this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 11. the star of grease — olivia newton—john is made a dame in the new year honours list which also recognises four members of england's world cup winning cricket team. england midfielder jill scott gets an mbe this feels really surreal. it has been a great journey this feels really surreal. it has been a greatjourney for women's football from the time i started playing until no and the recognition women's football is no getting as very pleasing. more than a thousand people are recognised — including 94 —year—old d—day veteran harry bill—inge who raised over ten—thousand—pounds 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. a crisis for england's cricket team on day 3 as hosts south africa lead by 300 runs in the second innings and in half an hour — dateline london looks back at the political events of 2019 — including reflecting on the election of borisjohnson, the impeachement of donald trump, and global street protests.

to previously unsung volunteers, have been recognised good morning. over a thousand 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. other singers feature — olivia 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 — owen 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's honoured and grateful to be made a dame for services to charity, cancer research and entertainment. a damehood, too, for floella benjamin for her life—long work with children's charities. absolutely amazing to be recognised this way, for doing charity work. i realised that a childhood lasts a lifetime, and i had to give back to children.

because when i did play school, 43 years ago, i realised children didn't have a voice. of course, the vast majority of those who will come here to buckingham palace or the other royal residences to receive their honours aren't those in the public eye, they're individuals who have done something special for their community or their country. thank you. don't thank me and don't say i'm a hero. i'm no hero, i was lucky. i'm here. all the heroes are dead and i'll never forget them as long as i live. thank you, darling. people like d—day veteran, harry billinge, who becomes an mbe in recognition of his charity fundraising work. and you know, when i'm doing this collection, i get a wonderful calm comes over me because i'm doing something for the boys. there are knighthoods for two british film—makers — steve mcqueen, who directed the oscar—winning 12 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 obe, jos buttler and joe root become mbes. an mbe, too, for england star jill scott, for services to women's football. for services to music, queen drummer, roger taylor, is made an obe, and singer billy ocean, an mbe. lizo mzimba, bbc news. and one of those who has been honoured, is wynne roberts, a hospital chaplain from anglesey, who has raised more than £250,000 for charity by performing as elvis. tell us how it came about because you have one this for charity. this

is the way i normally dress. i am so honoured and humbled. a few years ago i decided doing shows is my alter ego as elvis and decided from the beginning it would be for charity and i never expected edge to get this bank on raise this amount of money. the timing was relate mother. —— your late mother. of money. the timing was relate mother. -- your late mother. yes, she was in a nursing home with dementia and i decided i had a guitarand dementia and i decided i had a guitar and decided i am going to sing and one nursing home became too three and it exploded. a lot of

people talk about the power of music to bring back some sense of identity to bring back some sense of identity to those who are suffering from dementia, what is your experience of it? out of all the shows i do in the big theatres and so one, it is people living with a mentor who feel the most power of the songs icing because when you are we are with them and sing elvis songs of a son that 80—year—old who living with dementia becomes a teenager again and unlocks all the doors to their memories and all of a sudden they are living again and it is fantastic. it must be a wonderful thing to be part of and acting as a triggerfor that magical thing to be part of and acting as a trigger for that magical moment. thing to be part of and acting as a triggerfor that magical moment. you have also raised a lot of money. looking at the figures, about £250,000 over six years, that must say something about the quality of

yoursinging say something about the quality of your singing never mind the generosity of people in anglesey. i'm not sure about that but from the beginning people started asking if i would do concerts so every weekend i would do concerts so every weekend i would do concerts so every weekend i would do one or two big concerts and theatres and hotels to raise money for different charities, notjust with dementia but any charity that comes and asks and i am willing to help out. i cannot let you go without asking to do us the honour, in little burst of the king. # wise men say. what # wise men say. what # only fools rush in. # only fools rush in. # but # only fools rush in. #but| # only fools rush in. # but i can't help falling in love with you. fantastic and i think we have all fallen in love with you. british empire medal, where it with

pride, thank you so much for everything you have done and taking the time to speak to us. thank you very much. 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. olubunmi 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, olubunmi diya, sought to correct what she called "inaccurate information". she says the whole family

was 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... the owners of the hotel, of club la costa resort, refute this, pointing at an official police report, they say... but mrs diya says police investigations are ongoing and that no such conclusion has been shared with her or herfamily. sean dilley, bbc news. a little earlier i spoke to fernando torres, a localjournalist who has been following events. he gave an update about what the

police and hotel have been saying. the pool, at this very moment, they didn't find nothing wrong, neither the police nor the government, because they sent people from the government to check the place. neither the pool managers. nobody found nothing working wrong. so, maybe, i think we just need to wait for the police about what they tell to the family. that's all we can do right now because anything else could be hysterical. yeah. what about the suggestion that the mother has denied, that none of the three people who died could swim, or they weren't good swimmers? do we have any idea where that information came from? police said yesterday, officially, my newspaper had this information the day before. yesterday, they confirmed. they said officially,

according to their child and the mother , we know that they told us they didn't know how to swim properly. that's a very important detail because maybe you can know how to swim, maybe you are not a good swimmer, maybe if something is wrong with the pool, that's something we said from the beginning, if something is wrong with the pool and you are not a good swimmer, these two things can result in this tragedy on christmas eve. fernando, this was christmas eve. presumably, the resort was quite busy. have any other witnesses come forward as to what happened? well, this is our... we are close to the beach hotel, so it is not high season. although it is not cold, but today is colder than the other day, so it wasn't full at this time. this is full in summer, but not right now. there was nobody else at the pool.

