this is bbc news. the headlines at 3pm... at least eight people are killed by bushfires in australia, in the deadliest day since the wildfire crisis began. hundreds of homes are destroyed and some communities cut off. a couple of isolated communities, where we got reports of injuries and burn injuries to members of the public. we haven't been able to get access via roads or via aircraft. two men and a woman are killed after a lorry collides with a car in stanwell in surrey on new year's eve. the mother of the british teenager found guilty of lying about being raped in cyprus backs calls for tourists to boycott the country. in their new year messages, the prime minister says brexit will mark a new chapter for the uk, while the archbishop of canterbury urges people

to reconnect with each other. # i was getting kind of used to being someone you loved. for the first time, more than 100 billion music tracks are streamed online in the uk in a single year. and sarah montague interviews journalist ronan farrow, who won a pulitzer prize for his investigation of harvey weinstein. that's hardtalk in half an hour. eight people are known to have died in australia's bushfires in the past 2a hours — with more missing — in the worst loss of life since the crisis began. more military personnel are on the way to try to protect

isolated communities in the south east of the country. many are cut off, without power, and some are running out of water. phil mercer has sent this report. these are extraordinary times in australia. the bushfires have brought terror into the lives of ordinary people. they are devastating and deadly. more lives have been lost and hundreds of homes have been destroyed. you walk around a bit of your house and you go, that was the bedroom, that was where my antiques were from my family history, all of my baby memories from my kids and just everything, just gone. i don't know what i'm going home to, so... ijust hope for the best. it's upsetting to lose your memories, that's very upsetting. but you can't dwell on it, you know? if you dwell on it, you'd just be upset all the time and

that doesn't get you anywhere, you've got to move on. help is yet to reach some residents who've reportedly suffered burns. the authorities say it's been too dangerous to send in rescue teams by road or by air. we have a very real challenge at the moment with a couple of isolated communities, where we've got reports of injuries and burn injuries to members of the public. we haven't been able to get access via roads or via aircraft, it's been socked in or too dangerous and we simply can't access, nor can the people in these areas get out. conditions on new year's day have eased, but the danger remains. dozens of fires continue to burn across several states. bushfires have always been part of the australian story, but officials say this crisis is unprecedented. dry and windy weather is forecast for saturday and australia will once again brace itself for another onslaught.

phil mercer, bbc news, sydney. our correspondent shaimaa khalil is in new south wales. she says thousands of people whose homes have been ravaged by the fires are trapped and unable to move from the area. this part of the princes highway is the only access in and out of the devastated areas on the southern coast of new south wales. it's been completely cut off, this is as close as we can get. we are told there is a bushfire further down the road and firefighters are trying to control it, prevent it from coming closer and covering more bushland. what that means, though, is that thousands of people in the areas that have been ravaged by the blazes are still trapped there, unable to move. for example, in the coastal town of batemans bay, people there have been encircled by a ring of fire and they are unable to move anywhere. there are water shortages, food shortages, telecoms are down, power is down. they are unable to communicate with relatives and we saw family

members on our way here that were really worried and trying to get in but are unable to do so. now, the real challenge now is not just to control this huge fire front but also to get people out safely. three people were killed and a fourth seriously injured in a crash involving a car and a lorry on new year's eve. the accident happened in stanwell in surrey. our correspondent tolu adeoye is there for us. tell us more about what is known at this stage. truly horrible news for the start of 2020. it was at around 11:40pm last night, new year's eve, when this accident happened involving a lorry and a car carrying four young people in the early hours of this morning. surrey police confirmed two men, a 23—year—old and a 25—year—old, as well as a 20—year—old woman, were killed in

that crash. a 25—year—old woman was taken to a london hospital where she is being treated for serious injuries. if we look behind me, we can see where the accident happened, the trees have been flattened. we understand the lorry ended up in the longford river just understand the lorry ended up in the longford riverjust beyond the bank. you mention the lorry, what is known specifically about the lorry driver? we know the lorry driver was not injured in the accident but he was taken to hospital as a precaution and, today, we've had confirmation from the air services provider that the lorry was one of theirs. this was an industrial area near to the airport and they have a base near to the scene. the police are very much continuing their investigation. the next of kin of the victims have been informed but we still don't know their identities. tolu adeoye, thank you, in sta nwell their identities. tolu adeoye, thank you, in stanwell in surrey.

