clearer skies perhaps by midnight all the way down to the central belt. plenty of showers in the far north where it will be very wednesday, gusts of 70 mph. across northern ireland and the far south of scotland, fast north of england, cloudy with light rain and drizzle, thatis cloudy with light rain and drizzle, that is on the weather front. south of that if you break for a while but on the whole fairly mild and pretty cloudy. fairly quiet for many parts of the country, the winds easing in the north—east of scotland, clearer skies pushing down into england and the temperature beginning to drop as well. the weather is changing because the position of high pressure is changing. it has been to the south of the uk with cloudy atla ntic the south of the uk with cloudy atlantic a. the position of the changes allows us to pull down cold
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air across the country behind the week weather front. we will find stronger winds across the north sea coast for a while on new year's day, not many showers because the pressure is so high, and most places see some sunshine coming through. across other most parts of wales and sutherland balint it could be cloudy with a few spots of rain and drizzle. the temperature in double figures and elsewhere lower than we have seen over the last few days. with clear skies and light winds many places will see frost, down to —4 many places will see frost, down to —a in rural areas. not as chilly police in most parts with cloud continuing to move on and off the north sea but even that tends to break up and we see sunshine developing far and wide, the ones like as well as very frosty start in many places. the temperature lower than we have seen, 3—a in scotland, 5-7 than we have seen, 3—a in scotland, 5—7 across england and wales and frost to follow. running called for
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the first week of the new year with frost and fog returning. more sunshine around for most of us but still dry. good evening. two border force patrol boats are to be redeployed from overseas to patrol the english channel, in response to recent migrant crossings. home secretary sajid javid's announcement comes after he met with border force and national crime agency officials to discuss an action plan to tackle the growing number of migrants attempting to get to the uk. 12 more migrants arrived on the kent coast today, bringing the total who have attempted to get here since november to 239. vicki young's report contains some flash photography. kent police examining a vessel, bringing the latest group of migrants to the english coast. nine men, two women and a child landed here this morning saying they were iranian nationals.
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almost 100 have arrived in small boats over the christmas period. good morning, home secretary... the home secretary has been forced to swap his south african holiday for meetings in whitehall, promising to take personal control of the situation. i'm working out ways with the french to increase the number of returns that we can make to also send a very strong message, that we will do all that we can, notjust to protect human life — because of course that is the right and responsible thing to do at all times — but also to protect our borders. mrjavid announced he's redeploying two of the border force's largest ships, known as cutters, from abroad back to the uk to join other patrol vessels. the mp for dover says it's important that illegal migrants aren't allowed to stay in the uk. what we need to do now is dover patrol, work hand in glove with the french authorities in a new channel compact so that anyone found in the english channel,
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in one of these unseaworthy craft, can be helped carefully and safely back to the french coast, so they know there is no chance of getting into britain. those helping migrants say they shouldn't be demonised. we have to hold on to the fact that people, however desperate they are, are our brothers and sisters in humanity, and that's what we need to keep reminding people about. and they're refugees unless proved otherwise. in the past, sajid javid has said that deploying more patrol vessels in the channel could act as a pull factor encouraging migrants to make an extremely dangerous journey because they think they will be rescued. today, he set those concerns aside, but said people travelling from safe countries such as france couldn't expect to be allowed to stay in the united kingdom. the numbers trying to cross the channel in boats like these are small in comparison to the 26,000 people claiming asylum in the uk in 2017. but political pressure has forced
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the home secretary to act. vicki young, bbc news. earlier, we spoke to damain grammaticas in calais and asked him earlier, we spoke to damian grammaticas in calais and asked him what migrants hoping to cross the channel have been telling him. we spoke to some refugees here, iranians, they paid smugglers, they got on small boats. the first time, they ran out of fuel, they said. the second time, they got very close to the english coast, they claim. they called 999, they said, seeking assistance from uk coastguards, and say they were actually picked up by a french vessel and brought back all the way here. now, they say the reason that they've been doing this is that the security at the ports he has become so tight that it's almost impossible now to stow away on a lorry or a train, so they are desperate and turning to boats instead. but interestingly, those coastguard cutters that are now being called back, they have been operating in greece, and where around 200, 250 people have made this crossing in the last month or so,
