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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 4: grease star olivia newton—john becomes a dame in the new year honours list alongside tv presenter and campaigner floella benjamin. both are recognised for their charity work. they say there is nothing like a dame and ifeel that this morning! absolutely incredible. the government admits a version of the honours list published last night contained addresses of the 1,000 recipients. more than 70 people are believed to have been killed in a car bomb attack in somalia. many of the dead were students. a woman whose husband and two children drowned on christmas eve in a swimming pool in spain says all three could swim, and blames a fault with the pool. south africa stall england's solid
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start in the cricket, taking a wicket as england chase down a target of 376 runs. coming up, click presents highlights from their live show earlier this year, and travels to california to test a robot with nasa. good afternoon. it is three o'clock. a list of more than 1,000 addresses of new years honours recipients, including those of senior police officers and politicians, has been accidentally published by the government. the file was uploaded to the official website, but has since been removed. leading figures from the world of entertainment, sport, politics and charity were recognised in the new year honours list. sir elton john receives
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the highest accolade, he's been made a companion of honour, and olivia newton—john becomes a dame. four members of england's world cup—winning cricket team are on the honours list, but of the more than 1,000 people receiving honours this year, around two thirds are being recognised for their work in the community, as kathryn stanczysyn reports. # you're the one that i want... olivia newton—john says she is grateful beyond words to be made a dame for services to charity. a damehood too for former tv presenter floella benjamin for her lifelong work with children's charities. volunteering always features heavily in honours lists, with many who aren't household names being rewarded. 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 efforts
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fundraising for veterans. when i'm doing this collection, a wonderful calm comes over me, because i'm doing something for the boys. back in 2012, rhian mannings's one—year—old son george died. her husband paul took his own life five days later. she now runs a charity in wales to help those experiencing bereavement and is now an mbe. it still hasn't sunk in, i still can't believe it. i'm pretty overwhelmed, i haven't slept very much. bittersweet in a way, but i'm extremely proud, i really am. in the world of politics, some controversy. the decision to award a knighthood to the former work and pensions secretary iain duncan smith has been criticised by opposition parties over his introduction of universal credit. and some questions over a damehood forformer director of public prosecutions alison saunders after a number of scandals.
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in entertainment, there were 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. and in 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 both mbes. an mbe, too, for england star jill scott, for services to women's football. the chief executive of keep britain tidy, allison 0gden—newton, has received an 0be for services to the environment. i asked her what it meant to her to be recognised. it is an incredible honour and as other contributors have said, it has not sunk in yet, but it is an amazing recognition of the work that keep britain tidy does. it is fantastic. what work does keep
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britain tidy do today? for many people it is about going litter picking in your village, perhaps? it is that and we had over 563,000 people join us for the great british spring clean this year and we hope to do better next year but it is a lot more, we have raised awareness over plastics. today we are talking about the plastic of a cigarette butt, and trying to get people to understand the damage it does to the natural world. we work on waste, water quality. we do the blue flags for beaches and the green flags for parks and we run nearly 20,000 eco schools, a programme teaching young kids about what is important for the environment. hopefully keep britain tidy is making a real difference with our work. has the uk got better or worse when it comes to litter? it is a really tricky question because the things we are producing that can subsequently be littered has grown exponentially.
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we are the largest consumers of food and drink on the go anywhere in europe which means there is a lot of stuff that can be littered. if can give a sense we are overwhelmed by the problem but it is a small minority of people who do not do the right thing. the vast majority of people find a rubbish bin or better still, they recycle, which is important because we are stuck at 44%. there is lots of work to be done but people are getting the message. what motivated you to get involved with the organisation? it is a funny story, when i was a kid at school i got irritated about cigarette packets and collected thousands of them. i contacted the manufacturers, and one in particular came and got them and i made the local paper when i was 11 for worrying about litter. it has been a lifelong passion. it is fantastic to have my dream job and to really help the whole nation get to grips with its litter problem.
