the into the north—west of scotland. the central part of scotland and the north of northern ireland through the second part of the day, england and wales, nullify story some sunny spells. hello. this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines:

a former head of the civil service has called for an urgent inquiry into the new year honours data breach in which the addresses of celebrities, politicians and police officers were published online. a man has stabbed five people at the home of a rabbi in new york state. eyewitnesses said the attacker entered with his face covered, wielding a large knife. the mayor of sydney says the new year fireworks display will go ahead as planned despite a petition calling for it to be cancelled because of nearby bushfires. and former tennis world number one andy murray has pulled out of next month's australian open because of a pelvic injury. good morning. england's cricketers have resumed their pursuit of the 376 runs they need to win their first test against south africa. if they do it, they'll make

history. it would be their highest successful run chase in test matches. the good news isjoe root and jos buttler are feeling better after sickness in the camp. it's been slow going and england had only added 18 runs before rory burns fell to anrich nortje for 8h. in the last few minutes, joe denly went for 31 lbw off the bowling of dwaine pretorius. ben stokes and joe root are at the crease. england are 159 for three. meanwhile over in melbourne, australia crushed new zealand in their second test, beating them by 2a7 runs. tom blundell impressed making 121 but the kiwis were dismissed forjust 240 as nathan lyon claimed four wickets. the win gives australia an unassailable 2—0 lead in the three—match series. three—time grand slam winner andy murray is out of next month's australian open. he had only recently

returned from almost two years of hip problems, and then a pelvic injury troubled him towards the end of the season. although murray is back on court, he's decided not to travel to australia. that is because of that injury. instead he'll continue rehab and pre—season training with a view to playing an indoor event in france at the start of february. in football, david moyes has been linked with the vacant west ham job, just hours after the club sacked manager manuel pellegrini. west ham are just above the relegation zone following their defeat at home to leicester city. pellegrini's dismissal ends a turbulent 18 months at the london stadium. patrick gearey reports. long before the statement was published, you could see this decision coming. you could hear it in the full—time boos, as west ham lost their 9th match in 12th. 9th match in 12. by evening, manuel pellegrini's departure was announced. west ham's co—chairman david sullivan

said: this black—and—white fate came courtesy of a man named gray. commentator: it's demarai gray! 2—1 leicester! that winner for leicester left west ham just one point above the bottom three. the prospect of playing second—tier football in the former olympic stadium unthinkable for the owners. they planned so much more when they hired pellegrini, who won the premier league with manchester city in 2014. he spent big on the likes of felipe anderson and led the hammers to tenth in the table last season. but after a promising start, the bubble burst by late autumn. speaking yesterday, he acknowledged the fans had reasons not to be cheerful. they deserve a better performance. we are trying to find which is the way to do it. i think that the players want to do it, but i admit the pressure and the lack of confidence and the lack of results is difficult.

it's the time of year for taking stock of where you are and where you're going. as well as soul—searching, west ham will be looking for a new guide. patrick geary, bbc news. as we mentioned, david moyes is one of the names in the frame to replace pellegrini, but others have been mentioned including sam allardyce who managed the club between 2011 and 2015. i think if you are going to go backwards and go with someone you have used before and you can trust, it would be big sam for me to make sure they can stay up. he has done it so often. big sam until the end of the season? if you are looking at the short term for staying in the division. i think they will revert back to something like that. david moyes has done a good job before and whether that will keep the west ham fans happy... it won't. i am not sure. elsewhere in the premier league manchester united moved up to fifth in the table with a 2—0 win at burnley. charlie taylor was at fault for united's opener. he was dispossessed

by andreas pereira, who fed anthony martial for his third goal in two games over the festive period. marcus rashford scored with pretty much the last kick of the game, catching burnley out as they pressed for an equaliser. var, the video assistant referee, caused controversy in three matches, including norwich city's home game against tottenham. teemu pukki was denied by the tiniest of margins. if that goal had stood, it would have put his side 2—0 up at half—time. as it was, spurs came from behind twice to earn a 2—2 draw. watford's revival under new manager nigel pearson continues. they survived a sending—off to beat fellow strugglers aston villa 3—0. the win leaves them three points away from escaping the relegation zone. brighton beat bournemouth 2—0, but it was a hugely emotional reaction from alireza jahanbakhsh after scoring his first goalfor the club. the iranian striker was moved to tears after shooting from 16 yards out. it was his 27th