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on those greek islands, there are still up to 250 people a day crossing from turkey to greece. so, if they come back, the pressure will still be high at that side of europe on those making the crossing. reports have been coming in in the past few minutes that police in manchester are responding to an incident at the city's victoria station. the station is currently closed and a man has been arrested. it's being reported that three people have suffered knife injuries. the department for transport has clarified its position about a controversial contract that was given to a small british start—up firm called seaborne freight for extra cross—channel ferries in the event of a no—deal brexit. our business correspondent joe miller is here with me — what have they said? well, over the past few weeks the government has been quietly awarding contracts worth more than £100 million in total to three shipping
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countries essentially to ferry lorries across the channel in the event that no deal causes congestion at dover. 0ne event that no deal causes congestion at dover. one of these was a small british company that as we reported yesterday, got a contract for £13.8 million despite never having sailed a vessel. yesterday the department for transport stood by the firm and said it had vetted its commercial, technical and financial position before signing the deal. but three days after our first story and after criticism from many mps, the dft is now clarifying and saying that because it is a start—up, seaborne freight will be obliged to meet a number stringent requirements before it had handed a penny penny of tax payers money and if it is not operating properly, it will not get a single penny. brittany ferries, it is understood, will retain some of the award, even if its contingency plans are not needed.
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president putin has visited the scene of an explosion that caused an apartment block to collapse in the russian city of magnitogorsk. rescue workers are still searching the rubble for survivors. at least four people are dead and another a0 are still missing. officials say it was caused by a gas leak. a nasa probe is set to make history in the early hours of tomorrow when it's due to fly past a space rock more than 3.5 billion miles from earth. if successful, it will be the furthest object ever visited by a space craft. the probe, called new horizons, will take a series of photos which may hold clues about the formation of the solar system. 0ur science editor, david shukman, reports. it's taken a long, dark trek through the outer reaches of the solar system. but now, the nasa spacecraft new horizons is on the brink of making history — about to reach the remotest world that humanity has ever ventured to. it's pure exploration. pure science and pure exploration. we're trying to understand the origin of the planets, and the object that we're
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going to fly by, nicknamed ultima thule, is a frozen time capsule from the era of the birth of our planets. to explain what this mission is all about, let's use our virtual studio and start with the middle of our solar system. 0rbiting closest to the sun are the four small rocky planets, including earth. then further out, there are four much larger planets. the best known of these is saturn, with its famous rings. and then, right on the margin, there's tiny pluto, three billion miles away. but it turns out that pluto is just one part of a massive outer zone we only started discovering in the last 20 years or so. thousands of tiny worlds, and lumps of rock and ice known as the kuiper belt. these are objects left over after the planets were formed. one of these is known as ultima thule. and until now, we've only had this artist's impression of it. but after racing from earth
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on a 13—yearjourney, nasa's new horizons spacecraft is about to fly past it, the most distant exploration in human history. we're going to be downloading data from the spacecraft at one kilobit per second over the next almost two years. now, the great thing about such a slow data transmission rate is that it's almost the gift that keeps on giving. every week or so we'll get new images back from the spacecraft and we're going to learn new things for the next two years. three years ago, the same spacecraft flew past pluto and revealed something entirely unexpected — that it's far more active than anyone realised. it may even have an ocean beneath the surface. so now the discoveries about an even more distant world to be made in the coming hours may be just as surprising. david shukman, bbc news. theresa may has used her new year's message to say britain can turn a corner — if parliament backs her brexit deal.
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the prime minister says that 2019 could be the year in which the uk begins a new chapter. butjeremy corbyn accused the conservatives of a brexit mess. the party leaders delivered their new year messages as the arrival of 2019 began to be celebrated around the world. chi chi izundu reports. three, two, one... cheering it's already 2019 for some parts of the world. in sydney, the new year was welcomed in with its biggest ever fireworks display. two hours earlier, in auckland, new zealand, it was the first major city to celebrate the new year. fireworks were launched from the skycity tower. north korea's celebrations included a concert in pyongyang.
