this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 10: the star of grease olivia newton—john is made a dame in a new year honours list which also recognises four members of england's world cup winning cricket team. ben stokes receives an obe and there's an mbe forjoe root. very privileged and a bit humbled, to be honest, to be receiving an award like that. when you play cricket you are part of a team. more than a thousand people are recognised, including 94—year—old d—day veteran harry billinge who raised over £10,000 for a national memorial. it was far from my mind that i was ever going to be recognised for doing a bit of a collection. a woman whose husband and two children drowned on christmas eve in a swimming pool at a resort

in spain says all three could swim. she blames a fault with the pool concerns for australia's wildlife as an extreme heatwave hits the country, putting increasing pressure on authorities battling the bushfires. england's cricketers are frustrated on day three of their first test against south africa as the hosts continue to build a healthy second innings lead. coming up in half hour, mike corey travels across malaysia, venturing deep the rainforest of borneo in the travel show. hello, a very good morning to you. welcome to bbc news, and my apologies for having a post—christmas croak in my throat. over 1,000 people, from household names

to previously unsung volunteers, have been recognised in the new year honours list. sir elton john receives the highest accolade, he's been made a companion of honour. 0ther singers feature: 0livia newtonjohn becomes a dame, and billy ocean is made an mbe. the film directors sam mendes and steve mcqueen are knighted. four members of england's world cup—winning cricket team, 0wen morgan, ben stokes, joe root and jos buttler, have also had their achievements recognised. this report from our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba contains flashing images. # you're the one that i want # you are the one i want... olivia newton—john says she is honoured and grateful to be made a dame for services to charity, cancer research and entertainment. the singer, who has cancer, has raised millions of pounds for treatment and research. a damehood, too, for floella benjamin, for her lifelong work with children's charities. absolutely amazing to be recognised this way for doing charity work. i realised that childhood lasts a lifetime and i had to give back to children because when i did playschool 43 years ago, i realised children

did not have a voice. there are knighthoods for two british film—makers, steve mcqueen, who directed the oscar—winning i2 years a slave and sam mendes, who directed bond films skyfall and spectre. in the world of sport, eoin morgan, who captained england to victory in the cricket world cup, becomes a cbe. ben stokes an 0be, jos buttler and joe root become mbes. extremely proud, very privileged and a bit humbled to be receiving an award like that. when you play cricket, you are part of a team, and you rely on 11 other blokes and a huge support staff and players around the squad to influence a game. again, going for the dead ball line. an mbe, too, for england star jill scott for services to women's football. itjust feels really surreal to see my name,

jill scott mbe. it just feels really surreal. i think it has been a greatjourney for women's football for the for women's football from the time that i started playing to now and to see the recognition that women's football is now getting, it is very pleasing. # love is like a butterfly. in the world of entertainment, butterflies star wendy craig becomes a cbe. as does peaky blinders creator steven knight. ladies and gentlemen, the... and dj annie nightingale. for services to music, queen drummer roger taylor is made an 0be. and singer billy ocean an mbe. also becoming mbes, tv chef nadiya hussain,

inspirational young cellist sheku kanneh—mason, and gok wan, for services to fashion and social awareness. of course, the vast majority of those who will come here to buckingham palace or the other royal residences to receive their honours are not those in the public eye, they are individuals who have done something special for their community or their country. thank you, darling. people like d—day veteran harry billinge who becomes an mbe in recognition of his charity fundraising work. and yewande, an engineer who works to encourage girls to enter the world of engineering. it is a big deal to me. it really feels great to be recognised for it. i guess my passion is encouraging young girls to see engineering asa career option. just a few of many honoured for trying to change the lives of those around them.

