if your safety of their children. if your child is involved in a gang and there is nowhere for him to hide, you taken there is nowhere for him to hide, you ta ken back there is nowhere for him to hide, you taken back to africa, it is safer than in london. if you look a specific way or live in a specific area and you are from —— and you are area and you are from —— and you are a specific age, you will be targeted. there are mothers sending their teenagers back home, saying it is much safer than living in london. she said she took her seven back to somaliland, he spent a year there, during that time he acquired an education. —— she took her site back. he was studious again and was teaching other children, he enjoyed his time, he said his preference was

to stay in east africa. she brought him back in november 2018. he had been back in the country forjust 17 days, he received a text message from somebody he did not know, he was in the middle of eating a meal, he put that meal down and was stabbed. stabbed when he went outside. he was stabbed four times. he has been completely traumatised, the way he was stabbed was very traumatic? they did a properjob on him. the thing that would have kept him

safe which have been to stay in somaliland for longer, she said i have no doubt of that, 100% more safe tha n have no doubt of that, 100% more safe than it is in london. one problem they are all escaping thatis one problem they are all escaping that is universal to them all is violence. so knife crime, gun crime, fighting, drug—related issues. london is not a war is, we know that. but they are targeted crimes. if you look a specific way or you live in a specific area and you are a certain age, you are targeted and you will be stabbed. it is like an

air strike that happens in a country where there is a wall. you do not know when it will land on you. london is the same, mothers are saying mason is 17 or 18, i'm not waiting for the air strike to come to my house, we will get out of here. in the few years i was doing my a—levels, it was tough. just seeing people being dropped every other day, being stabbed. it is not the place to be for a teenager, i would say. i have lost close friends, there are people in my neighbourhood, someone that i really knew who lost his life. you grew up with him? yeah. he was stabbed, that was one of the reasons i came back here. itjust was one of the reasons i came back here. it just opens was one of the reasons i came back here. itjust opens my eyes. it was just before i came here. when ic

adults i see the 17—year—old that i was. if i can save one person, i will feel good about myself.

i have been in kenyan for a few moments. when i came here it was a clear sheet, nobody knows my history. people that look like you, thatis history. people that look like you, that is the people you have to watch out for. people that are just like you, you are not worried about anyone else. do your parents feel that they are safely here? 100%. my mum feels i am much safer here than anywhere else in the world. two weeks ago, i was speaking to one of the parents of the young people and she said to me, now that my son is in africa, i sleep better at night. i said, why? she said, because every time i hear police sirens

or if i hear a siren, i would think, either the police have arrested my child or the ambulance is going to save my son that has been stabbed to death or been shot. i said, ok, mum, what about now? tell me about the sirens. she said, oh, i cannot even hear any sirens now. knife crime has literally threatened the fibre of the somali community. it has shaken us all. does the parent wait for her child to be killed, or does the parent take a decision? quite a drastic decision to take him all the way back to wherever that child is from originally. my name is rakhia ismail, i am a local councillor in islington and i am a mother of four and i am a somali and i came here to london as a refugee some years ago. at the end of the day, we are all parents, and parents take the precedence of the safety of the child. there is two ways, either your child

is in a gang or your child can innocently be killed, you know, standing somewhere and it has been mistaken identity, and it keeps on happening. you can say, every five families, there are two families who took their children back home. i mean, i have been working with somali parents for a very long time and lots of them have no clue what their sons are up to, they have no idea, and they actually think their sons are doing really quite good, some of them, until the day after they find out their son is killed, their son is in prison, their son is dealing drugs. i mean, that is massive, and as a somali community, to be honest and to be fair, we are the forgotten people, completely. for many parents, there is confusion about whether to vaccinate their children because of the proliferation of anti—vax material on social media. we found one couple, mark and victoria, who were undecided about whether to vaccinate their own

baby and sat them down with professor beate kampmann, who is director of the vaccine centre at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine, so they could ask her directly about their concerns. i will start off byjust asking why do you think it is acceptable to inject aluminium into a baby when it has been banned in such things as aerosols? alum is a very, very important part of the vaccines because it actually helps the stuff that is really important in the vaccines, which is the bacterial—viral ingredients to work well in the body. now you make it sound as if we are giving a massive shot of aluminium to the body, so that is not at all the case. the concentration of aluminium is like a thousandth of what you find in the natural environment and what we already have in our bodies as well. the information leaflets in vaccine packaging is something mark and victoria want to find out more about. inserts for vaccines are not always offered prior to injection