a formerjustice minister in cyprus has called for a british teenager — convicted on monday of lying about being gang—raped in the resort of ayia napa — to be given a "very lenient sentence". the teenager's mother has backed calls for tourists to boycott the country. the woman told the bbc that ayia napa — where her daughter had been on a working holiday — was unsafe. the foreign office has expressed what they call "serious concerns" about the case. john donnison reports. it's two days since the young british woman walked out of a cypriot court having been found guilty of falsely claiming she was raped by 12 men. her supporters say both the police investigation and the court process were flawed and her lawyers are planning to appeal. now, the 19—year—old's mother has told the bbc of the impact the case has had on her daughter's mental health. her words are read by an actor to protect both of their identities. she's suffering from ptsd. she spends a lot of time with hypersomnia at the moment. that means she's sleeping an awful lot of the day.

she sleeps probably 18, 20 hours a day. she's also quite withdrawn, which is very sad for me to see, and she also experiences hallucinations and she needs to get back to the uk to get that treated. that's my absolute primary focus. these are the young israeli tourists who originally faced accusations that they'ad raped the young woman. they were freed and allowed to fly home after she retracted the allegation. but she said she only did that because she was put under huge pressure by police questioning when she was vulnerable. now, her mother is supporting a call for tourists to boycott cyprus. this is not an isolated incident. the place isn't safe. it's absolutely not safe. and if you go and report something that's happened to you, you're either laughed at, as far as i can tell, or, in the worst case, something like what's happened to my daughter may happen. the foreign office has called the teenager's case deeply disturbing and says it will be speaking to the

authorities in cyprus. the cypriot government says it has full confidence in its justice system and courts. jon donnison, bbc news. several senior legal figures in cyprus have signed a letter written to the attorney general costas clerides asking him to intervene in the case, including this former justice minister. i must admit, it's a pity that this application of the law has led to this result. we have every sympathy for the young lady. she has been more than enough punished, therefore we suggest and we expect, actually, not suggest, we expect that the court on the 7th of january pronouncing the sentence will be very lenient and maybe issue a very minor penalty so that the young lady can leave cyprus and go back to england. she has already been in detention for four and a half weeks

and she has already been prevented from travelling for about five months already. hope and reconciliation are the main themes in a number of today's new year messages. borisjohnson has said that 2020 can allow the country to turn the page on the division and uncertainty of recent years. he's pledged to represent all voters, and said that the new year means the start of a new chapter. and the archbishop of canterbury has called for the uk to "start healing divisions" as our religion editor martin bashir reports. it is a challenging day, weather—wise. although this is not his usual habit, the lifeboat rescue station in dover is within the diocese of canterbury, and archbishop justin welby chose to come here to deliver his new year's message. 0k. so, what we need to do, run ahead of that red one and then turn to starboard. 0k. that's it.

that the right speed? yeah, you're fine. the station is staffed year round by 70 volunteers. it's notjust a group of people working together. it's a family. the seagoing crew includes a student, a train driver, a chef, an electrician. the youngest is 17, the oldest is 62. my wife made me a lovely christmas morning breakfast, and just as the knife was going into it, the pager went off again and we were back out to the channel, yeah. justin welby said their commitment to service is the practical application of the most famous parable in the bible. when we hear someone described as a good samaritan, we think about that person taking the time to help another. but it's a story told byjesus about someone taking the risk of reaching out to another who was very different to them. dover also happens to be the closest place in britain to continental

europe, and the archbishop concluded his message by inviting all of us to take up the challenge of healing divisions between individuals and communities. let's go for a heroic new year's resolution. let's resolve to reconnect, to reach out to just one person we don't know or from whom we have drifted apart. make that connection. let's begin cementing our unity one brick at a time. martin bashir, bbc news, dover. the pope has used his first message of the year to defend the rights of women. speaking at a packed mass at st peter's basilica, the pope denounced the abuse of women in modern society and defended women's rights to migrate in search of a better future for theirfamily. before celebrating mass, the pope confessed that he had lost patience with an admirer who grabbed his hand on st peter's square on tuesday. he apologised for what he said