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that was allison 0gden—newton, 0be. let's get more on the news that a list of more than 1,000 addresses of new years honours recipients, including those of senior police officers and politicians, has been accidentally published by the government. katy austin is with me. what more do we know about this? the list of people said to receive honours in 2020, it includes a range of people from celebrities to sportspeople but also some figures on security, people who work in the police, and a cabinet office spokesperson has confirmed to the bbc that have version of that list, people receiving new year's honours for 2020, it was published in error and it did contain addresses. they say it was taken down as soon as possible but i understand it was available online for about an hour. the cabinet office has also said it apologises to all those affected. it is looking into how it happened. it
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has reported this to the information commissioner's office and it is contacting everyone affected directly. we will leave it there for now. thank you very much. at least 70 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 minutes before had been waiting at a busy intersection in the mogadishu morning traffic. the attack happened at a checkpoint at a crossroads in rush hour with locals on the daily commute. the blast took place as i was getting off a bus, i was going to work, my leg was injured. minutes later chaos as the wounded are rushed to hospital.
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the mayor was sombre as the number of deaths climbed. we do not have the exact death toll yet, but more than 90 people were wounded according to witnesses. the exact death toll will be given to us later but it is not less. most of the people killed in the attack were school and university students. this city is no stranger to violent attacks. just this month five were we killed when an islamist militant group al sha bab targeted this hotel popular with politicians and military officers leading to 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. riot police have clashed with protesters inside a major shopping centre near hong kong's border with mainland china. pepper spray and batons were used by security forces after demonstrators marched
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through the mall in sheung shui. the retail outlet near the chinese city of shenzhen is popular with shoppers from the mainland. protesters in hong kong have been targeting shopping centres across the area in recent days. a navy seal diver who helped rescue a youth football team trapped in a flooded cave in thailand has died from a blood infection he picked up during the rescue. petty officer beirut pakbara had been under medical supervision since the rescue 18 months ago, but his condition worsened. he died yesterday. a mother whose husband and two children drowned in a swimming pool on the costa del sol on christmas eve insists they all knew how to swim. 0lubunmi diya says they were "dragged into the middle" of the pool and couldn't get out. the hotel's operator said exhaustive police investigations had confirmed the pool was working normally, and there was no malfunction of any kind. 0ur correspondent helena wilkinson
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gave me an update a short while ago and told us more about mrs diya's statement. what she has said, it contradicts what the police in spain have been putting out in terms of information. mrs diya has put out a statement saying she is disturbed by what she describes as inaccurate information. initially, it had been reported that the father and their two children could not swim, did not know how to. she has said that is completely untrue, all three of them knew how to swim and she has given more detail about what happened on that day. she said the whole family, they have another daughter as well, the five of them went to the swimming pool. the children got in, they went down the steps and as you mentioned, she said the children found themselves dragged into the middle of the pool, which was deeper. her husband went in to try to help the two children, she went off to get assistance
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and when she returned, she says all three were under water. in her words, she says, i believe something was wrong with the pool which must have made swimming difficult for them at that point in time. as you mentioned, the resort has put out a statement saying the police have done extensive investigations into the swimming pool, it was working properly and there was no malfunction of any kind. that was helena wilkinson. 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 five 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
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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, especially the ceiling, the ceiling started falling very fast and everything was falling apart in the plane. and it was like a tin can. like someone is squeezing the tin can, everything was squeezing. the last thing i remember is that the guy who was sitting diagonally right in front of me on the 14th row, he got smashed by all this falling ceiling of the plane.
