this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 8pm. chelsea's match at tottenham is marred, after the crowd were warned three times over the tannoy about racist behaviour. my myjob is to go straight to the referee and report it. tottenham say any form of racism is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated an investigation is under way. australia's firefighters in the state of new south wales are still battling to bring more than 100 blazes under control. tesco suspends christmas card production at a chinese factory after a six—year—old girl in london finds a message claiming that prisoners are being forced to pack them.

the home secretary meets the family of harry dunn — the teenager killed in a road accident in northamptonshire in august. a man's been arrested in sussex on suspicion of murder after the deaths of two women outside a house in crawley down. and the queen attends a church service in sandringham while the duke of edinburgh spent a second night in hospital receiving treatment for a pre—exisiting condition. and in half an hour i will be looking back at the best films of the year, films from around the world from spectacular blockbusters to hidden arthouse gems. that's all in review 2019, with me, mark kermode.

tottenham's premier league win over chelsea, appears to be have been marred by racist behaviour from the crowd. the referee stopped play in the second half, after an object was thrown onto the pitch. he was then approached by chelsea defender, antonio rudiger. an address made over tottenham's public address system then warned, "racist behaviour is interfering with the game". tottenham have now released a statement, which says, "we are now conducting a thorough investigation which will include liaising with chelsea and their players for their observations. any form of racism is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our stadium. we take any such allegations extremely seriously and shall take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be behaving in such a way, including stadium bans." well, here's how the chelsea captain

responded to the incident. what is clear is that we are first of all a club that is very active and we raise a lot of campaigns towards racism. we are very active in that, and every time we meet the premier league referees before the game, we are told to report if any incident happens. after the red card, it happened. antonio came to me and told me that he was listening to monkey noises in the crowd, and part of myjob as captain is to report it to the ref. there is an investigation now, and we have to work towards the eradication of the problem. it is an issue in life and in football, unfortunately, and we need to keep working on it.

the manager of tottenham, jose mourinho, was also quick to condemn the events that unfolded. in football, i'm disappointed that things like that can still happen, but the referee stopped the game, spoke to the players, spoke to the captain, spoke to the coaches. i was losing and i did not want the game to be stopped but immediately when i knew the reason why the game was stopped, i obviously understood and accepted it and i think also the clu b accepted it and i think also the club is a very proud club in this kind of situation and the club, internally, will try to delete it. earlier our sport correspondent, andy swiss, explained how procedure was carried out in the stadium earlier. under uefa protocol, games can be abandoned if fans have already been warned twice before. what has emerged is that although there were three warnings, there were not three

separate incidents, there was one incident and three warnings for that one incident but clearly this is another very worrying piece of news for english football. we've seen a string of incidents in recent months in the english game, allegations of racist abuse from fans and we saw that at the manchester derby earlier this month and we saw it in the fa cup match between haringey and yeovil which had to be abandoned and this will clearly be a huge worry for those involved in the english games, the players, the authorities andindeed games, the players, the authorities and indeed the fans. in the past few minutes, cheslesa's antonio rudiger, whom that racist chanting was directed at, has posted a picture on instagram, with the hashtag captions ‘no to racism', hashtag ‘please get some basic education'. well, joining me on the line now is rob hastings, a tottenham supporter who was at the match. thanks for speaking to us, so what

did you see and hear? hello. i should say first of all the we were at the opposite end of the ground from where the alleged incident happened, so although i would say we did not see or hear anything, there's no way we couldn't do from where we were. the ref had stopped the game and was chatting to the players and then ran across to speak to the managers, so i sit with my father and we were singing what is going on here, and following the racist incidents that england have enjoyed an international matches, i suppose football fans are a bit more educated in terms of the protocols of what happens when these incidents occui’. of what happens when these incidents occur. so i said to my dad, the only thing i could think of is that someone thing i could think of is that someone has thrown something or somebody has said something racist. because we now know that that is what the referees do when those things happen. so the referee ran over to the managers, spoke to them for a few seconds and then ran back