appearance for brighton. elsewhere everton beat newcastle 2—1. the scottish premiership has its final round of games before the winter break today. and what a way to finish 2019 — the old firm derby. celtic host rangers, first versus second. a win for celtic would be a 12th league victory in a row and would take them eight points clear. really delighted with them. no matter who they've played, no matter where we've been, no matter what the context has been, conditions, it's been a heavy month, they've played absolutely brilliantly at times and played with a bit of a swagger and won the games. they're in the spotlight all the time. everyone‘s looking for a chink in the armour but they find ways to win games. in the main, they've won the games really well. that's a big plus for the players. in rugby, northampton saints are back on top of the premiership

after coming through a seven try thriller against gloucester. cobus reinach scored the try of the match with this fantastic solo effort, running from well beyond the halfway line to cross over here. the result moves northampton to the top of the table for now, with exeter chiefs still to play this weekend. leicester tigers came from behind to end a run of three straight premiership defeats with a 30—30 draw with harlequins at twickenham. the home side had 3111 point lead midway through the second half. but tigers fought back and this try from telusa veainu with less than eight minutes remaining helped to draw them level and end their losing streak. and in the pro 1a there was a fiercely contested scottish derby with edinburgh taking on glasgow warriors at murrayfield. it was edinburgh who came out on top, sending them second in conference b. darcie graham scored their 11th try to secure a 29—19 bonus point victory. the quarterfinals of the pdc

world darts championship get under way at alexandra palace at 12:30 this afternoon. chris dobey, who knocked history—maker fallon sherrock out of the championship on friday, won't be there. after beating sherrock — the first woman to win a match at the event — dobey lost to his friend and rival glen durrant who goes through to the last eight. that's all the sport for now. now on bbc news, here's ben brown with the papers. hello and welcome to our sunday morning paper review. with me are lucy fisher, the defence correspondent for the times, and business journalistjohn crowley. thank you for being with us. happy christmas and happy new year as well. let's take a look

at the front pages. the sunday times says lives could have been put at risk after the home addresses of more than a thousand celebrities, politicians and military figures on the new year honours list were published online. the sunday mirror has the news that speedboat killerjack shepherd is planning his wedding from prison despite not yet being divorced from his first wife. the mail on sunday has the claim that ministers bent rules on visas for foreign polo players, after buckingham palace took an interest in the issue. the sunday telegraph leads on plans to make police disclose when they are using artificial intelligence to fight crime, including the use of software to recognise faces. and the sunday express forecasts a rocky time ahead for the eu, when brexit trade talks begin. there are. that is a flavour of the front pages. let's look at them in more detail, starting with the sunday times and the story

dominating the weekend's news. so many honours, people awarded honours, their address is being published online, but for a brief time. still a huge data leak, with very serious implications. very serious implications indeed given that some of those receiving honours we re that some of those receiving honours were police officers, people involved in counterterror operations, and indeed some of the operatives involved in the skrpal investigation. the fact that addresses have been leaked online could be valuable information to hostile foreign states like russia. and also celebrities like nadia hussain, the cook and broadcaster who has been a huge victim of racism and concerns that people like her and concerns that people like her and celebrities might receive abuse at their homes. huge concerns in the sunday times today. we see calls for the cabinet secretary as well as the national security adviser to resign.