let's talk to two of those who have been honoured today. among them carl and diane mitchell. you're among the unsung heroes and heroines who are finally getting shouted about. how does it feel? magical, you have got to recognise the team behind you, particularly blackpool council and the fostering tea m blackpool council and the fostering team that helps us to do it. how many teenagers have you fostered over the years, have you kept count? not exactly, we have done 90 children and all over the 20 years and probably half of those are teenagers. 90 children over 20 yea rs. teenagers. 90 children over 20 years. it must be a very busy house? yes, certainly at times. we can get group rates to all sorts of places. you have got boys of your own. how did they cope with having a lot of

strangers in their house, how did they deal with it? i strangers in their house, how did they dealwith it? i think strangers in their house, how did they deal with it? i think they did really well. i do not think it has done them any harm, it has enhanced their lives, they have grown in confidence and achieve things we have never expected but they helped us have never expected but they helped us immensely because sometimes they broke down barriers with new young people that we could not, they could speak about school teachers, friends they knew, so they have been really important in what we have done. what has the biggest challenge been? important in what we have done. what has the biggest challenge beefim many. i always just believe that love will conquer all. it does not work like that. a lot of these children need practical help and support. we talk about their behaviour sometimes, but if any of us behaviour sometimes, but if any of us could imagine what it is like to be removed from your family and play somewhere else, and how we might behave, i think these children are very resilient. they do well, with

the circumstances some find themselves in. i know you both hope this award will act as a recruiting sergeant for fostering. definitely. what would you say to a mum or dad who are thinking, we are kind of interested but we do not know if we are right for it, or we do not know what to expect, what advice would you offer given your extraordinary experience? most definitely they should enquire with their local council to start off with. there are many ways you can help and be involved. at times we have had five or six children at the time because of resources but you can do just one child or respite, babies, there is something everybody can help with. and the demand is huge? absolutely. i have to ask this question, i am fascinated, do you get when each?

no, we do recognise their weaknesses oi’ no, we do recognise their weaknesses or strengths, so one of us will withdraw if there is a particularly difficult situation for the other. at times, it can feel like that. no, i was not very clear in my question. iam glad i was not very clear in my question. i am glad you gave me that answer. i just wonder if you get an mbe each? yes. you do? quite right, well deserved. congratulations. karen mitchell mbe and diane mitchell mbe. congratulations, where your letters with crying. —— carl mitchell. —— wear your letters. it is nice to bring you some good news. sadly we have two return to site news. —— sad

news. a woman from london whose husband and two children drowned while on holiday on the costa del sol has provided a version of events which contradicts that given by spanish police. 0lubunmi diya denied reports that none of them could swim. she believes that something was wrong with the pool that made swimming difficult. the resort where the family was staying insist that police investigations have confirmed that the pool was working normally. sean dilley reports. four days on from a christmas tragedy, a mother in mourning speaks out. 52—year—old gabriel diya, his nine—year—old daughter comfort, pictured here, and his 16—year—old son, praise—emmanuel, died in this pool at club la costa world. speaking for the first time since their deaths, the mother and wife of the victims, 0lubunmi diya, sought to correct what she called inaccurate information. she said the whole family were present when comfort and praise—emmanuel found themselves in trouble and that their father gabriel attempted to help them. all three died. in a tribute sent from the spanish resort, she spoke of the joy and love herfamily brought to the world and she said, i believe something was wrong with the pool that must‘ve made swimming difficult for them at that point in time. the owners of the hotel,

club la costa resort, refute this. pointing at an official police report, they say, diligent and exhaustive police investigations into the tragedy have confirmed that the pool was working normally and there was no malfunction of any kind. 0ur sympathies remain with the family at what we understand must be a stressful and desperately upsetting time for them. but mrs diya says police investigations are ongoing and that no such conclusion has been shared with her or her family. let's cross to the club la costa world resort in fuengirola where we can speak to fernando torres, a local journalist who has been following events there. you have been following this story since the terrible events on christmas eve. what are the police and the hotel saying at the moment? they are saying what you have already said. the swimming pool, at this moment, they did not find anything wrong, neither the police oi’ anything wrong, neither the police or the government because they sent people from the government to check the place. the swimming pool

managers, nobody found nothing working wrongly. i think we just need to wait for what the police tell to the family. that is all we can do now. what about the suggestion that the mother has denied, that none of the three people who died could swim, or they we re people who died could swim, or they were not good swimmers? do we have any idea where that information came from? police said yesterday, officially, our newspaper, we had this information the day before, but yesterday, they confirmed, they said, officially, according to the child and the mum, their positions, they told us they did not know how to swim properly. that is a very important detail. perhaps you can