for parents to read. the ones that we have obtained state that they should not be administered if you're allergic to any of the ingredients, but how do we know if the baby is allergic or not? the most important ingredient in that is usually egg. sometimes, some vaccines, for example the mmr vaccine, has traces of that. by the time the baby gets that particular vaccine, you would know if they are allergic to egg or not because because they would have had egg in all sorts of products. what about younger babies, though? there is no egg components in the other vaccines they are getting. i think what is important also, on the inserts, they have to list, notjust what is in the vaccine now, but also what was part of the vaccine when it was manufactured. that is not necessarily differentiated in the insert, so you get a whole bunch of stuff that is actually mentioned, but hardly any of it will be in the final product. assuming we were to go ahead and have our child vaccinated, it would then have its tetanus, polio, diphtheria, so why,

when the hooping cough vaccine is offered to pregnant women, they are not then told that it has tetanus, diphtheria, and polio within it as well? i think it is part of the conversation that people should know exactly what vaccines they are having. i think the reason why it was done like that is because usually the adults do not go back for their tetanus vaccination. usually nobody bothers with diphtheria because everybody thinks it is no longer an issue however, we have had large outbreaks in a refugee camp in bangladesh, as you have probably heard from last year. there is lots of diphtheria in russia, so it is a disease that might come back to us, so that is quite a good idea, and then the third one is that the vaccine is already made in this combination, so it is more of an effort to make a vaccine that only has a pertussis component because you would literally make that vaccine just for the pregnancy. last month, we exclusively revealed how the burning of plastic waste in indonesia, much of which has been sent there by us here in the west, is poisoning the food chain there. one environmental group found that in one village in eastjava,

toxic dioxins in chicken eggs were 70 times the level allowed by european safety standards. long—term exposure to the chemicals is linked to cancer. it can damage the immune system and it can affect development. louis lee ray reports. parts of indonesia are awash with plastic waste. hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic were imported last year and it is ending up in remote villages. some is recycled, but huge mounds are dumped and burned. and we have discovered dangerous levels of highly toxic chemicals

from burning plastic are making it into the food chain. one of the most shocking results that we have ever, ever had, especially in indonesia, we never have this kind of result before. this is bangun, a small village in the east of java, indonesia's biggest island. but over the last few years, things here have started to change. since 2017 and ‘18, we have seen an increased influx of plastic entering indonesia. the uk, the us and australia all send waste to indonesia, supposedly to be recycled.

last year, indonesia's plastic recycling industries imported around 300,000 tonnes of plastic waste. that on top of the 900,000 tonnes they got from within the country. the uk sent 18,000 tonnes of plastic to indonesia in the first—half of this year and 55,000 tonnes of paper. that makes it the fourth biggest recipient of british waste in the world. prigi arisandi runs a local environmental organisation called ecoton. so why is plastic from the uk ending up in bangun?

well, paper is key here. indonesia has some of the world's biggest paper mills. the factories nearby import around 40% of the paper they recycle, but the bales of old paper are arriving with plastic in them. the paperfactories have no use for the plastic and the villagers buy it by the truckload. they sift through the waste, selling the better quality material onto plastic factories who reuse it.

there is an increased number of cases of respiratory diseases. there are lots of cases we see where people burn the plastic piles. but if burning plastic is an issue here, it is far worse in a nearby village. this is one hour's drive from bangun and is full of small factories making tofu, which is made from soybeans and widely eaten in indonesia. heat inside the factories is almost unbearable. they keep pots of water boiling hot, as soybeans are

used to make the tofu. but what you might not expect is what is making the fuel for the fire. plastic. the factory owners buy this plastic from the sorters in bangun. this is a leading indonesian environmentalist who is part of an organisation that tries to eliminate harmful chemicals. it says recycle, but it has ended up here.

while burning plastic can lead to respiratory illness, it releases highly toxic chemicals. they can make it into the food chain. we take the samples of eggs and analyse them to the lab for dioxins and other chemicals. when dioxins enter the food chain, they are stored in animal fat, so this is a good way of testing the dioxins. is people beyond a —— consumer beyond a certain level, it could harm their health. we can now reveal that testing earlier this year found the second highest levels of dioxins in eggs ever recorded in asia, 70 times over the safe level set by the european food safety authority. the results of the

research are one of the most shocking results that we ever had. especially in indonesia. we never have this kind of results before. you wouldn't get ill eating the odd egg. long—term exposure can lead to problems, damaging the immune system and even cause cancer. that is according to the world health organization. while the results of the first round of testing were shocking, the sample size was small. the team are still waiting on the results of the second round. on the other side of indonesia's biggest island, there is a village on the outskirts ofjakarta, in the middle of a fightback against unwarranted plastic waste. plastic is still being burned here, but things were much worse just a few months ago. the fumes have had a shocking impact

on the people living in the local neighbourhood. at one point, traders were burning plastic nearby throughout the night. this man's daughter is three. she has had a bad cough, seizures and trouble breathing.