i was talking to sir bob paisley, the former head of the civil service a few moments ago, and he was saying this should be a well oiled machine. —— bob kerslake. this happens every year, so what has gone wrong?m seems that human error is at fault, but as lucy rightly says, who is to blame for this. after a busy year for the government machinery they will have been hoping for a quiet christmas after the election. whose head is going to roll for it? we we re head is going to roll for it? we were saying earlier we would have to ring round a thousand potential people and use them to get their reactions. what is the reaction of ordinary civilians, not people in the public eye, about their address is being printed? that will be an important reaction from the thousand or so important reaction from the thousand or so people out there today and how they feel. it seems it was only up

there for a few hours but this happens every year, everybody should know exactly what they are doing, and something has gone terribly wrong. should heads be rolling? so mark sedwill, calls for him to resign, the cabinet secretary, is there any point? i think it is very likely given how integral he is to number ten and brexit and the big sweeping defence and security review we are going to see. i don't think it is likely his head will roll on this. we will hear more reaction from businesses who have found the data protection rules that came in in march last year incredibly onerous. the government breaching its own rules might lead to some smirking in the business community that found it so troublesome. the observer says prison is

a massive legal bill with violence surging. £30,000 a year bill for legal claims because of problems in our prisons. it seems we have been talking for years if not decades about the chaotic conditions in our prisons. and borisjohnson during the election campaign promised tougher sentences and longer sentences for criminals and terrorists, but it seems he needs to fix this house first. over the last three years, 85 million has been spent on issues such as attacks on staff, loss and damaged property, accidental personal injury and injury and delays. and one unfortunate eye—catching figure is that attacks on prison officers is now at record high. over 10,000 assaults were committed on prison officers in the yearup tojune, committed on prison officers in the year up to june, which committed on prison officers in the year up tojune, which is an increase of 10%. morale is hugely low among prison officers. a lot of the more experienced prison officers are leaving because of what is going on. you have got

a kind of fractured prison section which is failing to deal with what is going on. what do we do with our prisons, lucy? everyone says they are overcrowded, antiquated buildings, that as we are hearing, on the whole the government does not want to reduce prison sentences. boris johnson wants to be tough on crime and sentencing and the only option is to pour more money into prison officers. this article is talking about how cuts have left many of these presents are understaffed. appalling incidents in the past week even, with 1a officers having to receive treatment following an incident at feltham young offenders institution. a report talking about high incidence of self—harm among the young people jailed there. clearly something has got to change and more money might be the solution here. all right. now

the sunday telegraph. police using artificial intelligence technology with troubling secrecy. lucy, this is interesting, isn't it? this is the question of to what extent artificial intelligence should be used by the police and security agencies in the future. yes, it is interesting to me that it is lloyd eva ns, interesting to me that it is lloyd evans, former m15 chief, someone who really knows about the threats to national security, currently the chair of the whitehall committee on standards life, who is leading calls for more transparency in this arena. he has produced a bigger port for the government and said it is very troubling that we don't know at the moment how we are being surveilled in public and how the police are using automated software that can identify faces. going forward he wa nts identify faces. going forward he wants there to be clearer transparency about what is being used. it is incredibly important given that in recent weeks we have heard that the emergency services will be deploying drones to the

sites of crime scenes and accidents. really this technology is evolving ata really this technology is evolving at a pace and we need to clear ground rules about how it is used. john? there was a really good article on saturday which went through several cases in manchester, london and south wales where spatial recognition technologies being misused —— face recognition technology is being misused. misused —— face recognition technology is being misusedm misused —— face recognition technology is being misused. it is a computer but who builds the algorithm? it is human the end of that line. they have their own internal bias as well, racist or sexist, and people from disadvantaged communities and ethnic minorities are being unfairly targeted as well. it is interesting. you would think lord evans would say it is good because we will catch more criminals but if he has got problems with it, the public should listen to him. the mail on sunday with this, which is quite

interesting, a clamp—down on illegal immigration, which was relaxed because ministers were worried the queen thought it would affect the polo season. this is an extraordinary story. the queen is alleged to have raised the issue with the meeting with amber rudd when she was home secretary and there was a plan to clamp down on a visa polo scheme. there are a p pa re ntly visa polo scheme. there are apparently 200 polo clubs throughout the uk. i didn't realise it was quite as popular as that. many other staff needed in the stables come from argentina and australia. this visa scheme could be being exploited though, with people coming in purportedly to do that role and actually ending up as farm labourers. amber rudd wanted to crack down on that but it was quietly shelved, it is alleged, after the palace raised concerns that there have been 500 of these temporary visas issued every year. an intriguing story. it sounds like an episode of the crown.