know how to swim, perhaps you not a good swimmer, perhaps if something is wrong with the swimming pool, something we have said from the beginning, if something is wrong with the swimming pool and you are a good swimmer, these things can contribute to the tragedy on christmas eve. this was christmas eve. presumably the resort was quite busy. have any other witnesses come forward as to what happened? this is really close to the beach hotel. it is not high season, even though it is not high season, even though it is not high season, even though it is not cold. today is colder than the other day. it was not full at this time. it is fill in summer, not right now. there was nobody else at the swimming pool, the five family members where they are, nobody else. no witnesses, no workers, nobody. according to the law, they do not need to have a lifeguard there. they

have a lifeguard in summer, but not now, because the swimming pool is supposed to not be used. thank you very much for speaking to us. you're welcome. at least 76 people are reported to have been killed and 70 others wounded in a car bomb attack in the somali capital, mogadishu. it happened at a checkpoint at a busy intersection during the morning rush—hour. the mayor of mogadishu says most of the injured are students who were on buses at the time. no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but the islamist group al—shabaab, which is trying to overthrow the united nations—backed government, regularly carries out such attacks in the city. firefighters in australia are bracing themselves for another period of hotter, drier and windier weather. temperatures are forecast to exceed a0 degrees celsius in several states, including new south wales, south australia and victoria. deadly bushfires have destroyed more than 4 million hectares in five australian states since september. well, as efforts to tackle the fires continue,

the wildlife of australia is also suffering. this thirsty koala found a passing cyclist in adelaide hills who was willing to share his water bottle. but it's feared that a third of the koala population of new south wales, which would be around 10,000 bears, may have been lost in the bushfire crisis as their habitat has been destroyed. the headlines on bbc news... grease star olivia newton—john is made a dame in the new year honours list. she's one of 1100 people recognised for their work. a woman, whose husband and two children drowned on christmas eve in a swimming pool at a resort in spain, says all three could swim. she blames a fault with the pool concerns for australia's wildlife as an extreme heatwave hits the country, putting increasing pressure on authorities battling the bushfires. sport, and a full round up,

from the bbc sport centre. let's from the bbc sport centre. start with day three of england's let's start with day three of england's test match against south africa. south africa are 197—7 in the second innings. graham onions is pa rt the second innings. graham onions is part of the cricket social which is on 5live radio four that you have been watching the action and following it all. how tough it out for england? are you critical about how they have approached it? for england? are you critical about how they have approached mm for england? are you critical about how they have approached it? it is farfrom ideal, how they have approached it? it is far from ideal, probably how they have approached it? it is farfrom ideal, probably the how they have approached it? it is far from ideal, probably the whole test match. it has not gone to plan. familiar things. we have not scored enough runs. lacked a little bit of control today, to be honest. the pitch is offering a little bit for the seamers and they have not bowled consistent enough. in south darfur

back —— 300 will be a really hard chase. there was a flurry later on in the session before lunch where england grabbed a few wickets. we eventually got the breakthrough and got a couple of wickets. a slight lack of ability to hit off the top. a great opportunity and all of a sudden quinton de kock he played beautifully first innings, in a scenario almost tailor— made beautifully first innings, in a scenario almost tailor—made for him, he has taken the game away from england which is a shame. i am an england which is a shame. i am an england fan and i am very hopeful. they need to get three wickets very quickly. if they are chasing anything around 330, it will be too hard, i think.

a busy period for football over the festive spell. it was another dramatic night in the premier league and one that will give liverpool fans more reasons to believe the 30—year wait for a league title could nearly be over. that's because wolves fought back from two goals down to beat ten—man manchester city. pep guardiola's side are now 1a points behind the leaders who have a game in hand. patrick gearey reports. fights with wolves rarely end well. was this the exhausted end of a title defence? 1a points behind liverpool. the last thing manchester city needed was this — goalkeeper ederson sent off inside 12 minutes. then it got confusing. first, var saw this as a foul on riyad mahrez. city penalty, raheem sterling to take. but wait. the man behind the monitor spotted gold shirts in the area. retake, stirling again. and again. one out of three would do. you could hear what wolves fans thought of that, and their mood wasn't improved when sterling surged once more. this time, he only