there were five family members, all together, nobody else. no witnesses, no workers, nobody. according to the law, they don't need to have a lifeguard there. they have a lifeguard in summer but not those days because the pool is supposedly not being used. flags are flying at half mast across kazakhstan in a day of mourning for the victims of friday's plane crash which killed 12 people and left 47 others in hospital. the plane was carrying 90 passengers and 5 crew members when it crashed into a building in freezing weather shortly after take—off from almaty airport. the country's aviation committee has since suspended all flights operated by the budget airline bek air as well as those involving fokker 100 aircraft pending the results of an investigation. we've been speaking to one survivor who described the moment the plane crashed. it was that quick and the force was huge. and once i think it first hit the ground, then we slide and hit

the two storey concrete building. and i think the concrete building stopped the plane going further. and the thing i remember is that starting from the front end of the plane, you start squeezing that especially the ceiling started falling very fastly and everything was falling apart in the plane. and it was like a tin. can you like someone is like squeezing the tin canm is like squeezing the tin can everything was squeezing. the last thing i remember is that the guy was sitting diagonally right in front of me on the 14th row, he got smashed by all this falling ceiling of the plane. then immediately it stopped. sojust in front of my row, it stopped. but lights were on when this happened and once we stopped, lights went off. at least 76 people are reported to have been killed —

and 90 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. the bbc‘s ben morris reports. the tangled wreckage of vehicles whichjust the tangled wreckage of vehicles which just minutes before the tangled wreckage of vehicles whichjust minutes before had been waiting at a busy intersection in the mogadishu morning traffic. the blast happened at a checkpoint at a crossroads in russia letting locals on the daily commute. the blast took place as i was getting off a bus, i was going to watch, my leg was injured. minutes later chaos as the wounded and rushed to hospital. the male was sombre as the number of deaths claimed. we do not have the exact death toll yet more than 90 people were wounded according to

witnesses. the exact death tour will be given to us later but it is not less. most of the people killed in the attacker school university students. the city is no stranger to violent attacks. just this month five that killed when an islamist militant group targeted this hotel popular politicians and military officers within two a fierce gun battle with security forces. no group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast but for citizens of this bustling capital city it is a horribly familiar scene. 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 pak—bara, a thai navy seal, contracted a blood infection during the rescue. 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. it's feared that a third of the koala population of new south wales — about 10,000 animals, may have been lost in the bushfire crisis as their habitat has been destroyed. this thirsty koala found a passing cyclist in adelaide hills who shared her water bottle. a british man who won one of europe's biggest 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. the headlines on bbc news... grease—star olivia newton—john is made a dame in the new year honours list — she's one of 11 hundred 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 firefighters battling the bushfires. labour's former deputy leader, tom watson, has said he quit parliament at the general election earlier this month, in part, because of the "brutality and hostility" in the party. in an interview with the guardian, mr watson said the situation contributed to making his political career unsustainable, as our correspondent kathryn stanczyszyn explained to me earlier. tom watson talks about the brutality and hostility from both within and outside of the party. he stood down as deputy leader of the labour partyjust five weeks before the election and something that came as a surprise to some people.

although the political differences between himself and jeremy corbyn, of course, were well—documented. they had been laid bare several times, particularly around the party's brexit stance and also its handling of anti—semitism. he was seen as a bit of a figurehead round which more centrist labour mps could cluster, and that meant that people also saw him as deeply disloyal. there was that attempt at labour's party conference to try and oust him, a momentum attempt to get rid of him. but he said at the time he was stepping down for personal, not political reasons. he's had this very visible transformation, lost eight stone, reversed his type two diabetes, and he said he was going to be embarking on a career as a fitness instructor. he was going to be doing things like writing books and campaigning on public health. so this is the first time he's talked about that political climate in which he stepped down. he says he left because he was worried about that brutality and hostility. he says, for example, the police informed him that a death threat had been made against him by a labour supporter,