sources say the queen was a very animated about it which is code for extremely angry. polo is described as a sport of kings, but is there one rule for kings and queens at the upper echelons of society and another rule for the plebs? it echelons of society and another rule forthe plebs? it is echelons of society and another rule for the plebs? it is a weird one. this happened a couple of years ago when amber rudd was home secretary, backin when amber rudd was home secretary, back in 2017. as ever, buckingham palace has not commented on the story. but a strange one. never explain, never complain. let's talk about the labour party post the election. it is going to be one of the big dominant stories in 2020, who leads the labour party after jeremy corbyn? times talking about corbyn ally is casting doubt on whether it will be long—bailey as their preferred candidate. ——

corbyn allies. she is seen as a standard— bearer to allies. she is seen as a standard—bearer to continue jeremy corbyn's mission when he steps down next year but it seems there is infighting beginning. she isn't well known, frankly. and this is a concern. known, frankly. and this is a concern. when you contrast it with borisjohnson, and concern. when you contrast it with boris johnson, and we concern. when you contrast it with borisjohnson, and we will talk about him in a second, sunning himself in the caribbean, he is more thana himself in the caribbean, he is more than a political figure, he is a personality. and they want someone with heft and someone who connects with heft and someone who connects with the public to do this. trying to figure out where this haughtiness comes from, there was a meeting with the shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell, and rebecca long—bailey was a protege ofjohn mcdonnell but there seems to have been a falling out and he has stepped back from the campaign. knives have been placed in backs. there are other people in the fray as well. emily thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, had been sending text messages over christmas to colleagues, and they were taking

calls out of politeness rather than anything else. we don't know what is going on but clearly the knives are out. it doesn't look good for the labour party. lucy, who is your tip for the labour leadership? at the moment it seems that keir starmer is canvassing a lot of support but as this story points out, we are seeing the left of the party arguing about their candidate. we could seejess phillips come up with more support and we have the first mp in the sunday times declaring support for her, siobhan mcdonagh. keir starmer looks in the lead at the moment but it could be because others are biding their time to announce their campaigns. i am sure we will hear a lot more about that in 2020. this is interesting, the bbc interview on greta thunberg, the 16—year—old environmental campaigner, and a controversy about whether the bbc should have flown to sweden to see her. i think it is an important story because it

shows how difficult taking climate change seriously to the degree that you are shoe business flights is. i am very much looking forward to hearing the today programme guest edited by greta thunberg, which i think it's coming out tomorrow. yes, it is. the fact the bbc team had to fly out there, i can understand. i would love the idea of taking a foreign assignment and getting there by boat or rail but i don't think my editors would agree with that either. it is talking the talk or walking the walk and people might be rolling their eyes. my nine—year—old, i am getting hassle for him, he is obsessed with her. does he not want you to fly any more? he hasn't quite said that. i think i can outweigh on that. young people are interested in her and what she is about and she is seen as a heroine to so many people around the world. she meets up with david attenborough. they had their first ever conversation. talking about

passing on the torch earlier on, and it will be interesting to hear that conversation tomorrow morning. was ita conversation tomorrow morning. was it a skype conversation? in terms of the world of business, one way forward would be to have more meetings and so on without flying. people having big skype conversations and webcam conversations, rather than always flying to see each other on the other side of the world. listen, that may work in some contexts, that asa that may work in some contexts, that as a reporter, i know that meeting up as a reporter, i know that meeting up with my contact and having that face—to—face report is really important for building trust and a relationship. it is not a like for like replacement to my mind. and the wi-fi like replacement to my mind. and the wi—fi falling over. it is good in practice but sometimes it doesn't work. face time. speaking of the environment, boris has got a new bike apparently. yes, we were just talking about how labour was in crisis and boris is