needed one go at it. but the ten men were tiring and in that state, the last opponent you want to face is adama traore. he smashed wolves back into this, then refused to give city a moment's peace. here, benjamin mendy lost the battle, rauljimenez did the easy bit. 2-2. city wheezed, their fight finally gone. in the 89th minute, matt doherty wound up the knockout blow. a second wolves win over city this season — one that might turn the title race into a liverpool lap of honour. patrick gearey, bbc news. fallon sherrock was defeated in the third round of the world darts championship last night. she lost 11—2 in the third round to the 22nd seed, chris dobey, in front of an electric crowd at alexandra palace. the 25—year—old became the first woman to win a game in the tournament and followed that with another in the second round.

we spoke to sherrock earlier in the programme and she thinks more women should be allowed to compete in the championship. iam hoping, obviously, they look into it a bit more, and maybe even four women, because there are more women that can play to my standard, if not better. we just need more opportunities to prove ourselves and show that we can beat the men, and i mean, if we had four women in it, just say, you would probably see more of us beating the men and more shocks and it would be great entertainment. there was late drama as wasps snatched a win over bristol in rugby union's premiership. nizaam carr's try in the 80th minute earned the visitors a surprise victory. bristol could have gone top with a win, but were denied right at the end at ashton gate. in the pro 1a, ulster signed off the year in style. they crossed the line five times as they thrashed connacht by 35 points to 3 in belfast to earn a bonus point victory at a sold—out kingspan. the yacht comanche, skippered byjim cooney, has won

the 75th edition of the annual sydney to hobart race. the race started back in 1945 and covers roughly 630 nautical miles of the tasman sea and the treacherous bass strait. it looks calm there. it is pretty treacherous. it's australia's premier yachting event and considered among the world's most gruelling. that is all the sport for now. we will be back in the next hour. tom watson said he quit parliament in pa rt watson said he quit parliament in part due to brutality and hostility in his own party. in an interview with the guardian, mr watson said the situation contributed to making his political career unsustainable. 0ur correspondent kathryn stanczyszyn is with me. this is quite a damning indictment of the situation he found, as one of

the two elected leaders of the party. that's right. tom watson talks about brutality and hostility from without and within the party. he stood down as deputy leader of the party five weeks before the action in something that came as a surprise from some people. political differences between himself and jeremy corbyn were well documented, they had been laid bare several times, particularly around the brexit stance of the party and its handling of anti—semitism. he was seen handling of anti—semitism. he was seen as a handling of anti—semitism. he was seen as a figurehead around which more centrist labour mps could cluster and that meant people also saw him as deeply disloyal. there was an attempt at labour's party conference to try to oust him, a momentum attempt to get rid of him. he said he was stepping down for personal and not political reasons. he has lost weight and reversed his

type 2 diabetes and was going to become a fitness instructor and write books and campaign on public health this is the first time he has talked about the political climate in which he stepped down. he said he left because he was worried about the brutality and hostility. he said for example police informed him a death threat had been made against him bya death threat had been made against him by a labour supporter. the labour party had reported it but had not told him about it. he also said factionalism from men then had become a heavy load was that he was still shocked about an attempt to get rid of him and he said i do not think you could pre—empt such political idiocy and such collective self—harm. it was not doing his health any good and he thought it was the right time to come out. the mayor of greater manchester and former minister, andy burnham, has said this morning he recognises the comments. to some extent, he sympathises with them. if i could see it growing

as i was in parliament and i left parliament, and tom was often at the forefront of it. the tone of public discourse generally, but also internally, has become poisonous at times and i think tom was very much bearing the brunt of that. all of the leadership candidates now need to address the issue the way politics is conducted internally within the labour party. we cannot carry on as we are. we need to fundamentally change the way things are being done and we need to come back together as a broader church where we respect each other and we take the fight to the tories. — broad church. it sounds old—fashioned to say that now that it's how things used to be done and we need to get back to that as soon as possible. tom watson also gets his comments on the election result, saying the labourcampaign was the election result, saying the labour campaign was badly organised, there was no policy message or any message that pat three. the ultimate betrayal of the working classes is not to take power when you can.