and play continued. and i don't know how long afterwards it might have been a couple of minutes, and an announcement was made to the entire stadium saying along the lines of this is a security announcement, racist behaviour is interfering with the game and racism plays no part in football, something like that. and then, i don't know, maybe within 20 minutes, that announcement was played again another couple of times. i've been a season ticket holder at spurs for only three years but i've been going to matches regularly for the past 15, i would say and i've never seen or heard anything racist, so it's quite a shock when your own club is involved in this. there was an incident i think last season where somebody was alleged to have thrown a banana at an arsenal fan and that was equally shocking. but spurs, as a club, it

has quite a jewish identity and so the club over the years has been, the club over the years has been, the fans, they have been the victims of racism over the years and it's just disgusting and horrible to hear that your own club now is involved in this. and it obviously only takes one fan amid 60,000 to do something stupid and horrible to tarnish the name of the club and the fans and the whole community, i suppose. you did say plenty of the fans are pretty aware of what tends to happen in incidents like this. is there a general knowledge about the so—called uefa protocols, about the action that would be taken? well, i don't know. i don't know the extent to which other people know about this, but the england game a few weeks ago, it was sort of quite

widely anticipated that there might be racism in the away game there, so there was lots of media coverage about what would happen if a racist incident happened, and harry kane, who is currently the captain of totte n ha m who is currently the captain of tottenham and england, he spoke about whether to lead players off the pitch or not and england didn't do that in the end but racism is how everybody saw it on the tv in that match. so i think fans, some, like us might have spotted when the referee went to the manager and thought, what's happening here? but like i say, the fans i was speaking to after the match, everyone was just really embarrassed that it should be our club involved in this and obviously it's something in wider society. it's notjust a problem in football and i suppose when lots of fans are together and they are very passionate in those

circumstances, that's when some of these horrible things can come out, that it's something that is a problem in society generally and it is sad that may be football provokes it sometimes. 0k, rob hastings, thank you for your time. plenty more on this story in our sport bulletin, just after 8.15pm. the australian prime minister, scott morrison, has defended his government's record on tackling climate change, as bushfires continue to rage across parts of the country. under pressure for being on holiday when two firefighters died, he's now said there is a link between global warming and the ferocity and extent of this year's fires. more than 100 are still burning in new south wales, as our correspondent, shaimaa khalil reports. it feels like a deserted war zone. but this is the aftermath of the catastrophic bushfires that have ravaged new south wales. in the village of balmoral,

the devastation is everywhere. the prime minister, scott morrison, appearing for the first time today after fierce criticism of his holiday in hawaii, conceded that more needed to be done to tackle global warming, with scientists saying that drier conditions brought about by climate change have worsened the impact of bushfires. we must take action on climate change. we are taking action on climate change. there is no argument about the links between — in my view and the government's view, and any government of this country — about the links between broader issues of global climate change and weather events around the world. russell scholes has been a volunteer firefighter for six years. he was out with his team, trying to control the blaze in the village, when his own house was burnt to the ground. so many of the brigade are tired. that's the mental side of it, when you are continually battling something you can't beat.

the only thing that will beat this is mother nature, when she decides to open the heavens up and put it out. so we can't. we are running out of water here. catastrophic fires have subsided, but the situation is still extremely dangerous here. the roads remain closed off. balmoral was one of the worst hit areas by saturday's fires, and the community is still very much in shock. many have not returned to see what happened to their homes and what happened to their village. just opposite the road from russell's shattered house is a very different picture. craig hurley stayed to defend his home during the fires, using up all the water reserves he had. flames like a five or six storey building, just roaring all around you. just scary as hell. you don't know what to do. trying not to panic, but, yeah, we got the job done, so we saved most of the stuff. australia's bracing itself for a scorching summer and many are wondering where the next big fire is going to hit.