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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. that was a survivor of the air crash that took place in kazakhstan. nearly 2000 people have taken shelter in evacuation centres as tropical cyclone sarai batters fiji. the cyclone has brought high winds and rain, causing flooding to rivers and coastal areas on the pacific island nation. one man is believed to have drowned and another man is reported missing. james ra nsley reports. tropical cyclone sarai wreaking havoc in fiji. this vehicle carrying six people and a cow washed into a raging river. it's thought they all made it to safety. winds of up to 90mph and swells up to 5m have battered the small island nation, causing flooding and widespread damage. authorities are urging people to remain vigilant. an 18—year—old student is believed to be the country's
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latest drowning victim. the man is believed to have been swept away by strong currents while he was swimming with his friends. more than 2000 people are in evacuation centres across the country, and aid agencies have been out in force. volunteers have been going out intosome of the worst—affected areas to assess what people need and have been delivering things such as extra shelter items or torches. there have been some power outages in both the west and central divisions and trees down on the roads and flooding in low—lying areas. as the clean—up begins in fiji, the category 2 storm is expected to reach tonga next. the headlines on bbc news: the cabinet office apologises after a list of the home addresses of new year honours recipients
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was accidently posted online. more than 70 people have died after a car bomb exploded in the somalian capital, mogadishu. 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. in sports, the best opening partnership of the year as england chase an unlikely 376 on the first test event against south africa. and a stunning solo goal from aaron mooy seals all three points for brighton. and low humphrey is through to the quarterfinals of the pdc darts. more from the sport centre throughout the day. campaigners are calling for a radical overhaul of britain's
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railways to try to improve travel. the pressure group campaign for better transport argues there should be a major fares reform, a single national railcard and more control of services given to major cities outside london. railfares are set to rise next week. 0livia richwald has the details. expensive, overcrowded and unreliable — three words which the campaign for better transport uses to describe britain's trains. today, the pressure group is urging a radical overhaul of the way the railways are run. its report suggests that franchises should be scrapped, fares reformed and control of rail services handed to cities and regions to improve the service. before today's report, the government was already considering big changes. within the next few weeks, the department for transport is expected to publish plans which it says will put passengers first and create a fairer and more effective system and that is something that people
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here in leeds think is overdue. there was a week about maybe two months ago, where i got about 1k trains that week. every single one was delayed by about ten minutes or more. every time we've been on a train, it's either been cancelled, delayed or so busy. i mean, if it's more effective to have it brought back into the council and they have actually control over what's going on, i think that probably could be quite good. you need the service, you can't guarantee it and that's the biggest frustration for me, personally. the mayor of greater manchester, andy burnham, has said he would like railfares to be integrated with buses and trams, like london's 0yster system. if we had more control, we could integrate the trains with our trams and the buses. we could make it a london—style, integrated transport system, and that is what a city like manchester needs to go up to the next level. it can't be right that it costs much more to travel round manchester than it does to travel round london. meanwhile, fares are due to increase
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by an average of 2.7% in just three days' time. 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. one of the worlds rarest birds, the spoon—billed 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 first sign of a
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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 ca ptive—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 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,
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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 places 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
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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. 60 years after ivor the engine first steamed onto our television screens, his creators want to shunt him out of the retirement shed and onto the silver screen. the tales of the small steam locomotive were inspired by the poetry of dylan thomas and created by hand, in a cow shed. tomos morgan reports. snow was falling in the top left—hand corner of wales. ahead of its time, it was one of the uk's first tv cartoons. "are you ready, ivor?" ivor toots his horn. some may remember the adventures of the small green steam locomotive who worked for the merioneth and llantisilly railway traction
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company limited in north wales. snowdrifts lay deep on the railway line, but ivor charged through them and split them like meringues! the programme was the brainchild of the late legendary animator 0liver postgate, who wrote the scripts, filmed the scenes and voiced many of the characters, along with artist peter firmin for a budget ofjust £10 a minute. my dad would put them together using blu—tack. you'd move the foot along, take a photograph... nowadays, digital animation costs a fortune, with high—tech computers and sophisticated software bringing creations to life in 3d. ivor the engine, however, was made using paper and cardboard cut—out watercolours in a farmhouse barn in rural kent. he wanted to find a way of animating which didn't involve too much of people walking around, because that was difficult to animate. so ivor was quite good, because he had wheels. "edwinjones, we have an emergency!