was the "bad example" he gave when he slapped the woman's hand twice to break free from her grip. he said, "we lose patience many times — it happens to me too." police in hong kong have clashed with pro—democracy protesters during a new year's day march. 0rganisers of the demonstration say that more than a million people took part. though the gathering was largely peaceful, violence broke out in some areas and police fired tear gas. some protestors responded by throwing petrol bombs. today's demonstations follow clashes with riot police as the new decade began. pro—democracy demonstrations have gripped hong kong for much of last year. 0ur correspondent jonathan head was there during the protests. he explains what he witnessed. this barricade that is blocking one of the main streets through wan chai in central hong kong is what's left of the first day of protests in the new year, and we saw, well,

a big rally filling the streets just a few hours ago, organised by leaders of the protest movement who've really been behind the anti—government rallies for the last six or seven months and they wanted a big turnout here on the first day of the new year. those people filled the streets ahead, we saw a rally including a broad spectrum of hong kong's population. there were old people, there were families and as that rally went on, after three or four hours, the police then withdrew their permission and declared it no longer legal. at that point, we saw the ha rd core protesters, the young men and women with their black face masks, coming up and taking up positions and building barricades like this. inevitably, at that point, we saw the police coming to clear them out. there were a few confrontations, we have had a little bit of tear gas today, probably a few arrests, all very much in keeping with what we have seen, really, for the last seven months and it is an indication that nothing really has changed in hong kong.

the protest movement wanted to remind the government that they still have momentum behind them, they still have a large part of the population that backs their goals. from the government, we've heard very little this new year apart from yet another expression of regret from chief executive carrie lam and another promise that she will listen, but no sign of any concessions and, so, hong kong starts 2020 very much the same way that it ended 2019. this protest movement goes on and we are expecting to see probably a great deal more of this through the rest of the year. derbyshire police have begun a double murder investigation after two people were found dead. officers were called to a property in duffield at about 4am this morning where they discovered the bodies of a man and woman. a man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of two counts of murder. detectives say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths. the headlines on bbc news...

at least eight people have been killed by bushfires in australia, in the deadliest day since the wildfire crisis began. two men and a woman are killed after a lorry collides with a car in stanwell in surrey on new year's eve. the mother of the british teenager found guilty of lying about being raped in cyprus says she believes the resort of ayia napa is unsafe. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's gavin ra mjaan. hello, we start with a new year's day feast of football and a stunning late equaliser gave brighton as share of the spoils against chelsea and there was a goal to remember for aston villa's jack grealish as his side got all three points against burnley. lydia campbell reports. at the turn of the last decade, aston villa were on their way to a sixth placed finish in the premier league. now

they lie in the relegation zone in need of a new year boost. jack grealish thought he had founded ten minutes in but var had its own sake. wesley oxide in the build—up. but the brazilian made amends soon after, driving home through nick hope to give villa a deserved lead. and thenjack grealish did get his goal. no var intervention this time. villa have been known to surrender leeds this season and a chris wood header ten minutes before the end set upa header ten minutes before the end set up a nervy ending. but they did manage to hold on and have leapt out of the relegation zone for now. in brighton, cesar azpilicueta gave chelsea the lead with a bundled finish. and it looked like that would be enough for lampard's men untilan would be enough for lampard's men until an early contender for goal of the decade from alireza jahanbakhsh, forcing chelsea to share the points.

so three games underway right now southampton have just ta ken southampton have just taken the lead, and watford are enjoying a resurgence under nigel pearson, at home to wolverhampton wanderers. later on, keep an eye out for david moyes in his second spell in charge of west ham. they face fellow strugglers bournemouth and a big one this evening, arsenal against manchester united at the emirates. plenty of matches in the football league too — in the championship, millwall beat luton 3 goals to 1. they went behind, but three goals in 12 second—half minutes secured victory, which moved them temporarily into the playoff spots. in the other championship matches, sheffield wednesday and preston could regain a place in the top 6 with at least a draw from their respective games against hull and middlesbrough.

