hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. the headlines: thousands of people head to the beach and take to boats, seeking refuge from bush fires in australia. helicopters and the navy are deployed to help. jasper, put your blanket up. a crew battling the fires in new south wales recorded the moment when their truck was overrun. they sheltered inside as the fire front passed through. former nissan boss carlos ghosn flees to lebanon from japan, despite being barred from travelling as he awaits trial. thousands of iraqi militiamen have attacked the american embassy in baghdad, angry at us air strikes on theirforces. the first civil partnerships ceremonies for heterosexual couples in england and wales are being held, giving them similar rights to people who are married.

the new yearfireworks begin — auckland the first big city to welcome in 2020. doris day, clive james, toni morrison and albert finney — just a few of those whose lives are now celebrated now in review 2019: we remember. # loneliness is the cloak you wear # a deep shade of

blue is always there # the sun ain't gonna shine anymore # the moon ain't gonna rise in the sky... # i hate people in the business who bitch about, you know, the business. it's such an awful life. it was fantastic for the first couple of albums or so. # and i know you're leaving, but it's too long overdue...# but then it really wears you down. touring in those days was very primitive. it was really a lot of hard work. and you couldn't find anything good to eat anywhere. # there's no regrets # no tears goodbye # i don't want you back

# we'd only cry again # say goodbye again... # # i'm praying for rain in california # so the grapes can grow and they can make more wine # when they ask who's the fool in the corner cryin' # i say a little ole wine drinker me...# laughter applause we're trying to get everyone else to see that teenagers are notjust a bunch of dumb, giggling young people, they really have a lot to offer, they are very intelligent. yeah, you're right, probably better

off as just friends. close friends. the closest. there they wear long hair with the gear, everything to make the fans go while. # hey, hey, we're the monkees # you never know where we'll be found # so you'd better get ready # we may be comin‘ to your town... # # cheer up sleepy jean # oh what can it mean # to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen? # cheer up sleepy jean # oh what can it mean # to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen? #

# cheer up sleepy jean # oh what can it mean # to a daydream believer and a homecoming queen? # "sophie opened the door and there was a big, furry, stripey tiger." it was just a bedtime story i made up for my little daughter. she made tell it again and again and again. she used to say "talk the tiger". when my son was born i used to tell it to him. when they were both at school i thought, well, perhaps i can make that into a picture book. i upset him somehow, but he won't tell me how. says i should be able to work it out for myself. and can you? no, because i'm not a psychic fran. so until he tells me i'm not talking to him either. i really do believe this is the heart of british cooking. this is what british cooking is all about. i think this holds all the fundamental elements of good cooking.

do you know the first pudding i ever made was about 25 years ago, and you know it was from this variable, which was my mum's. thanks, mum. in fact, i always wanted to cook at school. in fact, i had to keep it a secret from my friends that i was at home making, you know, light lemon sponges when they were playing football. looks good, doesn't it? now, of course, all we need is the ice cream. a bullet went in through this leg, broke up, came out here, entered this leg here, and came out on the other side. the first thing i noticed was that it was almost as if a switch had been thrown and my feet had been switched off. you've been watching channel 4 news from itn. now tell your friends. good evening. and that's all from the bbc newsroom tonight. good night. hi! it's roasting, dianne! well, will you just do it then? it's roasting outside! everybody‘s so happy. i am going to come to one of your concerts and come onstage and just creep in alongside... he's gone. god love dianne oxberry. god love her!

you've made it sunshine for everybody. for once! over the next decade there are plans to build nearly half a million new homes in the capital. the need to ensure that these are a reasonable size and well—designed is urgent. but unless developers act now, london may end up with an even bigger housing problem. # who's gonna hold you down when you shake? # who's gonna come around when you break? # you can't go on, thinking nothing's wrong. # who's gonna drive you home tonight?

do you deny that nigel would have stayed if you had sacked professor alan walters? i don't know. i have nothing further... but that's a terrible admission, prime minister. i don't know... you don't know? you could have kept your chancellor, possibly, if you had sacked your part—time advisor? getting the message now, are you?