the situation got tense. after discussions between local leaders and plastic traders, the bigger scale open burning plastic stops. there is evidence that a change in government policy is having an impact. they started stopping containers of waste from entering the country. lorries line the road outside local plastic factories. their content was seized. but it remains to be seen whether the government can stop the tide of importing, and if they cannot prevent people from burning plastic, things will only get worse.

finally, millions of you have watched our interview with a divine liverpool fan who knocked himself unconscious on a lamp post while running after mo salah. louis fowler and his brother were trying to get the striker‘s attention as he was driving out of the training base. they are 11 and ten years old. mo salah comes out of his car, and sometimes they stop if you run after them. sometimes they stop anyway. so i ran with my brother and, because, in my excitement, i wasn't focusing on what was in front of me, i was looking to the left because that is where mo salah‘s car was, iran into a lamp post. i think that mo salah felt bad and he pulled over, he was worried about me. my brother and someone i met, they both told mo salah that i could have injured myself and that i'm hurt on the floor, so then they carried me back to my house and he called an ambulance, and we were not

expecting mo salah at all. what happened ? he knocked on the door? mo salah is driving through our close in his car and we walked out, and mo salah checked if i was ok. he was really worried about me and we got pictures. it was great, but it was also not the best because of my nose. what do you think of mo salah? what car does he drive? a bentley. the bentley went into your close. what do you think about the fact he came back, took some photos? i think that is really kind hearted of him. it's a great trait. i love him very much because he's amazing. do you love him, too? yeah. what about you, joe? yeah, he is a top guy, to be fair. so shocked when he came back because it might not be a big deal to some people, you've got to understand that these football players have cameras everywhere watching them.

it is a big thing for him to come back. he's usually caring and compassionate towards the boys, and he made their day, so i want is a big thank you to him and everyone at liverpool. they are all so great with the kids and we go and wait outside, which is most days. they are just so great and mo salah is a top guy. let's have a look at the photograph you had with him. we've shown it already, but... you still look really upset there, i think. i've got two boys and i feel really maternal. obviously that is your hero, he is a legend for coming back, but all this blood pouring down your face, and your eyes look a bit teary. it was because... when i hit the lamp post, my nose was bleeding quite bad and going down to my mouth and all sorts, so i was really happy to see mo salah. but at the same time, my nose was in so much pain

so it was kind of a sad smile. i don't know. i know what you mean. well, listen, what do you want to say to him, finally? if mo salah was watching right now, what would you say? i would say i love him, he is the best and hopefully he scores a hat—trick against chelsea. what would you say? i would say he's the best and he is so nice to everyone, he has such a kind heart. he'sjust like... i hope he scores as well. thank you so much. you have been an absolute delight. that nose will keep on getting better. looks good. that's it for now. we are back onjanuary 6th, live at 10am on bbc two on the bbc news channel. meantime, if you have a story, you can contact us on twitter. thanks for watching.

good morning. the weather will be fairly quiet to end the decade, lots of dry weather across the uk, although we had some showers in the south—west of england. it is linked into this weak weather system which is within quite a large area of high pressure. we have some main stand fog across southern areas, which is lifting and clearing away —— we had some mist and fog. sunshine for lincolnshire, much of northern england and scotland and for a time, northern ireland. chillier here compared to yesterday, temperatures between four and six celsius, between four and six celsius, between eight and ten further south and east. into new year's eve, if you are going out, it will stay

largely dry, some fog developing and cloud starts to move further north and east. clear skies for a time in north—eastern areas. approaching midnight, let's look at things in closer detail. showers in the south—west will have cleared away, lots of cloud, temperatures about five to seven celsius, chillier in north—east england and the north—east england and the north—east of scotland is where you will have clearer skies, temperatures in aberdeen about one celsius. into new year's day, high pressure that will thereabouts but moving away. the winds will pick up on the far north—west of the uk but for most of us, it will be a drier day. we start 2020 on that dry and notes, lots of cloud around, one or two bits and pieces on the far north—west of scotland with a stronger wind, there could be 12 holes breaking through but stay quite cloudy, quite murky over the hills and the coasts, temperatures

around six to 10 celsius. some more significant weather moving in on thursday into scotland and northern ireland, pushing and some rain and a strengthening wind for many. they could be touch and go. what is the north—west, the rain spread through scotland. it could be heavy rain for a time in western scotland, weakening as it pushes into north—west england, north west wales by the end of the day, temperatures start to come up again, ten to 12 celsius. through friday, the rain wea ke ns celsius. through friday, the rain weakens out, quite cloudy on friday for many and into the weekend. temperatures hover at about eight to 11 or 12 degrees. goodbye.

this is bbc news, i'm simon mccoy. lets go to auckland now, the first major city to see in 2020 —

let's go over now and see the celebrations now as they welcome in the new year.