the one to watch though is a little later, 1st against 2nd, when leeds go to west brom. both sides are level on points at the top of the table, with leeds two goals better off than their opponents. jofra archer is a doubt for england's second test against south africa which starts in cape town on friday. the bowler is suffering with an elbow injury. he took a total of six wickets in the first test which england lost — 11 players were hit by a sickness bug which affected preparations for that series opener. all players were well enough to train this morning. well, the matches in the current south africa—england series are , of course, five—day games but yesterday the england and wales cricket board "cautiously" gave its support to four—day tests — as a possible way of easing the strain on players and the international schedule. this month, the international cricket council is going to discuss bringing in four—day tests starting in 2023 .

everyone has got to look at the best way to preserve test cricket, it is the best form of the game and how can we maintain that and keep moving the game on, if that is the option of moving it to four days, i think it has to be looked at. i like it that it it has to be looked at. i like it thatitis it has to be looked at. i like it that it is five days, i think when you get the fantastic test match that finishes on day five with all three results possible, there is nothing else really like that in cricket, but as with everything, times change, things change and the game has to evolve with that, so i think everyone has to be very open to change if that is what is needed. speak like that all the sport for now, do keep up—to—date with all of the latest football on the bbc sport website. as a new decade arrives, businesses around the world are under pressure to improve their sustainable credentials to consumers — and the fashion industry is no different. globalfashion production produces 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon per year, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.

could swapping clothes rather than selling them enable this industry based on consumerism to change? i'm with roberta lee, who is a fashion stylist specialising in environmentally—friendly clothing. welcome, good afternoon. the trend towards swapping rather than buying and selling, how much are we beginning to see that? gosh, i would say last year, we saw such an increase, you can barely go a weekend in london now without finding clothing swap happening somewhere. so i think people are noticing that clothing swaps are happening, people have lots of clothes they are no longer wearing and, you know, charity shops are a little overrun with things and it is just a new kind of vehicle to be able to discover new things without actually having to buy anything new, so it is a really great opportunity for us to keep clothes in circulation. and you do and how, is

it via an online system? there are lots of ways to do it but most often it is an in—person up and an organiser will have rails, hangers, invite you to come and deposit your clothes. you might get some token so you can exchange value or some of them just have an open policy where you can donate as much as you want and go home with as much as you want, as long as it fits. as i introduced you, people will notice you have brought some items with you. what is the significance of what you have in front of you? one of the things around clothing swaps, they kind of sometimes may have a negative image, like i don't want somebody else's old clothes, so i wa nted somebody else's old clothes, so i wanted to bring along something i got from a clothing swap and i actually went to a swap just before christmas and i found this lovely skirt, which is a well—known brand, price point is reasonably expensive, i would say, for a skirt. not necessarily something you would think about picking up at a clothing swa p think about picking up at a clothing

swap but i wanted to bring this to show that you can find these wonderful, timeless gems at clothing swa ps wonderful, timeless gems at clothing swaps and it is not always about having to go out and buy something new. so that is item one. what is next on the table? next on the table, sometimes there is a need to buy something new and this is a great example of when, as a stylist, i suggest investing in something thatis i suggest investing in something that is good quality. this is 100% white organic t—shirt and the reason i have brought this on a long is because it is a wardrobe staple. you are going to use a t—shirt, it is going to stay in your wardrobe for many years to come. it is not going to end up going to landfill, so it is about thinking when is the right time to pick up the bargains doing the clothing swaps and then there are items like this where it is worth investing a little more money into the brands that are acting ethically and sustainably to produce these items. so because of the weight is made, it takes the

sustainable box? —— the way it is. it does. and to your left, something slightly different. i really love this one, it is a beautiful little bag, and it is made from recycled plastic bottles and remnants of the fabric from the floor, in the fashion industry, so it has been repurposed, essentially trash into treasure and this particular brand also donates a meal to a person in needin also donates a meal to a person in need in brazil, so it is kind of a double whammy. this is an example of a business that is really actually doing good in the world and making sure that waste is diverted from landfill. i'm sure most people watching our thinking that is great, we like all that but do we need to make extra effort to find it and does that put some people off?|j think with all things, if you want to do the right thing, to do good, it does require some effort. there isa it does require some effort. there