thank you very much. a member of the rescue team who saved 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in thailand last year has died from an infection he picked up during the operation. petty officer beirut pakbara, a thai navy seal, contracted a blood infection during the rescue. rescuers have found the bodies of six people after a helicopter crashed at the top of a mountain on the hawaiian island of kauai. the aircraft was carrying seven people but officials said there were no signs of survivors. it was reported missing as darkness fell on thursday. the weather conditions were described as challenging, with low visibility and blustery winds. earlier, localjounalist blaze lovell told us about the investigation. they're going to continue the search tomorrow to possibly find the seventh person on board that aircraft. county fire officials said it does not appear there will be any survivors. now this is a very rugged area of the island of kauai. there have been crashes in that area before, two of them have been deadly,

in the early 2000s, and right now, the county is trying to identify who the bodies are, and trying to make contact with those families. they have not released the identities yet of who those families are, to respect their privacy, but they are trying to work on that and the us federal government will also be investigating the incident since it took place in the air. a british man, who won one of europe's biggest lotteryjackpots, has died after a short illness. colin weir, who was 71, and wife chris, from largs in north ayrshire, took the £161—million euromillions prize in 2011. at the time it was one of europe's biggest—ever lottery wins. nasa has just unveiled the latest mars rover which will be heading to the red planet injuly. fuelled by a mini nuclear reactor, it's fitted with 23 cameras, articulated arms, a drill to collect samples, and a laser to analyse them. it's intended to cruise the surface

of the planet for about two years. one of the world s rarest birds — the spoonbilled sandpiper — has been successfully reared in captivity for the first time, raising hopes the species can be saved from extinction. it's taken almost a decade, from rescuing eggs in russia s far east wetlands, to breeding two of the birds at the wildfowl and wetlands trust in gloucestershire. victoria gill reports. the rescue mission was eight years ago. now, at last —— the first sign of a

conservation breakthrough. these spoon—billed sandpiper chicks hatched from eggs collected in the far east of russia and brought into captivity in the uk. that rescue mission was eight years ago. now, at last, those critically endangered birds have reared their own chicks — the first captive—bred spoon—billed sandpipers. we have to cover up our outdoor clothes so everything from rubber boots that we can wash on the way in, to overalls, to this very attractive hairnet, because we do not want to be taking anything in there, into the aviary, where these very precious birds that are that might hurt them or make them sick. this is their breeding aviary that they now live in. i guess they're kind of still babies, or are theyjust a few months old? they're classed as juveniles now. they would've been on their migration now, really. they would? yeah, yeah, so... but we still see them as babies. your babies. yeah. this long mission, though, has been punctuated by highs and heartbreaking lows. chicks first hatched here back in 2016, but they survived only a few days. it's taken just under ten years and what feels like a lifetime of no sleep to find the recipe, or close to the recipe, for breeding spoon—billed sandpipers in an arc, in a captive situation. there are about 50 million other waterbirds that use the same place

as the spoonies, so if we could save it — and we're starting to do so — we can save a lot of other birds and plants and people who depend on the wetland sites where those animals survive. 2019 was the year that scientists put a very big number on the extinction crisis. a global report published this year estimated that around a million species of animals and plants are at risk of extinction. the loss of natural habitats in our human—engineered environment is an increasing threat, so conservationists hope this will go much further than one charismatic little bird. and that protecting the spoon—billed sandpiper and the wetlands it depends on will prevent many other species from being lost. victoria gill, bbc news. i saw isawa i saw a wonderful flock of starlings on christmas day.

hello. the weather prospects are looking pretty grey for many of us this week. the best of the brightness to come if anything tomorrow. a very mild weekend ahead. we are pulling in air from the south—west, a long way south—west, sending temperatures well above average, particularly in scotland and northern ireland. this afternoon some wet weather for scotland and northern ireland. england and wales hanging on to a lot of cloud with fog lingering in the east and brightness in the west where the breeze picks up. highest across the board ten to 12 of that this evening and overnight but a more rain spreading across scotland. the mac can sap further south. just look at the temperatures. these are the overnight lows, 9 degrees in aberdeen and belfast — exceptionally mild. temperatures could be up to 15 degrees on the moray firth.