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in edinburgh, tens of thousands of people are expected to join the hogmanay party. in london, plans for tonight's fireworks started back injuly, eight tonnes will be triggered from 3a8 firing locations on barges, pontoons and the london eye. 0rganisers say they only got access to the london eye at four o'clock this afternoon after it closed to the public. in the last half an hour they have confirm that everything is ready to go. can't wait, every new year we sit and watch it on tv. and then we go straight back in and go
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to bed, so this is going to be absolutely brilliant. to bed, so this is going to be absolutely brilliantlj to bed, so this is going to be absolutely brilliant. i love the london eye and i think it is the best in the world. i have always wanted to come since i was little, i used to see it on tv. it's london fireworks, everyone comes from all around the world to see the show here and to see what the mayor of london did for us to celebrate this beautiful moment. dubai went one step further, with fireworks from the world's tallest building, something for london to think about next year! regarding the incident in manchester, we are hearing that a british transport police officer is among three people injured at victoria station following the knife attack. that's all from me. from all of us here, good night and a happy new year. this is bbc world news,
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the headlines. some more detail on the news in manchester, so far we understand the people including a police officer have been wounded in a stabbing at victoria station in manchester. a statement in british transport police said officers have responded to reports of a man wielding a knife, one man has been arrested. we understand a man and a woman were taken to hospital and we are getting details that the third individual injured was in fact a british transport police officer. he may have been stabbed in the shoulder. the incident was on the drama platform at victoria station in manchester, security very tight in the city this evening as they
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prepare for the new year celebrations. we're trying to make contact with sam, a five iron producer was on the platform and he said it was pretty alarming, the man wielding what he thought was a large kitchen knife and he had thought about jumping onto the kitchen knife and he had thought aboutjumping onto the platform to get away from him. let's see if we can bring in sam. tell us what you saw. it was quite scary, i had been out having a drink with friends and we went to the station to get our tram, someone going towards older, i was going south and it was me on the platform and i heard the most bloodcurdling scream i have ever
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heard from a woman, i turned around and if you look at ali gets looked like there was a fight going on. there was a guy in his 60s, someone who appeared to be his partner involved in some sort of scuffle so i thought this is alarming to start with but then i heard him shouting something, he did shout allah distinctly, i have reported on enough of these incidents and i know how this goes. the police very quickly when on the platform with vests shouting at him but she started backing up towards me and he
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got two base and six feet of me and he was walking around very skittish andi he was walking around very skittish and i did not know anything was happening, a fight on new year's eve, people get drunk and have fights i looked down and admitted being his right hand, i saw he had a kitchen knife with a black blade and a long 12 inch blade in his hand. he was backing up towards me looking very skittish and i felt deep fear in my stomach thinking very scared now and i moved towards the track ready to jump out of the way on the tracks. at which .1 of the police
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officers shot eight taser which missed him but i thought i had to jump missed him but i thought i had to jump on the tracks because looking around the next person stabbed as me. i could not say exactly what happened in terms of the sequence of events but he was pepper sprayed and tasered and brought to the ground and the rock six police officers on top of him, he was very much resisting arrest. at this point whilst scared i thought i am a journalist so i am going to take a photo and from what is going on because this appears to be some kind of serious incident. ifilmed some of serious incident. ifilmed some of them pinning him on the ground and then i stopped and as i walked past i was trying to walk away from
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what was happening and i looked around and! what was happening and i looked around and i heard the man say as long as you keep bombing these countries and i am using a cleaner term for broadcast, this sort of stuff happens then this is going to keep happening. he had pepper spray on his face and wealthy police had penned trying to get up, it was very scary. my friend was on the other platform and said afterwards the people on the other platform jumped on the platform and run away. people on the other platform jumped on the platform and run awaym says what you are seeing the police had not responded so quickly he would have starved more people he been allowed to. fu stabbed.
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it is quite possible. i am grateful they were there quickly, this is manchester victoria station, with the manchester arena happened last year so they are prepared for that, came in quickly. as an individual and a human being it felt like forever because it was a scream that will stay with me for a long time. seeing the guy with the knife a few feet moving towards me and thinking this could be it. but they were there really quickly and i am very grateful that they were there.
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