is a 67% increase in people searching for sustainable fashion, according to list and i run ethical brand directory which is a resource that helps people find brands that are doing the right thing, so there is help out there and it is a case of having to be conscious and think before you rush out and buy something. and in terms of what you wear, you are following a lot of what we have been talking about?|j try what we have been talking about?” try to practice what i preach but i'm also quite balanced, in the respect that there isn't absolutely everything that you need available and accessible at a moment's need, so you have to get this balanced approach. so, for example, i am wearing vintage leather right now and some people might argue that wearing leather is not very ethical... i was about to suggest that! but vintage leather is already in circulation, so the most sustainable thing we can do is keep clothing going for longer and i'm

not sure if you are aware of this statistic but just by not sure if you are aware of this statistic butjust by keeping clothes in circulation for an extra nine months, it can help reduce the carbon water and waste by 30% in just one year. so that is a staggering amount of production just by keeping what we have already got in existence going. thank you so much for coming in. for the first time, more than 100 billion music tracks have been streamed online in the uk in a single year. it comes at the end of a decade that saw more of us ditch the cd and embrace the digital download. 0ur entertainment correspondent, colin paterson reports. # these are the moments that i'm going to remember most, yeah. # just got to keep going... oh, how a decade has changed how we consume music. 2010 started withjoe mcelderry‘s the climb at number one. at that stage, cd singles were being phased out as paid—for

downloads dominated. # there's always going to be another mountain # i'm always gonna wanna make it move... subscription streaming services for music were so in their infancy that no official figures were collated, and they wouldn't even count for the charts untiljuly 2014. # now the day bleeds into nightfall... fast forward to the end of the decade. 2019, the first year in uk history when more than 100 billion tracks were streamed. # i was getting kind of used to being someone you loved... the most listened—to song, lewis capaldi's someone you loved, which was streamed more than 228 million times. that's the equivalent of every person in the uk playing it three and a half times. gennaro castaldo from the bpi says this decade has seen a total transformation in our relationship with music. there has been a huge shift

from analogue and physical product through to streaming and digital, although we've reached a point now where we're enjoying the best of all worlds, where we tend to go online and we stream and 75% of us now stream for our day—to—day needs and access to music and discovery, but the beautiful thing is that when we come across an artist or album that we love, we'll actually still go out to our local store or online and buy that album on cd still, box set, and increasingly on vinyl as well. # it's comin' round like a shock wave... the result is that we as a nation now stream 30 times more music than we did in 2012, when the figures were first compiled. however, a couple of old school oddities remain. sales of vinyl lps increased for a 12th consecutive year, with liam gallagher's why me? why not topping the year—end charts, but to put that in context, it only shifted 29,000 copies

on vinyl, far fewer than will see him injune at his hometown heaton park show in manchester. # christmas time, christmas time, merry christmas. # and a happy new year... and then there's the cassette revival. sales have increased by 600% in the last three years, with acts such as robbie williams choosing to release on their favourite ‘80s format. # so here it is, merry christmas... the rather large caveat — cassette sales account for 0.1% of overall recorded music, so things are not going to be spooling back that quickly any time soon. thousands of people have gathered in central london today for the annual new years' day parade. 9,000 performers from around the world are taking part, entertaining the crowds lining

the route around the capital. now it's time for a look at the weather with phil avery. hello. at its best, the day really not too bad at all, there are some decent gaps in the cloud across the north of wales, the north of england and north—eastern quarter of scotland. elsewhere, a lot of cloud but are fairly settled start to the new year, although quite breezy across the north—west and quarter, a lot of isobars on that chart. 0vernight, some of the gaps may well persist, particularly to the eastern side of the pennines, the north—eastern quarter of scotland. if that's the case come your temperatures will dribble away. not overly cold for the time of year and many of you will not be scraping the ca rs many of you will not be scraping the cars on thursday but the dramatic change on thursday is that we will see not one, but to weather fronts affecting northern and western parts of the british isles on what is going to be quite a noticeably breezy day across many parts, a lot of cloud again ahead of the weather fronts, you see the extent of