shaimaa khalil, bbc news, balmoral, new south wales. a six—year—old girl has opened a pack of tesco christmas cards, to find a message saying they were packed by prisoners in china, being forced to work against their will. tesco says it's stopped production at the factory while it investigates. jon donnison has more. it was six—year—old schoolgirl florence widdicombe who had sat down at home to write out her christmas cards to her friends and family when she discovered one of the cards had already been written out. we were writing in them and on about my sixth or eighth card, there was somebody older who had written in it. the message read, we are foreign prisoners in shanghai qingpu prison, china, forced to work against our will. please help us and notify human rights organisation. the first thought was it must be

a prank, but on reflection we realised it was actually potentially quite a serious thing, and so i felt very shocked but i also felt a responsibility to pass it on to peter humphrey, as the author asked me to do. the family did just that and got in touch with the human rights journalist peter humphrey, who the message in the card had suggested they contact. he himself had spent time in qingpu prison for his part in an alleged corruption scandal. i spent two years in captivity in shanghai between 2013 and 2015, and my final nine months of captivity was in this very prison, in this very cell block where the message has come from, and these prisoners are living a very bleak daily life. there are 12 prisoners per cell and they sleep in very rusty iron bunk beds with a mattress not more than one centimetre thick.

a tesco spokesperson said the company was shocked and it would never allow prison labour in its supply chain. production at this factory has been suspended and an investigation has been launched. jon donnison, bbc news, west london. the home secretary has met the father of harry dunn, the 19—year—old who died in a car crash outside an raf base in northamptonshire in august. priti patel said she wanted to reassure the family. the goverment is considering whether to ask for the extradition from the united states, of the driver charged over the crash, anne sacoolas. duncan kennedy reports. the home secretary arrived in harry dunn's home village to brief his family in person. hello, good to meet you. thank you. inside, harry's dad, tim, said he welcomed the gesture. this is a good opportunity and thank

you for coming to listen to what we need to say, and hopefully we can move forward and help other people if they ever get into this situation. priti has come to try and hear from all of you. the fact that priti patel and andrea leadsom, the local mp, came here is a sign of how much impact the case is having. harry dunn was killed last august when his motorbike collided with a car. anne sacoolas, here on her wedding day, was charged this week with causing harry's death by dangerous driving, but she left britain, claiming diplomatic immunity. the home secretary said she would do all she could. it was a nice opportunity to hear from them about what they have been experiencing, what they have been going through, and to reassure them. it has been a very difficult and traumatic time for them. at the crash scene today, harry dunn's best friends arrived to put up a christmas tree in his honour, and they say they all miss him terribly at what was his favourite

time of year. lawyers for anne sacoolas say she too is devastated by the tragedy but say she won't return to the uk voluntarily. harry dunn's family say that is unacceptable. they're concerned that they have one of the finest lawyers in america seeking to undermine ourfair, mature and well developed legal system, which has fairness at its heart. this will be a difficult christmas for everybody involved. ajudge will now look at the merits of extradition, and then the home secretary will make a final decision. duncan kennedy, bbc news, northamptonshire. the headlines on bbc news: chelsea's match at tottenham is marred after the crowd were warned three times over the tannoy about racist behaviour. australia's firefighters in the state of new south wales

are still battling to bring more than a hundred fires under control. tesco has suspended christmas card production at a chinese factory after a six—year—old girl in london finds a message claiming that prisoners are being forced to pack them. sport and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. quite a disturbing day in the world of football. yes, we will get on to that in a moment. we should be starting tonight by talking about a brilliant away win for chelsea over spurs in the premier league, but instead, all the headlines will be about racism after an allegation of abuse by some spurs fans. 0ur sports correspondent is andy swiss. this all happened around an hour into the match after tottenham had a player sent off for a challenge on chelsea's rudiger. rudiger then said he had been the victim of abuse from the crowd.