poor old reg, ain't it a shame? blimey, no—one gave a toss about him before. i mean, he weren't our neighbour, he was just some bloke who lived upstairs. came and went as he liked. he was blind drunk half the time. he was a nasty old man. anyone who says any different is i hypocrite. and i shall tell ‘em so. when you are in front of 5,000 people and you can go out there and just with the aid of the music and a visual performance, you can stir all them people up into a frenzy and that's almost like starting a massive fire or a riot. # breathe the pressure #come play my game, i'll test ya # psychosomatic, addict, insane # breathe the pressure # come play my game, i'll test ya # psychosomatic, addict, insane # come play my game... # you know, fashion is not needed. there are other problems in the world that may be more important. but a person has to go with time. if fashion doesn't go with time fashion would be lost. les moulins de mon coeur plays

eric, say hello to mr preview. ah, mr preview, how are you? laughter

you're playing all the wrong notes. laughter i'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order. i'm just very happy that i'm a musician, which branch of music this is actually is immaterial. i'm just very pleased to be a musician. it's a wonderful thing to be. i have the great privilege of having sort of a lot of low notes, a very strong middle voice, and high notes as well.

growing up i listened to a great, great deal of gospel music. if a diva is a person that takes the profession of singing very seriously and wants to do the very best that is in me each time that i'd go out on stage, then i'm one. commentator: sheffield united attack but banks was safe in the leicester goal. commentator: portugaltried to hit

back, only to find banks are showing the form he has displayed all along. a few anxious seconds and banks again had the ball away. # gordon banks. # he was there. # with the safest pair of hands. # father jack. # they were there with everything to please the fans. # all the more to lead us on, marching and growing strong. # and every single one of us remembers when, 'cause we were there #. commetator: pele! i had the ball, i had already jumped to save the goal, then i did that — "g—oh?" and just get my hands to it and it goes in that direction, and honest to god i

thought it was a goal. when i hit the floor, the position, i see it bounce behind the goal. i couldn't believe it. # 'cause we'll be there #. when that feeling came, you get a big fright, you know, you're really worried and frightened that you are going to die and so you do everything possible to keep going, but the body doesn't react. you can only start the brain. you wonder why is he here, why he not here, things just to keep the brain working and if the brain works the body starts to work sooner or later.

the defenders of id cards say well, we already have to carry lots of id, you need to establish identity in order to establish your entitlement to certain leisure centres or to claim benefits or to establish your entitlement to enter certain buildings. but this new card will establish your entitlement to go outside. and — people say well, they're a good idea because we had them in the second world war. but in the second world war, it was just a piece of cardboard that said 'this is mr wilkins, he is not a german spy.‘

this will be this digitised, magnetised thing that says 'this is mrwilkins, he may not be a german spy, but he's got a genetic heart defect, his sister's against gm crops and he took a video late back to blockbuster in 1997.‘ how long has your father been a naturist? i think there has been a mistake, daddy's always been c of e. do they take their clothes off? think it's a cry for help, dear. mind the lorry. it's turning left. and there is no lady on the pavement? i'm on the road, so everything is as it should be. i like my peas well done. i had two things to watch out, all you had is the pies. and the bread and butter. so, where is it? it's available if anyone wants it. that means you haven't done it. 0k, ok, so i haven't done it. so don't go on about my peas. have you two sort of develop some sort of throat trouble? we were just having

a discussion about the meal. what meal? they called me the king of the surf guitar. some people just play with their fingers, but there are people who take that instrument, and as i talk to you, i get chicken skin, too. they take that instrument and they wrap it around them. it's them. pulp fiction theme, misirlou, plays come on, you're wasting time! another calculated risk,

try and get us out of this one. are you ready? no, but do it anyway! good luck! all the doors in this spacecraft have a cheerful and sunny disposition. it is their pleasure to open for you and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. door: glad to be of service... hateful, isn't it? come on, i've been ordered to take you out to the bridge. here i am, a brain the size of a planet and they tell me to take you up to the bridge... one... ok, scott, you're in charge. what will be your first decision? that's easy, i contact john in thunderbird 5. scott is supposed to be the leader of the pack, aside from the old man. what up, scott? oh, nothing, john. just wanted to know how things were with you?

now, i'm going to put these on you. i put that mask on and chewie transformed me, i transformed — the attitude was different. the walk was different, do the scenes, come back, take the mask off, peter was back. man in space. he's walking in space. with no support, no bottom. everything is weightless. he's walking in space.

i watched sea beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. there's nothing like a good drying day to put the spring back into your polyester. well, i was one of the only scientists working on malign pollution, pollution of the sea, when torrey canyon went down. all of a sudden a very large stretch of cove was going to be changed, this balance, if a balance exists, was going to be wiped out.