but that the labour party had reported it, but they hadn't told him about it. he also said that factionalism from within had become what he describes as a heavy load, that he was still shocked at that attempt to get rid of him. and the quote there is, i don't think you could pre—empt such political idiocy, such collective self—harm. so in the end, he said it was doing his health no good. and it was the right time to get out. what's been the reaction to his remarks? well, the mayor of greater manchester, a former labour minister, of course, andy burnham, has said this morning that he recognises his comments to some extent. he sympathises with them. i could see it growing as i was in parliament and when 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, the brunt of that. so all of the leadership candidates now need to address this issue of the way in which 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. we need to come back together as a broad church where we respect each other and we take the fight to the tories. you know, that sounds that sounds old fashioned to say that now. it's how things used to be done. and we need to get back to that as soon as possible. you hear andy burnham there talking about the future direction of the party. well, tom watson also gives his comments on that election result, saying labor's campaign was badly organised. there was no policy message or any message at all that cut through. classes is not to take power when you can. 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. sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's sarah mulkerrins. good morning. england's hopes of salvaging a victory from their opening test against south africa in centurion are fading rapidly on day three. they were frustrated from the start by some dogged second—innings batting from rassie van der dussen and anrich nortje. the pair added 191 for the fifth wicket. england did eventually manage to get some wickets towards the end of the morning session but south africa are still well in control. they have just lost the wicket of quinton de kock a few minutes ago what we can see here they were 222—8 and you can follow that across the bbc. australia meanwhile are well on top in their second and final test against new zealand in melbourne.

after dismissing the black caps forjust 148 in their first innings the aussies batted again and finished on 137 for 4 in their second innings on day three, a lead of 456. it's a busy period of football over the festive spell — with 7 more premier league games this saturday... and there was there was drama last night at molyneaux — and a result that will have liverpool fans believing more than ever that the 30—year wait for a league title could nearly be over. wolves fought back from two goals down to beat 10—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, raul jimenez 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. the fourth round of the pdc world darts championship continues from 12.30pm this afternoon. world number one michael van gerwen is already through to the quarter finals after a thumping 4—0 to win the fourth round.

fallon sherrock‘s fairy tale run has come to an end. 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 on the bbc breakfast 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. the yacht comanche, skippered byjim cooney has won the 75th edition of the annual sydney to hobart race. the annual race started back in 1945 and covers roughly 630 nautical miles

of the tasman sea and the treacherous bass strait. it's australia's premier yachting event and considered among the world's most gruelling. that's all the sport for now. south africa 223—8 in their second innings, elite of 326 on day three of the first test between angered and south africa, you can follow that on the bbc website. now, for the weather. hello. weather wise things are looking pretty gloomy this weekend for one reason or another, be it a lot of cloud or some stubborn patches of mist and fog. hopefully tomorrow, perhaps some brighter weather on the way, particularly for england and wales, but basically dominated this weekend by a south westerly airstream that's

picked up quite a lot of moisture as it's travelled in across the atlantic. we've got a weather front feeding into the northwest that will bring some rain into scotland. but the defining feature, i think, for the weekend will be just how mild it's going to feel. looking pretty wet this afternoon, particularly later on in the afternoon across scotland. some rain for northern ireland, dry for england and wales. lots of cloud. there are some stubborn mist and fog with central and eastern areas. best chance of any brightness in the west. the temperatures widely in double figures. if you're heading out, still looking pretty wet for scotland. some heavier rain in the west for a time, stretching its way north eastwards before finally starting to clear during the small hours. clear skies for northern ireland, some clear spells across england and wales at this time of year. you might think, cool, that's going to bring us a frost. but no, we're sitting in such mild air. in fact, just nine degrees as a low for aberdeen and belfast. and this air mass graphic gives you some idea of what's going on. this bright orange strip stretching up from the azores is what will sit across scotland and northern ireland for sunday, giving us some remarkably mild weather.

hopefully on sunday, we'lljust pull in some slightly drier air to england and wales from the continent. and if that mixes with our cloud, should allow some breaks to form a little bit more in the way of sunshine. for scotland overall a drier day, still some rain for the western isles pushing into the northwest of the highlands to the south and east, though i think a good chance of some sunshine also for northern ireland and with some sunshine, a south—westerly wind around the moray firth, we could be looking at up to 15 degrees celsius. so unseasonably warm here for late december. speaking of seasonal temperatures, though, as we go into the week ahead and approach new year's eve, the figures do come back down closer to average, a cold front, albeit not with particularly cold air sinking south. behind it will move its way across the uk on monday, not bearing much in the way of rain. and it moves us into that fresh air for new year's eve and ask for new year's eve eve. it should be dry. but look at this. dense patches of fog returning.

hello, and welcome to dateline london, the programme that brings together some of the uk's leading columnists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. it being a reflective time of the year, we're looking back on 2019 — when britain backed boris to get brexit done, when donald trump was impeached, when street protests felled one north african dictator and shook governments from western europe to hong kong. with me are david aaronovitch, columnist with the times janet daley, from the sunday telegraph

the russian broadcaster alexander nekrassov, and michael goldfarb, host of the podcast the first rough draft of history. very good to have you all with us. with one electoral bound, he was free. borisjohnson spent his first few months as uk prime minister at the mercy of a house of commons he could not command, making promises he couldn't, and didn't keep. the first december election in nearly a century was a bitter one for labour, experiencing under jeremy corbyn it's worst defeat in more than 80 years. the nationalists triumphed in scotland, setting up a fresh battle for independence. northern ireland elected more nationalists than unionists for the first time. david, we know the results of the election, huge story win. how do you think we should interpret that result? and not as some kind of shoes shooting dos meant of boris johnson because essentially the

opposition were gulled into having and the election when they