currently on the island of mustique with his girlfriend carrie simmons and apparently for christmas what he was bought was a yamaha 125 bike, second hand. a dirt bike. there is also a lovely bit of detail. there is a game of thrones themed party on the island that is taking place. if you watch a game of thrones, it is all about machiavellian politics. bacchanalia is. i don't know how prime ministerjohnson is to get into character for that! he will find that quite difficult. the contrasting fortunes of johnson find that quite difficult. the contrasting fortunes ofjohnson at the moment and the labour party for me in these two articles is quite telling. let me show you that picture one more time, lucy. it is an artificially constructed photo, we should stress! a mock—up of steve mcqueen in the great escape. that is

one of his many heroes. we all know that he loved cycling but as pro—minister, the security detail needed to follow him around makes it difficult for him to take to his push—bike on the streets of london. this is a dirt bike for him to run around to check is downing street! we are told! who knows? i don't think the rose garden is quite big enough. did you get any good presents? i was very spoiled with an ipad. socks and a candle. i was more delighted with the socks actually, at my age! socks disappear into the ether and you can't match them up so you just get a new ones every christmas. he didn't get a dirt bike? i have to say i wonder what borisjohnson bike? i have to say i wonder what boris johnson gave bike? i have to say i wonder what borisjohnson gave kerry simmons. he was asked on the campaign trail but he would get her for christmas and would get brexit done. i don't know if that is something you can open on the morning of the

25th of december. great to have you with us. happy christmas again if it is not too late to say that. lucy and john, thank you for being with us. that is it for the papers. you can watch online seven days a week on the bbc news website. and if you missed the programme you can always catch up with the bbc iplayer. thank you to lucy fisher and john crowley and goodbye from all of us. hello. grey skies were abundant across the uk yesterday with a thick blanket of cloud that stayed in place overnight and kept it very warm for the north west of scotland in particular where it was actually 16 degrees in the middle of the night. that very warm air stretches all the way from the

tropics. this amber band shows it still sitting across northern ireland and scotland today. the cloud will hopefully become a little thinner this afternoon with some dry air from the continent mixing in across the south—east of england and east anglia allowing more sunshine here. hopefully some sunshine for northern england as well but i think it will be northern ireland and scotland that wins out with the most extensive of the blue skies and the top temperatures. after a flying start, you will agree, but in the afternoon with a south—westerly wind direction, that favours some warming around the moray firth, and we could get up to 16 here. some rain for the north west of scotland even as we head through the evening and overnight. that is thanks to this weather front. further south, overnight. that is thanks to this weatherfront. further south, a dry story. with clearer skies, some chillier spots in east anglia and the south—east of england. this front in the north is proving pretty slow moving at the moment. we're monday and into tuesday, new year's eve, as if you needed reminding,

that weather front will make good progress from north to south. monday daytime still pretty slow as it sinks into scotland but by the afternoon some dry weather and the highlands getting drier through the day. central scotland having a wet afternoon along with parts of northern ireland. england and wales dry with temperatures in double figures. to the north of that fresh air, it will spread to all parts of the uk by new year's eve. some cloud in england and south wales and maybe some drizzle. a lot of dry weather for new year's eve overall. temperatures back to where they should be for this time of year. into the evening and the night, if you are heading out, the forecast is offering up dry weather as it stands. we could see dense patches of fog forming and some of them could stick around a good while into new year's day as well and that could be hazardous and disruptive if you plan on travelling.

this is bbc news i'm ben brown. the headlines at ten. calls for an independent inquiry after the new years'

honours data leak — in which the addresses of celebrities, politicians and police officers were published online it isa it is a serious and indeed extraordinary breach so this is a well—established process that has gone on and been the same way for so i think gone on and been the same way for so ithink an gone on and been the same way for so i think an urgent investigation are certainly needed. five people stabbed in new york during hanukkah celebrations at the home of an orthodox rabbi. calls for sydney's new year's eve fireworks to be cancelled: quarter of a million people sign a petition for the money to be spent fighting australia's bushfires instead in tennis: former world number one andy murray says he's gutted to be missing next month's australian open — after pulling out because of injury in half an hour's time, we take a look back on events