i really wish i brought my anorak, because it is wet down here. and it's got to be, because when it comes to evaporation, the mosses suffer more than most. you think your white skin makes you better than me, don't you? we both finished fighting a war for a better world. we was on the same side! when it first came out, i sort of said to them — the publicist — just give me a basket and i'll take them door—to—door. you know, i mean i really thought nobody was going to be interested. but for every one slave that went to america, 12 went to the caribbean. it was massive. girl from impanema # when she walks at the sea. # she looks straight

ahead, not at he. # tall and tan and young and lovely. # the girl from ipanema goes walking. # and when she passes smiling. # she just doesn't see. # no, she doesn't see. # she just doesn't see #. drumming i play to what i hear, and it's all that's happening all the time. which is why it's never the same. # why don't you ask them what they expect from you? # why don't you tell them

what you're going to do? # you get so lonely. # maybe it's better that way. # and yet you only. # you've got something to say! # do anything you want to do! # never was a quitter. # tasty like a raindrop. # she's got the look. # she goes... # na—na—na—na—na. # na—na—na—na na—na. # she's got the look! # you're my mirror in the bathroom. # mirror in the bathroom. # ijust can't stop it. # every saturday you see me window shopping. # i find no interest in the racks and shelves. # just a thousand reflections

of my own sweet self, self, self. don't you tell it to the breeze, because she will tell the birds and bees, and then we will know because you told the blabbering trees. oh, yes, you told them once before. and it is no secret anymore. i will not have gossip in thisjungle. i went to a fortune teller once, she told me one day i'd be a soldier. and who knows, lovely boy, one day it might come true. can we rely on you, sergeant major? the only thing i can rely upon you, bombardier, is to ponce about. # don't tell them the old things, they're buried under the snow. # whispering grass,

don't tell the trees, # 'cause the trees don't need to know. # bom—bom—bom bom—bom #. stomach trouble. you should bring your own flask. if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me. think of number one. sharing and shared alike's no good. and in the storm scene, if you're going to put your hands around my legs as davenport scott did, then around my calves, not my thighs, he nearly ruptured me twice. he said if i was home secretary, 37, was lord of the admiralty, 50, chancellor of the exchequer, doing pretty well. not bad. now look at me. no power, no prospect of power. hello, clyde... welcome once again to the bbc‘s first deregulated, lead—free, self—financing, fully—sponsored programme.

for your protection, the entire show has been pre—boiled for one minute. the giant toad, having joined the water—dwelling worms aboard the plastic pants, coffin number three is uncovered. filling the double doors to bathe my eyes, a final flood of colours we live on as my mind dies, burned by my vision of a world that shone so brightly at the last and then was gone. # we'll be home tonight by the light of the silvery moon. i'm still doris mary anne kappelhoff from cincinnati, ohio. from a lovely family. and all i ever wanted was to get married. # so, whip crack—away! # whip crack—away! keep the house nice and clean and live happily ever after. and i ended up in hollywood. you aren't the kind of girl to break a date? no, i'm not. and i'm not the kind of guy

who that'd ask you to. i know you're not. i had a great time. and wear all the gorgeous clothes and work with rock hudson and jimmy garner and clark gable — you know, i mean, how bad can it be? # que sera, sera. # whatever will be will be... # the future's not ours to see. # que sera, sera. # what will be, will be. # que sera, sera #! hello, they are. the last day of the year has brought a mixture of weather with a of low cloud and misty weather in southern parts, some of the cloud pushing its way into northern ireland at the moment. after a frosty start we will hang on to the sunshine for scotland and northern england where it will be

colder than yesterday. further south, some mention pastis —— patchy fog. the cloud will push its way north during this evening. at midnight it will probably be dry, a lot of cloud around. some mist and fog patches still and may be a touch of frost in the north—east of scotla nd of frost in the north—east of scotland and north—east of england. into the first day of the new year, it isa into the first day of the new year, it is a case of spot the sunshine. there will be a lot of cloud on wednesday. the best chance of some general 12, north—east of england and the north—east of scotland. double figures in north—west scotla nd double figures in north—west scotland and also in the south—west, where it is a bit brighter.

you are watching bbc news. this is the seam in sydney australia where they are about to welcome in 2020.

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