he told his captain, who told the referee, anthony taylor. an object was also thrown onto the pitch. the referee spoke to both of the managers after that and there was then an announcement over the public address system saying that racist behaviour from spectators was interfering with the game. you can see the referee talking to the players. that announcement over the public address system was repeated with about five minutes left of the match, and then again during injury time. under uefa protocol, games can be abandoned if fans have already been warned twice before. what has emerged is that although there were three warnings, there were not three separate incidents, there was one incident and there were three warnings for that incident. clearly, this is another very worrying piece of news for english football. we have seen a string of incidents in recent months in the english game, allegations of racist abuse from fans. we saw that at the manchester derby earlier this month. we also saw it in an fa cup match between haringey and yeovil which had to be abandoned. and clearly this

will be a huge worry to everyone involved in the english game, the authorities, the players and indeed the fans. andy, thank you very much indeed. chelsea were winners in the game, 2-0. well, in the last hour, spurs have released a statement. they say they are now carrying out an investigation and will be liaising with the chelsea players. they say that racism in any form won't be tolerated in the stadium and they will take the strongest possible action against anyone who's found to have carried out any abuse, including stadium bans. let's hear from the chelsea captain, cesar azpuilacueta. we are told to report if anything happens. so in the game, after the red card, it happened, and tony came to me and he told me that he was listening in the crowd, monkey noises, and obviously myjob as a captain is to go straight to the referee and to report it. now there is an investigation, and we have to

work altogether towards the eradication of the problem. elsewhere in the premier league today there was a big win for watford. but a big defeat for manchester united. a howler from david de gea gifted watford their opening goal, scored by ismaila sarr. things went from bad to worse for united when aaron wan—bissaka fouled sarr to give watford a penalty. troy deeney made no mistake from the spot. it finished 2—0, watford's first home win of the season, but they're still bottom. united remain eighth in the table. bath have ended a run of five successive defeats in all competitions after thrashing london irish in the premiership. they won 38—10, anthony watson with the second of five first half tries for the away side at reading's madejski stadium. bath scored six tries in total, tom homer with their only score in the second half. the win moves bath above their opponents. england's first test series of the winter kicks off against south africa on boxing day, and captainjoe root‘s still waiting on the fitness on three

of his key bowlers. root says he'll allow jofra archer, stuart broad and jack leach to decide if they're fit to play in centurion. they all missed the warm—up games with flu—like symptoms, but did take part in a net session ahead of the final warm—up match. that's all the sport for now. thank you very much. you're watching bbc news. a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two women died in a village in west sussex. police were called after a disturbance outside a house in crawley down this morning. a man was found seriously injured at the same address. we've been getting the reaction of one local resident. i just know there was a couple of casualties, someone airlifted to hospital, seriously injured, that is as much as we know at the moment. you know, just really quite shocked. everyone that we have spoken to that we know is equally shocked, so, to see the police

presence here is something. we have lived here over 20 years and we have seen nothing like it. the queen has attended church at sandringham for a carol concert. she was joined by edward, sophie and their son but without the duke of edinburgh who has spent a second night in a central london hospital. prince philip, who's 98, is being treated for a pre—existing condition on the advice of his doctors. our correspondent, tolu adeoye, is in sandringham —— and gave us this update earlier. no updates at all from the palace today, we have not heard from them since friday when the duke left sandringham to go to the hospital in london for what was described as observation and treatment for a pre—existing condition. we do know that he has been laughing and joking with staff in the hospital, but no updates at all as to his condition. as the duke was leaving here which is where he spent much of his time since he retired, the queen was arriving for her christmas break and this morning we got our first glimpse

of the queen. she attended a carol service at church on the estate with prince edward and his family. a small crowd gathered to see them, but nothing compared to the crowds that we would expect here on christmas day when the senior royals will attend church and we are expecting the duke and duchess of cambridge, the duke and duchess of cornwall and many senior royals to attend then. prince philip did not actually go to that traditional christmas day service last year, but many people will be hoping he is well enough to at least be back at sandringham with his family to enjoy christmas day in private, but certainly for now it looks as though he will be in hospital for at least a third night. let's take a look at some more of today's top stories. a 26—year—old woman has died following a crash involving a car and a national express coach in southwest london. both vehicles caught fire after colliding in battersea in the early hours of this morning. the driver of the car remains in a critical condition.