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"eli the baker is out of flour!" a friendship with a welsh fireman fondly described how steam engines came to life when you rode on them, and there were strong welsh influences throughout. ivor toots his horn. he came up with the idea that there was a steam locomotive who wanted to sing in the welsh choir, and that was the starting point. he loved under milk wood and dylan thomas and he loved the whole magic and feel of how he felt about wales. "oh, dear!" although he probably wasn't the most famous cartoon train that graced our tv screens, ivor was the inspiration for oliver postgate's more successful titles... yawns. ..such as bagpuss. bagpuss gave a big yawn and settled down to sleep. after the success of daniel's recent remake of the clangers — another of his father's classics — on the 60th anniversary that ivor first hit television,
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could there finally be a comeback, but this time to the silver screen? i was interested in the idea of a live—action story of ivor, because i think although it is a children's programme, it also has a lot of interesting characters. but you need to find lots of money to do things like that! ivor felt really happy. so, after over half a century, it may not quite be the end of the line for ivor, jones the steam and dai the station. ..as he pounded down the line. as we've been hearing, the d—day veteran, harry billinge, whose fundraising efforts have made headlines around the world, has received an mbe for services to charity. he's raised more than £25,000 towards the cost of building a national memorial, honouring his fallen comrades. earlier, bbc breakfast‘s tim muffett spoke to harry
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at his home in st austell, cornwall. there is no words can express my feelings when i knew that, because it was far from my mind that i was ever going to be recognised for doing a bit of a collection for the blokes who never came back, and that is the only thing that drove me on. and just to recap, the fundraising you have done, and that is the only thing that drove me on. and just to recap, the fundraising you have done, what did you set out to do, and why did you want to do it? i did start out because i wanted to raise at least £22,442, that is a pound for every person that was killed or missing on d—day on gold beach. and i done that up till august last year. but now they're going to have a new... it is a big monument. they're going to have a place there for education, for youngsters to go and have a look and see what d—day was really like. there is a museum there.
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there is a quiet... you cannot imagine what a wonderful place it will be, and i only hope that i am spared to see it. it will not be completed till about the 3rd of september, which really will be the anniversary of the start of the world war, which was the 3rd of september 1939. and it started when i was a kid, then 1k, but i remember it well. now you, of course, landed on d—day, didn't you, in normandy? yes. how important is it that a memorial is built for those people who did not come back? well, i think it is a bit of a surprise, really, and a bit of a disgrace to think that the americans have got a lovely memorial to the fallen, that is at omaha,
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the canadians onjuno have got a lovely memorial to the canadian fallen, and of course, a lot of the english fellows were with the canadians as well, but there is nothing to remember all these fellows. now it's time for a look at the weather with phil. hello. the weather is in no great rush to change at the moment. what you have got pretty much will do you probably for the rest of the weekend. and if your weather happens to look anything like this, that will not come as great news. it is not wall—to—wall misery by any means at all. there are some gaps in the cloud, the borders faring quite well, anywhere to the eastern side of the pennines, because there the south to south—westerly flow has a chance of breaking up the cloud as it moves over the higher ground, so the north—eastern quarter of wales, the eastern side of the pennines, in one or two spots, could fare quite nicely, but further north there is a weather front around, it has
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brought rain already today. it will continue to do so during the course of the night, the wind noticeable, too, across the north—western quarter of scotland where it will stay pretty mild overnight. further south and east there is a chance there will be some gaps in the cloud later on in the night. despite the fact we are all engulfed in this relatively mild swathe of air which extends across, as you see, much of western europe, there is just the chance, as we get on into sunday, that we may see more in the way of gaps in the cloud, particularly across the south—eastern quarter of the british isles. the front is still there to be had, the thicker cloud across the north and north—west of scotland but as you come further south, lots of dry weather on sunday and there is a chance of an improving picture with regard to the amount of sunshine across the east midlands, lincolnshire, east anglia, perhaps parts of the south—east. temperatures here not spectacular, at their highest, perhaps 13, 1a, 15 degrees if you get a little bit of brightness, somewhere
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like the moray coast. on monday, and as far ahead as that, the only significant change is to drag this weather front further south, just seeing signs of the air coming more from the north—west, behind that weather feature, so if you're close to it, you will get cloud and rain but later in the day, perhaps something brighter. on tuesday, that weather front will have worked its way across the whole of the british isles and eventually we will see things turning cooler and fresher, but ahead of that front on monday, across the south, there is an indication we could see drier, brighter conditions. if you have a plan for new year's eve, it should be mostly dry. there could be just a touch of fog.
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