the coach had been travelling from gatwick airport to victoria station. there's been dramatic scenes off the coast of sardinia where a merchant ship became stranded on a rocky stretch of coast. the ship had unloaded a cargo of coffee and was heading for spain when bad weather forced the captain to try to return to port. rescue crews managed to reach all 12 crew members, but not before they'd endured some very large waves crashing onto the deck. nobody was injured. dozens of pesto products are being recalled overfears they may contain traces of peanut without it being listed on the label. the products, all made by sauce maker sacla, also include own—brand jars of pesto from supermarkets waitrose and aldi. the food standards agency has issued an allergy alert, warning that 25 products may be affected.

dozens of flood warnings remain across southeast england, with some towns and villages left underwater after days of persistent rain. a number of rivers have burst their banks, parts of kent and sussex seeing some of the worst flooding. leanne lawless has been seeing the impact there today. flooded for christmas. more than 100 mobile homes submerged in water, and for many residents living in and around the village of yalding, it is not the first time they have been evacuated. we choose to live here, so... and we love yalding as a village, so it is the price you have to pay. we just did not expected it so soon. we are a community and we struggle on and we push forward. my deep regret is i trusted the new flood barriers that have just been installed. they failed completely which means that everything that we left, we thought safely in the garage, that has been touched by the flood water now

has to be discarded. you get upset by it, but you just turn your hand and get on with it and do it. it is the british spirit, isn't it, really, sort of thing? the last time yalding was badly affected by flooding was six years ago and despite the damage to properties here in the last few days, the environment agency say they have made improvements to flood defences in the area. the leigh flood storage area protects 1,200 homes and businesses, particularly for tonbridge and hildenborough in west kent. and it is fully in operation at the moment. it can store 5.5 million cubic metres of flood waters, and at the moment, it is 30% full. there has been more than 50 millimetres of rainfall in kent just the last few days, so now with the roads and land completely saturated, it is not yet known if people will be able to get back into their homes in time for christmas.

parts of sussex have also been affected by flooding, particularly the villages of hellingly and alfriston. the weather is supposed to be calmer over the next few days but the advice is to keep across any flood alerts and do not take risks on the roads. we are going to catch up with the all—important we are going to catch up with the all—importa nt weather, particularly with christmas coming up. hello. well, we have just had the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, the 22nd of december this year and from tomorrow, the days are going to start getting just that little bit longer.

here's the forecast as we head into the early hours of monday. showers across some western parts of the uk, and not particularly cold, 6 in london, perhaps a touch of frost in northern and eastern scotland early on monday morning. tomorrow, in the north—west of the uk, it is a mixture of sunshine and showers. in the south it will be a mostly bright or even sunny day, however, later in the evening we are expecting another weather front to swing in off the atlantic so some rain for plymouth, cardiff and eventually areas further east as well. let's summarise christmas itself, because it will be a little changeable. on christmas eve itself, we are expecting sunshine and showers, so quite a changeable day, any last—minute shoppers may need their brollies, but christmas day itself is looking dry and bright. hello, this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. the headlines. chelsea's match at tottenham is marred, after the crowd were warned three times over the tannoy,

about racist behaviour. toni came to me and told me that he was listening to monkey noises in the crowd, and part of myjob as captain is to report it to the ref. tottenham say any form of racism is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. an investigation is under way. australia's firefighters in the state of new south wales are still battling to bring more than 100 blazes under control. the home secretary has met the family of harry dunn, the teenager killed in a road accident in northamptonshire in august. the queen attends a church service in sandringham, while the duke of edinburgh remains in hospital receiving treatment for a pre—exisiting condition.